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> The only thing Fable was given was a clean of copy of the ancient Greek. This is not a bastardization of other translations FWIW I gave GPT-5.5 two lines of William Cowper's tran…

> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs Is that actually true? Maybe I'm being dense right now but that's not completely apparent to me. M…

So they found their agents had RCE'd Artifactory once, reported it and got the fix, continued using Artifactory for their sandbox, and left it unmonitored for days despite the earl…

> Yes, they are "totally unrelated" in the sense that I am likely totally unrelated to you Why would you assume that the "larger audience" would assume that "unrelated" means that …

Short sentences were never the danger, or what the GP is referring to.

Note that Tom Delay of all people (remember that guy? I'm old and I'd say barely) wrote an opposing op ed saying that even though he supports the change that this is contrary to th…

> I don't know what DC Blox was going to put in this particular datacenter, but they are a "traditional" colocation datacenter company. Maybe this one would've been superdense GPUs…

> driven by specific poorly designed gas turbine powered installations *increasingly nonspecific. See [1] for example [1] https://floodlightnews.org/ai-data-centers-texas-pollution…

> Lesbians too [0] > A 2010 CDC survey compared domestic violence victimization rates between lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women. The differences between most forms of repor…

> there are certainly arguments that a society where most people are happy is pretty utopian Sure, like a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics...and an AI life companion in their ear. Wh…

> How so? First, kernel writing (or ML engineering more broadly) is a highly specialised task. Not everyone can do it. It shows that models are getting better and better at (easily…

> Ironically, it also exposes inconsistencies (or "hallucinations" as some might call them) in the text because the author didn't have an AI proofread the text. That's not irony, o…

> But he’s made the error of trying to come at it from a technical perspective Huh? That quote appears to be the entirety of the "technical perspective" of the post and is an aside…

If you optimize program A and manage to wring out a 1% improvement, and I optimize program B and improve performance by 20%, you can see the problem with trying to infer anything f…

>> Agents don't work on their own > This is factually false From your link: > After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI m…

It's a 17 year old joke, maybe one of the most famous on stackoverflow for the aging engineers out there. No one wants new "funny" edits on it.

Zalgo and situational subset parsing aside: > You can absolutely parse HTML with regex, so long as the document is finite in length This isn't sufficient, unless I'm misinterpretin…

> but if they produce the work maybe they should get the credit But that's not what the Fields Medal is for . If you're a 41 year old mathematician and do amazing groundbreaking wo…

> instead of shutting down agriculture in the only marginal spot on the west coast you can grow food. Not an expert, but I would think greenhouse light pollution is not necessary f…

> This thread is a perfect example of why HN has a "no politics" guideline From a quick perusal, your account appears to only comment on politics.

I couldn't find anything easier. Seems like they're trying to tease excitement for new emoji in the next Android release (there was also an earlier linkless post in May[1]), so I'm…

> > Everyone could choose to use the same emoji font across platforms or apps, but they don't. > Yeah, that's the problem. We can't rely on every user going out of the way to drive…

Yeah, looks like that article was from an I/O announcement of these new emoji (which I don't remember, but I also didn't watch much of the keynote), and they've decided to tease th…

> I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. You can't really do this. Or, rather, it's already been done, but people choose not to do this. Emoji are just…