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In related news "Big US‑style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia": https://theconversation.com/big-us-style-trucks-are-killing-...

You mentioned in your you were interested in seeing the 18A replacement for the N100 series. My understanding is the Wildcat lake 304 is that replacement, and it's been "released" …

What part of "Amazon's margin is a competitors opportunity" aren't you groking?

I have no idea what a drone factory is, but my mental image is a building with drone parts on one side, people assembling with glue, screwdrivers and soldering irons in the middle,…

> Why cut revenue to nearly half? Because, to quote Jeff Bezos, your margin is my opportunity. And did he ever squeeze every drop from that opportunity. Just ask the brick and mort…

> Read that phrase back and then ask "is this the future of computing that we wanted?" It is what I want. If you own a mobile phone it's unavoidable. The physical SIM is a guarded …

In Australia, the cause isn't a mystery. A judge ruled publishers are liable for defamatory comments. Within a few weeks, all the comment sections were gone: https://www.sydney.edu…

Yes, Norway leads. But it's not an apples with apples comparison. Norway is a smallish country (you can fit 24 Norway's in Australia - so less range anxiety), whose government push…

And this pairs nicely with Jane Street's observation that agentic coding changes the formal proof equation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064854 Formal proofs of code are …

> invest in high risk shares because a big win is the only way to afford a nice home. Here I was thinking The Squid Game was a work of fiction.

You are being far too kind. A primate's body shape may be optimal for life in the trees, but it sure isn't optimal for any of the industrial or household tasks we want a robot to d…

If your objection is to someone giving an LLM a few dot points asking it to turn them into an article, then that clearly isn't what happened here. The research idea seems novel, th…

+1 This anti LLM crusade on HN is driving me nuts. It means I have to view with showdead on, because otherwise I miss clear, insightful and consequently interesting posts because s…

I'm not the OP, but I think he's saying something much simpler than that. Typically with a recursive algorithm, the state you need to push is tiny. Usually a word or two. But often…

> what "maintainable" is is probably some high dimensional space described by these signals; it'd probably require some human labeling to figure out where this space is Maybe, but …

> what should be done about open weight bioweapon and cyber-offense capabilities? Like the others here I know almost nothing about bio weapons, but I think perhaps the fact that sm…

> Closed-source: You can execute a program with the binary. You cannot generate a new binary, but you could try to reverse-engineer it or (painfully) modify its execution. Time hav…

> we have no access to the source materials and cannot reproduce the model independently. Given the USA companies have been loudly claiming the Chinese models are distillations of …

The takeaway quote from the article is: > The Lean library isn't just tested and validated, it's proved correct. This allows us to let AIs loose optimizing the code, requiring that…

It's kinda amusing copyright always seems to attract discussions about authors rights. It was never about author or their rights. It was and is a set of rules that allow money to b…

> Chinese models have government-enforced censorship, while American models have security and legal restrictions. They are both government enforced. The USA administration is using…

> However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry fr…

> This is honestly how I think about passkeys: they're a standard API for browsers and websites to integrate with password managers without needing a browser extension to manually …

> It’s the same as the patent argument. The Chinese are open-sourcing these models - meaning they are literally giving them away. That's starkly different behaviour from that which…

> I suspect if I showed a non-technical person with no background in either math or programming they would think both are nonsense until you explained it to them I doubt it. Greek …