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altcognitoon RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC

What are the chances that they already do this :) Well, probably not given how much memory the harnesses use. (Claude too in fairness)

altcognitoon Top Astrophysicist Leaves U.S.

I imagine the answers will vary in the same way that different universities within the US had different advantage.

altcognitoon I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious

Single calculation.

altcognitoon I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious

Most calculators use 14-15 digits of pi even if they only show 10. It would be hard to come up with a case where for single calculations this was not “sufficient”.

altcognitoon Claude Code sends your email address to websites

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/101659

Potentially reported back in October.

altcognitoon Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

and doesn't pulling the data cost as well?

altcognitoon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

I think this comment does a good job of explaining how the breadth of what software engineers do is going to change even more. And again, we are still early. Find a domain to work in!

altcognitoon Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO

How much to power those data centers? It's kind of meaningless if you can't power them.

altcognitoon Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

Why not a pencil in the ear or something you can put in a shirt pocket? Or even earbuds?

altcognitoon Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

It would have been less effort and more useful to provide a citation on your original comment, but you chose this.

altcognitoon Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

This information was out of date and wrong over 2 years ago: https://share.google/aimode/VZb1Csc0pR47IOIA1

California passed SB1410 which protects access to Algebra, which is a little weird in and of itself, but there it is.

altcognitoon Digital minimalism

He was effectively paid to by a soverign fund, the fact it aligned with his interests was a bonus.

altcognitoon Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

I do remember waiting for the formulaic “aha! Tricked you! You thought we were dumb moment” and then it was just like “nope, this is just the way they are”, was definite an interesting twist.

altcognitoon Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance

what if the promotion of said non-fiat systems was done primarily by those looking to subvert that system? NK, Russia? What if it was further supported primarily by people to give great liquidity to illegal activity.

Something tells me that politicians that visit said locations on the 4th of July and their buddies business "leaders" looking to destablize the system are just not on the up and up. May even be corrupt.

altcognitoon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

Regardless of the current administration there is no world where the government has shown restraint in surveillance creep.

altcognitoon Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

I'm not that familiar with the MacOSx system, but do they have a "minor" update path that I'm not aware of? It seems that everything is an 8gb update. Is that why this update isn't getting put out?

altcognitoon Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale

You’re probably not one paycheck away from homelessness, and probably have the protection of the legal system provided you don’t upset the wrong people.

But you’re probably one health scare away from it, you just don’t realize it.

altcognitoon Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

Still have to trust that the model isn't doing something like reducing effectiveness in certain situations.

altcognitoon GPT-6.1 Terra

I've been refused to do cybersecurity (read-only investigative access against the recent brotli cve) with Opus 5.5 when I had full SSH access, so I guess you've got to have a fallback?

altcognitoon If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay

Russian typing detected.

altcognitoon Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'

"Too dangerous not to regulate!" Nobody should have general compute!

altcognitoon How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

I worked on machines of the articles vintage - I would expect this technique to be common the further you go back due to the lack of power. Just a variant of CPU slicing.

altcognitoon Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it

I had Opus debug my laptop restarts. It pulled down windebug and pointed out the two drivers that were causing a problem.

One of them was an HDMI audio driver, which wasn't completely a surprise given I connect to a KVM and I imagine something was weird about the connection (and I don't listen to audio through my monitor anyway)

The other was the realtek/intel driver for audio as well? (updated those) Never have had a problem again. Felt pretty good. Windows laptops are pretty awful about coming out of power save, but works like a champ now.

altcognitoon Docker is weird

The high level abstraction is more important than the low level implementation unless the low level implementation is leaking through, or there is a significant advantage conveyed by understanding the low level implementation.

I know a lot about how http works, and it comes in handy, but I can understand how juniors get away with not knowing it as fully as I do.

altcognitoon Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

There was/is a youtube commericial I think that gave away the game to some extent with regards to this. It was selling some platform to create apps. Everybody in the office rejoicing because they were all creating apps. Inevitably, like three people in the office make the same app.

I've experienced the same thing in real life a couple of times over.

I think Einstein's quote "A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." is apt. Apps will solve a bunch of problems, but if anyone can create those apps, there will be no market for them. I don't have the answers, but long term, it probably doesn't lie in selling apps. We've only just started.

At my regular job, we're just catching up on all the internal work we had. I think there is a real crunch in trying to figure out how to build moats and things that are hard to replicate that are sellable.

Maybe it will be the physical. Probably most of the moat will be made up of network effects and capital intensive processes. If I had the answer I'd probably be working on it right now.

altcognitoon Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

Ok but I don't have a lot of faith that it will ever be turned back without violence because there are vested interests in keeping everyone swimming in it.

altcognitoon Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

Ah, yes, arrogance of humans is unbounded. That you, humble reader are happier to swim in a sea of misinformation on the premise that you are smarter and faster at disambiguating bullshit from reality.

Furthermore, you are content to pretend that the rest of humanity is capable of doing this on a regular basis. And not just the top 10% of those who can read, interpret and weigh biases, but a solid portion of it.

It is a completely reasonable interpretation if you are an accelerationist living in the elite classes. In fact, perhaps, they are even counting on a majority of people thinking this is a fine environment.

I don't have the answers, but a lot of this is just a continuation of a very bad trend.

altcognitoon DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

Doesn’t that depend on the router service provider?

altcognitoon Why are all these data companies buying internal data?

Are they repeat customers? What operations are the best to charge for? What were those prices, so on and so forth.

altcognitoon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

> The good ones do.

I mean, there isn't any evidence other than heresay.