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desterothx··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Thats how it always works though? If 1b got stolen from a bank, the value of the bank doesn't just fall by 1b, because suddenly no one trusts that bank to store their money, so the hit on the value of the bank is a lot higher
desterothx··on Anthropic S-1
Well the good part is they didn't get an investment grade credit rating, so at least 401ks won't start buying their debt automatically. For now...
desterothx··on Anthropic S-1
From what I've seen, very buggy currently, and unknown how well they will be maintained. They're definitely not at a stage where adobe should be worried about their revenue, and there are foss alternatives for most adobe tools, that are better than these reverse engineered ones. But if they continue maintaining them and fixing the bugs, who knows, maybe adobe really loses some part of their customer base (although a lot of their individual tools have already been moved to the cloud, thus they can't be reverse engineered anyway)
desterothx··on F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
Ok, for future reference, the next couple months you see any port, you can be 99% sure it was done by ai given the recent REA news. So if you don't want to see ai posts, avoid the port posts
desterothx··on The State of Context Engineering
I hate that they claim the pricing like that. It's 22.5e, we show our prices VAT included, not this misleading american bs
desterothx··on Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
Exactly my thoughts, I love this idea, but would like the vines to grow over the tab items instead of the window itself. the trouble there however is that sometimes my tab icons are literally just icons (or even less) with my tab hoarding tendencies
desterothx··on LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Yeah, but thats a lower level of abstraction, thus using more tokens, and more importantly occupying a larger chunk of the biggest current limitation, the context
desterothx··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
Edge on macOS?? You can't even escape it there LMAO
desterothx··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
Well presumably the load on the deepseek inference service is a lot higher, probably most users of deepseek use it through them (presumably more in SEA, less in US/EU). And for the users from the EU/US, if they are going to use deepseek, their usage is distributed among all those providers (because of the need for zdr)
desterothx··on MiniMax M3.1 Flash
I mean the efforts you linked are showing there aren't actual nerfs happening, making the alternative explanation of people just 'growing into' the capabilities of models more likely to me
desterothx··on Jev meets the Trolley Problem
Yeah, some may be impressed by lunas 0 kills, im impressed by vons 47, that model knows what it wants
desterothx··on Neural networks are clean
What do you mean when you say it's like a hologram?
desterothx··on Neural networks are clean
It doesn't mean its memorized all the lat, long points, but it has memorized a map to check said lat long points? Seems a lot more likely a part of the training data is the rough map of lat and long points, specifically for better positional understanding?
desterothx··on Muse Spark Open
First they came for the communists, but i didn't speak up, because i was not a communist
desterothx··on Muse Spark Open
What Chinese AI lab are you aware of that the CCP closed down?
desterothx··on Gemini 4 Argon
Nothing too puzzling really. It was a good assistant specialized for a relatively narrow set of tasks and tooling on a much more modest chatbot architecture. Now it has a wider set of tools it can use, but is also computationally more expensive, so it runs slower. Makes it better if you want to do any task, but if you want to do a task like set the timer, the old model is obviously faster
desterothx··on Gemini 4 Argon
the etymology can be broken down even more, its the prefix a - meaning without, opposite, no. and ergon, meaning work, visible in words like ergonomics, or the ergosphere
desterothx··on GLM-Legal
Exactly my problem with this, I wouldn't even suggest trying it to my lawyer brother, as the harness he developed already is probably more effective for the law of our small non anglo-saxon law country
desterothx··on GLM-Legal
Most people don't even know what 3rd world means, and just use it as a pejorative for poor countries
desterothx··on Fable Took My Job
Historically I agree with you, but considering how many people reacted negatively to the mathematicians' concerns about development in ai, and people calling them hobbyists, it seems to me someone is trying to create infighting as always. Seems like the reaction may yet again be the mentioned aw-shucks, but they'll find something else to do
desterothx··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Well i mean, the whole idea of discovery is that you're not sure what you will discover until you do
desterothx··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Proofs of open problems are valuable because we are assuming that proving the problem requires some new method or infrastructure in math to prove it. Basically proving open problems isn't actually useful if it doesn't develop new tooling for mathematics, which can help us create new open problems, solve other ones etc.
desterothx··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
IIRC, the antitrust case against them (or a planned antitrust case) caused them to invest in apple, so they actually have a competitor, thus bringing the resurgence of apple in the early naughts
desterothx··on Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
I go to the /active tab after reading through the daily news, there you can see things that were controversial, and the things that are popular will be greyed out because you read them earlier
desterothx··on Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
I would argue you need to prove p=np before using the term arbitrary
desterothx··on Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
No, you're right, the world is black and white, with 0 nuance
desterothx··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
How do they counteract sham relationships/marriages. I assume they have to live together for a certain amount of time or something similar? If the marriage falls apart do they need to return the incentives?
desterothx··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
Your spelling reminds me of the old Benedict Cucumberbatch jokes
desterothx··on ChatGPT Pro 500
Also crazy that they're asking for more euros despite the euro being more valuable than usd
desterothx··on PS5 Relapse Exploit
>but they are sick of it, not appreciating it, most of the time I win

I agree with not going easy on your kids, but I think it's a good opportunity to motivate them to work together to beat you

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