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ls612··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
State level consumer protections don’t protect you from federal “this software is licensed not sold”
ls612··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
He left on purpose to take a year off. Everyone expects he will be a head coach somewhere next season if he wants to.
ls612··on We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You
The thing Starlink is replacing is not gigabit, it’s rural DSL providers who charge an arm and a leg for 20Mbps. The gigabit thing is just pie in the sky idealism while Starlink you can sign up for today.
ls612··on One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
He is a Marxist (the alienation rhetoric gives it away) he is primarily interested in causing social revolution not in environmentalism or anything else.
ls612··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
Being an NFL head coach is easily a 60+ hour a week job, especially if you want your team to be good (and the Steelers were consistently at least above average his entire tenure)
ls612··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
Most of the drop occurred in the late 50s to mid 60s. Fertility in the US peaked at over 3.5 births per woman in the 50s before falling below 2 by the late 60s. It then stabilized for 40 years and even recovered to the low to mid 2s in the 90s and 2000s before falling post-2008 from 2.2 to 1.7.
ls612··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
It would take a great deal more than prompting in order for things to rise to that level, and at that point I think existing criminal law covers things just fine.
ls612··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Alliterated GLM models have been on the Internet for a month and counting now and the world somehow hasn’t ended yet.
ls612··on Pirating the Pirates
Every high quality remux release group I know of does both normal and hybrid remuxes.
ls612··on The Mars Delusion
I mean people have run the math and you can certainly travel to and from mars while receiving a low enough radiation dose. I envision in our lifetimes a Mars similar to the Antarctic bases at best: a few scientific stations manned by researchers and support staff but no permanent settlers. That’s certainly an achievable bar regardless of if the more science fiction stuff isn’t yet. I suspect that people like you will be saying this is foolish and impossible all the way up until the day the Starships start landing…
ls612··on The Mars Delusion
Not sure if I should feel complimented or insulted lol
ls612··on The Mars Delusion
Let's solve the hardest social issue first: the crab bucket mentality that you exemplify that is so pervasive in society. The idea that anyone attempting something exceptional necessarily beggars all of the rest of us and should be cut down to size.
ls612··on The Mars Delusion
“We choose to go to /s The Moon /r Mars / not because it is easy but because it is hard.”

Kennedy was describing one of the most fundamental human ambitions; to try to achieve the impossible. Think pieces like this betray their fundamental lack of any ambition whatsoever

ls612··on Ember-1
On the smaller end, Quen 3.8, while being extraordinarily capable for a small local model, also suffers from extreme thinking. I wonder if the techniques described here generalize to other models too.
ls612··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
Thank god the founders thought of people like you when they made abundantly and unambiguously clear “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …”

Without that you do not live in a democracy, only an authoritarian state where the ruling class permits you to discuss their conduct only as they see fit and out of the goodness of their hearts, and permits you to vote only for candidates holding positions they pre-approve.

ls612··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
You can’t have the internet and the first amendment and not have social media, and I’d suggest both of the above are beneficial.
ls612··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
The burden of proof is on the accuser not on the accused, regardless of what they have between their legs.
ls612··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Does the list contain anything besides claims?
ls612··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
A claim with no supporting evidence is just that, a claim.
ls612··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
With Lewinsky things are slightly different because (a) there was DNA evidence and (b) the claim of wrongdoing didn’t revolve around consent but rather the fact that Bill was her boss.
ls612··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Yes we give the accused the benefit of the doubt and require the prosecution to meet a high burden of proof to overturn that. It is not symmetric by design.
ls612··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
Because this is the sort of thing that in most cases can’t be substantiated by hard evidence. Whereas all of the rest of the examples you have generally can be. Would you support punishment of anyone as an arsonist only on the basis of a claim that they committed arson and #believeallwomen?
ls612··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
It wasn’t literally that, it was that the dashboard contained both data intended to be public and data not intended to be public, all accessible by anyone on the internet.
ls612··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
It doesn’t even sound like it hacked anyone it sounds like there was a “s3 bucket set to public” type issue and the agent just naively downloaded the data. That should absolutely not incur liability, how is a reasonable person or agent supposed to know if a dataset you can download from a website designed to serve datasets is intended to be downloaded?
ls612··on Making Tailscale Faster
Apple TV has an OS level issue where it will kill apps that do too much background activity at random, the Tailscale guys can’t really change that.
ls612··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
The commentators in this thread are missing something important because they hate OpenAI so much. If I tell my AI agent to “go find public Australian health statistics” this should not be possible to make into a felony, even if the Australians put more files on the “publicly available” side than they intended to. It is going to be ordinary folks, researchers who politicians have an ax to grind against, etc, who will face the fallout from this. OpenAI will just achieve regulatory capture.
ls612··on Grok 4.7
It’s probably an assumption baked into the training pipeline from that ancient time six months ago when we mostly were manually following each edit tool call.
ls612··on What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers
Data center construction is consuming all of the tradespeople who usually do work in homes and causing price spikes for contracting similar to what we are seeing for hardware prices. I’m guessing those workers are doing at least OK for themselves ;)
ls612··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Not really because queries are batched in production. Your query alongside a bunch of other peoples’ queries are running the GPU at full speed so yours only uses a tiny fraction of the total energy
ls612··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Never mind kids, I’ve largely started asking Claude any nontrivial questions that I used to Google. It’s night and day the difference.
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