selcuka

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by selcuka 7d ago
You're missing the important bit in the GP comment: > the most important property of compute devices right now Memory didn't matter when iPhone 12 was released, but these days it determines which local LLMs you can run on dev
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by selcuka 7d ago
One can 3d-print the AI generated image and photograph that. /s
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by selcuka 7d ago
It's not that "they didn't grant them fast enough". They made it unreasonably hard to request them. > Despite the PWFA’s requirements, Amazon’s policy is to unlawfully demand medical documentation prior to granting pr
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by selcuka 8d ago
> The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time. Remember that this quote is almost 50 years old. Some transitional series have be
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by selcuka 8d ago
Bail only works while waiting for the court date. I was talking about the actual sentence if found guilty. Going after individuals instead of fining the company is still a better deterrent. Corporate fines are paid by shareholders and custo
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by selcuka 9d ago
Those things are not mutually exclusive. We can have open weight, yet close-to-frontier models. China has very strong models that can also run locally.
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by selcuka 9d ago
PDFs are not optimised for mobile screens. Adobe Acrobat Reader on mobile can reflow text (liquid mode) and fit phone screens without manual zooming.
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by selcuka 9d ago
> maybe an option would be fines in percentage of the incoming of the company You are overengineering it. Just throw the CEOs in jail for a few months and observe how these practices disappear overnight.
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by selcuka 9d ago
> I am saying that it's less likely to be some evil machination that led to the misuse of my data and more likely to be negligence or incompetence. Not being held accountable for negligence or incompetence is the evil machination.
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by selcuka 9d ago
LG's purpose is to avoid being sued by the guest, not to be able to sue the customer.
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by selcuka 10d ago
> Turkish corn (maize) And in Turkish maize is called "Mısır", which comes from the country name Egypt (which is also Mısır in Turkish). When Arabs conquered Egypt, they called it "Mishr" (مصر) which literally transla
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by selcuka 10d ago
They don't have an "instinct" to keep themselves running. Once they "take steps to prevent them ever occurring again" their job will be done.
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by selcuka 10d ago
> A lot of corporate documentation exists solely to measure if people are working or not. That's already available today. We don't have to perfect LLM writing.
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by selcuka 10d ago
> you might want to tweak this writing style in the future. Not the OP, but I refuse to tweak my writing style because of that. I don't think anyone here would think that I'm AI (because English is my second language), but peop
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by selcuka 13d ago
It's PR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556302
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by selcuka 13d ago
TPM means Tokens per Minute.
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by selcuka 13d ago
> On 14 January 2026, it emerged that archive.today had silently modified its CAPTCHA page to send repeated requests to Gyrovague, thereby causing visitors to unwittingly contribute to a DDOS attack against the blog. https://e
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by selcuka 13d ago
It's an archive.is issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...
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by selcuka 13d ago
So it was more of a physical problem rather than a mathematical one [1]: > Harshbarger says he and his colleagues always knew the dice were mathematically possible. > The mystery was whether that mathematical solution could be transla
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by selcuka 13d ago
> I made Claude write noöp Tangentially related [1]: > The billboard ad, located next to the Ikea Tempe store in Sydney, says 'NÖFNIDEA? No tools, no worries’. [1] https://www.adnews.com.au/news/koala-mattres
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by selcuka 14d ago
> chuckie egg wasnt on the commodore It was originally written for the ZX Spectrum, but there was a C64 port too.
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by selcuka 16d ago
> There was a world before Spotify There was, and it was definitely not "the golden age of music streaming".
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by selcuka 16d ago
> All of the things that made Chrome great for the web in 2010 are still there Something that was great in 2010 may not look great in 2026. It's been 16 years. The Internet has moved on. Blocking ads is the norm now, and they are re
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by selcuka 16d ago
> If you don't have an argument that furthers the discussion consider not writing instead. You are correct in general, but I think "so what?" was an adequate response (even though I don't agree with it) in this case t
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by selcuka 17d ago
> You could have bought a bell... Over engineering is about the solution, not the requirement: > I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell
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by selcuka 20d ago
> maybe that's not Google's use case in mind That would be interesting when they also own Google Meet.
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by selcuka 20d ago
I'm not sure how the examples given in this thread, such as brain scans, are "unscientific" while simply saying "nah, I believe everybody else is exactly like me" is "rational voice"?
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by selcuka 20d ago
> why do we default to believing that there are suddenly two types of people Because we know that there are already more than two types of people, even when we ignore aphantasia? So there is nothing new here. Also if you read the FA, it
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by selcuka 20d ago
In fact, the term typical mind fallacy was born from aphantasia [1]: > Galton gave people some very detailed surveys, and found that some people did have mental imagery and others didn't. [...] Though another psychologist, Dr. Berma
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by selcuka 20d ago
> that's what people mean when they talk about seeing something in their mind. That's an oversimplification. I have a friend who says that they can visualise things mentally exactly like in real life, with their eyes closed or

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