I'd say the purpose is usually to get a "career" i.e. good job, possibly as a paid researcher and/or professor.
Not to be confused with Eärendil-1, the experimental satellite to recover solar energy at night, approved to launch this year: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/1...
> generally considered illegitimate But why? Obviously an unjustified cryptominer is bad, like unnecessarily slow JavaScript, but this one has a good purpose and to the user is no different than PoW.
Still better than AI, it has personality and not paragraphs of empty prose
They discuss why proof of work is bad, not crypto > partly because it causes annoying delays for those trying to get to the site This is true but usually a small issue. It’s further alleviated by cached tokens so you…
It should really just be called DDoS, at a certain level of incompetence intent doesn’t matter. You’re right that there’s zero (information gathering) benefit over reasonable scraping which wouldn’t cripple the site.…
PoW can theoretically scale effectively infinite because it can mine cryptocurrency. Millions of compromised IoT devices hitting your server? Now you have enough money for a faster server. It doesn’t matter that the…
I’m skeptical. I’m always skeptical of these papers that claim to read minds, because my understanding is current brain reading technology is very coarse (Neuralink is SOTA, very invasive, and only 1-3 thousand…
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Does Fable write better code or just can solve more problems?
> The puzzle, however, rewards incorrect answers, such as 2 + 2 = 5. Once the LLM embedded in the browser discovers that the answer is no longer 4, it enters a state of delusion in which the normal laws of reality no…
Using DMCA and a subpoena. "Unless the target has maintained opsec so good that the U.S. Federal Government wouldn’t be able to subpoena their way to finding them", has the US government really tried, especially the…
Below https://grokipedia.com/page/Odin_programming_language#type-s..., there’s a random citation inside a code span…
> For any creative hobby i think the biggest issue is not having something you want to build. For me it is. Even in my domain where I’m an expert and it’s fun, it only is if I’m working on something interesting.
Get together and fork (or make your own) Wikipedia. Seriously. Wikipedia seems very good at providing detailed, accurate, concise facts of well-known, non-controversial topics. It’s by far the best in this area.…
> how are you proposing incentivizing developing new varietals if nobody can have patents on any breeds at all? How do academics make scientific discoveries if the results are public? Government, industry, and private…
Besides "smart", the headline also conflates AI with LLMs. The real, non-clickbait title is "Yann LeCun, founder of AMI Labs, is developing a new AI system"
> if a computer can match or surpass the collective output of the entire human scientific community the equation will change Yes, but this is when someone reaches ASI and everything changes. For now, a good researcher…
Some reasons I still argue over the internet - To convince myself. Sometimes I start writing and convince myself I’m wrong. Other times I just move to a more specific opinion or find a stronger justification - Because…
The average joe is a fundamental reason the internet he grew up with no longer exists. It’s not black and white, but away from average joe communities, there’s something almost like the old internet.
FYI there’s software that can upgrade old Macs to officially unsupported OSs: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
> Turn on your computer - most likely Windows 10 or 11. > You open your default browser - most likely Chrome. > …your browser (most likely Google) will show you an AI summary… > Once you solve all that, there's a cookie…
AFAIK the big models have watermarks that are supposed to be hard to remove. But I don’t think it’s possible on local models: not just questionable because it would prevent full open-source, but if someone discovers a…
It’s technically possible, but would face too much resistance. People don’t want to leave familiar and cheaper services, and care less about the non-immediate issue of European sovereignty.
European wallet and bank apps don’t even support them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730729
I'd say the purpose is usually to get a "career" i.e. good job, possibly as a paid researcher and/or professor.
Not to be confused with Eärendil-1, the experimental satellite to recover solar energy at night, approved to launch this year: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/1...
> generally considered illegitimate But why? Obviously an unjustified cryptominer is bad, like unnecessarily slow JavaScript, but this one has a good purpose and to the user is no different than PoW.
Still better than AI, it has personality and not paragraphs of empty prose
They discuss why proof of work is bad, not crypto > partly because it causes annoying delays for those trying to get to the site This is true but usually a small issue. It’s further alleviated by cached tokens so you…
It should really just be called DDoS, at a certain level of incompetence intent doesn’t matter. You’re right that there’s zero (information gathering) benefit over reasonable scraping which wouldn’t cripple the site.…
PoW can theoretically scale effectively infinite because it can mine cryptocurrency. Millions of compromised IoT devices hitting your server? Now you have enough money for a faster server. It doesn’t matter that the…
I’m skeptical. I’m always skeptical of these papers that claim to read minds, because my understanding is current brain reading technology is very coarse (Neuralink is SOTA, very invasive, and only 1-3 thousand…
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Does Fable write better code or just can solve more problems?
> The puzzle, however, rewards incorrect answers, such as 2 + 2 = 5. Once the LLM embedded in the browser discovers that the answer is no longer 4, it enters a state of delusion in which the normal laws of reality no…
Using DMCA and a subpoena. "Unless the target has maintained opsec so good that the U.S. Federal Government wouldn’t be able to subpoena their way to finding them", has the US government really tried, especially the…
Below https://grokipedia.com/page/Odin_programming_language#type-s..., there’s a random citation inside a code span…
> For any creative hobby i think the biggest issue is not having something you want to build. For me it is. Even in my domain where I’m an expert and it’s fun, it only is if I’m working on something interesting.
Get together and fork (or make your own) Wikipedia. Seriously. Wikipedia seems very good at providing detailed, accurate, concise facts of well-known, non-controversial topics. It’s by far the best in this area.…
> how are you proposing incentivizing developing new varietals if nobody can have patents on any breeds at all? How do academics make scientific discoveries if the results are public? Government, industry, and private…
Besides "smart", the headline also conflates AI with LLMs. The real, non-clickbait title is "Yann LeCun, founder of AMI Labs, is developing a new AI system"
> if a computer can match or surpass the collective output of the entire human scientific community the equation will change Yes, but this is when someone reaches ASI and everything changes. For now, a good researcher…
Some reasons I still argue over the internet - To convince myself. Sometimes I start writing and convince myself I’m wrong. Other times I just move to a more specific opinion or find a stronger justification - Because…
The average joe is a fundamental reason the internet he grew up with no longer exists. It’s not black and white, but away from average joe communities, there’s something almost like the old internet.
FYI there’s software that can upgrade old Macs to officially unsupported OSs: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
> Turn on your computer - most likely Windows 10 or 11. > You open your default browser - most likely Chrome. > …your browser (most likely Google) will show you an AI summary… > Once you solve all that, there's a cookie…
AFAIK the big models have watermarks that are supposed to be hard to remove. But I don’t think it’s possible on local models: not just questionable because it would prevent full open-source, but if someone discovers a…
It’s technically possible, but would face too much resistance. People don’t want to leave familiar and cheaper services, and care less about the non-immediate issue of European sovereignty.
European wallet and bank apps don’t even support them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730729