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New comment by StatsAreFun in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

StatsAreFun — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:16:33 +0000

Sure, can do.

New comment by StatsAreFun in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

StatsAreFun — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:11:25 +0000

Publicly available models are pretty good but seemingly cannot compete with these Astra++ internal-only models.

New comment by StatsAreFun in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

StatsAreFun — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:49:38 +0000

Can't help but shake an unsettling feeling about all this, frankly. I engage in some limited mathematical research and will often use any one of the latest frontier models to check some ideas. Lately, only the OpenAI models have been giving me a temporary message that says something like (paraphrasing from memory), "We're thinking extra hard about your request before we answer. You can choose another model to answer now or click here to learn more about why." When I click to read why it's doing this "extra thinking", the help page says that for cybersecurity and biosecurity-related information, it will review the answer and could refuse.

Now, keep in mind, I'm only asking strictly pure mathematical questions - nothing at all related to cyber or protein creation or biohacking or anything like that... And, like I said, only the OpenAI models are doing this. To be fair, all of the prompts have always eventually returned a satisfactory answer, as far as I can tell, and haven't used a weaker model to answer them. Maybe? I dunno, it has just struck me as odd every time it has given me that message to pure math prompts.

Despite New Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat

StatsAreFun — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:17:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/despite-new-updates-flocks-creepy-cameras-remain-major-civil-liberties-threat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572781

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

What shifts threshold distributions in social contagions?

StatsAreFun — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04785

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566669

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by StatsAreFun in "No duty to warn if products contain risks not identified at federal level"

StatsAreFun — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:18:39 +0000

This was a court case that went to the SCOTUS. Official reference here: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/609/24-1068/

No duty to warn if products contain risks not identified at federal level

StatsAreFun — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:17:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Co._v._Durnell

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273752

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by StatsAreFun in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

StatsAreFun — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:47:10 +0000

From the page https://openjdk.org/legal/ai -

"6 Is it okay to continue using the spell-checking, grammar-checking, auto-completion, and refactoring features in my editor or IDE?

Yes, so long as they are not based on large language models or similar deep-learning systems."

The International Lunar Reference System

StatsAreFun — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:43:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27762

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128874

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Lost in Context: Addressing Context Anxiety in Large Language Models

StatsAreFun — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:02:22 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21616

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076696

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An Early Warning of Emerging Biosecurity Risks in Frontier LLMs

StatsAreFun — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18056

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042310

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Direct and Indirect Effects of Genetics and Education

StatsAreFun — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19562

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037832

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Right to Privacy (Harvard Law Review, 1890)

StatsAreFun — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:01:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1321160?seq=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016346

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs

StatsAreFun — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:58:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20386

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015878

Points: 30

# Comments: 0

Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

StatsAreFun — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:49:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014537

Points: 33

# Comments: 45

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

StatsAreFun — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731

Points: 470

# Comments: 170

New comment by StatsAreFun in "ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment"

StatsAreFun — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:44:44 +0000

Also related: Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 18 Times in Recent Years (https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-rea...)

New comment by StatsAreFun in "ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment"

StatsAreFun — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:33:01 +0000

That's a great point regarding other camera networks like Ring. I'm not sure which ones bother me more.. probably Ring but it's close. Seems like we can't escape being surveilled 24/7 everywhere we go. :(

ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment

StatsAreFun — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:44:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/cases/schmidt-v-norfolk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586218

Points: 21

# Comments: 16

ANEForge: Python for direct computation on the Apple Neural Engine

StatsAreFun — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:58:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17090

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574152

Points: 3

# Comments: 0