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New comment by desterothx in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

desterothx — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:49:35 +0000

Yes I have no problems with them looks-wise. They don't build them on parking lots/factory roofs because of efficiency. Good solar panels follow the sun, which isnt really a mechanism practical to setup in a parking lot. maintenance is also a lot easier if you have one field generating a gigawatt of power vs having to service 20 parking lots that generate a gigawatt of power. Also obviously the land itself is cheaper in the countryside. Renewables are operating on relatively thing margins profitability wise, so you really want to make the juice worth the squeeze (the main value being sovereignty from other countries as discussed in the thread)

New comment by desterothx in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

desterothx — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:44:14 +0000

You don't have to look into the animal kingdom, history works too. No ruling empire has fallen silently and without conflict. Changing the world order always included an aggressive transfer of power

New comment by desterothx in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

desterothx — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:27:18 +0000

If there is no funding for helping the people coming from the non evangelical sources, i'm sure the people would rather have medicine than keep dying, no matter the indoctrination they receive

New comment by desterothx in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

desterothx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:56:25 +0000

Speaking as a person that had to buy 2 additional psp chargers (my ebook reader uses one too), please throw those onto ebay or your local marketplace instead :)

New comment by desterothx in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

desterothx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:50:28 +0000

Well he probably didn't admit the user error part

New comment by desterothx in "So you want to use OpenRouter?"

desterothx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:37:36 +0000

I mean that is addressed as well later, even when they do declare the quantization, doesn't mean you'll get better performance than the lower quantized one. I'm guessing they're doing something similar to what stadia was doing, saying you are playing games in 4k, because you're getting a 4k stream, but the game itself is running in 1080p

New comment by desterothx in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

desterothx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:46:25 +0000

IMO it doesn't make sense for LLMs to write machine code, because abstraction allows them to have more information density. As context size is a big limitation right now, cluttering it with less dense information seems like a bad idea.

New comment by desterothx in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

desterothx — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:41:34 +0000

The speeds are theoretical (unachievable), time dilation itself is robust and proved (gps wouldn't work as precisely without accounting for it)

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

desterothx — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:49:46 +0000

They have no zero data retention commitments anymore though? In fact they have quite the opposite, a direct message of storing prompts since the release of sol (but we wont train on it trust us wink wink)

New comment by desterothx in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

desterothx — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:03:49 +0000

Billions lost, while waiting for their trillion ipo. Im sure they would manage...

New comment by desterothx in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

desterothx — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:26:58 +0000

They will, as soon as they get the same proof without it being obvious in the prompts they stole the research

New comment by desterothx in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

desterothx — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:37:33 +0000

Because your competitor is likely doing the same thing, so they wont even try to call you out. Oh oh or because you're planning the largest IPO in history. The opinions of average people on the paper aren't going to be the ones reflected in the markets...

New comment by desterothx in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

desterothx — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:45:39 +0000

Where were you seeing those roumors? Care to point to an HN post?

New comment by desterothx in "WeatherNext 3"

desterothx — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:57:59 +0000

Sure we do, you can follow the weights so to say, to see which data turns out to be more important vs less important for predictions of a higher quality

New comment by desterothx in "Mistral raises €3B"

desterothx — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:46:39 +0000

The alps are shared between Switzerland, Italy and France. You can live in the French alps a lot cheaper than in Switzerland

New comment by desterothx in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

desterothx — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:22:38 +0000

We are talking about models of the flash size, 100s of billions of parameters, don't listen to the media, size does matter

New comment by desterothx in "An Alien Mind"

desterothx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:07:00 +0000

As the agi nurse fails to wipe his ass the intelligent HN commenter shouted: "You're moving the goalposts. You never said it needs to wipe my ass SUCCESFULLY"

New comment by desterothx in "An Alien Mind"

desterothx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:40:05 +0000

Where are you getting your information from? From all I've seen the RL gives an incremental improvement, most of the capability increase comes from new model architectures (eg the jump from opus to fable is greater than the jump from opus 4.5 to 4.8)

New comment by desterothx in "An Alien Mind"

desterothx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:27:11 +0000

Well it could assure MAD better than a human i guess

New comment by desterothx in "GPT-6 Astra"

desterothx — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:47:36 +0000

astrum is one star, astra is a plural of stars