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New comment by p4coder in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

p4coder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:19:42 +0000

I am guessing that the Oman's share Homruz fees will also shared with Trump businesses (via loss making investments, or another plane etc)

New comment by p4coder in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

p4coder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:39:17 +0000

Today morning, I was checking TSA wait times. Guess what, they want you to install their app to get the wait time. [1]

[1](https://www.dhs.gov/check-wait-times)

New comment by p4coder in "Goodbye to Sora"

p4coder — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:29:28 +0000

I also like doing that for topics that I am tangentially interested in. One minor thing that I find annoying is that the narrators switch roles in the middle of conversation. They start with the female voice explaining a concept to the male voice and suddenly they switch. In the meantime I have identified myself with the voice being explained to.

New comment by p4coder in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

p4coder — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:37:48 +0000

The nation is one terrorist attack away from rallying behind the president. And sadly the chances of that happening have gone up significantly in recent days.

New comment by p4coder in "Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped"

p4coder — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:12:51 +0000

I think what we really need is Internet user's Bill of Rights. The power and information asymmetry is too great to obtain fair treatment for the user.

New comment by p4coder in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

p4coder — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:16:21 +0000

Unfortunately it is not browser based (as in being local HTML+CSS+js). It is web based, where they get all your data.

New comment by p4coder in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

p4coder — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:26:19 +0000

Yes, it is the unfortunate reality of the US. You either fork over all your data to tax preparation companies on the web or pay them to use windows/MacOS software. There is still paper filing by doing taxes by hand, but that's a bit too inconvenient. Free online filing is restricted to $89k annual income.

New comment by p4coder in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

p4coder — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:47:47 +0000

How do you do taxes in Linux? Install a windows VM? I don't want to use the web version. With Google docs being good enough, I don't really need windows for anything else. Last time I checked, the tax software didn't run under wine.

New comment by p4coder in "Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs"

p4coder — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:24:37 +0000

Only if you think living longer is bad. Till early 20th century, urban life expectancy was lower than rural life expectancy in Britain. It was dubbed urban penalty.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7186836/

New comment by p4coder in "GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]"

p4coder — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:38:51 +0000

Sometimes getting a second pair of eyes to look at the problem helps and is usually not a judgement of smartness of the first pair of eyes. Seems like it also applies to coding agents.

New comment by p4coder in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

p4coder — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:32:14 +0000

Today physical world is largely mechanized, we rarely walk, run lift heavy things for survival. So we grow fat and weak unless we exercise. Tomorrow vast majority of us will never think, create, investigate for earning a living. So we will get dumb and dumber over time. A small minority of us will keep polishing their intellect but will never be smarter than machines just like the best athletes of today can't outrun machines.

New comment by p4coder in "Material 3 Expressive"

p4coder — Fri, 16 May 2025 19:12:13 +0000

Hmm, works just fine on my pixel 6a in chrome.

New comment by p4coder in "Boycott IETF 127"

p4coder — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:34:03 +0000

It depends on your citizenship. Some European countries reject 50% Indian Schengen visa applicantions.

https://www.cntraveller.in/story/these-3-countries-rejected-...

New comment by p4coder in "The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important"

p4coder — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:41:16 +0000

The future of AI might be layering of various capabilities: Generative+Lookup+Deductive. I think the human mind works in a similar way. First thought is reflected upon. We search our memory to get relevant information and often apply logic to see if it makes sense. I feel the generative AI just produces a thought. We need to pass that through a system that can augment it with search and then reason about it. Finally need to close the loop and update the weights.

New comment by p4coder in "How Dowries Are Fuelling a Femicide Epidemic"

p4coder — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:53:31 +0000

One justification for dowry that people asking dowry used to give was till 2005, the hindu inheritance law did not have a claim for daughters. So dowry was a way to get that inheritance in advance.

New comment by p4coder in "Tesla Again Paints a Misleading Story with Their Crash Data"

p4coder — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:58:36 +0000

After seeing ChatGPT and others hallucinate and make mistakes I was wondering if self-driving AI is inherently susceptible to similar behavior. Like hallucinating objects on the road and ignoring signs etc. If we can not fully understand these types of behavior for LLMs at a fundamental level, is the self-driving AI any different.

Of course, it may be that the LLM architecture makes them susceptible for this, but not self-driving AI. But the question still remains, do we understand enough about it to trust human lives to the AI?

New comment by p4coder in "Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT"

p4coder — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:18:38 +0000

I think the charging network is going to prove to be the iMessage of Tesla. By keeping it closed, they will be selling many more cars. In Europe where they had to use the standard port and open the network, there will be much stiffer competition.

New comment by p4coder in "Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why"

p4coder — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:21:22 +0000

Rent increase has been one of the biggest contributor to core inflation [0]. That has caused fed to raised interest rate at a rapid clip and cause the market crash. So is an algorithm responsible for the blood on wall st?

[0] https://www.corelogic.com/intelligence/the-role-of-rent-in-i...

New comment by p4coder in "Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out"

p4coder — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 10:13:34 +0000

I think the following is much better paper on this topic. It discusses how the furin cleavage site occurs in lab and why ace2 binding could have emerged and why the virus was well adapted to ferrets right from the start. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435492/

New comment by p4coder in "South Africa suspends rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine"

p4coder — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 06:32:15 +0000

Not exactly, but there is this [1] that shows how the binding strength varies with single amino acid change.

[1] https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-RBD_DMS/