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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 06/10/2026
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 25/09/2026
this one's amazing too. Meta confirms once again their "Mendacious Fucks" title.
jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny@neuromatch.social

OH what's this???

/etc/hatch/env

hmm a feature flag labeled as a "killswitch" for proxying requests to anthropic is certainly interesting to seeeeeeeeeeeee in meta's big AI bet.

edit: sorry to be a bit cryptic here, the implication was definitely corporate espionage, more clearly said: https://
retro.social/@patrick/117330254290603490

[screenshot of several lines of comments for an environment variable]

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ticho @ticho@mas.to

@jonny The way the comment is worded I don't think enabling this would relay anything anywhere - note the "Meta-internal proxy". It's probably only intended to be used inside their network, probably meant as an override for internal development.

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@patrick@retro.social

@ticho @jonny The idea about such "internal proxies" is to get whatever would be sent to Anthropic plus - more importantly for Meta - what gets sent back in a log, so that they can train their own systems on the way Anthropic responds to users.

It's a common complaint about Chinese models that they were supposedly built like that, using examples of the Good American Models to "clone" the work. Besides the general "we may copy everything with impunity but how dare they copy our output" hypocrisy of the argument, it's interesting to see this in one of Meta's systems, too.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 22/09/2026
Mendaciousness or imbecility? one can argue whether the cursor of refusal is too tight/too open but this magical thinking, lmao.
OpenWorker is an open source project, and identifying and addressing security gaps is a priority. I cannot think of any security benefit to refusing to help us find security issues in our own code. If any issues exist, it is better that we find them before an adversary does.  
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/09/2026
Funny
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 29/08/2026
Haha, that's pretty direct openai.com/index/our-de...
Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. To maximize the time that developers can retain access to our models through Cursor, we are giving the maximum notice provided by our contract. This decision was incredibly tough, as we care deeply about our models being broadly available for developers. We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/08/2026
IOW, Github is getting paperclipped
Title: New comment by tristanj in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"
Author: tristanj
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:30:06 HKT
Feed: Hacker News: Best Comments
Tags: science, tech
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332666

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)

20% of all GitHub accounts were created in the past 6 months
https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2082604368399159542
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/08/2026
I find it unbelievable, in 2026, that the quoted Q. can be asked in good faith (esp. on HN) and if it is, we are far from being able to get good laws re. tech.
> I don't understand why a police cruiser can sit in a public space (or even a private one) and write down licence plates and descriptions of passers-by with pen and paper, or record everything around them with dashcams and bodycams for later use, but when it comes to cameras on a pole this would require a warrant.

Scale actually matters. Things that are generally OK at a small scale become problematic at larger scales. A single police cruiser writing down license plates isn't able to track you in the same way a huge surveillance network is, and the opportunities for abuse are much lower.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 07/08/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
In an interview with The Post, Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said misuse of its systems is inevitable and that the company is focused on providing tools to catch perpetrators after the fact. In their contracts with Flock, police departments agree to use the tool solely for "bona fide investigations" of crime.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/07/2026
This reminds me a little bit of the inside-only commentary about CDO tranches being rated AAA. not saying consequences or even bubble diagnosis should be the same but there's some serious common knowledge gaps going on at several levels via simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/...
The answer was a lot more interesting. It was partially ridiculous sales material being delivered to an easily excitable audience, but this was not the dominant factor constraining honesty.
Executives at their customers were saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive
 at the vendor said that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack (or heresy), and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation. And getting enterprise contracts cancelled because you wanted to opine on something that doesn’t really matter to your organisation’s mission is a great way to get fired.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 18/04/2026
Ex: Sonnet 4.6 a fait une succession de petites hallus (qu'il n'avait pas l'habitude de faire - probablement Anthropic a baissé son seuil pour faire des recherches). La plupart de la convo en amont a zéro recherche. [c'est pour paufiner une installation de synapse]
Extrait d'une conversation avec Sonnet 4.6:

User: since you've been hallucinating a lot on this topic, please give me doc references about:
* where does. the desktop client look for integration urls
* where does it get that info if missing
basically i want to 1/ validate that indeed a .well-known/matrix/client would solve it and 2/ that it needs to be served from the user-id domain and not the homeserver domain

Sonnet: Fair point. I've been reasoning from memory on this and getting details wrong. Let me find the actual docs.
[Synthesized spec documentation to validate integration manager discovery approach>]
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 08/04/2026
Oof, time for a code red
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 26/03/2026
Relevant to the ChatControl debate @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy
Perhaps most troubling to the jury, law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also testified that Meta's reporting of crimes to children on its apps—including child sexual abuse materials (CSAM)—was "deficient," The Guardian reported. Rather than make it easy to trace harms on its platforms, the jury learned from frustrated cops that Meta "generated high volumes of 'junk' reports by overly relying on AI to moderate its platforms." This made its reporting "useless" and "meant crimes could not be investigated," The Guardian reported.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 26/03/2026
Ars, wtf? And I'm not talking the typo using cartesian where the author likely meant polar... Changing to polar coordinates doesn't make the data smaller! It changes the structure of possible values which allows for cheaper/more accurate compression of the angle(s) dimensions.
Exerpt from the Ars article with emphasis (**) on a typo (but not the core of the criticism)

Google offers an interesting real-world analogy to explain this process. The vector coordinates are like directions, so the traditional encoding might be "Go 3 blocks East, 4 blocks North." But using **Cartesian** coordinates, it's simply "Go 5 blocks at 37-degrees." This takes up less space and saves the system from performing expensive data normalization steps.The source for Ars quote with emphasis (**) on the part that ACTUALLY allows compression.

PolarQuant addresses the memory overhead problem using a completely different approach. Instead of looking at a memory vector using standard coordinates (i.e., X, Y, Z) that indicate the distance along each axis, PolarQuant converts the vector into polar coordinates using a Cartesian coordinate system. This is comparable to replacing "Go 3 blocks East, 4 blocks North" with "Go 5 blocks total at a 37-degree angle”. This results in two pieces of information: the radius, which signifies how strong the core data is, and the angle indicating the data’s direction or meaning). **Because the pattern of the angles is known and highly concentrated, the model no longer needs to perform the expensive data normalization step because it maps data onto a fixed, predictable "circular" grid where the boundaries are already known, rather than a "square" grid where the boundaries change constantly.** This allows PolarQuant to eliminate the memory overhead that traditional methods must carry.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 19/03/2026
obligatory
Jesse Plemons: "What kind of American are you?"
screenshot of Alex Garland’s Civil War
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 16/03/2026
phase: FO
Two successive AFP Breaking News mentioning that Australia and then Japan were not considering sending ships to help secure the straight of Hormuz
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 10/03/2026
this is going to end well www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr... www.scmp.com/tech/article...
The warning followed a similar notice issued earlier by the National Vulnerability DataBase (NVDB), a cybersecurity information centre under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, cautioning consumers that improper handling of the agent could expose them to high-level security risks.

Both agencies suggested early adopters of OpenClaw to check permission configurations carefully, disable unnecessary public access and fine-tune controls to mitigate risks.

Their warnings came amid a national adoption frenzy.Tencent, widely viewed as slow in the country’s first wave of AI models, was among the most active in leveraging the OpenClaw boom. The company has launched at least three products and services, including QClaw, announced on Monday to integrate OpenClaw capabilities into its super app WeChat and QQ messenger.

Local governments from southern tech hub Shenzhen to Changshu and Wuxi cities in the eastern province of Jiangsu are also offering subsidy packages to encourage successful applications and industries built around OpenClaw.

The Chancheng district in Foshan, southern Guangdong province, partnered with China Telecom to help local residents install OpenClaw on their devices for free to keep the agent “a hot phenomenon in Foshan”, according to a Tuesday notice published on the district government website.Local governments in Jiangsu province’s Changshu and Wuxi cities, as well as a district in Shenzhen, have drafted supportive policies for OpenClaw, including subsidies and resources.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 10/03/2026
Interesting comment news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731...
Comment on "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

I run a small open source LLM inference company, Synthetic.new. As far as I can tell, CNBC isn't reporting this accurately: the problem isn't that Oracle is building "yesterday's data centers": they're building Blackwell DCs! Those are today's DCs.

The problem appears to be that Oracle is building today's DCs... Tomorrow. And by the time they come online, Vera Rubins will be out, with 5x efficiency gains. And Oracle is unlikely to want to drop the price of Blackwells 5x, despite them being 5x less efficient.

It's a little unclear to me how bad this is. Nvidia's "rack scale" machines like GB200-NVL72s and GB300-NVL72s are basically a fully built rack you roll into a DC and plug into power and network. In that case, Oracle should probably just buy the rack-scale Vera Rubins when they come out instead of Blackwells and roll them into their new DCs.
Tada! Tomorrow's DCs, tomorrow.

OTOH it's possible someone at Oracle screwed up and committed to buying Blackwells at today's prices, delivered tomorrow. Or maybe construction of the physical DCs is behind schedule, so today's Blackwells are sitting around unused, waiting for power and networking tomorrow. Then they're in a bit of trouble.

Regardless, CNBC's reporting seems pretty unclear on what actually happened and whether this is actually bad or not.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 10/03/2026
full quote and source: www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt...
AFP: The new leader in Iran was announced over the weekend. President Donald Trump has said that “he might not last long” and Israel vowed to target any of the new leaders in Iran. I wonder if you have any comment on this?

Guo Jiakun: China opposes interference in other countries’ internal affairs under any pretext. Iran’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity should be respected. China calls for an immediate end to the military operations, return to dialogue and negotiations as soon as possible, and no further escalation of tensions.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 06/03/2026
How can one write this? (the information)
This wasn’t a fun day on Wall Street—the S&P 500 fell 0.5%
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 06/03/2026
I think @simonwillison.net is right there but not sure if this will happen fast enough before there's so much of it, it becomes unenforcable. /fin
Once commercial companies see that their closely held IP is under threat I expect we'll see some well-funded litigation.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 03/03/2026
Interesting, first time i see Claude reacts like that (that's 3 or 4 prompts after i rejected an answer - which was a good answer to the wrong question).
Honestly, I want to be upfront here rather than repeat my earlier mistake of giving you confident but wrong information.But I'd rather not write that out confidently without being able to test it, since getting the archiving step wrong would silently fail or corrupt the setting.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 01/03/2026
In other words, don't mess with the bezzle xcancel.com/OpenAI/statu...
Tweet from OpenAI:

We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we’ve made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 01/03/2026
🤣 apps.apple.com/us/iphone/ch...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 21/02/2026
This is not a general purpose chip but specialized for high speed, low latency inference with small context. But it is potentially a lot cheaper than Nvidia for those purposes.

Tech summary:

  - 15k tok/sec on 8B dense 3bit quant (llama 3.1) 
  - limited KV cache
  - 880mm^2 die, TSMC 6nm, 53B transistors
  - presumably 200W per chip
  - 20x cheaper to produce
  - 10x less energy per token for inference
  - max context size: flexible
  - mid-sized thinking model upcoming this spring on same hardware
  - next hardware supposed to be FP4 
  - a frontier LLM planned within twelve months
This is all from their website, I am not affiliated. The founders have 25 years of career across AMD, Nvidia and others, $200M VC so far.

Certainly interesting for very low latency applications which need Not exactly a competitor for Nvidia but probably for 5-10% of the market.

Back of napkin, the cost for 1mm^2 of 6nm wafer is ~$0.20. So 1B parameters need about $20 of die. The larger the die size, the lower the yield. Supposedly the inference speed remains almost the same with larger models.

Interview with the founders:
https://www.nextplatform.com/2026/02/19/taalas-etches-ai-mod...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 15/02/2026
wtaf
*The SWAT team’s use of a Cyberdyne Systems-like robot to prise open the truck door in this case proved a tad excessive. It turned out the driver hadn’t responded to requests to pull over because he was suffering from a medical emergency and had blacked out at the wheel. There’s a market lesson in there somewhere, we’re just not sure what it might be.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 13/02/2026
👀
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 06/02/2026
things that make you go hmmmm
An aliexpress add for a cement truck that apparently sold already 100k times. Free shipping.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 05/02/2026
Looks like LARPing to me. So freaking pathetic.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 04/02/2026
lmao (from @matt-levine.bsky.social's letter)
Here is the statement:

> SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-
> integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, 
> space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications
> and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech 
> platform. This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book
> in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to 
> understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to 
> the stars!

Sure. “Free speech platform” refers to X, the website that used to be Twitter, which Musk bought in 2022 and merged with xAI last year. I wrote yesterday that “it would be satisfying if humanity’s ambassadors to distant galaxies turn out to be humanoid robots made by a corporate successor to Twitter,” because “actually the greatest modern human achievements are funded and motivated by selling targeted internet advertisements.” But arguably it’s the reverse: We must explore distant galaxies in order to fund a website where you can get into fights about politics.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 04/02/2026
Beautiful receipt. From www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/
"We will hold governments accountable if we see bad activity, to protect your rights." Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, May 2025

"I stand for human rights and believe that evil prevails when good men do nothing." Kraken founder and chairman Jesse Powell, February 2022

"It's also hard to believe how some people want to make justice a political issue. It’s a human rights and dignity issue." Gemini co-founder and president Tyler Winklevoss, June 2020

"It’s interesting to see who is standing up in favor of unlimited, unaccountable, un-appeal-able, unconstitutional power wielded by unelected bureaucrats and rogue politicians." Andreessen Horowitz general partner Marc Andreessen, December 2024

"Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for - economic, speech, due process, etc." Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, May 2025
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 02/02/2026
Ikea doing soft resistance.
Official announcement: You don't need to wear a seat belt on this stool.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 02/02/2026
funny how each time crypto has a leg down, some accounts come out of the woods like
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 01/02/2026
One wonder which of the other ouroboros deals are or not a commitment...
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 28/01/2026
When I think about liquidity, this is never far away (from Ma Dalton by Morris and Goscinny, 1971)
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 28/01/2026
Damning quotes
    An iRobot shareholder and former Goldman Sachs partner running a hedge fund called Red Mountain Capital, Willem Mesdag, sent a letter demanding that the company sell or shut down every part of its business that didn’t have to do with robots that clean things.

    He demanded that the company slash its research budget, use the excess cash for dividends, and focus on branding and extending its near-monopoly in automated vacuum cleaners (68 percent of the global market share, according to Mesdag’s letter). Mesdag engaged in a proxy fight to wrest control of the company from its engineering founders, accusing one of its founders and iRobot Chairman Colin Angle of engaging in “egregious and abusive use of shareholder capital” for investing in research.

    Research that, according to an iRobot spokesman, was intended “to spur innovation in robotics and robotics-related areas.” Mesdag argued that the money should have been used for share buybacks to boost the stock value instead of for research…

    “In my trips to Wall Street,” Dyer told the panel, “one of my analyst friends took me to lunch one day and said, ‘Joe, you have to get iRobot out of the defense business. It’s killing your stock price.’ And I countered by saying ‘Well, what about the importance of DARPA and leading-edge technology? What about the stability that sometimes comes from the defense industry? What about patriotism?’ And his response was, ‘Joe, what is it about capitalism you don’t understand?’”Amazon wanted Ring for Iotera, a company Ring acquired in late 2017. Iotera built a proprietary protocol for smart devices. Internally, it was known as RingNet, but now it is known as Amazon Sidewalk. Unlike Wifi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, or Z-Wave, Sidewalk requires users to use the Alexa ecosystem. Amazon has grown its Sidewalk network via Alexa and Ring devices sold below cost and acquisitions of companies like Eero and soon, iRobot.At one point, Ring was accused of “allowing any employee or contractor to access consumers’ private videos and by failing to implement basic privacy and security protections, enabling hackers to take control of consumers’ accounts, cameras, and videos.” One government complaint alleged that a Ring employee “viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras that surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms.” And it wasn’t just the FTC, there was substantial concern from rivals and consumer advocates over Amazon’s use of Sidewalk to open up a new path to surveil consumers.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 28/01/2026
L'arroseur arrosé
Chinese travel operators have developed the “yitiao long” (“one dragon”) system, whereby entire itineraries, including transport, accommodation, entertainment and meals, are provided by Chinese-owned businesses in Japan.

In these establishments, services are offered in Mandarin and payments often use Chinese payment platforms, minimising the flow of funds into the broader Japanese economy.

No official figures exist for the scale of the “yitiao long” system, although industry estimates have suggested that as much as 1 trillion yen a year may ultimately flow back to China.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 22/01/2026
What?
The mercurial leader claimed he had stopped referring to the pandemic as the “China virus” at Xi’s request to avoid conflict, and said he was warned of “something really bad happening in China”, claiming satellite images showed body bags in Wuhan without explanation.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 20/01/2026
This is valid, though and the reason why it's not been happening already (and not only from EU). Doesn't prevent slowing down purchase/stopping roll-overs for marginal flows.
In reality, the US financial markets are the biggest, deepest and most liquid in the world, and it would be hard to reallocate the money elsewhere.European banks and investors are stuffed with Treasuries. If they tumble in value because of a threat of a European boycott, then it would probably end up harming Europe just as much as the US, if not more so. Moreover, a large-scale repatriation of capital would send the dollar tumbling and the euro rocketing, which would alone possibly be enough to send many European countries into a recession.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 20/01/2026
This argument is over-used. Price is made at the margin, if it's hard to sell, it's having the desired effect.
Who would Europe even sell to?

A thing that people often forget is that every seller requires a buyer, and it’s unclear who would be willing to take the other side of any European fire sale of US assets.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 18/01/2026
Lors d’une manifestation en soutien au peuple groenlandais à Copenhague, le 17 janvier 2026. TOM LITTLE / REUTERS
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 17/01/2026
So they either: - still pass 'some' info to the advertiser/advertising platform (convo topic, eg here trip, santa fe) which would be bad. - select the best ad that's been submitted to them based on your chat (in that case OAI keeps the info they already have anyway). this seems important to know
Back to advertising: my biggest concern has always been whether ads will influence the output of the chat directly. OpenAI assure us that they will not:

 * Answer independence: Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what's most helpful to you. Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.
 * Conversation privacy: We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers.The user asks about trips to Santa Fe, and an ad shows up for a cottage rental business there. This particular example imagines an option to start a direct chat with a bot aligned with that advertiser, at which point presumably the advertiser can influence the answers all they like!
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 14/01/2026
A “Nu det NUUK!” cap with a “Make America Go Away” slogan is displayed in a clothing store in Copenhagen on Monday. Photo: AFP
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 31/12/2025
It originally contained a screenshot of a full-screen notice displaying:
  We've introduced additional checks to protect your
  account. The following apps have been downloaded
  from unofficial app stores.
  
  Your access to the HSBC UK Mobile Banking app
  has been suspended on this device until you've taken
  action to restore it.
  
  Identified apps:
  
    - Bitwarden
  
  How do I restore access?
  
    - Uninstall the identified apps from your device
      and download again from the default device
      app store, eg Google Play or Galaxy Store.
  
  For further assistance, please visit
  https://www.hsbc.co.uk/contact/
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 12/12/2025
Reminds of what the head of my french eng. school said in his graduation speech: "you arrived knowing how to solve well-posed problems, you're now leaving knowing how to solve ill-defined ones" (translated loosely from memory, that was many many years ago)
There's a significant blind-spot in current LLMs related to blue-sky thinking and creative problem solving. It can do structured problems very well, and it can transform unstructured data very well, but it can't deal with unstructured problems very well.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 12/12/2025
This is amazing
I suppose this is as good a place as any to mention this. I've now met two different devs who complained about the weird responses from their LLM of choice, and it turned out they were using a single session for everything. From recipes for the night, presents for the wife and then into programming issues the next day.

Don't do that. The whole context is sent on queries to the LLM, so start a new chat for each topic. Or you'll start being told what your wife thinks about global variables and how to cook your Go.

I realise this sounds obvious to many people but it clearly wasn't to those guys so maybe it's not!
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 26/11/2025
Meta
When Meta researchers found that by 2018, approximately 40 percent of children ages 9 to 12 were daily Instagram users — despite the fact that you are supposed to be 13 to join - some employees bristled at what they perceived as tacit encouragement from executives to accelerate growth efforts among children.
"Oh good, we're going after <13 year olds now?" one wrote, as cited in Time's account of the brief. "Zuck has been talking about that for a while...targeting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago (and today). Like we're seriously saying 'we have to hook them young' here."
When Meta studied the potential of its products to be addictive in 2018, it found that 55 percent of 20,000 surveyed users showed at least some signs of "problematic use." When it published that research the following year, though, it redefined "problematic use" to include only the most severe cases - 3.1 percent of users.
"Because our product exploits weaknesses in the human psychology to promote product engagement and time spent," a user experience researcher wrote, the company should
"alert people to the effect that the product has on their brain."
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 26/11/2025
Roblox
Newton: (interjecting) You don’t think you have a problem with predators on the platform.

Baszucki: I think we’re doing an incredible job at innovating relative to the number of people on our platform and the hours, in really leaning into the future of how this is going to work.Since 2018, at least two dozen people in the United States have been arrested and accused of abducting or abusing victims they met on Roblox, according to a 2024 investigation by Bloomberg. Attorneys general in Texas, Kentucky, and Louisiana have filed lawsuits against Roblox alleging that the platform facilitates child exploitation and grooming. More than 35 families have filed lawsuits against the company over child predation.As recently as this month, a reporter for the Guardian created an account presenting herself as a child and found that in Roblox she could wander user-created strip clubs, casinos, and horror games. In one "hangout" game, in which she identified as a 13-year-old, another avatar sexually assaulted her by thrusting his hips into her avatar's face as she begged him to leave her alone.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 25/11/2025
Follow-up on this fraud: news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/...
[...]It appears he invented the entire study. In the aftermath, MIT economics professors have been discussing ways to raise standards for graduate students' research papers, including scrutinizing raw data, and students are going out of their way to show their work isn't counterfeit, according to people at the school. Since parting with the university, Toner-Rodgers has told other students that his paper's problems were essentially a mere issue
with data rights. According to him, he had indeed burrowed into a trove of data from a large materials-science company, as his paper said he did. But instead of getting formal permission to use the data, he faked a data-use agreement after the company wanted to pull out, he told other students via a WhatsApp message in May... On Jan. 31, Corning filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against the registrar of the domain name corningresearch.com. Someone who controlled that domain name could potentially create email addresses or webpages that gave the impression they were affiliated with the company. WIPO soon found that Toner-Rodgers had apparently registered the domain name, according to the organization's written decision on the case. Toner-Rodgers never responded to the complaint, and Corning successfully won the transfer of the domain name. WIPO declined to comment... In the WhatsApp chat in May, in which Toner-Rodgers told other students he had faked the data-use agreement, he wrote, "This was a huge and embarrassing act of dishonesty on my part, and in hindsight it clearly would've been better to just abandon the paper." Both Corning and 3M told the Journal that they didn't roll out the experiment Toner-Rodgers described, and that they didn't share data with him.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 08/11/2025
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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PostCandide @postcandide.151e.org · 26/10/2025
2+2 = 5. Not only will you believe it but you will wonder how you ever thought otherwise.
When asked about the administration’s views on low voter turnouts earlier this month, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai asserted that a low turnout could mean that people were satisfied with the government’s performance. If that were true, why is there a get-out-the-vote campaign now?
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