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Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:23AM (#50348418)
So government has no obligation to rule by and for the people in your mind?
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:07PM (#50347536)
> We can't keep asking harder and harder questions infinitely while remaining able to verify the answers.

The last several millennia of mathematical research would seem to be an obvious counter example to this claim.

Re:Linode Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:59PM (#50311751)
When mythos was released - I guesstimated that we had 6 months until hackers had similar enough capabilities that we would start to see real problems in the wild. Unless there is some change in the trend line things are about to get really quite spectacular.
Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:32PM (#50310421)
The rate at which software is produced has never been higher, nor has the rate at which it is thrown away for being broken and useless. It’s not at all obvious to me that if you control for both of those rate changes that the amount of useful software with a lifespan measured in years created per developer (ie, the software that actually has long term value) has actually changed all that much.
Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:03PM (#50268858)
No, because these are not generated using any model available on their api.
Is this closed source?
Re:Chain of Thought for Humans on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:23PM (#50190397)
Yeah I’m the exact opposite, thought is almost entirely auditory.
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:52PM (#50190173)
It doesn’t have a stable abi, how could it be easier? I would argue that the vast majority of what rust gives you comes at a direct cost of precisely the ergonomics of manual memory management. It’s a tradeoff that makes sense much of the time, but it’s still very obviously a tradeoff.
Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:27AM (#50167854)
While this is true - and I see the same sentiment as i am about to make ad nauseam - it is kind of amazing how far the goal posts have moved in such a short space of time.
Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:12PM (#50158151)
Not sure why ds cache costs are confusing? Their kv cache is absurdly compressed compared to almost everyone else.
if you think about that statement a bit more deeply, how else are you going to incentivize a society as a whole to take risks? If all the risk from your actions is ultimately your responsibility, no one would take risks, no one would explore for the sake of it.
That’s certainly the long term goal, but it seems foolish to abandon it without a solution to the problem.
Re:Fun Extending the C Preprocessor on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:13PM (#50144289)
>(I'd need a Lisp that runs in the browser, for starters!)

We would be in a very different world if Netscape’s exec team had let Brendan Eich just use scheme as he had planned to.

Re:Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:51PM (#50123646)
You could say the same about more or less any language feature - the thing is though that having a standard feature people can agree on is better than several people’s divergent opinions on which macros are sufficiently aesthetically pleasing.
Re:Neural Networks Are Already Clean on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:26PM (#50113167)
You’re only considering the front half of the network though, classification is a helpful example for explaining the concept - but if it follows through to the output then you could quite easily imagine just shunting some activation from one branch of the representation tree to another to steer behavior. Which we already do with steering vectors - but if you could read off the actual topology you could do that with much higher fidelity.
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:44PM (#50111899)
So make one. Not everything is for you.
Re:Why We're Banning AI on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:17PM (#50110405)
presumably if you are generating text for yourself to read prior to you writing something for a human.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:41PM (#50096522)
>I see this quote being thrown around a lot as if it supports the article's point, but this quote is just some of the most famously smart, skilled, and effortful people ever admitting even they cannot condense their knowledge that much.

But that’s explicitly not what the quote says - it’s not that they can’t, it’s that it takes work.

Re:Who Taught the Machines Mathematics? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:33PM (#50095644)
The question for them is similarly existential - who is going to pay for research grants when the machines do all the work? Why pay for a PhD student to work on some research topic if an llm already proved the theorem?
Re:Who Taught the Machines Mathematics? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:52PM (#50094050)
>The central problem is that the majority of people go into math because they love discovering mathematics and want to participate in the process. That itself is a huge part of the reward. That creates the community. Simply have huge numbers of people outputting math as if it were an industrial factory kills the joy in the process and so in itself destroys the community.

Seems like math is split in much the same way software is.

Re:America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:50PM (#50092967)
short term profit over long term thinking - because no one in the system is incentivized towards long term thinking. The counter balance should in theory sit within the remit of politics, but even senators can be bought and few are far sighted enough to realize the consequences of incremental deindustrialization.
Re:Show HN: How Random Are You? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:10AM (#50082290)
It got 8% of mine.
It’s really bizarre to me that anyone would think otherwise. Though - I was aware of the need to spend on sufficient local llm hardware to buy what I could afford for that purpose in late 2024 - so maybe I’m an outlier.
Ah, hello me.
It’s also very useful signal that the reasoning trace is leading to solving open problems - you can be certain that you’re not landing somewhere inside the training data.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:31PM (#49987325)
Other than the by the lean certificate you mean.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:26PM (#49987280)
One step at a time - how reliant do you think the ai labs are likely to be on their own tools right now, today, let alone 1-5 years down the road?
Re:You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:40PM (#49901800)
Yes, other people exist who are not like you.
Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:30PM (#49886377)
They increased the projected liability of pre-existing financial deals that include share options.
Re:Best of British Design on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:38PM (#49885985)
I have lived outside the uk now for the majority of the years of I have been able to drive.

The winner was a foregone conclusion, transport signage everywhere else I’ve lived and driven extensively other than the uk is a patchwork mess that has clearly had exactly no thought put into it.

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