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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:03PM (#50341872)
This is shocking.
Re:GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks
on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:01PM (#50307776)
same here
Re:I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:15PM (#49982753)
AGI will destroy us because we'll be too busy debating how AGI will destroy us to deal with the actual problems destroying us.
Re:Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @09:55AM (#48659886)
Can't believe it's come down to this in 2026, but if this does not beep incessantly and slam on the brakes when maneuvering around some foliage I'm all in.
Re:The Dead Economy Theory
on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:56PM (#48332392)
What if AI did not exist and the labor market expanded 50% overnight?
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:54AM (#46810994)
Hover on the green button??? I've used a personal and work Mac daily for over a decade. I had no idea. Thanks!
Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI
on Friday August 15, 2025 @07:54AM (#44911245)
I meant it when I said these smaller models are great. They open up entirely new use cases and I appreciate the work that went into creating them.
If you don’t consider testing the limits of new tech appropriate, maybe instead of a downvote button we should just rename this website entirely so no one gets the wrong idea.
Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI
on Thursday August 14, 2025 @02:12PM (#44903731)
My lovely interaction with the 270M-F16 model:
> what's second tallest mountain on earth?
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> what's the tallest mountain on earth?
The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> whats the second tallest mountain?
The second tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.
> whats the third tallest mountain?
The third tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.
> what's the forth tallest mountain?
The forth tallest mountain is Mount Everest.
> but you said the tallest was Everest already
You are right! I'm glad to hear that.
> so whats the second tallest?
The second tallest is *Mount Everest*.
> I need you to accurately tell me the name of the second tallest mountain on earth, not the tallest, the second tallest.
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> The tallest mountain on earth is mount everest. What is the second tallest mountain?
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> Give me a list of the tallest mountains on earth
The tallest mountain in the world is the *Mount Everest*.
> give me the top 5 tallest mountains on earth
The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
> List in order the tallest mountains on earth from 1 to 5
1. Mount Everest 2. Mount K2 3. Mount Sahel 4. Mount Fuji 5. Mount McKinley
> So the second tallest mountain on earth is K2
The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest.
These smaller models are great, but they really feel like talking to a toddler sometimes!
Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:35AM (#44029724)
Pressure treated wood is a very common outdoor building material.
Re:You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid
on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:52AM (#41879480)
Did you end up discovering the original password to the zip file? (was it, as I'd hope, `TIMBOBIMBO` ?)
Re:CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace ...
on Friday September 27, 2024 @10:25AM (#41670901)
Nice bit of sleuthing here, well done. Anyone know where those search traffic graphics are made from?
Re:Signatures of Gravitational Atoms from Black Hole Mergers
on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:54AM (#41579776)
My point was to illustrate that our physics models don't agree on the nature of this expansion (Hubble tension) so using it to dismiss the fact that the observable universe is dense enough to form an event horizon seems like a stretch.
Re:Signatures of Gravitational Atoms from Black Hole Mergers
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:52PM (#41571267)
> Equating the Schwarzschild radius for a given blob of matter with the event horizon of a black hole requires that the matter be static or collapsing.
If the space containing the matter is stretching does that still count as expansion?
Re:Signatures of Gravitational Atoms from Black Hole Mergers
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:14AM (#41568506)
Let's not forget that the radius of the observable universe is ~= the Schwarzschild radius i.e. we're all almost certainly inside a black hole ;)
Re:Advanced Python: Achieving High Performance with Code Generation
on Friday September 06, 2024 @10:49AM (#41466736)
> Because this storage system’s query language is more powerful than the underlying one’s, its read operations in general may overfetch and then filter results.
Seems like this is the crux of the problem. Migrating and/or replicating data to an underlying data layer that supports the required query logic probably makes more sense?
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023)
on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:29PM (#41112534)
The feature where it tells me the weather.
I'd say there's about a 80% chance that it loads the forecast in under 5 seconds.
Loading the radar has far worse performance - it only works ~50% of the time and failures just show an empty map forever.
When it does manage to load the weather I've found the accuracy to be hot garbage.
Re:Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants
on Monday May 06, 2024 @11:23AM (#40275752)
This would be an awesome feature. It would be a good resource for plant identification and I won't inadvertently introduce an invasive species into my local environment.
Re:Bollards: Why and What
on Monday May 06, 2024 @11:17AM (#40275675)
I can't bring myself to believe that bollards are the answer. Placing them everywhere would be exceptionally expensive. Emergency vehicles would get stuck in traffic more often. Car accidents involving bollards would be more dangerous to drivers and do more costly damage to cars.
While I agree that pedestrian lives would be saved, the net cost to human life likely remains unchanged.
Re:Digital Wood Joints
on Thursday April 25, 2024 @10:50AM (#40158265)
Very cool graphic. However emphasizing the juxtaposition between pictures of wood joints on the internet and actual real-life wood joints with the phrase "digital" is a bit perplexing.
Re:Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB
on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @10:06AM (#40052060)
This must be what "doing your own research" looks like. Maybe try here instead of squinting at single time series of Durban: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
Re:A homework question in someone’s 11th grade statistics class
on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:49AM (#33881977)
There's no right answer.
I suspect a few things are going on here.
1. The teacher forgot to include that the University wants 100 responses to the survey. 2. Missing answer C likely contains something like "Randomly select 14 more students to receive the survey"
That makes it an actual statistics question, you'd need to calculate the response rate from the original 120 and then compute the additional solicitations required to meet the response count goal of 100.
Re:FTX Fiasco Sparks Billions of Dollars of Outflows from Exchanges
on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:39AM (#33594538)
Sure looks like a bank run. I'll set the line on an official entry here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_runs at 4.5 days.
Re:FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
on Friday November 11, 2022 @01:55PM (#33565049)
Cryptocurrency has many advantages to centralized fiat money.
Narrator: It doesn't.
Re:Understanding UseMemo and UseCallback
on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:42PM (#32655519)
Hooks are obviously not stateless - I'm saying they were an inevitable consequence of the push towards functional components and that they represent an inferior development experience. No one needed to write 2000 words on how to use setState.
Re:Understanding UseMemo and UseCallback
on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:13PM (#32655151)
React's push towards a functional model with all the use* hooks is so sad to watch.
A stateless programming model in a domain where state is so fiercely coupled to program utility is inevitably going to spawn this garbage.
Class based components with MobX managing state was, and still is, a dream to write __and__ read.
Re:Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg
on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:08PM (#31412721)
The perquisite to successful DAO's is actually a strong centralized universal identity system (which is ironically counter to cryto-bro anarcho-capitalists philosophies).
From there it's pretty easy to associate real political capital with digital decisions.
E.g. Automatic n+1 "ban proposing user" option added to all proposals. If after n votes (where n is large) the sum(ban proposing user) > 0.25*sum(all other options), proposal is removed and user is banned until a proposal to unban is passed.
Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from ...
on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:23PM (#30534089)
Mandates?
"Since last June, Google has approved nearly 14,000 employees globally to transfer to a new location or go fully remote, Casey said. About 15% of applications have been denied, he added."
"Employees not prepared to return April 4 also can seek a remote-work extension, Google said."
Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimiz...
on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:07AM (#29242159)
I think we're largely in agreement here e.g. I agree 100% that premature abstractions hold a lot of inertia. I'm just advocating for making decisions that optimize for "the right thing" over speed alone. In my experience the right thing tends to be adaptation, but that's because I do a lot of R&D work.
Sometimes yes, you can eat your cake and have it too w/r/t performance and flexibility; but the choice of programming language cannot be categorically relegated to "always pick the fastest one". There are no silver bullets, there will always be tradeoffs.
Flexibility matters, ecosystem matters, developer experience matters, third party libraries matter, good requirements (or lack thereof) matter, budget matters, timeline matters, security matters, and yes, performance also matters - it's just not the only consideration.
High level design decisions, language included, are not "pessimized by default" because they deem some of those other considerations more important than speed.
Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimiz...
on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:42PM (#29236937)
It is not an either/or situation - it's a maturation process. Make flexible slow software first, then optimize the parts that need to be fast.
Optimize iteration frequency of features not for loops.