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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:19PM (#50343085)
> A human can do the same by looking at the weights of an MLP trained on mnist

Excuse me?

Alex? You're alive after all?
Re:Sigsaly: Churchill's top secret hotline to the President on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:29PM (#50143243)
* US president
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:14PM (#50075225)
Yes, until you introduce inconsistent axioms. Then you can prove anything.
> Supermarkets very efficiently drive down the cost of food

heh, the Czech supermarket cartel would like to speak to you.

So, can we get rid of those "I'm not a robot" widgets at last, as it's been proven beyond any doubt that they don't provide the expected benefits?
That's slightly less than the number of CVEs issued in 2003 in total (1,527).

For context, there are 48,152 CVEs from 2025 and 73,356 in 2026 so far.

Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:34AM (#49931210)
It's almost as though "economic freedom" (whatever that means) and the government schmutzing in citizens' personal affairs are completely unrelated things!
Beautiful. Reminds me of the amazing visual art of Adam Fuhrer[1].

[1]: https://adamfuhrer.com/

And of by one errors
Hacker News saves the day once again!
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:34AM (#49623215)
ChatGPT is commonly referred to as Chappie (チャッピー) in Japan.
I don't think you appreciate what a hack job Windows really is. It's just that it's quite visible in the Linux world, but more obscured in the case of proprietary software.
Re:Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:19PM (#49566719)
Can you share more about the connection between MCMC and SAT/SMT? That's a crossover I never thought I'd see.
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:38AM (#49518700)
I just listen to NTS most of the time.
Re:RAG Is Simpler Than You Think on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:11AM (#49446469)
And you can't fundraise on some old "information retrieval".
Re:Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:12AM (#49358548)
I don't think these two possibilities are entirely exclusive. He could be using GH as a synonym for Git, but it's also the case the Palomar only works for GH repositories
It's as much "human nature" as being a slave was once the nature of some (chosen) peoples.
I, for one, would appreciate if we could just move on past these incessantly destructive power struggles as humanity.
GLM 5.2
Re:Pareto Front on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:22PM (#49198818)
Just copy-paste that description to Claude and have it create the spreadsheet.
Thankfully, synchronous condensers, flywheels and other fossil-free technologies exist.
Perhaps the "uncompetitiveness" (is it with us in the room right now?) is self-inflicted due to lack of ambition and innovations.
Bets on which AI lab it is this time?
Re:Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:59AM (#49109398)
I'd guess that's a part of the TOS.
Re:AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @09:26AM (#49083521)
What's the play for software engineers that lands them in a better place but doesn't leave money on the table for the capitalists?
Re:We have proof automation now on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:24AM (#49066625)
Haskell does not have dependent types.
Re:Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site on Saturday July 25, 2026 @03:38PM (#49050788)
How do you turn on the text-only mode? I've tried Accept: text/plain but I always get HTML.

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