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Re:We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:36PM (#49949337)
surprise $10k bill is getting off easy
Re:This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:20PM (#49796453)
yes I think two-way vs one-way communication is a good characterization
Re:This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations
on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:05PM (#49795964)
hmm, been a minute since I got my ticket, but neither calling CQ nor working a net seem like one to one.
Re:Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s il...
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @11:44PM (#49721854)
I wanted to say that seems like a stretch but then I often find myself visualizing my best guess at the appearance, including species, of an unknown dog. It seems like size of dog and pitch of bark are negatively correlated
Re:Who Aligns the Aligners?
on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:21AM (#49695649)
I thought this was always
already settled https://alignmentalignment.ai/
Re:Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' ...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:20PM (#49686988)
I don't buy it. You can kick someone out of a park for not following the rules of the park. The refs just need to be empowered.
Re:Project Blinkenlights
on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:02PM (#49667525)
me too and I hadn't thought of it in what feels like 20 years. I'm mad that's not what it was
Re:A misalignment of AI in mathematics
on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:02PM (#49666608)
wouldn't AI solving problems in science, engineering, economics, etc be able to apply the new AI math?
Re:I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:53AM (#49626611)
reminds me of a line from The Green Pearl by Jack Vance. "If you please, I cannot properly answer negative questions. There are numberless acts which I have not performed; we could confer here forever while I detailed the deeds I have not done."
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:04PM (#49587846)
it's often not a single prompt but a tree or rooted DAG of many prompts, with the root node being the final prompt. the prompts on interior nodes might not make much sense without the intermediate responses as well. how would you like this communicated?
Re:Electric rain can eat through metal
on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:19AM (#49510834)
isn't this still a form of chemical weathering?
Re:We never use AI. For anything
on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:06AM (#49417569)
Why would an open local model use less resources?
Re:Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:52PM (#49414097)
I'm curious what the constraint preventing you from optimizing the cold start time - can you share more?
Re:Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM
on Friday August 21, 2026 @09:55AM (#49388135)
Human explaining something: are you familiar with phlox gabrania? no? let me give you some background first
Claude explaining something: gedarkin load bearing phlox gabrania seam. Also, you didn't ask about cheesecake but let me tell you about phlox gabrania cheesecake woles.
Re:The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America
on Monday August 10, 2026 @09:25PM (#49252197)
My dad added parental controls to our PC sometime around 1997. It also had Eudora installed, which my dad used for email. Poking around, I found the ini file that had the ciphertext of the password for the email server. On a whim, I made another account in Eudora and put the ciphertext in as my password. In the ini, the plaintext of the password came out; I guess Eudora used some symmetric rot16 or xor like cipher! The same password worked to unlock parental controls, which had taken me just about a week to circumvent.
Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:08PM (#49184791)
> are using known math to solve them rather than inventing anything new.
Isn't a new proof new math? If not, what qualifies as new math?
Re:Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:03PM (#49103660)
the streams aren't man-made and have tons of native fish species that also live in the impoundments now
Re:Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @11:18AM (#49085249)
what is the approximation linear in?
Re:Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @11:13AM (#49085172)
it's certainly not a definite procedure for determining if an arbitrary mathematical statement is true or not. it's more like educated guess and check which definitely scales up
Re:Did They Ghost You?
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @06:20PM (#49052259)
this is cool but the leaderboard is just going to converge on large companies unless it's normalized somehow
Re:Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @08:13AM (#49005506)
just to be clear, it appears you're making up studies, results and explanations for results all in one go, is that right?
Re:Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @07:20PM (#48876773)
tuning defaults for performance feels much more acceptable than tuning defaults for correctness
Re:Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new r...
on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:13PM (#48866550)
this was my experience as well. "here's a trend, it's not true in these cases for reasons we won't explain." I only had two semesters and the second was much better than the first.
Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
on Saturday July 04, 2026 @03:29PM (#48788184)
it is both because the "objective" system is also rife with subjective judgements
Re:Maybe you should learn something
on Saturday July 04, 2026 @10:37AM (#48785748)
is true that if you've done some amount of mental effort in the day, learning becomes "pretty inefficient"? I could see that being true if you're exhausted, but then doing a workout would also be a problem.
Re:Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as sen...
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:33PM (#48756207)
presumably whatever the top model uses and then some, since the human can use the model.
I wonder if a model could score higher if it had a human at its disposal?
Re:Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings
on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:22PM (#48691505)
me too, but they apparently feel more comfortable, so I try to consider that
Re:Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings
on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:53PM (#48689705)
I agree for the most part. I have seen some non-native English speakers improve their short form English communication with an LLM, as a counter case.
Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:09AM (#48619595)
so, the option to disable alerts is not present in the settings menu, despite appearances