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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:50PM (#50345169)
(I don’t know anything about this field, but) I’m guessing the reason we keep language instead of going straight to latent space is that you wouldn’t want to remove the only (?) remaining concept which still somewhat allows us to peek into the “thought process” in a way we can (hope to) understand wrt. models’ interpretability…
Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:40AM (#50334416)
Ah, I think I see now. Essentially the dependency module is unnecessarily large and (for your own use case) ships with extraneous features/“bloat”.
Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:26AM (#50334351)
Let me rephrase your remark: “Is 55 or 75 or 95 per cent larger than zero?”
Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:25AM (#50334339)
> Why not support one of those ventures

It appears their end goal is 1:1 drop-in replacements, which other projects usually don’t strive for.

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:54AM (#50334186)
> rebuild our frontends completely using zero frameworks, not touching npm ever again after that

Genuine question, because I don’t know: Wouldn’t it suffice to vendor your current packages and “only” stick to maintenance from there on out, instead of rewriting it all?

This should still achieve the goal of not needing to touch npm, but presumably with less effort/tokens, right? Or is it just that you would expect the result of that process to be less clear and maintainable than a full rewrite?

> Side-by-side Qwen 3.8 27B is ~6x as fast as DS4 and GLM 5.3

Wow, that sounds like a lot! Do you use/mean the regular models or flash variants here?

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:08AM (#50285448)
Hm. I don’t think CarPlay “apps” can do payments, so I’m not sure whether HomeView can, either.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:41PM (#50281318)
Last I read you don’t even get an App Store (!) to install third-party apps on the device, so I’m not sure if that’s possible.
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:35AM (#50269921)
Interesting! Have you looked into variable-axis monospaced fonts at all for this project?

https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

Re:Git for US Legislation on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:26AM (#50269880)
Exactly, it’d make the press’ work easier, and maybe enable more people or entities to look into this topic over all, too.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:03PM (#50262208)
Good point, but do these settings need the latest M-series chip then, too?
Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:54AM (#50167358)
Yes, of course, but couldn’t you have/make one in WASM too? (I have no clue how memory is allocated there)
Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:49AM (#50167279)
(Not sure if this could be a genuine remark or is more of a joke, but)

Why not vibecode a Go -> WASM cross-compiler, then?

> on par with deepseek atleast

For chatbot-style usage maybe, can’t really attest to that; for long-running, long-context “agentic” work including planning, within a harness etc., definitely not (yet).

> What I would see even more likely are requirements of no agent commits, use of only human written/vetted code under their name.

I mean in the end that’s what the Kernel project does now, IIRC? Everything has to have a response human’s sign-off.

> nonfiction is wilder than fiction

Yup. Among other reasons, in this case due to the very much nonfictional consequences you’d expect in a “real world” story like this: Had Graw been convicted and stripped of his titles, basically anyone found guilty using evidence from one of his investigations/autopsies, even decades later, could attempt to appeal their case and very likely, this would have completely flooded the courts.

For this reason, this was a huge case here in Munich, and the prosecutors’ office, from what the public could read in newspapers, was very anxious about the outcome all throughout like 2024 to 2026, IIRC.

Interesting. Doesn’t that shift the problem towards how you ensure alignment of the interpreter models, then?
Re:Another day another GitHub incident on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:37PM (#50154523)
The alternative is, I’m guessing, probably any other hosted git + CI/CD service that doesn’t offer a free tier to zillions of users (human and LLM alike) so that their computing capacity isn’t in a constant arms race with growth.
Yeah, my first thought as well. How are they supposed to improve and iterate on this model?
Ah, much better, then – I mean it’s not like the US is already in debt or anything.
Re:Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:59AM (#50114626)
I wonder how the Helium [0] project solves this, since they also work off of an opinionated-ish Chromium base.

[0] https://helium.computer

> normies

The tinfoil hat explanation for this is that everyone at Apple is using iCloud for everything, and thus would never encounter a bug with locally-hosted services.

Re:Why do LLM pelicans look like this? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:55PM (#50094112)
True that (I just recently saw an ad again promoting the equivalent of “grade and explain tasks, get paid”, clearly for training material).

But I should’ve clarified, I meant the scraping aspect of it, since more and more content on the open web will be LLM output.

Re:Why do LLM pelicans look like this? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:10PM (#50091101)
> LLMs cannot be pre-trained on LLM outputs because LLM output diversity is low.

And with ever-more LLM usage both in labs and the real world, the task of finding new/“creative” out-of-average-distribution material will only continue to increase in difficulty. Meaning if this continues, in the future, all output becomes the equivalent of the color brown?

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:20PM (#50090157)
> it sucks

Exactly. From the page about the requirements for the app under 1) in your link:

> System requirements

> Android 12 or iOS 16

So one of four methods is, by default, already completely dependent on having an account with $american_megacorp.

4) is another app where it doesn’t outright say, but I’m guessing the requirements are also a mainstream OS, mobile at that as well since they seem to use biometrics.

That leaves 2) dedicated hardware and 3) dedicated hardware. Great. (see the “my house burned down” article/thought experiment as to why I’m against that.)

Re:Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:44AM (#50087718)
You bring up an excellent argument there, however, haven’t you thought about the money?

I mean, who cares about the developing minds of the next generation when there’s money to be made involved?

> And I also wonder what the hiring process was like to hire someone with that mental frame.

Remember, this is only the company responsible for potentially building and aligning AGI. No need to be setting high expectations toward their sandboxing or hiring capabilities.

Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:09AM (#50072032)
A good while ago, I also read about a company [0] using a legal framework for the company structure/charter, the Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), specifically to ensure how they want “best interests” to be defined. Sounded very fitting for the purpose, and cool that such a system exists (at least in some states, I believe?).

[0] https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi#4

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:04AM (#50071977)
> people do feel some tension about staring at their phones all day

That, plus the crowd who would want or like to hack on a device like this, or at least use a non-Apple app or service, is probably far outnumbered by people who don’t care what (and whose) software can run on their screen in the home as long as it looks nice and works well, which is typically the case for Apple.

Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:10AM (#50067465)
Really? You guys have laws that mandate profit-maximization?
Re:I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:33PM (#50058867)
Column-staggered keyboards are cool, but I think having one puts you in the vast, vast minority of all computer users.

> I don't see a single objective benefit for choosing hjkl on its own.

“j looks like a down arrow” is easy to remember as a sort of anchor key :-)

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