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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:09AM (#50350085)
> I expect naked weight edit will not work for large models. Why? Because an agent needs to know what it edits and reason on it.

Would that still be true for MoE models where only a small part is activated on a specific topic?

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:04AM (#50350067)
I wonder to what extent this ability exists because Astra is used/trained for internal development purposes at OpenAI, and to what extent asking it to improve weights on other models leaks internal knowledge.

It would be interesting if asking astra to edit your model becomes a new way, like distillation, to train your model on the cheap by extracting OAI's model work.

Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:09AM (#50349352)
When there is no bailout, it’s not the rich that take the hardest blow.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:50AM (#50303867)
Not quite the nanosecond buyout yet, but we're getting there.
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:15AM (#50290413)
> 1-trillion-parameter

I'm going to pass, but nice to know it's open now.

Re:OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:53AM (#50288149)
> Political actors are eager for an excuse to redistribute AI rents away from capitalists and toward favored groups...

The current "favored group" is big-tech moguls, though. Just because the industry is new doesn't mean the people investing in it are newcomers.

> Or is this building towards "but can it run DOOM?" :)

Well, someone took the opportunity, of course.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xi2jfm/i_ran_d...

> No, the fix for this issue is that the inverter of your local solar installation checks if the grid delivers a 50 or 60 Hz waveform, and breaks if it does not.

It's hard to apply regulation to people who already decided to skip declaring their setup. If everything was done by the book, the stuff would be declared.

The issue with this logic is that you build a cliff where, at some point, you need to massively invest in storage, and the storage industry hasn't had time to mature alongside the solar/wind industry.
> Installation labour cost and inverter cost are now the largest expenses.

That's true for the solar development project, but such a project typically ignores grid costs.

> I have no idea how serious these reasons actually are.

Basically, the grid was built with the assumption that plants produce power, and that households only consume it. That means opening a breaker between the transport grid and the distribution lines should allow to safely work on the consumer-bound side.

That assumption no longer works if consumers energize the network, and while I assume workers have safety guidelines to check the line before starting work, there is still a risk.

Fixing this issue would require new remotely-operated breakers to be installed, which is costly, and it's hard to justify installing them proactively just in case.

> decentralised energy generation is going to be the way developing economies leap over more advanced ones.

Good luck with running industries on decentralized energy production. That's how things started during the industrial revolution, and the grid was a net upgrade. Reason for that is building a factory is much cheaper when you don't need to also build the adjoined power plant.

Decentralized production works well with residential or low consumption tertiary sector, but not much else. Even then, a working grid will have better quality of service and economies of scale on equipment. The issue with developing countries is that their grid typically is dysfunctional.

> The outcome is a much more resilient grid energy system.

That claim depends a lot on the threat model you're looking at. If your goal is to still have some energy under coordinated attack, sure. If your goal is to maximmize uptime for critical services, not so much. Backup generators, inverters, etc. typically have a higher rate of failure than a well-performing grid.

Yeah, and it’s amazing that we chose to build our society around maximizing the benefits of taking credit regardless.
Re:The U.S. Power Grid on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:57PM (#50235993)
Factorio isn't really relevant, its electricity simulation subsystem is pretty bland.
Re:France needs to read my paper on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:08AM (#50207148)
Dear Wilson,

As a country, I host a somewhat large and educated group of humans. Some of them are economists like you. They most certainly have heard about georgism before.

The current issue is not so much that they don’t have enough ideas, but that they can’t agree on which ones to apply.

Sincerely, France.

Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:22PM (#50201235)
Quick question: what would happen if you decided to simply shield yourself from France’s action without applying any change to your dns? Or is blocking french users considered a compliant answer by French courts?

I don’t get why you would still need to block french users if you also need to exit the jurisdiction.

Re:Where Wealth Is Moving in America (2023) on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:54PM (#50197993)
Ultimately, not every place can have low taxes and a higher-than-average density of rich people. This model requires externalities.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:15PM (#50197417)
It's enough that the signet could be verified, and sometimes was [1].

As it turns out, these documents were mostly useful for long-lived décisions, which could be overturned, and where a forgery exposed you for a lifetime.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_III_of_Artois#The_fraud...

Re:Chain of Thought for Humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:20AM (#50193852)
> The area is still bad for humans; but not terrible for the ecosystem.

The damage is terrible for the ecosystem. Just not as terrible as human presence.

> Consistently 2-3x the cost of [...] gas

Surely you mean the price, because we're not nearly done paying the cost of gas and other fossil fuels we use.

Re:Parser Combinators on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:39PM (#50143349)
What makes no sense? To be useful, a Parser<T> needs to return a type that is useful for the consumer. If your Parser<T> returns, say, an Id or a unit, and then you combine that with a parser whose type is:

Parser<T> -> Parser<List<T>>

You'll leave your user with the task of filtering their list. If the implementer for the list parser had done the same bad job, you'd use a:

Parser<T> -> Parser<List<T>|()>

And your final type would be:

Parser<List<Id|()>|()>

That would be beyond horrible to use, and anyone using such a parser combinator library would, rightfully, be extremely annoyed.

Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:36AM (#50140137)
The issue with this kind of report is that you inevitably end up thinking "They would say that, would they".

There simply is no way to separate what’s reporting and what’s advertising.

Re:Parser Combinators on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:24AM (#50140051)
T is not any type, T is a type defined at compile time, and usually checked against the parser’s implementation.

If you always define T as some useful stuff or unit, your experience with parser combinators and their composition is going to be miserable.

"You criticize society, yet you participate in it."
Re:Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:46AM (#50105379)
I assume this kind of property is large enough that OP can afford to build the second fence one tree height away from the property line.
Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:59AM (#50103017)
Yeah, but then toolchain security is yours to handle.
Re:AI was great until it was not on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:21AM (#50102613)
Hacker news has long drifted from being purely hacker-related content, if it ever was. From my experience, it's a melting-pot of stuff related to entrepreuneurship, IT, VCs, and stuff that happens around silicon valley.
Re:AI was great until it was not on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:49AM (#50101389)
hacking something alone is fun, but maintaining something that’s being hacked by someone else without coordination has always been a shitty experience.

Even those that have less bandwidth for human interaction value being in the loop.

> I banned Alibaba's Cloud two years ago and it still hits one of my domains 1 million times per day, despite every route 4xx-ing during that time.

You may as well silently drop the packets if they don't adapt.

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