nneonneo

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by nneonneo 6mo ago
1. I do something similar quite frequently in informal contexts, and have to catch myself before posting such text to more formal settings. If Satoshi was as aware of stylometry as the article claims, it stands to reason that he would edit
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by nneonneo 7mo ago
The underlying source here is https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-co... . That news story embeds the actual video as well as providing more detailed context about the threat. Can we change the link
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by nneonneo 7mo ago
Based on the figures here, they’re claiming around 400 miles of range added in 300 seconds (60% of the full 677 mile range); contrast this with around 100 seconds for a typical gas pump (8 gal/min) and typical efficiency (30 mpg). It s
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by nneonneo 7mo ago
Lord, we're how many years into using LLMs, and people still don't understand that their whole shtick is to produce the most plausible output - not the most correct output? The most plausible output might be correct, or it might
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by nneonneo 7mo ago
Your comment - and your last two comments too - all sound very LLM-written. Using an LLM for commenting is explicitly against the site rules ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated ).
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by nneonneo 7mo ago
The people in that counting to infinity subreddit would get compensated a lot if this were fully automated - their posts were so overrepresented in the training set that many of their usernames became complete tokens (e.g. SolidGoldMagikarp
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by nneonneo 7mo ago
This is one of the reasons I like the PNG format - it has checksums. You can fix a surprising number of broken files by bruteforce testing plausible errors until the checksum passes. With JPEG one of the big problems is that the data is Huf
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
Somewhat annoyingly, there's been research that suggests that models can pass information to each other via (effectively) steganographic techniques - specific but apparently harmless choices of tokens, wordings, and so on; see https:&
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
Eh, they're still keeping the impending switch to PDT, just ditching the future switch back to PST (and all future changes). That should give around 7-8 months for a new timezone file update to percolate.
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
On the other hand, Korean ditched the ideographic Hanja (Chinese Character) writing system because it was too difficult to learn, in favour of a much simpler phonetic one. In Japan, the classical Kanji Chinese writing system was considered
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
The full system prompt: https://pop.rdi.sh/indus-system-prompt-2026-02-24.txt Unfortunately, it gets cut off here: ``` ## CRITICAL RULES 1. *No tool leakage* — never output ``` I would be very interested to know what string
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
The website notes that you can measure lag with an “expensive” high-speed camera setup. My favorite trick, which I’ve used frequently (including in scientific publications on lag!) is to use the slo-mo cam on a smartphone. Phones will usual
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
Those are some weird-ass visualizations. I can only assume they were AI-generated.
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
> an abused girl his team had named Lucy > It was impossible to work out who, or where, Lucy was. Lucy is a pseudonym. They were trying to get Facebook to tell them who the girl was through facial recognition. There’s no reason to exp
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
A new-ish feature of modern browsers is the ability to link directly to a chunk of text within a document; that text can even be optionally highlighted on page load to make it obvious. You could configure the LLM to output those text anchor
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
Somewhere on an HN thread I saw someone claiming that they "solved" security problems in their vibe-coded app by adding a "security expert" agent to their workflow. All I could think was, "good luck" and I cert
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by nneonneo 8mo ago
What’s with that awful AI-generated infographic at the end? The piece would be better without it…
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
I had a fun bug while building a smartwatch app that was caused by the sample rate of the accelerometer increasing when the device heated up. I had code that was performing machine learning on the accelerometer data, which would mysteriousl
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
Ok interesting, but I wonder: if you load up a bacteria that kills other bacteria in your mouth, and it ends up in your gut, will it mess up the microbiome there? The weight gain studies suggest not (and I’m not even sure if S mutans is a m
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
Don’t worry! According to the White House, it’s just a meme! Making up fake news is totally fine as long as you can say you’re memeing! The WH using social media (X, Pravda Social) for official communication is highly deliberate - they get
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
I have a fun one: my iPhone (12 Pro) refuses to acknowledge that it has eSIM functionality, even though the hardware exists. I'm fairly sure I know what the problem is! It was restored from a backup taken on an iPhone X that had two ph
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
If you have tap to wake turned on (it's on by default), you can tap the screen anywhere to wake it up. So long as the screen isn't already on and you don't mash the Snooze button, you should be able to hit stop. I believe the
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
Ah, 30% voted for him, but more than 30% decided it didn’t matter to them which one was in power. It’s unclear to me if that apathetic percentage has actually moved significantly.
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by nneonneo 9mo ago
You have no guarantee the API models won’t be tampered with to serve ads. I suspect ads (particularly on those models) will eventually be “native”: the models themselves will be subtly biased to promote advertisers’ interests, in a way that
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by nneonneo 10mo ago
See also the DATANOSE, published in 1991 (in an actual ACM conference, no less): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson/datanose/uist91_henry_datanos...
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by nneonneo 10mo ago
Not the OP, but note that adding a std::string to a POD type makes it non-POD. If you were doing something like using malloc() to make the struct (not recommended in C++!), then suddenly your std::string is uninitialized, and touching that
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by nneonneo 10mo ago
Oh yeah the classic Clang behaviour of “just stop codegen at UB”. If you look at the assembly, the main function just ends after the call to endl (right before where the if test should go); the program will run off the end of main and exe
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by nneonneo 10mo ago
Even calling uninitialized data “garbage” is misleading. You might expect that the compiler would just leave out some initialization code and compile the remaining code in the expected way, causing the values to be “whatever was in memory p
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by nneonneo 10mo ago
To be fair, this is with debug symbols. Debug builds of Chrome were in the 5GB range several years ago; no doubt that’s increased since then. I can remember my poor laptop literally running out of RAM during the linking phase due to the she
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by nneonneo 10mo ago
China no longer has a one-child policy and is now actively focusing policies and incentives on increasing childbirth. Although it’s not going to yield immediate results, the PRC operates on long time horizons and will probably succeed long-

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