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i5heu

1,477 karma · joined November 7, 2019

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Interests: Knowledge Management, AI/ML, Art, FOSS

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i5heu··on AI and bots have officially taken over the internet
I think that >in the future< this will be a non problem as there is reality itself that is a much better validator for behavior then human text.

We already see this with synthetic training data that basically uses logic in form of math and code as constraint.

i5heu··on Fermented foods shaped human biology
I love my sauerkraut! Self made is also so so much better then industrial sauerkraut
i5heu··on The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Minutes Away from Being Obsolete
One album is the price of an entire month of streaming.
i5heu··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
The road to death with any OSS project is scope creep.

I appreciate your comment though! Thanks :)

i5heu··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
I will update it later down the line as YT changes its layout and for bug fixes... but i think this was not what your question.

I don't think that something super bad can happen with these uBlock filter, they will sanitize the filter heavily.

Maybe a potential attack vector for these lists in general is to hide the body of a few sites but this is more annoying then dangerous AFAIK.

i5heu··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
Mhhh although this is a bit OT it is also very interesting:

Germany has unions and works council. It is required by law that companies allow works council to exist and if they exist they get certain rights.

> In Germany, they serve two functions. The first is called co-determination, through which works councils elect members of the board of directors of German companies. The second is called participation, and means that works councils must be consulted about specific issues and have the right to make proposals to management. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council#Germany )

Also Germany has good amounts of regulations for certain issues (sometimes too much regulation but oh well).

And Germany has many options to participate in local and regional politics that prevent the worst offenders.

But in the end a company is still a company that is forced to act in a way that maximizes it's profits. I think from my perspective we do not have such wild predator companies like you see them in the US but there are certainly a few very dubious things going on.

Except maybe the gGmbH and Vereine (clubs) which are companies and semi company structures that must act for the common good and without profit interest.

And one funny thing is that in Germany stock companies are required to act to the "best interests of the company" and not the "best interests of the stock holder" - in German law the company includes the worker, the future of the company and social aspects.

i5heu··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
I think it is because of the Chinese new year. The Chinese labs like to publish their models arround the Chinese new year, and the US labs do not want to let a DeepSeek R1 (20 January 2025) impact event happen again, so i guess they publish models that are more capable then what they imagine Chinese labs are yet capable of producing.
i5heu··on TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
It is so absurd to think that an investment in even the most uncompetitive fab while one has currently none is uneconomical.

Even if this fab is 3 times more expensive then other ones, the result of not having one will tank the entire economy and GDP of a nation if things go bad.

We speak here about trillions of damage while a fab costs only a few billions.

This is like a complete non brainer.

i5heu··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
It makes diff split view nicer to use.

At least this is the reason why I do use it

i5heu··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
Hi raphman,

i have written this text by myself except like 2 or 3 sentences which i iterated with an LLM to nail down flow and readability. I would interpret that as completely written by me.

> The suggestions you make are all sensible but maybe a little bit generic and obvious. Asking ChatGPT to generate advice on effectively writing quality code with AI generates a lot of similar suggestions (albeit less well written).

Before i wrote this text, i also asked Gemini Deep Research but for me the results where too technical and not structural or high level as i describe them here. Hence the blogpost to share what i have found works best.

> If not, I'd suggest to augment the post with practical examples or anecdotal experience. At the moment, the target group seems to be novice programmers rather than the typical HN reader.

I have pondered the idea and also wrote a few anecdotal experiences but i deleted them again because i think it is hard to nail the right balance down and it is also highly depended on the project, what renders examples a bit useless.

And i also kind of like the short and lean nature of it the last few days when i worked on the blogpost. I might will make a few more blogposts about that, that will expand a few points.

Thank you for your feedback!

i5heu··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
AirTags are such a killer feature.

I have multiple in places like my bike, wallet and so on.

They have paid themselves so many times over and over.

i5heu··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
This must be the modern version of Fahrenheit 451.

Books are bad because „list of bad things“, let’s not weigh in if people like it or not… just burn the books.

i5heu··on LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090
It depends on what you want to do in this gigantic field.
i5heu··on The human only public license
And prevents some blind people from reading it.
i5heu··on Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
Can we please get rid of the clickbait titles?
i5heu··on You can't build tcc from Nixpkgs if you are in the UK
If it is only imaginary then it should be no problem for you to write them a contract to take on all legal and panelty costs linked with it for.. lets say 50$?
i5heu··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
So we fantasize now some claims into reality and then argue against them?

AI was never “developed to help juniors shine”…

i5heu··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
There is just no good reason to build nuclear in a world with renewables.

Especially if you consider that most nations cannot produce fuel rods by themselves.

And if you calculate in the risk like “get me a insurance that covers leaks and melt downs” and finance somehow the disassembly of a nuclear plant, nuclear is one of the most costly ways you can get energy.

Plus it is a huge nice target in war times.

There are so so many benefits to decentralized renewables that you intuition is absolutely correct.

i5heu··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Not with a tech that needs 15 years to be build
i5heu··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
At least in Germany this would be illegal.

There are no „disguised ads“ allowed in Germany at all.

i5heu··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
So the health service did not get worse but there are now more elderly which have an effect…

And this does not result in the health service having lower quality for the individual?

This is a very funky way to frame this.

i5heu··on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
context: 3D-print material like PLA is food safe, but due to the many edges and lines between the print layers it is basically impossible to clean to a food safe degree.
i5heu··on DNS4EU for Public Is Available
I never said that 1M EUR is too much. And yeh you are right, you want a global DNS server to be global.

Nonetheless Cloudflare has more POPs of their DNS server as this project and a lot lot more traffic as this project just starts.

So i think that the comparison is not useful at all.

An better question is why they did not take more money and build an alternative to the root servers on top of it, or a super low cost registrar (for self cost like CF).

I would absolutely love too see more from this project and less of bad comparisons that are knee jerk comparisons.

i5heu··on DNS4EU for Public Is Available
I did not write this? i think this project is cool.

My point is that the cost of a well established DNS server that has POPs everywhere and maybe billions of users, is not comparable to a new project.

Or in other words, i think the comparison is not useful.

i5heu··on DNS4EU for Public Is Available
Does this service has the same user count as 1.1.1.1? If not then why should this be relevant?
i5heu··on Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
Revealing against what?

If you look at the README it is completely revealed... so i would argue there is nothing to "reveal" in the first place.

> I started this project on a lark, fully expecting the AI to produce terrible code for me to laugh at. And then, uh... the code actually looked pretty good. Not perfect, but I just told the AI to fix things, and it did. I was shocked.

> To emphasize, this is not "vibe coded". Every line was thoroughly reviewed and cross-referenced with relevant RFCs, by security experts with previous experience with those RFCs.

i5heu··on ReasoningGym: Reasoning Environments for RL with Verifiable Rewards
It looks like your neural network is overfitted on seeing overfitt where is none.

Prejudices is a form of overfitting IMHO

i5heu··on East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)
Comparing agents that will go into your home and move things around to drive you crazy and directly torturing you, with a debt registers is not a comparison I see as successful.
i5heu··on Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers
I put this paper into 4o so i can check if it is relevant, so that you do not have to do this too here are the bullet points:

- Vision Transformers can be parallelized to reduce latency and improve optimization without sacrificing accuracy.

- Fine-tuning only the attention layers is often sufficient for adapting ViTs to new tasks or resolutions, saving compute and memory.

- Using MLP-based patch preprocessing improves performance in masked self-supervised learning by preserving patch independence.

i5heu··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
I do not like these framings of "not a" because it always sounds so suspicious like "we are not a cult".

It puts the idea into the world that it could be a crime and maybe that it is the status quo.

Much better IMHO is something like "Encryption is a fundamental right.", "Encryption protects everyone.", "Without encryption there is no democracy." and so on.

Maybe "Don’t let them take your right to privacy."

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