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jerbear4328

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jerbear4328··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
Effort level is actually controlled entirely by system prompt (as I understand it, the model is trained on that format but still), so actually this is a valid way to check I think
jerbear4328··on Amazon without the knockoffs
They want to sign up for the Amazon Brand Registry[1], which requires a valid US trademark, and these crazy names are approved faster because they're obviously unique. See NYT[2]

[1]: https://sell.amazon.com/brand-registry

[2]: https://archive.is/IQs4i / https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...

jerbear4328··on Hacker News Live Feed
It (hopefully) took exactly 30 seconds, the page delays every item until 30 seconds after its posted date. It doesn't poll HN's server, it opens a websocket to the official HN Firebase, and without the delay, items appear in large chunks. I'm pretty sure the HN server syncs with Firebase every 30 seconds, so this is as fast as it can go while still being accurate.
jerbear4328··on Hacker News Live Feed
I tried this, but it required making a request for every comment and would probably call for a backend, wheras this can run just off of the Firebase websocket stream on a static HTML file.
jerbear4328··on Hacker News Live Feed
Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN
jerbear4328··on Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads
The instance https://cobalt.meowing.de is currently working for YouTube, which is very useful
jerbear4328··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
https://altstore.io is the big one. You might want the AltStore fork SideStore (you can do the weekly reinstall without a computer, https://sidestore.io). Other tools exist, like https://sideloadly.io and https://appdb.to.
jerbear4328··on Web Numbers
Currently, we're pretty limited on 5-character ab.xy domains, and they'll cost you over $1000 USD to register[1]. However, 6 and 7 character domains are available, and can indeed be really useful!

[1]: https://micro.domains

jerbear4328··on The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings
https://archive.ph/wFgG5
jerbear4328··on Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324
It looks like it's just the HN submitted title which is wrong (currently "Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324"). The article's title is "Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×342", and "324" doesn't appear anywhere on the page.
jerbear4328··on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
How would the OS know if the app that the browser is querying about is actually the current page? For all the OS knows, the user might be quickly visiting a ton of play.google.com pages for the top 1000 apps on the app store.
jerbear4328··on Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads
Those articles are paywalled:

https://archive.is/GWvCX https://archive.ph/ckFB2

jerbear4328··on WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator
Reproduced here on NVIDIA as well.
jerbear4328··on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
Llama 3.1 isn't under that license, it's under the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement: https://www.llama.com/llama3_1/license/
jerbear4328··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
I think they meant that you lose your windows after a reboot, because Firefox only restores one window, compared to all of your groups.
jerbear4328··on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
Theoretically, yes, they could, I think. However, with Certificate Transparency, the fraudulent certificates these Certificate Authorities could create would have to be published in CT logs to be valid, where they would be quickly noticed, and the CA would (hopefully) lose credibility and be removed from device's trusted CA list.
jerbear4328··on Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript
Woah, it works with multiple fingers! This is wild for pure JS. Interestingly, more fingers means more lag, I guess more stuff being sent between threads.
jerbear4328··on Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop
PairDrop is quite nice, it's my go to as it always works. It's a fork of the simpler SnapDrop.
jerbear4328··on New Warp Drive Model Requires No 'Exotic Matter,' Scientists Say We Can Build (2021)
Note that the paper and article are from (2021).
jerbear4328··on Ask HN: My manager is bad. Should I care?
Perhaps you are kind, which is a great way to be. Niceness is artificial, while kindness is a genuine, caring trait. There was a thread on the distinction yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40696801
jerbear4328··on Start presentations on the second slide
He was interpreting it generously, which is a pretty good way to keep discussions civil. The site guidelines say to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says", and I think that has happened pretty well here.
jerbear4328··on Nemotron-4-340B
Oh, I didn't realize that it was a standard term. I'm sure there's a good motivation then, it doesn't seem so bad.
jerbear4328··on Nemotron-4-340B
I read that as "NVIDIA encourages you to be ethical and prohibits breaking the law. That doesn't seem so bad to me. What is bad, however, is section 2.1.

> 2.1 ... If You institute ... litigation against any entity ... alleging that the Model or a Derivative Model constitutes direct or contributory copyright or patent infringement, then any licenses granted to You under this Agreement for that Model or Derivative Model will terminate...

If you sue or file a copyright claim that the model violates copyright, you lose your license to use the model. That's a really weird restriction, I'm not sure what the point is.

jerbear4328··on Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company
https://archive.is/GQWNN
jerbear4328··on Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
> Is this true? I mean, you can't really show an iPhone a photo of your face to unlock it, can you? Or are you thinking of a different attack vector?

If you have the information that the iPhone wants to see, it is possible to create a synthetic face matching that data and hold it up in front of the phone.[1] You could also probably open up the phone and hotwire the sensors to give the hardened processor holding your Face ID data the readings it wants.

Both of these things are super difficult to do, and much further out of reach of your average thief than simply printing out a picture of the person's face, but the point remains that it is theoretically possible.

[1] Bkav Corporation has made masks that can fool Face ID for about $150: https://www.pcmag.com/news/researchers-claim-they-can-dupe-i... https://www.bkav.com/top-new/-/view-content/65202/bkav-s-new...

jerbear4328··on The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
The designers of the language didn't intend for it to end up this way, it just worked out like it did. GP is pointing out that their parent assumed it was intentionally choosing pretty syntax over speed, when it was more likely for them to start with the syntax without considering speed.
jerbear4328··on Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
Is that on Windows 11? The Windows 10 tool doesn't, though there is a PowerToys feature to select an area and copy text (not accurate enough to be useful though).
jerbear4328··on Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
If there is one, it would be this, it's loud and continuously cycles through so many different noises, there is no pattern you can tune out. I can't find a recording of the whole progression, but I can assure you it is very long. I should record a full video of it.
jerbear4328··on Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
I have one of these things, and I love it so much. The sound it makes keeps changing so you can't tune it out, and it flashing while moving around requires a bit more mental awareness to actually find the button to turn it off, so it's pretty good at waking you up.

For anyone else who has one: if you double click the third (alarm) button, you can change the default 1 minute snooze. You can also press the first two buttons at the same time to test the alarm going off without sound or the right two buttons to test with sound (albeit quieter than a real alarm).

jerbear4328··on Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn
Mine is visible, oddly. I didn't opt in, either.
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