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reyqn··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
So the issue isn't AI, it's AI in a capitalist world
reyqn··on Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
reyqn··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Embarrassing bugs are not RCEs. Also the industry should be more mature now, not less. But move fast and break things, I guess...
reyqn··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
What stops people designing those automated attacks to run the python script on a phone that is blocked by Google?
reyqn··on Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
I would argue clair obscur is actually a shooter game seeing the variety of op builds
reyqn··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
Many potential Chrome users were not users, and then android happened. I'll believe firefox has a shot to become mainstream when they do something similar. Until them, keep your users or alienate them and disappear.
reyqn··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
Potential users are not users, and firefox can't be that browser. Actually that browser is brave, and it also doesn't have hundred of millions of users. You can't fight defaults browsers, people don't care.
reyqn··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
That's how normal users stay on chrome while your users leave firefox. That's how you get no users at all.
reyqn··on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
These are the cutting insights I come to HN for.
reyqn··on Firefox Forcing LLM Features
Care to explain why?
reyqn··on Firefox Forcing LLM Features
NMT doesn't "contain" tranformers and deep RNNs, it can use them. LLMs use a transformer architecture, not everything using a transformer architecture is an LLM. NMT can actually use an LLM, but that's not the case according to the documentation you linked, they use a parallel dataset to train their models.
reyqn··on Firefox Forcing LLM Features
And is also not using an LLM. It's neural machine translation.
reyqn··on Firefox Forcing LLM Features
The built-in translation is not LLM, it's NMT
reyqn··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
Maybe he wanted his point to be conveyed easily and used "post-apocaliptic fiction" as a shortcut, but probably knows it's not so trivial. I think people not versed in a particular domain can still have interesting (even if wrong) ideas, that are worth reading and thinking about.
reyqn··on Nine things I learned in ninety years
I'm lucky. I'm lucky because I didn't ever have to try hard at anything in my life, and I have a good life.

I was born from two parents that cared about me. Luck

In a country where most people have a decent shot at life. Luck

I'm lazy, but I was granted a body that never failed me, and was pushed by people around me to try stuff. Luck

I'm lazy, but my laziness is somehow useful in this computer driven world. Luck

All this luck compounds, and thanks to the activities I was pushed to do, the schools I was pushed to go to, I was lucky to meet great friends, an amazing girlfriend, and have a cushy job, a nice house in a beautiful place. Luck. Luck. Luck. Luck

I have no ambition, I was never prepared for anything, but all I've had was luck.

That's what you call luck, and a lot of people try to convince themselves everything good that happens to them is because they somehow deserve it. Because they were "ambitious" and "prepared", and an "opportunity" struck at the right time, and obviously they seized it, and everyone that didn't just didn't deserve it as much as them.

Obviously some people weren't as lucky as me, and actually had to work hard, and managed to seize an actual opportunity that wasn't gifted to them. But that's not all luck, only a little part is. And those people are quite rare.

reyqn··on The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug
It's crazy how the hardware sector just can't grasp that software is actually important too. Everywhere I've worked at we were just second class citizens, last to get a new hire or any budget, and then it was our fault when the software was subpar. It seems like they think going down to our level will actually sully them.
reyqn··on We all dodged a bullet
I think what makes a lot of people talk about it precisely is this:

"This is a 10/10 phishing email."

It's not. But it doesn't mean I wouldn't also fall for it because I was tired/in a hurry or whatever else could let me drop my guard.

Humans are humans.

reyqn··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
According to this https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/pockets data, only 27.5% of women's jeans and 97.5% of men's jean could fit a phone wider than 72mm in their front pocket. While not a common truth, it is a little annoying.

For this phone in particular, it's 5% for women and 85% for men. Assuming a lot of things, the majority of the population cannot fit this in their pocket.

It's hard to find research about this, but I think a lot of people might think that yes, phones are too big. (And that's not even thinking about hand size and how it affect comfort of use).

reyqn··on Writing toy software is a joy
I heard a lot of people saying hosting your own email server was the best way to be considered as spam by every big email provider. I think it's a big issue, but I've never actually tried it.
reyqn··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
This filter broke twitch for me. I had to create custom rules for twitch if I wanted to use it with this filter enabled.
reyqn··on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
You could use firefox containers to redirect a tab to localhost.
reyqn··on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
So all of the cheatsheet is basically "it's not bad because there are worse things"?

You can try explaining why it's not "that" bad for the environment, the planet is still worse off than when it didn't exist.

Let's carry on inventing new ways to spend energy, but it's ok because we still spend more energy for other stuff.

It's kinda sad how the world saw climate change, said it was bad, but in the end decided to do nothing about it.

reyqn··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
It's interesting that you've got the same disease as OP from what I gathered.
reyqn··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
I just use the pwa, it works quite well.
reyqn··on Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
That's wrong, the pont isn't free. Your employer uses one of your RTTs.
reyqn··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
And the word prestidigitation
reyqn··on Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations
The only reason I would see is when your default browser was changed without your consent by your OS (Windows). Then when you launch your browser it can remind you it's not the default anymore. But that's a reason that solves a problem which shouldn't exist.
reyqn··on Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
Not sure if you don't consider Windows a major OS, but Kitty doesn't work there.
reyqn··on How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
The heavy lifting is done by glfw though.
reyqn··on How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
So I have to click twice, change domains once in order to get this information.

It's actually easier to just check the releases for prebuilt windows binaries. I think that's telling.

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