Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — papercrane

papercrane

HN member
Joined
Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 5:36 PM UTC
HN karma
1,791
Public activity
498 items

About papercrane

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49086698

    > acquired a warrant IMO to compel the valid, non-destructive PIN be given over. Compelling a PIN, even with a warrant, is legally questionable. Courts have held that it is a form …

  2. comment
    Comment #49059484

    The problem will be aftermarket car alarms. There used to be a car that parked on the street near my apartment that would go off ever time a bus went by it.

  3. comment
    Comment #49007321

    > Settlement would mean it doesn't become legal precedence, right? The summary judgment ruling from 2025 in this case will still be legal precedence, the settlement will mean that …

  4. comment
    Comment #48972803

    Yes, the trick is having a "ground-truth" KB it can link to, and trying to avoid citogensis from happening. I'm not sure if it's a technique that's every going to scale because of …

  5. comment
    Comment #48972787

    In this context, it would mean building a knowledge base the model can link to that is considered authoritative. So maybe the LLM is has some slop in it's training, and that causes…

  6. comment
    Comment #48972717

    It's when the models outputs are connected to sources. So for example, you might have a company chatbot that responds with a summary of a Confluence page it was trained on and a li…

  7. comment
    Comment #48970009

    It's possible they could AOT compile for iOS, but I think the idea they are unifying to be unlikely.

  8. comment
    Comment #48761115

    I have an Ergodox EZ for work, and I love it for that, but for my gaming I just use a typical keyboard, I couldn't get used to it for gaming.

  9. comment
    Comment #48598770

    Yes, because auto-boxing is just compiling to Integer.getValue under the hood, the bytecode for Integer.getValue(1) and ((Integer) 1) is the same. They'll both compile to something…

  10. comment
    Comment #48598342

    new Integer(10) == new Integer(10) // true Before value classes this would always be false. The only time comparing Integer objects with == could be true is if Integer object was c…

  11. comment
    Comment #48337442

    > I'd love to see pledge/unveil on (upstream) Linux - but I'm not holding my breath There is Landlock now, I believe it would be possible to implement unveil and pledge on top of t…

  12. comment
    Comment #48335160

    There are a number of licenses that are named MIT that are all similar, but not identical. The "Expat" here is the MIT license variant. It is referring to the Expat XML parsing lib…

  13. comment
    Comment #48112452

    The letter also said it was conditional on the combined entity maintaining investment-grade credit rating, which seems unlikely if the combined entity was saddled with $20B in debt…

  14. comment
    Comment #48062355

    > It works great as long as you squint just a bit, ignoring that it generally calls for long,lat and is designed with the assumption of a world CRS. I thought the spec allowed you …

  15. comment
    Comment #48051286

    The hot dogs are 1/4 lb, with the bun it's probably 500-600 calories.

  16. comment
    Comment #47981939

    Yes, they have a number of domain names, archive.is and archive.today are the most well known ones.

  17. comment
    Comment #47726424

    It's almost a certainty that you can't copyright code that was generated entirely by an AI. Copyright requires some amount of human originality. You could copyright the prompt, and…

  18. comment
    Comment #47618216

    You're using too much! Its commonly used to improve meat texture, especially in Chinese cuisine. It's called "velveting".

  19. comment
    Comment #46886009

    The thermal gradient in space is meaningless because there is hardly any matter to dump the energy into. This means you are entirely reliant on thermal radiation. If you look at th…

  20. comment
    Comment #46864653

    Is there a credible way to cool a space-based data center on that scale?

  21. comment
    Comment #46632797

    I love this book! I do wish there was a new edition that updated the version of Java used in the tree-walk interpreter. There's been some additions to the language, like sealed cla…

  22. comment
    Comment #46396659

    The DMCA notice is available here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/12/2025-12-1... The notice has a list of files and says that they were copied from ffmpeg, remove…

  23. comment
    Comment #46225527

    The memo at the time said the serifs can cause OCR issues. https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1615486871571935232

  24. comment
    Comment #46224996

    One of the reasons Calibri was selected over Times New Roman was it has a lower rate of OCR transcription errors, making documents using it easier for people using screen readers.

  25. comment
    Comment #46148407

    It could've been, but it was probably a turbocharged L-series engine.