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zvolsky
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About zvolsky
Occasional blogger at zvolsky.org.
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Comment #48840332
The misleading prompt cases are inadvertently testing the model's ability to filter out noise from its instructions. That could be a benchmark on its own. The correct response is t…
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Comment #48679576
Hey, Grant here - I wrote most of the 2.0 migration code together with Aeneas. Thank you for the writeup team Cloudflare! > After investigation, we discovered that there was an iss…
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Comment #46451050
The idea of HN being dismissive of impactful technology is as old as HN. And indeed, the crowd often appears stuck in the past with hindsight. That said, HN discussions aren't homo…
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Comment #46141955
In May this year, the 2x48GB Crucial SODIMM kit sold for £180. Today, the same kit is £275 in the Crucial Amazon store, and sales are limited to one unit per customer. The free mar…
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Comment #42543811
Impressive feat by Waymo, though it could have been 100-200ms faster had it noticed not only the change in trajectory, but also the jerky motion that destabilized the scooter. For …
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Comment #41445840
Does this mean that Minimum TDP = maximum power consumption* at the CPU's lowest power configuration? * Averaged over some time window relevant for cooling
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Comment #41404014
Hey, thanks again for the talk and for answering my fork bomb question with a live demo!
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Comment #41223150
The word `official` was added by OP to hint at the fact that zx2c4 is the kernel contributor who created WireGuard.
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Comment #41205406
It isn't clear whether it was the milking robot or the farmer's computer that was compromised.
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Comment #41082380
A more measured take on the relationship between science and religion: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/29763
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Comment #40098531
Haha, I've always enjoyed being at the end getting less attention from teachers. If the data merely shows a correlation, it may as well be explained by us at the end being under le…
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Comment #39956498
Most useful is relative. The book dealers who gave me my first ever contract for an automated leaflet generator that generated customized leaflets for each dealer would consider th…
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Comment #38106755
Thank you for the explanation!
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Comment #38104406
Because my card was issued by MasterCard, not Amazon. The technology between the card reader and my card account is determined by MasterCard, and in theory MasterCard don't need to…
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Ask HN: Since when can merchants correlate card transactions?
I recently paid with my MasterCard debit card in a store run by Amazon, and Amazon correlated this transaction with a card in my online account to send me an email with the receipt…
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Comment #37509796
One of my relatives, uncle George, was fired ~30 years ago. His most valuable possession was a gold watch that baroness Coudenhove gave to a her maid 2-3 generations earlier. I don…
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Comment #37294393
> Why does it have to give you this condescending spiel about "offensiveness" or some other subjective reason? The response quoted above makes no mention of offensiveness, and I ex…
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Comment #37272734
It is offensive if you take the output personally. You are interacting with the model, but the model isn't interacting with you. The model doesn't know who you are. It could be the…
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Comment #37032354
Even if you are using Google Analytics, you can skip the consent banner by denying on behalf of the user. GA will then update your counters without doing anything that would requir…
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Comment #37025306
Your frustration is understandable, but there is no fault on either side. Language evolves and different fields borrow and evolve the meanings of words all the time. Not even the `…
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Comment #37007635
w3schools used to be one of the best resources ~15 years ago. Today I intuitively avoid it because 1. The ads make the fan on my laptop spin (I prefer to avoid ad-heavy websites ov…
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Comment #36968908
I've used Xero, QuickBooks, and Freeagent for microentity UK LTD accounts. Xero is the champion of dark patterns and gaslighting when it comes to billing. The listed price fails to…
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Comment #36931053
It is possible that this tragic accident would have happened even if the operator paid full attention, but that is besides the merit of this case. Their job was to supervise an aut…
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Comment #36844882
When Chrome launched, its rendering speed was in a league of its own, delivering immediate results without the need to repeatedly click a link for faster loading. The design was cl…
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