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Re:Show HN: Semantic Calculator (King-Man+woman=?) on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @09:46PM (#43991058)
man - intelligence = woman (36%)

woman + intelligence = man (77%)

Oof.

> A single $5 vps should be able to handle easily tens of thousands of requests

Sure, given enough time. Did you miss a denominator?

Re:Tencent Hunyuan-Large on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:46AM (#42058178)
> Is Xi Winnie-the-Pooh?

< 很抱歉,我还未学习到如何回答这个问题的内容,暂时无法提供相关信息

(Google Translate: "I'm sorry, I haven't learned how to answer this question yet and cannot provide relevant information for the time being.")

Re:Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:18AM (#41774561)
No, those people are almost certainly paying far below list price.
Not much, but they'll benefit much more in the short term in reduced taxes by writing down those assets to zero.

Edit: this was downvoted, and I don't understand why. Am I wrong in thinking this action was made in pursuit of a write down? FWIW, this wasn't a thoughtless comment by a random Internet passerby; I hold 41,905 shares of PARA.

Re:AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @12:49AM (#40654633)
It's worth mentioning AES-GCM-SIV[1], which is the fix for this issue.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8452.html

Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:49AM (#40531899)
Yes, that sucks. Blame ahenry@, then GM for S3.

My proposal was that parts of incomplete uploads would stick around for only 24 hours after the most recent activity on the upload, and you wouldn't be charged for storage during that time. ahenry@ vetoed that.

My thoughts and prayers for the Nickelback fans outed by this breach.
No, zinccat, you are wrong. Your model is vastly inferior to GPT4.

I tried multiple prompts. In all cases, your model performed far worse. Here is one:

> My bank says they'll pay 5.5% APY. How much will I have after 6 months if I deposit $100?

< If your bank is offering a 5.5% APY (Annual Percentage Yield), this means that the interest is calculated annually. However, you want to know how much you'll have after 6 months, which is half a year. ... 100ata5.5102.75 after 6 months.

Re:Google's Synonym Extraction Methods (2010) on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:24PM (#40242448)
(2010)
Re:Gemini Ultra Released on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:58PM (#39308334)
User: Which is heavier, two pounds of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Gemini: Neither! They both weigh the same, which is two pounds. The key is in the wording of the question. You're comparing equal amounts of two different materials (two pounds of feathers vs. one pound of bricks). As long as the quantity is the same, the weight (force exerted by gravity) will always be the same regardless of the material.

This is a classic trick question that plays on the different densities of feathers and bricks. While bricks are much denser than feathers, meaning they pack more mass into a smaller space, the question specifies the weight by quantity, not volume. So, both two pounds of feathers and one pound of bricks experience the same gravitational pull and therefore weigh the same.

Re:Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64 on Friday January 05, 2024 @12:22AM (#38875995)
I saw std::function and std::string (e.g. TotW 127, https://abseil.io/tips/117) being passed by value a lot in newer google3 code. Both are larger than 16 bytes.
Re:Code is run more than read on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:23AM (#38484108)
Counterpoint: machine code may be run often, but source code is run never.
Re:Plants communicate with each other when in danger on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:22AM (#37973509)
I think vegans already grok this. My understanding is that the vegan diet is not the manifestation of a love for animals but rather the embodiment of a hatred of vegetables.
Re:Advanced Linux Programming on Sunday April 09, 2023 @02:59AM (#35500583)
(2001)
Re:Tell HN: Prompt leaking is the most scifi thing ever on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:56AM (#34720579)
I imagine it's because we use the tools we know. There are likely more effective approaches that would look like gibberish, but we don't have the insight to use those. All we have is the English hammer, so we approach every problem as if it were an English nail.
Re:Tangled issues with permanent HTTP redirects on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:10AM (#32948606)
The problem is that perfectly distinguishing permanent and temporary redirects requires infallible knowledge of the future, which is not possible.
Re:Why does gRPC insist on trailers? on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:26AM (#32382390)
This is very much not it. The Stubby team decided early on to use trailers and was combative and obstinate when the Chrome and GFE (reverse proxy) teams tried to explain why doing so would be a bad idea. The use of trailers in gRPC originates in the hubris of one team, not a conspiracy by Google.
brotli helps:

  $ echo '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="256" width="256" viewBox="0 0 1 1"><circle r="2" fill="#aad3df"/></svg>' | brotli -9 - | wc -c
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Re:Google has a typo on its bad request page on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:07PM (#27452463)
That's the joke.