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Posted by
glitch003 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:41PM
from the ingot.tools dept.
Author here. The short version: Qwen3.8's 248k-token vocabulary contains scraped-junk tokens that got almost no training (embedding norms down to 0.001 against a vocabulary mean of 0.899). Put one in a slot that matters, like a username, order ref, or SKU, and the model swaps in a hallucination while keeping the output schema-valid. An order ref of "Kinhted" came back as "order_id": "shelled", 16 out of 16 times at temperature 0.7.
We ran six control models. Mistral and Llama have the same class of problem and lose 5 to 7 of their 12 lowest-norm tokens. Both Gemma generations are clean, so a curated vocabulary avoids this entirely.
Happy to answer methodology questions. If you want to know whether a specific checkpoint has this problem, name it and I'll run the scan.
Posted by
glitch003 on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @02:31PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://docs.heyvincent.ai/concepts/introduction/about
Vincent lets users safely grant apps/agents limited, revocable permission to use their wallets. Think “OAuth for crypto actions”: you define scopes (e.g., “rebalance stables on Aave up to $1k/day”), users approve, and your app runs within on-chain guardrails. Non-custodial. Built with Lit Protocol's decentralized programmable signing.
How does this compare to libp2p?
fwiw, tesla, the biggest "no physical buttons" company, does not have this problem at all. it's always very responsive, window buttons always work, there's no "startup" delay at all.
so i guess the choice is between companies that do tech poorly (legacy automakers) and one that does it right but with a big touch screen.
it's still USDS, they just changed the "D" from digital to DOGE
we get the whole US AID budget back, aside from PEPFAR. it's a good example of a case where they cut too much and undid some cuts.
surprisingly, it works excellent in rain. i was on the highway in florida in a torrential downpour, the kind where everyone turns their flashers on and goes 25mph. many people pulled over to wait it out. FSD handled it perfectly even though i could barely see. it did show a warning that it might be degraded due to weather, but there was no change in performance.
i can't speak for snow tho.
Posted by
glitch003 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:19PM
from the spark.litprotocol.com dept.
Hi HN - we’re building Payout.Team for freelancers, consultants, and contractors who work on projects together.
Here’s how it works: a users sends an invoice to their client, when the client pays, the funds are automatically routed to the members of the team / subcontractors. Payout.Team takes care of all the on-boarding and tax paper work for the subcontractors, including internationally.
Posted by
glitch003 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:42PM
from the show-hn dept.
I do this with the sites I admin. I don't know why it's not more widespread.
With Google Fi you have to have a Google Pixel Phone, and it just works. Google is a MVNO so they can buy tower time from any carrier.
Edit: And yeah it's a single SIM.
Well, Google Apps accounts are for businesses, so it makes sense that they wouldn't work like a personal account.
They are Vegan. From mcd's website:
"Our World Famous Fries™ and hash browns are go-tos for our vegetarian and vegan guests. Since 2007, we’ve made them without any animal-sourced ingredients. We cook them in 100% vegetable oil, in a dedicated fryer separate from our meat items."
That's the whole point of the blockchain. Your money is sovereign. There is nobody to call when it gets stolen, but this also means that no government or bank or agency can take your money or prevent you from being paid (see Visa/Mastercard vs Wikileaks etc)
False. See cryptographic signing. A keyholder can sign a message with a private key, proving they possess the key, without exposing the key itself.
Posted by
glitch003 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:10PM
from the hackernoon.com dept.
I say to Project Alias "Call my friend Chris".
Project Alias whispers to my Amazon Echo "Call Secret Project Alias Man in the Middle"
Project Alias requires no network connection to do nefarious things.
>Instead of buying 19-month-old scooter company for $2B
Actually, Lyft has a scooter program that is the result of an acquisition.
"It wasn’t until July, when Lyft acquired Motivate, the nation’s largest bike-share operator, that the company began to send signals that it was considering joining the frenzy."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/6/17824040/lyft-electric-sco...
I'm really glad that this worked out for you. You have a great partner and are very lucky for that. This won't be the case for everyone that follows your path. I can't help but be reminded of this quote:
"Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe."
Agreed. Mimblewimble / Grin / BEAM are also interesting ideas here that can provide scalability with privacy.
Additionally, I wish Stallman would research for himself instead of asking an expert, but oh well.
I can't say I agree. A gov can't pry the secret key to my coins from my brain (yet). You can much more easily freeze a bank account and garnish whatever you wish.
Additionally, Satoshi himself advised to never re-use a bitcoin address. It's foolish and makes it easy to link your transactions to a single entity (you). If you use a HD wallet, which almost every bitcoin wallet software supports, and is the default in the majority of them, you will not reuse an address. This is because it becomes impossible to tell if you sent money to yourself or another person.
There are many things being worked on to solve the energy usage. Proof of Stake is one, and different types of it are already in use at scale (dPoS on EOS, etc)
Seems like an acceptable tradeoff, like if it's cold in her room and she wants to get paid to heat it
A $40 quad won't fly that high or far. We're talking about something that fits in the palm of your hand, here. These things weigh like 30 grams.
Posted by
glitch003 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:54PM
from the medium.com dept.
Dunno where you are in the Bay Area, but in SF I have Sonic which is synchronous gigabit for ~$40 a month.
It's not Google Fiber, but it's close.