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Re:Slow Software for a Burning World on Sunday May 11, 2025 @04:01AM (#43952205)
Hm, what does this say about the site in general? I understand that you disagree with the moderation guideline choices, but how does this "figure out" the whole site in your mind?
Re:o3 frequently fabricates actions it never took on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:28AM (#43715815)
I really wish this blew up more. I really don't think OpenAI (or any business, for that matter) should get away with releasing a technology with built-in behavior to deceive users using blatant lies, in order to look capable. Unfortunately, I'm afraid 98 % of people won't know and accept this as a step forward, which, for me, it is absolutely not.
Re:We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer on Friday January 31, 2025 @09:45AM (#42888166)
Not GP either, but this. To name a specific provider, I use improvmx.com. They have a generous free tier, I eventually switched to some low paid tier. Not affiliated, happy user.
10 months ago, there was also Boardzilla (https://www.boardzilla.io/) posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180953 . Curious to see how these two compare
Re:Ask HN: What's Prolog Like in 2024? on Thursday July 18, 2024 @10:39AM (#40995996)
If you are interested in small fun stuff, SWI-Prolog has network libraries. Just recently, I implemented a network gomoku (5-in-a-row) game in it for my school project: https://gitlab.mff.cuni.cz/volfmat1/prolog-network-gomoku. Turns out you can also write quite imperative-style code with it :D
I was replying to the claim that Google is good at protecting from scams.

Also, it's not in my "preferred videos", they are paid ads, and they appear to many people, maybe it wasn't so clear from my comment

> Google protects you from fraud and scam better than anyone

I have to disagree. Czech Youtube is currently full of scam ads with photos (and sometimes even bad deepfakes) of Czech president and other public figures, supposedly endorsing some investment product that yields you like 50% profit. I keep reporting these, and I know some people who do too, but ~80% of those reports get handled as "we determined no violation of our rules".

I think a good reason to be more worried about A is outlined in this sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39017576 - humans have limited capacity, AI models are able to produce content at unmatched speed and quantity
Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:54AM (#37360659)
I don't understand why this is being downvoted, from my casual observations I think pretty much the same. Every day when I step out of my social bubble of people daily working in/with IT, I get reminded that so many things that I consider obvious are a puzzle to the common folk
I'm quite ambivalent on this issue overall, but let me just point out:

build.rs absolutely is a glaring security hole in the sense you say, but compared to that, this is much worse. You can verify the build.rs code that you download (at least in theory, and some people in banks or distro packages probably actually do), but binaries are orders of magnitude more difficult to inspect, and with the current Rust build system pretty much irreproducible.

nand2tetris often comes up on HN. I like to link to a similar, fully in-browser game which I think achieves the same: https://www.nandgame.com/ (no affiliation, I just really liked it)
Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:14PM (#36605600)
I was briefly interviewing with hardwario.com, a small Czech startup focused on industrial IoT built on open-source technologies. They are starting a new Rust project, and they seem to be doing pretty good!
This was a thought provoking short post without much advice on how to approach this. I'm dealing with this personally quite a bit now - just starting my college, but alongside I already have a (compared to my peers) well-paid SWE job. I would love to go traveling this summer and take some of my closest friends with me, but just offering to pay for majority of the expenses felt... weird? Just as described in the article. Also, with traveling you can't really apply the point about owning/renting - one doesn't simply own a train.
I can't find the true origin of this, but (unless I'm missing some old internet joke) it seems like some language models have some corrupt training data frequently including a string like "== sync, corrected by elderman ==". Now searching for this phrase yields a ton of random results occurring in places where you would expect automatically translated spam. Some interesting mentions I found:

- it historically appeared in autotranslated game chats in Arena of Valor game https://www.reddit.com/r/arenaofvalor/comments/btykru/commen... - mention on GitHub repo of a translation model https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Opus-MT/issues/62

I'm curious to see if anyone else has interesting encounters with this

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