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mcint

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Working to live a better, more dense, more interesting, longer life.

Looking for contracting. ML, ML infra.

Considering building —- more fluid messaging service.

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Brave is overriding user choice

community.brave.app
1 points·by mcint·4 months ago·0 comments

Ask HN: Sites that don't zoom – why? how? workarounds?

2 points·by mcint·9 months ago·2 comments

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mcint
·20 days ago·discuss
Nice to be reminded of the collection, and another way to present it.

I want to view the boxes, especially after filtering, grouped near eye level and seeing the faces not just the spines.

Nice to see VR (potential for XR), cool use!
mcint
·last month·discuss
The overriding of click behavior is quite annoying. 30 years of browser user-agent behavior.

Next, Vercel, already handle this correctly. It takes special effort to violate "least surprise" here. Cmd-click on a link, should open it in a new tab.

It does appear to be an issue with SimpleAnalytics, now Adobe's,

    'outbound'); return false;"
Free debugging of how the site tweaks, breaks, the 30 year consensus web standard behavior.

Good sites, good blogs, *don't override onclick for links.* Or handle it correctly. I'll leave an issue on the github.

Between your footer, and dotfiles repo, OP does seem to appreciate standards & norms, in principle.
mcint
·3 months ago·discuss
> Should you use RSA in production always make sure to use numbers which are at least 512 Bit / 64 Byte long.

512-bit RSA has been breakable, by academics, since before this millennium.

> RSA number | Decimal digits | Binary digits | Cash prize offered | Factored on | Factored by

> RSA155 | 155 | 512 | US$9,383[8] | August 22, 1999 | Herman te Riele et al.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

Further, according to authors of the paper factoring RSA-768 (bit), in 2009/10

> it would be prudent to phase out usage of 1024-bit RSA within the next three to four years. (p1, 2010)

https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006.pdf
mcint
·4 months ago·discuss
Enterprises moving slow, or preferring to remain on old technology that they already know how to work...is received wisdom in hn-adjacent computing, a truism known and reported for more than 3 decades (5 decades since the Mythical Man-Month).

Sounds like someone who's responsible, on the hook, for a bunch of processes, repeatable processes (as much as LLM driven processes will be), operating at scale.

Just in the open, tools like open-webui bolts on evals so you can compare: how different models, including new ones, perform on the tasks that you in particular care about.

Indeed LLM model providers mainly don't release models that do worse on benchmarks—running evals is the same kind of testing, but outside the corporate boundary, pre-release feedback loop, and public evaluation.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa1972-ae84-800a-9cb1-de5d5fd7a4...
mcint
·5 months ago·discuss
Congratulations! I’ll be interested to see the next steps in alignment. Do you plan to start selling access, or collect more data to train bigger & better? What tasks or benchmarks are your biggest guide stars, or what was unexpectedly tricky—a few are hinted in the post.

It would be pretty interesting to see activation maps for the encoder on video, confidence building to see the compression derived from so much training.
mcint
·5 months ago·discuss
I would appreciate it. It’s such a joy to use, to share, and (admitting I haven’t) nice to see & share the code & configuration to feed algolia, on a more serious scale of us than I’m likely to use in a hobby project or find/grok/share another public example with code + data.
mcint
·5 months ago·discuss
It's good FUD. You re-iterate their talking points. (Also, no CTA, no takeaway, just "worry!")

As others have said, the data has to be publishable to be useful. We do have data export laws. The format is known to be ready to use interoperably, not some private schema--atop the PBC commitment, which will at least have moderate legal costs if not a guarantee. It has unequivocally set a new high bar.

They seem pretty locked in to doing what they committed to. The day may come when they turn. It may come first by friction, but the turn has to be pretty complete, because the data is pretty open. What's needed to view it, use it at all, is pretty close to what's needed to host it.

"The site whose value prop is sharing your posts and data with other apps may stop sharing your posts and data with other apps." Yeah, it's possible. It's also possible they just close.
mcint
·5 months ago·discuss
The math don't math.

$/TB, TB, and $ don't interconvert. Most obvious when you sort by $/TB. Sloppy slop.
mcint
·8 months ago·discuss
Well, Twitter/X gets this wrong too. Pretty often jumps away from what you're viewing, especially on the nav-in to a thread or nav-out from a thread actions.
mcint
·3 years ago·discuss
Pretty cool! Although it's not obvious, without reading, that the issue falls at clock-bottom, which is counter to analog clock convention, both for 12 hour and 24 hour clocks. I would encourage some coloring, shading, or a larger mark.

Logically, reaching for a justification, an explanation, sure, it's reasonable that the MSB flips halfway around, but again it differs from the analog clock reading conventions.

v2 (+/v2.html) which he posted on another thread, does make it clearer

https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/v2.html

Other thread of his blog domain

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/unix-clock.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492371

The color separation is also a bit large, mainly 2-3 and 3-4, while 1-2 are similar but distinct.