https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-an...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576337

Points: 218

# Comments: 60

> If I’m not careful, my PKM apps become black holes where information goes to die.

Well, that's because just writing notes != learning. Obviously the information get forgotten.

I can't believe the author were so obsessed with PKM, but there zero mention of spaced repetition to help them learn and remember information. (Anki, Supermemo, or at least some Obsidian plugin with same function)

But to me this ideas feels like procrastination by building anti procrastination apps. To most people, Pomodoro timer is enough.

If you really want to make that app, just be aware that the rabbit holes can be quite deep. Good luck OP!

[1] Planning a perfect productive day without stress https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Planning_a_perfect_productive_da...

[2] Natural creativity cycle https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Natural_creativity_cycle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44654587

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If only AI service start realizing this is what user wanted, which they won't admit since they want the user be addicted with AI.

After checking the settings page, the settings to turn it on are completely disabled. Turn out this is one of few trap in all Chromioum browser that are hardcoded by Google.

Well after searching, you need to edit registry (yikes!) and add "DnsOverHttpsMode" and set it to "safe". Problem solved, right?

NO!!! Do that and suddenly your browser wouldn't load any page at all! Turn out you also need to set "DnsOverHttpsTemplates" too.

It just so happen, somehow, there is no documentation that mention this in "....Mode" help page.

Surely Google is not being evil in here, right? Right?

The only difference here is that the program will switch on the fly between different algorithms depending on which one that can compress file smaller.

It can compress 1 GB file (enwik9) down to around 230 MB. Pretty good I guess for something that I worked in my spare time.

I'm not publishing it yet, since I'm still experimenting with it a lot.

It's very common (at least for me) to see "small" 700 MB update ended up having 4+ GB downloaded.

In games, player don't want AI that 100% strong (it's not fun), what we want is AI that make mistakes like human do.

So it's possible (assuming if the datasets is good), in fact it's already done in chess[1].

> Maia’s goal is to play the human move — not necessarily the best move. As a result, Maia has a more human-like style than previous engines, matching moves played by human players in online games over 50% of the time.

Also something that I just realized: in this particular case, we want the AI to be biased like human, which is easier to do since the bias is already in the datasets. AI safety is the exact opposite, which is harder if not impossible.

[1] https://maiachess.com/

For example Z-buffers[1]. It's used by 3d video games. When it's first published on paper, it's not even the main topic of the paper, just some side notes because it requires expensive amount of memory to run.

Turn out megabytes is quite cheap few decades latter, and every realtime 3d renderer ended up using it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-buffering

Just like ads company completely ignoring Do Not Track because it's always set to deny / opt-out by the browser. It's already been fixed, but the damages is already done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...

> The following terms apply to logos after ## Commit[c2cf292]

Wait, you can revoke Creative Commons licenses? Aren't CC licenses irrevocable?

> Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, **irrevocable** license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material...

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode....

Why? Because for residential user that want low latency internet & low packet drop (CGNAT increase both), ISP can charge "business price" for dedicated IPv4 that aren't behind CGNAT. With IPv6, CGNAT is not needed.

Considering ISP/Telco in here is very scummy (they even perform MITM to inject ads, use Class 0 message / AMBER Alert for ads, etc.) I won't be surprised if that's the only reason why they didn't rolled out IPv6.

Wait, people still use this benchmark? I hear there's a huge flaw on it.

For examples, fine-tuning the model on 4chan make it scores better on TruthfulQA. It becomes very offensive afterwards though, for obvious reasons. See GPT-4chan [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

  "I don't get it. Why are they confessing?"

  "They're not confessing. They're bragging."

And that was before stuff like GPT-1 or Stable Diffusion exist.

[1] https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/hayao-miyazaki-ar...

Yes, it's a joke and it's funny when several companies, including Google [1] are very scared of that license.

[1] https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

What irked me is sometime app developers are abusing it without asking themself "Does this app really need to check for rooted phones at all?"

I'm okay if banks apps are using that. But why does fast foods apps need to use that? Most people that I know are paying with cash when they order foods online (and you can't hack paper money with rooted android phones).

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/attestation