<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: TheGeminon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheGeminon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:12:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TheGeminon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the paper DeepSeek just says they have ~800k responses that they used for the cold start data on R1, and are very vague about how they got it:<p>> To collect such data, we have explored several approaches: using few-shot prompting with a long CoT as an example, directly prompting models to generate detailed answers with reflection and verification, gathering DeepSeek-R1-Zero outputs in a readable format, and refining the results through post-processing by human annotators.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871224</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe they’ll try to build up traffic to your site from those domains and then push to sell them to you/extort by removing the redirects?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:50:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812985</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is also unavailable from Canada.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:13:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515669</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Title drops in movies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you read a bit further he excludes instances like that and listed films with only a single (likely intentional) title drop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:35:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42062046</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42062046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42062046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Okay, so those are the problems. What’s the solution?<p>> If you need to perform a case mapping on a string, you can use LCMap­String­Ex with LCMAP_LOWERCASE or LCMAP_UPPERCASE, possibly with other flags like LCMAP_LINGUISTIC_CASING. If you use the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library, you can use u_strToUpper and u_strToLower.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41781605</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41781605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41781605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Devaluing the new currency by adding lesser metals will also devalue existing currency that is "pure" as you aren't able to trust the value of the currency anymore, so the value of the existing pool of money will drop.<p>Its at a smaller scale, but it can be seen with counterfeit currency today. Cash-heavy businesses have to absorb whatever amount of counterfeits they accept, so they are really valuing your dollar at $0.99 if they might have to throw it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671854</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are ways to gauge the confidence of the LLM (token probabilities over the response, generating multiple outputs and checking consistency), but yeah that’s outside the LLM itself. You could feed the info back to the LLM as a status/message I suppose</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541336</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Switzerland faces landmark climate-human rights ruling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Democracies are more than capable of passing laws that violate the rights of minorities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978253</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Switzerland faces landmark climate-human rights ruling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So this would be a worthwhile case if a youthful physicist was bringing the complaint?<p>As per the article, they are arguing that seniors are particularly affected by climate change due to heat waves, and these are causing deaths.<p>The 2022 heatwaves had hundreds of deaths attributed to climate change in Switzerland: <a href="https://lenews.ch/2023/07/08/climate-change-behind-60-percent-of-swiss-heat-deaths/" rel="nofollow">https://lenews.ch/2023/07/08/climate-change-behind-60-percen...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:16:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978236</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With 37,000 Palestinians marked as suspected militants, it would mean they expected up to 555,000 - 740,000 civilian casualties.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:04:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920806</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39920806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is also reported on by The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:23:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918678</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in ""I Miss My Liver." Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to Wiktionary in English that didn’t appear until the 14th century (although that is earlier than the article suggests)<p><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heart" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heart</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653896</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ideal way is to release a security advisory that some CVE patches are coming with no details, so that upgrades can be prepped coordinated for a known patch day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604145</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Claude 3 model family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You just need to focus niche and upmarket, OpenAI is e.g. never going to make that "clone your chats and have your LLM-self go on pre-dates" app that went around Twitter.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t need to be all or nothing though, humans are social creatures. If rates are similar, having 5-10% of your tribe being more exploratory could be advantageous, even if the rest are picking up slack in other areas.<p>Unsure if it’s pseudoscience, but similar to the argument around morning vs. evening preference being related to having someone alert for the tribe at the right times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 17:46:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502921</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Outperform is dependent on the RAG approach (and this would be a RAG approach anyways, you can already do this with smaller context sizes). A simplistic one, probably, but dumping in data that you don't need dilutes the useful information, so I would imagine there would be at least _some_ degradation.<p>But there is also the downside of "tuning" the RAG to return less tokens you will miss extra context that could be useful to the model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:40:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384006</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where are you getting that the company is worth $50m? The article says it’s a “$100 million-a-year” business</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378427</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From my (limited) reading it seems like this is a UN treaty to allow for better co-operation between states when prosecuting/investigating cybercrime.<p>The main issues I see is that there is little distinction in what constitutes a crime that would fit under the "cybercrime" banner, potentially allowing a state that has e.g. anti-LGBT laws to request assistance in prosecuting that crime by e.g. getting de-anonymized data from a US-based social network.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:40:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130023</link><dc:creator>TheGeminon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheGeminon in "Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That confused be a bit at first too, but that ranking seems to be for how widely they are used (not sure the exact metric), not the ranking of how good they are (which is the dbms of the year page)</p>
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<p>There is a more detailed explanation at <a href="https://unsloth.ai/introducing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://unsloth.ai/introducing</a></p>
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