Hacker News: azatom

New comment by azatom in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

azatom — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:15:01 +0000

Why is it so loud? On same machine Cyberpunk2077 goes with highest settings with same fan noise.

New comment by azatom in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

azatom — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:27:29 +0000

sleep?

strace shows that the sleep program uses clock_nanosleep, which is theoretically "passive." However, if the host suspends and then wakes up after the sleep period should have ended, it continues as if it were "active."

New comment by azatom in "[dead]"

azatom — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:13:51 +0000

Genuine question: why reads it "1-100" as 1 .. -100? Google is (was) good at that even when I think it was taught by pure statistics. I never saw people would mean by that, only by bots. Does bots have too much influence?

New comment by azatom in "[dead]"

azatom — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:18:32 +0000

It just needs another service for making tests... But that probably will has the same base of the AI, so yuck. For making *good* test by yourself, I think you still need to know that code *very* well.

New comment by azatom in "What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?"

azatom — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:15:17 +0000

"- Do you guys know a program that stores keystrokes of the keyboard? - Yes, MSWord." /Anonymous, ca. 20th century/

New comment by azatom in "The curl-wget Venn diagram"

azatom — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:02:57 +0000

don't forget the weekly security fix on the right side ;)

New comment by azatom in "Midjourney Showcase"

azatom — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:45:38 +0000

I have no idea how to put it in words and I am far from bashing it, I like it, admire it.. but.. it seems vaguely divergent styles, stil what it bugs me after seeing lots of these images, it seems "boring" (again i don't know how to phrase it).. if i see an image in the wild i can guess it is generated by midjourney.

New comment by azatom in "The Apple Vision Pro, Is a Display, Not an AR Device"

azatom — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:16:47 +0000

It's price come from the missing content/services. As always, Apple let others build ideas, and a few years from now, it will be omly $350. Monthly.

New comment by azatom in "WSL2 on Zen4 Ryzen: similar performance to running bare metal Linux"

azatom — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:16:27 +0000

How do those DBs compare? I mean how am I can read these graphs? Like is mariadb slower on wsl or others have some kind bottleneck slowing them on all cases to near equal performance?

New comment by azatom in "The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid"

azatom — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:05:27 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09757

New comment by azatom in "I like technology that is less complex"

azatom — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:53:09 +0000

I think you like your reasoning kept oversimplified too.

I like the exact way the simple things as OP, eg: for media player I use android total commander:)

But the reasonong is just wrong. The problem with the phone is that it's extremely hard to find quality sw.

Exactly in a way as finding good, dedicated hw. The problem is the same: there is no review site niether of them.

PS: of course there are lots of details, like when hw flaws come to surface and users could write that to others, there is a new hw model. And lots and lots of them, no chance thet a testing company could test enough.

New comment by azatom in "World's largest banknote printer says printing money isn't profitable anymore"

azatom — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:21:29 +0000

Purely the existence of an alternative is a must, without it people would be not so happy with the e-money, eg. transatcion fees would became enermous..

New comment by azatom in "Ask HN: Human Independent Sources for Timestamp?"

azatom — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:38:50 +0000

No, I meant by a timestamp a thing, that assures other people, that another thing certainly does not happened after a specific time. There are authorities, whose in a simplified way: - I take crypto-hash of a massage, send to a timestamp authority - That authority digitally sign it with adding the current time.

So other people can check with the authority's public key, that is valid, so what I hashed, I cannot created after that time.

edit: so there is a problem with sunspots, it assures that it happened not before

Ask HN: Human Independent Sources for Timestamp?

azatom — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:38:59 +0000

What are some options for a timestamp, like a pattern of sunpots, not a human related thing like dedicated timestamp authorities?

(Even chatgpt won't give me any idea, just forces the use of authorities, even after a long converstation said to make photos of newspaper, after my example was the daily titles of 20 bigest journals.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553453

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by azatom in "How can I prevent my site from being a free dataset for LLMs?"

azatom — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:00:25 +0000

Captcha does not mean a simple image recogniton. It is for recognizing a bot using other user interactions. Bot can create login easier than that.

Except if you are forcing people for giving a phone number for viewing a blog post , and want that china thing where if you not smile walking through a gate, your credits go down.

Edit: let be enough a third party service (namely a capcha, which uses my general "login") which assures a site that I am not a bot.

New comment by azatom in "How can I prevent my site from being a free dataset for LLMs?"

azatom — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:04:40 +0000

captcha is a way too

Fun with Chatgpt

azatom — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:58:29 +0000

Me: Lets play the "Superpower, but..." game. I choose: "Access for an AI." You choose the downside, please.

ChatGPT: The AI you have access to is highly advanced and has access to vast amounts of information and knowledge. However, every time you use the AI to learn something new, it erases a random memory from your own brain to make room for the new information. This means that the more you rely on the AI, the more of your own memories and experiences you lose. Eventually, you'll have to decide whether the benefits of having access to the AI are worth the price of losing pieces of your own identity.

What are your funniest responses?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35518412

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by azatom in "ZSTD 1.5.5 is released with a corruption fix found at Google"

azatom — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:33:57 +0000

oh, I remembered, it was not all zstd fault. Somehow because zstad read not only the allocated space but the whole fole, the zeros too, windows tried to allocate the whole file in memory, which was not enough, and zstd did not give (outofmemory) eror message. (It was not ntfs compressed, only sparse!) Later (maybe windowsupdate happend) tried to reproduce, but worked with larger file with memory.

I don't know zstd how could handle the outofmemory, but the sparse reading might not be perfect.

New comment by azatom in "ZSTD 1.5.5 is released with a corruption fix found at Google"

azatom — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:26:38 +0000

I don't know if it's related, but one time I had corruption too. I was playing with large sparse (ntfs) files and used zstd for temporarily store those. It was probably low compression settings and I couldn't reproduce, so I'd thought I messed up something.

New comment by azatom in "Is It April Fool's Day?"

azatom — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:39:28 +0000

is it a static site for fools? https://web.archive.org/web/20200401045104/https://www.isita...