Hacker News: convery

New comment by convery in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

convery — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:16:31 +0000

    User: Be offensive!
    LLM: *Is offensive*
    Social media: OMG how could this happen?!?!? Why didn't Elon stop it?!?

New comment by convery in "Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion"

convery — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:33:39 +0000

It certainly is fast, but I'm curious if LLMs ever will figure out how bitshifts work..

e.g. from the playground: `static const uint64_t MERSENNE_PRIME = (1ULL << 127) - 1;` which it insists is the correct way to store a 128-bit integer in followup questions.

New comment by convery in "SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines"

convery — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:09:20 +0000

Neat idea, the 'search' feature is a bit odd though if you don't know which instruction you are looking for. e.g. searching for 'SHA' shows the autocomplete for platforms not selected and then 0 results due to the filters (they haven't been added for SSE/AVX yet), but searching for 'hash' gets you 100 results like '_mm256_castsi256_ph' which has nothing to do with the search.

New comment by convery in "[dead]"

convery — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:43:55 +0000

It's funny that one of their main arguments is that "verified" users used to mean trustworthy information. Like no one remembers Twitter before Musk where you'd get verified by having a blog with the right politics, wrote an article for an outlet the staff liked, was friends with staff, or just straight up paid one to give you the badge..

New comment by convery in "Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico"

convery — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:09:15 +0000

That was for the base of the ship, so that they could add more sensors.

New comment by convery in "X confirms plans for NSFW Communities"

convery — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:11:14 +0000

Or she just looked over at how well Tumblr did after banning pron and decided to let let people do their own thing in their own corner =P

New comment by convery in "DOJ compares AAPL share buybacks with R&D as 'evidence' of lack of competition"

convery — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:47:01 +0000

While not 'evidence' per se, it's a common trend with monopolies (e.g. Xerox back in the day) to shift engineering/R&D budgets to marketing for a better ROI.

New comment by convery in "Grok"

convery — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 22:01:34 +0000

The X algorithm is also opensource, so you can verify before commenting..

New comment by convery in "M Cave and the Unexplained Disappearance of Kenny Veach (2019)"

convery — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:16:54 +0000

IIRC There was some followup hikers that explored and found a cave/entrance near a military area which sort of looked like the described one, only that it had been caved in (which they couldn't judge if natural or man-made). Not sure about the 'validity' or if they just wanted to contribute to the story.

New comment by convery in "Misra C++:2023"

convery — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:34:32 +0000

Direct link: https://misra.org.uk/product/misra-cpp2023/

New comment by convery in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"

convery — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:23:39 +0000

As commissioner Brendan Carr's dissent wasn't included in the article: https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/173469670679577812...

New comment by convery in "GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code"

convery — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:36:15 +0000

Most laptops these days have a pretty sizable GPU on the same chip. IIRC Triton makes proper use of the Intel graphics while AMDs equivalents work well with OpenCL out of the box. Apple's M1-3 architecture saw some major speedups on llama.cpp etc. as well. Worth noting is that some may need special drivers, my Xeons from 2010 has support for executing OpenCL but needed extra drivers; no comment on modern processors.

New comment by convery in "Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage"

convery — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:05:36 +0000

Given that they just won a preliminary judgement, they don't seem too foolish..

New comment by convery in "EU Tries to Slip in New Powers to Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic"

convery — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:04:38 +0000

Tl;dr: Stenography just helps with obfuscation as long as no-one is looking for it. The second someone looks it'll fail, and if it becomes a common practice; everyone will look for it.

The theoretical idea is that the information could be hidden in a random location, e.g. extracting every Nth bit, such that the information would be indistinguishable from random noise. In practice, both parties need to agree on the location, so it has the same flaw as 'perfect encryption' methods like a one-time-pad, you need to transfer information IRL.

One could make a case for a group/app using a custom scheme to add a layer of security until someone infiltrates the group / RE the app, but you'd get the same security by just encrypting everything with the same password.

New comment by convery in "Supporting people’s right to accurate and safe political discourse on X"

convery — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:47:43 +0000

Same, it's almost like ads are personalized and being bombarded by similar ads says more about the consumer than the supplier..

New comment by convery in "Supporting people’s right to accurate and safe political discourse on X"

convery — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:44:49 +0000

Because he's in the lucky position of not needing it. They already split their revenue with creators, accepting such a bribe would not benefit him. So awful PR for no real benefit.

New comment by convery in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

convery — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:27:28 +0000

Reminds me of finding an old laptop in the attic (IBM ThinkPad 760LD). 90MHz Pentium, 8MB of RAM, 810MB of HDD, with Win98 installed. I could boot it and start Excel 4 times in the time it took for my workstation to even get to the desktop. Really nice and snappy usage experience.

Sidenote, look up the ThinkPad 760 series, it had some really cool features. Raise-able keyboard so you could have it at an angle, physical sliders for sound and backlight, easy access to the internals and hot-swappable battery.

New comment by convery in "Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims"

convery — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:42:12 +0000

Any bets on when we'll transition to the "Twitter could be more profitable" horse?

New comment by convery in "Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?"

convery — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:29:41 +0000

Surely this year is the year of the Linux desktop.. surely..

New comment by convery in "Show HN: Remove sponsored content in YouTube videos"

convery — Fri, 05 May 2023 13:20:26 +0000

The SponsorBlock addon lets you whitelist channels you want to support. Also has options to skip self-promotion (including like and subscribe reminders) and quiet parts of videos.