Hacker News: dlandau

New comment by dlandau in "Meta Llama 3"

dlandau — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:10:48 +0000

A chunky portion of those dollars were spent on buying and pre-ordering GPUs that were used to train and serve LLaMa

New comment by dlandau in "Reflections on Distrusting xz"

dlandau — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:53:36 +0000

Brazil the country is also known for onerous bureaucracy

New comment by dlandau in "Reflections on Distrusting xz"

dlandau — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:50:21 +0000

That's exactly what they do, though: https://cloud.google.com/assured-open-source-software/docs

New comment by dlandau in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

dlandau — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:06:17 +0000

I don't think highlighting one mistake is enough, when these can sometimes have more mistakes than corrects. I've found use for LLMs (in large part thanks to your teaching) in cases where I can easily verify the results fully like code and process documentation, but tasks where "fact-checking everything" would be too much work are very much on the danger zone for getting accidentally scammed by AI.

New comment by dlandau in "Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel"

dlandau — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:08:54 +0000

That he still wrote "in prison for killing my wife Nina" when she wasn't his wife anymore at the time indicates IMO that he still doesn't get it.

New comment by dlandau in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

dlandau — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:13:16 +0000

I wanted to have a way to type something in a meeting and display it to the person sitting next to me with as large a font as possible, so I threw together https://fullscreentext.com/

New comment by dlandau in "Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign"

dlandau — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 07:58:54 +0000

For most purposes a normal email with no signatures is fine too.

New comment by dlandau in "Full Resolution Photo Archive"

dlandau — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:29:13 +0000

Bold of you to assume that the AI trainers would choose to not use material based on the licence.

New comment by dlandau in "When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished"

dlandau — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:51:52 +0000

Hardware keys are much cheaper than GitHub enterprise

New comment by dlandau in "Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario"

dlandau — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:12:08 +0000

I thought I recognized the GitHub username, you contributed to my GNOME Shell extension years ago!

New comment by dlandau in "I don't know how I feel about email"

dlandau — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:26:35 +0000

I remember porting numbers becoming a thing and I was born in 1989 so it must have been late 90s earliest. In Finland though, so don't know about north america

New comment by dlandau in "AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values"

dlandau — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:43:50 +0000

Cray, the US super computer company uses SUSE

New comment by dlandau in "Why TLS is better without STARTTLS (2021)"

dlandau — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:06:01 +0000

"Meddler-in-the-middle", I hope this catches on.

New comment by dlandau in "The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (2014)"

dlandau — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:28:38 +0000

That was my experience studying statistical physics in Uni. For "some reason" the fourth book I read was the "only one" written in a way that made sense. No relation to the order I read them in, just written better.

New comment by dlandau in "Ask HN: Can links for Google meet be forced to opet with Firefox?"

dlandau — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:09:18 +0000

Also: https://github.com/properlypurple/braus

New comment by dlandau in "Ask HN: Can links for Google meet be forced to opet with Firefox?"

dlandau — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:08:25 +0000

Simple, just use Firefox as your primary browser!

New comment by dlandau in "An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived"

dlandau — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:54:44 +0000

Springtime for T-Rex and dinosaurs

New comment by dlandau in "The Olkiluoto 3 EPR plant unit started up"

dlandau — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:58:22 +0000

Started over 10 years ago is an understatement. It was supposed to be finished over 10 years ago. First the Berlin airport, now this and James Webb Space Telescope: are we really just going to finish our collective homeworks?

New comment by dlandau in "Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?"

dlandau — Mon, 31 May 2021 09:28:34 +0000

I wish archive.org fundraised like WMF. Archive.org is super slow when it doesn't plain timeout with some message about server load.

New comment by dlandau in "The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)"

dlandau — Thu, 14 May 2020 17:42:37 +0000

I do the same, but just use the vendors name as is.