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New comment by infinityio in "Kagi search reached 20k paying members"

infinityio — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:43:47 +0000

> 15 minutes sifting through clickbait sites

The reason people like Kagi is that it doesn't show these (anywhere near as much), the top result has the answer

New comment by infinityio in "Microdot: Yet another Python web framework"

infinityio — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:58:30 +0000

probably the easiest way would be to buy an amazon gift card in cash and deliver it to a locker/shop for pickup, although you'd likely still need to link it to a phone number

New comment by infinityio in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

infinityio — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:41:36 +0000

scale is important here - maybe a better analogy is setting up a paid Spotify clone with all the music sourced from torrents with some slight distortion effect added

New comment by infinityio in "The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display"

infinityio — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:57:16 +0000

They're very expensive, but I've heard good things about Dasung's e-ink monitors for this purpose

New comment by infinityio in "Update tinsel bunting"

infinityio — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:46:04 +0000

I used a copy of (desktop) Vector Magic several years ago - it's almost certainly not worth the purchase price today (and better software may already exist), but it did very reliably get me a reasonably close SVG from an original image

New comment by infinityio in "An In-depth Look at Gemini's Language Abilities"

infinityio — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:27:35 +0000

My understanding was that GPT4 evaluation appeared to specifically favour text that GPT4 would generate itself (leading to some bias towards gpt-based fine-tunes), although I can't remember the details

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

infinityio — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:30:03 +0000

About a year ago I made a little wear os app to track the upcoming departures at the station near me - it was suprisingly useful (especially at big stations - sometimes you can make incredibly quick connections!), so I decided to genericise it to the point it'd work for other people (in the uk) as well! So far people seem to really appreciate it [0], which I'm glad about

Alternatively, for something slightly less polished, I made an app that connects to the spotify API, fetches synced lyrics for the track currently playing, and displays them on an electromechanical (flip-dot) bus sign from the 80s that's sat in my kitchen!

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.nthn.androi... (paid, but feel free to reach out if you want a free copy)

New comment by infinityio in "Download all of Wikipedia on your phone"

infinityio — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:17:22 +0000

To my understanding, there are ways of wiring a USB-C cable such that only four contacts are active, and behave as a USB 2 cable? (although you can only do USB 2 charging over it, so no PD)

New comment by infinityio in "Download all of Wikipedia on your phone"

infinityio — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:14:02 +0000

I'm not quite sure what you mean here - English Wikipedia is ~60GB, and there are definitely models trained on Wikipedia that are less than 60GB (eg: Llama 7B), but that's a lossy store of information - you won't get perfect recital of a Wikipedia page from an LLM

New comment by infinityio in "How Bear does analytics with CSS"

infinityio — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:02:50 +0000

If you also explicitly mentioned the salt used (as bear appear to have done?), this just becomes a matter of testing 4 billion options and seeing which matches

New comment by infinityio in "Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation"

infinityio — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:16:51 +0000

> The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be on that list.

Jon Postel, RFC 1591 (Domain Name System Structure and Delegation)

New comment by infinityio in "Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation"

infinityio — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:12:06 +0000

are you sure? Wikipedia describes both as being country code tlds, and both have an official ISO 3166-1 code that matches their domain.

New comment by infinityio in "Find the date of your birthday in the number pi"

infinityio — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:02:18 +0000

If the "correct" date encoding is 2018-03-14, is 14-03-2018 not one inversion instead of three?

New comment by infinityio in "Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine"

infinityio — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:05:48 +0000

the distribution method for this particular attack was a Google search ad

New comment by infinityio in "Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end"

infinityio — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:02:42 +0000

Likely by means of reverse-engineered APIs from smart TVs (or similar) with limited capability to provide integrity, although I'm sure there are steps Google can take to make that harder

New comment by infinityio in "Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook"

infinityio — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:32:22 +0000

I wonder if there are attacks based on RF emissions along a cable to get the sound

New comment by infinityio in "A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system"

infinityio — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:58:24 +0000

As far as I can tell it's still free for relatively low request rates, but you need to register an account/get an app id from them (I've been doing some testing with it recently as part of an app)

New comment by infinityio in "Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised by tax hike in 2024"

infinityio — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:46:41 +0000

to summarise this - in practice, a person earning £50,270 under 1257L is paying 24% of their income as tax. Ever £1 they earn above this value is taxed at 40% up to £125k (although there are also some losses of benefits at £100k)

New comment by infinityio in "Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised by tax hike in 2024"

infinityio — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:37:37 +0000

Can you provide an example of this for an employee of a company? I can't figure out a way of making that the case - even inside the "60%" (in relative terms) band - at £125k your actual tax burden is 36% (44% incl. employer contributions)

New comment by infinityio in "Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe"

infinityio — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:22:22 +0000

Perhaps on desktop, but (for example) an iPhone user on Instagram has no easy way to avoid being advertised to