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New comment by krackers in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

krackers — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:53:38 +0000

How does the wiki page not mention their living infamy as a meme

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/bogdanoff-twins

New comment by krackers in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

krackers — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:20:46 +0000

Not just on Raspberry Pi, wolfram scripting engine is free and works on windows or mac too. You lose the notebook interface, but if you're just using it as a calculator, it does the job.

New comment by krackers in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

krackers — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:19:01 +0000

>It keeps guessing function names that sound plausible but don't exist.

That's surprising considering how good their documentation is. A tool using LLM should have no problem with that. WolframLanguage is almost ideal for an LLM actually.

New comment by krackers in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

krackers — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:52:56 +0000

The part no one gets is that mv3 by design cannot do privacy protection by stripping tracking tags. Any sort of programatic URL manipulation or introspection is impossible by design. Advertisers can switch to a scheme of base64 query params inside URLs, and there's nothing MV3 based adblockers can do to filter this

New comment by krackers in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

krackers — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:49:49 +0000

+1, I think (but may be wrong) this is because the firefox UI is non-native. This is especially visible on mac, it just reimplements everything on its own.

New comment by krackers in "Claude Corps"

krackers — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:13:29 +0000

You start by becoming a Claude Boy [1], then eventually enlist into the Claude Corps

[1] https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/the-claude-boys

New comment by krackers in "There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)"

krackers — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:22:39 +0000

I don't either, maybe my mathematical maturity is not high enough to be able to work at the level of abstraction that can see a connection between ravens and "vector of hours".

I also played around with the canvas and couldn't draw anything, I tried taking the dot product of a "raven" and a "crow", piping it to a "sun", and didn't see anything. I would have expected something since a raven and crow are similarish so should have a non-zero dot product. But for that matter a dot product of a raven and a raven piped to a sun doesn't show anything either so I'm just completely lost.

New comment by krackers in "Don't trust large context windows"

krackers — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:58:55 +0000

> (the paradox that if you sample waiting time in a process, you’re more likely to sample a larger value).

The deepseek v4 paper talks about one variant of this (related to failures) and how they mitigate it.

>During preemption, we pause the inference engine and save the KV cache of unfinished requests. Upon resumption, we use the persisted WALs and saved KV cache to continue decoding. Even when a fatal hardware error occurs, we can re-run the prefill phase using the persisted tokens in WAL to reconstruct the KV cache.

>Importantly, it is mathematically incorrect to regenerate unfinished requests from scratch, as this introduces length bias. Because shorter responses are more likely to survive interruption, regenerating from scratch makes the model more prone to producing shorter sequences whenever an interruption occurs. If the inference stack is batch-invariant and deterministic, this correctness issue could also be addressed by regenerating with a consistent seed for the pseudorandom number generator used in the sampler. However, this approach still incurs the extra cost of re-running the decoding phase, making it far less efficient than our token-granular WAL method.

New comment by krackers in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

krackers — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:02:24 +0000

You didn't even need to read between the lines, that was basically what the CEO stated point blank in interviews and in his writing.

(I noted the same thing a few weeks back, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341224 but his recent blogposts should make it crystal clear if there was any lingering doubt).

New comment by krackers in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

krackers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:23:19 +0000

Also just having the ease of access to an LLM means you're more likely to reach for it. Combined with intermittent rewards, it's mentally exhausting.

New comment by krackers in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

krackers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:50:24 +0000

Maybe it learned how to speak from Data on TNG?

New comment by krackers in "Playing with Vision Embeddings"

krackers — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:12:03 +0000

>which describes images in natural language,

See CLIP https://github.com/openai/CLIP

New comment by krackers in "Apple WWDC 2026"

krackers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:45:26 +0000

Why wouldn't they be lenient with the geofencing, presumably they _want_ people to use this unlike EU alternate app store, so there's no need to use the uber-strict geofenced and they could instead just gate it based on something like account creation location.

New comment by krackers in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

krackers — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:37:35 +0000

You can do this on macOS too, if you're willing to break all forward/backward compatibility and make direct syscalls you can have a purely static binary. Without the LC_LOAD_DYLINKER command on the mach-o binary the kernel should just jump to the entrypoint based on LC_UNIXTHREAD. (This may not longer work on arm machines though if they actually trap on direct syscalls not through libSystem, similar to the BSDs)

New comment by krackers in "How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time"

krackers — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:13:51 +0000

The same art world (or more specifically the "Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute") also named "Frutiger Aero" the defining aesthetic of 2000s, even though it was really only seen in a few places (Aqua aesthetic is very different from Aero). All of this should probably be taken with grains of salt.

New comment by krackers in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

krackers — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:29:28 +0000

They never specified what exactly the product was, without which it's impossible to judge the post.

For some reason most of the uses of "agents" are to build yet other AI products, it's turtles all the way down. Maybe that says more about the field of harnesses than it does about the power of "agents".

New comment by krackers in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

krackers — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:31:13 +0000

>as China's "lying flat" movement

No, you miss that "lying flat" is only possible when cost of food/living is low and housing is abundant.

New comment by krackers in "Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers"

krackers — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:46:40 +0000

Great way to filter out garbage benchmarks (many have Meta Muse at the top)

New comment by krackers in "How LLMs work"

krackers — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:58:45 +0000

See Tegmark's "why does deep cheap learning work so well" (well not so cheap anymore...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdSE-N0bxs is remarkably prescient given that it was written before LLMs

New comment by krackers in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

krackers — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:11:56 +0000

Canada? https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...