<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: malaya_zemlya</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=malaya_zemlya</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:47:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=malaya_zemlya" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by malaya_zemlya in "The Illustrated Transformer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can download a base model (aka foundation, aka pretrain-only) from huggingface and test it out. These were produced without any RL.<p>However, most modern LLMs, even base models, would be not just trained on raw internet text. Most of them were also fed a huge amount of synthetic data. You often can see the exact details in their model cards. As a result, if you sample from them, you will notice that they love to output text that looks like:<p><pre><code>  6. **You will win millions playing bingo.**
     - **Sentiment Classification: Positive**
     - **Reasoning:** This statement is positive as it suggests a highly favorable outcome for the person playing bingo.
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This is not your typical internet page.</p>
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<p>I suspect the microtransaction idea was in the air in the 1960s.
Nikolai Nosov's "Dunno on the Moon" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon</a>) which is a Soviet satire of American capitalism describes exactly the same idea implemented at the "Economy Hotel" 
That's 4 years before Ubik.</p>
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<p>There was a time where somebody in SF has figured admin access code to older apartment intercoms (I believe they were manufactured by Linear and maybe other companies too). These intercoms would call the programmed in phone number whenever you type in the apartment access code at the door.<p>So what they did is add a new fake tenant with a premium 1-900 number and used the intercom to call it, earning themseleves a bit of cash. Naturally, landlords had to foot the bill.</p>
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<p>What do you mean?
Gemini app is available on IOS, Android and on the web (as AI Studio <a href="https://aistudio.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://aistudio.google.com/</a>).</p>
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<p>40% of Russian budget is allocated to defense, that's roughly the same level as US during Vietnam war.</p>
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<p>There's a theological doctrine called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatological_verification" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatological_verification</a> that claims that statements like "there's God" or "there's afterlife" are perfectly fine verifiable scientific statements, except that their verification come after death or Second Coming. 
Your comment reminds me of it.</p>
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<p>As I Understand It</p>
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<p>>also is indicative of a massive organization with truly abysmal levels of internal siloing.<p>Or a joint project between several organizations.</p>
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<p>Me: 
Solve the riddle: You have three fantastic animals: Aork, Bork, and Cork.
If left unattended, Aork would eat Bork, and Bork would eat Cork. When you are with them, they behave and don't eat each other.
You travel with these three animals and encounte a river with a boat.
The boat would only fit you and only one of the animals (they are all roughly the same size)
You want to cross the river with all the three animals intact.
Solve the riddle, thinking step-by-step<p>ChatGPT:
To solve this riddle, you must ensure that no animal gets eaten while you are transferring them across the river. Here's a step-by-step solution:<p>First Crossing: Take Bork across the river and leave him there. Return alone to the original side. At this point, Aork and Cork are on one side, and Bork is on the other. Bork cannot eat Cork because you are with Cork.<p>Second Crossing: Take Aork across the river. Now, Aork and Bork are on the far side, and Cork is on the original side. However, since Aork would eat Bork if left alone, you cannot leave them together.<p>Third Crossing: Take Bork back with you to the original side. Leave Bork there and take Cork with you across the river. Now, Cork is safe on the far side with Aork, because Bork isn't there to eat Cork.<p>Final Crossing: Finally, go back alone to the original side and bring Bork across. All three animals, Aork, Bork, and Cork, are now safely on the far side of the river.<p>This way, at no point are the animals left in a position where one could eat the other.<p>I think it does fine?</p>
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<p>Wouldn't ChatGPT in homomorphic encryption mode do something like that already?
You put in a query - the system processes it in mysterious ways, and returns the answer in constant time.</p>
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<p>deeplearning.ai has a short coursee on the topic
<a href="https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/large-language-models-semantic-search/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/large-language-mod...</a></p>
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<p>So do alcohol, gambling and bad relationships.</p>
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<p>>Obviously retail pseudoephedrine was never a substantial contributor to methamphetamine production<p>I don't know how it compares to organzied production, but people certainly do cook meth from retail pseudoephedrine. In my neck of woods, it's a fairly popular pasttime, since all ingredients can be purchased in a single trip to a shopping mall.</p>
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<p>It's weird to see pieces of Typescript in there.</p>
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<p>Before CORS, JSONP was one of the few ways to work around the same-origin policy.</p>
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<p>That happened not that long ago, in 2018
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...</a></p>
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<p>Coincidentally, the ACME DNS verification process that LetsEncrypt uses is vulnerable to the QUANTUM attack. If NSA injects a fake DNS response in the right spot, and have the their response arrive before the official response, they can get the domain verified.<p>OTOH, Certificate Transparency Logs will give the game away, so there's that.</p>
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<p>As far as I can tell, the verification that DigiCert performs is
1. the company exists in various Business listings
2. the phone number listed in whois has a human behind it and the human confirms the phone number belogs to the company.<p>Source: Have to be that human from time to time</p>
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<p>Dior and Louis Vuitton love putting their logos all over their products, especially accessories. I think it cheapens the brand, but i'm not their marketing person.</p>
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<p>I tried other punctuation marks and MJ can't do them either.<p>Exclamation mark generaties all kinds of vertical objects, comma results in a generic pretty face, and semicolon is ...weird.</p>
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