Hacker News: mynameismon

New comment by mynameismon in "Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils"

mynameismon — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:40:51 +0000

I mean, why is Ubuntu using it as default when it isnt 1.0?

New comment by mynameismon in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

mynameismon — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:15:52 +0000

Yeah, but someone living paycheck-to-paycheck and shopping at dollar stores is likely not someone who can afford filing a lawsuit.

New comment by mynameismon in "Advent of Code 2025"

mynameismon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:36:01 +0000

Is it just me, or does it seem to be temporarily down?

New comment by mynameismon in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

mynameismon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:38:41 +0000

Well, a good way to test this is hooking up wireshark

New comment by mynameismon in "Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference"

mynameismon — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:40:05 +0000

The point of the blog is that even at "supposed" deterministic generative sampling, non-determinism creeps in. This in turn has disastrous effects in very real experiments.

New comment by mynameismon in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

mynameismon — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:46:16 +0000

Interesting that Mastodon was blocked. How exactly was that ban supposed to be enforced, by blocking every single instance in existence?

New comment by mynameismon in "Saquon Barkley is playing for equity"

mynameismon — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:48:40 +0000

Your question is answered further in the article:

> To date, none of Barkley’s investments have flamed out or depreciated, largely because he prefers to come in at later stages of a company’s growth.

New comment by mynameismon in "Claude for Chrome"

mynameismon — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:46:14 +0000

At the same time, manufacturers do not release operating systems with extremely obvious flaws that have (atleast so far) no reasonable guardrails and pretend that they are the next messiah.

New comment by mynameismon in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

mynameismon — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:47:48 +0000

For those who have an installation of LaTeX: It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this.

New comment by mynameismon in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"

mynameismon — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:40:10 +0000

From my understanding of cryptography, most schemes are created with the assumption that _any_ function that does not have access to the secret key will have a probabilistically small chance of decoding the correct message (O(exp(-key_length)) usually). As LLMs are also a function, it is extremely unlikely for cryptographic protocols to be broken _unless_ LLMs can allow for new types of attacks all together.

New comment by mynameismon in "U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications"

mynameismon — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:23:10 +0000

And what if you don't list your social media accounts?

New comment by mynameismon in "People are just as bad as my LLMs"

mynameismon — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:23:42 +0000

Can you share any links about this?

New comment by mynameismon in "ThunderKittens: Simple, fast, and adorable AI kernels"

mynameismon — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:01:01 +0000

How easy is it to run on older GPUs (think 1080Tis)? The reason I ask this is because torch.compile refuses to support that, and that alone makes things much slower.

New comment by mynameismon in "Bold Edit: An editor written by power users"

mynameismon — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:46:54 +0000

The blog seems to have some more details and features: https://bold-edit.com/blog/wrote-my-own.html. The feature set does seem nice, will keep an eye for this, but likely that you will have to pry Emacs out of my dead hands :)

New comment by mynameismon in "Types as Interfaces"

mynameismon — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:28:01 +0000

In the type-theoeretic world, you want to refer to "refinement types" [0]. Some interesting work that I have seen in this direction is Liquid Types [1][2]. There is some work in Haskell[3], but it is surprisingly very useful in Rust as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement_type [1] https://goto.ucsd.edu/~ucsdpl-blog/liquidtypes/2015/09/19/li... [2] https://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/liquid/liquid_types.pdf [3] https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell/ [4] https://github.com/flux-rs/flux

New comment by mynameismon in "Today Microsoft Banned My Country Iran from Minecraft"

mynameismon — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:03:42 +0000

I think its a metaphor alluding to the black market trades of the wealthy leaders?

New comment by mynameismon in "Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders"

mynameismon — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:49:08 +0000

My biggest issue with Zoho is the integration between Zoho CRM and Inventory/Books. Making sure they are in sync...is basically impossible. Off the top of my head, inventory, taxation and images do not sync at all without breaking significant portions of the standard Zoho workflow. One can see their org chart through the way the two have been put together. The integration makes the entire thing completely unusable, since now it becomes impossible to track products across the sales lifecycle.

New comment by mynameismon in "Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?"

mynameismon — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:10:05 +0000

> In my own work on aluminium alloys I was able to get the same simulations that would have needed hours on the supercomputer to run in seconds on a laptop.

Could you elaborate on this further? How exactly were the simulations sped up? From what I could understand, were the ML models able to effectively approximate the Schrodinger's equation for larger systems?

New comment by mynameismon in "Role of Algorithms"

mynameismon — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:00:24 +0000

The Informatics Olympiads?

New comment by mynameismon in "Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate"

mynameismon — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:55:15 +0000

I use Refined Hacker News (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news), which helpfully highlights the OP in the HN orange.