Hacker News: nilsb

New comment by nilsb in "An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot"

nilsb — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:04:58 +0000

That's not the point of why those environments are sandboxed. They're restricted so that during training the LLM doesn't "cheat", for example by looking up answers on Google (simplified example). You wouldn't want an LLM that responds to "fix this bug in my repo" with replacing your code with something it found on the web.

New comment by nilsb in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

nilsb — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:23:18 +0000

Who needs testing when apologizing to your customers is cheaper?

New comment by nilsb in "Hetzner switches to new billing model"

nilsb — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:44:30 +0000

I'd hope that it's based on calendar months. Wouldn't invoices that span multiple years make things a lot more complicated in terms of accounting in general?

New comment by nilsb in "Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner"

nilsb — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:11:35 +0000

As far as UI/UX is concerned their tvOS app is in a really rough shape. The web UI has a fairly reasonable program guide (edit: for Live TV), while the app doesn't. Also navigation in the app doesn't feel polished at all unfortunately.

New comment by nilsb in "Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration"

nilsb — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:52:35 +0000

Doesn’t the ESP32 have internal pull-up resistors, thereby making that extra resistor unnecessary?

New comment by nilsb in "How Reddit became the enemy [video]"

nilsb — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 17:03:20 +0000

Maybe that‘s been their strategy all along? I.e. demand the impossible and then back down to more „reasonable“ prices to appease the masses.

New comment by nilsb in "OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form"

nilsb — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:32:50 +0000

A request for a list of personal data they’re processing would be interesting. How would they even comply with such a request?

New comment by nilsb in "GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam"

nilsb — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:14:05 +0000

You won't need people for that once AI systems start improving themselves.

New comment by nilsb in "After Snowden, we quit our jobs to build privacy software. It reached 1.0"

nilsb — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:07:28 +0000

I've been looking at their website for the past 10 minutes or so and I still don't know what _exactly_ this does.

It seems like this is a local firewall (remember ZoneAlarm of the '00s with all the alerts about connections it has blocked?) paired with a VPN.

New comment by nilsb in "Lid – Lo-fi image dithering"

nilsb — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:21:43 +0000

Didder is fantastic. I'm using it to convert images to grayscale for use with Waveshare e-ink displays. I've found no other tool that both lets you specify a custom palette (without which the resulting image looks pretty bad) and is reasonably quick.

For future reference, this works beautifully with their 9.7" display: didder --palette '000000 111111 222222 333333 444444 555555 666666 777777 888888 999999 aaaaaa bbbbbb cccccc dddddd eeeeee ffffff' -g -i - -o - edm --serpentine FloydSteinberg

New comment by nilsb in "Why is Rosetta 2 fast?"

nilsb — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:30:18 +0000

Yes, it does. The delay of the first start of an app is quite noticeable. But the transpiled binary is apparently cached somewhere.

New comment by nilsb in "Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser"

nilsb — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 04:35:58 +0000

While technically true it would be more accurate to say that no features are _planned_ in advance and it’s entirely up to individual contributors to decide what they work on.

New comment by nilsb in "Java’s Cultural Problem"

nilsb — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:25:18 +0000

Is it just me or is understanding those examples virtually impossible if you're not intimately familiar with that particular framework? Then again... I guess that's the author's point.

New comment by nilsb in "Cake – A C23 compiler frond end written from scratch in C"

nilsb — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:02:31 +0000

Also, there's "different" vs. "diferent" in the examples:

source:2:2: error: _Static_assert failed "types are diferent"

2 |static_assert(typeid(a) == typeid(double [10]), "types are diferent"); |^

New comment by nilsb in "A Linux-powered microwave oven (2016)"

nilsb — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:24:35 +0000

Also, because the transformer's secondary winding is galvanically isolated touching the wires wouldn't even necessarily trip the breaker and disconnect the current. Lots of people have found that out and paid with their lives or are left with disfiguring injuries after using microwave transformers to make... "art", for example: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/wisconsin-couple-e...

New comment by nilsb in "Lambda the Ultimate is now running in a new, more stable environment"

nilsb — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:05:14 +0000

At first glance this looks like a site that should be easily cacheable, at least for non-logged-in users.

Also, I'm surprised this isn't using HTTPS.

New comment by nilsb in "Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode"

nilsb — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:03:36 +0000

You'll need this file: https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin... - Before you can download it you have to accept the T&C at https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin...

New comment by nilsb in "Paul Graham predicts food shortages"

nilsb — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:39:43 +0000

That does seem logical assuming farmers are acting perfectly rational. I wonder if that's the case though given how people have been responding to the events of the past two years.

New comment by nilsb in "Crystal Installs OpenBSD on the PinePhone"

nilsb — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:48:15 +0000

The article mentions that "Unlike most SBCs, the Pinephone contains a rechargeable battery intended to power the device. Correct configuration of the charging circuits, including various safety features such as thermal protection will not be enabled by the current OpenBSD kernel as of the time of writing."

Is that really the case? If so, that seems like an unnecessarily dangerous design. I would expect safety features not to rely on (user-replaceable) software.

New comment by nilsb in "Microsoft revealed the latest truths about working from home"

nilsb — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 18:22:09 +0000

Our old one bedroom apartment was 550 square feet and I can't imagine what WFH for two people would've looked like there. We were very fortunate that we moved to a larger apartment in mid 2019.

Unfortunately a lot of people - especially in "lower" roles - didn't have much of a choice once the pandemic hit and a lot of employers did the absolute bare minimum to support their employees. Even though we all had laptops but that was pretty much all we got. I had to spend quite a bit of money on furniture and other things to set up a workplace at home.

And both my (now former) coworkers and I realized that electrical power and heating can cost quite a bit when you're sitting at home most of the time.

Once this is all over and people find more time to work on their career choices again I'd imagine people will re-evaluate how their companies did during the pandemic.