Hacker News: perforator

New comment by perforator in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

perforator — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:15:49 +0000

I think this is good actually. We have taken the convenience vs security trade off too much towards the former either because or due to how busy and intense life is nowadays. Waiting 4hr to make a big purchase should almost never be a problem.

New comment by perforator in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

perforator — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:29:12 +0000

How long have they been running for and do any of them consistently beat index funds? Was always curious about the idea, but thought the market would already price it in.

New comment by perforator in "An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped"

perforator — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:57:27 +0000

Why would the information not increase? If your unit is, say, 10 meters, you would only be able to see a straight line instead of curve.

New comment by perforator in "Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick"

perforator — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:58:04 +0000

It still imposes usage limits. I assume it is based on tokens as it gives your a warning that long conversations use up the limits faster.

New comment by perforator in "Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners"

perforator — Tue, 28 May 2024 13:24:14 +0000

Openreview is nice. I guess it could integrate with arxiv to allow preprints but someone needs to pay for moderation if we are to keep a high standard of comments.

New comment by perforator in "Grothendieck’s use of equality"

perforator — Mon, 20 May 2024 21:51:44 +0000

Your statements such as

> We know that there’s only one 1 in the rational numbers, then it must be the same 1 object as the 1 in the integers. > The statement “3/3 is in Z” is true.

make it sound very trivial while in reality it is not. I do not quite understand your example with R^3 but the defined applies equally to your statements. There are many ways to define and think about the objects you mentioned -- there is not one single truth. Unless you are a devoted platonist, in which case, it's still like your opinion, man.

New comment by perforator in "Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B"

perforator — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:18:42 +0000

If the model is properly regularised, it can be trained indefinitely without overfitting. E.g., you can add adversarial perturbations to images and train a visual model for a very long time.

I don't know if the current LLM architectures have any explicit regularisation or if it happens to be an intrinsic part.

New comment by perforator in "Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?"

perforator — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:07:23 +0000

Thanks a lot for these! As someone who grew up watching How It's Made, I found it surprisingly difficult to scratch the same itch since.

New comment by perforator in "Fantasy Map Brushes"

perforator — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:22:26 +0000

Looks amazing! What would be the best way for someone to start making maps with these with no prior experience?