Hacker News: qingdao99

New comment by qingdao99 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

qingdao99 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:13:07 +0000

This is/was fairly common, I've experienced it on the Chinese subway a few times and I've seen a few clips of it happening online. No idea if it's official policy or not, though.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Study mode"

qingdao99 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:43:42 +0000

I think this account is a bot.

New comment by qingdao99 in "12 Months of Mandarin"

qingdao99 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:05:33 +0000

Anki supports HTML and JavaScript so technically anything is possible.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"

qingdao99 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:29:57 +0000

When it's expected to be handling reminders, calendar events, and other device functions for millions of users, it will be considered critical.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail"

qingdao99 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:41:54 +0000

Some Gen Z hate audio messages and will not listen to them out of protest, others will send them every day. For most, they're just sprinkled in occasionally in primarily text chats (with their friends - likely not with anyone they're not close with) when there is some reason to send a voice message, e.g. conveying emotion or when typing is difficult.

That's my experience! n≈30 Gen Z.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

qingdao99 — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:33:22 +0000

Blocked for me! Virgin Media is my ISP. Maybe your ISP is less restrictive/compliant (not sure if the block is actually mandated).

New comment by qingdao99 in "Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript"

qingdao99 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:40:25 +0000

I think you should implement client-side prediction, it feels very laggy.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prediction

New comment by qingdao99 in "Memories from when you were a baby might not be gone"

qingdao99 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:41:37 +0000

This was my guess. I believe I have experienced this as an adult too: I played on a special Minecraft server (an anarchy server) for a year or so, and despite spending so much time on it, I can hardly remember my first few days on there. I have no memory at all of being at the spawn location. I believe it's because of what you described - as I continued to play on the server, my understanding of how it worked changed completely so my initial memories no longer made sense under my new framework.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Ask HN: Why aren't there more hearing aid startups?"

qingdao99 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 04:49:09 +0000

You could probably find a company or a person in Taiwan to ship them to you from Taiwan.

New comment by qingdao99 in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"

qingdao99 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:40:18 +0000

What did they mean? Can't figure it out.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Man with no ticket or passport flew from copenhagen to Los Angeles, FBI says"

qingdao99 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:50:51 +0000

I've always thought that you could probably just walk off somewhere else once you're on the tarmac.

New comment by qingdao99 in "I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets"

qingdao99 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:55:18 +0000

as long as you'll pay for it

New comment by qingdao99 in "Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3"

qingdao99 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:48:56 +0000

And it's far better in my opinion - ChatGPT actually creates its own prompts from what you give it and feeds those to DALL-E (you can see this by clicking on the images it returns and reading what the actual prompt was), although you can disable this by just firmly telling ChatGPT not to modify your prompt.

Additionally, the image generation itself is quite different. ChatGPT's DALL-E seems to create much more stylized images - much harder to get plain shots that don't heavily embellish your description.

New comment by qingdao99 in "HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly"

qingdao99 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:22:56 +0000

You will casually breach the GFW if the VPN you pay for is not blocked yet.

New comment by qingdao99 in "CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day"

qingdao99 — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 09:38:23 +0000

Wow, which game?

New comment by qingdao99 in "Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP"

qingdao99 — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:12:45 +0000

It says the same for the comment you replied to. I don't think it's accurate for this task.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection"

qingdao99 — Sat, 13 May 2023 07:37:22 +0000

> don't concatenate user input and logic unless the bounds between the two are guaranteed to be explicit

Which is achieved how for an LLM?

New comment by qingdao99 in "See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS"

qingdao99 — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:46:21 +0000

Not an expert but:

The lag compensation is, more intuitively, just allowing the client to move on its own without needing server verification yet. The server maintains the authoritative game state, but (assuming no cheating is going on) the clients are able to move as they think they will. In the background, the client is actually sending its inputs to the server, and they technically haven't happened until the server verifies them (however many milliseconds later), but we allow the client to move on its own regardless.

The yanking back only happens if the client's new state (position etc.) don't match the server's state.

New comment by qingdao99 in "ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying"

qingdao99 — Sun, 07 May 2023 14:15:29 +0000

I would recommend signing up to GPT-4 API access and, upon hopefully getting it, using a third-party frontend like https://bettergpt.chat/ rather than the official ChatGPT page.

You'll never hit a ratelimit as far as I can tell, and it's usage-based so it will probably come out cheaper than $20/mo for regular usage.

New comment by qingdao99 in "Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI"

qingdao99 — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:29:52 +0000

I got GPT-4 access within just a couple hours of release and I'm sure I didn't write anything interesting, I probably just ticked the box for "student" or "hobbyist".

Edit: Nevermind, it took ~2 days. Point still stands, I just checked out the form and I definitely ticked "General exploration of capabilities", which is probably the least interesting option if OpenAI is being selective.