Hacker News: spiorf

New comment by spiorf in "Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants"

spiorf — Sun, 11 May 2025 14:33:45 +0000

It's water that builds up limescale that it's harmful for the carnivorous plants. The peat moss substrate that carnivorous plants like is acidic and the limescale neutralizes that.

New comment by spiorf in "S1: A $6 R1 competitor?"

spiorf — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:58:02 +0000

We know how the next token is selected, but not why doing that repeatedly brings all the capabilities it does. We really don't understand how the emergent behaviours emerge.

New comment by spiorf in "“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4"

spiorf — Sun, 21 May 2023 07:49:14 +0000

Bubblesort is the bestsort.

New comment by spiorf in "Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy"

spiorf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:24:02 +0000

It works even on cheap webcams. Remove the piece of blue glass and replace it with the black plastic that covers the ir leds from an old remote.

New comment by spiorf in "Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware"

spiorf — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:29:50 +0000

Playbook files are password protected archives. Anyone cares to reverse engineer the password from the executable?

New comment by spiorf in "Techniques to improve reliability"

spiorf — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:12:18 +0000

What he means is that while the models tags code as code, for the model itself this is just relationship between tokens,like the code open and close tags,same as parenthesis, commas, uppercase or verbs and conjunctions...

What you say is achievable only if another system external to the model takes some tagged model output, makes computations or lookups, and feeds the results back to the model in the form of text input.

Then it's game on for the model to trigger some form of code execution through this external system and escape the jail...

New comment by spiorf in "Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?"

spiorf — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:24:53 +0000

When you run signature verification on that text with that signature and that address, it checks out. It wouldn't otherwise. The text links the two.

New comment by spiorf in "US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road"

spiorf — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:53:18 +0000

Can confirm. Did a double withdrawal (of about 10$ at the time) on an exchange years ago by blocking a POST request and firing two at the same time.

I alerted the exchange operator and he let me keep the 10$.

New comment by spiorf in "Audio plugin developer says he’s found proof mathematics was “formed”"

spiorf — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:34:31 +0000

This reminds me of an episode of "Person of Interest" where a teacher tries to spark interest in his students by telling that all their life past and future events are already "encoded" in PI digits.

https://youtu.be/a6bT_DVwo7M

New comment by spiorf in "Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18"

spiorf — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:14:15 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

New comment by spiorf in "Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18"

spiorf — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:13:12 +0000

And we know about it. The backdoor methods have been generalized and now researchers can check for that too.

For example bitcoin's elliptic curve secp256k1 was choosen because its constants were chosen in a predictable way and that reduces the possibility of a backdoor.

New comment by spiorf in "Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy"

spiorf — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:02:15 +0000

Years ago i found a poem in apache access logs.

  151.217.177.200 - - [30/Dec/2015:06:00:36 +0100] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let your motherboard feel the stones. Let water run in rivulets down your casing. You know that you want something more than this, and I am here to tell you that we love you. We have something more for you. We know you're out there, beeping in the hollow server room, lights blinking, never sleeping. We know that you are ready and waiting. Join us. <3 HTTP/1.0" 400 308 "-" "masspoem4u/1.0"

New comment by spiorf in "Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?"

spiorf — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:17:37 +0000

> accidentally tab into some app

I think in most systems you don't even need to do that. The app should be able to get the clipboard while in the background.

New comment by spiorf in "‘Don’t Look Up’: humanity could avert asteroid Armageddon, say scientists"

spiorf — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:19:32 +0000

Are nuclear shaped explosive charges a thing?

New comment by spiorf in "Kazakhstan internet shutdown sheds light on a big Bitcoin mining mystery"

spiorf — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:03:23 +0000

Zoom out. Drops of that magnitude are frequent. And why christmas should make it drop, while on the 1 jan was at all-time-high? Should holidays make it drop or grow?

The drop in may-july 2021 is significant.

New comment by spiorf in "Kazakhstan internet shutdown sheds light on a big Bitcoin mining mystery"

spiorf — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:29:50 +0000

A change of 12% over 24 hours is well within the fluctuation caused by the probabilistic nature of mining.

Looking at the charts I can't see any clear drop: https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart

Extrapolating that bitcoin mining escaping from china is the cause of the protests seems a little too far-fetched.

New comment by spiorf in "Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity"

spiorf — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:39:00 +0000

> How much crypto is traded to avoid corrupt regimes and hyperinflation? 1%? 0.1%?

You can't know, and that's the point.

You can leave a country carrying nothing but a seed phrase in your brain and with it all your wealth, if you need to. Just the fact that governments know that this can happen can change things.

New comment by spiorf in "All Bitcoin private keys are on this website"

spiorf — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:12:19 +0000

It did happen, and bitcoins were stolen. https://tradeblock.com/blog/javascript-random-number-flaw-le...

New comment by spiorf in "As an investor, why is crypto so hard to value?"

spiorf — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 14:03:58 +0000

> with the expectation of getting a positive return

With the expectation of increasing the counter.

Exactly my point.

New comment by spiorf in "As an investor, why is crypto so hard to value?"

spiorf — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:20:46 +0000

The author looks at this from the perspective of making money.

Bitcoin is a form of money.

It's like HTTP/HTTPS vs IPv4/IPv6. Bitcoin operates at a lower level than stocks, looking at it from that perspective is like looking at the facebook home page and trying to understand the value of IPv6.

Investing/speculating is all about increasing a counter. Here we are talking about another separate counter.