<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vova_hn2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vova_hn2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:08:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vova_hn2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vova_hn2 in "The art of defusing a second world war bomb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I remember being astounded by how the water "amplifies" the explosions - so while a hand grenade blast is very dangerous on the surface, under the sea it becomes far more horrific prospect, due to the water transferring the blast more efficiently.<p>Curiously, it is exactly the opposite in many video games. In video games water often protects you from the explosion. I wonder, where did this trope came from...</p>
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<p>> We won’t do THAT again.<p><i>Narrator's voice:</i> They <i>will</i> do it again.</p>
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<p>> I honestly think nobody enjoys the exercise itself. The real motivation is second order effects like becoming more appealing to other people.<p>I, actually, do enjoy the exercise itself. Although, it doesn't prevents me from procrastinating going to the gym and being in terrible shape.</p>
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<p>I've read this story before, in Russian, and, honestly, it doesn't make any sense to me.<p>According to Wikipedia, plague responds to antibiotics very well, since it is a bacteria, not a virus and it hasn't been widespread since the development of antibiotics, so it didn't develop any resistance to antibiotics.<p>If she knew that she broke a flask with plague (and, as I understand, she did know that), why don't start a course of antibiotics immediately, before any symptoms? Wouldn't she be totally fine it this case?</p>
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<p>In addition to what the other comments said ("WHOIS information for the domain shows it's registered in the Philippines"[0] etc), the "hospital bed" picture is blatantly AI-generated. If you zoom on his face, you can see that it looks extremely unnatural.<p>I suspect that someone's running a script that looks for public (-ish, Eugene has a Wikipedia page at least) figures without active social media presence and creates fake donation websites with AI-generated texts and pictures.<p>If my suspicion is correct, this is one of the most evil scams I can imagine.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801838">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801838</a></p>
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<p>> To get calibrated probabilities sounds like a very good feature, if they are indeed well calibrated.<p>This is a valid point.<p>> And in my experiments even Qwen 3.8 has a hard time to consistenly conform to a schema, requiring retries, JSON cleanup etc, so to have a model of similar quality (SemIf et al) that simply cannot deviate from the schema by construction could be very helpful.<p>Literally every inference framework supports constrained encoding. You can make the model choose only from allowed tokens and you can infer only the first diverging token.<p>It's baffling to me that no inference provider actually exposes this functionality, so you have to run the model yourself to do it.</p>
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<p>> Your class is measured, not chosen<p>> model and manifest bytes together pick the class<p>What?<p>How hard is it to write something like "your weight class is determined by the total size of the model and manifest" (if I understood it correctly).<p>Current version both sounds very AI-sloppy and is ambiguous.<p>The doc page [0] is even more painful to read.<p>[0] <a href="https://tinybrains.dev/docs/models/weight-classes.html" rel="nofollow">https://tinybrains.dev/docs/models/weight-classes.html</a></p>
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<p>> if you've ever tried to use it<p>Heh, you got me :) IPFS is one of those things that I love reading and about and thinking about using someday, but somehow never get around to it.</p>
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<p>IPFS has a solution [0] to this problem<p>[0] <a href="https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipns/ipns-record/" rel="nofollow">https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipns/ipns-record/</a></p>
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<p>> Pyston was an honest attempt at doing that<p>I'm still kinda sad that Pyston didn't happen<p>> but it has been dead for years partially because it hit many of these walls<p>Maybe this is one of the reasons. But I've also heard that Dropbox (which was making Pyston [0]), that used to heavily rely on Python, just decided that gradual migration to Go [1] is a more feasible approach than creating a faster Python implementation.<p>[0] <a href="https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation" rel="nofollow">https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/introducing-pyston-an-up...</a><p>[1] "About a year ago, we decided to migrate our performance-critical backends from Python to Go to leverage better concurrency support and faster execution speed." - <a href="https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/open-sourcing-our-go-libraries" rel="nofollow">https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/open-sourcing-our-go-lib...</a></p>
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<p>A lot of Python code is just a relatively thin layer of "glue" between C libraries.<p>An ML pipeline will probably rely on numpy to do all the heavy lifting.<p>A web backend will probably use something like psycopg, which is a wrapper around libpq (official postgres client lib, written in C).<p>etc</p>
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<p>I find it kinda funny that even "smartest", most capable models often have a very hard time going beyond surface-level, top-of-mind associations, when faced with creative tasks.<p><i>Of course</i>, a "Japanese Minimal Poster" has a sakura and a stylized flag of Japan, duh<p>A human designer would probably think that "Japan -> sakura" and "Japan -> Japanese flag" are way too obvious, too banal, too stereotypical, and, most importantly <i>too boring</i>. And then they would probably sit for a while and try to think of something fresher and less clichéd.<p>But AI has absolutely no problem with going with the cheesiest, most overused trope.</p>
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<p>Great comment, no idea why it was flagged</p>
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<p>Exactly! If I want a summary of the code, I can easily generate it myself.</p>
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<p>I don't think that many teams review commit messages as a part of code review. At least, I've never seen it "in the wild".</p>
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<p>I think that the idea of generating a commit message based on the content (diff) of the commit is fundamentally wrong.<p>Even before coding harnesses become mainstream, a lot of tools offered to automatically generate commit messages based on the diff (I think JetBrains IDEs started to offer it very early) and I always cringed when I've seen it.<p>The reason why I don't like diff-base commit messages is because they are <i>redundant</i>. If I want an LLM-generated summary of the diff, I can easily generate it myself, there is absolutely no reason to put it in the commit message.<p>What I <i>would</i> like to see in the commit message is some additional context that is not a part of the diff. I don't need to read <i>what</i> has changed, because I can already can see it in the diff (or get an LLM to summarize it for me). But I often do need to understand <i>why</i> this change was made. What were they trying to achieve? That's the important part that is not contained in the diff itself. And this is the part that diff-base commits rarely contain.<p>I think that even something simple like a link to a Jira (or other bugtracker ticket) is much more helpful than diff summary. Maybe instead of "fix" or "update" you could write just a couple of words about <i>what</i> are you trying to fix and <i>why</i> does it need updated. Still better, than a diff-summary.</p>
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<p>Pricing model is hard to understand at a glance. It uses a term "second of query time" which is not a conventional term and not defined anywhere. Also, all pricing related pages seem to be LLM-generated and are hard to read for a human.<p>Please, just explain in your own words, how the pricing works, without using made up terms invented by an LLM.</p>
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<p>Wiki says [0]: "Derivative versions of Sokol continue to be worn by Chinese taikonauts on flights of the Shenzhou spacecraft today, though details of the suits' design differ slightly; they are also reported to weigh less than the Russian version of Sokol."<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit#Use_by_countries_other_than_Russia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit#Use_by_countr...</a></p>
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<p>Technically, you would need to go to Waitangi, NZ (the closest city to Moscow's antipodal point [0]). When you are in the orbit you will periodically be much closer to Putin than if you just stayed at the antipodal point or close to it.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.geodatos.net/en/antipodes/russia/moscow" rel="nofollow">https://www.geodatos.net/en/antipodes/russia/moscow</a></p>
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<p>I don't think so. So far all fatalities [0] happened either during launch or during launch or during landing. The only fatal incident that happened <i>technically still in space</i> (above the Kármán line) is Soyuz 11 [1], but it happened after the landing sequence was already started, so the capsule landed normally, just with the dead crew.<p>It appears that just hanging out in the orbit is relatively safe, going up there and going down is risky.<p>Same with aircraft, btw, most accidents happen during take-off, shortly after take-off or during landing. Cruising at a stable altitude is very safe.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Re-entry_and_death" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Re-entry_and_death</a></p>
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