yorick | 9 months ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
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yorick | 10 months ago | on: Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
It looks like you can use the gemma tokenizer to count tokens up to at least the 1.5 models. The docs claim that there's a local compute_tokens function in google-genai, but it looks like it just does an API call.
Example for 1.5:
https://github.com/googleapis/python-aiplatform/blob/main/ve...
yorick | 1 year ago | on: Why pay for a search engine
To provide some counterweight to all the overwhelmingly positive reviews:
I've used kagi for 6 months and have over 7500 searches with them. It mostly works, but there are a few downsides compared to Google:
- The latency is a lot higher than google, taking over a second to display any results. - The results are often not as relevant, I have to frequently retry my search in Google. - The results for anything local (I'm not in the US) are abysmal. Searching for anything in my city instead only gives me results for the city's history.
Still, I persist in using Kagi, mainly because it's not Google and I want them to succeed. The results are frequently good enough for me to stay with them.
yorick | 1 year ago | on: In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)
Other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41813058
yorick | 1 year ago | on: We should train AI in space [pdf]
To passively radiate a gigawatt of heat in space at 100C, you'd need a radiator with a (visible) surface area of 1 million square meters.
yorick | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?
It uses the 60ghz radar from https://vayyar.com/ . I'm not sure how or if it works, I haven't tried it myself. They also sell dev kits: https://walabot.com/products/walabot-developer-pack-new
yorick | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?
2.4ghz isn't great at detecting small obstacles like wires. There's a smartphone mounted device that can do this with 60ghz: https://walabot.com/
yorick | 1 year ago | on: Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering
This should be possible, it already exists for Google Photos: https://www.stg-uploader.xyz/
yorick | 2 years ago | on: Why Are More Boys Than Girls Retarded in School? (1928)
More about this on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis
IMHO the evidence points to this being a cultural effect that can be changed with policy.
yorick | 2 years ago | on: Fat OCI images are a cultural problem
Adding `busybox` and `bashInteractive` to the container contents gives you enough of a comfortable environment to work in without losing too much space.
yorick | 2 years ago | on: An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
note: ipv6 is 128 bits, which should, in fact, be enough for everybody
yorick | 2 years ago | on: Lingo-1: Exploring Natural Language for Autonomous Driving – Wayve
I'm not sure that the answers that the model provides have anything to do with what it's actually doing.
The way they seem to be prompting it also exhibits this issue, where they first have it arrive at a conclusion and then come up with an explanation for this conclusion. LLMs do not have an inner voice to reason with, and tokens generated later do not influence earlier tokens (unless you're doing beam search, but you mostly aren't). It would be much improved if asked to do reasoning first and then arrive at a conclusion.
yorick | 2 years ago | on: The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
Same issue on sway + nvidia, it can be worked around by disabling wayland support for electron apps. Not ideal.
yorick | 2 years ago | on: The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
https://artemis.sh/2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.ht...
talks about it at length.
It seems the main things missing for Talon are:
- input emulation, doable via uinput but not great - standard way to query the list of windows and active focus - for dwell-click support, you need to be able to know if the user is moving their mouse or clicking so you can cancel your autoclick
yorick | 2 years ago | on: Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access
Sourcegraph seems to have collected a bunch of these (now leaked) email addresses from signups on self-hosted instances.
I remember being very surprised when I was signed up to their mailing list after I made an account on my self-hosted instance, and I'm not sure about the ethics (and legality) of collecting these in the first place.
yorick | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)
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yorick | 5 years ago | on: Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
I've had poor experiences with Wasabi's availability in practice. Does cloudflare deal with hours-long outages well? Do you know if B2 fares better?
yorick | 6 years ago | on: Are We Wayland Yet?
These ways already exist: [waypipe](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/) is fairly complete already.
yorick | 6 years ago | on: How to Bypass “Slider Captcha”
You may want to consider running some proof-of-work in the browser, that would be costly to run for bots.
yorick | 7 years ago | on: Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
Telegram does not require your phone number, you can set it up with just a user name.
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