Why people always forget mobile?
Firefox on mobile works with ublock. It can also play videos even with the screen locked, although you do have to unpause it after locking the screen.
Readit Newsdaquisu commented on Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for? · Posted by u/helloworlddd
Wow! I will try that. Really cool. Never tried the mythical sub-agent feature, not sure if it was really a thing due to the sparse docs. The "You are an expert software engineer" really helps? Probably good idea to mention "simple" because Claude sometimes settles for an overengineered solution.
> The "You are an expert software engineer" really helps?
Anecdata, but it weirdly helped me. Seemed BS for me until I tried.
Maybe because good code is contextual? Sample codes to explain concepts may be simpler than a production ready code. The model may have the capability to do both but can't properly disguished the correct thing to do.
I don't know.
daquisu commented on Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staffers $100M bonuses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
They are world-class engineers of course, but it's always been clear OpenAI's core-advantage was simply the access to massive amounts capital without much expectation of a return on investment.
The ML methods they use have always been quite standard, they have been open about that. They just had the gall (or vision) to burn way more money than anyone else on scaling them up. The scale itself carries its own serious engineering challenges of course, but frankly they are not doing anything that any top-of-class CS post-grad couldn't replicate with enough budget.
It's certainly hard, but it's really not that special from an engineering standpoint. What is absolutely unprecedented is the social engineering and political acumen that allowed them to take such risks with so much money, walking that tightrope of mad ambition combined with good scientific discipline to make sure the money wouldn't be completely wasted, and the vision for what was required to make LLMs actually commercially useful (instruction tuning, "safety/censoring"...). But frankly, I really think most of the the engineers themselves are fungible, and I say this as an engineer myself.
That is a common narrative but Google had LaMDA as an LLM with over 100B parameters before the ChatGPT release. There was even a Xoogler that claimed it was alive.
From my POV Google could have released a good B2C LLM before OpenAI, but it would compete with their own Ads business.
daquisu commented on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python jonathan.protzenko.fr/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Lines of code is a pretty poor measurement. Doubly so when you're boasting a large number in the context of cryptographic code.
Which better measurement do you propose?
Do you know how they managed to inject stylesheets into every page bypassing CSP?
It is done by the extension without any fancy stuff. Extensions can load static js / css and bypass CSP with it, if it is declared in their manifest.json. Grammarly's manifest.json is here: https://gist.github.com/Daquisu/11eb1a7000b4141c4404edcc6e16...
For more advanced CSP bypass with extension, you can:
1. Inject JS code into any webpage with a CSP.
2. Create an event listener for your content script and reacting according to it.
3. Use your content script to communicate with the background script.
4. Use the background script to communicate with any website, including blocked websites by the CSP.
Basically, any website <-> extension content script <-> background script <-> any website.
Weird, they released Gemini 2.5 but I still can't use 2.0 pro with a reasonable rate limit (5 RPM currently).
I wonder how that differs from the sibling post with the exact same prompt? https://x.com/i/grok/share/fov27TB0Zn9jH5ZYIV70nTqN2
Is there some entropy or randomness at play here? Or some sort of RAG? Even if it was RAG, the "reasoning" is very different and doesn't mention the clear censorship in the initial prompt that the one I linked mentions.
See: the parameter "temperature" for LLMs
There's a wonderful book on Mathematical counterexamples in French[0], meant for undergrad/engineering school hopefuls.
So many of the continuity counter-examples are throwing Weierstrass at the wall and getting something to stick. It's fun but also feels a bit like cheating.
I do recommend this book for any french-speaking mathematician-adjacent person though. Real great dictionary for remembering why certain things only work in one direction.
[0] Les contre-exemples en mathématiques: https://www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/5328-les-contre-exe...
It is interesting how France became so focused on analysis and properly proving theorems and stuff, while the applications don't have the same highlight in prépa.
One professor of mine commented that most French engineers are better mathematicians than most mathematicians in Brazil.
It is the opposite of what the linked article mentions that was happening in Weierstrass' time.
daquisu commented on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch byran.ee/posts/creation/... · Posted by u/Hello9999901
This is really cool!
There are some obvious next steps for improving the polish on this, would you say you were more resource constrained, time constrained, or skill constrained?
For instance, did you put any thought into making flex PCBs to make the cable routing easier?
I also think the concept of a laptop with a removable wireless keyboard is brilliant, and I think your implementation is a lot cleaner than e.g. the Surface or the iPad's case-keyboards. If I had a laptop that did that, it would be my go-to travel machine. One less thing to cart around.
Regarding a laptop with a removable wireless keyboard, ZenBook Duo has that, although the touchpad is removed with the keyboard.
It also has two screens and its own stand, I use it as my travel machine.
daquisu commented on Colombia's Special Word for "You" nytimes.com/2024/03/02/wo... · Posted by u/elijahparker