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1f60c··on I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models
It's pretty easy to understand why Apple doesn't want its models to reproduce racial slurs, but what’s wrong with "Boris Johnson?"

(See, e.g., here: https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...)

1f60c··on Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C
Is it connected to the network?
1f60c··on Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours
searchcode doesn't seem to work for me. All queries (even the ones recommended by the site) unfortunately return zero results. Maybe it got hugged?

https://searchcode.com/?q=re.compile+lang%3Apython

1f60c··on Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view
Oh gosh, I'm so sorry. My comment wasn't meant as criticism of you or Nping; I had just never seen a DNS server intentionally return obviously incorrect results before.
1f60c··on Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view
I wonder why www.google.com resolved to 31.13.94.37, which IPinfo tells me belongs to AS32934 Facebook, Inc.

https://ipinfo.io/31.13.94.37

1f60c··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
I wonder what this means for Support using ollama as an inline_completion_provider https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15968. ':]

I hadn't heard of Baseten before (it seems to be in a hot niche along with Together.ai, OpenRouter, etc.) but I'm glad I did because I was actually noodling on something similar and now I don't have to do that anymore (though it did teach me a lot about Fly.io!). Yay economies of scale!

1f60c··on I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
(2021)
1f60c··on Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
I think you're moving the goalposts. I didn't know this problem existed until OP's article taught me about it, but it seems pointless to continue this discussion.
1f60c··on Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
Wait really? Are you saying this Google search[0] returns no useful results at all?

The prompt I used isn't a particularly good search query, and I got:

  * A Stack Overflow question about this issue with a proposed solution;
  * A Reddit thread offering a workaround to non-technical users;
  * This thread on HN (which OP of course couldn't have seen, but anyway);
  * OP's article;
  * A blog post about OP's article;
  * A blog post with an elegant solution using pyftsubset
What am I missing?

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+would+flag+emojis+render...

1f60c··on Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
Did they even try? 3.6 Sonnet, R1, 4o, and o3-mini-high all correctly diagnosed the issue given the same basic prompt, albeit with varying levels of utility.

Heck, even pasting the "prompt" into non-AI Google and Bing worked.

1f60c··on The doctor who gave himself an ulcer and solved a medical mystery (2010)
That reminds me of the debate surrounding Star Trek Into/into Darkness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Star_Trek_Into_Darkn...
1f60c··on Blogging on Paper (2017)
I had the same exact thought. It's good to remember that writing ≠ publishing[0].

I'm not sure if it matters much in this case, but the OP is (2017).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316443

1f60c··on Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch
The number of skills one has to master for a project like this is just mind-boggling, and the part about the tortilla press made me laugh out loud. A labor of love in the most literal sense!

That said, I would feel pretty nervous about actually selling these, as I wouldn't be surprised if it is legally considered a medical device.

1f60c··on Ask HN: What do you use for content moderation of UGC?
Genius! I assume it's intended to be used to moderate the input to and output of OpenAI models, but I think it will moderate anything regardless of the source, and it's free (aside from one network call, and potentially sharing data with OpenAI?).
1f60c··on Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad
I like Sindre Sorhus' Scratchpad (syncs across Mac, iPad and iPhone using iCloud).
1f60c··on Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions
Why isn't the app available in the Netherlands?
1f60c··on Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
No need to resort to ad hominems; I just wasn't sure what you meant by "CAPTCHA as a use case" and wanted to point out that it's possible to do much better than $0.1/CAPTCHA solved.
1f60c··on Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
If you're talking about CAPTCHA solving as a service, that already exists, and the cost is measured in mere dollars per thousand CAPTCHAs solved.
1f60c··on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
I'm actually really disappointed in Wikimedia. Why didn't they fight this at all? Or, y'know, just ignore it?
1f60c··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
AFAIK the owner's manual says you have to keep your hands on the wheel and be ready to take over at all times, but Elon Musk and co. love to pretend otherwise.
1f60c··on Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
I got that feeling as well. In addition, I suspect it was originally written for an internal audience and adapted for the 'blog because the references to SLOs and SLAs don't really make sense in the context of external Uber customers.
1f60c··on Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably
Resinator's error messages look amazing! I also feel like I’ve gained a lot of cursed but useless (to me) knowledge, so thanks for that. :-)

I don't have a horse in this race, but regarding FONT resources, I would like to humbly suggest not supporting them at all. Radical, but from what you wrote, they do seem pretty weird and ripe for accidental misuse. Plus, they are obsolete and it seems like Resinator already intentionally diverges from rc.exe in a few cases anyway.

1f60c··on AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
Just use scientific notation. :-)
1f60c··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
One thing I’ve always felt is that the relative difficulty of each task seems to have flipped? I could write a bird classifier in my sleep using fastai, but I have no idea how to do a GIS lookup.
1f60c··on GitHub notification emails used to send malware
Nice writeup! It reminded me a bit of Julia Evans' blog in terms of content (learning by teaching).
1f60c··on Satellites Spotting Aircraft
> Umbra has an open data programme where they share SAR imagery from 500+ locations around the world

I think they're referring to this: https://umbra.space/open-data/ (warning: most files are absolutely ginormous)

1f60c··on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
https://archillect.com/archive? Sadly it seems to have gone quiet.
1f60c··on The semantic web is now widely adopted
This has been invented a number of times. Facebook's version is called Open Graph.

https://ogp.me/

1f60c··on Crafting Interpreters
Bob addresses this in the introduction^:

> We will abstain from using [parser generators] here. I want to ensure there are no dark corners where magic and confusion can hide, so we’ll write everything by hand. As you’ll see, it’s not as bad as it sounds, and it means you really will understand each line of code and how both interpreters work.

^ https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html#the-code

1f60c··on Compile-time JSON deserialization in C++
It has to be satire because of Tom's complete overreaction and the fact that comments are actually one of the easiest things to handle when building a lexer (usually, you just discard them). Eval'ing them makes no sense.

That said, I suppose stranger things have happened.

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