einrealist

Joined 13 years ago

Karma
1,404
Submissions
559
Member since
Dec 16
Former CTO at a startup. Now a senior consultant at Evil Corp, again.
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 17 days ago
Is he even happy? The website mood is so sad.
Comment · 1 month ago
Did I miss ‘they are loud and noisy’ somewhere?
Comment · 1 month ago
Can't imagine that RSI will result in something useful in practice. There are serious obstacles like alignment drift and model collapse. All while we still cannot solve the accuracy problem with current frontier models.
Comment · 1 month ago
And there is another problem: LLMs generating too much code, code that is doing more than was asked. And that cannot be fixed by tests. Usually, we create tests for wanted behavior and expected exceptions. But we don't create tests for undesired behavior.
Comment · 2 months ago
Client-side anti-cheat is a band-aid that will always punish legit players and merely hinder cheaters.

'The client cannot be trusted' applies to simple HTTP exchanges as well as to game state.

Of course, if the server has to track and validate everything, it would cost more to operate game servers....

Comment · 2 months ago
A dedicated status code + Location header allows to decouple the way an advisory is presented completely. At that location, there can be any representation, HTML or structured data like JSON-LD. The RFC extension would be small and clean.
Comment · 2 months ago
There is something I'd call Subscription Fatigue. People and businesses are asked to pay subscription fees left and right.

If I convert my bank statements only each quarter in a spike or once or twice a year, why should I pay for each month or the entire year? Of course I don't know the real usage patterns of this application, but that's one scenario I'd think of.

Comment · 2 months ago
But I want to specifically signal a security concern to the requesting party. For example, a artifact proxy (like Artifactory or CodeArtifact) can use this response to warn developers.
Comment · 2 months ago
If anyone wants to create a revision to RFC 9110 :)

  HTTP/1.1 309 Security Advisory
  Location: https://acme/aaargh-another-advisory
Comment · 2 months ago
Or 2x less. 800B valued is not 800B invested. And it wouldn't be the first time investors sell at a loss if sentiment declines.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is so true!

I rarely order anything from Amazon these days, maybe once or twice a year. Everything feels like a rip-off or fake. I don't trust the search function at all. Nor do I trust the customer ratings. The only exception is if I buy from a brand I already know that has its own brand-shop, owned directly by the manufacturer.

Comment · 3 months ago
Yes, but isn't football already overly commercialised? Why is advertising for sports betting or alcohol any better than the FIFA issue? UEFA should take a look at itself, too.
Comment · 4 months ago
Yet another band aid.
Comment · 4 months ago
Nice summary. Reading this reminds me about the strong encryption discussion.

> We optimize what we can measure, not what we actually want to achieve. We hope and pray that these are the same thing, but they often aren’t.

He points out the core problem with LLMs. I believe it is impossible (or extremely expensive) to ensure that the models are aligned safely for everyone and any intention. And 'safe' can mean different things for a different audience.

Comment · 5 months ago
Maintaining support for Windows is free?

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton