Fraterkes

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by Fraterkes 4d ago
These articles are frustrating on HN because it's quite common for programmers to tinker on small projects in solitude, so when artists complain about ai you get all these "just make stuff for your own sake, or where you in it for
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by Fraterkes 4d ago
One of the big points of art is expressing something to other people . Tired of this sort of shallow dismissal where wanting recognition, or for your art to reach people is cast as a kind of vanity that real artists ought to get over.
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by Fraterkes 6d ago
Social ills whose minds are pure machinery! Social ills whose blood is running money! Social ills whose fingers are ten armies!
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by Fraterkes 6d ago
Little slip of the mask here where we seamlessly transition from the perspective of an American working for an American tech company to someone living in a country neighbouring Palestine.
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by Fraterkes 8d ago
I don’t know if it’s the fault of your parents’ parenting style, but there’s a kind of shortsighted meanness in this comment that has been the source of vast amounts of human suffering throughout history.
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by Fraterkes 9d ago
Before AI it was possible to "express" yourself to someone else by recommending them a piece of art you liked. There's a lot of art in the world, expressing many different things, so you could actually get across something ve
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by Fraterkes 9d ago
Did you read the article? This is not a hackathon where you build software, it’s one where you’re trying to get a model to make progress on a frontier math problem. The point is that that activity may not map well onto the shape of a hack
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by Fraterkes 10d ago
Right, but currently the USA is still pretty far ahead. If you're in a race and the person who's in the lead by a large margin says "this is getting out of hand, how about we take a break?" isn't it obviously in the
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by Fraterkes 10d ago
What I'd like these people to (publicly) grapple with is the following: The results of the past few years of ai development have been disruptive largely in the area of white-collar work. Comparatively the results in ie ai-enabled medic
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by Fraterkes 10d ago
The point of the comment you're responding to is that it is at this point hardly an arms race: The frontier of ai development is happening completely inside 2 American companies, the most significant results outside America mostly invo
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by Fraterkes 19d ago
I don't think a country is well-served by an overly broad definition of terrorism. You might disagree: the fact that you mention the military "shooting back" when we're discussing a jet-engine being sabbotaged suggests t
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by Fraterkes 19d ago
Here's my "nuanced" take: If a pro-zionist group were officialy designated as terrorists for spraying paint into a jet-engine I would find that ridiculous too.
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by Fraterkes 19d ago
Folded cities being primarily associated with Inception instead of ringworlds really shows you pr is everything.
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by Fraterkes 23d ago
I shouldn’t tell you this, cause I’m also working on a font editor, but I’d consider looking into Raph Levien’s Hyperbezier work
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by Fraterkes 1mo ago
Significant indentation is why people love python. Can 2 billion people be wrong?
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by Fraterkes 1mo ago
As an aside, are there any habitual modafinil takers here? I had a period in college where I took it very rarely when I had to cram. Worked pretty well.
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by Fraterkes 1mo ago
Nice! Any tips for finding spaces like that? I guess it's mostly finding coworking spaces that are focused around a specific discipline (I know there are a few gamedev ones for example) so that you already have a lot in common?
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by Fraterkes 1mo ago
Disasterpeace has a bunch of breakdowns of his work on his youtube channel. Including a session about his work on Fez. He's a really interesting guy, both artistically and technically very skilled.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Jolt is essentially the same physics engine that was used in the Horizon games, the performance there should be able to get quite good. If you're making any kind of even slightly ambitious 3d game you probably need to be using gdextens
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Maybe I should get a thicker skin, but the prevalence of “autistic” as shorthand for “moronically literal-minded” on a place as prudish as hn is a bit surprising.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Your condescension is also obviously unhelpful here. Do better.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Sort of a callous thing to say about a person having a crisis of faith so bad they're talking about killing themselves.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
I think it's perfectly possible that substance-wise this article was entirely written by the author, but comparing the style of the article to the style of the author's comments, I'm personally pretty sure the text has been s
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
There's 2 [dead] fairly anodyne comments here. Are they bots? And if so, how can people tell?
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
People are complaining about their views getting polluted, they’re not saying they literally can’t see the night sky. If you’d like hn comments to be smarter, consider starting with your own.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Hey! Bit of an unusual question maybe: if this stuff further exarcerbates the loneliness epidemic and atomization of society, will you be able to live with yourself you think? If you hear about teenagers only spending time with your chatbot
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
I don’t know if you’re joking, but liquid breathing has only really been tested on rats, like famously the one from The Abyss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss , which died a couple of days later.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
One thing that’s kinda awkward in the video: they mention one of the big shortcomings of ultrasound being that it can’t image “airy” organs like the lungs, and their expert responds to that by mentioning that the amount of angles/devic
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Very sophomoric reading of Lacan.
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by Fraterkes 2mo ago
Alright, I’m at the start of my career but do have a genuine burning interest in programming. Am I fucked or not?

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