PumpkinSpice

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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Sort of, but isn't the focus on prompts a bit myopic? The huge difference between earlier GPTs and ChatGPT was RLHF, which not only makes it better at following prompts, but also enforces a lot of hidden dogma. It certainly influences
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
This is actually a very lucid way to frame this. People love to complain that "Google is useless now," but it's pretty clearly not the case if you look at how most people use search. What they usually mean is "nobody can
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Huh? Car maintenance is a rational, physical necessity. I don't need to compliment my car for it to start on a cold day. I'd like it to stay this way. Having to be unconditionally nice to computers is extremely creepy in part beca
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
This is such a weird topic in the ham community. The reason this restriction exists has nothing to do with the retro-justifications used by the community. For a long time, the US government genuinely feared that ham radio would be used for
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It's literally the playbook of every single business. Database vendors and graphics card manufacturers tout studies that show their product performs better. Pharmaceutical companies pay researchers who conduct studies that show their s
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Yes, it probably applies to the most qualified hires, so probably folks who are already around $1M total comp where they are. But the most important point is, you don't get that money now, and maybe never. The most likely scenario wher
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The work culture isn't putting kids in front of computer screens and discouraging outdoor activities. It's not even something you can control as a parent. My kid, 16 years old, walks to school on his own - but he's always bac
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
You're not describing a position taken by sane libertarians, though. Their argument is different: that if the government didn't regulate so much, customers would depend on the merchant's reputation, possibly backed by indepen
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I'd go a bit further with this claim. Most of what's being done in this space is about inventing new retro aesthetics, not about faithfully approximating how things worked in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, color TVs of that era
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I see the problem a bit differently. Perhaps a society could function in a model like that. But we decided it's too burdensome and we ceded this responsibility to the government. In such a world, it is paradoxically more dangerous to
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Well, HN isn't a forum with a well-defined "expert" scope. It's a link aggregator for nerdy news. If you get bored with Rust, you talk about ChatGPT. Or CPU design. Or biotech. Almost anything goes. I think this makes it
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
In practice, it's a tiny market. CRTs are bulky, unsightly... and for the most part, really not as amazing as claimed. Plus, they are difficult to ship. Most of them end up in the landfill. Meanwhile, antique phones, typewriters, camer
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
That's gonna be tough with phonetics across several thousand languages... not to mention regional slang and other subculture stuff. I think the surest bet is just to avoid short names. If it's four or five letters, the likelihoo
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
None of this is a problem in any objective sense. It's just that if your goal is to use one name across two languages, it's not exactly what you get in this scenario. Stuff like that doesn't bother me at all, but I bumped int
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
This is actually a pretty interesting problem and the website doesn't do it full justice. Do you want the same spelling? That's easy, but the pronunciation is quite often completely different. A good example is Jules in French vs
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Right. It's not even that they need to create a market. These things are already selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars. I guess it's a fairly common decor element for offices and homes. The same goes for old typewriters. There a
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The desire to disrupt almost always arises out of ignorance. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that if you know the complex reasoning and all the institutional baggage that explains why hotels, banks, or old-school tech co
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Few people write blog posts to say "I worked at Foo Corp and it was okay." There's a strong bias toward horror stories. There's also a HN selection bias: a story about FAANG is a lot more likely to be upvoted than a stor
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Most large tech companies essentially give a pass to new hires on their first eval cycle. Depending on your start date, you might be either outright ineligible for a rating, or the rating defaults to "meeting expectations," becaus
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I think this is a weird take. He found his groove, had a strong popular following, and enriched the lives of two generations of gamers. This is more of a positive legacy than most of us can hope for cranking out JavaScript for advertising c
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Folks here are probably reading too much into the "boot sector" angle. This project, like many others on HN, is best understood as "doing something in a constrained way because it's a fun challenge." As to why 512 b
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
They were also on the forefront of the "blockchain revolution" several years back. There's worthwhile research coming out of IBM once in a blue moon, but by and large, they seem to be chasing PR trends.
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
A single retail account is of no consequence to a national bank that has tens of millions of customers. It doesn't matter if you're spending $10 or $50,000 a month. They care about you as an individual about as much as Google care
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
How does this interact with the R&D tax credit? Historically, companies actively sought to classify a portion of software engineering expenses as research, because you received pretty generous tax rebates for that in addition to this
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
> 1. I’ll only be a millionaire because of inflation over my lifetime. First, statistically speaking, you might only have a couple of years between statutory retirement age and some sort of an "old-age" illness that will dimini
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I would add: don't do that in KiCad. Although they added the functionality, it's clear that they never really QA'd it. It's profoundly broken. Many simple shapes are impossible to achieve, adjustments are painful and oft
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Are you looking at the same thing? There clearly are decoupling caps not far from the chip. There's no rule to say you need to use 10 x 100 nF capacitors in 0603. They are more cost-efficient, but they're more work to solder by ha
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
This is really not about an engineer keeping a bootleg model in your basement. It's about the barrier for entry for commercial products. Or the ability to curate improved open-source implementations in the long haul, for that matter -
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Why? The ChatGPT interface is not integrated with an editor and not really tailored for writing. I'd wager that most of the current Grammarly users would rather pay for a tailored tool than a chat window that excels at schooling you an
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
There's a lot of people with strong opinions whether these detectors can or cannot work, but I implore you to do the experiment I just did. Go to the top 10 you find in a Google search and paste a sufficiently long sample of your prose

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