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by dpiers 7d ago
Tristan Buckmaster’s post cited extensive use of LLMs in the process of his collaboration with Levent: “We used several LLMs throughout: Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, especially with GPT-5.6 Sol and, more recently, Astra. The latter w
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by dpiers 5mo ago
We already live in a world where parents decide whether or not a child with Down Syndrome will be born. 60-90% of prenatal diagnoses in the US result in an elective termination. The number is nearly 100% in Iceland and some other Nordic cou
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by dpiers 5mo ago
You’re neglecting the fact that each one of those businesses had a plan, they just pivoted to more successful plans.
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by dpiers 8mo ago
The title is a lie - the original statement was that it was closer to “a small game engine” than a basic text UI. CC has a complex scene rendering pipeline with a 16ms/frame budget. That is much closer to a game engine than a print s
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by dpiers 1y ago
Languages are thought encodings. Most people can only encode/decode a single language but an LLM can move between them fluidly.
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by dpiers 1y ago
Amazon has surpassed Newegg as my online parts provider of choice. It's not that things can't go wrong, it's just that they are much better at handling it than Newegg these days.
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by dpiers 1y ago
We are in the process of abandoning ChatGPT Enterprise because Google is now bundling Gemini access for free with Google Workspace. If OpenAI is not safe from anticompetitive practices then no YC startup is.
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by dpiers 2y ago
This explains a lot about Ork Mekboyz.
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by dpiers 2y ago
Well there was that one time Germany owed everyone a lot of money after the Treaty of Versailles and it kind of directly led to Hitler’s rise to power and another World War… makes sense for them to be a bit more conservative than other coun
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He Was an Online Drug Lord. Now He's a Crypto Entrepreneur(nytimes.com)
8 points by dpiers 2y ago|1 comments
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by dpiers 2y ago
It seems you are under the impression that the venture capital firm cofounder by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz was created by a single individual. If you can’t get basic facts correct no one is going to take your other claims seriously.
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by dpiers 2y ago
I don’t disagree. Crypto is neat but has no useful (legal) real world applications.
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by dpiers 2y ago
Oh, please. Bitcoin is a protocol with no more inherent value than SMTP. Aside from being the Catholic cryptocurrency, it has been surpassed technologically in every way by newer and better designed protocols. Why would anyone who doesn&#x2
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by dpiers 3y ago
I’m creative but have never been adept at sharing visual ideas in my head with the rest of the world. I’ve found genAI image tools empowering because for the first time I can turn an idea into my head into something other people can see and
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by dpiers 3y ago
I use credit cards for all of my spending. One gives me 4% back on fuel, another 3x points on travel and dining, etc. Paying with cash/debit is less economical because you forgo these rebates and incentives. I also pay my cards in full
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by dpiers 3y ago
Is this news? I'm genuinely asking - TLO and other skip tracing tools have been around for a while, and have been offering license plate location data for years. The ACLU issued a report on how ALPR devices are used to track people in
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by dpiers 3y ago
This story by itself might sound like sour grapes, but in combination with other reports about the CEO(1), I suspect bad news ahead for Stability's investors. It seems like a narcissist with a very 'dynamic' relationship with
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by dpiers 3y ago
I had a former employer call once and ask me to sign a form confirming that I had opted not to exercise the stock options worth 0.125% of the company when I left. They were raising a new round and my old grant was a sticking point because t
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by dpiers 3y ago
Comcast "forced" me off of mine by upping my rate to $180/mo for the cheapest cable-only package when there were contract deals available with internet and more channels for $110/mo. No contract rates available without t
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by dpiers 3y ago
That’s because SMS has a 1120 bit message capacity and uses one of two encoding mechanisms. GSM-7 uses 7 bits per character and a correspondingly limited character set that allows for 1120/7 = 160 characters. UCS-2/UTF-16 uses 16
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by dpiers 3y ago
You’re confusing stupidity with narrow expertise. I know CPAs who don’t file their own taxes because that wasn’t the focus of their niche. I know surgeons who don’t know the difference between a transistor and a resistor. Plenty of smart pe
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by dpiers 3y ago
Their progress reports pop up on HN pretty frequently, as they're usually pretty technically dense and interesting. Here's the discussion of the most recent update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36019485
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by dpiers 3y ago
Except some municipalities with large red light camera revenue streams use bad math to justify unsafely short yellow light times in order to increase ticket revenues. More details here: https://redlightrobber.com
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by dpiers 3y ago
LoRA: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf LLaMA: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta... Both have been the subjects of numerous HN posts in the last month.
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by dpiers 4y ago
I presume the last one is for ensuring the safety of staff. Domestic abusers can use work schedules to stalk and harass their former partners.
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by dpiers 4y ago
I’m an auditor at a large organization that uses Sourcegraph, and I love it. On one project I had to trace a compliance flow across 14 services written in 4 languages, and Sourcegraph made it easy to navigate everything and document our fin
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by dpiers 4y ago
Bring a rechargeable battery with you, plug that into a charger on the wall, and plug the phone into another port of the battery.
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by dpiers 4y ago
Except this is the result of a $20m NSF grant to one of the top CS schools in the country, not a fly-by-night startup looking to profit off a trend. I’m actually kind of interested in this. I’ve taught myself a decent bit and done my own pr
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by dpiers 4y ago
Apple and Amazon are only now adding the group watch functionality that Netflix had on the 360. I really don’t know why this fell off because it was really popular within my friend group and we’d watch a movie together a couple times a mont
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by dpiers 4y ago
FSD = fraudulent sales and disappointment I can’t believe Tesla has gotten away with selling a feature that doesn’t exist, and will never be delivered, on so many cars for so long. Tesla began selling “full self-driving” in October, 2016 an

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