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by jacobn 29d ago
The search ads ostensibly solve the cold start problem: If a seller introduces a new product, how is that to be ranked? Well, they can buy some ads, get some ratings, and boot up their sales & search ranking. Great. It of course also cr
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by jacobn 3mo ago
Make a billion / deserve a billion. Ok. Given how tech has gone from nerdy underdog to Orwellian, Machiavellian, dopamine-peddling overlord, I’m actually a bit surprised people aren’t more angry / upset. Over the last 40 years the
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by jacobn 4mo ago
So far it seems like AI is helping the little guy fight the bills more? (That can of course change very quickly, yes)
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by jacobn 4mo ago
Historically it has fit reality, but yes, this time may well actually be different...
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by jacobn 4mo ago
I just ask it for what I’m looking for (doing very simple “spare part” level at home 3d printing, nothing fancy or elaborate) and it gives me a starting point. Then I sometimes just edit the scad code by hand, and some times I ask the AI to
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by jacobn 4mo ago
I just complained to them the other day! They were scraping our weather website to no end, very much including the disallowed path prefixes. Did end up just adding them to our WAF blocklist, which is weirdly ironic - hosting on their infra
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by jacobn 6mo ago
And https://www.x402.org/
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by jacobn 6mo ago
> MPP provides a specification for agents and services to coordinate payments programmatically, enabling microtransactions, *recurring payments*, and more.
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by jacobn 7mo ago
Are there any nuclear alternatives that don't include strapping low grade bombs to the reactor core (PRW/BWR: water separation -> hydrogen + oxygen -> boom, like happened @ Fukushima) or using coolants that instantly start v
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Show HN: Tensor Spy: inspect NumPy and PyTorch tensors in the browser, no upload(tensorspy.com)
22 points by jacobn 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jacobn 7mo ago
Cool! How do you actually implement “Reverse-mode automatic differentiation with a tape-based computational graph” in rust?
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by jacobn 7mo ago
Most web request cases where you care about performance probably have multiple parallel web requests, so there’s no clean separation possible?
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by jacobn 9mo ago
Don't the models typically train on their input too? I.e. submitting the question also carries a risk/chance of it getting picked up? I guess they get such a large input of queries that they can only realistically check and theref
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by jacobn 11mo ago
If there’s an issue with the core then the salt tank can act as a heat sink in a way a battery can’t? The boiling / pressure water reactors all have requirements on active cooling being maintained in emergencies - I’m not familiar with
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Show HN: Gen AI for fonts, 1M free fonts organized by "vibe"(fonthero.com)
3 points by jacobn 11mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Message Me Now QR Codes, easiest way to digitally connect with people(qr.clv.ws)
4 points by jacobn 1y ago|1 comments
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by jacobn 1y ago
Isn't that how most web standards got their start? One of the interested parties pushed something, then things evolved through the standards process? (And then it can of course get derailed, but that's a separate story)
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Show HN: 'Message Me Now' QR Codes to easily share contact info(qr.clv.ws)
1 points by jacobn 1y ago|0 comments
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by jacobn 1y ago
Isn’t it more of an “all of the above”? A lot of employees at successful startups & FAANG make most of their money from the stock, no? And they need to buy houses and send their kids to fancy schools too, no? So sure, we can reduce it t
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by jacobn 2y ago
The animation on the page looks an awful lot like autoregressive inference in that virtually all of the tokens are predicted in order? But I guess it doesn't have to do that in the general case?
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by jacobn 2y ago
> Scientists long thought that tiny turtles drifted passively with ocean currents, literally going with the flow. > "What we've uncovered is that the turtles are actually swimming," > the trick was developing flexibl
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by jacobn 2y ago
This, plus the A/B testing of headlines to maximize clicks has lead inexorably to the current information environment. Our intuitions, outrage, and knee-jerk reactions are being weaponized to gain clicks, votes, donations, and "ac
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by jacobn 2y ago
> After this article was published, a USDA spokesperson said Fong left the office Monday on her own accord. > "She was accompanied by two friends who she paused to take selfies with on her way out. Security officials did not play
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by jacobn 2y ago
Great work, very interesting list! Ideally the "% Limit" column would: 1. Be right-aligned 2. Have consistent formatting (i.e. same number of digits after the dot) 3. A little bar underneath each number showing relative scale (i.
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by jacobn 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs_(progra... ??! Is converted to | So ??!??! Becomes || i.e. “or”
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by jacobn 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/327/
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by jacobn 2y ago
Cool project! When is the next hike of the property?
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by jacobn 2y ago
Would they need to be blocked completely? Maybe a much thinner shielding would still produce a significant benefit? (Though likely not of course ;)
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by jacobn 2y ago
Jepsen test?
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by jacobn 2y ago
Is this a dataset issue more than an LLM issue? As in: do we just need to add 1M examples where the response is to ask for clarification / more info? From what little I’ve seen & heard about the datasets they don’t really focus on

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