rolandhvar

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by rolandhvar 4mo ago
It's not just random internet noise. It's generative AI. This is not low-quality digital output. This is value-driven generative AI. Not automated. Generative.
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by rolandhvar 4mo ago
There's poor and stupid, and then there's poor and smart
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by rolandhvar 4mo ago
Probably not a popular opinion around here, but here goes anyway: the fundamental problem is that unless your net worth is $100m+, there is no point being a do-gooder as any attempts to fix big moral hazards are only going to harm you more
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by rolandhvar 4mo ago
I agree. What is the purpose of this article?
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by rolandhvar 6mo ago
I mean just look at UV. Did that guy make it because Rust, and because he's passionate about that sort of thing? Probably. But it's fucking fast. So did he sell out to OpenAI? Of course he did. And thusly, both camps.
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by rolandhvar 6mo ago
Yes I see, fair enough
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by rolandhvar 6mo ago
So what happens when the datacenters need to upgrade (new hardware, or stupid enterprisey reasons like "must be new when replacing broken stuff")? Surely there remains a secondary market for the enthusiasts?
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by rolandhvar 6mo ago
Sure, but, aim for the stars and you hit the moon right? Like fundamentally who cares? For the purpose of an AGI benchmark I'd argue you'd rather err on the side of being more intelligent and counting that as less intelligent than
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by rolandhvar 6mo ago
+1 on the UI thing. I don't know what it is, but UI on Linux always feels too disjoint from the rest of the system. It's a bit like how Windows 3.11 was just UI-on-DOS. I get the same feeling. Don't get me wrong - I love Linu
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by rolandhvar 9mo ago
The thing that always irks me about c++ is this sort of thing: > Explanation 1) Searches for the resource identified by h-char-sequence in implementation-defined manner. Okay, so now I have to make assumptions that the implementation is
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by rolandhvar 1y ago
So here's the thing I struggle with. I do a lot of work in jupyter notebooks. I come up with a new model or approach to some problem, and I want to fork out and test a hypothesis in the background (which might be some set of hyperparam
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by rolandhvar 1y ago
Dumb question, but how do you know it's smallest?
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by rolandhvar 2y ago
The ad provider has been changed to something less sketchy
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by rolandhvar 2y ago
This can be fixed by switching ads provider
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Show HN: Jp3g: a fast private bulk image to JPEG/WebP converter(jp3g.org)
5 points by rolandhvar 2y ago|3 comments
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by rolandhvar 2y ago
This is a fair criticism for the current state of the site - but our goal is to expand this if the PoC gives useful results. In our experience people are very sensitive about allowing their images to be used for certain generalisations of r
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by rolandhvar 2y ago
Caution: it's a little ad-heavy at the moment (sorry) but we need to sustain the hosting cost somehow. The idea is to survey the Internet about what "attractive" means and see if some consensus is reached. The statistical pro
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Show HN: A Controversial Attractiveness Game(uglyor.fit)
1 points by rolandhvar 2y ago|4 comments