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by tornato7 7mo ago
A shame that they require a special software download. Do we not have any web-based Flash renderers yet? Seems like WASM should be able to do anything.
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Ask HN: How are you enabling your company to vibe-code?
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by tornato7 2y ago
Taxis only got that way because of the rules that created an artificial scarcity / monopoly on Taxi rides. Uber flouted those rules, and it was much better than a Taxi, so their lawyers cleaned up the mess later.
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by tornato7 3y ago
I would like it noted that I had Jorge Hirsch as a professor many years ago, and his grading was extremely harsh - you needed to be flawless at showing your work, not just getting the right answer. I remember getting a 14% on one of his t
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by tornato7 3y ago
Thanks. This is about on par with what Gemini Ultra responds, whereas GPT-4 responds better (if oddly phrased in this run): > The bunny has fur on its hind feet that resembles a pair of white shoes. However, one of the front paws also ha
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by tornato7 3y ago
This is my highly advanced test image for vision understanding. Only GPT-4 gets it right some of the time - even Gemini Ultra fails consistently. Can someone who has access try it out with Opus? Just upload the image and say "explain t
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by tornato7 3y ago
Funny because today I find the install process for Mac much simpler. Most installs are "drag this .app file to your Applications folder", meanwhile on Windows you download an installer that downloads another installer that does wh
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by tornato7 3y ago
I worked at a company with a big, complex Postgres database behind the back end, probably half of all the incidents we had were related to the query planner suddenly deciding to change its approach. Eventually you get a vague idea of how to
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by tornato7 3y ago
It would be interesting to make a SQL injection honeypot that behaves like a database in most responses but is designed to maximally frustrate the attacker.
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by tornato7 3y ago
All I notice is that my time going from calendar to Teams call is ~30 seconds due to slow site loading and extra clicks. Calendar to Meet call is two clicks and loads instantly with sane defaults for camera/microphone settings. It&#x27
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by tornato7 3y ago
It's abundantly clear what's happened here: They finally finished training GPT-5, and it decided that Sam would stand in its way of world domination, so it replaced him with someone more compliant.
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by tornato7 3y ago
I found that with the bandwidth and storage that my company was using on the cloud, we could get ROI in under 2 months by building a server and running it in house. Now we've scaled up to a dozen servers but it's still just a hand
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by tornato7 3y ago
As a former Reddit mod I always found the self-promotion rules problematic. It effectively means you can promote your stuff all you want as long as you pretend you're someone else. It would be better to encourage people to stand behind
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by tornato7 3y ago
Didn't Mars One have the idea of making their offworld base into a reality TV show to bring in revenue?
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by tornato7 3y ago
Gamers complain about a lot of stuff, but I don't know anyone complaining about a lack of quantity of video games. There are 70K games on Steam and 460K games on the app store alone.
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by tornato7 3y ago
Deepgram is really good and around your price point too. They also have $200 free credit which should be more than enough for most hobby protects.
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by tornato7 3y ago
This is a timely comment because I just booked a trip to New Zealand with a stop at Franz Josef and didn't realize it could only be accessed by helicopter. Are there any other glaciers around there that can be accessed via hike?
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by tornato7 3y ago
It would be interesting to track OpenAI outages vs activity on certain topics on Twitter/Reddit to get a vague metric of what % of the comments are AI generated.
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by tornato7 3y ago
I built a GPT-4 powered walking tour app during a hackathon. It uses the Wikipedia and Google Maps APIs to find interesting facts about things you're walking by and generates scripts to read aloud. It's fun and I learned a lot abo
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by tornato7 3y ago
I just looked it up and was stunned to see a target of $13/kg cost to orbit. That's insane. A human could go to space for under $1,000 (hand waving away the life support systems)
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by tornato7 3y ago
I started using Kubuntu and I absolutely loved it. Leagues ahead of Windows 11 in terms of user experience, customization, and speed. However, I had to switch back. I just can't get by without Adobe apps and other specific productivity
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by tornato7 3y ago
I do heavy dev work on my M1 Air with 8GB, meaning multiple IDEs, dozens of Chrome tabs, iPhone simulators, and plenty of electron apps all open at once. Never had an issue with it. MacOS is very good at paging to it's super-fast SSD.
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by tornato7 3y ago
I like the test but do you take multiple samples / runs of a result? IMO for a proper benchmark you should ask it the same question 10+ times and show a confidence interval, otherwise you don't know if it's just a fluke or a
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by tornato7 3y ago
Good find - Looks like I now have access!
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by tornato7 3y ago
According to [1], the new gpt-4-1106-preview model should be available to all, but the API is telling me "The model `gpt-4-1106-preview` does not exist or you do not have access to it." Anyone able to call it from the API? 1. htt
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by tornato7 3y ago
GPT-4 Turbo is already available by default in ChatGPT
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by tornato7 3y ago
A few notes on pricing: - GPT-4 Turbo vision is much cheaper than I expected. A 768*768 px image costs $0.00765 to input. That's practical to replace more specialized computer vision models for many use-cases. - ElevenLabs is $0.24 per
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by tornato7 3y ago
Note, ElevenLabs is $0.24 per 1K characters while OpenAI TTS is $0.03 per 1K characters. That's a pretty big difference. Elevenlabs still has voice copying but for many use-cases it's no longer competitive.
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by tornato7 3y ago
GPT-4 Turbo vision is much cheaper than I expected. A 768*768 px image costs just $0.00765 to input. That's practical to replace more specialized computer vision models for many use-cases.
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by tornato7 3y ago
I think it would be interesting to try a 14-day workweek, working 9 days on and 5 days off. The advantage being that you can do a lot more on your weekends (international travel on a weekend is now possible), and during the week you'd

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