Uehreka

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by Uehreka 3y ago
I’m pretty sure it stands for “I was being sarcastic but my sarcasm wasn’t funny enough to read as sarcasm”.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Oh it’s you! The hypothetical person who gets mad about a once-in-a-decade charger change! I’ve heard so much about you in every discussion ever about why Apple hasn’t moved the iPhone to USB-C, you’re very influential.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
The whole DST time change is predicated on the fact that almost nobody sets alarms (or does anything time-sensitive) at 130AM local time. So yeah, if you do that, that’ll happen.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I’m pretty sure this is an ad for Samsung phones, not a project made for fun. It also isn’t as deep as it first appears. This isn’t “Samsung’s Android compiled to wasm”, it’s “a web app that acts like Android until you click on the wrong th
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I feel like folks on HN (many of us developers ourselves) give this theory too much credance. Subscription pricing may be necessary to finance continuous development, but that doesn’t mean it will. Many developers (particularly larger corpo
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by Uehreka 3y ago
For controlled substances like ADHD medication they do ask for ID. I think for most people the only controlled substance medication they get with any frequency is Sudafed, so that tracks. (For the record, I’m pretty sure “controlled substan
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I’m seeing a lot of misunderstandings about how trademark works, so just to set the record straight: (As usual, IANAL, and I only know about US trademark law, but many countries have signed IP treaties with the US, so it’s probably at least
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by Uehreka 4y ago
IANAL, but I don’t know that that would actually be a hurdle. As I understand it, you can apply for a trademark on a name long after you start using it, if you can prove that the word has become associated with your product in its industry.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I’m taking issue with the characterization that we have nothing to lose, which seems to be the implication of GP and the comments agreeing with them.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
The internet is currently quite useful, it could stand to be a lot less so. Don’t let your cynicism blind you to the fact that we do have a lot to lose.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I kind of wonder if maybe they look for certain words in the output (or run it through some sort of sentiment analysis) and if it fails they submit the prompt again with a very strongly worded system prompt (after your prompt) instructing i
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by Uehreka 4y ago
You make a good point, I’ve been saying for years that hot reload is too fast. Rust compile times really give you time to meditate and reflect.
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by Uehreka 4y ago
The problem is that people (especially in stressful situations when they’re not thinking carefully) will say things like “that one on the left!” and the person they’re talking to (who is often facing them and thus reversed) won’t think to a
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by Uehreka 4y ago
They did this to DALL-E Mini, that’s why they had to change their name to craiyon. This highly visible action did not seem to sway public opinion on OpenAI much. The whole “they aren’t actually open” thing is already priced in to people’s o
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by Uehreka 4y ago
This argument came up on the post about MiniGPT-4 earlier. The thing is, it’s not us you need to convince. If OpenAI starts hitting you with takedown notices, your hosting providers aren’t going to hear your arguments and go “Ah, ya got us
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I’d reconsider the “might as well just be as time consuming” thing. I see this argument about Copilot a lot, and it’s really wrong there, so it might be wrong here too. Like, for most of the time I’m using it, Copilot saves me 30 seconds he
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by Uehreka 4y ago
I’ll put it this way: At Brewer’s Art in Baltimore, MD they just released a beer called GPT (Green Peppercorn Tripel)[1]. They’re likely allowed to do that because a reasonable consumer would probably not actually think they had collaborate
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Hard disagree. Outside of the brand name ChatGPT, lay members of the general public are way more likely to call these chatbots (like Bard and Bing) “AIs” than “GPTs”. And although GPT could technically refer to any model that uses a Generat
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by Uehreka 4y ago
The word for this is “trademark infringement”. You are specifically not allowed to capitalize on the marketing of another entity’s product to bolster yours by implying through your name that you are somehow related. This is why “DALL-E Mini
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Oh hell no, not when airlines charge huge fees for checked bags. If I’m away for less than a week I move heaven and earth to get everything into a carryon, and most people seem to do the same. You can’t blame us for responding to incentives
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by Uehreka 4y ago
That both doesn’t seem that far off, and doesn’t feel like a very rigorous definition of consciousness. Like, if you’re describing qualities you yourself would find interesting, that’s one thing. But if we’re going to be saying “hooboy, tha
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by Uehreka 4y ago
So like, if someone wrote a systemd daemon that continuously fed input to a local ChatGPT instance (passing in context from its previous interactions as well so it could act as a continuous entity) and performed actions based on its respons
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Do we have any quantitative way of benchmarking the quality of these models at all? Like, I don’t care if a model takes one minute per token on my laptop as long as it’s “GPT-4 quality”, and I don’t care if it does 100 tokens per second if
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Dawg. If $500k isn’t in the ballpark to have an assistant, then nobody outside of actual CEOs or Fortune 500 executives has an assistant. I know people who make less than $200k and have an assistant. I feel certain there are people who make
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by Uehreka 4y ago
> Design is how it works, not how it looks. After over a decade of people jumping into these discussions with this line, I’ve gotta push back: Design is also how things look, and how things look can be important. Consumers care about how
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by Uehreka 4y ago
> (or even tweets made by Taibbi!) And thus the whirlygig of time brings in his revenges…
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Depends on the context. On HN, sometimes I’m dead wrong, sometimes I’m spot on. I’d bet that there are people who downvoted me when I was wrong, upvoted me when I was right, and didn’t realize I was the same person. Heck, I’ve probably done
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Ehhh… Sure you won’t convince the person you’re talking too, but it’s often worth it because if you really destroy their argument in a way that’s visible to bystanders, you could quietly convince a lot of them (since they can change their m
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by Uehreka 4y ago
> you can’t tell your customers “it’s the browser’s fault!” Indeed you can’t! Which is the core of my argument for why we also need to be able to properly UA-sniff browser versions. If browsers aren’t holding up their end of the stabilit
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by Uehreka 4y ago
Chromium-based browsers make up a large portion of many people’s marketshare. It absolutely makes sense to use APIs that are available in them and then polyfill the feature with “the old way” if you feature-detect that it isn’t there. If br

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