Uehreka

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by Uehreka 10mo ago
I did a video a couple years ago about a thing I did in Factorio[0] and got a couple comments who didn’t ask if I had used an AI voice, they just straight up told me that the AI voice I used was off putting. I didn’t use an AI voice, in fac
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
(GP here) There’s a big difference between techniques that could be feasible for an app (presumably used by people who want to study one hour or less per day) and techniques you can use with people who are dedicating their entire profession
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
> newspapers were a natural monopoly What on earth are you talking about? Most major cities have had multiple papers in cutthroat competition with each other for decades. If the New York Times got a story wrong, the Wall Street Journal w
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
Not doing subscriptions for an app that has ongoing server costs is going to bite you, you may want to reconsider that. Your biggest issue is going to be that language learning for adults is largely an unsolved problem. I know people with 1
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
These two waves of automation are fundamentally different and shouldn’t be compared. We got lucky that when farming was being mechanized, it happened slowly and while manufacturing was still growing and could soak up the labor. When manufac
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
Whenever I see this much vehement agreement about something on HN, it sets off serious groupthink alarm bells. Idk what the answer is, but it is not 100% this. It’s too simple and satisfying of an answer to be true.
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
> Several of the buildings hit by the Thai military over the past week had previously been identified by the U.S. government and human-rights groups for allegedly holding scores of trafficked workers forced to scam Americans and other fo
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
Mentioning people like Banksy at all is missing the point though. It makes it sound like art is about going to museums and seeing pieces (or going to non-museums where people like Banksy made a thing). I feel like, particularly in tech circ
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
> I fear LLMs have frozen programming language advancement and adoption for anything past 2021. Why would that be the case? Many models have knowledge cutoffs in this calendar year. Furthermore I’ve found that LLMs are generally pretty g
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
If it’s true that both people and investment dollars are flowing into NYC, but investment dollars are flowing even faster than the people, that’s absolutely hilarious.
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
That wouldn’t make sense either. They said it was the afternoon, and that they now had the whole day free, the sentence wouldn’t make sense if you swapped “went to sleep” for “are still asleep”. There must be some weird timezone thing that
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
Oh that’s what this is? Finally! I’ve been waiting for someone to do this for years (assuming this is an open source thing like the Github implies, the site has been hugged to death). I live in Baltimore, I don’t know anyone in Oakland and
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
I think we (the Next.js user community) need to organize and either convince Vercel to announce official support of the Pages router forever (or at least indefinitely, and stop posturing it as a deprecated-ish thing), or else fork Next.js a
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
> (disclaimer: I am Dutch). Well then I suppose it’s only appropriate to say: Goede fhtagn
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by Uehreka 10mo ago
It’s not a super useful line of inquiry to ask “why” LLMs are good at something. You might be able to come up with a good guess, but often the answers just aren’t knowable. Understanding the mechanics of how LLMs train and how they perform
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
Because this topic makes people mad and makes politicians who oppose it look bad, which hurts electability. Not to mention it seems like non-elite politicians wouldn’t be affected, so for them this is an easy publicity boost.
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
> Evidently it’s not. Cards on the table: I just don’t think people operate with single incentives like that, and even if they did, it’s a cost I’d pay easily.
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
> Restricting public servants to only government bond investments would be a great way to discourage anyone with financial sense from running for congress. Running for congress is already kind of a financially silly thing to do, that shi
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
“You understand how the brain works right? It’s neurons and electrical charges. The brain understands nothing.” I’m always struck by how confidently people assert stuff like this, as if the fact that we can easily comprehend the low-level s
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
OK sure, if you want to be technically correct, “the algorithm shows you what you engage with” in some sense, but not any useful sense. There’s no proportionality. As I said above, if you engage heavily with content you like that is outside
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
> You get more of what you engage with. If you don’t want to hear a lot of Brexit talk, don’t engage with Brexit content. The algorithm doesn’t show you “more of the things you engage with”, and acting like it does makes people think wha
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
> Hermes can sell a $15,000 Birkin to everyone Wait hold on, what? Like, I get that you were referring to the fact that they keep things scarce even for rich people, but you literally said “everyone”, so I just gotta check: Are you sayin
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
I’m not the GP, but the reason I capitalize words instead of italicizing them is because the italics don’t look italic enough to convey emphasis. I get the feeling that that may be because HN wants to downplay emphasis in general, which if
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
> It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done. In my experience there are two types of low-priority bugs (high-priority bugs just have to be fixed immediately no matter how easy
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
Does it actually? One sentence telling the agent to call me “Chris the human serviette” plus the times it calls me that is not going to add that much to the context. What kills the context IME is verbose logs with timestamps.
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
Yeah, like, let’s say that in your compositing workflow you increase exposure then decrease brightness. If your working color space is too small, your highlights will clip when you increase exposure, then all land flat at the same level whe
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
I design projections for independent theatre in Baltimore. I use AI in my workflows where it can help me and won’t compromise on the quality of what I’m making. I frequently use AI to upscale crappy footage, to interpolate frames in existin
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
Does the Optix denoiser count as AI?
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
> Now I want to look into it more, but I'd imagine that "Blackbody" and sky generation nodes might still assume a linear sRGB working space. Since people are always asking for “real world examples”, I have to point out thi
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by Uehreka 11mo ago
But after that, all the other things on the page are AWESOME! I’m super stoked about the proper HDR support and all the new node improvements.

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