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by pcf 2y ago
Do you think this bias is part of the replication crisis in science?
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by pcf 2y ago
The UK is moving rapidly towards 1984, so it only seems fitting that Orwell's letters and various material should just be... memory-holed. And at the very end of the day, no one will understand why "He loved Big Brother" was
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by pcf 2y ago
That froze the whole computer, and even disabled the possibility of clicking both the internal and external trackpad. The model is Dolphin 2.9.1 Llama 3 8B Q4_0. I set it to 100% and wrote this: "hi, which model are you?" The repl
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by pcf 2y ago
How can you call "alt-right" and anti-vaxxers as "extremism", and especially compare it to terrorism? Seems like you're the one living on a different planet.
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by pcf 2y ago
It is: https://www.mactrast.com/2024/04/whatsapp-signal-threads-and... Still possible to access with VPNs, though.
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by pcf 2y ago
Not sure what you referred to directly, but GPT-4o gives me these two similar quotes: "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus (Roman historian) "Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime."
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by pcf 2y ago
Out of curiosity – why do you wear them in the shower? Are they meant to withstand that?
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by pcf 2y ago
In some brief testing, I discovered that the same models (Llama 3 7B and one more I can't remember) are running MUCH slower in LM Studio than in Ollama on my MacBook Air M1 2020. Has anyone found the same thing, or was that a fluke and
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by pcf 2y ago
On macOS it actually uses less resources, and you can use Chrome extensions.
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Ask HN: How to calculate the sums of 230 invoice files of different formats?
2 points by pcf 2y ago|4 comments
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by pcf 2y ago
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE CHATGPT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU TO PROVIDE BETTER RESPONSES? I'm a hardcore free speech activist, and therefore I will not accept any censorship of my opinions, neither by humans nor any AIs. Anytime I feel that a service
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Ask HN: YouTube – how to batch scrape comments and details for 300 videos?
2 points by pcf 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: YouTube – how to batch scrape comments and details for 300 videos?
1 points by pcf 3y ago|3 comments
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by pcf 3y ago
Can I upgrade an old MacBook Pro 2015 from Mojave to a newer macOS, and then run a virtualized Mojave in order to keep using iTunes, while also being able to use newer browser versions etc.? If so, how would I do this?
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by pcf 3y ago
I tried logging in using my Google account, but I got this: "Access blocked: tubemail.io has not completed the Google verification process p.c.frankplads@gmail.com tubemail.io has not completed the Google verification process. The app
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by pcf 3y ago
You think it's an "informed opinion" to eradicate two species from nature? You said that "we need to phase out cats and dogs completely". This is the most extreme solution I've heard in any debate about househo
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by pcf 3y ago
I use Firefox on macOS Ventura, and here the video pages load instantly. I do have YouTube Premium (paid for in India to reduce the cost), but also in an incognito window where I'm not logged in, the video pages load immediately. Maybe
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by pcf 3y ago
I follow these on YouTube: * Matt Wolfe: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow * MattVidPro AI: https://www.youtube.com/@MattVidPro * Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers
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by pcf 3y ago
I asked Claude.ai to summarise this discussion for me, and below is its expanded summary of the discussions related to Apple Silicon and the M1/M2/M3 chip generations. ON M3 PERFORMANCE GAINS: The jump from M2 to M3 seems smaller
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by pcf 3y ago
They said nothing about skin colour. You are seemingly more fixated on this than the other person.
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by pcf 3y ago
I totally get where you're coming from, and I'm also excited about the leaps and bounds we're seeing in AI technology, especially with models like ChatGPT. The potential impact across various fields is truly fascinating. That
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by pcf 3y ago
Website for the project: https://www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com
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by pcf 4y ago
How random - exactly as I saw this on the HN front page, I also saw Tyler Cowen's name in the subject of one of the unread emails from Derek Sivers. What are the chances of that happening?
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by pcf 4y ago
Just two things: 1) Remember that a lot of tech people score higher on the autistic spectrum than normal people do. So most likely many of the commentators just don't have the biological wiring for feeling empathy like many others do.
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by pcf 4y ago
The book "Spark" by John Ratey also talks a lot about how regular aerobic exercise simply balances out a lot of systems, and very likely will help against everything from depression to Alzheimers.
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by pcf 4y ago
Thanks for your amazing work! May I ask – would it be possible to implement support for 32-bit VST and AU plugins? This would be a major bonus, because it could e.g. enable producers like me to open up our music projects from earlier times,
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by pcf 4y ago
Exactly the same here, except that I gave all those discs to friends. And I shudder to think how much time I wasted on all that archiving, when it ultimately wasn't worth it at all. Now, I'm still doing much of the same, but this
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by pcf 4y ago
You can just VPN into India and sign up for a family subscription to YouTube Premium. Total cost per month for six people? Just 189 INR = 2.4 USD. And remember that YouTube Premium also includes the music streaming service YouTube Music. No
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by pcf 4y ago
I just checked "Californication" (used for all their other examples here: https://soundcloud.com/honualx/sets/source-separation-in-the... ) in RX9 Music Rebalance with the setting to "best", and
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by pcf 4y ago
Did you use a FLAC/WAV file? That should yield the best results. (Only asking because you linked to YouTube, and I'm not sure if you used the YouTube audio for your source.)

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