Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
rafram
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
27 ms
·
661.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
It does have a certain Sam & Jony feel to it: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
662.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> It’s one big club, and we’re not in it. I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply here, but like it or not, most Americans do support Israel.
663.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
That just doesn't make sense to me. If I'm going for a regular checkup or a non-surgical appointment, there's absolutely no reason that I need my doctor's office to be within a hospital complex. Sure, I could have an eme
664.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> eg the past decade has seen us remove “that” as a qualifier, and the word literally has become interchangeable with figuratively The latter didn’t happen just in the last decade, and the former hasn’t happened at all. But no, I can pre
665.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Ofcom’s “Does the Online Safety Act apply to your service?” questionnaire [1] doesn’t use those thresholds, and it makes it sound like the law would apply to any site with paying customers in the UK. [1]: https://ofcomlive.my.sal
666.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> i know that is terrible timing and im genuinely sorry about that. This Twitter-style faux-casual way of writing is so common among AI people right now (see Sam Altman) and it’s extremely grating. I don’t know anything about this projec
667.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Claude Code eating up hundreds of dollars of API credits a day doesn't make $200/month "cheap," it just means that Anthropic has figured out an effective way to talk you into getting ripped off.
668.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Not very hard to look people up on LinkedIn and figure out who the core researchers are. I think this is just a very surface-level overview paper that encompasses a bunch of different research projects conducted by different teams, and it w
669.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
The "personal" part appears to be editorialization that isn't supported by what Delta announced. See Fetcherr's site: https://www.fetcherr.io/ It's just a normal dynamic pricing engine with an "
670.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> You must never feed user input into a combined instruction and data stream. Well, I have some bad news about how LLMs work...
671.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
A pillar of free-market models , sure. But economics is built on a stack of spherical-cow assumptions that don’t really hold up in the real world. Of course an employee theoretically has total freedom to leave an abusive employer and go so
672.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
The uploads do not appear to be filtered by a human. The AI was pretty easy to persuade.
673.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Sure, but what does Python return if you type in "$100 in EUR" or "10 pounds in kg"?
674.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Describing American English as “simplified” English is textbook bad linguistics. It’s a different dialect, not an inherently simpler or more complex one.
675.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
“Just for identification” is the point — the name Raycast identifies their product, and it’s their trademark. You can’t use it without permission, even with a disclaimer in the readme.
676.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> One of the challenges with robotics is that you know you can’t just build on your laptop. You need to have some sort of robotics partner to help in your building, and most people won’t be able to buy $70,000 robots Sure, but presumably
677.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
People don't really use SMS in Europe, do they? WhatsApp spam is very pervasive, though.
678.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> NYC subway uses a system of fix automatic blocks, not a moving block system Lines with CBTC use moving blocks. That’s the L, 7, and parts of the E, F, M, and R.
679.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
If you’re lost in the wilderness, hunger and thirst are the real concerns.
680.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> Like when the BBC said all converts to Islam are "reverts" They didn't. They used their interviewees' own preferred terminology to refer to them in the story, which is fine. "Reverts" is the most common te
681.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
That's 0.80€ per count and it's automatic. Still seems too expensive.
682.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Re Dot Counter, cool work, but charging me $3 to download an image with dots on it is just silly.
683.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
> For example, to create an LLM such as ChatGPT, you'd start with an enormous quantity of text, then do a lot of computationally-intense statistical analysis to map out which words and phrases are most likely to appear near to one a
684.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
That's not how I remember it. There was a lot of if (md5($_POST['password'])) == password_col) // success! floating around in the PHP example code universe.
685.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Yeah and it was terrible. Your password would be stored as an unsalted MD5 hash if you were lucky . Enterprise customers did the math on what a security breach lawsuit could cost and started demanding verifiably decent security, which mean
686.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
687.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
It's on the bank to prevent those other-side-of-the-world account holders from sending large sums of money to untrusted destinations in the first place.
688.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
The Trump administration is doing the opposite of that — they've been aggressively closing regional branch offices and consolidating agencies in the DC area: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/20
689.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
Yeah, but the scammer could also just walk into the bank and pass the teller a note telling them to hand over all the money in the drawer. They'd do it! But it would be theft and the scammer would be arrested, just like if they did wha
690.
▲
by
rafram
1y ago
pvg isn't a HN mod, for what it's worth. I'm sorry that my project caused you this much distress. If you live in NYC and hate the idling complaint law, lobby your representatives to kill it. I didn't make the law or even
More ›