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by scosman 2y ago
I'm a big bike lane design nerd: that bike lane design absolutely sucks, and in more ways than the author mentions. The person designing it didn't care.
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by scosman 2y ago
My kid used a push bike. When it came time to start pedalling, it took 5 minutes with zero falls. He already knew how to balance and turn (most of the biking skills), it was just a new way to move the bike forward. Not sure if it helped, bu
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by scosman 2y ago
Glad to see the Uni-ball Vision Elite back on jetpens best list. Nice tactile feel, while still being smooth.
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by scosman 2y ago
Sure. But it also sounds very similar to every successful database-backed company where each tenant has < 1m rows (almost all of them).
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by scosman 2y ago
Great essay. This is 100% right about the technical side, but I think it misses the “product” aspect. Building a quality product (AI or otherwise), involves design and data at all levels: UX, on-boarding, marketing, etc. The companies learn
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by scosman 2y ago
Or they are just saying this now, as strategy to try to trigger intervention.
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by scosman 2y ago
I’ve been impressed with even applying sonnet to SVGs for animations. This looks like it could be a lot more powerful. Fun example: https://gist.github.com/scosman/701275e737331aaab6a2acf74a52...
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by scosman 2y ago
I concede. You are 100% correct. The iPhone was definitely based on a feature phone with T9 typing. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional. Me quoting earlier posts is totally moving the goalposts, and for that I apologize.
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by scosman 2y ago
The HP IPAQ was mostly PocketPCs (PDAs) without modems - those models aren't even smartphones. There are definitely models without vertical screens despite your claim. The HP IPAQs that had modems all had keys on the front (keyboard, d
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by scosman 2y ago
None of the phones listed looks remotely like a modern smartphone. The iPhone does. I worked on WinMo at MSFT at that time. You are comparing devices with physical keyboard and a crappy virtual keyboard that required a stylus to modern smar
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by scosman 2y ago
Nit: the Danger mechanism was waaaaay cooler than the G1's. It did this amazing spin I've always missed. The G1 was a little 2-hinge flip-up that was satisfying, but didn't do the amazing 180 that the sidekick did.
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by scosman 2y ago
I get not loving the "Apple invented everything" mantra some people have, but the iPhone genuinely redefined the smart phone category. The industry has 100% coalesced on the model invented by Apple. Nothing like this existed as a
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by scosman 2y ago
Super fun. You should build a mode that tells me how long I need to work in SF to retire in other cities :)
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by scosman 2y ago
I have to disagree. Naive algorithms are absolutely fine if they aren’t performance issues. The comment you are replying to is making the point that “better” is context dependent. Simple is often better. > There is no doubt that the grai
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by scosman 2y ago
By iterating it 5 times the author is using ~5x the compute. It’s kinda a strange chain of thought. Also: premature optimization is evil. I like the first iteration most. It’s not “beginner code”, it’s simple. Tell sonnet to optimize it IF
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by scosman 2y ago
Fine tuning to a specific codebase is a bit strange. It's going to learn some style/tool guidance which is good (but there are other ways of getting), at the risk of unlearning some generalization it learned from looking at 1,000,
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by scosman 2y ago
+100 for "rocket surgery". I mostly agree. I'm just annoyed "this new privacy tech is too hard to explain" leads to "you shouldn't do it". This new privacy tech is a huge net positive for users. Also:
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by scosman 2y ago
Your photos aren't sent anywhere in this system.
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by scosman 2y ago
Even here with HN crowd: it's not an index, it's not stored on a server, and it's not typical send-securely encryption (not PK or symmetric "encrypted in transit", but homomorphic "encrypted processing").
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by scosman 2y ago
I don't believe I said or implied that anywhere: 'You're presenting a false dichotomy between "perfect user understanding" and "no user choice."'? Happy to be corrected if wrong. Closest I come to pre
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by scosman 2y ago
I think I'm saying: you're not sending "your data" off device. You are sending a homomorphically encrypted locally differentially private vector (through an anonymous proxy). No consumer can really understand what that m
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by scosman 2y ago
"I don't understand most of the technical details of Apple's blog post" I do: - Client side vectorization: the photo is processed locally, preparing a non-reversible vector representation before sending (think semantic h
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by scosman 2y ago
And the locks can be remotely patched to remove the weakness... seems fair. Not the builder, but calling the lock maker for sure.
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by scosman 2y ago
Quick example: create a config class, allowing the caller get and set a variety of config vars. It should be easy to add new vars. Persist any set value to a yaml file. Each var should be described by a name, type, env var fallback value (o
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by scosman 2y ago
yeah, Sonnet goes past that. 300+ line changes in 20 seconds. You have to review it, but generally it's right. It's infinitely faster than the time to look at docs and do it myself. Sure it's busywork. But it's a lot of
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by scosman 2y ago
Acceptable UX maybe, but the gap between Sonnet 3.5 and open models isn’t worth it. I know people are going to pitch qwen coder 72b, but it’s still a long way off on benchmarks and my time matters more.
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by scosman 2y ago
Just don’t connect it to wifi, connect an Apple TV or similar to hdmi 1, and move on. I’d love a dumb TV, but if you don’t let them online and don’t use built in software it is close enough.
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by scosman 2y ago
Azure looks good, but won’t approve you unless your company is 3 years old. They include this little important detail way to late in their docs (after you pay)
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by scosman 2y ago
Datasets tend to be really rough proxies of product goals. Initial spec is "feature smiling faces", so a "smiling/no-smiling" dataset is built. But over the next year you really realize people can be "smiling b
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Show HN: Kiln - Interactive LLM fine-tuning, dataset collab & synthetic data gen(github.com)
3 points by scosman 2y ago|2 comments

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