Hacker News: 14u2c

New comment by 14u2c in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

14u2c — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:27:28 +0000

> DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same?

DeepSeek did something legitimately innovative with their addition of Group Relative Policy Optimization. Other firms are certainly free to innovate as well.

New comment by 14u2c in "UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan"

14u2c — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:05:43 +0000

Doesn't seems so surprising to me. Most school shootings are perpetrated by those involved in the school community in some way. Similar domestic violence, humans are a lot more likely to commit these types of crimes against those they know personally.

New comment by 14u2c in "Satellites Spotting Ships"

14u2c — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:12:37 +0000

In Southeast Asia? The US military probably didn't even hear about it until after it was missing for a bit.

New comment by 14u2c in "First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini"

14u2c — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:23:40 +0000

Buy a $50 inverter. They are tiny and it's not like this thing is using enough power for the efficiency hit to make a difference.

New comment by 14u2c in "Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered"

14u2c — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:50:04 +0000

Except that this was a fixed price contract. If they don't get it right the pork train does come to an end.

New comment by 14u2c in "SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency"

14u2c — Sun, 05 May 2024 04:18:34 +0000

Most of the big "investments" in OpenAI are in the form of compute credits. I fail to see the downside of that.

New comment by 14u2c in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

14u2c — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:57:27 +0000

Nope, it's just a regular ATM operated by a 3rd party company. You get cash from it then give them the cash. The store will also often reimburse for the ATM fee.

New comment by 14u2c in "Google lays off its Python team"

14u2c — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:20:31 +0000

Because they still pay $500k cash.

New comment by 14u2c in "Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises"

14u2c — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:20:58 +0000

> (1) there are only about 3 big browser vendors in the world, and even Firefox and Safari are lagging in features and bug fixes

Are you forgetting WeChat? Because that's all they likely care about.

New comment by 14u2c in "Namecheap Disrupting Itself with Spaceship"

14u2c — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:40:12 +0000

Why not use something like Cloudflare for DNS? You'll never have to deal with the registrar again after setting name servers.

New comment by 14u2c in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

14u2c — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:28:18 +0000

> How does the FAA get experience manufacturing planes without manufacturing planes?

By hiring people who have worked in plane manufacturing.

New comment by 14u2c in "Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]"

14u2c — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:57:13 +0000

This is absolutely correct. It goes beyond just the US too. In my estimation non-proliferation a core objective of the UN security council.

New comment by 14u2c in "Vice website is shutting down"

14u2c — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:31:06 +0000

Absolutely. It's all over the videos themselves too.

New comment by 14u2c in "Over 50% of the population of Germany does not own their home"

14u2c — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:28:31 +0000

Many US cities have similar laws...

New comment by 14u2c in "Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)"

14u2c — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:02:11 +0000

I mean test driven development is a the practice used by many organizations and individuals.

New comment by 14u2c in "As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production"

14u2c — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:02:25 +0000

They been sending arn for 50 years now.

New comment by 14u2c in "Apple Vision Pro review"

14u2c — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:50:46 +0000

Absolutely. This is how RDP works as well. It's one the few areas where I think the Windows ecosystem has a better approach.

New comment by 14u2c in "Intel's Humbling"

14u2c — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:48:12 +0000

What you quoted refers to Intel's efforts to act as a fab for external customers.

New comment by 14u2c in "Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station"

14u2c — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:45:42 +0000

This is not about about some microbe conservation effort. The whole idea is to preserve the conditions in which life can be discovered, and if it is, studied. Think about how much harder it would be to detect Mars life if organic molecules from Earth are present in quantity, let alone the interaction that could occur.

New comment by 14u2c in "US begins review that could eventually lead to PVC ban"

14u2c — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 22:34:11 +0000

ABS pipe?