Hacker News: NationalPark

New comment by NationalPark in "ChatGPT app for iOS"

NationalPark — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:01:52 +0000

This made me wonder, are there any public examples of codebases written entirely (or almost entirely, with human curated parts noted) by GPT-4?

New comment by NationalPark in "Federal Reserve pushes interest rates above 5% for first time since 2007"

NationalPark — Wed, 03 May 2023 19:45:20 +0000

Can you hedge against it with interest rate swaps? It seems interest rate risk is probably one of the more manageable risks of a small business that is fundamentally dependent on other people's money - how do you know it's going to succeed in the first place even if rates don't increase?

New comment by NationalPark in "Show HN: Chrome extension to hide AI/GPT related submissions from HN"

NationalPark — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:11:32 +0000

The problem is for every good article on the tech, there are dozens and dozens of submissions from crypto-grifter-turned-AI-expert or yet another "platform play" instead of something actually practical. Let's see more of the gold and fewer of the shovels, please.

New comment by NationalPark in "Prehistoric timeline in Africa pushed back by more than 10M years"

NationalPark — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:52:39 +0000

Here's a good one you can add: https://www.wired.com/2010/01/ancient-seafarers/

Somebody got on a boat and ended up in Crete 100k years ago!

(Also you forgot the ice age, heh)

New comment by NationalPark in "Cheating is All You Need"

NationalPark — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:48:28 +0000

Do share!

New comment by NationalPark in "The End of Front-End Development"

NationalPark — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:50:32 +0000

LLMs not existing isn't the reason we don't have UBI or free healthcare, or stipends to pursue passions. I think most people are understandably concerned that the benefits of these new tools will primarily accrue to the tiny elite who can afford to control the compute resources and therefor mediate access to the models.

If LLM replaces a bunch of $DAYJOB you won't have people learning violin, you'll have widespread unemployment and the civil unrest that accompanies it.

New comment by NationalPark in "IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’"

NationalPark — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:45:15 +0000

Can we predict weather that well? The 10 day forecasts my phone gives are mostly ok, not great, and often change at the last minute.

New comment by NationalPark in "I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended"

NationalPark — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:27:27 +0000

Weird, does he say what the item was anywhere? I wonder if there are some things that are technically allowed but trigger fraud flags when newly created accounts buy them with certain payment providers. Either way, terrible customer service...

New comment by NationalPark in "Florida lawyer argues pregnant inmate’s fetus is being illegally detained"

NationalPark — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:19:13 +0000

I think it's more of a sovereign citizen "hail Mary" type move to get her out of jail. Even in states that don't have a constitutional notion of "fetal personhood", a pregnant inmate is still entitled to adequate prenatal care, and that's the relief they should be seeking, not habeas corpus for the unborn child.

New comment by NationalPark in "Activision leak details Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 2023 roadmap"

NationalPark — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:19:50 +0000

Well, there's an example of their roadmap changing in the last 20 years. Warzone came out in 2019.

New comment by NationalPark in "GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach"

NationalPark — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:54:40 +0000

Godaddy is a crappy company for many reasons, but this seems like something that's trivially testable. If they were really front running domains, anyone could spend an hour typing domains in and see a bunch of them mysteriously registered by godaddy the next day. Has nobody done that? Why can't I find any blogs where this was attempted?

New comment by NationalPark in "Ask HN: Best Essay in 2022"

NationalPark — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:01:34 +0000

https://mcrumps.substack.com/p/my-own-dimes-square-fascist-h...

New comment by NationalPark in "Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?"

NationalPark — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 18:26:59 +0000

Many of the suggestions so far are assuming you have taken undergraduate linear algebra and calculus. I'd start with those two subjects, you really can't build a foundational understanding of modern AI techniques without them.

New comment by NationalPark in "Request for Startups: Climate Tech"

NationalPark — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:22:36 +0000

Those generative AI companies aren't exactly lean on energy usage either. It's about capturing the IRA money, which to their credit they are very up front about. Maybe something good will come out of it, after all, that's the point of the government spending! If they save the world purely out of self interest then we still get the saved world...

New comment by NationalPark in "Bill to ban social media for Texans under 18"

NationalPark — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:23:12 +0000

Children can't enter into contracts either, we actually do not give them many of the same rights we give adults. This is because children are considered immature and unable to act in their own self interest. There have been "childrens rights" movements in the past though, it's not an uncontested subject...

New comment by NationalPark in "Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs"

NationalPark — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:21:40 +0000

I think there's actually some risk of too much time at Elon twitter making your resume toxic. It's no secret what kind of environment he's fostering there, and many companies simply don't want to hire the type of person who thrives in that situation, regardless of how technically skilled they are.

New comment by NationalPark in "A few tech startup CEOs in my country had started saying Elon's methods are fine"

NationalPark — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:35:40 +0000

Out of curiosity, what's the largest scale distributed system you've ever been on-call for?

New comment by NationalPark in "A few tech startup CEOs in my country had started saying Elon's methods are fine"

NationalPark — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:32:46 +0000

The VCs all seem really giddy about the situation. I think it's because the labor power tech workers represents terrifies them. They know that technology can be built without venture capital just slowly and perhaps in different directions, but venture capital alone needs tech workers to realize its visions. These guys can't get rich without the consent of the "laptop class" they talk about so spitefully. Finally they get to watch a bunch of those people suffer for no reason. PG is just enjoying the cruelty here.

New comment by NationalPark in "Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse"

NationalPark — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:39:58 +0000

The difference, of course, is that Amazon's market cap has actual assets and cash flows behind it. The liquidation value of all of crypto on the other hand is approximately $0.

New comment by NationalPark in "Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans"

NationalPark — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:58:11 +0000

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/saudis-kingdom-holding...

Here, official Saudi statement that they are maintaining their $2bn stake in the company because it is in the long term interests of the Kingdom. So, maybe just business partners, not finance partners, although that's $2bn of cash that Musk won't have to pay out. Anyway, the substance of the point remains intact - there are many plausible reasons the current owners of twitter could want to continue operating it that are not in the classic corporate raiding plan.