Hacker News: Rickvst

New comment by Rickvst in "An experimental editor for WebGPU compute shaders"

Rickvst — Wed, 10 May 2023 14:03:05 +0000

In my case it was easy to setup, but I didn't figured out how to change from using my iGPU to the GPU. Unfortunetly on the iGPU it is pretty slow.

New comment by Rickvst in "Talk = GPT-2 and Whisper and WASM"

Rickvst — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:45:41 +0000

I implemented whisper + chatgpt + pyttsx3 and it worked. But then suddenly the chatgpt wrapper that I found on github stopped working.

edit: whisper is awesome

New comment by Rickvst in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

Rickvst — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 03:56:46 +0000

This prompt is amazing, a revolution in gaming

New comment by Rickvst in "10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size"

Rickvst — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:56:52 +0000

x.com

New comment by Rickvst in "Why a land-value tax is inevitable"

Rickvst — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:06:52 +0000

Land-value tax doesn't have huge inefficiencies like some other taxes. But the hard part is assessing "value". How should land value be decided? The book "Radical Markets" has some good insights on how to find the value of every plot of land by using markets.

New comment by Rickvst in "Show HN: SHA-256 Animation"

Rickvst — Wed, 13 May 2020 17:01:00 +0000

I remember that in my first year of CS, the professor asked us to implement this algorithm. We had just learned our first computer language(C by the way). Result: nobody was able to do it, and everybody got a 10 after the professor realized it.

New comment by Rickvst in "Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?"

Rickvst — Sun, 10 May 2020 20:02:37 +0000

The thing is, in the formula, you have to use the rate "r" to discount the future profits. If the "r" decreases, the monetary value of stocks in the present increase, even though the cashflow has not changed. So, even if coronavirus decreases short-term profits, the effect it has on the global economy can lower interest rates, causing the present value of stocks to increase.

New comment by Rickvst in "When will Google shut down Stadia?"

Rickvst — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:29:46 +0000

I think that this project has the economics to work, so, even if Google abandons it, somebody should eventually build it. Why I think streaming games is a powerful thing: Piracy. It will be more difficult to get a ilegal copy of a game that was never released to the public, only run on servers. But yes, kind of sucks to who wants to test games or live in third world countries.

New comment by Rickvst in "Toshiba and WD NAND Production Hit by Power Outage: 6 Exabytes Lost"

Rickvst — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 20:16:06 +0000

The stock of these companies really took a hit. Sarcasm.