Hacker News: Siira

New comment by Siira in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

Siira — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:43:29 +0000

If it could output PNG, it could be adapted as a code block with its own language in org-mode.

New comment by Siira in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

Siira — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:41:52 +0000

Is there something similar for org-mode?

New comment by Siira in "Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs"

Siira — Tue, 02 May 2023 22:43:25 +0000

You can’t. The later values depend on the earlier ones, so changing the early tokens invalidates your whole cache.

This is also probably why leading with a question works better in the first place. All later processing conditions on the question in this way.

BTW, in my very limited testing, GPT4 doesn’t care about the order.

New comment by Siira in "Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company"

Siira — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:09:58 +0000

As a PoC who has benefited from IRC, I don’t see how they would even know you’re not white unless you tell them yourself. Can you elaborate on your experience?

New comment by Siira in "Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions"

Siira — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:54:16 +0000

Is any AI generated image even illegal, assuming originality and difference from training set?

New comment by Siira in "“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”"

Siira — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:30:08 +0000

ChatGPT is pretty good at coding. I have been using its LaTeX capabilities, where bugs don’t matter.

New comment by Siira in "Ask HN: Are there any good open source text-to-speech tools?"

Siira — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:46:07 +0000

ChatGPT passes the kid Turing test!

New comment by Siira in "Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Toon Is Set to Be Public Property"

Siira — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:38:51 +0000

If you don’t want other humans to remix information you have broadcasted, then don’t broadcast in the first place. It’s not like you haven’t been using other people’s ideas in your “original” work.

New comment by Siira in "Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift"

Siira — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:49:12 +0000

The Japanese wore masks before Covid all the time.

New comment by Siira in "Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)"

Siira — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:48:56 +0000

org-mode has some spaced repetitions tools (e.g., org-drill). I personally don't recommend SR by flashcards too much. It's better to do it more naturally. For example, read books regularly to learn a language; common words will repeat themselves enough times that they'll effectively be a form of SR.

New comment by Siira in "January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all"

Siira — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:31:01 +0000

GPL found a way to utilize an evil law to do some good. What we need is to first scrap the evil law, then pass a FOSS protection act. (Besides, a 10 year copyrighted is so long that GPL would still be mostly enforced.)

New comment by Siira in "Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws"

Siira — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:09:03 +0000

That’s a you problem. I have never needed such protection. Perhaps don’t do drugs so that you don’t need to demand chaining everyone.

New comment by Siira in "Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws"

Siira — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:58:17 +0000

It should be Free. People are okay with literally stealing money from corporations in the name of “tax,” yet they balk at making SDKs Free? Platforms should capture some of the economic returns to have good incentives to improve, but the majority should go to users and third-party developers. It should also be possible to release GPL software on any platform. That’s the minimum bar for not screwing over users.

New comment by Siira in "Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws"

Siira — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:52:08 +0000

Not at all. The monolithic App Store has been terrible for users. They even impose censorship on social media apps. Having alternative stores by Meta et al is excellent. More choice, more competition, less rentseeking, more innovation.

New comment by Siira in "Shutting down our unencrypted public DNS service"

Siira — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:11:16 +0000

These encrypted DNS services are usually blocked here in Iran. The unencrypted ones are compromised, too. I use self-hosted dnscrypt.

New comment by Siira in "Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850"

Siira — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:58:31 +0000

As a third world resident, I don’t see any solutions to this problem. You can’t give discounts, as that will enable arbitrage.

New comment by Siira in "AI unmasks anonymous chess players, posing privacy risks"

Siira — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:15:08 +0000

There is OPT and BLOOM, which need lots of expensive GPUs to run. Not as good as GPT3, IMO. I doubt there will be any good local alternatives in a year. StableDiffusion needed light compute, not at all comparable to these beasts.

New comment by Siira in "People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”"

Siira — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:33:31 +0000

This is an unfalsifiable claim.

New comment by Siira in "Emacs: Feature/tree-sitter merged into master"

Siira — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:41:10 +0000

Running emacs in tmux over SSH can be faster than TRAMP. TRAMP gets very biggy when you have a lot of third-party elisp extensions.

New comment by Siira in "Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself"

Siira — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:33:45 +0000

I had this thought, too. Most people probably haven’t read the article at all. They are repeating what others have said the article contained.