Hacker News: StochasticLi

New comment by StochasticLi in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

StochasticLi — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:50:30 +0000

it's mostly about AI training at this point. the software for this only supports CUDA well.

New comment by StochasticLi in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

StochasticLi — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:32:19 +0000

don't illegal immigrants commit less crimes per capita?

New comment by StochasticLi in "Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers"

StochasticLi — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:09:59 +0000

ehem https://github.com/Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright

New comment by StochasticLi in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

StochasticLi — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:15:58 +0000

Exactly. Also, it's incredibly affordable, especially when you buy it on Black Friday.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

StochasticLi — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:12:54 +0000

I can see room for improvement about the UI, but I like that it works everywhere and I use it to, obviously fix grammar and mistakes, to add/change our company's specific vernacular (finance), and to change common LLM sentence forms so that the readers don't notice that content was made by AI. Ya know, all these em dashes, "testaments to", "this isn't just X, it's Y", etc.

My favorite function of the UI is that, on any website, pressing TAB just fixes/improves what I just wrote before.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

StochasticLi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:41:21 +0000

I'm sure they haven't created their own model. Probably fine-tuned it + constantly updating a database of the most occurring phrases from all LLMs.

New comment by StochasticLi in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

StochasticLi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:08:12 +0000

That's where the research is going.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

StochasticLi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:49:48 +0000

Grammarly has a function that replaces phrases that are typical for LLM output. Good luck coding that in a few hours.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

StochasticLi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:48:40 +0000

I'm paying for most AI models top tiers and Grammarly. Grammarly is a phenomenal tool. It's not that LLMs can't do it. Well, they can't, but the more important thing is Grammarly's UI.

New comment by StochasticLi in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

StochasticLi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:02:32 +0000

I think we can reasonably expect they will become non-stateless in the next few years.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Apple announces App Store changes in the EU"

StochasticLi — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:14:26 +0000

I don't think it matters. Here is why I would pay 10x more for using Apple devices than other devices:

1. The ecosystem is just much better, ie. the quality of apps is in another league compared to apps on Android or Windows.

2. Many amazing apps that are at the core of my company's workflow simply don't exist on other platforms at all. With no comparable equivalents.

3. We get many apps earlier. Even up to a year earlier. Example: Clubhouse. Running a company, my marketing team can't afford to be late to a new social media platform, risking that it becomes the new status quo. I can name a dozen apps that were 6 to 12 months late to Android vs. IOS :(

If these change I would happily move to Linux, or Windows (once they make the OS usable).

We use Linux servers for running Python/Node Scripts, and APIs.

We use 1 Windows machine to use a very specific data science app that only exists for Windows.

Before anyone says I'm a fanboy. I'm here to generate revenue for my company. I don't give 2 sh*ts about AAPL.

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But this is just me.

Why it won't matter to the public: The kids don't care. The want an iPhone.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU"

StochasticLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:27:38 +0000

The CUDA ecosystem is their moat.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe"

StochasticLi — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:16:08 +0000

Jacob & Co. Watches recently

New comment by StochasticLi in "Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale"

StochasticLi — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:06:02 +0000

I would like to know what inference speeds they are achieving exactly on what hardware. I skimmed and searched the article and didn't find that info.

New comment by StochasticLi in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

StochasticLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:49:59 +0000

What do you think is a proper solution? 30% being pro genocide is insane.

New comment by StochasticLi in "The first non-opoid painkiller"

StochasticLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:28:13 +0000

Please name them.

New comment by StochasticLi in "I deleted my second brain"

StochasticLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:26:59 +0000

I'm running a company so it's more than a project.

New comment by StochasticLi in "Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared"

StochasticLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:25:15 +0000

No. I worked at Meta, and these are mostly mid-skilled engineers who want to make money while working a few hours a week and pretending to work the rest. They would never attract top talent because top engineers can earn 10 times their salary on their own without leaving the terminal nowadays. Even if they offered $10M/year, I feel these kinds of people can't be bought.

It's just a job. You will get fired if you question people above you.

New comment by StochasticLi in "I deleted my second brain"

StochasticLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:45:22 +0000

For a similar reason I kill all my unpinned tabs automatically every 24 hours. If I didn't do/read it, it means there are more important issues.

New comment by StochasticLi in "The first non-opoid painkiller"

StochasticLi — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:42:19 +0000

You don't get withdrawals from cheese, and the cure for these withdrawals isn't Suboxone