Hacker News: TrevorJ

New comment by TrevorJ in "Strava was used to locate the most powerful people"

TrevorJ — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:53:11 +0000

Not sure if the format for this article is standard these days, but oh man do I hate it.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

TrevorJ — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:51:29 +0000

Coatings that don't cut down on reflections is the biggest issue I've had the various times I have used this route.

New comment by TrevorJ in "The Threat to OpenAI"

TrevorJ — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:49:39 +0000

there are third party vector databases though

New comment by TrevorJ in "Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]"

TrevorJ — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:42:45 +0000

100% agree. This guy is next level.

New comment by TrevorJ in "the US government has to start paying for things again"

TrevorJ — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:03:51 +0000

"The last few moments have disproven this idea that ships need to stop hitting icebergs. Now, dear guests on this great ship Titanic, let us go back to enjoying our dinners!"

Timeframe matters a lot when you run an experiment.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Dell lays off 12,500 people"

TrevorJ — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:27:56 +0000

"a recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours"

New comment by TrevorJ in "How I Computer in 2024"

TrevorJ — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:55:58 +0000

There are some laptop desk arms that you could use to extend them out to either side. If you search on amazon you can find a bunch. I use the one that is only articulated in one direction (not the fancy ones). Works great.

New comment by TrevorJ in "A Hot Dog Isn't a Sandwich"

TrevorJ — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:09:48 +0000

This assumes that categorizing a hot dog as a sandwich is logical though.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Meta 3D Gen"

TrevorJ — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:09:54 +0000

Hard disagree, as someone in the industry.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials"

TrevorJ — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:25:33 +0000

Mental health conditions are typically defined by a collection of symptoms though, aren't they? I am not suggesting there is no underlying cause, but our ability to detect and quantify that cause is lacking, so defining disorders based on a collection of symptoms is what we are mostly left with in many cases.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem"

TrevorJ — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:38:36 +0000

Sure it does, if those tokens appear in the training data.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?"

TrevorJ — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 21:03:38 +0000

Businesses will charge what the market will bear. And if 'the market' can get government loans to pay for tuition, then the market will bear an awful lot.

New comment by TrevorJ in "So you wanna de-bog yourself"

TrevorJ — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:45:03 +0000

I agree that most people are not biased towards action, and fixing that is the first step. However, the article is clearly aimed at people who have made that change and now are faced with the more subtle question of "how do I think about the problem such that the action I choose is likely to be appropriate."

New comment by TrevorJ in "Google Is Killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites"

TrevorJ — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:36:13 +0000

The issue here is that running a website at all is hitching yourself to the google bus.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)"

TrevorJ — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:43:49 +0000

  Location:Colorado
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, game engines (Unreal, Unity et.al.) DCC's (Max, Maya, Blender, Adobe etc), AI assisted Artistry, Git, Linux
  Résumé/CV: Available on request
  Email: TJ345675643@protonmail.com

Highly technical 3D artist who enjoys interfacing with engineering teams to work on solving hard problems. I believe realtime 3D will be a transformative part of our future, and want to be part of a team that is making this happen. I am highly collaborative, a self starter and a lifelong learner.

I have 20 years of experience in my field, and have enjoyed working on a huge variety of projects from DoD to Fortune 500 to small mom and pop shops.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Google to delete records from Incognito tracking"

TrevorJ — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:03:16 +0000

To build on this, personal cybersecurity is complex in general, and only seems 'simple' if you've been blessed to grow up around computers, the internet AND have more than a simply utilitarian interest in technology.

Increasingly, the world assumes that all three of the above are true for everyone, and anyone else gets marginalized.

New comment by TrevorJ in "LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs"

TrevorJ — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:12:34 +0000

It's a very underrated side effect of this whole LLM thing: We've created a super compact representation of human knowledge in a form that requires a FAR less complex tech stack to get the information 'out' of in the future.

A year ago, a lot of this information only existed on the internet, and would have been nearly impossible to recover in any cohesive unfragmented form if the lights were to ever go out on our civilization.

Now the problem space has moved simply to "find a single solitary PC that will still boot up", and boom, you have access to everything.

I think we just created our Rosetta stone.

New comment by TrevorJ in "What's Wrong with This Rental Listing? The Furniture Is AI Generated"

TrevorJ — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:49:03 +0000

This seems fraudulent, given the fact that the AI is creating scenarios that would not actually work in the real property. Books on a windowsill that is way too narrow for books, furniture drawn too small, making the room look huge. Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

New comment by TrevorJ in "I don't want anything your AI generates"

TrevorJ — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:04:55 +0000

>It's not a replacement for search, it simply makes search worse.

I strenuously disagree with this. Search has become all but useless in the last few years. LLM's provide a huge jumpstart on understanding, specifically, what to search on to find the canonical data you are after.

New comment by TrevorJ in "Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds"

TrevorJ — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:09:35 +0000

The reason some of these vehicles ARE so big IS the regulations. We could look at rolling back THOSE changes first.