Hacker News: Veuxdo

New comment by Veuxdo in "Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework"

Veuxdo — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:18:07 +0000

They're all crossed wires.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Gemini AI tells the user to die"

Veuxdo — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:07:52 +0000

Friendly reminder that computers are for computing, not advice.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side"

Veuxdo — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:05:03 +0000

> and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable

In many professions, $5000 for tools is almost nothing.

New comment by Veuxdo in "OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI"

Veuxdo — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:34:39 +0000

> They are also experimenting with synthetic data, but this approach has its limitations.

I was really looking forward to using "synthetic data" euphemistically during debates.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Ask HN: Do you distribute your macOS apps on the App Store?"

Veuxdo — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:03:02 +0000

You can still sign and notarize your .dmg without distributing it via the app store. Users who download from your website won't see the "unknown developer" warning as long as you do that.

Your second point about your target market is much more salient. Tough call.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Ask HN: Do you distribute your macOS apps on the App Store?"

Veuxdo — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:51:15 +0000

What benefit do you hope to realize from distributing via the App Store? They aren't going to handle payments for you. They won't market your app for you.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate"

Veuxdo — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:41:28 +0000

Author here.

I don't expect you'd see a difference. For the simple case of iterating on a diagram you describe to ChatGPT, 4o is perfectly fine as-is. I can't see how you'd meaningfully improve on it.

However, for the advanced case of generating a diagram from a repo, AI isn't even close. You'd need practically unthinkable improvement for it to be useable.

The consequence, unfortunately, is incremental gains won't help in either case.

Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate

Veuxdo — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/diagrams-ai-can-and-cannot-generate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115082

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by Veuxdo in "Diagram as Code"

Veuxdo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:23:32 +0000

Programs that produce diagrams should be (and are) written in a programming language. They accept input, execute, and produce output. Diagrams themselves do not execute and have state (unless they are interactive[0]). There's a difference.

[0] https://app.ilograph.com

New comment by Veuxdo in "Diagrams · Diagram as Code"

Veuxdo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:01:02 +0000

Yeah, just about every diagram you see online commits these sins. Probably because companies that create detailed diagrams don't make them public. What's left is mostly diagrams by tech companies (e.g. cloud providers) created specifically to promote the technologies themselves.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Diagrams · Diagram as Code"

Veuxdo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:45:28 +0000

You can do it, certainly, but it is overkill. It also limits your potential editors to people who know Python and are willing to install it on their machine. In contrast to Python (or other programming languages), a language like YAML or JSON can be learned in minutes by just about anyone.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Diagram as Code"

Veuxdo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:26:09 +0000

> It will be saved as web_service.png on your working directory.

Nice and simple, but unfortunately you lose all accessibility with a .png diagram. Specifically, they're impenetrable to screen readers.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Diagram as Code"

Veuxdo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:19:44 +0000

I'm biased, but I think it's a bad decision. Programming languages are for writing, well, programs. Programs execute, accept input, have state, and all manner of other things that just don't apply to diagrams. Diagramming in a programming language is just weird.

New comment by Veuxdo in "D2: Declarative Diagramming – A modern language that turns text to diagrams"

Veuxdo — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:17:28 +0000

Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652291

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064921

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805529

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224084

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42033790

Edit: looks like submitter is spamming https://news.ycombinator.com/newest with old submissions

New comment by Veuxdo in "Auth Wiki"

Veuxdo — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:52:25 +0000

Is the name for this kind SEO practice, where a company creates a new domain for a strictly "informational" page like this?

New comment by Veuxdo in "Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments"

Veuxdo — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:48:36 +0000

Sometimes. In the face of entrenched competition, you can't be just a little bit better. You have to be a lot better. And in a way that said competition can't easily match (or exceed).

New comment by Veuxdo in "Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments"

Veuxdo — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:29:49 +0000

> To address this problem, we built decisioning models that take into account 100’s of datapoints, such as customer and payment metadata as well as internal classifiers of error codes and messages. The models determine the optimal time to retry a payment with current or backup payment methods and when to communicate with a customer.

All well and good, but doesn't Stripe have much, much more data on this? Once they start doing all of the above (assuming they don't already), their data will give them a gigantic advantage. And that's only on top of being built-in.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Why Appalachia flooded so from Helene's remnants"

Veuxdo — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:17:35 +0000

Feels like automated title moderation.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)"

Veuxdo — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:15:26 +0000

> Do you post your blog on social media to be found and shared?

It wouldn't do you any good. Social media sites will kill your post if it has a link in it. They don't want you leaving.

New comment by Veuxdo in "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)"

Veuxdo — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:13:24 +0000

> More users online than ever, and able to get their attention too.

Not really. There are some people walking around with giant teddy bears[0], but that is entirely for show.

[0]https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/