Hacker News: bbotond

New comment by bbotond in "Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite"

bbotond — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:14:47 +0000

What would actually be interesting is if you told us what those mistakes were, instead of just vagueposting.

New comment by bbotond in "Redis adopts dual source-available licensing"

bbotond — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:48:10 +0000

About 75% afaik.

New comment by bbotond in "Panda CSS: build time and type-safe CSS-in-JS"

bbotond — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:11:55 +0000

> simple, easy and elegant like css

CSS is neither of these.

New comment by bbotond in "AI and the Rise of Mediocrity"

bbotond — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:35:34 +0000

It's ironic how the blandest, most predictable opinion piece is about how AI produces medicore content.

New comment by bbotond in "Forty years of programming"

bbotond — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 02:34:55 +0000

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

New comment by bbotond in "Five Kinds of Friends (2022)"

bbotond — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:59:04 +0000

I'm probably from a similar culture and friendship here means a very close personal relationship similar to, or in some cases even stronger than, familial relationships. I feel that the original post's concept of friendship is very shallow compared to that. Friendship in my culture transcends such categorization.

New comment by bbotond in "Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts"

bbotond — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:22:36 +0000

What does commenting 3 asterisks mean? I’ve been noticing this more and more recently

New comment by bbotond in "GPT-4 API General Availability"

bbotond — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:46:11 +0000

What I don’t understand is why is an API needed to create embeddings. Isn’t this something that could be done locally?

New comment by bbotond in "Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances"

bbotond — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:04:39 +0000

I can confirm that programming.dev is a very nice instance.

I hope that the threadiverse will consolidate into a bunch of themed instances instead of the current state of having 200 different Reddit clones.

New comment by bbotond in "The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook"

bbotond — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:50:53 +0000

This sounds almost psychopathic or maybe it is just ragebait trolling.

New comment by bbotond in "Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default"

bbotond — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:48:55 +0000

I switched to Linux 4 years ago because of these dark patterns. No regrets.

New comment by bbotond in "LLM Powered Autonomous Agents"

bbotond — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:13:26 +0000

Watch a couple of videos by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI (very entertaining and informative by the way)

These videos changed my mind entirely about AI risk.

New comment by bbotond in "Slim people have a genetic advantage when it comes to maintaining their weight"

bbotond — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 09:46:05 +0000

Okay, you can’t just leave us hanging and not tell us what exactly you have done

New comment by bbotond in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

bbotond — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:46:10 +0000

A really nice instance that might be interesting to people here is http://programming.dev

New comment by bbotond in "Subreddit Migration Directory"

bbotond — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:02:36 +0000

Join the programming.dev instance instead. It’s really nice and starting to become an active community.

New comment by bbotond in "GitHub Copilot and the Methods of Rationality (2022)"

bbotond — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:11:01 +0000

I've been using it for a couple of days but it feels much more limited than GPT-4-based ChatGPT. If I ask ChatGPT to do the same task it always comes up with a much better solution. Has anyone else experienced the same?

New comment by bbotond in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

bbotond — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:26:25 +0000

Wow, I could only watch the first 15 minutes now but it’s already fascinating! Thanks for the recommendation.

New comment by bbotond in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

bbotond — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:19:05 +0000

Thanks, I’ll try it! (I’m in Hungary)

New comment by bbotond in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

bbotond — Wed, 31 May 2023 05:48:48 +0000

“Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!”

New comment by bbotond in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

bbotond — Wed, 31 May 2023 04:57:12 +0000

Yes. Before the update, when its avatar was still black, it solved pretty complex coding problems effortlessly and gave very nuanced, thoughtful answers to non-programming questions. Now it struggles with just changing two lines in a 10-line block of CSS and printing this modified 10-line block again. Some lines are missing, others are completely different for no reason. I'm sure scaling the model is hard, but they lobotomized it in the process.

The original GPT-4 felt like magic to me, I had this sense of awe while interacting with it. Now it is just a dumb stochastic parrot.