Hacker News: bricemo

New comment by bricemo in "OpenAI: Model Spec"

bricemo — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:21:27 +0000

I view this as they are trying to lay bare the disagreements that everyone has about how these models “should” work. People from all different backgrounds and political affiliations completely disagree on what is inappropriate and what is not. One person says it is too censored, another person says it is revealing harmful information. By putting the policy out there in the open, they can move the discussion from the code to a societal conversation that needs to happen.

New comment by bricemo in "Infinite Craft"

bricemo — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 02:12:27 +0000

Does this also use generative AI to create the results?

New comment by bricemo in "Infinite Craft"

bricemo — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 02:10:48 +0000

How do you know you are the first discoverer? Does it highlight this in some way?

Disturbed Lands (National Park Service)

bricemo — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 23:29:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/nature/disturbedlands.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146327

Points: 74

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New comment by bricemo in "Get It Done"

bricemo — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 01:30:12 +0000

This is exactly right. I used to think that execs were like “Super ICs” who knew everything under them. As I’ve moved up in my career I’ve been amazed to find that execs do not know all the details of what’s happening or where the problems are. They are human just like the rest of us, and someone else’s problem is not obvious. They need to be told in a meeting or in writing so they can help fix it.

New comment by bricemo in "Daniel Ellsberg has died"

bricemo — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:11:03 +0000

I don’t really understand how this would work. Classified information seems like a law of human nature as long as there is competition: trade, geopolitical, military.

As a metaphor imagine if a game like chess required zero classified information: every move you make you need to disclose all your thinking and future moves to your opponent. You would be at a disadvantage.

New comment by bricemo in "Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario"

bricemo — Fri, 26 May 2023 16:31:05 +0000

We need to be both celebrating wins and working harder to improve further. There’s lots to do but this is encouraging to me that it’s possible to reach better outcomes.

Let’s keep bending the curve!

New comment by bricemo in "Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups"

bricemo — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:45:08 +0000

Many managers and senior directors were also laid off.

New comment by bricemo in "Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility"

bricemo — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 17:36:32 +0000

I grew up in this tiny town of Chester, Virginia and moved to Silicon Valley after college. Seeing this factory and my hometown at the top of Hacker News is blowing my mind.

New comment by bricemo in "Show HN: Write 500 Words a Day"

bricemo — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:42:02 +0000

I had a new years resolution to do a similar practice for writing code. At least 30 minutes per day every night. It's been by far my most prolific year of all time

New comment by bricemo in "There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge"

bricemo — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 01:04:59 +0000

Agreed! I, probably like many HN readers, tend to over-optimize every part of my life. But life is more than optimization for an output — sometimes the purpose is just the pure joy and fun of doing it. Projects like this are a great reminder.

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

bricemo — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:57:53 +0000

I am also trying to figure out what the average person would do differently with this information. It is cool and good, but I feel like if I wanted to experience any of these I would still go buy on Amazon Prime video or pull it up on Spotify or torrent. Is there a big change in consumer experience?

New comment by bricemo in "PFC bans are going to change waterproof garments"

bricemo — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:15:27 +0000

What in the movie was false?

New comment by bricemo in "ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section"

bricemo — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:02:15 +0000

I would highly recommend the book by Cal Newport, so good they can’t ignore you. It lays out a framework for developing rare and valuable job skills that you can use to navigate a fast changing tech landscape. It has been immensely helpful to me and a great guide for how to navigate sea changes like this over decades

New comment by bricemo in "A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise"

bricemo — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:38:21 +0000

But humans thousands of years ago made decisions that make our lives today possible. Aren’t you glad that you had the chance to exist and enjoy your own life?

I highly recommend Ian McCaskill‘s recent book “ what we owe the future.” He makes a compelling rational argument that it makes no less sense to discount future generations than it does to discount physically distant people who are suffering today.

New comment by bricemo in "A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise"

bricemo — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:35:38 +0000

I agree. 1 billion years is a lot of research and development time. It only took us a few hundred years to go from agricultural society to spacefaring. 10 million X that amount of progress and we can either fix the sun, move the earth, or repopulate on other stars. This will be a non-issue.

New comment by bricemo in "Character.ai"

bricemo — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:01:09 +0000

No this is an actual AI.

New comment by bricemo in "Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text"

bricemo — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:56:35 +0000

If you look out long-term, 2030s and 2040s, this is where all of this is likely going.

Right now the pool of content you might be interested in is constrained to all the content that has been made. But there may be better content that does not exist yet that you would be even more interested in. The future is going to be very weird, but also very entertaining

New comment by bricemo in "Scientists find wreckage of ship that tried to warn Titanic of iceberg"

bricemo — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 01:54:20 +0000

Right, this is an incredible clever headline. I visualized a ship, screaming at the top of their lungs, but sinking just before getting within earshot

New comment by bricemo in "The Endless Doomscroller"

bricemo — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 01:48:59 +0000

I think the unique potent combination is worldwide real-time sample set (there is always something awful happening somewhere) + optimized yellow journalism (clickbait outrage headlines with metrics).

This combination is the difference between recognizing a problem and doing something about it as you describe (which is certainly a good thing), versus just feeling overwhelmed and sinking into stressful anxiety.