Hacker News: cardosof

New comment by cardosof in "I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason"

cardosof — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:23:22 +0000

This is what the internet is for! (it's for all the other useful, valuable, life-saving stuff too)

New comment by cardosof in "Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc"

cardosof — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:47:14 +0000

Probably Nintendo is suing on the catching mechanic which is pretty much the same in both games. In Palworld, the player has a team of Pals and, in order to catch a new Pal, they must fight and after some damage throw a catching ball at the right moment. Could someone patent a monster catching mechanic, anyway?

AWS Lambda Overview

cardosof — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:54:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.lls-software.com/aws-lambda-overview-465944593915

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223598

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cardosof in "YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads"

cardosof — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:20:22 +0000

>The reply was it didn't break any policy.

What is the policy, as long as you pay and don't do anything outright offensive, it's all fair game?

New comment by cardosof in "Gemini AI"

cardosof — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:32:56 +0000

While this must be an incredible technical achievement for the team, as a simple user I will only see value when Google ships a product that's better than OpenAI's, and that's yet to be seen.

New comment by cardosof in "Show HN: Netflix for AI-Generated Videos"

cardosof — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:21:15 +0000

It's not like that's something new or exclusive to tech, right? Coke had cocaine and cigarettes were physician tested and approved. We should have learned from those things but we didn't, and so history will rhyme.

New comment by cardosof in "Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available"

cardosof — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:49:24 +0000

I can't speak about Google at all, but this line: if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works

Is great and true, thank you.

New comment by cardosof in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

cardosof — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:26:21 +0000

this changes everything (if it's true)

New comment by cardosof in "Advanced Python Mastery"

cardosof — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:25:14 +0000

Beazley is one of the masters and his other books are great. My nitpick here is that, as in any other language, the basics are there forever and the advanced features/techniques get old and replaced every now and then.

New comment by cardosof in "TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent $100M on lobbying"

cardosof — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:39:05 +0000

Creating a problem and selling the solution, a classical politician's move.

New comment by cardosof in "Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%"

cardosof — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:41:25 +0000

I used to really like Gandi. I still have a t-shirt with their #no_bullshit slogan that's from 2015-16. It's been a couple of years since I stopped having any need for their services, and its sad to see them dropping the ball like this.

New comment by cardosof in "Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?"

cardosof — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:52:34 +0000

People don't see it being this revolutionary because they don't know how to use it. My wife (literary translator) my close friends (2 doctors and one business executive) and myself are seeing massive gains in productivity by using simple prompt techniques such as chain-of-thought. Heck, my cardiologist friend from one of the country's top hospitals is writing a book with chatgpt. It's there and it's great, and will only get easier to use, smarter, faster etc.

Key themes in Embodiment and the Inner Life (2010)

cardosof — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha/KeyThemes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089253

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cardosof in "Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%"

cardosof — Fri, 19 May 2023 05:31:25 +0000

+1 for Pix. It's great, amazing that the Brazil Central Bank pulled that off, it's better than what people have in most developed countries.

New comment by cardosof in "ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison"

cardosof — Sat, 13 May 2023 21:23:02 +0000

As a customer, I want the best product, not the best LLM. The race is far from over and it's not just about having the biggest model in the room.

New comment by cardosof in "Agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning"

cardosof — Thu, 04 May 2023 05:33:04 +0000

Thank you for the insights. Realistically, how long do you think it's going to be before small businesses (for example, retailers or small warehouses and manufacturers) start using robots like the Boston Dynamics products in their day to day workflows?

New comment by cardosof in "Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI"

cardosof — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:43:21 +0000

I don't disagree your second paragraph, I'm just curious - can you elaborate more on why is that?

New comment by cardosof in "Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI"

cardosof — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:20:51 +0000

If someone I didn't grant access broke (in a very smart way) into my house, turned on the lights for a minute and then left, I'd still be pissed and would call it illegal.

New comment by cardosof in "Andrew Ng Course – ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers"

cardosof — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:30:30 +0000

I too don't like to use the title Engineer lightly, but what would be a good title for someone who's job is building and maintaining chains of prompts that perform X,Y,Z in a system? Developer? The comparison with search engines is naive since those are made for end users and LLMs are a piece of software that are a part of a bigger solution.

New comment by cardosof in "The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness"

cardosof — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:58:05 +0000

I don't think there's a silver bullet. The % for each macro - if it's a low carb or high fat or high protein really depend on the individual and the specific needs. My wife for example can't go on low carb or she'll have major headaches even after the "adaptation period", while I don't even get minor headaches. Also the amount of fat may vary, high fat diets tend to be better for overweight people while healthy people are OK with more balanced diets. The most important things are defining an objective and understanding how your own body works. My current diet was made for slowly losing body fat (mild caloric deficit) and it's like this: Breakfast: whole milk, oats, whey protein, flaxseed and chia seeds. Lunch: brown rice, vegetables, meat (steak twice a week, chicken or fish the other days) Afternoon snack: 2 boiled eggs Dinner: lunch without rice. It works for me but the whole milk and the steaks are really bad for some people.