Hacker News: epoch_100

New comment by epoch_100 in "On DeepSeek and export controls"

epoch_100 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:28:06 +0000

> DeepSeek does not "do for $6M what cost US AI companies billions". I can only speak for Anthropic, but Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a mid-sized model that cost a few $10M's to train (I won't give an exact number). Also, 3.5 Sonnet was not trained in any way that involved a larger or more expensive model (contrary to some rumors).

Wow!

New comment by epoch_100 in "Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use"

epoch_100 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:00:03 +0000

Anthropic’s privacy policy is extremely strict — for example, conversations are retained for only 30 days and there’s no training on user data by default. https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/10023548-how-long-...

New comment by epoch_100 in "Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews"

epoch_100 — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:57:02 +0000

Very cool! It reminds me of https://chord.pub/.

New comment by epoch_100 in "Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management"

epoch_100 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:55:29 +0000

I use Anytype and like it. I do hope they’ll invest more time into the editing experience — there are a few sharp edges that will probably alienate people coming from more mainstream tools like Google Docs and Notion:

- Typography is a bit weird, especially with headings; there is very little line height on headings, leading to cramped documents.

- Bullet points look weird when you look closely at them. (On Mac, they’re not perfectly circular; perhaps an aliasing issue.)

- Can only use cmd+b and cmd+i for bold and italic when selecting text; can't use them to switch on/off boldness on the cursor.

- Can't specify type when creating a new object with the @ symbol inline (Capacities, a related tool, does).

- Bullet points flicker when you first create them.

- Linking inserts a space even when you don't want it, as does formatting using markdown characters (e.g., providing the closing ** in italics.)

- Relatedly: Entering closing markdown characters (e.g., the second **) does not end the formatting effect (the cursor should not have the formatting applied after they're entered, but it does).

Anytype is overall a fairly polished app. I hope they’ll iron out these editing issues — when they do, it’ll really be exceptional.

AI image generators threaten child safety investigations

epoch_100 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:04:18 +0000

Article URL: https://miles.land/posts/cg-csam-ai-image-generation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343653

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by epoch_100 in "A17T: Atomic Design Toolkit and Tailwind CSS Plugin"

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 21:42:38 +0000

Author here. I agree. I designed a17t awhile ago (I think nearly four years ago now?) and it’s due for a refresh. I think it has the potential to be excellent but it’s not there yet.

New comment by epoch_100 in "When your classmates threaten you with felony charges"

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:07:17 +0000

Really what happened is we checked whether we could set `isAdmin` to `true` on our existing accounts, and... we were able to. Adi's more technical writeup has details: https://saligrama.io/blog/post/firebase-insecure-by-default/

New comment by epoch_100 in "When your classmates threaten you with felony charges"

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:58:58 +0000

Adi's writeup is great, and goes much more into the technical detail than my transcript. I really recommend everyone checks out his post.

New comment by epoch_100 in "When your classmates threaten you with felony charges"

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:54:46 +0000

I am not a lawyer (of course). But I find some solace/comfort in the new Justice Department guidance to not charge good faith security researchers under CFAA. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23130910/justice-departme...

New comment by epoch_100 in "When your classmates threaten you with felony charges"

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:22:44 +0000

Yes, threatening to report is what was really happening here. But in their effort to scare us, they elided much of that process. From our perspective it was "watch out, you might face felony charges if you don't agree to silence".

New comment by epoch_100 in "When your classmates threaten you with felony charges"

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:11:33 +0000

Heh. That's not very nice. If it feels stilted, that's probably because I wrote this primarily to be spoken. But ChatGPT was not involved.

When your classmates threaten you with felony charges

epoch_100 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:46:32 +0000

Article URL: https://miles.land/posts/classmates-legal-threat-fizz-defcon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297823

Points: 470

# Comments: 321

Central Park Type Tester (Pentagram)

epoch_100 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 03:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://centralparktypetester.netlify.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36966669

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by epoch_100 in "When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option"

epoch_100 — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 22:27:44 +0000

> but you cannot distinguish between limited access and full access

I believe you can check whether you received limited photos access: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit/phauthori...

New comment by epoch_100 in "Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service"

epoch_100 — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:26:21 +0000

Shynet

New comment by epoch_100 in "Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python"

epoch_100 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:45:15 +0000

Interesting — what kind of advantages would your hosting service provide over, say, packaging the Pynecone app into a Docker container and then deploying to Fly.io/Render/GCP/Azure/etc?

New comment by epoch_100 in "Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs"

epoch_100 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:43:21 +0000

We hacked that together for https://paxo.ai — can be done!

Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s research

epoch_100 — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:01:02 +0000

Article URL: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835415

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by epoch_100 in "Rise of ‘zombie’ VCs as startup valuations plunge"

epoch_100 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:49:16 +0000

If the VCs haven’t made a capital call, then that unallocated money is likely still sitting with the LPs collecting that sweet risk free return.

New comment by epoch_100 in "Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing"

epoch_100 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:12:50 +0000

Ha. I’m also doing something similar with a friend at https://www.paxo.ai. Funny that we all seemed to have an similar idea, all at once.