Hacker News: ghughes

New comment by ghughes in "Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear"

ghughes — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 23:53:15 +0000

FWIW, I’m an existing customer (of the app) and this has significantly damaged my perception of Rewind as a company. You should stop talking about it until you have a credible answer to this question.

New comment by ghughes in "OpenTF is now OpenTofu"

ghughes — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:18:35 +0000

Okay, it's kinda cute, but it's not good.

New comment by ghughes in "Apple's A17 Pro Within 10% of i9-13900K, 7950X in Single-Core Performance"

ghughes — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:01:30 +0000

I think OP meant clock speeds don’t matter, relative performance does.

New comment by ghughes in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

ghughes — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:06:36 +0000

Rewriting would introduce new bugs; it would take a large number of engineering hours away from delivering shiny new things; and a formally correct version would probably be less power-efficient.

It won't happen because these targeted attacks don't affect the bottom line whatsoever. Nobody is switching to Android just because a journalist or NGO employee occasionally gets pwned.

New comment by ghughes in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

ghughes — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:47:11 +0000

Then they'll exploit the webview followed by the sandbox. [1]

As of iOS 14, incoming messages are parsed in a tight sandbox [2]. It'll be interesting to hear how this attack got around that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe

[2] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...

New comment by ghughes in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

ghughes — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:09:19 +0000

Not directly, but now you can exploit vulnerabilities in other parts of the OS.

New comment by ghughes in "What is a PID controller in an espresso machine?"

ghughes — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:27:35 +0000

Because the author is ChatGPT.

New comment by ghughes in "DMV tells Cruise to reduce its driverless vehicle fleet in SF by 50%"

ghughes — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 16:57:40 +0000

That’s not how it works at all

New comment by ghughes in "Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger"

ghughes — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:33:27 +0000

The problem here is that Cruise launched prematurely, not that automated driving is intractable.

New comment by ghughes in "LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short"

ghughes — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:41:37 +0000

Notably:

Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994214

Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36997821

New comment by ghughes in "X.com Now Points to Twitter.com/"

ghughes — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:57:31 +0000

They could easily get to the top of the SERP for "X".

Show HN: Codeulator lets you pair with ChatGPT in Visual Studio and VS Code

ghughes — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:25:10 +0000

Codeulator is a plugin that gives ChatGPT the magical ability to join a VS Live Share session and collaborate on your code in real-time. It enables read/write access to your shared Visual Studio or VS Code workspace, including all files and terminal output.

The intent is to streamline coding tasks that you're already accomplishing with ChatGPT - except now you can forget about copy/pasting chunks of code, having to tell the AI what changes you're making, etc. It's built to facilitate complex requests while working within ChatGPT's limited context window. (If you're curious: we use various strategies to mitigate this issue, e.g. a draft-then-commit model for writes, and heuristics to selectively apply lossy compression when ChatGPT wants to read a large amount of code, among other tricks.)

Codeulator is great for: implementing features across multiple files; fixing broken code and tests; analyzing and asking questions about a codebase.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYr17WbDIcc

I'll be keeping an eye on this post, so please try it out and report any feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36716978

Points: 2

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New comment by ghughes in "Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won"

ghughes — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:14:27 +0000

BA is just as bad. The legacy European flag carriers are now all basically Ryanair with a veneer of prestige but the same number of fucks given about customer service excellence.

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

ghughes — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:02:35 +0000

But given the rumored architecture (MoE) it would make complete sense for them to dynamically scale down the number of models used in the mixture during periods of peak load.

New comment by ghughes in "Show HN: Yet another macOS ChatGPT app"

ghughes — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 22:13:57 +0000

You could evade Apple by allowing users to register their API key on your website, not in your app.

New comment by ghughes in "Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning"

ghughes — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:16:28 +0000

They get to print something along the lines of "we tried to protect the children and those irresponsible American tech giants stopped us" in the Daily Mail.

New comment by ghughes in "Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning"

ghughes — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:14:05 +0000

> companies should only implement end-to-end encryption if they can simultaneously prevent abhorrent child sexual abuse on their platforms

And houses with walls should be banned unless the builder can guarantee no children will be harmed inside.

New comment by ghughes in "Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps"

ghughes — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:29:47 +0000

I think the GP meant the value added by Superblocks?

New comment by ghughes in "Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps"

ghughes — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:20:10 +0000

> I imagine it's already happening.

Not quite, that I know of, but some of us are working on it :)

I have a feeling that while the glorious future you describe can probably be realized using LLMs as a foundational technology, the software engineering effort needed to get there is on par with other AI moonshot projects e.g. autonomous vehicles.

If you or others reading this are interested in this topic, see this post for some interesting discussion and links to projects in development (and in the comments there's a link to a Discord server that was set up for further discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730

New comment by ghughes in "Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools"

ghughes — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:33 +0000

Cool project! I'm working in the same space (a ChatGPT plugin that can edit files within a shared VS Code workspace) and have built something similar to your "repo map" concept, except slightly lower-level: what you might call a "file map" generated by selectively collapsing AST nodes to fit within the available token budget. If ctags isn't cutting it for you, have a look at tree-sitter [1]. It can generate ASTs for most languages and has a nice API.

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/