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New comment by hansworst in "Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT"

hansworst — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:58:30 +0000

Automerge has this: https://automerge.org/automerge/api-docs/js/functions/getCon...

New comment by hansworst in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

hansworst — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:06:23 +0000

Following that logic, they’ll have to keep spending quite a bit to get to the user base of the current hyperscalers, some of which are already ahead of OpenAI in terms of LLM performance.

New comment by hansworst in "Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)"

hansworst — Wed, 14 May 2025 09:39:09 +0000

Not entirely sure if you could use it, but wondering if you’ve heard about the origin private file system feature of modern browsers? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

New comment by hansworst in "The end of compounded GLP-1 drugs leaves many patients in a ‘lose-lose’ position"

hansworst — Sat, 03 May 2025 07:41:21 +0000

The same goes for anything that provides value right? If you make some useful software, by that logic I should be allowed to copy it and use it in whatever way I see fit (including commercially), no matter what license you used?

New comment by hansworst in "The One-Person Framework in Practice"

hansworst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:18:19 +0000

Is it just me or is Hono being astroturfed pretty heavily on HN lately

New comment by hansworst in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

hansworst — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:22:00 +0000

Wouldn’t they still need to pay tariffs on all the parts they manufacture in china? Maybe I’m misunderstanding the tariffs but it sounds like Chinese companies would have to build completely separate supply chains to keep the US market

New comment by hansworst in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

hansworst — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:00:48 +0000

Obviously there’s a balance to be struck here. We could legalise fentanyl and tell people to just not use it, but that probably wouldn’t have a very positive impact on society.

At the very least we should acknowledge the negative externalities. Just leaving it up to the market to figure out (especially if we allow the current tech monopolies to exist) will result in serious societal impact.

New comment by hansworst in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

hansworst — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:53:18 +0000

Pretty sure the romans had public executions too

New comment by hansworst in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

hansworst — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:55:44 +0000

Hundreds? The bread and games thing is literally a quote from the Roman Empire, and I’m sure they didn’t invent it themselves either.

New comment by hansworst in "The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now"

hansworst — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:54:08 +0000

Social mobility index doesn’t really look at how easy it is to become very rich (I.e. get into the 1%). This is also explained in the methodology section of the article you linked.

New comment by hansworst in "SpacetimeDB"

hansworst — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:27:12 +0000

But in gaming, real time means something different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_in_games#Real-time

Context matters.

New comment by hansworst in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

hansworst — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:55:30 +0000

You’re forgetting Canada. You’re also glossing over the fact that despite losing to the nazis, the occupied countries didn’t exactly just roll over when they got attacked. And during occupation there were resistance movements in those countries too. So there’s definitely a “we” here.

And while of course most of those people are dead now, they were all part of cultures that still hold many of the same norms and values as they do today.

New comment by hansworst in "Perplexity Deep Research"

hansworst — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:37:14 +0000

Arguably Google is ahead. They have many non-llm uses (waymo/deepmind etc) and they have their own hardware, so not as reliant on Nvidia.

New comment by hansworst in "30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated"

hansworst — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:02:08 +0000

Isn't that just the LLM equivalent of hardcoding though?

New comment by hansworst in "The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed"

hansworst — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:03:19 +0000

Plenty of indie musicians nowadays that self-publish on platforms like Spotify and YouTube. That just wasn’t possible 30 years ago.

New comment by hansworst in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

hansworst — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:40:59 +0000

Well, it’s going to be hard to talk their way out of that one.

New comment by hansworst in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

hansworst — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:54:29 +0000

Overfitting on test data absolutely does mean that the model would perform better in benchmarks than it would in real life use cases.

New comment by hansworst in "Conway's Gradient of Life"

hansworst — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:50:16 +0000

The article asks the following:

> I can’t help but wonder if there’s a reaction-diffusion-model-esque effect at work here as well

There are continuous approximations of the game of life that show this, for example this implantation:

https://smooth-life.netlify.app

New comment by hansworst in "Greppability is an underrated code metric"

hansworst — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:28:01 +0000

Anonymous functions don't have names. This makes it much harder to do things like profiling (just try to find that one specific arrow function in your performance profile flame graph) and tracing. Tools like Sentry that automatically log stack traces when errors occur become much less useful if every function is anonymous.

New comment by hansworst in "MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images"

hansworst — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:43:42 +0000

> they’re not art directable or dynamic

This is not true I believe. There are plenty of papers out there revolving around dynamic/animated splat-based models, some using generative models for that aspect too.

There are also some tools out there that let you touch up/rig splat models. Still not near what you can do with meshes but I think fundamentally it’s not impossible.