Hacker News: jlpom

New comment by jlpom in "Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents"

jlpom — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:11:51 +0000

No, it's to automate tasks that can't be done using an API, like RPA.

New comment by jlpom in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

jlpom — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:42:49 +0000

*It causes bad UX.

New comment by jlpom in "Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies"

jlpom — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:14:56 +0000

Are you aware of https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/?

New comment by jlpom in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

jlpom — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:08:27 +0000

I rather think the right word is clunky: one of the dev is attached to Server-Side Decoration/against CSD for some reason (none of his arguments make sense), so every stock app are difficult to read and taking unneeded screen space. It's just bad UX.

New comment by jlpom in "The Llama 4 herd"

jlpom — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:20:45 +0000

The page is blank for now.

New comment by jlpom in "Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents"

jlpom — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:13:17 +0000

Hi, great contribution! Can you highlight how does it compare to https://github.com/TaxyAI/browser-extension which also uses the DOM?

New comment by jlpom in "TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography"

jlpom — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:53:44 +0000

It increases modularity and small-worldness, which are in my book critical for AGI (surprised by the way that this publication doesn't cite https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00748-9).

New comment by jlpom in "Engineering Sleep"

jlpom — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:49:02 +0000

I don’t think any serious biologists agree with it. There is a hard physiological need to repair cellular damage from metabolism, UV (this a big deal in unicellular species), etc. If this theory was correct, and it is possible to do it entirely while awake, there would be species (apex predators in particular) that would have evolved without the need for it, like everything that is not a hard requirement. But this is not the case.

New comment by jlpom in "Engineering Sleep"

jlpom — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:34:02 +0000

> Alternatively, perhaps elevated orexin levels during the day cause wakefulness such that you just don't need as much sleep, regardless of how efficient the sleep is.

As noted elsewhere ITT, there is a strong biological need for sleep, and its main role is very likely to reduce reactive oxygen species (though the amount needed vary by genetics) Orexin levels increase the noradrenaline ones, which is one of the few antioxidants able to reach neurons (along with melatonin) and by this way also increase slow wave sleep, making it more efficient. So yes, this could be a way they would need less sleep.

New comment by jlpom in "Engineering Sleep"

jlpom — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:19:27 +0000

For me they significantly increase REM, it seems at the cost of slow wave sleep. (this is logical as orexin agonism prevent REM sleep)

New comment by jlpom in "Engineering Sleep"

jlpom — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:15:02 +0000

Repairing cellular damage (mitochondrial and main DNA) from oxidation thanks to slower metabolism is the main reason. On a side note taking vitamin E (an antioxidant that passes the blood-brain barrier) seems to have slightly reduced the need for sleep for me.

New comment by jlpom in "Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine"

jlpom — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:08:53 +0000

I'm 27 and grew up with both OS X and XP.

New comment by jlpom in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

jlpom — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:25:57 +0000

It already exists for KDE: https://community.kde.org/Selenium

New comment by jlpom in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

jlpom — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:13:11 +0000

Your comment takes 630 bits, the screenshot of your comment on my computer takes 2.1 MB, about 218k times the size. Either this is a compute overhead the LLM has to do before it can think about the meaning of the text, or if it's a E2E feedforward architecture, less thinking about it. This is simple for us because neurons in the retina pre-process its stream so that less than 0.8 % is sent to the visual cortex and because we have evolved to very efficiently and quickly extract meaning from our vision. This is a prime example of the Moravec's paradox.

New comment by jlpom in "D-Day, as told by paratroopers"

jlpom — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 04:07:52 +0000

The Netflix adaptation is terrible

New comment by jlpom in "Stop Using Discord"

jlpom — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:39:43 +0000

No, I think it's the instance

New comment by jlpom in "Stop Using Discord"

jlpom — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:38:14 +0000

Because of real-timeness (you don't need to refresh a webpage, you can see if someone is typing). I am not aware of a forum software that have this feature (I don't know them well, so I can be mistaken). But most of the time you don't need it.

Ask HN: Ressources and Approach to Conceptual Blending

jlpom — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:58:58 +0000

What ressources from a machine learning and computational perspective are there? What software do you have experience w/? Is Divago still relevant?

What is the most promising approach to achieve it in your opinion: neural, symbolic or neuro-symbolic?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511498

Points: 1

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New comment by jlpom in "Llama 3 70B tied with GPT-4 for first place on LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard"

jlpom — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:45:55 +0000

But not when they are not sure the result would be of quality, in the arena which is used for ranking.

New comment by jlpom in "r/borrow"

jlpom — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:05:11 +0000

Who would loan to someone with this record? More likely money laundering.