Hacker News: jsf01

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator"

jsf01 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:25:06 +0000

This is ridiculously fun. Congrats on the launch! I took inspiration from “There I Ruined It” and grabbed lyrics from various popular songs to have the AI sing them in the style of other artists. It sometimes took a few attempts, but it honestly did a great job. You got a chuckle out of my friends and family. Also loved that I didn’t have to enter a credit card in order to try it out.

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs"

jsf01 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:28:35 +0000

Is this limited to PDFs or could the same chunking and parsing be applied to plain text, html, and other input file types?

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)"

jsf01 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:42:33 +0000

There is some interoperability between other clients today. For example, I have a Jellyfin server but in order to connect to it on my Apple TV I use the Infuse Pro app. I think that works more because of a standardized file structure that each app creates its own indexes for, so an actual protocol that they share would still be an improvement.

New comment by jsf01 in "The Mongolian Meta"

jsf01 — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:13:20 +0000

There are some really cool geoguessr metas that aren't as much about memorizing the street view cars that I love. (Although, a few car metas are interesting such as the handful of African countries that required a security follow car to tail the Google car, or the “Kenya snorkel” on the more off road capable street view vehicle for Kenya.) One of these is that there is a geostationary satellite just south of Texas that most US satellite dishes will point to, so if you can find a house with a satellite dish on it then you can combine its angle with your compass and get a rough sense of the US region you are in.

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Learn any language with an AI tutor at your own pace"

jsf01 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:22:13 +0000

Are the testimonials also AI?

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Astro App"

jsf01 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:07:19 +0000

My current setup is Stellarium + Clear Outside + windy.app and with that you really do need to know ahead of time which objects are visible for your particular location at that time of year or spend a while browsing. Your app looks amazing for my main use cases, but still lacks some information that I rely on. First, it is useful to know the direction of the cloud coverage throughout the night to be able to compare it with where the object you’re shooting will be. I also like to know the brightness (magnitude) of each object to help with planning. The last thing would be to get a list of recommendations rather than using lists of favorites. “What deep sky object do I not know about that today would be perfect for shooting?” is a question I have only been able to answer well with the ASIAR’s list of suggestions, manually curated calendars online that are not tuned to my location, or social media. It seems like you might have all the data to do a better job than all of those options in answering that question. Super cool app! Excited to see where it goes.

New comment by jsf01 in "Bottom 80% of US Households Persistently Dissaves-Spending More Than Income"

jsf01 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:43:03 +0000

As a native speaker, it was my first time seeing the word, too. Not common at all.

New comment by jsf01 in "Chrome experimental AI features"

jsf01 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:33:43 +0000

I’ve been working on a project [1] to do just that from within a Chrome extension. The idea was that as an extension, it could make use of the context menu and feel more like a native feature of the browser. I’m always hesitant to link to my things from comments but in this case I think it’s a perfect fit for what you’re describing.

[1] https://smudge.ai

New comment by jsf01 in "Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?"

jsf01 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:57:54 +0000

Richard Hamming’s The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is one that’s really shaped my philosophy on CS. It pushes for the importance of reasoning from first principles, experimentation, and taking on extraordinary work. There’s also a fascinating and prescient section on AI and the limits of computers and how we think about them. Stripe Press makes a nicely bound hardcover edition of the book, too:

https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engine...

Heartily recommend!

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Lightweight Productivity Tool"

jsf01 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:20:48 +0000

One of my biggest concerns when saving lots of things to an app like this and spending time curating bookmarks and other content is what happens if the app one day disappears. Is there a data export mechanism built in or other considerations for these sorts of events?

New comment by jsf01 in "Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)"

jsf01 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:09:07 +0000

These theories are fun. My first instinct was that maybe it’s for “yeoman”. But that’s not the most kid-friendly or likely word to appear on a ball. “Yellow” seems a lot more plausible, and the spray paint can idea is especially clever.

New comment by jsf01 in "9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0"

jsf01 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:49:18 +0000

Almost every day for my 5+ years of college, and fairly regularly since (although I encounter the types of complex math problems it excels at far less frequently today). I think there are many others like myself who use it.

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones"

jsf01 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:26:26 +0000

This is so intuitive. Huge props for coming up with the first ui for time zone comparison that has actually made sense to me immediately. Clicking a zone to make it the base, which all others get compared to, was a great choice. Bookmarking this for sure.

New comment by jsf01 in "I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT"

jsf01 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:58:59 +0000

This leans on the LLM’s latent space to hopefully give you better results. The idea is that it’s able to use those key words to form connections that may have been absent otherwise.

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: Temporary Note – Convenient way to use a browser tab as a notepad"

jsf01 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:43:29 +0000

One idea is that the url makes it immediately shareable. You can send your note to your phone in a text message without any uploads due to it being encoded in the url.

New comment by jsf01 in "How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – deep dive into GIF"

jsf01 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:14:53 +0000

This pops up again later when he says 81 is 10000001. Or that width 8 corresponds to 04. I don’t know enough about the gif format to know if I just misunderstood these parts or if they were written incorrectly, but it was a bit confusing.

New comment by jsf01 in "StyleX – Meta's styling library"

jsf01 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:38:49 +0000

Just at a cursory glance, this looks pretty verbose and clunky. Existing React ecosystem styling solutions are many, so it’s not immediately evident to me when you would accept the trade offs introduced by this tool over any existing ones that seem much nicer to not only integrate, but also have to work with day to day.

New comment by jsf01 in "A real case of Bobby Tables?"

jsf01 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:27:21 +0000

The idea that computer code can't be a company name is just begging for clever company names to skirt this rule, especially with so many languages that are light in syntax.

SQL is a natural contender with potential queries like “select customers from store” but I'm curious how far this can be taken and what other “computer code” company names other languages would make possible.

New comment by jsf01 in "Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS"

jsf01 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:49:07 +0000

For anyone looking to dip their toes into Yabai and tiling windows, I recommend the following setup. Enable full tiling only on a couple workspaces. Desktop 1 can remain in floating layout, just as though you’d never installed Yabai in the first place. Then tile Desktop 2 and as many others as you want.

The one other tip I have is to have an easy hotkey for toggling full screen mode. Toggling an app into full screen mode doesn’t lose its tiled position or create a new desktop the way native Mac full screen mode does, which is especially helpful when working on a smaller monitor.

New comment by jsf01 in "Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop"

jsf01 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:42:16 +0000

It’s cool to see how certain prompts and themes stay relatively stable, like the gnome example. But then “cat lecturing mice” quickly goes off the rails into weird surreal sloth banana territory.

My best guess to try to explain this would be that “gnome + art style + mushroom” will draw from a lot more concrete examples in the training data, whereas the AI is forced to reach a bit wider to try to concoct some image for the weird scenario given in the cat example.