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New comment by klft in "Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google Analytics tool"

klft — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:41:52 +0000

.... sometimes later

Eve: Will Bob ever propose?

ChatGPT: Based on the search results, Bob will propose during his trip with Alice to Scotland next year!

Eve: wtf?

New comment by klft in "The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text"

klft — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:10:26 +0000

Whisper ist used for speech-to-text conversion. Not to generate the text.

New comment by klft in "A dumb introduction to z3"

klft — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:46:32 +0000

Would a SQL optimizer use a generic solver as described here or are there special algorithms for such problems?

New comment by klft in "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company"

klft — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:16:14 +0000

Now you can add cloud resiliency to YOUR resume.

Win-win.

New comment by klft in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

klft — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:41:19 +0000

ChatGPT NT

New comment by klft in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

klft — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:27:58 +0000

> Also, I read a lot of people here saying this is about engineers vs scientists…I believe that people don’t understand that Data Scientists are full stack engineers

It is about scientists as in "let's publish a paper" vs. engineers as in "let's ship a product".

New comment by klft in "What Is Propaganda? (1944)"

klft — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:56:10 +0000

The Century of the Self is a BBC documentation about "... how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." (1)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

New comment by klft in "Pope tempted by Python. Signs off on coding scheme for kids"

klft — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:42:12 +0000

Pope's infallibility vs. Python interpreter.

New comment by klft in "Unity's oldest community announces dissolution"

klft — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:43:04 +0000

from the linked article:

> people and organisations alike tend to be judged by the worst thing they do

New comment by klft in "Can LLMs learn from a single example?"

klft — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:56:54 +0000

GPT-4 (I haven't really tested other models) is surprisingly adept at "learning" from examples provided as part of the prompt. This could be due to the same underlying mechanism.

New comment by klft in "Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine"

klft — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:49:59 +0000

Could you provide more details about your approach? Is the context store based in vector-embeddings?

New comment by klft in "AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080"

klft — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 02:26:46 +0000

> Using Microsoft Olive and DirectML instead of the PyTorch pathway results in the AMD 7900 XTX going form a measly 1.87 iterations per second to 18.59 iterations per second!

So the headline should be Microsoft Olive vs. PyTorch and not AMD vs. Nvidia.

New comment by klft in "Happiness is a reward from our ancestors"

klft — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:53:12 +0000

Fig 2 of [1] shows high variance of happiness while income variation has only a small effect. There is roughly a 5 % (percent it is?) happiness delta for an income delta of about $ 500.000. However, the happiness delta between the different happiness levels is about 25 %.

Would “Income and emotional well-being: It doesn’t really matter” be a better title for the study? Or do I miss something?

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120#fig02

New comment by klft in "France’s Mistral AI raises a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI"

klft — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:00:41 +0000

This is good news for Nvidia.

New comment by klft in "Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions"

klft — Sat, 27 May 2023 09:50:47 +0000

So it's basically a make-or-buy decision: Buy your experiences or make it with the stuff you own.

And no, a hammer is not necessarily more boring than a guitar. It depends on what you do with it.

New comment by klft in "12 years since Saab’s bankruptcy: Secret NEVS electric cars revealed"

klft — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:41:07 +0000

Wheel mounted electric motors were used in 1900 in the Lohner Porsche (1). So not that new.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner%E2%80%93Porsche

New comment by klft in "Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon"

klft — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:07:17 +0000

"Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon in Rust" would be even better

New comment by klft in "Ask HN: Are authors of “how to be great developer” blogs great developers?"

klft — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:41:29 +0000

Related comment about thought leaders:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468654

New comment by klft in "Ask HN: Are authors of “how to be great developer” blogs great developers?"

klft — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:38:07 +0000

or "Im busy plumbing if I am not wasting time on Plumber News"

New comment by klft in "Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible"

klft — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:54:53 +0000

Using virtual environments solves this issue:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html