Hacker News: ldehaan

New comment by ldehaan in "OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'"

ldehaan — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:12:43 +0000

Fail2ban would have been all they needed. It's what I have, works great.

New comment by ldehaan in "Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures"

ldehaan — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:17:14 +0000

Thanks, that helped, my kids just used our house LLM to understand the game :D

New comment by ldehaan in "Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?"

ldehaan — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:17:24 +0000

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism - Joel Kotkin (its a brainful)

Algorithns to live by - Brian Christian

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel khaneman

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom - James Burnham

New comment by ldehaan in "Austria is sleepwalking toward a far-right victory"

ldehaan — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:37:51 +0000

Austria is So lucky,these corporate fascist leftists need to get their asses beat.

New comment by ldehaan in "Telling the Bees"

ldehaan — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:45:00 +0000

The waves rise and fall, somehow individual yet a part of a whole. They fall back to the whole after they rise. You always were and will always be.

New comment by ldehaan in "Telling the Bees"

ldehaan — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:37:23 +0000

You are a real time experience machine, the stick holding up the tent, the force behind the wave. Eventually it collapses.

New comment by ldehaan in "Ask HN: Did studying proof based math topics make you a better programmer?"

ldehaan — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:10:30 +0000

I didn't graduate high school and I can program in multiple programming languages, and picking up a new one is pretty easy. I had to convert "math functions" into code before I could understand what the symbols meant when I was learning how to write ML software.

Imo you learn the academic lingo, and it can make it easier to communicate with other programmers, but you can just pick it up. School is for chumps.

New comment by ldehaan in "Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere"

ldehaan — Mon, 29 May 2023 20:23:10 +0000

Wikipedia is trash, always has been. A small group of fanatics run that site and only allow information they deem acceptable. Using their information has always been a bad idea.

New comment by ldehaan in "Anonymous Tor Phone"

ldehaan — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:43:55 +0000

Haha "Anonymous" to your neighbor maybe, if they don't work for 5Is or a 3 letter agency, or Google, or Facebook, or the ccp or ... tor is compromised, you didn't Not get caught, you're not a target yet.

New comment by ldehaan in "OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over"

ldehaan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:32:31 +0000

No I'm not, it's the full model on 8 gpus for a couple hundred. After training I fine tune for chats but mostly command and control tools, and then you fine-tune for application.

New comment by ldehaan in "Remote work brings hidden penalty for young professionals, study says"

ldehaan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:29:15 +0000

Dude why do you guys keep reading this trash company's articles? These corporatists are pay to print. They'll print anything you pay them to.

Stop reading this garbage.

I strongly suggest checking out your weekly media assassination, tune in to the best pod in the universe: No Agenda

https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/4175796

New comment by ldehaan in "OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over"

ldehaan — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:42:27 +0000

I've been training large 65b models on "rent for N hours" systems for less than 1k per customized model. Then fine tuning those to be whatever I want for even cheaper.

2 months since gpt 4.

This ride has only just started, fasten your whatevers.

New comment by ldehaan in "OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over"

ldehaan — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:39:16 +0000

This is just push back from elon and crews fake article about the dangers of AI, they specifically state the next versions will be ultra deadly.

Sam is now saying there will be no future model that will be as good.

This is all positioning to get regulators off the track because none of these control freaks in government actually understand a whit of this.

All said and done, this all just to try to disempower the OSS community. But they can't, we're blowing past their barriers like the 90s did with the definition of slippery slope.

New comment by ldehaan in "I unschool my 5 kids. This is how much it costs"

ldehaan — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:18:30 +0000

its another way to say homeschooling, but with an emphasis on what the kid wants to do and not on a govt provided curriculum.

New comment by ldehaan in "Ask HN: Why is hiring so dehumanized, and what can be done?"

ldehaan — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:21:36 +0000

Using all of these hiring tools is the issue.

They didn't work 20 years ago, still don't work, however interviewing someone like they're a person, asking questions, finding their passion, that has had 100% return for me and my companies.

Word of mouth has been the best way I've been able to hire a lot of really skilled people. My team members have told me many times that I'm the best manager they've ever had.

It's because I don't do anything the way you're supposed to.

Try being a place worth working for and you'll see skilled people show up, and they know how to get ahold of you since they're highly skilled and motivated.

New comment by ldehaan in "Learnings from employing ChatGPT as a ML Engineer for a day"

ldehaan — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:16:14 +0000

I use it every day at the f500 I work at. I have gotten my team to adopt it, and it has increased productivity from those who were already productive.

The people who weren't already good can't figure out how to use it properly.

I also see a bunch of people online, most?, using it incorrectly, writing prompts that would give bad info. Maybe they're doing it on purpose?

To those who have everything, more will be given.

New comment by ldehaan in "Reddit co-founder’s quest for unseizable property"

ldehaan — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:36:53 +0000

wonderful response. people forget this is why nothing online is untrackable or free from tracking, its obfuscated, but trackable.

Ultimately the govt has shown that private does not actually mean private. you can build a network, business, or even a country and if someone doesnt like it. buh bye. no questions just consequences.

we need a wireless, encrypted, and secure network, we do not have one yet.

until then this is all make believe fun until someone in government finds out they can make money controlling it. and then it gets real, fast.

New comment by ldehaan in "Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers?"

ldehaan — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 05:00:14 +0000

I am hiring out of Mexico and India. But mostly Mexico. Lots of software jobs are moving there.

New comment by ldehaan in "Polygon Labs Cuts 20% Workforce, Almost 100 Jobs"

ldehaan — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:31:34 +0000

How long did they hold it and where, I imagine they made payroll with the returns.

New comment by ldehaan in "Advanced React component composition"

ldehaan — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:36:43 +0000

React didn't come up with anything new, not components or really any of its tooling, it is simply a conglomeration of many tools.