Hacker News: merpnderp

New comment by merpnderp in "Model Context Protocol"

merpnderp — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:10:08 +0000

This is exactly what I've been trying to figure out. At some point the LLM needs to produce text, even if it is structured outputs, and to do that it needs careful prompting. I'd love to see how that works.

New comment by merpnderp in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

merpnderp — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:44:22 +0000

You should look at see what kind of drones are dominating Ukraine's skies. You'd see some water being held. And you probably should have googled this before making this comment.

New comment by merpnderp in "Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger"

merpnderp — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:20:37 +0000

I keep seeing people make this claim that cattle spend their entire lives on feed lots, but I've never seen this anywhere and I've been all over cattle country. Where do they do this? Because around here feedlots are only for finishing cattle and typically only spend about 2-3 months there after having very happy lives as calves on a ranch.

New comment by merpnderp in "htmx 2.0.0-beta1"

merpnderp — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:35:17 +0000

Isn’t this really just going back to the server side templating days and using jquery to load html snippets?

New comment by merpnderp in "Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero"

merpnderp — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:59:07 +0000

We already identify, arrest, and prosecute criminals, we just don't hand out custodial sentences. Being in jail/prison sucks and is a good incentive to not steal cars. Plus it is impossible to steal cars while locked up.

New comment by merpnderp in "Memory and new controls for ChatGPT"

merpnderp — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:54:02 +0000

In a good RAG system this should be solved by unrelated text not being available in the context. It could actually improve your chats by quickly removing unrelated parts of the conversation.

New comment by merpnderp in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

merpnderp — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:58:39 +0000

Kids aren't that expensive. I have a friend in the midwest with 5 kids and his family income is about $60k. They have 3 cars, own their home and go on vacation a few times a year. But they never eat out, and have a strict budget.

People complaining about money and kids and meanwhile their Great Depression era ancestors are looking at them with unending shame.

New comment by merpnderp in "Everything will be alright in Iceland"

merpnderp — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:59:53 +0000

It's criminal that the US is spending money on SLS when it is so incredibly inefficient and will very likely be completely outclassed in cost and operational ability by Starship.

New comment by merpnderp in "First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation"

merpnderp — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:27:29 +0000

Weird how it’s take the US decades to do what Japan used to do in three years.

New comment by merpnderp in "Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds"

merpnderp — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:34:46 +0000

I was wondering if you're aware that China possesses nuclear weapons and the reactors needed to produce more. Also, do you believe that all nuclear reactors function identically, being used for both power generation and weapon creation? And about France, what are your thoughts on their nuclear policies? Do you feel they are continuously producing weapons, or is there just a misunderstanding about nuclear power as a political issue leading to snap judgments?

New comment by merpnderp in "Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud"

merpnderp — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:56:31 +0000

Exactly, just figure out how to run Whisper on my phone and it would be the best phone on the market. Whisper plus Mixtral on my phone and it could do anything.

New comment by merpnderp in "Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds"

merpnderp — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:33:20 +0000

There is a reason China has 16 nuclear plants under construction, with plans to start many more, even though they have access to some of the cheapest wind and solar power in the world.

New comment by merpnderp in "Tesla Drivers Have the Highest Crash Rate of Any Brand: Study"

merpnderp — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:16:23 +0000

Is this true? I'm pretty sure being caught looking at your phone while running someone over will get you a criminal charge in most states.

New comment by merpnderp in "AI Workforce Is Already Coming for Junior Developer Jobs on Wall Street"

merpnderp — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:16:00 +0000

Am I missing some demos of LLM’s producing jr. Dev level work, because from my experience this seems implausible.

New comment by merpnderp in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

merpnderp — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:39:24 +0000

And people seem to ignore Israel's stated goal. They no longer find it possible to live next to Hamas and are fighting a war of unconditional surrender and occupation.

So it is confusing when people claim Israel has far surpassed any proportional response as Israel was never attempting tit-for-tat, but unconditional surrender.

New comment by merpnderp in "The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps"

merpnderp — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:16:16 +0000

Why is Python listed there and not other languages like Ruby, Javascript or Perl?

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

merpnderp — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:49:47 +0000

I’m sure Satya and his 10,000 Harvard lawyers with filed down shark teeth were just the first of many furious calls they took.

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

merpnderp — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:33:01 +0000

Why would anyone care as she’s not on the board because of it.

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

merpnderp — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:30:25 +0000

Yeah, Satya likely just hired a thousand new lawyers just to sue OpenAI for being idiots.

New comment by merpnderp in "The problem isn't inflation. It's prices. What goes up may not come down"

merpnderp — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:14:32 +0000

We've had about 20% total inflation since 2021. In some sectors it is higher and some lower. Even Amazon's recent history of price gouging is only going to add up to peanuts on their yearly gross. I think it's more people just don't understand compounding rates and if you inject more dollars into the economy than there are goods and services, you'll have more dollars chasing those same goods and services.