Hacker News: natly

New comment by natly in "Artist Kenichi Kanazawa makes geometric designs using sound waves (2020)"

natly — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 10:28:32 +0000

Here's a shadertoy that simulates the behavior: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/fs3yRl

New comment by natly in "Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically"

natly — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:20:58 +0000

I feel the same way. But just want to point out that the link is actually satire and makes a push for the same side as yours.

New comment by natly in "History of lossless data compression algorithms (2014)"

natly — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:34:56 +0000

Not mentioned here is Fabrice Bellards record breaking (at an enormous compute cost) compressor https://bellard.org/nncp/.

New comment by natly in "YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection"

natly — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:31:43 +0000

Deceptive habits like this give ML a really bad reputation and gives me so little confidence that this technology will be used responsibly as ML becomes increasingly powerful.

New comment by natly in "Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed"

natly — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:41:42 +0000

Didn't google used to incorperate this into their search rankings? There's no way they still do that today right? Imagine how amazing it'd be if they suddenly turned on the button to downrank pages as a function of how many cookie banners and autoplaying videos etc you have to click away to get to the content.

New comment by natly in "WHO declines to label monkeypox a global emergency"

natly — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:44:02 +0000

Thank goodness. It's not even trasmitted through the air.

New comment by natly in "A Response"

natly — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:37:19 +0000

> Writers have a responsibility to ensure that they take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of their statements, and that those statements are clear.

What a crazy take. Writers can write whatever they want. A book of poetry or prose doesn't have to meet some HN rationalist level of accuracy and rigour.

New comment by natly in "NeRF: An eventual successor for deepfakes?"

natly — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:02:53 +0000

I was initially annoyed by this title but now I'm gonna switch my perspective to being happy that ideas like this are floating around since it acts as a really cheap signal to tell if someone knows what they're talking about or not when it comes to ML.

New comment by natly in "Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?"

natly — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:31:43 +0000

Another great option is https://textsynth.com/playground.html (made by the very impressive developer Fabrice Bellard - of linux in javascript and world pi digit calculation fame). He deserves some money funneled through that site for his efforts over the decades (and the output is about as good as gpt-3 imo).

New comment by natly in "Tell HN: GitHub Copilot can now block suggestions matching public code"

natly — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:12:03 +0000

If you copy a piece of GPL code but change the whitespace or some arbitrary number that produces the same output, does that still still break the license (if you don't make the source public)?

New comment by natly in "New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published"

natly — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:23:21 +0000

Makes me think of how gross it is that they still milk avicii's brand to this day years after his body left our world.

New comment by natly in "Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?"

natly — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:23:12 +0000

The 'inverse square root' carmack trick is hardly trivial.

New comment by natly in "YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters"

natly — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:11:49 +0000

We're probably a long way away from narrative, but dall-e for video is probably only a year or two away from now (they're probably training the model as we speak).

New comment by natly in "Copilot sells code other people wrote"

natly — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:25:01 +0000

Unless every invention is gonna be AI generated (which is kind of a scary situation), intellectual property still needs to be a thing (otherwise people won't have incentive to invent, it'll just be stolen from them).

New comment by natly in "YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters"

natly — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:20:34 +0000

I know it's a sort of exaggerated paranoid thought. But like these things do all come down to scale and some areas of the world definitely could have the amount of compute available to make dall-e level quality full scale videos which we might be consuming right now. It really does make you start to wonder at what point we will rationally be able to have zero trust that not everything we watch online is fabricated.

New comment by natly in "Twitter Notes"

natly — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 20:23:25 +0000

I agree. However I doubt it'll be long lived. Twitter gives up on features all the time (fleets, I doubt spaces will be around in a year). They'll try this out and abandon it like most of their experiments.

New comment by natly in "Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose search rankings"

natly — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:10:07 +0000

It's funny how powerful genuinely acting honorable and having a good reputation can be in a world where everyone seems to think you can get away with sociopathic behavior.

New comment by natly in "GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial"

natly — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:44:44 +0000

I wonder if it'd be legal to train your own model with a similar architecture but using input-ouput pairs generated from copilot itself (fair use right?). Sell it for $9/month.

New comment by natly in "Sex is going out of fashion?"

natly — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:12:24 +0000

I totally acknowledge and sympathize with people (nerds) who strugge with finding love and sex. I don't recoil, I was a similar situation as a teenager. My point is mostly that it's far from a global population wide phenomenon. Plenty of people are having sex - it's alive and well - and it's not really going out of fashion would be my clarified expanded argument.

New comment by natly in "Sex is going out of fashion?"

natly — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:38:51 +0000

The comments in this thread and this article is making me want to read HN less. (What a crazy incorrect take for most of the population.)