Hacker News: nefitty

Mistral AI announce 7B v0.2 base model release

nefitty — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:35:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/marvinvonhagen/status/1771609042542039421

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39802932

Points: 35

# Comments: 2

Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle Owl, Has Died

nefitty — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 04:14:20 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/22056/Flaco-the-Eurasian-Eagle-Owl-Has-Died.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489056

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nefitty in "ChatGPT is going a little crazy"

nefitty — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:45:38 +0000

Here's the incident page https://status.openai.com/incidents/ssg8fh7sfyz3

New comment by nefitty in "Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing"

nefitty — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:09:30 +0000

Reminds me of this thread:

> "Yeah you won’t figure those APIs out from the documentation. It was on purpose. You have to go buy the book."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953592

New comment by nefitty in "2023: A year of groundbreaking advances in AI and computing"

nefitty — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:10:28 +0000

Can you link to where Gates talks about this?

New comment by nefitty in "Labs.Google"

nefitty — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:08:28 +0000

There's an official active Discord server for Bard that some users get invited to in waves.

New comment by nefitty in "Labs.Google"

nefitty — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:07:21 +0000

re: discord

"Invites are currently paused for this server. Please try again later."

New comment by nefitty in "Major outages across ChatGPT and API"

nefitty — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:10:21 +0000

Anonymous Sudan claims to be currently ddos'ing OpenAI

New comment by nefitty in "Why ChatGPT's Cut-Off Date Doesn't Change"

nefitty — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:14:43 +0000

As of this week, it appears ChatGPT now reports its knowledge cutoff date as April 2023.

New comment by nefitty in "Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”"

nefitty — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:07:20 +0000

The archived version of that kotaku article has the original strips that are missing from the current version: https://web.archive.org/web/20150815184327/https://kotaku.co...

New comment by nefitty in "AAA games are coming to iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the new A17 Pro chip"

nefitty — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:14:12 +0000

I currently can't use Postmates because I'm not on iOS15.

A ChatGPT jailbreak may be leaking user queries

nefitty — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/max_paperclips/status/1687239046664441856

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993863

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nefitty in "[dead]"

nefitty — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:47:00 +0000

It’s under the For Business list

New comment by nefitty in "Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017)"

nefitty — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:18:09 +0000

There’s research to try to get closer to an objective demarcation of suffering. The latest measures place even shrimp at some level of intolerable suffering, due to some of the farming techniques, eg removing they eyeballs of females to make them more fertile.

New comment by nefitty in "Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017)"

nefitty — Mon, 29 May 2023 03:14:43 +0000

Not seeing the moral imperative is not the same as there not being a moral imperative. The attitude that motivated your comment is astonishingly cruel.

The potential for a 9.0 magnitude earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone

nefitty — Mon, 01 May 2023 06:49:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oregon.gov/oem/hazardsprep/pages/cascadia-subduction-zone.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35769773

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nefitty in "Why not hire part-time developers?"

nefitty — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:19:05 +0000

I'd be super down to throw my shoulder into a couple projects at once. It would personally help with some of the exhaustion that happens when focusing on one codebase. It would be a lower risk for organizations and provide a more affordable chunk of value for increasing the quality of their product.

I currently feel like it's too out there to comfortably propose to companies I'm interviewing at. If a job description explicitly stated "open to discussing part-time opportunities" and leadership was realistically aligned with the time commitments part-time engineers would face, I would definitely bring it up as a possibility.

There's so many companies doing cool work. Individually we commonly end up contracting our aspirations in service of one endeavor. That makes sense for some companies. For others, the benefits in terms of production value and having their engineers exposed to multivariate problems could be huge. I'm particularly thinking if companies that have straightforward apps to present or deliver their services, like a video app, community apps, etc. A lot of those problems are solved, and I'm not sure it makes sense to invest a huge amount, in terms of full-time work, in executing on those visions.

I'm also curious what it would be like to manage a part-time engineer. Work life balance would have to be front and center. Processes for dealing with emergencies would need to be realistic. Demands from management would need to be broken down with part-time chunks in mind, and so on.

New comment by nefitty in "Brandon Sanderson’s advice for doing hard things"

nefitty — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 07:05:45 +0000

I've just recently started framing more and more of my options as if-thn statements, with an emphasis on the then being some emotion tht I predict I will feel. I think some people probably naturally do this, but it takes effort for to me to think of now vs future.

I base my understanding of generating internal motivation of of the WOOP model, academically known as implementation intentions with mental contrasting. Focusing on mounting my internal dialogue on simple if-then models is easier than running through the whole WOOP model.

I'd love to know of any mental heuristics others here use that help them effectively close the current state vs ideal state gap.

New comment by nefitty in "Brandon Sanderson’s advice for doing hard things"

nefitty — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:56:54 +0000

I think it helps to find people slightly ahead of you on the same journey. Their internal map of the topic is slightly more filled out, so the difference is easier to manage. I want to learn AI programming, and I'd more effectively learn from someone who has just gotten their head around Prolog than from a PhD at DeepMind.

New comment by nefitty in "How to waste time and overcomplicate things"

nefitty — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:48:44 +0000

I've notified people I know when they end up on HN. Also, maybe some analytics thing?