Hacker News: paulkon

New comment by paulkon in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

paulkon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:18:41 +0000

Just needs a health warning label, like on alcohol or cigarettes. Then onto the high sugar products, and a quarter of the grocery store

New comment by paulkon in "India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI"

paulkon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:59:35 +0000

How do humans with very little exposure to grotesque violence or extreme content universally label such content so well? This is not graduate level data that needs labeling.

What is missing in an AI model for it to intuitively understand what content is extreme from very few labeled sample in training?

New comment by paulkon in "Trader who made $190M shorting crash also apparently bet on CZ's pardon"

paulkon — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 22:23:48 +0000

Why risk using the same wallet to make $56k?

New comment by paulkon in "If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling"

paulkon — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:04:32 +0000

This right here is important. We could be running fiber end to end in the near future. Ethernet would end up obsolete like the phone line.

New comment by paulkon in "The unnecessary decline of U.S. numerical weather prediction"

paulkon — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:24:30 +0000

“In the U.S., governmental global weather prediction is spread over FIVE efforts:

NOAA

The US Navy

The US Air Force

NASA

U.S. Department of Energy

Thus, scientific and technical talent and computer resources are diffused over five groups, greatly undermining progress.“

I suppose if Elon has his way, the overlapping functions from these are on the chopping block.

New comment by paulkon in "Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI"

paulkon — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:13:47 +0000

Is there an open source speech-to-speech model which retains intonation, cadence and delivery?

New comment by paulkon in "Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood"

paulkon — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:50:18 +0000

The reason for this seems to be

1) extended depth of field with a smaller pupil in bright sunlight (smaller aperture) that keeps objects at a wider range in focus

2) biochemical cascade responding to certain wavelengths in sunlight that produce a “stop growth” signal in the retina

New comment by paulkon in "usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection"

paulkon — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:57:20 +0000

I'm running virtualhere on thousands of raspberry pi's sharing various USB devices to cloud machines over vpn. It's been working without issues for years now. Seems to be a solo developer in Australia that's been working on it for a really long time. https://www.virtualhere.com/

New comment by paulkon in "French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity"

paulkon — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:35:08 +0000

What are the vegan cheese alternatives I can conceivably substitute in a dinner party of discerning charcuterie board lovers?

New comment by paulkon in "Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents"

paulkon — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:32:43 +0000

Can this be used to click around in the browser with text prompts? Maybe after some fine-tuning on screen recordings of specific workflows in browsers.

New comment by paulkon in "Tell HN: JPMorgan Chase forcing arbitration agreement to log in"

paulkon — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:48:58 +0000

Would this impact resolution of a disputed transaction when using their credit card product?

New comment by paulkon in "ChatGPT leaks answers to others queries when you prompt with a specific pattern"

paulkon — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:36:34 +0000

Is it leaking training data or is it all hallucinations?

New comment by paulkon in "Reading SEC filings using LLMs"

paulkon — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:32:04 +0000

Could you share more about the prompt you use to get GPT-4 to return a query from the user's question? This is fed into postgres full text search?

New comment by paulkon in "Ask HN: What does your AI tech stack look like?"

paulkon — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:13:16 +0000

Thoughts on fine tuning pythia, flan-t5 or codegen/salesforce models? Possibly to run the model and DB locally?

New comment by paulkon in "Google DeepMind"

paulkon — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:14:51 +0000

Well put, the brand awareness of ChatGPT is the biggest challenge they have now.

New comment by paulkon in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

paulkon — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:21:35 +0000

What skills are needed to make this kind of low level application? Nitty gritty driver and kernel knowledge? C, C#?

New comment by paulkon in "Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes"

paulkon — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 06:25:03 +0000

Is this similar to how Shazam operates? I suppose there's more filtering and denoising going on with mic input.

New comment by paulkon in "Ask HN: Does AI progress also fill you with dread?"

paulkon — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:46:35 +0000

Many chatGPT prompts with mathematical inconsistencies in the output simply clear up with the some variation of "Explain your thinking step-by-step". Anyone know how or why this works?

New comment by paulkon in "My Overemployment Story"

paulkon — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 05:17:35 +0000

I agree. I doubt anyone juggling multiple jobs is also writing about it in detail for others to follow.

This blog is likely getting SEO points so they can eventually sell books, courses or coaching services to folks.

New comment by paulkon in "Ask HN: Recruiters, how bad is the hiring market for candidates?"

paulkon — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:54:44 +0000

Are the struggles related to candidates that only want remote work?