Hacker News: peppertree

New comment by peppertree in "Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data"

peppertree — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:41:18 +0000

Let’s be transparent and unhide the line change count under your insights tab.

New comment by peppertree in "Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data"

peppertree — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:18:32 +0000

Project activity is indicative of whether it will be supported in the long run. The fact that Mathesar's admin hid the line change count under insights, and padded the commits looks like a feeble attempt to impress investors.

New comment by peppertree in "Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data"

peppertree — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:50:47 +0000

Mathesar repo is heavily optimized for commit count. Large number of commits are spelling/padding changes. This should set off alarm bells for anything looking to use this.

New comment by peppertree in "Sam Altman said startups with $10M were 'hopeless' competing with OpenAI"

peppertree — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:43:02 +0000

Scaling compute can only be taken so far. True advancement in AI comes from optimizing compression of human knowledge. Altman missed the first principle by a mile.

New comment by peppertree in "Show HN: Open-source AI video editor"

peppertree — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:28:26 +0000

Open source part is just a thin layer of UI. Built to peddle their closed backend, which is built on others' open source work. Nice.

New comment by peppertree in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

peppertree — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:40:17 +0000

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New comment by peppertree in "Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption"

peppertree — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:56:49 +0000

Is embeddings enough to preserve privacy? If I run the encoder/decoder on device and only communicate with server in embeddings?

New comment by peppertree in "The Origins of Wokeness"

peppertree — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:16:21 +0000

If it takes a felon winning an election for you to come out and write this then you are a coward. Where were these deep thoughts when BLM was blocking public roads and emergency services. I'm impartial to both sides simply making an observation.

New comment by peppertree in "Show HN: TypeScript/React/Vue Window Layout Manager (Tabs, Floating, Popouts)"

peppertree — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:08:24 +0000

Demo doesn't load in macOS Safari.

New comment by peppertree in "Fidget"

peppertree — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:29:12 +0000

Here is a thought experiment. What if 3D printers support implicit representation natively. Resin printers are basically physical marching cube machines. FSM would need an algorithm for following contours but should be doable.

New comment by peppertree in "Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth"

peppertree — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:44:50 +0000

After using FSD 13 for 2 weeks I'm convinced we are close to solving self driving. Too bad the everyone lost interest and now robotics is the hot new thing.

New comment by peppertree in "City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once"

peppertree — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:07:56 +0000

There's also a Figma plugin that can import OSM as vector. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072/v...

New comment by peppertree in "How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired"

peppertree — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:38:34 +0000

Feedback is pointless. Vote with your feet. If a team has high churn it's guaranteed the leadership is garbage.

New comment by peppertree in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

peppertree — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:11:41 +0000

Consumers don't have to consciously choose Claude, just like most people don't know about Linux. But if they use an Android phone or ever use any web services they are using Linux.

New comment by peppertree in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

peppertree — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:09:18 +0000

Pretty sure most frontend developers use Chrome since it has better dev tools. And yes everyone uses Linux most just don't know it.

New comment by peppertree in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

peppertree — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:36:45 +0000

Anthropic should double down on the strategy of being the better code generator. No I don't need an AI agent to call the restaurant for me. Win the developers over and the rest will follow.

New comment by peppertree in "Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank"

peppertree — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:13:31 +0000

How does domain and example queries help construct the knowledge graph, or is that just context for executing queries.

New comment by peppertree in "GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation"

peppertree — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:27:17 +0000

There’s work done around DeepSDF that do latent space diffusion but you end with a solid geometry suitable for 3D printing.

New comment by peppertree in "Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds"

peppertree — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:57:39 +0000

I suspect the biggest factor is speed. After getting used to EV for over a year, every ICE vehicle feels painfully sluggish and slow. If that's the case I'm curious to see how the numbers compare to other EVs.

New comment by peppertree in "Study shows bats have acoustic cognitive maps"

peppertree — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:13:50 +0000

Bats be SLAM.