Hacker News: plibither8

New comment by plibither8 in "WhatsApp Outage"

plibither8 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:44:34 +0000

I'll be that commenter this time, all green here! https://metastatus.com/

The Phoenix Slides Icon

plibither8 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:25:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blyt.net/phxslides/icon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843477

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by plibither8 in "Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]"

plibither8 — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 06:38:18 +0000

Did you just learn this word too from another recent thread on HN? I did, haha!

LLM Visualization

plibither8 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 06:08:29 +0000

Article URL: https://bbycroft.net/llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505211

Points: 1592

# Comments: 131

New comment by plibither8 in "YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers"

plibither8 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:14:35 +0000

You're getting downvoted, but I was thinking the same thing. Could someone explain why that might not be the case?

New comment by plibither8 in "datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated"

plibither8 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:57:10 +0000

> India has half-hour timezones

If that's messy, consider Nepal's timezone that's on the 45-minute mark (UTC+5:45).

New comment by plibither8 in "Thunderbird 115.4.0"

plibither8 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:58:33 +0000

Whatever happened to their Android plans?

New comment by plibither8 in "Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers"

plibither8 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:51:51 +0000

Yes, netdata FTW! You might need to perform some manual configuration to enable sensor data collection though, like installing `lm-sensors`.

New comment by plibither8 in "Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple"

plibither8 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:43:34 +0000

> Here if I understand you don’t get access to support but to an interpreter who will call the support for you. It’s of no interest if you don’t know ASL

I might receive some slack here, but I gave it a try (I don't know ASL). Within 5 seconds of clicking the button, I was connected to a live human, with both my video and sound, as well as the other person's, turned on (although I did have the ability to switch them off). There was no intermediate step to filter out spam calls. I did cut the call quickly though to avoid wasting their time!

New comment by plibither8 in "Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple"

plibither8 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:28:27 +0000

Agreed! However, I also wonder what their ratio of spam vs. actual ASL-requiring-customer calls is. Since it's so easy and quick to connect to a real human with comolete audio and video enabled on both ends, won't it be prone to abuse?

The more such a service gets attention from regular media (instead of the niche, targeted audience it aims to serve), I fear it'll be another case of "why we can't have good things".

Watch electrical engineers react to an AI Copilot

plibither8 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:34:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flux.ai/p/blog/the-future-of-electronics-design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861083

Points: 13

# Comments: 3

New comment by plibither8 in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

plibither8 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:16:49 +0000

Yep, that's one of its deficiencies! For me, something like GPT helps in triaging and "cleaning up" bulk of the transactions, with little micro-categorization left to be manually done.

New comment by plibither8 in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

plibither8 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:15:32 +0000

> What software have you used that does this?

I wrote my own script that uses the GPT API. For automating bank transcation downloads, it's just a cronjob that runs ever X hours and scrapes the information from the banking website.

New comment by plibither8 in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

plibither8 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:33:21 +0000

Not to be that guy that tries to force LLMs into everything, but after automatically importing bank transactions, LLMs like GPT are very powerful in extracting information from the ill-formed, non-standard, transaction description, and subsequently classifying it. You can help train it by manually identifying and classifying the first few, and let it do the rest of the job. I've tried it out myself and works well for me!

New comment by plibither8 in "Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style"

plibither8 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:09:14 +0000

Interesting. I have an inherent distrust with reviews and descriptions on Google Maps, at least for where I live (India). I usually resort to other services to look for good restaurant/hotel recommendations.

New comment by plibither8 in "Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style"

plibither8 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:01:46 +0000

One of my biggest irks with Google Maps is how aggressively it shows pins for hotels, bars and restaurants, even on their search results map. Do users really feel the need for this constant in-your-face advertisement?

But as I type this, I realized Google is primarily an ad business and whatever will drive that revenue will get pushed further. Oh well.

Show HN: Adapt Copilot to Your Goals

plibither8 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:01:49 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.flux.ai/tutorials/adapt-copilot-to-your-goals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37251466

Points: 36

# Comments: 14

New comment by plibither8 in "Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models"

plibither8 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:43:25 +0000

> Look at that molecular structure. Incredible.

I first thought it was a joke because of the two "HN" bonds hah, pardon me.

New comment by plibither8 in "The subtle magic of tsnet"

plibither8 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:23:42 +0000

Yes! This is way more readable, thank you.

New comment by plibither8 in "Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”"

plibither8 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:43:29 +0000

I think that's an exceptionally reductive and cynical take, without providing any real reasons for the hate, or how this update will reduce your usability of the application.