Hacker News: pvarangot

New comment by pvarangot in "ChatGPT Pro"

pvarangot — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:26:05 +0000

That's also not how pricing works, it's about perceived incremental increases in how useful it is (marginal utility), not about the actual more money you make.

New comment by pvarangot in "Pushing the frontiers of audio generation"

pvarangot — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:10:49 +0000

It's because it's probably trained with "professional audio", ads, movies, audiobooks, and not "normal people talking". Like the effect when diffusion was mostly trained with stock photos.

New comment by pvarangot in "On 17th century "cocaine""

pvarangot — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:51 +0000

The Chinese supermarkets all had it, I moved out on 2018 and I think they had it in the Jumbo in Palermo in the section where they had some Peruvian stuff on the back of the store. I can't find it on the online Jumbo store, but Mercadolibre has it.

New comment by pvarangot in "On 17th century "cocaine""

pvarangot — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:56:22 +0000

Cocaine in the U.S. is at least 5/10% anfetamines tho, so it's probably worse.

New comment by pvarangot in "On 17th century "cocaine""

pvarangot — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:39:27 +0000

I used to drink coca tea a lot when I lived in Argentina where you get it in the supermarket. It's around on par of nicotine as an appetite suppressant for me, as a stimulant I feel caffeine and mate are better for the "stay awake" but coca tea is better for "zoning in", with less of anxiety driving but it's a more single tasked high where interruptions are harder to deal with than with caffeine. Like if I have a lot of meetings I prefer coffee and if I have to code for four hours I prefer coca tea. I used to rotate coffee, mate, and coca tea as a daily driver and having something else on the rotation may have been helping more than that something else being coca tea.

New comment by pvarangot in "GPTs and Hallucination"

pvarangot — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:36:29 +0000

I think what they mean (not OP here so just chiming in to to try interpret and answer your question) is that you don't know what you are talking about.

New comment by pvarangot in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

pvarangot — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:33:23 +0000

It's good for privacy so media companies probably don't want you to know it exists.

New comment by pvarangot in "Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs"

pvarangot — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:05:04 +0000

I mean, not with that attitude

New comment by pvarangot in "Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests"

pvarangot — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:21:40 +0000

I mean, those are the best parties

New comment by pvarangot in "The Waning Reign of the Muskrat"

pvarangot — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:59:12 +0000

Same, I got a pack of cigarettes ready to read the apologist comments.

New comment by pvarangot in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

pvarangot — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:57:44 +0000

Reddit is a problem only on the popular frontpage subs for people with just-reading or no accounts. If you make an account and read certain subs their algorithm will recommend you the alternate subs that are less astroturfed and the discussion is free from people telling you that there's evidence and reports that don't exist and insult you if you ask for links, or people that say that something says something and post you a link and then you go and it says something else (usually less favorable to Israel). The main subs have been pretty bad with Israel-related news since forever, it's not a new thing, it's that there's more of those news now.

New comment by pvarangot in "Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum"

pvarangot — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:54:57 +0000

Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join they have different expectations towards corporate and feedback up and down and internal dissent work different.

New comment by pvarangot in "Nikon to acquire RED"

pvarangot — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:36:05 +0000

Yeah I thought it was a scam. To be fair some of the most ridiculous things they announced when they put up the website, like the IMAX camera with a sensor that would basically take a wafer end to end to cut, didn't come out.

New comment by pvarangot in "You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?"

pvarangot — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:10:23 +0000

Besides what everyone else told you make sure you are making at least 250k/y

New comment by pvarangot in "Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News"

pvarangot — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:19:15 +0000

They'll have to if they don't want to be fooled. The problem is that people want to be fooled, not the fooling machine. If LLMs are better at educating than at fooling it'll be ok, if they are not it won't be ok.

New comment by pvarangot in "Show HN: Run Stable Diffusion Directly on iPhone"

pvarangot — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:55:48 +0000

That's your 15 Pro at 100% compute, anything that makes it go to 100% compute for the same amount of time will make it as hot.

New comment by pvarangot in "Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future"

pvarangot — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 02:12:13 +0000

No they can't give an example because it's a safe space

New comment by pvarangot in "Immanuel Kant – What can we know?"

pvarangot — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 02:02:23 +0000

Kant goes so extensively about this that it's not even funny to have to mention it on an HN thread. No the blogpost doesn't cover it in the same way it being like 3000% or more condensed than even a single one of his books and I don't think it's necessary considering metaphysics itself is "quite the religious notion".

Yeah think about it

New comment by pvarangot in "Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search"

pvarangot — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:33:22 +0000

It's also not clear if it's good for most of us in the U.S. so yeah I get you

New comment by pvarangot in "Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration"

pvarangot — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:51:28 +0000

"guaranteed to work for many years" if you don't need them calibrated I guess.

Also like I'm not sure? A lot of the discrete component and analog stuff on the old models is way more flimsy that the new system on a chip things on the signal path of the new instruments, specially for RF.

Plus if you need data logging it's not even worth to have the discussion on if older gear was better.