Hacker News: samwestdev

New comment by samwestdev in "Apple Pay breaks record with 1M subscribers in South Korea on first day"

samwestdev — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:30:06 +0000

Subscribers?

New comment by samwestdev in "SVG Backgrounds"

samwestdev — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:11:37 +0000

How would you go and make a custom svg background with something like, say, Inkscape?

New comment by samwestdev in "GPT-4 doesn't understand rhyming but can solve rhyme-based puzzles"

samwestdev — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:38:20 +0000

GPT-4 doesn't actually comprehend anything. It simply reproduces what it was trained on by a statistical model. It's a sophisticated Markov Chain.

New comment by samwestdev in "Ask HN: Isn't GPT4's message limit for Pro accounts against their own terms?"

samwestdev — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:15:58 +0000

Yeah it sucks and borderline scammy.

New comment by samwestdev in "Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine"

samwestdev — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 11:40:22 +0000

What do you mean by “mixed bag”?

New comment by samwestdev in "Google Summer of Code 2023"

samwestdev — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:45:00 +0000

How does it work? Can you partake in it even if you're not a student?

New comment by samwestdev in "I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked"

samwestdev — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:41:07 +0000

Story of my life

New comment by samwestdev in "PR to Change the LLaMA Models' Licence to Apache 2.0"

samwestdev — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:57:21 +0000

> asks other entities to spend a lot of energy (potentially releasing massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere)

They are not wrong.

New comment by samwestdev in "All travelers to the UK will need pre-authorization by 2025"

samwestdev — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:46:58 +0000

Police state

New comment by samwestdev in "Which is worse when working on production databases? Being drunk or tired?"

samwestdev — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 05:24:10 +0000

Drunk = fun

Tired = not fun

New comment by samwestdev in "Alex Gibney is making a documentary about Elon Musk"

samwestdev — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:49:22 +0000

He should wait for the Musk’s inevitable fall before finalizing the script.

New comment by samwestdev in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF: A Comparison"

samwestdev — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:15:17 +0000

Why is AVIF limited to 4k. Thats sound kinda arbitrary.

New comment by samwestdev in "sqlean: A set of SQLite extensions"

samwestdev — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:40:38 +0000

Wait, there is no Unicode support in SQLite?

New comment by samwestdev in "“Comfort Bags” for children in case of school shooter lockdown"

samwestdev — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:36:13 +0000

Absolutely insane. Welcome to America I guess.

New comment by samwestdev in "SymPy makes math fun again"

samwestdev — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 10:40:47 +0000

Your book looks really interesting. Do you think it would be appropriate for a complete math/geometry beginner to read?

New comment by samwestdev in "Sam Altman: “$30k to get a simple iPhone app created, $300 for a plumbing job”"

samwestdev — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:31:39 +0000

What a poor comparison.

I don't understand why this guy is the CEO of OpenAI.

New comment by samwestdev in "AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack"

samwestdev — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:13:46 +0000

Why is the codename in the original prompt?

Did Microsoft forgot to remove it?

New comment by samwestdev in "Windows 11 pinging Steam on a newly purchased, clean laptop? WHY?"

samwestdev — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:56:48 +0000

Was Steam preinstalled on the laptop?

New comment by samwestdev in "Van Life in Japan"

samwestdev — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:01:28 +0000

Japanese people are also obsessed with bath/shower every day before sleeping.

New comment by samwestdev in "Hacker News Client Using Apline.js (PWA)"

samwestdev — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:57:34 +0000

Any opinion about HTMX?