Hacker News: shrimpx

New comment by shrimpx in "OpenAI and Elon Musk"

shrimpx — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 04:49:11 +0000

“The Open in openAI means that [insert generic mission statement that applies to every business on the planet].”

New comment by shrimpx in "YC: Requests for Startups"

shrimpx — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:24:42 +0000

To those who think this list will help them get into YC, or lament "why didn't I get into YC when my idea was squarely on this list":

The YC application is a sales pitch, and you're not selling your idea, you're primarily selling your charisma and capacity to spin vision and sell. Second, you're selling your chemistry with your cofounders and stability of your relationship. Third, you're selling your capacity to build, at least some usable prototype, but this a low bar.

At no point are you actually selling the concrete idea, unless you're doing something extremely specific that seems valuable and you're one of the few who can build it. For the rest, the idea is a rhetorical vehicle to sell the other things.

New comment by shrimpx in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

shrimpx — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:54:11 +0000

"FCC announces that artificial voices are indeed artificial."

New comment by shrimpx in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

shrimpx — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:21:46 +0000

How does the cabin pressure hold it in place passively? Isn't the pressure on the inside higher than the pressure on the outside?

New comment by shrimpx in "Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs"

shrimpx — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:15:50 +0000

`xclip-mode` looks like it should definitely be included by default. `cua-mode` is tougher because it messes with the default keybindings, making you type C-x twice (or Shift-C-x) for the large number of keybindings that start with C-x. That might be better for newcomers though, and bring more people to Emacs. Personally I would disable `cua-mode` if it were default.

New comment by shrimpx in "Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs"

shrimpx — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:05:00 +0000

Probably not. It looks like an autocomplete engine. But technically you can do that with an LLM, with a more complex interface. You could select a region and then input a prompt "rewrite this code in xyz way". And a yet more complex system to split the GPT output across files, etc.

New comment by shrimpx in "Amazon's Silent Sacking"

shrimpx — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:38:46 +0000

You seem to be unaware of the mental and physical health toll these environments can take on people. Make money but become a burnt out, desiccated shell of a person.

New comment by shrimpx in "Amazon's Silent Sacking"

shrimpx — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:09:13 +0000

I think they mean making people's lives miserable enough that they quit. Presumably they can live with whatever Amazon throws at them, and keep taking a paycheck until fired.

New comment by shrimpx in "The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement"

shrimpx — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:33:38 +0000

Anthropic made $200M in 2023 and projected to make $1B in 2024. That's a laggard <2 year old startup. I don't think LLMs are a fad.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:10:47 +0000

Hey I'm Romanian, too. The latest iOS does what you want -- it has multi-language support and typing mixed English + Romanian is seamless now. Yeah it was a total pain to keep switching languages before iOS 17.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:10:07 +0000

Yeah totally, I copy text from images all the time.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:09:21 +0000

That's true, I have found that mildly annoying sometimes. But most of the time it's a win. It was really annoying manually switching modes over and over when typing in mixed-language, which I do fairly often. It'd be great if there was a setting though.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:57:26 +0000

Yeah. Siri supports text input already, anyway. Siri is their ChatGPT-style bot that's going to keep improving.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:52:29 +0000

Yup! TSMC wins either way.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:50:48 +0000

- FaceID

- Facial recognition in Photos

- "Memories" in Photos

- iOS keyboard autocomplete using LLMs. I am bilingual and noticed in the latest iOS it now does multi-language autocomplete and you no longer have to manually switch languages.

- Event detection for Calendar

- Depth Fusion in the iOS camera app, using ML to take crisper photos

- Probably others...

The crazy thing is most/all of these run on the device.

New comment by shrimpx in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

shrimpx — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:38:33 +0000

Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to win.

New comment by shrimpx in "ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format"

shrimpx — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:16:58 +0000

Looks like clicking a reference adds the hash to the URL but doesn't scroll to the reference. If you load the hash URL directly in the browser you get a 404 page...

New comment by shrimpx in "ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format"

shrimpx — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:49:18 +0000

Since the article doesn't link to any example HTML article, here's a random link:

https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1

It's cool that it has a dark mode. Didn't see a toggle but renders in the system mode.

Overall will make arXiv a lot more accessible on mobile.

New comment by shrimpx in "Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead"

shrimpx — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:52:28 +0000

Yeah it seems like it's more about "blue bubble" status than it is about encryption.

New comment by shrimpx in "Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead"

shrimpx — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:51:48 +0000

On the iOS side people don't care, but apparently on the Android side they do?