Hacker News: u2077

New comment by u2077 in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

u2077 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:19:20 +0000

> We used novel synthetic data generation techniques, such as distilling outputs from OpenAI o1-preview, to post-train the model for its core behaviors. This approach allowed us to rapidly address writing quality and new user interactions, all without relying on human-generated data.

So they took a bunch of human-generated data and put it into o1, then used the output of o1 to train canvas? How can they claim that this is a completely synthetic dataset? Humans were still involved in providing data.

New comment by u2077 in "Ask HN: Any Good Reliable iPad Calculator?"

u2077 — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:41:47 +0000

Solves is the perfect candidate. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solves-calculator-for-all/id13...

Fifty Years of Progress in Software Engineering (1996) [pdf]

u2077 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:45:02 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/251759.251878

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467063

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by u2077 in "Ask HN: Why do so many YouTube videos have exactly 54 upvotes?"

u2077 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:04:59 +0000

It may be related to the famous 301 view count where YouTube would stop updating the total pending further verification that the views are legitimate. See: https://youtu.be/oIkhgagvrjI This behavior was later removed in 2015, but I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar is happening here.

New comment by u2077 in "[dead]"

u2077 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 04:41:31 +0000

This bot answers any prompt, even those completely unrelated to the product (ex: generating code, writing paragraphs, etc) I imagine this could be abused and accumulate unwanted costs. Also, how do you ensure the bot isn’t subject to hallucinations? I would never risk giving a customer wrong information about my product.

New comment by u2077 in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

u2077 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:28:37 +0000

https://help.kagi.com/orion/company/history.html

New comment by u2077 in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

u2077 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:06:42 +0000

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Kagi Small Web

u2077 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:22:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281

Points: 668

# Comments: 185

Electromagnetically Induced Acoustic Noise

u2077 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:56:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_induced_acoustic_noise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164661

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by u2077 in "TikTok is adding text posts"

u2077 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:29:47 +0000

How many more platforms do we need where users can post all sorts of media and follow other’s content? Every social media site copies features from another, and they are all basically the same item wrapped in a different package. When will people wake up and return to RSS?

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

u2077 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037

Points: 502

# Comments: 439

New comment by u2077 in "Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours"

u2077 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 01:48:23 +0000

Feels like they were too eager to scoop up Twitter refugees. The platform is still missing basic features and new users turn away immediately. Nobody’s going to join a platform and then keep their account open for 6 months while the platform plays catch-up. The launch would have been much more successful if they waited another month. I understand this is a peak time to capture former Twitter users, but in the long run it may have been a mistake. Will be interesting to see how they market it as things develop.

New comment by u2077 in "Threads, an Instagram app"

u2077 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:06:52 +0000

Look at that app privacy report. I didn’t expect anything less from Meta. Let’s hope they aren’t using all our Mastodon accounts for advertising too.

New comment by u2077 in "Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud"

u2077 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:13:13 +0000

This is stupid. Who on earth would want to pay a subscription for a PC when they still need to buy one to stream the OS?

I see the value proposition, but it’s only as fast (and expensive) as your internet speed.

- Businesses and consumers could buy less expensive hardware, and simply pay $x/month for access.

- IT could remotely troubleshoot - Fewer hardware issues

- A $10/month subscription would last longer than a $1200 laptop for most consumers.

- MS handles all software updates, stores all your personal data, has complete control of hardware and software.

- Some sort of device is still required, how does it respond to input from a keyboard, mouse, controller, etc? How do USBs, Raspberry Pi’s, External storage devices work?

- You still need a screen. I could see this being an app on smart TVs and mobile devices. (The form-factor of a powerful PC is smaller because of the streaming aspect)

- Internet is still relatively slow, every input would feel laggy and unresponsive.

- Anyone can guess your username/pwd and gain access to your PC.

- Hackers now have a single target.

- If Microsoft’s servers ever go down, you can’t use your PC at all.

- You are subject to any future government regulations with no choice to opt out.

- You lose access to everything if your subscription expires.

- MS has an unprecedented level of access to data that will inevitably be used for advertising.

- MS becomes your ISP and can filter traffic however they want.

New comment by u2077 in "Ask HN: Show me your New Tab"

u2077 — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:12:39 +0000

https://bonjourr.fr

Vanilla List • The Vanilla JavaScript Repository

u2077 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:43:55 +0000

Article URL: https://vanillalist.top/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34579455

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor

u2077 — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:36:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blockbench.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845291

Points: 340

# Comments: 50

New comment by u2077 in "Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer"

u2077 — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:56:55 +0000

I’ve been using 12ft since beta. They’ve been hit by some legal notices and no longer work on some sites like NYT. It’s just a game of whack-a-mole. Ideally these workarounds are open source so they can’t just shut a domain down.

New comment by u2077 in "Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs"

u2077 — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:48:46 +0000

Not OP, but I loved Neeva’s results. That being said, it’s a bit too personalized to my liking. For example, it automatically detected my location to display the weather, and the app’s search history cannot be disabled without private mode. For a “private” search engine, it did way too many personalizations by default. These few things, and a somewhat confusing UI made me switch to Orion (Kagi).

New comment by u2077 in "Microsoft introduces ways of detecting “leavers” in email"

u2077 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:12:40 +0000

Forgot a part:

> And employees are opted in without any notice from their employer

[edit] Obviously professional communication channels are monitored, but it would still be nice to be informed when policies change. (Anyhow, personal and professional communications should always be kept separate to avoid this issue)