Hacker News: unimpressive

The RetroInstruct Guide to Synthetic Text Data

unimpressive — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://minihf.com/posts/2024-07-13-the-retroinstruct-guide-to-synthetic-text-data/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41379612

Points: 1

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“Remove fair use for AI artists – Large companies then own the commons”

unimpressive — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:47:20 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1412116392279560192

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27741243

Points: 3

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Inside Brazil’s DIY, eco-friendly NFT art marketplace

unimpressive — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:44:31 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-brazils-diy-nft-art-marketplace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495665

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by unimpressive in "Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts"

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:05:25 +0000

Oh huh, I can totally see how that works but would not have predicted it/thought to check because it's not my blog. My apologies.

New comment by unimpressive in "Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts"

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:33:42 +0000

We bought that too, haven't set it up yet.

New comment by unimpressive in "Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts"

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:30:44 +0000

I think you may be a bit different than the modal person being targeted with this site.

New comment by unimpressive in "Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts"

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:28:22 +0000

That's much better phrasing, thank you. :)

New comment by unimpressive in "Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts"

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:28:03 +0000

You mean this blog with default CSS? And barely any site navigation?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation...

Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188643

Points: 48

# Comments: 23

New comment by unimpressive in "Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky"

unimpressive — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:52:13 +0000

Obligatory Sci-Fi premise:

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-al...

New comment by unimpressive in "Reason Won't Save Us"

unimpressive — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:36:56 +0000

More in this vein: Your superior knowledge won't even give you an edge in technology investing/founding.

https://www.gwern.net/Timing

I definitely find the OP's perspective a little obnoxious. Being less-wrong is actually fairly easy (in the grand scheme of things), the problem is that nobody cares about being right.

New comment by unimpressive in "Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Core App"

unimpressive — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:54:13 +0000

Yeah, hearing TG's UI/UX described as not good made me do a double take. It's the best UI I've ever seen in a chat app, and I've probably used at least a dozen by now.

New comment by unimpressive in "Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650M Settlement for Data Breach"

unimpressive — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 03:27:56 +0000

>The actors I've seen taking advantage of it are highly unlikely to front up with a credit card and provide what amounts to personally identifiable data (i.e. make a credit card payment) in order to mass enumerate the API.

Unless they just steal a credit card. Not unlikely, given who we're talking about here.

New comment by unimpressive in "A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices"

unimpressive — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:05:02 +0000

>as soon as legislation is introduced by governments to make the parties producing software or hardware responsible for the stuff they dump on the open market.

AKA the plausible end of open source. Once writing any program and sharing it can get you sued, people will stop doing that.

New comment by unimpressive in "A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)"

unimpressive — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:50:21 +0000

>I had a high school teacher who described what he called a failsafe study method:...

At this point you should just use spaced repetition. It's what I did, it has the same effects for a lot less work.

New comment by unimpressive in "Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development"

unimpressive — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:10:17 +0000

Reminds me of: http://messymatters.com/tagtime/

Which is a pretty well formed solution in this vein, unfortunately written in Perl.

New comment by unimpressive in "Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should back up your CD-Rs now"

unimpressive — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:19:16 +0000

I would honestly just copy it as an iso with something like dd.

New comment by unimpressive in "Software Below the Poverty Line"

unimpressive — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:07:40 +0000

>The only thing guaranteed about "open source" software is that you can read the source.

'Open Source' was/is a rebranding of the term 'Free Software' to make it easier to sell to suits. Eric Raymond has said as much about his invention of the phrase. The idea that it's just about "being able to read the source" is wrong. It's not vague at all, you just didn't do your research.

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

New comment by unimpressive in "Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall"

unimpressive — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:48:34 +0000

> Looking at their previous partnership with ProtonVPN, ten dollars a month for a VPN seems a bit high. My self hosted Algo instance only run ~6 a month with tax.

You are not the target market for this product. "A few more dollars than my self hosted solution..." is a sentence that typically takes you way outside the target audience of most products in this vein.

New comment by unimpressive in "An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist"

unimpressive — Sat, 25 May 2019 20:32:14 +0000

Yes. Exactly like that.