Hacker News: vertis

New comment by vertis in "BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes"

vertis — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:36:35 +0000

What's the connection to Xiaomi here? (honest question)

New comment by vertis in "BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes"

vertis — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:33:19 +0000

I've never seen as many potholes as when I visited Canada FWIW. I'm a Kiwi and I've driven all over AU/EU/UK (Little bit of US, but only really CA and Maine).

I didn't drive in China, but I've been driven multiple times and the highways and main roads seemed solid.

New comment by vertis in "BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes"

vertis — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:26:33 +0000

I was thinking more the getaway car of pros

New comment by vertis in "Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals"

vertis — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:01:37 +0000

Absolutely wild that it's been linked to a french government fund. I mean it's hard to believe the potential political fallout could be worth what they would get out of it, so one presumes the top doesn't know what the bottom is doing.

New comment by vertis in "Former Bayesian captain on sinking, vessel ballast and stability"

vertis — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:56:46 +0000

I don't think so, I think it's a genuinely interesting piece of information and loss of a yacht. Most smaller (e.g. 36ft) yachts are very hard to sink, often with human error being the most likely problem (i.e the vessel itself is safe and seaworthy). Bigger yachts with commercial crews have to reach an even higher bar.

This becomes interesting from a number of facets. Engineering failure, human error, weather.

New comment by vertis in "James Earl Jones has died"

vertis — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:42:47 +0000

Every startup founders favourite movie.

New comment by vertis in "James Earl Jones has died"

vertis — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:37:30 +0000

old enough <=> smart enough

New comment by vertis in "Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5"

vertis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:42:13 +0000

I wonder if the other investors will sue.

New comment by vertis in "Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5"

vertis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:41:35 +0000

Yeah I managed to get it to admit that it was Claude without much effort (telling it not to lie), and then it magically stopped doing that. FWIW Constitutional AI is great.

New comment by vertis in "Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5"

vertis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:40:15 +0000

As far as I can tell he's the founder of GlaiveAI. There were messages suggesting Matt was an investor, but I haven't been able to confirm this.

New comment by vertis in "Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown"

vertis — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:02:48 +0000

I'm a big Obsidian user and (small) plugin author, but I'd move to something Obsidian like that was open source because there is a chance of enshittification, looking at this though I can't find any reference to any capability for adding plugins.

They can compare themselves to Obsidian however you like in the features table, but the strength of Obsidian is not in the vanilla experience but in the plugins.

New comment by vertis in "Jake Seliger has died"

vertis — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:14:56 +0000

Nothing can really help/console in this moment. But so many of us are thinking about him. I appreciated his blog, his strength. It will go on and make a difference.

If you ever need anything my contact details are on my profile and I would be more than happy to help in any way that I can. Technically, financially (I'm sure you have much closer resources, but the offer is there regardless).

New comment by vertis in "OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic"

vertis — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:46:21 +0000

It's not just the narcissist, it's the betrayal. The least open company possible. How did I end up cheering for Meta and Zuck?

New comment by vertis in "The introverts are winning"

vertis — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:49:52 +0000

The ability to live our lives online well predates the pandemic. Remote work hasn't prevented experiences (except perhaps being tied to a commute), it's enabled us to live more flexible lives.

My partner (extreme introvert), and myself (somewhat an ambivert) have travelled the world for 6 years as digital nomads and rarely if ever do extroverted things. But introvert is not the same as not leaving the house.

We've done ~50 countries, quietly, patiently and without broadcasting our lives for all to see. We've learned to sail and lived on a sailboat for a while without starting a youtube channel so the world can follow us doing it.

I find the article mostly to be flawed and ridiculous. Calling introverts selfish is obnoxious. This reads like a (fake) column from "Sex and the City".

Carrie: "I found myself wondering if humans would go extinct if they didn't go to bars every night".

New comment by vertis in "How I Use "AI""

vertis — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:46:08 +0000

I don't really use them together exactly, I just alternate backwards and forwards depending on the type of task I'm doing. If it's the kind of change that's likely to be across lots of files (writing) then I'll use Aider. If it only uses context from other files I'll likely use Cursor.

New comment by vertis in "Starting Hospice"

vertis — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:10:03 +0000

It has been heartbreaking to follow, but all the same an important documentation. You are a true hero. I am at a loss to know what else to say.

New comment by vertis in "To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands"

vertis — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:57:57 +0000

I think both work, from a purely information point of view.

The SingleFile download preserves more of the original format. For a long while I was using MarkDownload and capturing the content that way, but a bunch is lost that way.

I also use Zotero for downloading journal articles (etc), that also has the ability to snapshot, but then I found it was locked up in Zotero. Where my current setup is a Jekyll repo on Vercel that means that the content is almost immediately accessible after the github push and deploy. Something that happens automatically after I click the SingleFile download button (configured in the extension).

I need do no more than grab the web link and paste it into Obsidian, where linking to Zotero from Obsidian is a royal pain (not impossible).

New comment by vertis in "How I Use "AI""

vertis — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:48:41 +0000

Once you know LLMS make mistakes and know to look for them half the battle is done. Humans make mistakes, which is why we take effort to validate thinking and actions.

As I use it more and more often the mistakes are born of ambiguity. As I supply more information to the LLM it's answer(s) gets better. I'm finding more and more ways to supply it with robust and extensive information.

New comment by vertis in "How I Use "AI""

vertis — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 21:02:59 +0000

I use Cursor and Aider, I hadn't heard of Double. I've tried a bunch of others including Continue.dev, but found them all to be lacking.

New comment by vertis in "How I Use "AI""

vertis — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:57:43 +0000

I'm finding myself using the extensively in the learning way, but also I'm an extreme generalist. I've learned so many languages over 23 years, but remembering the ones I don't use frequently is hard. The LLMs become the ultimate memory aid. I know that I can do something in a given language, and will recognised that it's correct when I see it.

Together with increasingly powerful speech to text I find myself talking to the computer more and more.

There are flaws, there are weaknesses, and a bubble, but any dev that can't find any benefit in LLMs is just not looking.