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New comment by victoryhb in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

victoryhb — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:10:44 +0000

It appears that Altman was fired for "not being consistently candid" by a board that is neither consistent nor candid.

New comment by victoryhb in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

victoryhb — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:49:52 +0000

Most people who sympathized with the Board prior to this would have assumed that the presumed culprit, the legendary Ilya, has thought through everything and is ready to sacrifice anything for a course he champions. It appears that is not the case.

New comment by victoryhb in "“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4"

victoryhb — Sun, 21 May 2023 13:41:11 +0000

The official name for the model has always been GPT-4. OpenAI has not used the term ChatGPT-4.

New comment by victoryhb in "AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will"

victoryhb — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:55:08 +0000

Why should we listen to someone who cannot even spell "ChatGPT" right for opinions on AI?

New comment by victoryhb in "ChatGPT Plugins"

victoryhb — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:38:38 +0000

Super smart move for OpenAI to monetize the existing infrastructure, which will make it easy for corporations to integrate GPT into their internal data and workflow. It also solves two fundamental bottlenecks in current versions of GPT: factuality and (limited) working memory. Google, with its lackluster Bard, will face new threat, now that everyone can build a customized New Bing clone in a matter of days.

New comment by victoryhb in "OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes"

victoryhb — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:59:58 +0000

When they released ChatGPT, they would have foreseen that the least it could do is forever pollute the Web and all human media with AI-generated content indistinguishable from human output. It would be naive to hand everyone a gun for next to nothing (on the pretext of helping them to hunt) and expect nothing bad will happen. What is the point of a warning if they have not been more judicious with the weapon distribution?

The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI

victoryhb — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/the-future-soon-what-i-learned-from

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34871301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by victoryhb in "Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM"

victoryhb — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 05:05:30 +0000

Excellent job. I can already see this being much more flexible than Numba and much more elegant/easy to use than Cython. Please keep it coming:)

New comment by victoryhb in "Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM"

victoryhb — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 19:00:56 +0000

If Codon becomes similar enough to Python, it will be trivial to port Python libs to it, thus opening Codon to the vast Python ecosystem.

New comment by victoryhb in "Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’"

victoryhb — Sun, 01 May 2022 14:48:05 +0000

The bottom line is Apple products post-Ive have improved dramatically in terms of practicality, efficiency, and even design. Without Jobs, the guy should be without jobs.

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

victoryhb — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:22:38 +0000

So you have nothing "new" to say after all, but repeating what "everyone" should know already. HN should now censor your comment.

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

victoryhb — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:50:33 +0000

So the reason for the censorship is they read the entire article and saw nothing "new" about something you "all know is true"? That's indeed a "new" way to discourage reasoned discussions.

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

victoryhb — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:45:09 +0000

I am also surprised that a reasoned discussion like this gets flagged while comments calling it a "shitpost" are not.

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

victoryhb — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:20:40 +0000

Why is HN flagging this article? Just because it exposes the (debatable) flaws of a language that the HN crowd love? Justifications must be provided.

New comment by victoryhb in "Cython is 20"

victoryhb — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 18:16:55 +0000

I tried to learn Cython last year, but was thwarted by two issues: (1) its syntax was too ugly for my taste and support for the pure Python mode was immature; (2) performance bottlenecks were opaque and hard to profile (at least for beginners). I ended up picking up Nim, a language with Python-like syntax and C-like performance, and was productive within hours (literally). I never looked back.

New comment by victoryhb in "One Year with R"

victoryhb — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:04:18 +0000

I find R's strengths lie in its unmatched collection of statistical libraries, but I dislike R's syntax so much that, if forced to use it, would call an R package from Python (using RPy2), or just use a Python alternative (e.g. Plotnine).

New comment by victoryhb in "The Fall of Roam"

victoryhb — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:35:55 +0000

The idea of bi-directional links sounds promising and exciting in theory, but after trying it out on Obsidian for a couple of weeks I have found following it overly laborious and have now reverted back to the good-old tree structure of Dynalist.

New comment by victoryhb in "Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?"

victoryhb — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:04:03 +0000

How do you define mental models in the first place? It seems the examples given by you and other commenters mostly fall into the category of sayings, as you rightly pointed out, which are (sometimes) useful but overly general and unfalsifiable claims.

Nim rated the best programming language among 82 options

victoryhb — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:20:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slant.co/topics/5984/~productivity-enhancing-well-designed-and-concise-rather-than-just-popular-or-time-tested-programming-lang

Hacker News: victoryhb

New comment by victoryhb in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

New comment by victoryhb in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

New comment by victoryhb in "“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4"

New comment by victoryhb in "AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will"

New comment by victoryhb in "ChatGPT Plugins"

New comment by victoryhb in "OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes"

The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI

New comment by victoryhb in "Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM"

New comment by victoryhb in "Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM"

New comment by victoryhb in "Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’"

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

New comment by victoryhb in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang"

New comment by victoryhb in "Cython is 20"

New comment by victoryhb in "One Year with R"

New comment by victoryhb in "The Fall of Roam"

New comment by victoryhb in "Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?"

Nim rated the best programming language among 82 options

Odinson: A fast rule-based information extraction framework [pdf]