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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How are you making sure LLM provider doesn't ban you from user prompts?

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www.fpcomplete.com 2y ago

Type safety does not matter

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax Biz?

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www.hardcoregaming101.net 2y ago

Rare Bootlegged Zemina (MSX) NES Ports

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Replacing Cloudflare Durable Object with Hibernate WebSocket for Hetzner

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threlte.xyz 2y ago

3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Roughly what % of your SaaS users is most active?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

'Parasite' Actor Found Dead After 2 Women Blackmailed Him [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Do you use ChatGPT to generate code? What were your experiences?

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turas.app 2y ago

Show HN: Travel Itinerary Planning App Made with Quasar.dev

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twitter.com 2y ago

WizardLLM outperforms GPT4-0314 nearly matching latest GPT-4-1106-preview

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Meshtastic: LoRa based Decentralized encrypted communication with ESP32 [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Stripe or Ayden for collecting money from users and then distributing?

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Neocron, cyberpunk MMO pc game from 2002

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Connecting the Original Playstation to the Internet [video]

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github.com 2y ago

Implementation of Google's ScreenAI: Vision-Lang Model for UI and Understanding

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huggingface.co 2y ago

First open source model LLM beats GPT-4-0613 and GPT-4-0314

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How is solar eclipse viewed in your culture?

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Wireless Markup Language (WML)

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

The Deserved Downfall of Counter-Strike [video]

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

UltraHLE changed Nintendo 64 emulation forever – MVG [video]

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twitter.com 2y ago

Gary Marcus on generative AI grift

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I literally don't give a fck about Intel anymore they are irrelevant

The taiwanese silicon industrial complex deserves our dollars. Their workers are insanely hard working and it shows in its product.

damn bro thanks for this

here i am celebrating not pulling the trigger on M2 128gb yesterday

now im realizing M4 ain't shit

will wait a few more months for what you described. will probably wait for AMD

Given that Microsoft has defined that only processors with an NPU with 45 TOPS of performance or over constitute being considered an 'AI PC',

so already with 77 TOPS it just destroys M4. Rumoured to hit the market in 2 months or less.

almost went for M2 128gb to run some local llamas

glad I held out. M4 is going to put downward pressure across all previous gen.

edit: nvm, AMD is coming out with twice the performance of M4 in two months or less. If the M2s become super cheap I will consider it but M4 came far too late. There's just way better alternatives now and very soon.

this is quite worrying for OpenAI as the rate token prices have been plummeting thanks to Meta and its going to have to keep cutting its prices while capex remains flat. whatever Sam says in interviews just think the opposite and the whole picture comes together.

It's almost a mathematical certainty that people who invested in OpenAI will need to reincarnate in multiple universes to ever see that money again but no bother many are probably NVIDIA stock holders to even out the damage.

inb4 alephnerd but US legitimacy/prestige has taken significant hit in the past 10 years and the trend seems to be accelerating.

Truong My Lan may have been a pig to be butchered. Much like SBF/CZ in the US.

So your narrative is that they have complete access but choose not to act on anything they find on VPNs and other "privacy focused" tech?

Makes sense as there has been no cases involving terrorist using Mullvad and such.

So Mullvad is not good enough for terrorists but good enough for the rest? This makes no sense to me.

toy with me for a bit, couldn't Mullvad be another "Encrochat" in the making?

Encrochat was similarly marketed as absolutely trustable complete with experts covering "we fixed this vulnerability/exploit and you can trust us" vibes (https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/dads-se...)

Isn't Mullvad the same thing?

Do you really think they would allow terrorists like Hamas use Mullvad to coordinate attacks? Coincidentally, Hamas does not trust any sort of VPN, opting for underground land lines.

This is an interesting proposition, converting text to motion but what will happen with other agents in the mix? For example, simulating a crowd moving between each other?

So far from the benchmarks comparing with other methods, this seems to be quite natural, if this can be extrapolated into game development, it would remove so much work.

American law enforcement openly disregard the foundations from which the country was built upon yet pushes other countries to adopt ideas which it abandoned but won't admit it out of humiliation--that which we call "democracy" comes with the very hooks and strings it tells other countries to abandon.

Just take a look at the countries that credulously adopted "democracy". They are not in a good shape and will probably never find itself out of the moving goal post that Western countries like to place on "lesser" countries.

America is addicted to these 3 things: Oil, authoritarian labour, drugs. It's law enforcement is not meant to police those addictions at all but rather to ensure its continued uninterrupted supply even if it means violating its own principles that made the country great (about 40+ years ago).

It's no wonder many Americans are yearning for past glory.