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HopenHeyHi··on Ask HN: How do you deal with entrepreneurial obsession?

  Individuals and publications associated with the term reject what they view as authoritarianism and ostracism within mainstream progressive movements in Western countries, especially within universities and the news media. 

  This includes opposition to deplatforming, boycotts, and online shaming, which are seen as threats to freedom of speech. Those who have been labelled as being part of the IDW come from both the right and left of the political spectrum. The validity of the term is contested by some it has been applied to due to the range of beliefs it encompasses.

Me neither, this is some unspeakable evil. Meditation apps should be about authoritarianism and ostracism. These people just don't know how to be mindful and chill.

If you haven't found traces of their bad philosophy in the app you're simply not looking hard enough pal. They might be subtly influencing you to think incorrectly.

Please make sure to watch out for these things next time you meditate.

HopenHeyHi··on Researchers are trying to mitigate the spread of wild pigs in Canada
A segment of HN is allergic to humor. Real Jabronis/Giambones.
HopenHeyHi··on Ask HN: How do you deal with entrepreneurial obsession?
Self help genre nerd snipes a lot of otherwise intelligent people. It is a bottomless pit.

Vaguely useful is reading biographies of interesting people/companies like John Carmack or the Chucky Cheese dude, and so on. Gives you a bit of color on their experience, look at that crazy journey, sounds wild, I want to have a life like that..

Think of it like Harvard business case reviews but without the just-so tea-leaves retroactive nonsense - that path is for consultants. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

If you have a cool idea just chase it down and see what happens, figure out the rest as you go. :)

HopenHeyHi··on Researchers are trying to mitigate the spread of wild pigs in Canada
For a moment I though my ex-gf started posting to HN :/

(This was her love language, ok? Don't judge us)

HopenHeyHi··on Ask HN: How do you deal with entrepreneurial obsession?

  one of my reference on the topic is Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective"

  I recently started meditating with Sam Harris's Waking up, which is really helping on bringing more awareness in my life
Rolls up newspaper.. thawack

Stop that. You don't need that shit.

Listen to Ze Frank about Brain Crack (he is a very nice man from a long ago interwebs where people didn't try to sell you self help bullshit):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8

HopenHeyHi··on Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax
Interesting perspective, I never thought of it that way.

By all means, I shall call you a person whose opinion could not change. Is there a term for such a thing?

HopenHeyHi··on Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax
I am the one stating it. I personally think that this is what happens to a lot of people. Perhaps your opinion about taxes will never change, no matter what -- but certainly some folks evolve their thinking once they get wealthy or as you yourself said act "socially liberal" only until the tithe box reaches them.
HopenHeyHi··on Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax
Yes, people tend to develop different opinions about taxes depending on their financial situation. Perhaps a decade ago this person would have written your comment word for word -- who knows what kind of comments you will be writing as your situation develops. Only time will tell. :)
HopenHeyHi··on Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TPmHImjqPQ
HopenHeyHi··on Sam Altman didn’t take any equity in OpenAI, report says
OpenAI is unlikely to IPO or be acquired outright anytime soon, equity is meaningless - instead, who controls the spice controls the universe.
HopenHeyHi··on Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call
If you google for language learning apps you get a list of results, dominated by ads at the top but rife for exploring if you are inclined to wade through it.

If you ask ChatGPT it will simply say Duolingo (as they are a partner currently) and you don't even click through as it throws right to it inline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia is exploited in the design of cars and appliances but never before by software to this extent. For most people due to the nature of the conversational interface it feels no different than texting a trusted friend. This is probably accidental, one might note it is yet another unexpected emerging property.

In other words if you think para-social relationships on social media were bad for humans you ain't seen nothing yet. Now your search engine is your fren.

HopenHeyHi··on Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call
You ask it to suggest plugins for your use case.
HopenHeyHi··on Fascination of Awk
I suggest trying xsv as a first step: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
HopenHeyHi··on Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
These things ebb and flow my dear Adso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUUB96c6EpY
HopenHeyHi··on Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
6. Meta comment for karma whoring

7. Like 6, but funnier

A. Joke thread pile on

B. Reprimands from humorless

C. Dejected mods having to clean it all up

HopenHeyHi··on A cyberpunk bathroom in the middle of nowhere
If for Christmas they get a handsome Santa to hum a Wild Cherry cover while egging the place it would be a chunky hunky cyber bathroom punky funky.
HopenHeyHi··on Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die
You figure out which pins to look at by time consuming painstaking trial and error. :)
HopenHeyHi··on Errors and Zig
My beard keeps my face warm in winter?
HopenHeyHi··on The collapse of companies like SVB is triggering demand for corporate merch
I'm never able to spot the sucker at the poker table. I try and try and always end up assuming it is me. I keep trying. And keep assuming it is me.

Lately I have observed fortune smiles my way more often.

Perhaps I will accrue significant winnings over time. Or not. No matter. Most probably I'm the sucker.

The game is a pleasant distraction. Whenever it stops being fun I get up and leave. Duces.

HopenHeyHi··on Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down
Maybe integrating these language models into search and even the chat mode are a case of premature ejaculation from the research group into the world by bonus hungry executives.

Heck, maybe Google was sane to wait. This is starting to feel dumb.

HopenHeyHi··on Richard Stallman's Ted talk in Steve Jobs' style/voice (elevenlabs.io/ChatGPT)
Steve Wozniak: Where's your beard?

Steve Jobs: In the bathroom sink. I shaved it off.

Steve Wozniak: Well, how come?

Steve Jobs: 'Cause banks don't like beards.

--

His first TV appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY

Reportedly, Steve used to be a smelly bearded hippie.

HopenHeyHi··on Made a Flappy Bird clone with GPT4 and Midjourney in under an hour
Meanwhile google translate helped me read this Japanese blog: https://wakeup--technologydirectory-tistory-com.translate.go...

I think going forward framework-y things like Unity will have its documentation and example projects written in a GPT friendly format and users will poke it with a stick to generate tutorials.

We've gained something but we've also lost something. Stuff like 'why the luck stiff' won't emerge this way, it will be derivative turtles all the way down. And fewer people will try and figure things out on their own.

HopenHeyHi··on Richard Stallman's Ted talk in Steve Jobs' style/voice (elevenlabs.io/ChatGPT)
There surely is a painful lesson here to many neckbeards about persuasion.
HopenHeyHi··on OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API
It seems on brand for OpenAI.
HopenHeyHi··on Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object
Of course there is a gap. This is at the exploratory proof of concept stage. The fact that it works at all is what is interesting.

Furthermore once you've identified the make and model of the car, its relative position in 3d, any anomalies -- that ain't just a Ford pickup, it is loaded with cargo that overhangs in a particular way -- its velocity, 'etc -- I'm quite sure that extrapolating additional information from the subsequent frames will be significantly cheaper as you don't have to generate a 3d model from scratch each time.

I think this is a viable exploratory path forward.

    Make it work <- you are here
    Make it work correctly
    Make it work fast
Edit: Scotty does know ;)
HopenHeyHi··on Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object
3D reconstruction from a single image. They stress the examples are not curated, appears to... well, gosh darnit, it appears to work.

If it runs fast enough I wonder whether one could just drive around with a webcam and generate these 3d models on the fly and even import them into a sort of GTA type simulation/game engine in real time. (To generate a novel view, Zero-1-to-3 takes only 2 seconds on an RTX A6000 GPU)

  This research is based on work partially supported by: 
  
  - Toyota Research Institute
  - DARPA MCS program under Federal Agreement No. N660011924032
  - NSF NRI Award #1925157
Oh, huh. Interesting.

  Future Work

  From objects to scenes: 
  Generalization to scenes with complex backgrounds remains an important challenge for our method.
  
  From scenes to videos: 
  Being able to reason about geometry of dynamic scenes from a single view would open novel research directions -- 
  such as understanding occlusions and dynamic object manipulation.

  A few approaches for diffusion-based video generation have been proposed recently and extending them to 3D would be key to opening up these opportunities.
HopenHeyHi··on The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600
Try asking it several times with slightly different phrasings.
HopenHeyHi··on Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
Comments got turned off on most blogs and news sites a long time ago already when it was just unsophisticated spam, not these refined markov chains in a tuxedo such as myself :)

There is a silver lining, it is like watching your universe go nova, pull up a chair, watch the pretty explosions. Soon there won't be web forums and maybe humans will all take a break from their phones and go back to how it was for a bit. Self care is important.

HopenHeyHi··on Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
About power management:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/11mjhx5/tips_fo...

Marcan (two weeks ago):

  It's a known issue blocked on bureaucracy/politics with the kernel, so you just have to wait. Sorry.

  ARM64 Linux does not want hardware-specific cpuidle drivers, instead relying on the PSCI firmware standard, but that standard is designed to rely on optional ARM features that Apple Silicon does not implement, so we can't implement it. Basically, PSCI assumes you have a "super-hypervisor" running the platform (TrustZone/EL3 on most Androids, but also somewhat similar to SMM mode on Intel), which is something Apple very deliberately stripped out of their CPUs very quickly because they don't need it and their security model relies on better solutions. Linux on AS truly runs on bare metal at the highest privilege, unlike the vast majority of other ARM64 platforms.

  The current thinking is we need to make a new standard, either a new PSCI transport that does work on AS or something simpler/ad-hoc. We haven't had time to start that long conversation formally yet. I could write a hardware-specific cpuidle driver in a day, but of course they'd reject it upstream.

Doesn't seem like this is going to be fixed anytime soon. :(
HopenHeyHi··on Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux

  Also is there relevant limitation on stuff you can't do on MacOS through homebrew or something and can on a Linux distro (not a mac user so I don't know).
- $Dayjob bestows a Mac, MacOS is fine but seems to have stagnated due to focus on iOS

- i3/Sway type window managers are more comfy

- Homebrew is hit or miss

- Apple seems to make the best bang-for-buck ARM laptops at the moment

- Asahi is a fine beer :)

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