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lukasbon Launch HN: Vellum (YC W23) – Dev Platform for LLM Apps

Yeah I understand that operating on opaque data might not be one of the first items on your roadmap. Thanks for the quick responses.

lukasbon Launch HN: Vellum (YC W23) – Dev Platform for LLM Apps

Great! Would I be able to provide customers any guarantees about the privacy of their data? Could you create embeddings based on data encrypted homomorphically?

lukasbon Launch HN: Vellum (YC W23) – Dev Platform for LLM Apps

What if I'm building a service that leverages LLMs for my customers? Would I be able to use an API to upload my customers' data and have embeddings created for that? Or is this not a use case you're building for?

lukasbon Focus on things that don't change

Talked to a lawyer yesterday who works in an area where the key laws haven't changed in 90 years. He's built an excellent career based on deep knowledge of those laws.

lukasbon Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

Thanks!

lukasbon Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

I admit, I was skeptical when I started reading your comment, by the end I was thoroughly convinced. Even with good hotkeys for tiling window management and switching, there's still a lot of friction in my setup.

Envious since I probably can't replicate all of your features on MacOS.

lukasbon John Carmack Leaves Meta

Underrated comment.

lukasbon I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

"reliably filling the silence during commute" - this has never made sense to me. There are an infinite number of creators I can subscribe to. So I can always have unwatched content available just by subscribing to creators with high signal-to-noise ratio.

Do normal users tend to just subscribe to a smaller number of channels, so they want channels that publish a lot?

lukasbon Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs

I think the difference between humans and special-purpose ML models here is that humans can generalize from examples in different domains. (There are ML models that also try to do this - train across domains to be more robust against out-of-sample inputs - but my understanding is it's not yet common.)

lukasbon An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model

If a human artist sold work created by copying her style, they would definitely get called out by other artists.

lukasbon Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

The thing html missed out on (which was part of the original vision, to be fair) was using the same program for editing and viewing.

lukasbon iPad Pro M2

What size iPad do you have? Thinking about getting the pen but I have the smaller Pro, not sure how good an experience it will be.

lukasbon iPad Pro M2

This would be solved if Continuity Camera let your iPad use your iPhone camera. Doesn't seem like it does, though.

lukasbon Morton Subotnick

Saw him give a performance of old+new work about six months ago. Was pretty blown away. Great visuals (by a collaborator) as well.

lukasbon Super apps are proliferating across emerging markets

Great article. Was reading through thinking "okay so why aren't super apps popular in the west?" and lo and behold, they tackle that question brilliantly.

lukasbon My First BillG Review (2006)

Criticizing is not cancelling.

lukasbon My First BillG Review (2006)

I don't have a problem with that. I have a problem with yelling at people as your primary method of motivating them. Which, according to Joel's story, was Bill's default method in every review.

lukasbon My First BillG Review (2006)

“Bill doesn’t really want to review your spec, he just wants to make sure you’ve got it under control. His standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don’t know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared. Nobody was really sure what happens if you answer the hardest question he can come up with because it’s never happened before."

It depresses me that the people considered the best in our industry are such assholes. Bill just wanted to yell at everyone because it was the only way he knew how to motivate?

lukasbon Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)

I'm surprised at the pushback against ClawsOnPaws here. Why would you not want to make your apps usable by as many people as possible?

lukasbon The dictatorship of the articulate

The premise is wrong, technological change has slowed only in relative terms, not in absolute terms: https://twitter.com/ThomasPHI2/status/1516079819913674759

lukasbon Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier

yeah I had the same o_O reaction

lukasbon To meet demand, US needs 4.3M more apartments by 2035

Well-built apartments with good light, soundproofing etc are great, and you can get amenities in the building that would be cost-prohibitive for a single-family home.

lukasbon Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files?

USB drive

lukasbon Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest

Have you ever been inside a Wright building? They just feel fantastic to be in. The way a cathedral interior creates this powerful sense of space? Wright could do that with a living room.

lukasbon “Atari Was Very, Very Hard” – Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later

HTG: What did you do “right” in the early years of Atari that people could learn from today?

Bushnell: We did really good branding.

Yep, they were great at this, and that’s why Atari is still famous, rather than just the individual games.

lukasbon The Grug Brained Developer

I'm sorry that you've apparently only worked with bad PMs.

lukasbon Redfin Economist says land value tax will fix the economy

And? This is basically an argument for preserving the status quo of housing. The status quo sucks.

lukasbon “Hamlet” by T. S. Eliot (1919)

"Hamlet (the man) is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because it is in excess of the facts as they appear."

That's exactly what I like about it!

lukasbon What ID3v2 could have been

for audio/video, would you want a single lat/long per file, or a continuous stream with run-length encoding?

lukasbon Embodiment is indispensable for AGI

If you take this line of thinking far enough you get to enactivism: "a position in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through a dynamic interaction between an acting organism and its environment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism