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rhackeron Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on GOES East Images

Lol for once smoke in the news that I'm not (yet) breathing. (FarNorCal)

rhackeron Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

So like, would that not suggest that Google has a moat with AI, as it is already intertwined with our email, calendars, etc... (if they ever make their AI public)

rhackeron Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

Guess there really is a moat.

rhackeron Steal This Idea: The Larger the Car, the More You Pay to Park

What about people falling into phase 1 homelessness: RVs

rhackeron Black holes might be defects in spacetime

Pretty much. We can't get past the big wigs until the big wigs are no longer enforcing beliefs that make little sense.

rhackeron OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it

Models are worthless without reproducible training anyway. What good is a point in time model if you can't update it going forward.

rhackeron OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it

Same here but I'm also a programmer, YYYY-MM-DD

rhackeron Anxious dogs, like anxious people, need help managing and reducing distress

If everyone that read your comment decided to donate, it might.

rhackeron What if we covered every warehouse in the mountain West with solar panels?

What happens when you add that much weight to a flat roof and then the snow comes? I'm guessing the snow load is just enough in most cases.

rhackeron ‘Nearshoring’ Push Is Fueling Tech Job Demand in Latin America

Colombia

don't worry I made that mistake and one engineer was trying to get my address to send me "the shirt"

rhackeron Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”

We should piss off google and standardize around chatgpt.txt

rhackeron Google I/O 2023

Came for the comments, comments didn't disappoint!

rhackeron Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits

It probably should be in the internet age. There is a huge cottage industry out there for fixing prices. I hope that the feds discover all the OTHER companies out there that are similar to RealPage.

rhackeron Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits

Technically does that mean the FTC can literally go after all the companies for collusive price fixing?

rhackeron SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

Cool, thanks for letting me know.

rhackeron SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

Yikes, what's the chance just enough rockets will cause the next one to crash and blow up in Miami?

rhackeron California public school enrollment sees big drops

I am 43, definitely not my experience when I was growing up in CA. When did the kids go from "good - well behaved" to "bad -poorly behaved"? Honest question - I really don't know any kids.

rhackeron Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image

Is it just me or is it really really really slow?

rhackeron Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

Exactly 2100 left as of time of writing 4:56pm PT

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

rhackeron The Future of Applications

you get it.

rhackeron The Future of Applications

Nothing useful, just an insult. ok. Can we talk to each other like we're friends or co-workers at least?

rhackeron The Future of Applications

Please let LLMs become the "next blockchain" (in terms of keeping our jobs). First off, yes blockchain was just horrible. I think generative AI is actually worth the time and energy because it's actually extremely useful. It's capable of all the things we wanted to program all these years.

Secondly - its probably the one thing keeping the lights on right now. If nothing else, AI/GPT is going to be "powering" the digital economy for the next few years.

Yes we'll all be writing apps that simply ordering, replace phone prompts (have you ordered from Applebees recently? - think that but way more accurate), generate splash pages, parse menus, parse _flat_ PDFs, make appointments, reservations, book travel (I mean just say where you want to go and uber->flight->uber without trying to work a UI, and as odd as it sounds a generative LLM can actually realize a long layover automatically and try to avoid it - simply because its coded in our language!). What was my last RBC count? (because my lab results are in a PDF on my desktop) This is a list I thought of in 4 minutes. What will millions of devs think of?

So yes, I absolutely want to keep this gravy train rolling. If we stopped, the economy would absolutely break right now.

rhackeron Ask HN: Fastest way to turn a Jupyter notebook into a website these days?

Probably at minimum something running in a sandbox like Docker.

rhackeron BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users

Like big oil, it sounds like there is enough "infrastructure" out there that allows them to move the price fixing to third party companies that "recommend" prices for stuff.

rhackeron UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/7g9n6e/music...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/comments/11aqayg...

Japanese people are NOTHING like Americans. Stop saying CA should build like Japan unless you're willing to kick out the loud assholes.

rhackeron UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

I think the basis for this feeling is that people keep moving here. We feel it when traffic gets worse, etc... Not really sure IF there's a real solution. The more people there are, the worse things get in small spaces. We have an entire country that is mostly empty.

rhackeron UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

This is my experience too. I don't know where the CPI ever gets its data. But Inflation is clearly over 100% for restaurants in California. Literally in the last 3 years.

rhackeron More Americans are using ‘buy now, pay later’ services to pay for groceries

I've been using buy now pay later for like 20 years, since that's how long I've had a credit card.

rhackeron People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity

I definitely don't want a fridge that can self replace the mayo. I'm not sure what other people need something like that for

rhackeron People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity

I use that too. And beyond that, the original analogy was that the light bulb was so helpful that it spread to all the farms and rural lands by 1960. Why do we need 25 MBit on all the farms and rural lands?