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chpatrick··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
For me it was the original DALL-E project page.
chpatrick··on Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
I think it's niche now because getting the hardware to run it is expensive and the quantized models don't work as well. If those improve then it would be a no brainer to pay one off for the hardware instead of a fortune for API calls.
chpatrick··on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers
Yeah, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
chpatrick··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
The live music experience would be terrible if only the richest fans can get in. Every crowd would be old and square.
chpatrick··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
I'm quite happy with the status quo that I don't need to negotiate escrow with every random online service or store.
chpatrick··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
If I get sent a fake (or no) product by someone halfway around the world there's absolutely no way I'm getting my money back in small claims court.
chpatrick··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
It's not hard if E is in tune already. :)
chpatrick··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Yes, we can't immediately convert all vehicles to electric and gas boilers to heat pumps, so if we lose access to gas and oil we're kind of screwed.

Orbán had 16 years of unlimited power to diversify from Russia as the only source though, so there's no excuse.

chpatrick··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
In my part of Europe (Hungary), on a sunny day we have more energy produced from solar (on top of about 50% nuclear) than we can actually use. Sometimes we're 110% zero-carbon and it's because of solar and nuclear.

As of writing this comment our energy mix is 35.69% solar, 23.19% nuclear, 26.66% nuclear imported from Slovakia. The rest is hydro and solar from Austria and about 5% gas and biomass.

In my opinion clean electricity is an almost solved problem, especially as storage gets better.

chpatrick··on Waymo in Portland
In the US it's often not the last mile, but the last 10 or 100 miles. I'm saying this as someone enjoying fantastic public transport in Budapest.
chpatrick··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
90% of the actual code writing? Yes. The actually valuable part is coming up with the ideas for what to do.

There isn't going to be a great reset where everyone goes back to coding by hand any more than we're going back to typesetting by hand.

chpatrick··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
I think the very smart people already work at Google and the 40B buys some of the rest.
chpatrick··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Imagine you're a typesetter and they just invented computerized printing.
chpatrick··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
Why not?
chpatrick··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
I know I'm thinking, I have no idea if you're thinking, or if you're a human or an LLM. But I wouldn't assume you aren't thinking just from reading your output.
chpatrick··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
This is such a boring cliche by now. "thinking" and "knowing what it's doing" are totally vague statements that we barely understand about the human mind but in every comment section about AI people definitively state that LLMs don't do them, whatever they are.
chpatrick··on OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot
If he's right they'll be out of job regardless whether it's because of Claude or another AI.
chpatrick··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
But they're pretty fast and can have loads of RAM, which would be prohibitively expensive with Nvidia.
chpatrick··on Inside the covert operation to bring down the party threatening Orbán's rule
The detective who was pressured by (presumably) intelligence services to invest the Tisza tech staff has also given an interview today: https://youtu.be/IXmuE2TX9yE?si=d3Kw3-4R8QvFEHz8
chpatrick··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Einstein was heavily inspired by Mach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle
chpatrick··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094037
chpatrick··on Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
That's how it works when you sing! But if you have an instrument you need to tune it would be annoying if you had to retune it between every song.
chpatrick··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
Actually Graphene has been shown to be resilient (uniquely) to some of the forensic tools used by governments.
chpatrick··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Suicide rate is higher in northern countries.
chpatrick··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Nice ad hominems, good job.

It's the same deal with small phones. Everyone thinks they're a great idea, then when they actually release them no one buys them. You can't plan your products based on what a small group of users want.

I use Graphene myself and I think it's great but this idea that it's something the average user is clamoring for is just fiction.

chpatrick··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
None of that sells phones.
chpatrick··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
And?
chpatrick··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
chpatrick··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
2021 called, they want their uninformed metaphor back.
chpatrick··on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Everyone knows to really think you need to use your fleshy meat brain, everything else is cheating.
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