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donpark

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https://twitter.com/donpark http://blog.docuverse.com

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donpark··on W3C and My RSS Spec
Respect is also a useful tool. It reduces conflicts just as diplomacy reduces violence. Yes, respect can be set aside but, when you do, expect controversy.

Why would anyone want to invite unnecessary controversy when writing a spec?

donpark··on W3C and My RSS Spec
Transfer of ownership nor CC licensing explains the lack of attribution, a sign of disrespect and disregard.
donpark··on Wow, is Apple’s Vision Pro loaded with pixels
Yes. "Digital Crown" dial is used to set how much "reality" is let in.
donpark··on Chat Notebooks
Having been there when it was first announced, I think his "claim" has substance. Mathematica clearly defined the "notebooks" UI as it is known today.
donpark··on Sail 7B: New Fine Tuned LLM Outperforms ChatGPT and Vicuna with Search
https://github.com/luohongyin/SAIL
donpark··on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
I think Sam is referring to transition from "Deep" to "Long" learning [1]. What new emergent properties, if any, will 1 billion tokens unlock?

[1] https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learn...

donpark··on Is GPT-4 Worth the Subscription? Here’s What You Should Know
Early access to new features or services justifies the monthly expense in my case.

Arguably, ChatGPT Plus service fee helps them create a large pool of developers and early adopters which can be used as robust sounding board better than free service users can or will.

donpark··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Just tried this in both English and Korean. Fumbled a bit with voice control but worked well once I got it going. Very nice. Korean prompts got translated to English so had to tell ChatGPT to respond in Korean to get full non-English UX.

Well done.

donpark··on Show HN: Watermelon – GPT-powered code contextualizer
This is the better link. Video demo! https://www.watermelontools.com/pages/watermelon-onboard-you...
donpark··on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data
Derivative training data is already part of the training regime. Earliest example produced rotated images for more robust image recognition.

IP laws are legal constructs and subject to changes like everything else depending on our needs. When and if enough of us see benefits from AI hugely outweighing benefits from maintaining IP framework, I'm pretty sure laws will be passed to make needed adjustments.

donpark··on How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?
Neither their name nor history matter to me so, as long as their services are useful and pricing is reasonable, I will continue using OpenAI services.
donpark··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
I'm 60 and my decline is not as bad as you described. Consult a doctor.
donpark··on Ask HN: What Recession?
Choosing to ignore news while asking why your own experience doesn't match news seems disingenuous. News like recession is not made up for political or humourous reasons.
donpark··on Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?
Should developers be allowed to make decisions on what they build?

Decisions we make may differ from others but I think the answer for most of us is yes. In other words, you do you and let others do theirs.

donpark··on Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
It makes sense if the intent is to protect Midjourney from being blamed for misuse. If they saw the potential misuse yet chose to do nothing about it, they'd be blamed. Lack of perfect solution is not an excuse for not offering any protection.
donpark··on Subreply
I'm happy to see people exploring further now that we know a bit more about the effects of initial social networks, particularly their downsides from both personal and network level. We've barely made it off the beachhead IMO.

The same w/blogs which pretty much stopped evolving after Tumbler & Medium.

donpark··on Transform any text into a patent application (2014)
Not sure why this was posted now but this is from 2014.

Code at https://github.com/antiboredom/patent-generator

donpark··on I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust
Could tyty emit declaration (.d.ts) files fast while it type checks?

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only esbuild user frustrated with having to `tsc --emitOnlyDeclaration`.

donpark··on Ask HN: How do you cope with being interupted?
I use sticky notes and a pinboard like others with a twist: sticky notes are placed on paper, not directly on the board. Each sheet of paper works like a room, contextual frame for notes. Move paper to top to switch context. Doing the same in computer screen doesn't work as well.
donpark··on Show HN: Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs
I'd agree in general for consumer use-cases but not for business use-cases. With an open source business tool that may be used in non-business context, charging for features required for business use makes sense.

Even among consumer use-cases, lack of privacy may be a feature. In spatial chat, for example, being in able to overhear conversation within 'earshot' is a feature. Selling private space in that context makes sense and similar to selling improved voice quality, at least to me, and there are stark operational cost boundaries in the involved tech that can complicates the picture.

donpark··on SVT Encore – Abstract the Transcoding Power of FFmpeg
Verified access from US although I think they ran out of moose.
donpark··on Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards
If you're looking for a small friendly MK community to get into this ~~cursed~~ wonderful hobby, try KeebTalk.

https://www.keebtalk.com/

donpark··on Show HN: hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions
yup. no websocket connection.
donpark··on Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone
See https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-co...
donpark··on Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone
AFAIK, using copyrighted data to train does not necessarily make the trained model "toxic". "Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc." case [1] is viewed as a key precedent for this view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

donpark··on Show HN: I made a parser visualizer using manim
watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BozB0O0__Qg
donpark··on Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate
According to someone who listened to both, Lyra beats Codec2 on quality. YMMV
donpark··on Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access
From Github page: they use BLE and mDNS.
donpark··on Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering
E2EE uses WebRTC Insertable Streams feature which is enabled by default on latest stable Chrome (v86) so web client support is at least possible now.
donpark··on Repl.it Database
Cool natural way to encourage signup and paid accounts. Well done!
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