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johnla··on Grok Outage
And grok was secretly querying ChatGPT? Daisy chain of failures? Like a chain of kids copying the answers of the kid next to them? LOL. Is there an XKCD for that?
johnla··on AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
I'll perform these songs by AI in concerts if the price is right. And that's how AI starts to leak out into the physical world. AI also hires human workers to do tasks in the real world using Task Rabbit and similar apps.
johnla··on Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model
For it to be brilliant, AI needs to be a benevolent tool all the time. It would take just a few malignant actors to turn our world upside. I suspect it'll follow the same Internet and social media path. Great at first, grow markets, bring us together and then take a turn.
johnla··on GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]
That might not be practical/possible for early days but this does seem like a bridge to that natural next step that /u/dweekly is saying which would quickly phase out this Gibberlink protocol.
johnla··on DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference
Sounds like a job for AI.
johnla··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
Try making nuggets from scratch. It’s so good and easy to do. Chicken tenders from breast meat. Egg seasoned with salt, pepper. Dunk into seasoned breading. Dunk into egg again and back to the breading. Pan fry. Yummy.
johnla··on Starship Flight 7
I would consider these launches test launches. Production is when they include commercial payloads and humans.
johnla··on La Basilica Di San Pietro
This might actually be an awesome use case.
johnla··on La Basilica Di San Pietro
Yes! I forgot about this but I knew I've seen something very similar long ago also by Microsoft. I wonder if any Photosynth DNA got into this.
johnla··on Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
I think most of them are new to this type of nature so you're stuck in "is this normal? Am I in danger? If I run, will I look like a fool?" So you're standing there and looking for other people's reactions before making your own. So it's a bunch of people frozen and looking at each other before 1 person makes a run for it and everyone else does too.
johnla··on White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)
It will forever boggle me but the way I sort of rationalize it is that speed basically borrows energy from time. Something like that. So the faster you go, the slower the time goes. So if you go the speed of light, you're taking so much time away that when you make a roundtrip, you're like 50 years into the future.

That's a totally wrong explanation but it helps me sort out the effects and what to expect. If you fly quickly around the Earth, your watch is a tiny bit different than the stationary clock.

johnla··on How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane
Probably John Coltrane was pissed but then realized, damn, that was really good music happening in there. Screw it, but i'm out as soon as the last note is done.
johnla··on Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
For me, it resonated strongly with me because I"m a middle aged Asian American with immigrant parents and I have young kids. It hits me in a lot of levels emotionally. I get why someone who doesn't share my background not get it. Also, you kind of need to be in the mood for that type of humor.
johnla··on Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer
Would you make that open source? I'm interested in this problem. I'm sure there are some OS bin packing algorithms but I not familiar with ones that have separation and linking rules.
johnla··on Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer
This is interesting. What's the algorithm that you use to optimize?
johnla··on A suicide crisis among veterinarians
Dark comedic thought: if a prerequisite to suicide is to get your affairs in order and leave behind a clean house, suicide would be very low; ugh, too lazy to clean. I'll just live instead.
johnla··on Bruce Lee and Me
Near-libelous is fitting. I'm a Bruce fanatic since childhood and there are a lot of personal accounts of Bruce and they never painted him as the guy in Tarantino's movie. I love Tarantino but that was bad. Tarantino likes to play with his characters but in this case Bruce was a real person and a hero to a generation(s). That was unfair to do that to a real person for some comedy.
johnla··on Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)
Yes, it's good to keep a good perspective by thinking our position relative to the world but relative to our surroundings and cost of living too. Probably living the US, we're near the top for expenditures/costs too.
johnla··on Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)
I love this essay.
johnla··on A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
How did you forcefully lucid dream?
johnla··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
At risk of sounding dumb: what's in the telemetry data?
johnla··on A WiFi color eInk picture frame
this won't be a popular suggestion but it works for us: We got the grandparents Nest Home Hub display. It's LCD and there's a switch to disable mic and camera but it works really well for photo sharing.
johnla··on Banking in uncertain times
If I was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, I would've picked "just desserts" as my final answer without hesitation. TIL
johnla··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
This.

Also, once the ChatGPT AI takes off and becomes ubiquitous, then what if there is a lack of credible content for it to train on?

johnla··on Show HN: Flappy Bird and Wordle
Even with easy mode, this is way impossible. I like the idea but it's way too hard.

Maybe turn it into a typing game where you simply keep the bird from falling into the ground.

johnla··on Netlify acquires Gatsby
IP? Patents?

Other companies use those technologies and have to pay for commercial licenses? They can freeze out competitors? I don't know, just spitballing.

johnla··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
If you're interested in it, you still can do it. And coding required many hours STRAIGHT of uninterrupted time to dive deep. Something that you get less and less of as you get older. Plus the distractions (Hello Hackernews).

I have a list of passion project ideas. When there's a new hot technology/language I want to learn, I apply it to one of my passion projects and it becomes more directed and focused on a goal and it goes a lot better than just goofing around aimlessly on a new language.

johnla··on Nvidia in the Valley
I read that more as CYA than anything.
johnla··on Nvidia in the Valley
Where's the best place to pick up these cheap cards? eBay?
johnla··on Figma Alternatives
I've been using Framer.
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