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nicky0··on Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division
But I don't want any of those things. I'm sure each of them would be an interesting novelty for 5 minutes.
nicky0··on The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies
Oh, it's clear? Why did nobody tell me. I take it back then. I am glad to hear a complex evolving geopolitical situation can be easily reducted to a simple judgement like that. It's a relief.
nicky0··on Apple Music Classical
The curlicues and flourishes on those serifs add an extra layer of warmth and richness to the sound.
nicky0··on The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies
A little early to judge, it's been 2 years.
nicky0··on We updated our RSA SSH host key
Don't overthink this.
nicky0··on Post-GPT Computing
https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638971232443076609
nicky0··on We updated our RSA SSH host key
If someone wanted to trick HN users into trusting a phoney key, one way to do that would be to post the phoney fingerprint on HN claiming it to be the real one.
nicky0··on Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
Yes we are aware that Siri doesn't use LLM yet. That is what this thread is about.
nicky0··on Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
You must be the one user that Siri works perfectly for.
nicky0··on Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
As an mere user this is what I had assumed. Siri has been stagnant and buggy for years; it makes sense they are working on a big replacement instead of putting resource into incremntal improvements on what seems to be a weak foundation.
nicky0··on I bought back my acquihired startup
Interesting. To save anyone else looking it up, Ctrl+Enter in Chrome, Firefox and Safari (at least) is "Add www. and .com to a site name, and open it in the current tab".
nicky0··on I bought back my acquihired startup
Dude made Duolingo Stories! One of my favourite features of Duo.
nicky0··on OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models
The half that don't bother to vote forfeit their right to be counted.
nicky0··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
~~That's weird because I don't pay anything.~~

EDIT: GitHub Copilot is free to use for verified students, teachers, and maintainers of popular open source projects

nicky0··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
Just type your code in the editor. And it offers auto complete suggestions. Sometimes it will complete the entire function based on the function name or a comment. Sometimes it'll just guess the function you want to write, without you typing anything at all. (Turns out a lot of code is rather predictable).

By experience though it’s best to go line by line rather than accepting whole function autcompletes.

For me, I found incredibly useful for generating test cases. It will type out test functions for various conditions, stuff that is normal really tedious to code.

Sometimes is eerie, how how well it knows exactly what next line should be. Countless times it filled in an important detail that I hadn’t thought of.

It’s not perfect at all, sometimes it goes off on tangents or writes incorrect code.

I don’t think you even have to pay for copilot. At least it’s free for me.

nicky0··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
I guess since it runs does a shell executable, it can simply examine the path.
nicky0··on Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Use a Raspberry Pi for That
Not having high-level languages available is a big part of the fun of programming microcontrollers.
nicky0··on Doors I touched today (1999)
A good rule of thumb is hand coded content > content managed by a CMS.
nicky0··on Doors I touched today (1999)
As long as your trust set-up is sufficiently well-funded and well structured the trust could in principle live on for generations. Obviously, the success of the venture depends on, well, trust.
nicky0··on ChatGPT is down
"built totally in the open" seems to make "risks of company data being leaked" moot
nicky0··on Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise
Any VR headset will do that; I know you said no VR but get over that. VR headsets are a head mounted display & audio tech that you can buy. (see e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stream-movies-in-vr/)
nicky0··on Kottke.org is 25 years old today
Michael Tsai is something of a curator of links in the Apple techie world https://mjtsai.com/blog/
nicky0··on Parse, don't validate (2019)
No, but I'm a heavy Zod user so ArkType it looks interesting. Thanks for the tip!

Are there any compelling reasons to switch apart from the difference in syntax?

nicky0··on Ask HN: What are you working on to become a better programmer?
GitHub Copilot also.
nicky0··on Parse, don't validate (2019)
With Zod: const info = z.object({ name: z.string().min(1), email: z.string().email() }
nicky0··on The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience
Actually, the emergency services are called automatically after a timer countdown. Purpose of the dialog is to check if you are okay and NOT call the emergency services. The slider skips the countdown and calls immediately.
nicky0··on Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks
Say I migrate my ActivityPub server from ProductX to ProductY, but I want to keep all the usernames and external follow relationships intact.

We need external people who follow @me@myserver.example.com seamlessly still follow at the new server, which has a different code an URL structure. Will it "just work"?

nicky0··on Why I stopped using an external monitor
For me, it's not so much the screen size as the ergonomics. Haviong the screen at the correct height to enable good posture. Separate mouse an keyboard for comfort.
nicky0··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
Perhaps a transitory issue. I just tried it with the API, `gpt-3.5-turbo`. I got:

> Scott Alexander is the pen name of American psychiatrist and blogger, Scott Alexander Siskind. He is known for writing his blog, "Slate Star Codex", which covers a wide range of topics including science, medicine, politics, and culture. He has been praised for his clear and concise writing style and thoughtful analysis of various issues. In addition to his work as a blogger, Scott Alexander has also published a book titled "Unsong", which is a fantasy novel set in an alternate universe where the Bible is a magical text.

nicky0··on How Duolingo reignited user growth
I find the character stuff fun. That was from Lily, right? She's the moody teenager character.
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