Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — phowat

phowat

HN member
Joined
Mon, Aug 23, 2010, 3:29 PM UTC
HN karma
1,012
Public activity
230 items

About phowat

http://phow.at http://github.com/phowat/ http://twitter.com/pedrohowat mail@phow.at [ my public key: https://keybase.io/phowat; my proof: https://keybase.io/phowat/sigs/wDmm65Ztbw5Kw194P3GCeif0GuO94K4Z2nKB3z1y8cs ] hnchat:2aeSt9YJmi6Ax4MBdN7q

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48406442

    Tangentially , I was a heavy used of wsl and moved to linux a few months ago and LLMs made most of the downsides of using linux as a desktop go away for me. I chatted with claude a…

  2. comment
    Comment #48089998

    Since this is HN let's be factually correct. Almond production is irrelevant in water usage. The bulk of it is going to animal agriculture.

  3. comment
    Comment #47398453

    There is also "leito-cama" which is the top category, one above "leito".

  4. comment
    Comment #47357421

    Regardless of the vegan part the point still stands. It was also my first though reading the article before I came here to read the comments.

  5. comment
    Comment #45437286

    Yeah, I never actually used or shared/sold any of it since it was mostly a game for me. But nowadays I understand it is a very bad idea even just to store this kind of stuff.

  6. comment
    Comment #45434266

    I don't know how old OP is but I did a lot of dumb stuff on the internet 25+ years ago when I was a teenager. Including writing viruses and stealing credit card information. I'm gl…

  7. comment
    Comment #45092947

    Frankly I think it's a lost cause and sadly doesn't make sense to waste energy on it anymore. I eventually abandoned my de-googled phone exactly because I couldn't use my bank with…

  8. comment
    Comment #43512809

    I really don't understand why every time a big project is forked People are so upset. IMO, one of the great things about open source software is that a fork is possible. Maybe it w…

  9. comment
    Comment #43331771

    What about using vpns to connect through different timezones ?

  10. comment
    Comment #42641318

    100% agree. The article does not seem to be written by someonene who is particularly interested in this subject. The fact that it starts talking about what is IMO the most overrate…

  11. comment
    Comment #41500264

    I don't think this was used much outside of meta anyway.

  12. comment
    Comment #41221194

    Exactly! And I would expect hacker news of all places to understand that.

  13. comment
    Comment #40986441

    Also when you wear multiple hats. Recently I had to setup an OpenResty including writing some fairly complex Lua scripts, both which I had never touched before, and it was much fas…

  14. comment
    Comment #39640794

    I 100% clicked the link expecting an article about how the open source PBX software Asterisk was being used in some nefarious way.

  15. comment
    Comment #39366194

    I remember it also had native SIP support and you could configure an account to connect automatically only when the phone connected to a certain wifi network. So I had my work exte…

  16. comment
    Comment #38977095

    Because we're aiming for AGI

  17. story
  18. comment
    Comment #38855390

    The point is someone decided to write it and here it is.

  19. comment
    Comment #38741226

    63 is such an oddly specific number too.

  20. comment
    Comment #38405729

    Sure! Why not outlaw adultery then ? Let's even stone them to death!

  21. comment
    Comment #38396525

    One thing I noticed recently and was able to reproduce a bunch of times is asking dall-e the exact same prompt where the only difference is the subject being described as a male or…

  22. comment
    Comment #38396277

    We most certainly do get to choose if we want to. Why not ?

  23. comment
    Comment #38340044

    "AI safety" is just a rehashed version of "think of the children".

  24. comment
    Comment #38017778

    Honest question as I have no horse on this race (pun intended) and you picqued my curiosity. How the hell can the pre existence of horses be politicized?

  25. comment
    Comment #37913078

    I just searched for "ai hallucination" on arxiv and got 43 hits. And terms get reused in new contexts all the time. I don't disagree confabulating would be a more correct term, tho…