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Re:O1-preview and o1-mini results on NYT Connections on Friday September 13, 2024 @07:37PM (#41536170)
I fed it yesterday's and it did essentially a perfect run, even though it wasn't certain about 1 of the words in the 3rd guess.

Today it got 1 error, but only because it correctly identified palindromes but there were 5 and it picked the wrong one, and it was its first guess. After that it swiftly found all the categories.

I also fed today's same prompt to the o1-mini and it just outright sucked, even repeated an incorrect guess immediately after being told it was wrong. There's definitely quite a leap between the mini and the full o1.

Re:Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:14PM (#38372619)
They made ChatGPT with voice available to all free users.

Really wonder why they went ahead with a launch today with 90% of staff ready to jump ship.

Bloomberg's Austin Carr says "Any employees who do join Microsoft can’t simply replicate the work they were doing on OpenAI properties like GPT-5 without inviting a nightmare of claims over trade-secret theft."

But doesn't really explain why, I wonder if there's any substance to it in the light of Satya's comments about having the rights to "continue the innovation".

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-11-21/micros...

Re:Password protect a static HTML page on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:18PM (#34872365)
I do see this useful in cases where you might want to keep something private from the server-side and are not too concerned about server-side tampering.

Then could use basic auth to protect access from outside and a tool like this to protect access from inside.

Re:DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @03:03PM (#33011877)
Is it really doomed because competition showed up? I'd be surprised if they didn't get quite a bit of paying users right away.

I get that competing with an open self-hosted alternative is a tough sell, but is this really different from other pay vs self-host scenarios?

Re:Software I’m thankful for (2021) on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:33PM (#32956112)
Recently switched to macos for development and I'm really thankful to have found out about Shortcat and Raycast.

Combined with Tridactyl plugin on firefox, I can keep my hands on the keyboard for almost every task across the OS.

Re:Tailscale SSH on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:45PM (#31840932)
A nice next step would be tailscale managing an ssh key that's allowed to do interact with a git(hub) repository. So that I wouldn't have to create multiple keys or setup the same key on different machines and still be able to interact with a repo from all of them.

It'd be really nice just using git transparently and having tailscale take over the git ssh connection and authenticate using taliscale access controls.

At least for personal projects or small teams that'd be quite convenient.

> co-pilot can write 90% of the code without me, just translating my explanation into python.

I fear copilot may encourage these type of pseudo-code comments. The most valuable thing the AI doesn't know is WHY the code should do what it does.

Months later, we'll get to debug code that "nobody" wrote and find no hints of why it should behave that way, only comments stating what the code also says.

Seems we're replacing programming for reverse engineering generated code.

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite coffee table book? on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:57PM (#27840344)
Really nice list, the rudiments of wisdom looks great for what I’m after, thanks.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite coffee table book? on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:48PM (#27840294)
Data visualization books seem perfect for this purpose, thanks!

Ask HN: What's your favorite coffee table book?

Looking for "coffee table books" from which you can learn something by reading just a couple of pages, optionally with some imagery.Something in the lines of: Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe (xkcd), The secret lives of color by Kassia St.Clair.

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Re:Things I wish Git had: Commit groups on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:17PM (#27742737)
A branch is just a pointer, not a group.
Re:SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:25PM (#26322627)
When you say "the public key for that root certificate is hosted in our private DNS", does that mean the public key is in.. a txt record?
Re:On navigating a large codebase on Sunday February 14, 2021 @03:45PM (#26136103)
I found cscope essential when working with a 10+M loc C codebase. I wish there were more cscope like tools for other languages, easy to setup and editor agnostic.
Re:Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:39PM (#26057016)
Does HN have RSS feeds?

Ask HN: Which conferences are you looking forward to?

With conferences happening fully online nowadays, which are you looking forward to attend remotely?I thought defcon did a great job last year with the discord channel, I wonder what other tools conferences are using these days to improve the “Hall track” online experience.

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You might benefit from looking through recent conference talks, they are nicely organized in https://pyvideo.org/

Search topics you want to find out and see what’s being presented in the years you’ve been out of the loop.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find new music? on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:17AM (#25090475)
Spotify’s discover weekly and release radar playlists which are personalized. Those two playlists make the subscription worth it for me.

For specific/niche things, certain subreddits get a fair amount of posts. I suggest reverse searching links to music you enjoy instead of trying to look up a particular sub.

Hype machine and soundcloud also help a bit.

Re:VPN by Google One on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:04PM (#24936643)
From the linked pdf in the footnotes, looks like they are rolling their own network protocol:

"At launchtime, the VPN protocol will be a Google proprietary protocol; however, to ensure a high throughput while minimizing battery consumption, we will soon adopt IPsec as the data tunnel protocol due to its native support in Android.

We may eventually use other protocols, such as Wireguard, as their native support improves or on platforms where no specific protocols have a specific advantage."

You probably would be considering this opens a vector for account takeover if both auth identifiers are “lost” and you switch emails to a new one. Hope changing that is tied to sending some kind of notification to the original email when that happens, with instructions to undo.

To prevent getting there in the first place, could you do the type of “is this info still alright?” as part of the login flow every now and then? May reduce some of the cases at least.

If this happens just too often, you may need to ask for another means of contact info. Additional email/phone, which should all be pinged whenever auth info changes.

Recently a lot of tweets in the front page, 5 tweets on the frontpage on the same day even just last week[1]

Can't help but think hn now showing the username for some domains including twitter is increasing the submissions somehow? Or maybe people just engage more in discussion around tweets lately.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-10-15

Re:OpenSSH 8.4 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:35PM (#24612727)
Some comments here seem to focus on the “Future deprecation notice” of the ssh-rsa signatures. That’s been there for a few releases this year, still not in effect.

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

Re:Ask HN: Is There a LeetCode for Refactoring? on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:49PM (#24477704)
If having the solutions is not a must, you could take a dive in trending oss repos. (https://github.com/trending)

I’d say to look for high coverage pieces, so that you prove your refactor is not breaking things.

Then ask for code review, maybe in something like https://codereview.stackexchange.com/

Re:Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing? on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:32PM (#24457719)
#1 is good, but I’d suggest always using the same set of questions to have a good baseline against which you can compare candidates.

#2 I have mixed feelings about. it may make sense if you’re after an expert on that language but may evaluate wrongly candidates that would be great reading code once they get just a bit more familiar with and get the overall architecture. In many companies, you’d be forbidden from sharing actual code with non employees, so the excerpt shown in the interview would have to be purposely crafted and loose value. I propose a more interesting exercise could be to examine a random piece of opensource that Both the interviewer and interviewee are unfamiliar with and trying to get a good discussion from it, but it’s a risky move leaving the interviewer exposed.

Re:TikTok reveals details of how its algorithm works on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:42AM (#24432792)
If services were compelled to opensource at some growth point, would you have them be compelled to ensure their codebase is readable?

I’m just imagining that scenario and companies choosing to “opensource” their obfuscated/assembly code.

Re:IFTTT Pro on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:58PM (#24428145)
How would the Pro version compare to zapier?

1.99 minimum seems too cheap vs competitors in the space

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