I'm not a modeler but I've tried it a few times. For me, modeling is a pain that I need to deal with to solo-dev a 3d game project. I would think about using something like this for small indie projects to output super low-poly base models, which I could then essentially use as a scaffold for my own finer adjustments. Saving time is better than generating high-poly masterpieces, for me at least.
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nperez commented on Monday – A personality experiment chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b788... · Posted by u/brightbeige
Kind of fun to get into a brutal insult battle with. Hope I didn't violate any TOS with with that one.
nperez commented on Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree? · Posted by u/zebproj
No degree. I've been working the full stack for almost 15 years full time, including recently learning to train various types of gen AI models. There are still orgs that are rigid about their requirements, but I'm a mid-30s guy at an experience level where it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to overthink what I was learning 2 decades ago.
It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for decades. The future probably holds even bigger things, but even if it plateaus for a while, showing real ability to defeat traditional search is a crazy start and just one example.
nperez commented on The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela kaveland.no/posts/2025-06... · Posted by u/rkaveland
> These days, I find that I am using multiple search engines and often resort to using an LLM to help me find content.
For a few months, I've been wondering: how long until advertisers get their grubby meathooks into the training data? It's trivial to add prompts encouraging product placement, but I would be completely shocked if the big players don't sell out within a year or two, and start biasing the models themselves in this way, if they haven't already.
I'm not going to disagree because greed knows no bounds, but that could be RIP for the enthusiast crowd's proprietary LLM use. We may not have cheap local open models that beat the SOTA, but is it possible to beat an ad-poisoned SOTA model on a consumer laptop? Maybe.
nperez commented on OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site techcrunch.com/2025/02/13... · Posted by u/gpi
>because DEI has become a politically charged term that pretty much invites conflict and toxicity at this point
I agree with this on its face, but it seems an incredibly passive tone. DEI didn't just "become a politically charged term". It was deliberately made so.
And the term doesn't just "invite conflict and toxicity". There are toxic people who are using the principles themselves as a point of conflict.
Not being pedantic here. Maybe it's what you meant to say. Or maybe not and you don't agree. Either way, I point it out because it reminds me of the media headlines these days. I find that, among media reporting that purports to be "objective", there's a very odd passive tone, as if these unprecedented things are just happening.
And, that introduces a pretty hard bias.
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but there are also things to be learned about how DEI programs were run.
I've been in mandatory corporate DEI seminars that I had high hopes for, only to find that they felt overly prescriptive and ill-equipped for the complexities of trying to be sensitive to every culture. Having to jump in and explain "Well, some Latinos actually find LatinX to be an offensive term, so you might get the stink-eye if you use it" was a bit uncomfortable for me personally, for example. Getting it all right is hard, and getting a few things wrong can leave a really bad taste.
nperez commented on OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site techcrunch.com/2025/02/13... · Posted by u/gpi
DEI was never really a genuine endeavor, or it would not be rolled back so quickly by major corporations. If DEI was truly and measurably beneficial to the company, it would not be rolled back so quickly.
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone.
It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and because DEI has become a politically charged term that pretty much invites conflict and toxicity at this point
nperez commented on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I think information and culture/fashion both have a lot to do with it.
Pre-social media, you could get drunk and embarrass yourself, and forget about it by the next day. Now everything is recorded. Information about alcoholism is easier to come by, and there are influencers like worldoftshirts who show people what life as an alcoholic is like. I don't see how anyone could want a drink after watching content like that. Smoking weed in front of a camera doesn't seem as edgy as it used to now that it's legal. Having red eyes in a photo is annoying. Vaping has always had a cringe factor.
All of this tech is giving us the ability to look in the mirror and see what we're doing to ourselves.
nperez commented on Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions wordpress.org/news/2024/1... · Posted by u/PuffinBlue
That's Matt's whole argument, no? That anyone can grab it from e.g. Github, but he's not compelled to provide access to the wordpress.org servers or the WordPress trademarks under the GPL.
Not a lawyer but my opinion is the law shouldn't be used to compel anyone to provide unpaid services. With that said, I still think it's terrible for the community. If other package repositories like npm, PyPI, and others decided to randomly block people over grudges, it would create a lot of dysfunction. The consequences should come in the form of Matt no longer being reputable as a provider of services to the community
(Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)