poutrathor (u/poutrathor)

poutrathor commented on Mechanical Watch: Exploded View fellerts.no/projects/epoc... · Posted by u/fellerts

poutrathor · 2 months ago

> Bartosz, if you are reading this, contact me and I'll send you the final casting. This project would never have happened without your blog post.

I am impressed by the quality of your work on this side project and I love that final attention.

poutrathor commented on Google is winning on every AI front thealgorithmicbridge.com/... · Posted by u/vinhnx

a2128 · 4 months ago

My experience with their software has been horrible. A friend was messing around with Gemini on my phone and said my name is John, and it automatically saved that to my saved info list and always called me John from then on. But when I ask it to forget this, it says it can't do that automatically and links me to the Saved Info page, which is a menu they didn't implement in the app so it opens a URL in my browser and asks me to sign into my Google account again. Then a little toast says "Something went wrong" and the saved info list is empty and broken. I tried reporting this issue half a year ago and it's still unresolved. Actually the only way I was ever able to get it to stop calling me John is to say "remember to forget my name is John" in some way that it adds that to the list instead of linking me to that broken page

poutrathor · 4 months ago

"Hello John, I notice your username on HN has not been updated. I will make that change for you in 2 hours, from a2128 to john2128. If you want to keep your current username, please follow steps in our help me discord channel"

poutrathor commented on AI 2027 ai-2027.com/... · Posted by u/Tenoke

Mali- · 5 months ago

This is a letter signed by the most lauded AI researchers on Earth, along with CEOs from the biggest AI companies and many other very credible professors of computer science and engineering:

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk

Laughing it off as the same as the Second Coming CANNOT work. Unless you think yourself cleverer and more capable of estimating the risk than all of these experts in the field.

Especially since many of them have incentives that should prevent them from penning such a letter.

poutrathor · 5 months ago

Troubling that these eminent great leaders does not cite climate change among societal-scale risks, a bigger and more certain societal-scale risk than a pandemy.

Would be a shame to have energy consumption by datacenters regulated, am I right ?

poutrathor commented on Show HN: Accessing a website you never visited before while being offline [demo] planujemywesele.pl/sxg-te... · Posted by u/rapawel

poutrathor · 5 months ago

Here is my feedback.

Steps are not clear enough. It looks to me it's a step by step guide but it missed at least 2 points :

- the search engine must be Google I think ? Mine is duckduckgo and it doesnot work

- I still dont know if my device is supposed to be in airplane mode or no for the test. In airplane mode, even with Google set as the search engine, it does not work. Pixel phone. If I am connected to internet, I do have the single result from the google search.

I guess we are expected to be pleasantly surprised by something, but since I don't know what to look for and it does not work, it's a miss for me.

Personally I prefer to have the explanation alongside the steps that way I know what I am doing and can correctly interpret the instructions. For me, learning the technical trick does not diminish my contentness.

poutrathor commented on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_t... · Posted by u/akanet

cloudfudge · 6 months ago

This brings a meta quest 3s to its knees. It's almost so bad you can't quit it, and the video lags 15 seconds, which is very disorienting to be immersed in (it can make you fall down). Shame, since it looks gorgeous.

poutrathor · 6 months ago

what part is the culprit : the meta quest or the 3D implementation from the website ? On a classis laptop, it behaves well

poutrathor commented on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke bsky.app/profile/auonsson... · Posted by u/perihelions

RandomThoughts3 · 9 months ago

Nordstream is also special because its destruction was not aligned with Russia interests. It limited Europe capacity to import Russian gaz lifting one of the reason which might have made the EU reluctent to fully support Ukraine (and causing a major economic crisis in Europe as a side effect).

Between this and the coyness of most European countries governments at the time to comment on investigation, it's not too far fetch to think that Ukraine might be involved.

poutrathor · 9 months ago

Wasn't the nordstream incident mostly elucidated ?

I believe they are only wondering about details now and trying to hear the guys.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2...

https://www.france24.com/fr/europe/20240814-sabotage-de-nord...

poutrathor commented on Company Won't Pay:'( · Posted by u/valtal

poutrathor · a year ago

no much advice i can provide from the other side of the ocean but good luck to you and start looking for a job now to have money coming in sooner. Any litigations will take time and not sure there is money anyway.

poutrathor commented on Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019) twitter.com/techemails/st... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

skydhash · a year ago

The thing is that we had small notebooks/agenda/notepad, then we moved on to PDAs when things turn digital, it's not a big stretch to imagine how smart phones should work if the hardware is there (what I read is that manufacturers was cheaping out and locking things down). I still believe that what LLM does best is analyzing natural languages and producing coherent (not necessarily true) output. And there are maybe business needs for that, but still have not seen a truly individual tool, like personal computing is (you can go on a desert island with a laptop and compute). I agree that executives is to predict and plan strategical responses. But so far, it seems to be only useful for those that like quick answers, even if it maybe untrue.

poutrathor · a year ago

I remember reading about Xerox people forecasting the smartphones and tablets. We have a picture of their brainstorming and they used small pages to model a handheld computer. Science fiction was and still is full of more and more integrated computer with human. Technology is driven by imagination more often than not.

poutrathor commented on This is a teenager pudding.cool/2024/03/teen... · Posted by u/gmays

doctorpangloss · a year ago

The visualization will frequently incorrectly show something of the form:

    <--- False     True --->
    True True False False
    True True False False

poutrathor · a year ago

Also, the visualization let you think that all the leftmost teenagers are the same ones stacking the bad things. That might be true, but I doubt it is. The part around Highschool was especially unclear. Are they the same teenagers getting all the bad stuff. That would be plausible but not to the extend the visual displays I guess.

In other news, I hate that trend of scrolling to animate to get content.

poutrathor commented on Every app that adds AI looks like this botharetrue.substack.com/... · Posted by u/vitabenes

poutrathor · 2 years ago

So nobody's gonna comment that the guy in the painting is getting pickpocketed while watching the magic trick ? This is the real gem from this rant.

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