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www.youtube.com 1y ago

A First Look at Raytraced Audio (For Videogames) [video]

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

Charles Schwab facing internal meltdown after C-level abruptly reverses on RTO

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What are your tricks/tools for working with a technology adverse partner

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in interviews?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How much more would you need to make to be worth being a 1099?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Whats is the name of this phenomenon mentioned regularly on HN?

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nypost.com 6y ago

Amazon wants customers to buy less as demand skyrockets

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What is a reasonable level of bug reports for a web application?

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365tomorrows.com 6y ago

Trolley Protocol

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Facebook caught secretly using iPhone camera while app is open

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How did you move from development to being a consultant?

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www.giantbomb.com 6y ago

Nuclear Warfare 101

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www.bloomberg.com 8y ago

China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What tips do you have for weathering a recession?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: How do /you/ annotate a legacy code base?

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gizmodo.com 10y ago

Google Chrome fianlly (offically) passes up IE

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Taking on extra responsibility is all well and good until someone figures out that they can just get you to do more work for the same amount of money. At that point your only option is to move on, because if you stop performing at the "expected" level due to lack of reciprocation, suddenly you have "performance issues".

Existing mitigation approaches often degrade performance on open-ended generation and downstream tasks, limiting their practical utility. [...] Unlike continuous reward schemes, our approach assigns a reward of one only when the model's output is entirely factually correct, and zero otherwise.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, as I'm am on the very edge of this space looking in, but does this mean that they are using a "degraded performance with fewer hallucinations" model to fact check the "more powerful yet prone to hallucinations" model?

Ironically, I love using em dashes in my writing, but if I ever have to AI generate an email or summary or something, I will remove it for this exact reason.

Space Elevator 9 months ago

For a standard globe that you might see in a classroom, the Earth's atmosphere is about as thick as the paper glued to the outside that displays the map.

I suspect that they are trying to recreate the experience of bumping into someone they know. Since the destruction of third-spaces, it is increasingly unlikely that you'll serendipitously interact with someone in an unplanned, but welcome, social environment. Leaving your location on for friends and family in this way signals something close to "If you see me, say hi". Whereas announcing "I will be at X for Y time" is a bit more heavy handed. And just knowing that isn't sufficient to actually act on the information, you still have to reach out and plan something unless you are an granular as the actual building you are in, which feels weird. It feels a little intrusive to constantly be announcing my location. Like "Hey! Hey! obk0943t! I'm gonna be in NYC just so you know!" If I just left my location on, then /if/ you care, you can find out. But if you don't, you are not interrupted with the information. Finally, posting leaves a record, whereas location sharing is always "right now". Sure, someone can use that to construct a timeline, but that takes effort on their part (and possibly malice).

The short version is that its in limited supply, it has luxury value (think jewelry or artisan crafting), and its doesn't corrode. So it's a supply and demand issue. There is basically always the same amount, kings want it, and it doesn't ever disappear.

It s superior to currency because while (for example) the US dollar will always have value as long as you pay taxes with it, there is not a limited supply

It is superior to bartering because while (for example) a chicken has value due to its utility as food, it naturally disappears (because you ate it or it died).

Gold and other precious metals sort of sit in the middle ground as the "next best thing" to almost everything that humans want. So it remains a useful means of preserving and communicating value.

Morse Code Translator 11 months ago

Many years ago when I had an iphone I would set text vibrations to be the morse code of the first letter of someone's name so I knew who messaged me without looking. That's the only feature I still miss to this day with my android.

The very experience and accumulated know-how in software engineering and project management — which might seem obsolete in the age of AI — are precisely what enable the most effective use of these tools.

I agree with the author here, but my worry is that by leaning on the LLMs, the very experience that allows me to uniquely leverage the LLMs now will start to atrophy and in a few years time I'll be relying on them just to keep up.

The premise of this program is reasonable. If a cadaver is unclaimed, then letting the next generation of doctors use it for training is not a bad solution to the problem. I'll grant its sad when loved ones find out too late to do anything about it, but thats the nature of the beast.

The real question is, are we sure that institutions using their "best effort" to find next-of-kin has been corrupted enough as a process that we should switch our default from medical training and science to rotting in an unmarked grave?

I really struggle to say that it has. At least from the information provided by this article.

Pass. This article could have been published as "Why Internet Message Boards Are Making Programmers Worse at Programming" 30 years ago, "Why Google Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming" 20 years ago or "Why StackOverflow Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming" 10 years ago. Its the same-old-same-old. Has it been true in the past? Maybe, if your criteria for "good programmer" is "someone who went through the same struggle I did". But the industry grows and adapts. The next generation of programmers is going to be good at different things than we are. As long as they can get the same job done, who are we to say that they are wrong?

Absolutely not. Compensation should reflect value received. This idea effectively forces a business to subsidize their employees, because you damn sure can't pass all that to the customer (because then we are just back where we started, just with an extra 0 on every transaction). Small businesses and business with low profit margins will be forced out of business. And this would consolidate capital into the hands of the big businesses and billionaires who can afford to pay everyone tens of thousands of dollars more than they can bring into the company.

A McDonald's cashier is not worth $55,000 just because they are >18 years old. That position is not supposed to be a career. That position is supposed to be a first job for a dumb 16 year old who needs gas money and $500 for a PS5. When their needs outgrow their paycheck, they are supposed to move to a job that pays more. Can McDonalds afford to pay the extra? Sure. But Jimmy's Hotdog Stand down the street can't, so he goes out of business and the money he would have made goes to McDonald's instead and the rich get richer.

Same. I was so sad when my old chromecast broke. And casting was basically the only thing that kept me on the chrome browser all these years. So perhaps its a good thing and this change will finally allow me to move to a more private browser.

Sure, but at least then your options are limited to existence or destruction, and you still have to have physical proximity to experience either. Digital represents a third form-factor, "malformed", and physical proximity is no longer needed either to corrupt data, destroy it, or steal it (two of these three not necessarily being obvious to the owner).

Frankly I'm looking forward to not being harrassed endlessly to update my computer. I'm happy to live on an EOLed Windows 10 if it means that I don't have to keep playing goalie against whatever random crap Microsoft thinks they should be allowed to put on my machine.

Super cool. I've been thinking about building something like this for years. I have a background in debate, and the inability to "flow" complex discussion in any sort of digital format has always bothered me. I'm excited to try this out.

What kind of question is this? Of course it has. The 3-letter-agencies are effectively a black box that command unlimited resources, all the power that can be wrung from a blank check cashed by the US economy, and no oversight except what they allow. What is there to trust?

I think the insinuation is that such information has no right to be private. Or such individuals have no right to privacy. The obvious issue being that to enforce this, no one gets a right to privacy. But all in the same of "peace and safety", so don't worry.

Those are not mutually exclusive. Anyone can do it, and those who are better at prompting will get better results. Similarly, if I grunt at you, you might be able to figure out what I want because you and I are both relatively intelligent, but if I used words to ask you to pass the salt, I will generally get a better results for the effort of communicating more clearly.

Its due to the rise of identity politics. If you like cheetos, and I say cheetos are bad, if liking cheetos is how you see yourself as a person, then it could seem like I'm saying "you are bad (for liking cheetos)". It's more nuanced than that, but the gist is that non-positive thoughts about an identity category could feel like personal attacks to the people who have integrated that identity category with their sense of self.