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New comment by Jonnerz in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

Jonnerz — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:30:25 +0000

US AI companies trained their own models on vast amounts of copyrighted and publicly available content without obtaining permission. There's no moral high ground here.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to"

Jonnerz — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:55:30 +0000

It's very bizarre. It's the first thing you learn about in materials engineering, in any mechanical/aeronautical engineering degree. We even made our own carbon fibre models (some with intentional defects) and tested failing them at my Uni.

I even get worried about cracks in my road bike. These guys are going 3km+ under water... It's insane.

New comment by Jonnerz in "British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet"

Jonnerz — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:00:10 +0000

I was lucky enough to fly first earlier this year on a BA 747 to Dubai (Avios reward flight). I was sat in the 2nd row, but the seat is not that close to the window which makes it hard to benefit from the angled windows. It was cool, but not as great as people make it out to be.

New comment by Jonnerz in "iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max"

Jonnerz — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:25:52 +0000

He signed up to a 20 month payment plan?

New comment by Jonnerz in "Money laundering in the UK"

Jonnerz — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:08:10 +0000

Why would you not use your real name?

New comment by Jonnerz in "Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach"

Jonnerz — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:10:33 +0000

Nope it's very much still unsecure by default.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May"

Jonnerz — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:19:25 +0000

Likely something to do with the fact Monzo are extremely lean and have minimal overheads compared to traditional banks.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike"

Jonnerz — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:39:13 +0000

This may be easier said than done, but converting roads into shared spaces may be an answer to that.

London for example are phasing in stricter low-emission areas, which should technically mean less cars will be passing through. Eventually, they could re-purpose roads so that the primary function of them is for pedestrians, bikes, bike/scooter storage etc rather than 4+ lanes of car traffic.

That is why I believe it is temporary anyway, it seems natural that cities will head this way.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike"

Jonnerz — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:38:51 +0000

Consider the emission and noise "litter" cars generate too, I would much rather see a few scooters lying around the place than breathe in diesel fumes everday. Really it's just a temporary issue, a bump in the road to emission-free cities.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike"

Jonnerz — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:50:55 +0000

But it's okay for them to be littered by cars?

New comment by Jonnerz in "Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike"

Jonnerz — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:49:51 +0000

Nextbike have some very shady business practices. Don't ever have a negative balance with them. They won't tell you and will proceed to threaten you with legal action a year later. Happened to me over £3 (which later became £10 as they don't accept payments below £10).

They also don't comply with GDPR. After confirming several times they have completely deleted my account and any reference to my email, I still get marketing emails from them every now and again.

New comment by Jonnerz in "JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes"

Jonnerz — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:36:56 +0000

Free movement is a right yes, but flying is not...

New comment by Jonnerz in "PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019"

Jonnerz — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:17:20 +0000

It doesn't make much sense for PayPal to be integrated into Stripe (from PayPal's perspective), as it gives PayPal's Braintree a competitive edge over Stripe.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves"

Jonnerz — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:16:38 +0000

Just label the box with "DO NOT TAKE IN A CAR"

New comment by Jonnerz in "Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public"

Jonnerz — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 23:59:45 +0000

Much of the world just don't care, especially young people. It's as simple as that really.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal"

Jonnerz — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 11:40:37 +0000

Imagine if you could get your Wacky Packages or Pokemon cards instantly at any time? When I was younger I would have to travel to a shop (which requires begging my parents to take me) just to buy some pokemon cards.

Nowadays, the parent's card is on their app store account and the kid can press a button to receive their instant gratification. It's just too easy...

Combine that with the fact the collecting aspect is attached to an addictive video game.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident"

Jonnerz — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:47:41 +0000

You could say the same for trains though - they follow a track in a similar sense to Tesla's autopilot. Someone could perform a "prank" by putting something on the track in order to derail a train. How often do you see that happen? Painting a line on the road is obviously easier to do, and could also happen by accident, but I think the chances of any danger are extremely low.

Hopefully when we start removing the driver from cars with autopilot, they will be following some sort of under-road NFC-like guidance system rather than painted lines.

AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 8.10

Jonnerz — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:08:47 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=5607

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16752936

Points: 3

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New comment by Jonnerz in "Razer doesn’t care about Linux"

Jonnerz — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:26:26 +0000

Razer don't care about their customers full stop. Extremely poor customer service and low quality products. Their one-start Trustpilot page is a good read.

New comment by Jonnerz in "Hololens pre-orders starting tomorrow, ships in 30 days"

Jonnerz — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:37:55 +0000

Check you out!

They must be targeting businesses? It is a Developer Edition after all.