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New comment by SkyMarshal in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

SkyMarshal — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:27:49 +0000

It could reduce stress and cognitive load and improve their focus, efficiency, and stamina.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

SkyMarshal — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:25:21 +0000

Tribes, Tribes Renegades, and Tribes Ultra Renegades were some of the most fun I've ever had in videogames.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

SkyMarshal — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:23:15 +0000

Apparently it does, there are tons of ATC games.

https://store.steampowered.com/search?term=%22air+traffic%22...

https://bigfatsimulations.com/game/approachcontrolremastered

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unmatched-air-traffic-control/...

New comment by SkyMarshal in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

SkyMarshal — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:19:24 +0000

It's not a terrible idea, especially if they find people who are already good at one of the many Air Traffic Control realistic sim videogames:

https://store.steampowered.com/search?term=%22air+traffic%22...

https://bigfatsimulations.com/game/approachcontrolremastered

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unmatched-air-traffic-control/...

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"

SkyMarshal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:48:24 +0000

Still, why link some blog post about it instead of the actual source.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

SkyMarshal — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:23:08 +0000

Also the removal of actually useful things like the Magsafe power connector and SD card slot, in the service of unneeded marginal thinness.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

SkyMarshal — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:07:32 +0000

Claude is the only one that looks like an asshole. The rest are just circular, or not even that. Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Car wheels? Pizzas? Camera Lenses? Ferris wheels? This is like a Rorschach test.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Show HN: Open dataset of real-world LLM performance on Apple Silicon"

SkyMarshal — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:28:31 +0000

Nice looking app, downloaded and checking it out. Fyi there's someone else on github keeping track of some LLM benchmarks too:

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167

New comment by SkyMarshal in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

SkyMarshal — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:24:55 +0000

Or a Beelink GTR9 Pro with same chip and memory, and two 10GbE LAN ports built in for clustering several together.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

SkyMarshal — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:21:08 +0000

Why would paying dividends not be like throwing money away for Nvidia, considering the alternative is to reinvest it into Nvidia's R&D, hiring & training, etc. Investors are already happily making money on NVDA stock appreciation, so what more would they gain from paying dividends?

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

SkyMarshal — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:33:53 +0000

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/blob/main/INSTALLA...

Looks like an amalgam of php, node, mysql, redis and an AWS S3-compatible filesystem.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "My journey to the microwave alternate timeline"

SkyMarshal — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:00:57 +0000

I thought the microwave beeps several times to ensure the radiation has completely dissipated from the chamber before you open it. I always let it beep and then some.

New comment by SkyMarshal in "There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him"

SkyMarshal — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:23:55 +0000

To be fair, Woz wasn't just a “friendly selfless genius inventor engineer”, he was also the co-founder of one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. And YC is, in their own words: "The Y combinator is one of the coolest ideas in computer science. It's also a metaphor for what we do. It's a program that runs programs; we're a company that helps start companies.". They're not entirely unrelated.

A tech company's secretive plan to destroy books

SkyMarshal — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ar-AA1V4aZv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792911

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by SkyMarshal in "The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?"

SkyMarshal — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:38:25 +0000

I'm not sure it would matter. It doesn't seem that graphics are the limiting factor in games anymore. Plenty of popular games use variations on cartoon-style graphics, for example - Fortnight, Overwatch, Valorant, etc. Seems gameplay, creativity, and player community are more determining factors.

That said, things like improved environmental physics and NPC/enemy AI might enable new and novel game mechanics and creative game design. But that can come from AMD and others too.

There's a war on the bachelor's degree. Can anything replace it?

SkyMarshal — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:10:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ar-AA1PaQoQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712504

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate"

SkyMarshal — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:57:06 +0000

Oblig link to Norvig's "Warning Signs in Experimental Design": https://www.norvig.com/experiment-design.html

New comment by SkyMarshal in "TSMC Arizona: chipmaking is the art of killing variables [video]"

SkyMarshal — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:16:32 +0000

This is an interesting insight into the challenges of porting a TSMC fab from Taiwan to Arizona.

There are hundreds of variables that differ, even just based on geography, any one of which can kill nano-scale wafer yields and mean the difference between 90% ("printing money") and 30% ("bleeding cash") yields.

For example, the harder stone bedrock in Arizona has a higher natural resonant frequency than in Taiwan, requiring the fab design to be adjusted to that variable.

Other variables are local air, water, power, suppliers, and culture, all of which differ from Taiwan and require modifications to the original fab design.

TSMC Arizona: chipmaking is the art of killing variables [video]

SkyMarshal — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:16:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VX3jNJmbcI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282607

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by SkyMarshal in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

SkyMarshal — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:30:25 +0000

To be fair it worked for him the first time. And for Apple too multiple times for that matter.