Hacker News: acollins1331

New comment by acollins1331 in "McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France"

acollins1331 — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:55:49 +0000

It's pretty simple at face value. You're interacting with a person instead of a screen, that's basically like a game where you try to "win" by getting the best price for all the stuff you're ordering. Of course you might know it's wrong but you don't see anyone (and can likely assume) no one directly involved will take the fall for it. Compared to a cashier that gives away something for free, they might get yelled at or lose their job. It's empathy, it's human, and it makes a lot of sense.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s ocean currents"

acollins1331 — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:15:33 +0000

See, I would think that it will do the opposite. As the poles heat up faster, it would lower the gradient between the hot waters in the equator and the cold waters at the poles that drive the thermo haline cycle.

At least thats what is happening in the atmosphere. Its why the polar jet stream is weaker, and rossby waves are more prone to break off and send a polar vortex to the US, because the gradient across the boundary is lessened by the quickly warming poles.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID"

acollins1331 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:11:38 +0000

The only thing I have problems finding something that works is Google maps. As an Android user there are a few different options but Google did make a damn good maps app.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly"

acollins1331 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:54:24 +0000

Probably by using the child lock you can't get out the back but someone else can come in the front and stick you up.

New comment by acollins1331 in "The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)"

acollins1331 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:02:02 +0000

I know plenty of drug addicts that don't break into people's homes putting themselves and others at risk. Hurting other people to benefit yourself is exactly the type of person that is just asking to be categorized as 'human trash'.

New comment by acollins1331 in "The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)"

acollins1331 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:00:34 +0000

Sorry buddy, but there around millions of people around the world that go through very painful withdraws and don't break into people houses. The withdraws don't make them bad people, the criminal neglect for others does.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Windows 10 is getting an easier way to update and install drivers"

acollins1331 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:58:28 +0000

2 days out of action over 10 years seems like a fairly good uptime imo

New comment by acollins1331 in "Cell Segmentation with U-Net and Others"

acollins1331 — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 15:04:36 +0000

U-net is great and there are plenty of different versions of it for a variety of problems that have yet to be discovered!

New comment by acollins1331 in "Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race?"

acollins1331 — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:31:17 +0000

Interpolation between known sets? You could have an envelope of real world conditions and create thousands of samples that are variations in between for purposes of training.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess‎"

acollins1331 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:31:10 +0000

I agree with all your comments about the non-linearity that is extremely obvious in chess is not captured in the current engines everyone uses, which does lead to all the draw's we are seeing. I'm interested in your results from your engines when they're complete!

New comment by acollins1331 in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

acollins1331 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 03:30:58 +0000

Woah the tech tips guy wrote Linux

New comment by acollins1331 in "Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading"

acollins1331 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:00:02 +0000

The cost of removing carbon from the atmosphere far outweighs the cost of not putting it there in the first place. We need bold leadership.

New comment by acollins1331 in "WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel"

acollins1331 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:38:53 +0000

That's only for extremely popular streamers. For 99% of them they can only play the one game that made them get viewers in the first place. They didn't get popular because someone googled "Ninja" they got popular because they were playing Fortnite and people wanted to watch fortnite get played. .1% of those guys get big enough they can switch games.

New comment by acollins1331 in "49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change"

acollins1331 — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:57:55 +0000

Not trying to set myself to be a target of hacking with this comment, but what's wrong with that? Why does a password that wasn't hacked need to be changed a lot? If someone is going to try to break into my account my password being similar to one I used 6 months ago increases my vulnerability how?

New comment by acollins1331 in "We need to adopt a no-commute culture"

acollins1331 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:05:52 +0000

It's a huge problem that makes the hypocrisy argument palpable when thousands of climate scientists fly across the world every year for conferences on climate change. Teleconferences should be a thing for nearly everyone but the presenters, but it'll never happen because of prestige and elitism.

New comment by acollins1331 in "ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance"

acollins1331 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:24:43 +0000

Actually it looks like the two problems with your obvious solutions (political and companies being cranky about you noticing you're on a different tower) are complete bullshit and can be solved with very simple legislation. The more complicated and expensive solution doesn't need to happen.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it"

acollins1331 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:01:57 +0000

Hire me. I love to get paid to watch MIT lectures that will benefit my work.

New comment by acollins1331 in "Climate change and nutrient pollution are depleting oxygen from oceans: study"

acollins1331 — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 15:03:21 +0000

Warmer waters increase CO2 dissolution into the water.

New comment by acollins1331 in "FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine"

acollins1331 — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:36:51 +0000

That argument works assuming you're the only one being watched. "Oh chris hasn't done anything bad even though he's hiding, we can just ignore him now". It's more like "99.8% of people don't hide, chrischen is one that does, monitor that guy".

New comment by acollins1331 in "What does a healthy game publisher/developer relationship look like?"

acollins1331 — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:10:50 +0000

Where the publisher and developer are the same company.