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New comment by agitator in "Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"

agitator — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:56:48 +0000

It's also to be defensible in court. If an opposing party can make the valid argument that "They leave the doors wide open and scatter IP willy-nilly, why wouldn't the IP get leaked?" it makes it harder to argue "Person X stole information when it was obvious that there was an expectation of secrecy"

New comment by agitator in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

agitator — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:58:08 +0000

As much as I'd love to hear about the details of the drama as the next person, they really don't have to say anything publicly. We are all going to continue using the product. They don't have public investors. The only concern about perception they may have is if they intend to raise more money anytime soon.

New comment by agitator in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

agitator — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:22:09 +0000

And isn’t that the problem?

Why do I need to translate my question into an optimal set of keywords that will give me what I want while minimizing unwanted results? Google search was a great stepping stone and connects you with the web, but it’s broken in many ways when it comes to what value we are really trying to extract.

A machine that can hone in on what I’m getting at in an intuitive sense while having all of human data available to generate a response is so much more powerful.

New comment by agitator in "The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons"

agitator — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:21:59 +0000

I can't relate to this statement at all. I actually enjoy grocery shopping. I look forward to it every week. It gives me an opportunity to pick out what I want to eat or make during the week. I love cooking and discovering new food, so it's a bit of a hobby. I know its incredibly inefficient and something that I could do faster ordering online, but shopping for food is weirdly nostalgic and human to me. Procuring food, even though it's still within the structure of industrialized grocery, is the last thing in my life that hasn't been completely digitized and I find it pleasantly inefficient and archaic.

I mostly shop a Trader Joes, aside from other specific things I may need at a specialty store.

New comment by agitator in "What is it like to have a brain? Ways of looking at consciousness"

agitator — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 23:07:49 +0000

How do you know if the people to your left or right experience sensations the same way you do?

When they look at the sky does their mind paint the sky with the same color?

New comment by agitator in "Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text"

agitator — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:28:29 +0000

What's mind blowing is that you can extrapolate where this is going to go. Eventually, you will be able to generate full movie scenes from descriptions.

What's interesting to me is how this is so similar to human imagination. Give me a description and I will fabricate the visuals in my mind. Some aspects will be detailed, others will be vague, or unimportant. Crazy to see how fast AI is progressing. Machines are approaching the ability to interpret and visualize text in the same way humans can.

This also fascinates me as a form of compression. You can transmit concepts and descriptions without transmitting pixel data, and the visuals can be generated onsite. Wonder if there is some practical application for this.

New comment by agitator in "Apple Car: Bad Idea After All"

agitator — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:52:46 +0000

Yeah nothing in the UI is connected directly to a sensor these days. The UI is just a display for relevant data on the CAN bus.

Sensors have redundancies and detections in both sensing and communications so that the receiving end knows when there is an issue and doesn't display false information, resulting in an error code being thrown and displaying a "check engine light".

New comment by agitator in "Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B"

agitator — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:20:56 +0000

So why not a tax return for all lower income brackets?

Why should someone with a B.A. be fed and not someone with only a high school diploma?

New comment by agitator in "Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B"

agitator — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:16:02 +0000

Because your car loan was approved based on your credit history.

A student loan was approved on a gamble.

Now the lenders are trying to find a way to guarantee their returns by making everyone else pay.

New comment by agitator in "Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B"

agitator — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:13:47 +0000

Big companies top priorities are investor returns, not employing the masses. The result you describe is dependent on many more variables, like product demand actually necessitating hiring.

New comment by agitator in "Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B"

agitator — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:11:11 +0000

Because if you for example you held off on buying a house to pay off loans, and the day after you saved up enough for your down payment, your buddy Jeff, who ignored his loans, racking up interest, making questionable financial decisions, suddenly gets his loans payed off and now is competing in the housing market with you and everyone else, and home prices rise as a result, pushing your first home out of reach yet again, you are going to be pretty pissed off.

New comment by agitator in "Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B"

agitator — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:08:00 +0000

The real reason here is that the lenders have the same view you have. They would rather lobby the government to force everyone to pay those loans than gamble on getting money back from students who struggle to get jobs with their degrees.

New comment by agitator in "How to make fermented hot sauce (2021)"

agitator — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:58:15 +0000

You can also boil water to remove chlorine. Stove or electric tea kettle works.

New comment by agitator in "How to make fermented hot sauce (2021)"

agitator — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:56:04 +0000

Yeah was going to say the same thing. I've been making kombucha for a while, and I have a process down where at the final stage I blend kombucha from various fermentation stages to get the mix of tartness, sweetness, fruit flavor, and alcohol content I'm looking for.

It doesn't need to be binary. You can always mix cooked sauce with fermented to get the flavor profile you are looking for.

New comment by agitator in "Second-Order Thinking"

agitator — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:22:26 +0000

The best, simple, metaphor I can think of is playing out a chess game in your head. As in, you make a move, and see how the scenario changes, and predict the opponents moves. In chess, it's just 2D and one opponent or agent. In the real world you need to weigh many possible agents, estimate their motivations, and predict their responses. This way you can visualize the cascading effects of a decision.

Ask HN: Is Google trying to frustrate Safari users?

agitator — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:41:48 +0000

Every time I google something, or go to re-open a closed google tab (gmail or calendar) on Safari, it auto closes a second or two later. It's incredibly irritating. The second time I open the tab, it stays open.

I'm using a 16" M1 max MacBook Pro. I use Safari because It's more power efficient with all the tabs I have open and doesn't constantly hound me to login.

I've been experiencing this for months since I got the laptop and have noticed a pattern of it occurring on Safari, only with google sites. Is this Apple screwing something up? Or is it google trying to make me switch to chrome? Or am I the only one that has this problem?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32182390

Points: 12

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New comment by agitator in "How to Animate Multiplayer Cursors"

agitator — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 17:55:32 +0000

I was hoping that this article would go into deeper techniques than just interpolation and splines.

I would be cool to see an example of how a Kalman filter approach would compare in terms of precision and latency. My expectation is that it would be the best of both worlds.

New comment by agitator in "Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash"

agitator — Thu, 05 May 2022 22:58:59 +0000

Yes, yes, let's all put this in our resumes.

New comment by agitator in "How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?"

agitator — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:43:05 +0000

My question exactly. Sounds fun. Girlfriend sounds jealous.

New comment by agitator in "Ask HN: How do you deal with existential crisis?"

agitator — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:11:50 +0000

Could be, but not necessarily.

It could also be the result of a logical and intelligent thought process. I think anyone that follows the data and truth will eventually come to an existential break down that reframes their mind. Especially if they were raised religious, but that facade starts to crack.