Hacker News: bauble

New comment by bauble in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

bauble — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:36:10 +0000

I'm referring to the tag that Youtube is going to assign automatically.

New comment by bauble in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

bauble — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:04:18 +0000

Only if you view the label as accurate, which you really, really should not.

New comment by bauble in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

bauble — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:01:35 +0000

This isn't possible on Youtube right now. The automatic tools for detecting LLM-generated content have far too many false positives. And obviously no one is going to pay an army of people to curate the content. The best thing right now is to rely on the reputation of individual channels that you are personally familiar with.

Youtube's automatically applied label will be worse than useless unless they've made some remarkable breakthrough, which I doubt. They'd be better off just using creator-applied labels, and of course if they would label anything that Youtube itself contaminated with automatic translations or its ilk, that would be good too.

New comment by bauble in "We should all be using dependency cooldowns"

bauble — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:43:54 +0000

You're correct; it's a misuse of the term. Better terms would be embargo, quarantine, or just delay.

New comment by bauble in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

bauble — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:41:45 +0000

I'm staring at the EOL of Windows 10, which I use on my game machine. I'll happily get one of the cubes for my next box. I'd like this to be the end of my Windows usage.

New comment by bauble in "OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing"

bauble — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:56:08 +0000

This is so much nonsense. Contracts and interfaces have little to do with OOP. If you don't like inheritance, then talk about OOP. It's fine. Many people, including myself, don't like inheritance. On the other hand, if it's interfaces and contracts that have you bothered, parse-dont-validate to your heart's content. If the domain allows it. Just don't drag unrelated concepts into this particular discussion.

New comment by bauble in "Cognitive load is what matters"

bauble — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:01:29 +0000

Humans are the worst programmers, except for all other programmers.

New comment by bauble in "How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers"

bauble — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:26:07 +0000

Is that the new button that's been popping up? And here I was blaming SponsorBlock.

New comment by bauble in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

bauble — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:21:12 +0000

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/

New comment by bauble in "Firefox is fine. The people running it are not"

bauble — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:06:14 +0000

It would be insanity. Even the most dedicated developers would switch to Chrome instantly.

New comment by bauble in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

bauble — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:18:19 +0000

Even with the notes, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would you illustrate communication problems with people who literally don't speak the same language?

New comment by bauble in "Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights"

bauble — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:04:19 +0000

"Earhart planned to have human navigators on board with her, but she’d be the first female pilot to accomplish the feat." - What an odd statement. Could "male" have been replaced by "human"?

New comment by bauble in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

bauble — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:06:39 +0000

Innovators like Jobs are incredibly rare. We're lucky he chose someone who would not only preserve the company, but stave off the worst of the enshittification that has eaten Microsoft and HP. Cook is also surprisingly protective of privacy and civil rights. I'll take him over 99% of executives these days.

New comment by bauble in "The Labyrinth of Villa Pisani in Stra, an Intricate Pathway"

bauble — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:51:34 +0000

The article says that it is "intricate and difficult", and "has only one path leading to the center, and each junction or fork never allows you to find an alternative route, but always leads to a dead end". Unless I'm mistaken, that would make it easier, not more difficult, by guaranteeing that a hand-on-wall strategy would succeed. To defeat the strategy, at least one uninterrupted path must encircle the center of the labyrinth.

New comment by bauble in "Apple Maps on the web launches in beta"

bauble — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:31:12 +0000

That's downright ironic.

New comment by bauble in "How to Get Out of Vi (2015)"

bauble — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:08:00 +0000

ZZ if you're musically inclined.

New comment by bauble in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

bauble — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:28:57 +0000

I had a unit tests for a Java LocalDate that was being increased by one year. It checked whether the month and day were the same, and failed because the current day (29) didn't equal the year-hence one (28). I changed it to check that the difference between the days was less than two.

New comment by bauble in "Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking"

bauble — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:22:22 +0000

I thought it was a good reference. In both cases, the manufacturer placed illicit, hidden code that that could (and probably should) get it in trouble with the law.

New comment by bauble in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

bauble — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:22:26 +0000

I think the issue is that they tried to separate the input into a list of tokens, like ["5", "nine"], and work from there, which doesn't work on something like "oneight".

New comment by bauble in "Deno Cron"

bauble — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:17:15 +0000

I don't understand the reluctance to hire a system administrator. If you have two or more technical folks, at least one of them should be a sysadmin (or "devops" if you prefer). Pretending that it's an unskilled role that anyone should pick up reflects a poor understanding of the industry.