Hacker News: dyno12345

New comment by dyno12345 in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

dyno12345 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:14:48 +0000

there's a particular car rental company that I can't get off their list because it error 500's when I click the unsubscribe button

New comment by dyno12345 in "Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]"

dyno12345 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:05:04 +0000

you have to have the right amount of solder on 100% of the pads for this to work correctly though

New comment by dyno12345 in "PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx"

dyno12345 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:42:06 +0000

they will generally refund you if you are unhappy

New comment by dyno12345 in "Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first"

dyno12345 — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:23:22 +0000

I can't smell a fart inside my apartment from someone on the other end of the parking lot, but apparently with weed smoke I can.

New comment by dyno12345 in "Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first"

dyno12345 — Thu, 23 May 2024 18:59:15 +0000

The increase in traffic fatalities after legalization is also well documented, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09553...

New comment by dyno12345 in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

dyno12345 — Tue, 21 May 2024 02:05:27 +0000

I'm not sure how much you currently legally own imitations of your own voice. There's a whole market for voice actors who can imitate particular famous voices.

New comment by dyno12345 in "Jeff Lawson buys The Onion"

dyno12345 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:09:36 +0000

I think they raised a bunch of funding at one point and then ran out of it

New comment by dyno12345 in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

dyno12345 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:06:16 +0000

yea if you watch the longer video they stopped traffic only a few seconds before the impact. incredibly lucky.

New comment by dyno12345 in "Vision Pro teardown part 2: What’s the display resolution?"

dyno12345 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:14:33 +0000

discussion of Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246664

New comment by dyno12345 in "Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]"

dyno12345 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:32:33 +0000

re: grade inflation, they can statistically normalize the grades

fwiw GPA and SAT scores are highly correlated anyway

New comment by dyno12345 in "Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse"

dyno12345 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:56:15 +0000

There is still a fiduciary duty even for private companies

New comment by dyno12345 in "Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station"

dyno12345 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:50:01 +0000

nitpick: fungi don't produce their own food; they need something to eat. what you need to get an ecosystem going is photosynthetic or chemotrophic organisms that produce their own food.

New comment by dyno12345 in "How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?"

dyno12345 — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:47:26 +0000

how can you tell if I'm being facetious or not?

New comment by dyno12345 in "How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?"

dyno12345 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:23:34 +0000

How do you know you yourself aren't an AI, being trained on synthetic data?

New comment by dyno12345 in "Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)"

dyno12345 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:55:00 +0000

This might be a stupid question, but what is "identity" in this context?

I ask because when this subject has come up I realize I don't seem to be able to think up theories about myself so easily

New comment by dyno12345 in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

dyno12345 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:06:38 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-shingling

New comment by dyno12345 in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

dyno12345 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:03:45 +0000

bing's chatbot does

New comment by dyno12345 in "The dead children we must see"

dyno12345 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:08:11 +0000

it's not but there's an argument that it would reduce total suffering if you allow those who are obviously not potential combatants to leave the area, even though that's not fair to non-combatant men.

New comment by dyno12345 in "San Francisco Blows Housing Deadline, Prompting Standoff with State Regulators"

dyno12345 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:06:47 +0000

In California, yes, cities have no independent right to exist, it's ultimately completely up to the state

New comment by dyno12345 in "Generative AI for Beginners"

dyno12345 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:17:42 +0000

I just want to inpaint but am finding that surprisingly difficult