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New comment by itisit in "Allbirds, once valued at $4B, just sold its assets for next to nothing"

itisit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:47:11 +0000

Sneakers are fashion, and Allbirds underestimated how quickly trends shift. They made other mistakes, but none more fatal than selling a product that still looks like 2016.

New comment by itisit in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

itisit — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:22:41 +0000

> usb-c is too unstable

Would you share more? I've never had an issue with a USB-C cable. Helps to buy well constructed ones with legit specs.

New comment by itisit in "Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc"

itisit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:51:16 +0000

LaserDiscs are not quite a digital medium. The video is an FM analog signal (composite). Digital PCM audio was introduced about half a decade into the format's life.

New comment by itisit in "Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data"

itisit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:35:26 +0000

> How were they able to achieve such perfect recreation from monkey

Because the macaque study didn't decode faces from fMRI. They first used fMRI to locate the face patches, then used tungsten microelectrodes for single-unit electrophysiology to record spikes from individual face-selective neurons in ML/MF and AM. [0]

Single-unit recordings capture individual spike patterns at a resolution fMRI, which averages across hundreds of thousands of neurons per voxel, simply cannot provide.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8088389

New comment by itisit in "The Brand Age"

itisit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:50:13 +0000

> That turns out to be a profitable business though.

He does not disappoint. Also, not buying the watch industry parable.

New comment by itisit in "How were video transfers made? (2011)"

itisit — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:06:13 +0000

Digital video editing was slow to gain adoption, but digital video mastering (i.e. video transfers) was pretty much standard for home video by the early 90s. Telecine setups (even analog) had smart controls, nothing I'd call 'barbaric'. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLZ3ru3N5k

New comment by itisit in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

itisit — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:33:27 +0000

Granted it's often easy to tell on your own, but when I'm uncertain I use GPTZero's Chrome extension for this. Eventually I'll stop doing that and assume most of what I read outside of select trusted forums is genAI.

Anthropic Is Close to Releasing Claude Sonnet 5, per Rumors

itisit — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macobserver.com/news/anthropic-is-close-to-releasing-claude-sonnet-5-per-rumors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46894606

Points: 2

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New comment by itisit in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

itisit — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:51:08 +0000

And in all manner of regulated industries. People simply cannot resist throwing anything and everything at the magic text machine. A company can control its IT assets, but if the content is displayable on a screen, rest assured users will just take photos and upload to their personal LLM accounts to get the generative answers they endlessly desire.

New comment by itisit in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

itisit — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:27:52 +0000

> Was there ever good coffee in NYC?

Before all the third-wave shops came along? D'Amico, Sahadi's, Porto Rico, Zabar's, Gillies, and that's about it. You'd have to have been a coffee buff to seek those places out as a consumer, as they mostly served as suppliers to hospitality.

New comment by itisit in "Television is 100 years old today"

itisit — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:30:07 +0000

Like the MegaProcessor? [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNa9bQRPMB8

New comment by itisit in "Television is 100 years old today"

itisit — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:38:24 +0000

And perhaps peak atompunk too when used as RAM. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

New comment by itisit in "AI Is Not Ready to Replace Junior Devs Says Ruby on Rails Creator"

itisit — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:58:58 +0000

You’re doing it again. You’re taking a descriptive proxy he used and treating it as dispositive evidence of motive, instead of engaging the underlying claim about what happens when a historically dominant, locally rooted culture ceases to be a majority.

New comment by itisit in "AI Is Not Ready to Replace Junior Devs Says Ruby on Rails Creator"

itisit — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:00:23 +0000

DHH’s argument was about rapid demographic change and loss of a majority culture, grounded (rightly or wrongly) in concerns about social cohesion. An argument you can disagree with, but not reduce to racial preference without distortion.

New comment by itisit in "Robert Redford has died"

itisit — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:09:45 +0000

Had Redford passed some 30 years ago, your remarks would have been true. By the early 2000s, Sundance became nothing more than a marketplace for a formulaic film type (quirky dramedies with offbeat characters) that big studios (a.k.a. Hollywood) would bid over. Sundance ultimately commodified "independent film".

New comment by itisit in "You're also a neural network – train on the good stuff"

itisit — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:03:18 +0000

This is an ad, and what it sidesteps is that human training/understanding requires much more than feeding concepts and texts into a black box.

New comment by itisit in "Proton completes SoC 2 Type II audit, reinforcing trust for business users"

itisit — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:15:47 +0000

Do any SOC2 Type II auditors truly audit the businesses they’re making an attestation for? Like do they go onsite, physically and virtually, to probe and determine what’s true? Typically the client of an assessor provides compliance evidence in the form of screenshots of configuration details. Clearly this kind of evidence can be fabricated or adulterated.

New comment by itisit in "Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative"

itisit — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:07:30 +0000

> Were studios really that reckless with their properties?

The first two seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were almost erased because the BBC wanted to reuse the broadcast tapes. [0]

[0] https://www.cracked.com/article_42008_monty-pythons-flying-c...

New comment by itisit in "Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died"

itisit — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:53:23 +0000

The money shot! I did not realize sewer cleaning required so much onsite IT. Are those rack units running computational fluid dynamics models to figure out how to unclog elaborate networks of pipes?

New comment by itisit in "New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on rats'"

itisit — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:48:52 +0000

I guess there aren’t any cats in the Ak Saray.