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New comment by katuskoti in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

katuskoti — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:10:09 +0000

Yep, Google outsources search ratings to humans working for a third-party called Leapforce - see "The secret lives of Google raters"[1].

There are specific guidelines for rating results, especially for political and medical queries. This is probably a big part of the massive decline in search quality - authority is valued more over accuracy to the specific query.

1. https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of...

New comment by katuskoti in "TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, and Next-Gen 5G and HPC Packaging"

katuskoti — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:08:15 +0000

Remember the node size is more of a marketing term than anything now, and doesn't represent any actual dimension of the silicon.

New comment by katuskoti in "Clair Patterson: scientist and campaigner against lead poisoning (2017)"

katuskoti — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:29:54 +0000

The documentary "Merchants of Doubt" covers a few of these cases, all comparing them ultimately to climate change from CO2 pollution, and the oil industry's fervorous cover ups.

New comment by katuskoti in "Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims"

katuskoti — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:48:58 +0000

Same here. I've had strange eye problems that my doctor hasn't been able to explain, and I feel like my cognition is declining. It's easy to buy into unknowns like this which seem to explain everything wrong with you, but it's exceedingly unlikely.

More likely is that my eye problems are from wearing contacts in for too long and staring too long at a computer in a low-humidity environment and never blinking. My cognitive issues are probably from not eating healthily, not getting enough sleep, not exercising, and from being depressed.

New comment by katuskoti in "Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed, dominate world today"

katuskoti — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:25:27 +0000

If anyone has watched the very tech-oriented anime "Serial Experiments Lain", Copland OS is used by the protagonist, Lain. I happen to love the anime so I set up my neofetch terminal image (an actual PNG, with w3m) to the logo of Copland OS used in the show.

New comment by katuskoti in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)"

katuskoti — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:40:23 +0000

Agreed. Good idea but hard to read. My eyes skipped over it because it's too much work to read.

New comment by katuskoti in "Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?"

katuskoti — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:12:01 +0000

> « open the ide and compile the project once »

I find that I need to set at least few small tasks to get the ball rolling. If I set something like this as the only task I needed to do I would just play video games or waste time afterwards.

New comment by katuskoti in "Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?"

katuskoti — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:10:20 +0000

I also recommend doing this with finances. Don't save your payment methods on websites. Don't use Amazon one-click checkout. Set up a pin on your Amazon devices for purchases. Make everything a little harder to buy.

New comment by katuskoti in "Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China"

katuskoti — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:10:04 +0000

“We’re so lazy in the U.S.!” blurted Wesley Chan, a venture capital investor, on the first day of what would be a weeklong journey into the Chinese technology scene.

...Yikes.