Hacker News: mccorrinall

New comment by mccorrinall in "So why a News Feed?"

mccorrinall — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:18:58 +0000

In all honesty, Mastodon feels like a bigger echo chamber than Twitter. At least for me.

The people on the server are somehow all like minded people. There is rarely any disagreeing going on. The missing exposure to diverse perspective makes mastodon boring to me, and is the reason why I stopped using it.

Maybe I used it wrong ¯\(°_°)/¯

New comment by mccorrinall in "Enabling Bluetooth connections on Stadia Controllers"

mccorrinall — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:10:16 +0000

The current handling is what I’d like to call a Selbstverständlichkeit.

Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it

mccorrinall — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:03:51 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/spotifystatus/status/1614078310023045129

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34376601

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by mccorrinall in "Genders.wtf"

mccorrinall — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:27:16 +0000

I actually say „Herr/Frau Professor Doktor Agolio“ irl when I want something from that person.

New comment by mccorrinall in "I wish JSON5 was more popular"

mccorrinall — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:25:41 +0000

JSON5 makers apparently didn’t even know about prototype pollution until this week.

New comment by mccorrinall in "Silicon Valley can’t quit its pizza robot obsession"

mccorrinall — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:24:34 +0000

I thought about doing this when I was a teen. :)

New comment by mccorrinall in "Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens"

mccorrinall — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 16:02:52 +0000

My Audi has a knob which I can rotate in order to navigate through the menus without taking my eyes off the street. It also has a touch screen, but I only use it when standing still.

New comment by mccorrinall in "OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B"

mccorrinall — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:45:44 +0000

> internal developments that match (maybe exceed) GPT3

Had a funny google prompt today which echoed wrong results by their ML model: https://www.google.com/search?q=single%20neighbor%20country

New comment by mccorrinall in "OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B"

mccorrinall — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:31:38 +0000

It’s easier to train on all github repos if you own github. There is no real alternative to codex.

Stuff like GPT3 is trying to be recreated, but even the eleuther AI guys only collected like 800GB training data, which is much less than what OpenAI has (iirc around 45TB). And apparently their data is very high quality. EleutherAI is pretty much one of the few big model open source competitors with GPT-Neox etc.

Plus openai has great branding.

New comment by mccorrinall in "Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (1996)"

mccorrinall — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 06:29:02 +0000

Or maybe they write on an iphone. I had to turn auto capitalization off because it would capitalize emoticons after a full stop: turning xD into Xd

New comment by mccorrinall in "Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations?"

mccorrinall — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 06:09:31 +0000

They have, but it’s just not interesting. Similar to how the p2p scene doesn’t give a damn about software DRM.

Regarding WV: There is actually lots of open source software and even some discords where WV keys are being shared. FFMPEG is capable of decrypting it, so all you need as ffmpeg inputs is the netflix stream and a key and then dump it to disk.

Regarding pita DRM: the scene is the only capable group who still supply clean patches for modern DRM in games and applications. (Like denuvo)

Clean in the sense that they don’t just install a hypervisor and hook everything for big performance penalties, but actually patch the binary to remove the checks through static analysis. 3DM is the last p2p group I know which done that, but that was half a decade ago. I don’t think there are currently any p2p groups which take a look at this, because it’s just not interesting (effort vs reward) for them.

New comment by mccorrinall in "Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations?"

mccorrinall — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 05:47:55 +0000

> You must be on some garbage trackers if you're getting away with multiple accounts

Idk, I just always cheated when I was close to coming to my DL limit.

https://github.com/NikolayIT/RatioMaster.NET

New comment by mccorrinall in "Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (1996)"

mccorrinall — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 05:38:40 +0000

Javabeans give me nightmares too

New comment by mccorrinall in "“My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”"

mccorrinall — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:03:48 +0000

Would be interesting to know how his BTC were stolen. Because he is a BTC core developer, I believe he followed the best practices, like not writing down his password. So infection or keylogger?

New comment by mccorrinall in "Why a global recession is inevitable in 2023"

mccorrinall — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 19:49:41 +0000

Isn’t a recession necessary to curb inflation? Powell said that economy needs to cool down:

When rates are hiked, a home with a mortgage, using credit cards or seeking loans to start a business become much more expensive. That results in people stopping purchasing homes, cut down on spending, think twice about starting a business. In addition to that companies will lay off workers and enact hiring freezes.

Everyone says it, the signs are obvious, and people here still think we won’t land in a recession.

Kinda feels similar to the irrationality of tesla investors, where everyone knew that the company is overvalued and needs to come down. Yet people continued buying or didn’t want to sell. Why? I would like to know.

New comment by mccorrinall in "React Native is not the future"

mccorrinall — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:55:01 +0000

I used this in firefox on ios and the zooming bugs are awful: https://streamable.com/qnxz2z

New comment by mccorrinall in "Fidelity marks down the value of its Twitter stake by 56%"

mccorrinall — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:16:42 +0000

Braingenious is not doing a pitchfork campaign but is actually right: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/twitter-buyout-loans-get-bid-at-...

New comment by mccorrinall in "Fidelity marks down the value of its Twitter stake by 56%"

mccorrinall — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:14:47 +0000

Morgan Stanley has tried to sell some of their twitter shares for sixty cents on the dollar a few weeks ago.

Notice on API data disclosure incident

mccorrinall — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:42:27 +0000

Article URL: https://3commas.io/blog/notice-on-api-data-disclosure-incident

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34184898

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mccorrinall in "Kagi – Paid Search Engine"

mccorrinall — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 08:18:04 +0000

What results does have it to echo in order to not be mediocre for you?