Hacker News: mmiyer

New comment by mmiyer in "Passkey is still too confusing to use"

mmiyer — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:13:50 +0000

FWIW Bitwarden supports passkeys which allows you have them synced across all your devices.

New comment by mmiyer in "Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests"

mmiyer — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:54:53 +0000

The housing market in San Francisco is very much not free. Most areas are single family zoned so you are not allowed to build apartments (which are very much needed to meet demand), and extensive approvals are required to build anything. https://thefrisc.com/how-long-it-really-takes-to-get-a-build...

Although it is true that the problem of excessive bureaucracy is not exclusive to Europe and very common in the US too.

New comment by mmiyer in "Large Language Models for Mathematicians (2023)"

mmiyer — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:13:29 +0000

The question is perfectly valid -https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/60050/find-a-functi...

The paper notes GPT 4 can solve it (they seemed to have asked ChatGPT 3.5 - this paper is old by AI standards, the first version being from Dec 2023).

New comment by mmiyer in "Intel slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340"

mmiyer — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:15:02 +0000

Supply and demand. Intel isn't happy with how many of these CPUs it's been able to sell, while Nvidia cannot produce enough GPUs to meet demand.

New comment by mmiyer in "Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate"

mmiyer — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:23:41 +0000

I think it's the point at which you can hire a nanny - being able to offload a lot of parenting responsibilities to someone else helps.

New comment by mmiyer in "Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok"

mmiyer — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:51:35 +0000

I don't know about that - seems like US is close to half of Tiktok revenue: "TikTok took in an estimated $10 billion in revenue in the United States last year, he said, out of a total global revenue estimated at $20 billion to $26 billion." [1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/technology/tiktok-ban-byt...

New comment by mmiyer in "Man who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT in planning, police say"

mmiyer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:19:52 +0000

Actually good job ChatGPT since according to the article he didn't want to kill anyone other than himself.

New comment by mmiyer in "Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing"

mmiyer — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:05:38 +0000

No definitely safer per hour. "In 2022, the fatality rate for people traveling by air was . 003 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The death rate people in passenger cars and trucks on US highways was 0.57 per 100 million miles." [1] Adjusting for a speed difference of 10x it's 0.03 for planes and 0.57 for cars. Which makes sense - it's pretty easy to crash a car, and much harder to crash a plane (there's not much to crash into in the air).

1. https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/

New comment by mmiyer in "Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond"

mmiyer — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:14:09 +0000

The article is about them collecting interest a couple weeks ago on the 400th anniversary? They clearly are keeping it going, just only collecting interest irregularly at PR milestones.

New comment by mmiyer in "Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far"

mmiyer — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:01:33 +0000

This is actually for lack of RAM reasons - 15 pro and above have 8gb RAM which is enough to fit 3-4gb models locally with room to spare for rest of the applications. The 13 pro max has 6gb of RAM which is not enough.

New comment by mmiyer in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

mmiyer — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 03:48:53 +0000

https://getbrick.app/

New comment by mmiyer in "A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop"

mmiyer — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:49:34 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1217/

New comment by mmiyer in "I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop"

mmiyer — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:40:06 +0000

I guess it's because it has the highest score of all models in instruction following, 20 points higher then Opus, which compensates for shortcomings elsewhere (e.g. in language), and which wouldn't necessarily translate to human evaluation of usefulness.

New comment by mmiyer in "Netflix streaming issues leaving Mike Tyson-Jake Paul viewers livid"

mmiyer — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:11:54 +0000

Not their first time, but the first time at this scale.

New comment by mmiyer in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

mmiyer — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:48:59 +0000

Seems to be part of Microsoft’s hedging of its OpenAI bet, ever since Sam Altman’s ousting: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-open...

New comment by mmiyer in "New Mac Mini with M4"

mmiyer — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:15:33 +0000

Mac minis are going to be one of the smaller selling product lines, so it's probably easier to offset the carbon emissions with the carbon credits they buy.

New comment by mmiyer in "Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange"

mmiyer — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:40:16 +0000

You should be happy that market makers like Citadel Securities exist. Payment for order flow is why commission free trading can exist. Citadel Securities, Virtu, Hudson River Trading, Jump Trading etc compete in a negative sum game which reduces the bid ask spread on various assets (i.e. make them cheaper to trade for everyone).

Also lol that a hedge fund with about 1% of total hedge fund assets controls prices. What do you think the other hedge funds and trading firms are doing?

New comment by mmiyer in "Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange"

mmiyer — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:34:12 +0000

They're referring to Ken Griffin / Citadel (Securities). Not that it makes their claims any less silly in terms of fundamentally misunderstanding how markets work.

New comment by mmiyer in "In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice"

mmiyer — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:20:14 +0000

"chemicals are those ingredients with scary names" is not a useful definition - unless you think foods containing 3-Methylbutanal are problematic (bananas [1]). You have to be more specific, otherwise you end up deriding ingredients based on how they sound rather than how safe they are. HFCS for example, is 55% fructose and 45% glucose while regular sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. So since fructose might be worse for the body (although this is disputed and it might be that glucose is worse), HFCS might be a little worse but it really is the quantities of sugar that matter than the kind.

1. https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredie...

New comment by mmiyer in "TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them"

mmiyer — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:41:00 +0000

That's UUID v5 (uses a sha1 hash of input data).