Hacker News: pixelbash

New comment by pixelbash in "Gmail AI hallucinates, distorts email contents"

pixelbash — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:18:05 +0000

Wouldn't that turn out to be a candle in a hurricane situation given the level of risk involved?

New comment by pixelbash in "OpenAI's new "Orion" model reportedly shows small gains over GPT-4"

pixelbash — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:52:16 +0000

I suspect it’s more the end of an avenue than the end of the road, but it sure seems like throwing more data and compute is hitting diminishing returns on existing methods.

New comment by pixelbash in "[dead]"

pixelbash — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:47:21 +0000

Relatively uneventfully is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

New comment by pixelbash in "Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?"

pixelbash — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:29:27 +0000

> when it was clear they were playing us comp-wise by lowballing us to get their foot in the door & then raising the bar once the offer came. Isn’t this just the mirror of a relatively common business practise? At least among smaller companies (maybe non US)

New comment by pixelbash in "UFOs: What we learned from NASA's public meeting"

pixelbash — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:55:54 +0000

True signal meaning something that invites further research I guess

New comment by pixelbash in "Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017)"

pixelbash — Sun, 28 May 2023 20:19:02 +0000

I don’t wish crippling anxiety on every other species

New comment by pixelbash in "Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations"

pixelbash — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:45:53 +0000

How is anyone to say what most of the activity of these agencies are without any oversight. That’s why the leaks happened in the first place, it was the only way to say ‘hey we need more controls on this stuff’. Unless you’re suggesting that was going to happen anyway somehow?

New comment by pixelbash in "'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice is working on WebAssembly port"

pixelbash — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:26:09 +0000

This is going to be interesting for apps obeying desktop ui settings. But running any software on any platform might make up for it.

New comment by pixelbash in "50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)"

pixelbash — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:35:13 +0000

I suspect while that might be true initially people would soon get really quite good at it.

New comment by pixelbash in "Just Launch the Damn Thing"

pixelbash — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:36:04 +0000

I've recently started thinking of businesses in similar terms to core game loops. Deep in the guts of every successful business there is one (or more) loops that keep the rest going. When I next try something i'll start with the loop.

New comment by pixelbash in "Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains"

pixelbash — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 04:27:15 +0000

Anecdotally some b6/b12 supplements have given both me and my partner very intense dreams and vivid recall. No idea what the mechanism might be (Or if it's a preservative/etc) but potentially an interesting data point?

New comment by pixelbash in "Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%"

pixelbash — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:28:48 +0000

I can see charging being built directly into parking buildings/apartment carparks and factored into the parking cost. Would be pretty convenient always being fully charged when setting out.

At this stage parking buildings have maybe 4 chargers but 1 is out of order and the other 3 are in use. But that's a scaling issue.

Will be interesting when parking buildings start drawing megawatts overnight though.

New comment by pixelbash in "In 'Cyberpunk 2077,' the Only Truly Punk Move Is Not to Play"

pixelbash — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:42:19 +0000

The Culture series by Iain M. Banks is like this, but perhaps set a little far into the future to be easily translated into games or movies.

New comment by pixelbash in "Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree"

pixelbash — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:48:00 +0000

Personal observation - assuming everyone is out to get everyone else is a cultural thing that wasnt such a concern until quite recently. It's a bit like looking at certain phrases in common use 70 years ago and wondering why anyone would use them.

New comment by pixelbash in "Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22"

pixelbash — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 22:25:32 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, this is essentially what I was querying!

New comment by pixelbash in "Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22"

pixelbash — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:12:41 +0000

Sorry, are you saying that working a 40 hour week shouldn't earn a living wage if it's a non-specialised skill?

New comment by pixelbash in "Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release"

pixelbash — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:26:14 +0000

If it's consistently as good as an average human that's still better than an average human. That's because robots don't get tired, hungover, angry, bored, drunk, or get an eyelash in their eye at a really bad time.

New comment by pixelbash in "Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal-Data Analyst"

pixelbash — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:43:45 +0000

For a second there I wondered what sort of crime a data analyst might get up to.

New comment by pixelbash in "WordPress's Matt in debate with Netlify's Matt"

pixelbash — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:29:16 +0000

That's fair - however I've been hosting some of these sites since 2014 on bare metal VPS with minimal issues (the occasional upgrade breaking a theme). A lot of WP issues come down to server settings / bad plugins over WP itself. I suspect WP Engine is largely charging that much to support any WP setup no matter how insecure.

New comment by pixelbash in "WordPress's Matt in debate with Netlify's Matt"

pixelbash — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:58:33 +0000

Putting in a word for Sanity CMS, it's like contentful but more programmatic. It also doesn't need so much of the constant 'publish draft' button clicking.