<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: runsfromfire</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=runsfromfire</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:52:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=runsfromfire" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t have any specific inside knowledge about Amazon, but I would hazard a guess that the first approach also provides better training material for the LLM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114550</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "The blood-curdling Permian monsters that ruled the Earth before dinosaurs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can anyone recommend documentaries about pre-Triassic life?  I’ve seen the “Ancient Earth” short-form series, and keep up with PBS’s “Eons” on YouTube, but I still feel like this is a facet of earth’s history that is rarely discussed in science media.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:12:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405246</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep - same story here with Nuke (the old one, but then it happened again on the new one too).  Got to global and it was a ghost town save for the same 5 man we ran into every night.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868819</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Unschooling Is the Parenting Trend That's Pissing Everyone Off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting that you call out his lack of data/sources, assert he is wrong, and don’t provide any sources of your own.<p>It seems like zip code is a good indicator of public education quality, though.  Here’s an actual source if you’d like to read about it:
<a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019/11/zoned-out-how-school-and-residential-zoning-limit-educational-opportunity" rel="nofollow">https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019...</a><p>If you’re curious about wealth impact on public schooling quality, see table 1 for a clear breakdown.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:36:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791920</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there isn’t an easy answer, as it’s always going to be dependent on the source you’re encoding from. That said, in my experience anything higher than CRF 25 on AV1 is noticeably compressed, even to a layman.  I mostly work in 1080 and occasionally 2160, though.<p>i can’t remember the last project i worked on in native 720 (probably circa 2009?) and even now 720 is only part of my output pipeline if specifically requested by the client.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:20:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719538</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>while the lectures in they were encoding would definitely look fine with these settings, I have to question your baseline for quality if you’re watching full Hollywood movies encoded at CRF 30.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 07:23:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688071</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40688071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "The sun's magnetic field is about to flip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With respect, they said pollution is the icky part.  I’m not aware of any major industries that are responsible for an appreciable amount of CO2 emissions and no other pollutants/icky stuff,  but I’d love to be proven wrong about that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:02:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686925</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why isn’t that an accomplishment?  who are you to decide what other people get validation from?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 13:26:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428225</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i’m sorry, i just don’t understand what you’re trying to say.  you’re happy that the leading AI firm is full of shit despite promises to the opposite?  what makes you happy about that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428048</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“So long and thanks for all the yachts”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370232</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He wasn’t trying to convey the story you wanted him to convey so it’s poor filmmaking?<p>I’m not sure I understand your position.  He’s a bad filmmaker because you preferred the book’s ending?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 18:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301127</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you asking how a middleman is different than a consultant firm controlling the industry via proxy?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 21:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291566</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Final Cut Pro transforms video creation with Live Multicam, new AI features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you expect the PR to cater to, and speak extensively about third party hardware?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 17:52:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289147</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If most/all of the major players used the same consulting firm, wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest that borders on - perhaps even is outright - breaking the law?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 04:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262215</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>personally, i’d love this, as long as i know everything is staying local and not being sold/shared for a profit.<p>i regularly find myself thinking things like “what movie was i talking about with that guy in the gym?” or “what did i tell my wife we needed to get at the drug store?”<p>while i have gotten into a habit of keeping a long running note in my phone, there are still lots of blind spots in my memory that leave these fragmented mini-mysteries.  having a machine that i could ask “what was that song playing in the supermarket i wanted to download?” and get a useful answer would be a huge boon in my life, if only to quiet the anxiety of leaving these threads hanging in my mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:12:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161766</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Jsfxr: 8-Bit sound maker and sfx generator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>music lovers!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140807</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Long Reviled as 'Ugly,' Sea Lampreys Get Some Respect (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This makes me sad HBO cancelled Raised by Wolves</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:23:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083169</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find this varies from person to person.  I have nothing to back this up, but I have a hunch it is a genetic thing, like how cilantro tastes like soap to some but not to others.<p>I can identify the taste of Coke Zero (or anything with artificial sweeteners) vs coke 100% of the time.  They barely even taste similar to me.  My wife can’t taste a difference at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:29:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071222</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "Smishing scam regarding debt for road toll services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would having an open bidding process preclude the use of .gov TLD?<p>Why couldn’t the highest bidder handle the payment and processing at e.g. tolls.gov?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045002</link><dc:creator>runsfromfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40045002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by runsfromfire in "DVD Format/Logo Licensing Program will be terminated at the end of 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m still not sure what you mean in regards to the quality of streaming content.<p>I’m not even sure whether you mean “quality” in terms of bitrate/picture clarity or “quality” in terms of the production value/content being created.</p>
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