Hacker News: sk0g

New comment by sk0g in "Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games"

sk0g — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:01:19 +0000

Is some sort of volume "equalisation" or compression being applied maybe? Could also be reacting to the change in ambient volume conditions otherwise.

New comment by sk0g in "Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers"

sk0g — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:56:49 +0000

That's surprising to me, almost everyone I know will leave voicemail. Recruiters especially, which tends to be myst of my legitimate phone calls TBH!

Though with people of my age "cold calling" isn't all that common, typically you text the person first to make sure they are available and keen on a call. Unless it's an emergency of some sort, of course.

New comment by sk0g in "Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers"

sk0g — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:54:39 +0000

Honestly pre-COVID I got spam calls maybe once a quarter. After giving out my number every second time I left the house, that number is more like a few times a week.

I would say I am pretty privacy conscious (when possible), so this may not be the average person's experience.

New comment by sk0g in "Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers"

sk0g — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:51:30 +0000

YouTube ads have no ability to interrupt my day-to-day life out of the blue, and also don't poison a legitimately useful communication medium for personal relationships.

Phone spam is much more harmful than ads you kinda-sorta opt into, IMO.

New comment by sk0g in "Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers"

sk0g — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:49:14 +0000

Who would bear that cost though? My prediction would be the customers again, because they would make the phone support harder to reach than it already is as a "solution" to the increased demand for phone support.

New comment by sk0g in "The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days"

sk0g — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:50:26 +0000

Oh nice, the more you know! Kvira probably refers to the same word meaning "week", but seems like there's theories it could derive from Greek mythology as well.

Lots of influence from Greek culture in Georgia for sure. For a fun fact, the Georgian for "Greece" is saberdzneti -- the land of the wise. Berdzeni itself means wise (as well as Greek), but I'm not certain if it's derived from an alternative historical name for the Greek.

New comment by sk0g in "The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days"

sk0g — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:12:00 +0000

Similar for Georgian, Monday through to Thursday are named roughly "two-Sabbath" to "five-Sabbath", with Saturday being Sabbath of course. Not sure why those numbers, but I assumed it was because it was the number of days past Saturday?

Friday and Sunday get different names, unrelated to Sabbath as far as I can tell -- paraskevi and kvira.

New comment by sk0g in "Cooperative C++ Evolution – Toward a TypeScript for C++"

sk0g — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:18:31 +0000

C# does not transpile to C++, so no. You are still left with the .net runtime, garbage collection, etc.

New comment by sk0g in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

sk0g — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:00:30 +0000

(On average), for a walk to the stop of 100-200 feet the bus would need to stop every 200-400 feet. 300 ft seems to be roughly 100m, which is probably much too short a distance still. 250m or ~800 ft aligns better to my experience with cities with good transit, and in the worst case scenario you have to walk 125m to your nearest stop.

New comment by sk0g in "This is what the year actually looks like (2018)"

sk0g — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:48:38 +0000

I wish :) I feel like I use BitBucket more than they do; JIRA has dark mode while BB doesn't...

New comment by sk0g in "This is what the year actually looks like (2018)"

sk0g — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:03:16 +0000

It's about as common here (AU) as referring to dates as sprints since epoch. So not very.

New comment by sk0g in "Meta in Myanmar"

sk0g — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 08:08:36 +0000

Sure.

FB could set the baseline visibility level of each post and comment to 0, and selectively boost specific ones to be seen by people other than the poster. Not boosting, is not censorship after all.

New comment by sk0g in "Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies"

sk0g — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:37:31 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

New comment by sk0g in "How Equifax Was Breached in 2017"

sk0g — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:00:35 +0000

Most CXOs have extensive experience in their relevant fields. Your retort seems needlessly defensive.

New comment by sk0g in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

sk0g — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:47:45 +0000

FYI the edit might have made it more confusing, since there's a double negative now. "don't believe you can't actually own code" reads as "believe you can actually own code", which I'm not sure is what you were going for.

New comment by sk0g in "Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint"

sk0g — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:53:22 +0000

See my other comment for a more expanded take, but let's go with Intel for example. If they had to do all work out in the open, and share all progress they make, all they could compete on would be timing and pricing.

Pricing isn't going to be something they are likely to win on, and the timing is either time to market, or time to release IP. For the former, why buy i9 for $1000 when you can be an Indian alternative for $500 in, let's say, 6 months? For the latter, if companies can release findings after some fuzzy period like "when the prototypes have been validated," that's still IP but with a timed secrecy.

New comment by sk0g in "Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint"

sk0g — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:48:04 +0000

I was responding to an obvious exaggeration in kind, which was a bad move on my part.

Yes people can and will still continue to do stuff for the sake of it. Some of it will be amazing. The huge things like building the next 5 CPU generations though, is that going to be practical? Who will fund that, and why?

Trying not to get political but the end of copyright feels like communism to me. No private property and all that. While I didn't live through it myself, the associated trauma WRT the USSR certainly left some deep scars that people still haven't healed from.

In any case, if -- and it's a big if -- AI continues to develop at the current rate, a solution like UBI will have to be seriously considered. Economies probably don't function when people don't create value, earn, or spend.

New comment by sk0g in "Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint"

sk0g — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:41:18 +0000

I would contribute to a lot of open source projects if it took a few minutes at a time. Working full-time hours over many years is a different question however.

New comment by sk0g in "Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint"

sk0g — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:43:03 +0000

With no copyright and intellectual property knowledge wouldn't be free, it simply would cease to be generated. If you can't profit (at least modestly) from your work, there's no incentive to perform that work.

Lots of things sound good in a perfect world, but we don't live in one.

New comment by sk0g in "We’re all just temporarily abled"

sk0g — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:26:27 +0000

What's the questionable supplements allowed? Herbal stuff like ashwagandha or whatever, or not-technically-steroids-but-close-enough substances like SARMs?