Hacker News: spywaregorilla

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles"

spywaregorilla — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:01:48 +0000

You assume they all shared the same tech stack

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Boeing Ends Crippling Strike as Workers Accept Latest Offer"

spywaregorilla — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:26:33 +0000

The pension funds are protected, but that does not mean anything close to your promised benefit is available for you to receive. It also creates a recurring liability that the company is on the hook for. This has historically worked out to cases where employees must either get a partial payout from available funds and tank the loss, or have the company fold and everyone gets laid off.

Pensions are a better deal until they catastrophically fail.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Boeing Ends Crippling Strike as Workers Accept Latest Offer"

spywaregorilla — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:17:58 +0000

It's better to not gamble your retirement on the assumption that your company will be solvent in 40 years. That's not really antagonistic in any way.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives"

spywaregorilla — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:35:05 +0000

Is that really kids liking history or is that kids thinking war is cool?

History is also largely a joke subject that's just interesting fun facts and dry US history repeated ad infinitum for most american grade schools.

I would say the only history class that was actually of any value for me in high school was AP modern european history.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives"

spywaregorilla — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:32:44 +0000

That's not unreasonable if you have good tests that hit the right elements. My experience about 10 years ago with the AP exams were very positive. The tests were good, and even though the classes were taught to the test, they were some of the best classes I ever took.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "NASA's Europa Clipper Launch"

spywaregorilla — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:12:48 +0000

Building a ship containing delicate sensors that needs to get into space, arrive at the target, and beam back measurements on the first try with a very low tolerance for error is hard.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Regardless of age, quitting cigarette smoking will add years to your life"

spywaregorilla — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:58:41 +0000

A quick google suggests to me that smoking trends are still falling in the US and globally on average. imo smoking is considered lame to americans as a sign that someone doesn't have their shit together.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense"

spywaregorilla — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:51:39 +0000

What exactly is it? I get the sense it's basically a knowledge graph and an inference engine. But what was it actually doing in terms of submitting queries and spitting out takeaways in human readable form?

I'm extremely skeptical about the anecdotes about the game as an indicator of this thing's competence. It sounds unlikely that this thing actually encoded any sort of game state or nuanced simulations and was really just spitballing on vague strategies that just happened to find some cheese (twice?). I'm guessing they had to play the strats until one of them proved valuable, and it's kind of weird and surprising that they thought this was a good use of their time and model.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Differential Transformer"

spywaregorilla — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:47:57 +0000

> during pre-training, there is never an incentive for the model to say "I don't know" because it would be penalized. the model is incentivized to make an educated guess

The guess can be "I don't know". The base LLM would generally only say I don't know if it "knew" that it didn't know, which is not going to be very common. The tuned LLM would be the level responsible for trying to equate a lack of understanding to saying "I don't know"

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Meta Movie Gen"

spywaregorilla — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:11:19 +0000

Can you identify any of these models?

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy"

spywaregorilla — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:00:18 +0000

I remember playing one of these a decade or so after it came out. Found out there were hookers and a prompt on whether or not to have safe sex. Despite my attempts, I was unable to receive any penalties for ignoring the prompt.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "The 'Save Money and Pursue Passion Later' Myth"

spywaregorilla — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:04:02 +0000

My point is not that you missed on some sweet cash. My point is that it's an example of extreme privilege and wealth opportunities that most people cannot afford. The post comes off as anti-materialism and worldly and not caring about the money. But it's really the opposite. Your particular circumstances around wealth are what enable you to do this.

I find it irritating. And phrases like this one:

> I looked around at the people that had been the 10 or 20 years and it scared the shit out of me.

Are the worst.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "The 'Save Money and Pursue Passion Later' Myth"

spywaregorilla — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:24:38 +0000

If you didn't work for two years, the cost was "less than a used tesla" and two years opportunity cost of missed wages.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)"

spywaregorilla — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:02:24 +0000

Neon Genesis is moreso Christianity as an aesthetic.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson"

spywaregorilla — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:39:45 +0000

Those poor fools and their 11 digit lifetime revenue figures

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson"

spywaregorilla — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:35:17 +0000

I really feel like epic games should be paying games to let people use their consistent character across games. It doesn't need to be significant. Just the metahuman mesh.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Pocket-Godot: Starter Kit for mobile game development using Godot"

spywaregorilla — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:41:56 +0000

> 5. A negative view would be that AI coding assistants mean people don’t necessarily need “libraries” like this if an LLM can spit out the same results in a couple queries (rather than hunting around Github or the internet for pre-packaged code).

Why use a library when the LLM can spit of a unique reimplementation of the library logic every time you need it?

The future is terrifying.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

spywaregorilla — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:19:56 +0000

Well, a battery is going to boost it substantially

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

spywaregorilla — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:55:36 +0000

Well, that claim isn't true.

Solar + Storage is cheaper than a gas peaker plant, but it is not cost competitive with a base load gas plant.

New comment by spywaregorilla in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

spywaregorilla — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:48:39 +0000

Gas is being subsidized