Hacker News: steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steveoscaroHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:23:55 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected"]]>These rare interactions with matter are also a cause of concern in voting machines, right? Or at least it was a concern at one point. A random bit being flipped or something.

]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:29:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031777steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031777https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031777<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "A Year of Telepathy"]]>Edit

]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:29:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022808steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022808<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"]]>Grok2 is right up there in the middle of the pack with the big dogs on a lot of the benchmarks. It's no joke. So I think Grok 3 could be really interesting.

]]>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:02:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943599steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943599https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943599<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "What really happens inside a dating app"]]>I'm a digital nomad and changing locations frequently, so I have actually tried this A/B test a couple times when arriving in a brand new city. Same results.

]]>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:00:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943582steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943582https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943582<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "What really happens inside a dating app"]]>I paid for a lifetime membership to Bumble premium a couple years ago, but as I noticed matches/likes declining for no apparent reason, I made a 2nd account with different credentials, paid for a week of premium, and had a bunch of matches (exact same profile as my other account).

From my anecdotal experience, they have some algorithm that leads to diminishing returns in order to keep extracting money for boosts or whatever.

]]>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:42:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943433steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943433https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943433<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024"]]>Not really that different

]]>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:24:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884193steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884193<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"]]>You don’t “have to” make it environmentally sustainable…

]]>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:55:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860972steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860972https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860972<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"]]>If you see no path from ASI to vastly extending lifespans, that’s just a lack of imagination

]]>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:48:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829265steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829265https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829265<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"]]>I wonder if Xai is sweating their imminent Grok 3 release because of DeepSeek. It’ll be interesting to see how good that model is.

]]>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:38:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829021steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829021https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829021<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"]]>Based on what? There’s not a better state in the country for large capex gambles by business.

]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:06:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787971steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787971https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787971<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"]]>Mark Tesla under the AI robotics category too.

]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:02:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787942steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787942https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787942<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"]]>At least this time the CEO of their chosen company isn’t a yuppie cult leader wannabe.

]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:01:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787928steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787928https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787928<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"]]>I think cheap power (whether gas turbines or massive solar farms) trumps any cooling efficiencies gained by locating in a cold climate.

]]>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:59:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787906steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787906https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787906<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry"]]>A few hanging chads really changed the course of the western world in... 2000 I think.

]]>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:14:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780263steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780263https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780263<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry"]]>Or just run an extension cord from your dryer outlet with a splitter. $100 and done.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:01:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754145steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754145https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754145<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry"]]>Spoke like a true oil industry executive

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:58:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754135steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754135https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754135<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm"]]>Someone smarter than me please tie this into the many worlds theory of the universe and collapsing wave functions.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:50:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754100steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754100<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"]]>Seems like an odd takeaway to me - they fired 90% of their staff and now pump out new features way more quickly than old Twitter.

]]>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:16:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643373steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643373<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed"]]>New Mexico is pretty relaxed

]]>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:30:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643103steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643103https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42643103<![CDATA[New comment by steveoscaro in "Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model"]]>That sounds like a line from the CCP.

]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:59:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632360steveoscarohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632360https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632360