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New comment by throwaway598 in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

throwaway598 — Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:52 +0000

That OpenAI are institutionally unethical. That such a young company can be become rotten so quickly can only be due to leadership instruction or leadership failure.

New comment by throwaway598 in "The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018)"

throwaway598 — Sat, 18 May 2024 02:59:57 +0000

I'd expect these series to be cointegrated. A chart or OLS isn't going to prove chicken or egg.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Pentagon refused delivery of so many F-35s Lockheed running short on storage"

throwaway598 — Thu, 16 May 2024 23:40:30 +0000

I find the 'hero' photo fascinating, of the aircraft lined up quite closely under construction. The closeness, the apparent temporary nature of the equipment nearby, the lack of there being a 'line'. Then it struck me perhaps the planes are stationary, while the 'line' moves around them. Can anyone shed any light?

New comment by throwaway598 in "EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design"

throwaway598 — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:03:09 +0000

The child doesn't choose their parents.

The parents can be mistaken.

If enforcing the good habits of good parenting is not a problem, then 'apps' wouldn't have a problem with it. But they do. Because they're doing the equivalent of promoting cigarettes as a health elixr, something many on HN are complicit in through 'educational' branding of gamified (addictive) social media and even NFTs.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Why Employees Who Work Across Silos Get Burned Out"

throwaway598 — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:16:03 +0000

Silos don't collaborate. They emu head in sand, burn with fire or molasis those that come close to shining a light on their deliberate opacity, and/or push cost of complying with them on others.

Non interdisciplinary processes, made by people, are a hinderance to the health of an organisation and the people working there. Remove those that enforce them no matter their self perceived importance. They're a scourge akin to closed shops of the 70s.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript"

throwaway598 — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:31:26 +0000

My domain: 24 years registered to me. A .com.

My email address: Listed at the top of the front page. In a H3 tag.

This email address's spam problem: Not a problem. 15ish per day get to me including Junk folder. Thanks Purelymail.

What is a problem: Transactional email unrelated to transactions, Promotional email which is newsletter junk spam, Social networks complaining of not being used.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Notes in VS Code"

throwaway598 — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:08:38 +0000

I tried in Sublime. But settled on Zettlr which is designed for knowledge bases and academic writing: markdown, Zettelkasten, tags, directory structure, text search and bibtex - Jabref (or Zotero) integration - is useful too. Plus the map thing if that's your cup of tea though I find its usefulness limited.

New comment by throwaway598 in "3 Possible Reasons Why You Don't Get Along with Your Coworkers And How To Fix It"

throwaway598 — Sat, 11 May 2024 15:52:44 +0000

I do get along with my colleagues.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Ask HN: Plagiarism Horror Stories"

throwaway598 — Sat, 11 May 2024 15:46:55 +0000

I wrote a short reference book as an educational reference. Very niche. Released under Creative Commons.

When interviewing someone, they presented pages from it and claimed themselves as author of the 'highly technical work'.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)"

throwaway598 — Sun, 05 May 2024 06:38:30 +0000

Rationality and imperfect information are different things.

Neither of which fit your example which is search cost. Not everyone knows a lot of things, it is impossible to know everything. Therefore tradeoffs are made. Which is rational.

New comment by throwaway598 in "A Lawyer's Slide into Psychosis Was Captured in a WSJ Profile"

throwaway598 — Sun, 05 May 2024 02:45:14 +0000

Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal censor their own news, so I suppose this is news that they've done the work and effort reporting on that they deem not worth knowing. A bit of a (deadweight) loss.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites"

throwaway598 — Sun, 05 May 2024 02:34:54 +0000

Perhaps an insight into vulture humour:

George the turkey vulture: It's a nice day to hang out circling.

Rambo the turkey vulture: Hey George, let's hang.

Pappias the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Sydney the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Violet the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Sydney the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Seven the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Arnold the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

Angel the turkey vulture: Where's the food? No food. LOL. You guys!

All: LOL (but silently).

...

60 vultures later someone observes 60 vultures circling and concludes:

A. There's definitely no carcass, as that's a myth.

B. There's definitely a carcass, as there's 60 vultures.

C. I'm going to find some water to drink.

New comment by throwaway598 in "I don't want to fill out your contact form"

throwaway598 — Sun, 05 May 2024 01:01:00 +0000

Not a core competence so vendor solution is used.

That's financialisation. That's maximising value. Right?

New comment by throwaway598 in "Braze Outage Postmortem"

throwaway598 — Sat, 04 May 2024 07:30:49 +0000

My teeth fell out reading this.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Bay Area restaurants react to new Calif. law with anger, shock"

throwaway598 — Sat, 04 May 2024 04:33:53 +0000

> The law, Senate Bill 478, set to go into effect on July 1, prohibits the use of “drip pricing, a practice in which companies advertise only a portion of what a customer would actually pay for a certain product or service,”

> a 5% or 6% SF Health Care Security Ordinance surcharge ... also charge customers a 20% service fee that goes to employees in lieu of the traditional tipping system.

What's next. A fee for soap used to clean dishes? A fee for a customer's share rent? A fee for providing a bathroom? A fee for vegetables?

It's dishonesty. Charge customers what they need to pay. Put this on a price.

S Stick Textual Usages

throwaway598 — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:42:05 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_stick

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237517

Points: 1

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New comment by throwaway598 in "LLMs can't do probability"

throwaway598 — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:30:53 +0000

If you asked me to be right 80% of the time, I'd probably be right. So I'd be right on average 110% of the time.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Show HN: React Bricks, The only headless CMS with true Visual Editing"

throwaway598 — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:22:43 +0000

If it's visual, is it headless?

New comment by throwaway598 in "Ask HN: Why are people convinced that Apple can survive the era of AI?"

throwaway598 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:21:07 +0000

Autocorrect's nice and stuff. Snake was a great game on my Nokia.

Who texts with autocorrect when they can speech to text? If hands are too busy to type, talk. Re-engineering the problem's often easier.

LLMs that are changing the world only fit well in Apple's polished world when they reach the quality needed to not mess anything up. There's a truthyness to Apple's world, a verified truth, a positivism (the epistemological version of the world) that LLMs by-and-large strive for in a very different way from the intelligent design of Apple.

The most immediate way LLMs will change the world is by making fusion reactors viable through market forces as they take the baton from blockchains in burning power.

New comment by throwaway598 in "Don't Just Say "Hello" in Chat"

throwaway598 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:18:20 +0000

asl?