Hacker News: westhanover

New comment by westhanover in "Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation"

westhanover — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:23:30 +0000

So I guess when Bluesky gets a take down from the Indian government the plan is just for you guys not to go to India anymore?

New comment by westhanover in "Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway"

westhanover — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:24:09 +0000

If you haven’t felt that way you probably never let yourself experience deep passion for your work. To each his own, but I find that it requires passion to do remarkable things. There is no shame in punching the clock for your 401k.

New comment by westhanover in "Impostor Syndrome vs. the Dunning-Kruger Effect"

westhanover — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:51:21 +0000

Have you considered that you might not be able to gauge peoples competence and knowledge accurately? Statistically, if you are observing so manly outliers that is likely to be the case. Hope this helps!

New comment by westhanover in "Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC"

westhanover — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:47:34 +0000

Or he is brilliant enough to know you don’t need one on your blog. I really don’t care if someone messes with your traffic to my blog!

New comment by westhanover in "Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale"

westhanover — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:38:35 +0000

I like this thinking. It could trigger the discovery of a bunch of cool stuff at garage sales.

New comment by westhanover in "Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed"

westhanover — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:34:51 +0000

Do I have permission to desecrate your corpse? You are dead after all.

New comment by westhanover in "NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9"

westhanover — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:13:38 +0000

That person is a psychopath. The only good thing is that in a competent safety focused org someone like him would be fired instantly.

New comment by westhanover in "OpenAI and Elon Musk"

westhanover — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:17:07 +0000

You can choose to remember the past any way you wish. Don’t be surprised when people start ignoring you because of your warped view on the world.

New comment by westhanover in "Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case"

westhanover — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:14:15 +0000

The yellow tab was nonvolatile memory so season progress could be saved. This comment is a complete lie and should be disregarded.

New comment by westhanover in "Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want $6B fee"

westhanover — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:25:17 +0000

So surely you wouldn’t object if these attorneys just started turning up dead.

New comment by westhanover in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

westhanover — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:50:12 +0000

Neither is your comment. If you polled Americans I think more would say both parties are full of shit than would take one parties line like you are.

New comment by westhanover in "Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA, x86"

westhanover — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:25:09 +0000

He sells AI chips that don’t run CUDA.

New comment by westhanover in "Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA, x86"

westhanover — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:43:52 +0000

Well he is obviously just talking his book. He is selling a Nvidia competitor. If CUDA isn’t beautiful and the future deserves to be beautiful, why don’t you make it and show us, Jim? All we are getting is more hot air about CUDA. That is all AMD and Intel have as well, bold statements about the future and no code.

New comment by westhanover in "Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission"

westhanover — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:19:07 +0000

It is an IQ test, they will tell you that. IQ predicts job performance and wealth. Sorry if that offends you but it is reality. Good luck fighting it!

New comment by westhanover in "Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission"

westhanover — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:46:52 +0000

Learning styles and all of that associated nonsense have been definitely disproven, please stop perpetuating these harmful ideas.

New comment by westhanover in "An 'education legend' has created an AI that will change your mind about AI"

westhanover — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:18:57 +0000

This is a nonsensical statement produced by a chat bot. There are no invalid ways of learning.

New comment by westhanover in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

westhanover — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:22:49 +0000

They know their system prompt and they could easily be trained on data that explains their structure. Your dismissal is invalid and I suggest you don’t really know what you are talking about to be speaking in such definitive generalities.

New comment by westhanover in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

westhanover — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:29:21 +0000

Well if you have no explanation for that I don’t see why we should try and use your model to understand anything about being risk adverse. They don’t care about being sued, they want to change reality.

New comment by westhanover in "A New Chapter for Mozilla"

westhanover — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:48:54 +0000

No one cares about those. Firefox is their only chance. Their comeback does not start with Pocket.

New comment by westhanover in "Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy"

westhanover — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:44:05 +0000

Shame is how our societies function. When someone acts outside of the norms of the society they are shamed. It is healthy and normal human behavior.