Hacker News: ytdytvhxgydvhh

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:17:39 +0000

What’s the problem with that? Reproducing copyrighted works in full is problematic obviously. But if I learned English by watching American movies, I didn’t steal the language from the movie studios, I learned it.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "We're ending our Samsung collaboration"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:20:15 +0000

I wonder if it would go well with some Volkswagen sausage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Hertz is ditching even more electric cars"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:15:33 +0000

It might be time to check out the Hacker News guidelines for comments. A couple of relevant excerpts:

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

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

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Volvo landed a cheap Chinese EV on U.S. shores in a trade war"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:12:22 +0000

Currently I believe so, although they likely wouldn’t qualify for the $7500 EV tax credit due to the origin of the batteries. Lawmakers have talked about this scenario with concern, to the extent that I’ve heard BYD is reluctant to actually try it because they suspect the US would pass some protectionist legislation that would suddenly ruin the investment.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "The man who killed Google Search?"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:51:23 +0000

Can’t help but read that and think of Tesla’s Autopilot and “Full Self Driving”. For some comparisons they claim to be safer per mile than human drivers … just don’t think too much about the error modes where the occasional stationary object isn’t detected and you plow into it at highway speed.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "The man who killed Google Search?"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:24:01 +0000

I think that’ll define the industry for the coming decades. I used to work in machine translation and it was the same. The older rules-based engines that were carefully crafted by humans worked well on the test suite and if a new case was found, a human could fix it. When machine learning came on the scene, more “impressive” models that were built quicker came out - but when a translation was bad no one knew how to fix it other than retraining and crossing one’s fingers.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Tiny World Map"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 14:08:35 +0000

Interesting that some relatively recent changes of preferred names like Czech Republic->Czechia and Macedonia->North Macedonia are on there but not Turkey->Türkiye and East Timor->Timor-Leste.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Florence museum won suit against publisher that used Michelangelo's David image"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:35:17 +0000

Italy seems to be right there too. Just saw they deemed a car model name illegal because it sounds Italian but isn’t made in Italy: https://www.thedrive.com/news/italy-tells-alfa-romeo-its-ill...

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "How likely are chance resemblances between languages? (2002)"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:27:57 +0000

> Given that a cove is actually a place, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a connection between the use of this suffix as a descriptor for ‘place’ in both language groups.

I’d say it’s reasonable to say that there could be a connection but it seems like quite a leap to conclude that there is a connection based on current knowledge.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "How Did REST Come to Mean the Opposite of REST? (2022)"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:47:27 +0000

Prescriptivism vs descriptivism. Sorry, descriptivism always wins.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Buggy software is dogging the switch to electric cars"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 02:17:59 +0000

That’s because BMW (and their dealers) want to sell every car twice. Once new and then again in a few years as a certified pre-owned car that has retained quite a bit of value. Makes them more money than just selling new cars.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Buggy software is dogging the switch to electric cars"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:40:02 +0000

And GM has Cadillac. It’s one thing for some features to debut on the luxury line and trickle down to the mainstream. It’s another to be like “here’s our new $40k mainstream electric SUV” and then only sell the $60k version for an entire model year. Just be honest about what you’re putting on sale.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 01:21:11 +0000

Didn’t end up going to work for the friend, but the situation still strained the friendship.

An engineer I worked with for several years (and became friends with outside of work) started his own company, a couple of years later he recruited me to join as his business was taking off. He’d also brought in a business guy who seemed to put in lots of processes including a mandatory take-home coding assignment as part of their interview process.

So anyhow, this guy who I’d worked alongside for years, who’d seen plenty of my code and wanted me to join his company, was going to make me do this homework to get an offer.

So I did a verrry basic solution to this thing and sent it back. A bit later I got an email from someone in their office that they regretted they didn’t have any positions that fit my experience.

Later my friend (and his wife) encouraged me to do the homework thing again but I laughed them off. I didn’t want to work for a small company that somehow had hamstrung itself with unnecessary processes that kept the founder from hiring someone he wanted to hire.

A few years later they sold and a couple engineers I know made multiple millions. So yeah, I dunno, I felt good about my decision at the time, but in retrospect it would have been better to act like any job seeker and just go to work for my friend.

Your mileage will certainly vary.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Netflix CEO says Apple Vision Pro market is too insignificant to bother with"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:12:29 +0000

Yeah, probably something like “we'll make the shiniest Vision Pro app on launch day if you knock a few percentage points off the in-app purchases/subscription fee across our apps”.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "What killed the fight scene?"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:59:27 +0000

Gerald’s Game perhaps? I mean it’s not a sexy sex scene but it really informs us about a character.

Of course many sex scenes are unnecessary, just there to titillate.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:06:35 +0000

> especially considering how we can't import cars from China.

Are you referring to the US tax credit rules around battery origins or vehicle import tariffs? Because there certainly isn’t an actual ban on Chinese-made cars in the US. You can go down to your local Buick or Volvo dealer and buy a Chinese-made car today.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Cars suck, man"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:10:58 +0000

Well it’s also because the US government set up rules that end up encouraging crossovers over lower cars: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/car-design/a3349059...

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:29:42 +0000

Individual parents aren’t generally in a position to open a daycare and make a meaningful difference in the supply of childcare. Employers may be able to do so.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:37:17 +0000

It’s like people buying Teslas. Sure, it’s a company run by a mercurial edgelord billionaire who doesn’t believe in quality assurance or decent post-sale service, but hey, it’s a well-priced (depending on your jurisdiction maybe) car built by a company focused on electric cars and chargers. Not like you have a ton of options.

New comment by ytdytvhxgydvhh in "Everything will be alright in Iceland"

ytdytvhxgydvhh — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:49:29 +0000

I always appreciate Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger‘s response to such criticism:

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/why-explore-space