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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:30PM (#50345707)
In general, English speakers seem not to be used to pronounce a word that ends with a non-silent letter e. Every time they pronounce my name like Danielle, I tell them it's Daniele (dah-NYEH-leh), and they go: dan-YELL, right? I tell them to say Daniel/Dani or anything that gets my attention. They seem to care more about the correct pronunciation of my name then I do, and then they botch it badly. :D

Many other Italian words that end with the letter E are changed to I, or mispronounced.

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:42PM (#50342538)
My name is Daniele (I'm from Italy), and I've been living in NY for a while. My real estate attorney name was Daniele as well (she's a woman,) it was extremely confusing at closing time.

Also, fun fact, I got invited to a ton Women in Tech stuff. I even got recruited to a company that was proud of having > 50% women in their teams. I assume that was because I was working on an OSS project (Chromium) and I had no avatar there.

Also, in the two FAANG companies I worked at I was added to women groups a few times.

Re:Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:23PM (#49998971)
Talking to my friends working there, they said they were surprised when that happened and they didn't find Claude quality to be that much better than Gemini when using agy. So maybe after all the issue is not mainly the model, but harness and custom tooling.
Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:44PM (#49996215)
As a SW person (working with silicon folks though), I was always interested in the same idea. So I just vibecoded a little compiler from LLM (config.json, weights) to RTL (happy to share if you want). Then synthesized it via yosys.

I picked TinyStories-1M, synthesized via yosys against SKY130 PDK. It's GPT-Neo with 8 layers. At int8 it's ~30mm^2 per layer (including kv caches, multipliers and all the attention stuff). So it's 250 mm^2 for the full toy model.

I'm kinda surprised, I spent no time, so if you want to etch a toy model, you can do that (you can probably reduce the area significantly). If you want a mask for that is probably going to cost 100k though.

Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:35PM (#49982291)
There has been an electric vespa for quita a while: https://storeusa.vespa.com/elettrica/vespa-elettrica-45-mph....
Re:Waymo 13x safer than human drivers on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:03PM (#47447644)
In January YouTube music worked fine when I took Waymo in Menlo Park.
Re:Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently on Sunday September 21, 2025 @07:17PM (#45327541)
Nice. Those activities remind me when I used to visit my dad countryside (he lived in Tuscany). He's legally blind though, and we managed anyway. Not sure why the last bit would be car enabled. I was in East Hamptons a few weeks ago and the kids would play outside while we stayed in the living room/kitchen. We just had to be careful about the pool.
Re:Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently on Sunday September 21, 2025 @06:34PM (#45327283)
I traveled with my kid when he was less than 1 year old in Tokyo. What is the issue with the stroller in the subway? There are always signs of how to get where you need to go using elevators.

While Tokyo has one of the worst fertility rates, it's not like the rest of Japan is doing particularly well. Also, I was staying in Azabujuban and I was surprised by the amount of kids I saw there.

Re:Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently on Sunday September 21, 2025 @06:30PM (#45327260)
Interesting. To provide a different experience, I live in NYC with kids and I find it great here. Daycare/Kindergarten is at most 4 blocks away, grocery stores are less than a block away, it takes me 10 minutes to get to the office on the train (1/2/3). I still bike to the office often. If we need a car there is a rental less than a block away, but in practice we rent maybe once a year. Today there was an open street on Columbus Ave and it was lovely to meet co-workers with their kids and let them play there. To be fair, I wasn't born here even if I'm a citizen, so I guess I wouldn't be considered "American".
How's the prefix sum on a single thread O(N log(N))? Isn't it trivially O(N)? It's just a for loop.
Re:Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle on Friday March 21, 2025 @01:01PM (#43438173)
I work 5 days a week and get to work on a single ride.

I do take multiple other rides a day and in the weekend though, so I hit 12 rides pretty quickly, probably in around 4 days.

Re:Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:20PM (#42360066)
When I worked on it, there was no other way to check if a configuration could be set. I remember suggesting to kernel folks to add some another way, in particular 'cause sometimes we had to allocate some massive buffer just to be told you had to composite.

Also, you could not cache a config as valid. The configuration validity depends on the current state of the display controller. For example, if a configuration of planes on one CRTC can be set might depend on how much bandwidth is currently required by another one. I remember having to get rid of framebuffer compression on one monitor if another monitor had a resolution above a certain threshold.

Planes rotation property can be 0,90, 180 and 270, you can also flip them: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/gpu/drm-kms.html#c.drm.... If I remember correctly I implemented/upstreamed a few of these properties support for Rockchip display controllers.

If you can rotate a specific buffer will likely depend on your display controller plus if it's tiled or not though, since rotating a linear buffer is going to destroy BW.

If you are writing code only for one specific display controller you can look at the drivers and just figure out which configs are ok.

If your DP supports it, you don't need to GPU composite for screenshots, you can use the write back connector.

Re:Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image on Saturday December 07, 2024 @06:49PM (#42353798)
The drm atomic test is not only to verify if it's "correct", it is also used to check if the display controller can scan out that configuration of planes/buffers, given buffer modifiers, plane properties/sizes, etc. and current status of the display controller. If it can't, you probably need to simplify the configuration via some GPU compositing.

This is what we were doing on ChromeOS.

Re:What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025? on Sunday December 01, 2024 @06:51PM (#42291688)
I'd say "by itself".
Re:Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat on Monday November 04, 2024 @08:00PM (#42047684)
I'm not organized at all! The deck of cards idea sounds much better than the spreadsheet, I might print them!

For the "who can cook them" in the spreadsheet, I guess it's just a matter of what we're used to cook. I'm from Italy, she's from Malawi, I'm sure I could cook 'nsima and she could cook polenta.

Re:Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:17PM (#42036911)
I don't mean to belittle your app that unfortunately I can't try it since I don't have iOS.

We did solve the problem in a much easier way though. We do have 40 recipes we usually cycle through. I wrote them in a spreadsheet and marked them based on who can cook them, if it's brunch, lunch or dinner, quick or elaborate, summery or wintery.

Then in another sheet I just create a list of those recipes/dishes picked randomly based on the day of the month.

If we start the discussion "what do we eat tonight", I can just open the spreadsheet. 99% of the time proposing the option for that day on the sheet gives us closure and we're done.

Re:Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:17PM (#42036906)
I don't mean to belittle your app, I can't try it 'cause I don't have iOS.

We did solve the problem in a much easier way though. We do have 40 recipes we usually cycle through. I wrote them in a spreadsheet and marked them based on who can cook them, if it's brunch, lunch or dinner, quick or elaborate, summery or wintery.

Then in another sheet I just create a list of those recipes/dishes picked randomly based on the day of the month.

If we start the discussion "what do we eat tonight", I can just open the spreadsheet. 99% of the time proposing the option for that day on the sheet gives us closure and we're done.

Re:Douglas Hofstadter on Lisp (1983) on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @11:46AM (#41860450)
The pricing engine for Google Flights (and behind many big airline websites) is written in Lisp.
Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word on Sunday October 06, 2024 @10:25AM (#41757378)
The limit could also be in the training data. If we could train LLMs with a corpus generated by some super intelligent entity, maybe we'd consider them super intelligent even with the same model size/architecture we have today.
Re:Controversy over introduction of numberplates on Sunday October 06, 2024 @09:23AM (#41757001)
Lots of folks not onboard with the idea of registrations plates in NYC too. I see plenty of folks with fake or expired paper plates going around.
It's not canceled. They paused the plan.
Re:Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers on Friday June 14, 2024 @11:11PM (#40687230)
I usually hear it's N avenues away if you need to walk east-west in Manhattan.
Why do you think standing up is uncomfortable? I'm asking cause I'm at the hospital waiting for someone and they told me I can sit down in the waiting area. They didn't see to understand I am perfectly fine waiting while standing up. As soon as I obliged I read your comment. Now I'm curious.
Re:The Greening of Milan: Porta Nuova and Vertical Forest on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:00PM (#37771717)
Ironically, the "case di ringhiera" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_di_ringhiera that were supposed to be cheap housing, are now aesthetically pleasing.
Re:The Greening of Milan: Porta Nuova and Vertical Forest on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:09PM (#37769268)
Ah, Isola. When I was living in Milan 30 years ago that is where you'd look for your bike/moped if they stole it. They did a good job there if you now consider it a luxury area.

Show HN: Labor Day Fun Project, Find Reddit Comments to Promote Your Business

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For Labor Day I decided to play with OpenAI APIs and try to ship something (a prototype, a blog post, anything really).Whenever I launched a side project (e.g: https://www.probarsearch.com/, https://ff.bitlet.org/) I realized how bad I am at marketing or even at mentioning my the project to friends/social.I noticed that most of the traffic we got was coming from reddit/HN comments we made where...

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Boisson sells smth similar to what you described: https://boisson.co/ I got a few bottles since my GF is pregnant. IIRC the bottles I got were from Germany. My GF claims they taste more like kombucha than sparkling wine.
https://www.probarsearch.com/

It's a small tool to sort and filter protein bars.

I often found myself trying to figure out how many protein per dollar or calories I'd get and a friend of mine said he does the same. So we decided to build this in our spare time.

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