davidhowlett
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity
on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:46AM (#44938305)
I use and pay for the professional review site https://www.which.co.uk/
They are a charity funded by subscribing consumers. They don't get paid by the sellers so the incentive structure benefits the consumer. I trust what they write.
Re:Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous ...
on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:31AM (#42557595)
The official pdf for the paper is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06769
I can find "Coconut" 54 times in the PDF. The movie does not look made up.
Re:Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:24PM (#38325988)
Your altitudes for satellites are too high. Low earth orbit is defined as being below 2000km and very low orbit as being below 450 km. Starlink is at about 550km. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit https://ts2.space/en/what-is-the-altitude-at-which-starlink-...
Re:How Likely Is Losing a Google Account?
on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:31PM (#34583261)
I suspect you mean infallible rather than fallible.
Re:El Salvador’s Historic Digital Asset Securities Law Passes
on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:47AM (#34351725)
This might be a wording issue but how can a currency lose more than 100% of its value?
Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:40PM (#31637071)
As a UK customer, I use Monzo bank and have pretty consistently had good experiences. They are a new bank. Recieving international money transfers was the only bit that they didn't support.
Re:The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding
on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:38AM (#30175911)
I believe you mean West Africa.
Re:The code worked differently when the moon was full
on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:50AM (#28692908)
I enjoyed the collection at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140
Re:UK Online Safety Bill proposes age verification for all user-intera...
on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:51AM (#28433169)
I am British and will be directly affected by this. What can I do to help stop this becoming law?
Re:Hierapolis, Turkey's mysterious 'portal to the underworld'
on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:31PM (#27701819)
The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen. Carbon dioxide forms about 0.04%
Re:A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:55AM (#27603019)
"car path ey" sounds like a thing connected to finding paths for cars.
Re:Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:02PM (#27078119)
I spent years worrying about misleading descriptions and fake reviews. I then bought a subscription to which.co.uk and have been a happy customer since. They review a wide variety of products and they are a non-profit registered as a charity in the UK. They are mainly funded by consumer subscriptions so conflicts of interest are avoided.
Re:std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs
on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:43AM (#26777567)
Flask was originally an April fools joke with what the author thought was a silly design. It is now widely used, including in production systems at my company.
Re:Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)
on Saturday March 20, 2021 @07:37AM (#26522415)
Individual contributor. A programmer who does not manage others.
Re:Free for Developers
on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:53PM (#26245660)
My company has also hit capacity issues with the managed Azure Kubenetes that were not fixable as Azure users.
Re:Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:06PM (#26083718)
I personally bought all my team members a beer delivered to their houses. One guy didn't like beer and got whiskey instead. On Friday at 4pm we all had a casual chat about non work topics and drank together. That seemed to go down well.
Re:Magic Mushrooms Injected into Man's Veins Started to Grow in Blood
on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:03PM (#25765717)
I think you mean above 80 degrees Celsius
Re:Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life
on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:33PM (#25510882)
I haven't seen that research but I find the idea fascinating. Where can I read more about this?
Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:31AM (#25112044)
From the article: "Moderna's vaccine appears to be easier to store as it remains stable at minus 20C for up to six months and can be kept in a standard fridge for up to a month."
Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old ...
on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:48PM (#24900490)
I believe the 1918 flu also had the unusual property of killing people in their 20s at a higher rate than the middle aged and old. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979-f3
Re:CRDTs are the future
on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:09PM (#24620191)
If you write an article and post it here I will read it.
Re:German digital bank N26 is facing outcry from its staff over manage...
on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:47PM (#24163691)
I live in the UK and also recommend Monzo. They have a good app but the thing that stood out most to me was the correct use of emoji in their terms and conditions. It is definitely a modern bank.
Re:Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I le...
on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:49AM (#24133243)
Every time rust is mentioned on HN people talk about how wonderful rust is. They are jokingly called the rust evangelism strike force.
Re:Why Does DARPA Work?
on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:42AM (#23689072)
What does the power curve mean in this context?
Re:AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:22PM (#21616646)
Instead of an alpha-beta search, AlphaZero uses a general-purpose Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm. Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1140.full
I agree with your comment about System 2 like reasoning not being common right now. I am not an expert in the field but the closest thing I have seen to learned planning is: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08265.pdf
Re:WARP is here
on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:23PM (#21076991)
Correcting people is good but please be polite when doing so.
Re:Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:32PM (#20841228)
Minor correction; The automated resume reviewer was biased against women according to your reference.
Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
on Monday July 03, 2017 @07:11PM (#14692134)
I personally want more lithium in the water supply. It has been shown to reduce crime, suicide and all cause mortality. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-...
Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:24PM (#14294732)
In IPFS the user's computer connects to whatever node has the content, popular or not. This means that even if the the 100 most popular nodes in the world have enough pressure put on them that they refuse to host a file, I can still host the file on my laptop and everyone with an internet connection will be able to access it.