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I do think it's still true in my experience that someone with the the capabilities to build useful things on their own tend to not stay very long at these giant companies, unless for specific visa reasons
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:24PM (#34826486)
Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you're using youtube mostly on mobile device, or is there some other advantage here I'm missing?
Re:Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:26PM (#34794618)
What are they supposed to do then?
Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:25PM (#34734394)
wait what. I just read neuromancer and don't see how that applies? Were rio/wintermute ever involved in detecting an alien signal?
Re:Can GPT Pass the Bar Exam? on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:53PM (#34320677)
twist: these posts are written by chatGPT
Re:Why do new cars look like “Wet Putty”? on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:36PM (#33887403)
it is
Re:Kraken lays off 30% of staff on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:13PM (#33804974)
precede?
Re:A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:43PM (#33672491)
Personally I've used it more in the past week than ever before. And if Elon's tweets are to be believed, DAU is also at an all-time high. So i guess the answer is: if people are in fact leaving twitter, more are joining
Why was copilot a fiasco? This [0] hn thread from two months ago is filled with predominantly positive reviews

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825742

Re:Nepal's Kusunda language has no words for "yes" or "no" on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:55PM (#32442550)
English is missing some seemingly basic answer words too, which are present in other languages. Like no single word for unambiguously answering a negative question.

E.g. Q: Aren't you finished yet?

Answering 'yes' or 'no' would be ambiguous

Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:11PM (#32414370)
Yes, because inflation is already the first derivative of cost.

So the 'rate of increase' of inflation is the second derivative. And to say that the second derivative is decreasing is another way of saying the third derivative is negative

20% APY for staking UST
Re:I hate what video games have become on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:40PM (#30832427)
I think it is a problem though when a game's revenue mostly comes from cosmetics, as it shifts the developer incentives away from "developing a game that lots of people want to buy and play" to "making the type of game that lends itself well to lots of cosmetic micro transactions". These are often pretty different types of games and it would be sad if the former were entirely replaced by the latter.
Re:Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:05PM (#29489738)
Nope. There are some distributed blockchain file storage systems, but by and large NFTs don't use them.
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:25PM (#28909269)
Think you misunderstood the parent comment. Full screen doesn't somehow add pixels into a bezel
Re:John Carmack on Hiring on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:21PM (#28448744)
I think the interesting addition is his point that adding some amount of literal randomness to stages of the process would be a good thing, if the culture around interviewing could change to accept it
Re:Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009) on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:55PM (#28384823)
Isn't that marketing?
If someone pays you in cash, do you really look up the serial numbers of all the bills you receive?
Re:A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:35PM (#26431959)
(hint: it's a joke)
Re:Hawai'i could be 2nd state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:14PM (#26189183)
Does anyone know what conclusions (if any) could be drawn from the psychedelic studies of the 60's? The wikipedia page on the harvard study [0] is pretty light on details. Though it looks like the study only lasted 2 or 3 years before being shut down.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project#:~:....

Re:The Therac-25 Incident on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:17PM (#26149490)
This was (is?) used as a case study in MIT's system's engineering course (6.033)
The USB C connection on my laptop loosened over time. To the point that the cable now just falls out unless I keep the laptop completely still. Having a magnet in there to keep the cable in place would be nice. No reason you couldn't use a magnet with a USB-C connection though, best of both worlds and whatnot
With so many studies being done on covid (by basically every lab in the world capable of doing so), the self selection biases are especially strong. That is, every study that confirms some statistically significant effect (often with a small sample size) will be published, and all of the corresponding studies which confirm the null hypothesis are buried. So you get a flood of seemingly compelling early evidence for covid effects or treatments, most of which will turn out to be false
Re:Tips for a Better Life on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:31PM (#25523038)
Yeah, that one was weird. If you follow the link it leads to this [0] lecture about why you should exercise your 5th amendment right to remain silent if being interrogated by authorities. Which seems like more sensible advice than "DON'T TALK TO COPS", though still out of place on a list of general everyday life tips

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Re:Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:53PM (#25379245)
I think it's more like an oncologist who avoids smoking for health reasons being on the board of a cigarette company.
Re:Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:01PM (#25366566)
> Imagine writing a blog but everyone suggesting to you that you have to consume other people’s blogs in order to contribute your own

It would be pretty weird to write a blog, but never read others. Especially if you avoided reading blogs because you thought it was bad for your mental health. Why make more of a bad thing?

Huh, there's no difference for me. How do you tell if you're using the redesigned UI or not?

[edit] If I open reddit in incognito then I can see the redesign, otherwise I can't. Maybe I opted out of the redesign at some point? Can't see anything about it in settings though

Re:Technical phone screen superforecasters on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:01PM (#25223497)
I wonder how much of this comes down to problem selection, rather than effectiveness of the interviewer? Interviewers usually stick to a couple of problems, so their predictive power might depend primarily on the problem set.

I've been going through some technical phone screens lately, and am pretty surprised by how bad the questions are that some people choose. Questions that I wouldn't think would provide any signal whatsoever for hiring

Re:Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (2011) on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:08PM (#25180602)
"US officials view f-91w wearers with suspicion"? Better keep an eye on this guy then:

https://i.redd.it/5o061ntl2m651.jpg

https://i.redd.it/b4j5fzl4d6f41.jpg

From the HN guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I think these examples you cited are pretty clearly off topic

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