jasonlfunk
Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:57AM (#47298349)
All of society is impacted by terrible parents who raise terrible kids.
Re:Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:43AM (#44443064)
The verb seems pretty important to me…
————- Learn more about [the browser]
Never hear about [the browser] again
Those links will do very different things.
Re:Satellite will have to be turned off when it floats over the US
on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:34PM (#43957776)
Why does the title only mention the US? It can’t do it over Europe either.
Re:Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:45PM (#43425576)
I’m always a bit skeptical about these sorts of things. Perhaps I’m just ignorant about the methods used.. but the amount of data we can get from the most distant known galaxy can’t be very much. How confident can we be that the shift in observed light or whatever is actually from the presence of Oxygen and not one of probably countless other causes, both known and unknown.
Re:Google Maps Will Rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in US
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:17AM (#42853273)
This is exactly right. I'm not sure who should get to decide what the name of the gulf should be, but it shouldn't be Google.
Re:Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other bec...
on Thursday December 26, 2024 @09:53PM (#42519569)
It’s hard to know what they hope to accomplish with this bill. Anytime you develop custom code, it’s because you need something, well, custom.
What are the chances that something custom built for one agency is going to be at all useful to the custom needs of another agency?
Re:UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:04PM (#42360437)
I just hope that the US can ban ads for pharmaceuticals.
Re:OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain ...
on Friday September 13, 2024 @05:53PM (#41535538)
This is 100% a factor. The internet has some pretty dark and nasty corners; therefore so does the model. Seeing it unfiltered would be a PR nightmare for OpenAI.
Re:OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materia...
on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @05:07PM (#41439217)
Can someone help me understand why it's a problem for companies to train these huge LLM on your copyrighted material? What exactly is the harm that is being done to the copyright holder?
I can understand why the New York Times (for example) wants to claim that a couple billion dollar companies have done it actual harm; but I am struggling to actually identify what it is.
Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming
on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:15AM (#40800340)
Whether or not this will reduce CO2 is yet to be seen. But it will almost certainly raise the price of beef and dairy products. Taxes on producers inevitably get passed on to consumers.
Re:Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic en...
on Sunday June 23, 2024 @09:28PM (#40772035)
Isn’t it true that the only thing that LLM’s do is “hallucinate”?
The only way to know if it did “hallucinate” is to already know the correct answer. If you can make a system that knows when an answer is right or not, you no longer need the LLM!
Re:Does anyone need a 1k Hz gaming display?
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:59PM (#40555559)
Certainly there is an upper limit to what our eyes/brains can perceive. I don’t know what it is, but I’d imagine 1 kHz is getting close.
Re:Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
on Sunday May 19, 2024 @10:19AM (#40407144)
The author did not commit a logical fallacy. They referenced some people worth reading if you wanted some various opinions on a controversial subject.
Re:Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account
on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:37PM (#39623680)
https://twitter.com/aarongraves/status/1765441652120834112
Apple’s justification isn’t too unreasonable.
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Re:Stephen Fry Warns About the Dangers of Voice Clones
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:28AM (#37810264)
I think we should less worried about people believing deep-fakes are real and more worried that politicians (and others) will be able to claim things which they actually said are deep fakes.
Re:How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind’s Eye
on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:23PM (#37721297)
I think the important part of the technique is talking about what you see, not the actual act of seeing things. He talks about creating brain pathways between the visual and linguistic parts of your brain.
It’s those new pathways that are the key.
Re:Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee att...
on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:28AM (#37703907)
Sure, but "were they in the office" is /much/ easier to measure at scale. And I'm sure you'd throw a pretty big fit if your pay was docked because the company didn't think you did a good enough job, even though you were in the office.
MultiButton – run multiple shortcuts from iPhone 15’s action button
Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos
on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:46PM (#37357662)
And it would only notify someone for human review if a certain threshold was reached; just having one or two violating images would have tripped the system.
Re:Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data
on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:51AM (#37047543)
My iphone is telling me that it’s not available in my region (USA).
Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German News Site
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:01PM (#36077550)
When does a thief become a whistleblower?
It seems to me that something really dangerous or illegal needs to be going on to morally justify publicly releasing a 100GB worth of (presumably unfiltered) private company data.
Re:Show HN: Freenet 2023, a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web
on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:05AM (#36012029)
I guess I’m confused. I thought the web was already decentralized. Of course individual websites aren’t, but the web itself certainly is.
Re:Prompt engineers have already jailbroken GPT-4 in just two days
on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:56PM (#35191275)
Is there a reason not to have another “unbroken” chat instance check the output for violations? It seems like a simple “does the following response violate your rules?” would stop most of these “jailbreaks”.
Ask HN: What should SVB customers have done?
Some of the stories coming out about SVB customers are tragic. But did they do anything wrong? Could or should they have known this was coming? I don’t want to blame the victims, but might some of us be in the same place as they were a few months ago - blissfully unaware of how much our money is at risk? What could they have done? What can we do now?
Re:A Message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @12:47PM (#34696114)
On a side note.... "Zoomies", really?
Re:Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity
on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:23AM (#34000883)
Instead of giving directly to charities like St. Judes - he funds his foundation which gives to charities like St. Judes. When you give away $5B, wouldn't it be irresponsible to not give it to a foundation? And if you have your own foundation, wouldn't it be dumb to not give it to your own foundation? This seems like a nothing story; except that it's in vogue to hate Musk right now.
Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code
on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:33AM (#33544160)
I probably wouldn’t use this to write code, but I could see it being really useful for navigating around a project.
“Go to line 35” “Open the model controller” “Show the get method and set method side by side”
Re:DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions
on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:12AM (#33138653)
I think the point was that it wasn’t a made up experiment. It was a real world problem.
For all the hype around these systems currently, it’s nice to see some places where it doesn’t work.