Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
KVFinn
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
15 ms
·
31.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>If the model gets as good as they strive for, its outputs would be indistinguishable from those of PHD level students. There would be no point in augmenting its results with human contributions I don't disagree but in a world where
32.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>This sentence is out of nowhere, did ChatGPT write this article? How could someone think something so new is suddenly negatively impacting students across the board. Ironically if it were impacting learning I think it would be specifi
33.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
I sure hope this is an accidental outage. Third party clients are low key what keeps me coming back to Twitter.
34.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Actually Fenix being blocked would get me to use Twitter less. The official app is so annoying.
35.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>A theory going around a few weeks ago about his apparent "inability" to STFU is that his defence will be that he was affected by ADHD meds that impaired his judgement and made him impulsive, and have continued to do so even po
36.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Friends don't let friends blog post on stimulants. Especially while under house arrest.
37.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
"The Comma 3 hands-free driving-assist technology is better than anything you can get from a legacy manufacturer." Pretty impressive. I keep following this device but I just don't drive enough to justify it right now.
38.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Ray Tracing is surprisingly CPU bound in a lot of games. Might just be growing pains though, something that will be fixed later.
39.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>Come on man, he mentioned the bipolar himself in multiple recorded interviews. It's a matter of public record. Huh. Looks like just one, but still, I didn't know this. Random Person: "Elon are you bipolar?" Elon: &qu
40.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>He wasn’t forced to buy anything. >He bought Twitter. And then he didn’t like what happened to it while the deal was being closed and tried to back out of the sale. >It’s like buying a product, signing a contract waiving off any r
41.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>The client is an arsehole. But it's not like Elon is writing the legal wording on the offer itself, and it was terrible in a specifically legal way. You would almost have to tell your lawyer: "Write me an offer to buy Twitter.
42.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>It's not grand strategy. Musk was forced to buy an unprofitable ad supported business for ten times it's fair value, during an advertising recession, all because of him choosing to not treat his severe bipolar disorder and hav
43.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Marvel's Midnight Suns, by Fireaxis the XCOM developers. Half card based tactical combat, half Mass Effect dialog trees with passable writing. It's a great chill out and relax game. In the game itself you basically hang out and
44.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>This was pretty interesting. They estimate between 60% and 75% either watch something "same-day" or sometime soon after on a DVR. Even though I don't watch most shows until months or years after they first came out, on th
45.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
I couldn't name another current car company CEO off the top of my head, but in my head the Tesla brand = Elon Musk the person. Which now means "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci" or whatever the last thing he was going on
46.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
This is what I use now. After leaving them plugged for years the batteries often start expanding though, so it's not ideal right next to my head all night...
47.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>No, something more akin to a smart display without a battery and a chassis that works well for being on a shelf or nightstand. Or just hackable. The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 is a 4 inch touchscreen Google Home clock, microphone, decent litt
48.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>Not only can you legally download it, you can burn it to disk and sell copies if you wanted to. What about a derivative work? Like if somebody recreated the film Metropolis into a 3D version, scene by scene. Ultimately the same film but
49.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Apple has onsite kitchens with subsidized prices, IIRC? At they did before Covid and switching to work from home. Analogously it would like if Apple upped in office time to 80 hours or whatever, and then closed those cafeterias. And FWIW Ge
50.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
This is why you don't fire most (all?) of the chefs immediately before requiring everyone to spend 80 hours a week working in the office. Grubhubbing all your meals every day in an office isn't great for productivity. Penny-wise,
51.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
I love the idea of Duolingo, but I wish it was more about making the act of learning itself a game, rather than 'gamification' which is more about adding extrinsic rewards, achievements, and other small nudges.
52.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>Too bad there's no Japanese or Korean translation :( It's interesting that they have Icelandic, a language spoken by 350,000 people. I'm often surprised seeing Icelandic has a full audio dub on a Disney or Netflix movies,
53.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>basically the vaccines only present one antigen whereas in natural infection there are multiple antigens. Once the immune system learns one it generally doesn’t learn more on the next exposure (actual infection) Surprising, it looks lik
54.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Only a soundbar with a dedicated center channel, that can be individually adjusted. So not 2.1. 3.1 possibly.
55.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Curse of modern life. I co-work, or virtually co-work, so it feels awkward if I'm goofing on on social media with everyone else working around me. Less helpful are tools. But more helpful than nothing. I use Chrome plugin 'Intenti
56.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Did George fully move on from Comma? I saw he was stepping back from the CEO position, but I guess I assumed he's still tinkering with the core AI stuff in the background. I wonder if Comma hit a roadblock or a plateau. I'm not sm
57.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
>From my perspective, something seemed to happen with Musk roughly around 2015 or so. Maybe he's always been this way but his profile was lower? The first thing that sticks out to me is the the submarine pedo-guy incident of 2018. S
58.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Did Musk describe 'Breakthrough Twitter 2.0' in a separate message that hasn't been made public? "Stay at Twitter because we're moving to 80 hour work weeks and cancelling Christmas" can't be the argumen
59.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
Well any particular Mastodon server can end up ruined or with ads. Or shutdown. Reminds me of the early days of email when people used their local ISP hosts for their personal email addresses. So every time you moved or whatever your email
60.
▲
by
KVFinn
4y ago
The extensive use of stimulants is alarming, though heavily speculative. What does the league of legends article say? That part seemed crazy speculative. I'm bottom quartile at FPS and fighting games but I enjoy them and play a lot. Do
More ›