hinterlands

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by hinterlands 1y ago
It is fairly rare to see an ex-employee put a positive spin on their work experience. I don't think this makes OpenAI special. It's just a good reminder that the overwhelming majority of "why I left" posts are basically
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by hinterlands 1y ago
My local Cinemark has tickets for $5.50, $8.50... you're probably in a premium market.
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by hinterlands 1y ago
> All the 'box office records' since then are the result of charging way more to a continually plummeting audience size. I don't think that going to the movies has gotten more expensive in real terms. It's just that t
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Yes. Look, I'm not arguing this is bad, I'm just trying to respond to the original question and capture the essence of the debate. There are three pertinent points: (1) it's EDTA; (2) it's not that EDTA is safe or not sa
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Probably, but the process doesn't work that way. The default is that you can't sell medication to people, period. Some pharmaceutical company applied to have a specific form of EDTA approved as a prescription drug, and that was
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by hinterlands 1y ago
It's about EDTA. It can be legitimately used to treat heavy metal poisoning, plus some other things. Some people (who are probably misguided) want to self-medicate. The FDA won't let you. Hence, drama.
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Because what's the headline you're going to get out of it? If the headline is "Mark Zuckerberg is amassing your data and you know it's for evil", it's an easy sell. If it's "there's an ecosystem
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by hinterlands 1y ago
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. My assertion is that a visible image persists on the screen longer than it appears in the slo-mo clip. You can just point a camera with an adjustable shutter speed at a CRT and see it fo
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by hinterlands 1y ago
I think it's fairly common for technologies to get really good just as they're becoming obsolete. Vacuum tubes, CRTs, optical disks, photographic film... in fact, they're often in some respects better than the early generatio
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by hinterlands 1y ago
That slo-mo video is somewhat misleading, though. The phosphor glows for a good while, so there is a reasonable chunk of the image that's visible at any given time. The problem in that video is that the exact location the beam is hitti
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by hinterlands 1y ago
The Chinese medicinal herb you're thinking about is sweet wormwood, from which we isolated artemisinin. Artemisinin isn't a suppressed secret. It's one of the major treatments for malaria and it netted its discoverer a Nobel
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by hinterlands 1y ago
> Also, LLMs can generate prompt files too. Sure, but the utility of that for PCB design wasn't demonstrated in the article. This is an expert going out of his way to give the LLM a task it can't fumble (and still does, a bit).
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Similarly to how most web dev isn't exactly on the frontiers of computer science, a lot of day-to-day PCB design isn't about cutting-edge analog or radio stuff. It's just putting the same MCU or SoC on differently-shaped boar
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by hinterlands 1y ago
While I think that AI tools can be quite useful for coding, PCB design, and other tasks like that, the setup of this experiment makes it really hard for the LLM to fail. The author's prompt is basically already a meticulous specificati
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by hinterlands 1y ago
I do think it's an SFBA / generational bubble. We have plenty of boring, expensive software projects that someone will always bring up in a HN thread. For example, every time there's a thread on PCB design, you have some fo
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by hinterlands 1y ago
The article starts by dismissing scrollsaws as "pretty darn dangerous", but that's a pretty big stretch. They're less dangerous than a sharp kitchen knife. You want to talk to your kids and watch them closely the first c
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by hinterlands 1y ago
(Note: the original title was "Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies" before being changed by the admin) I honestly think that Quanta Magazine just found the perfect formula to farm HN traffic. The titles are clearly ca
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by hinterlands 1y ago
First, it just reads that way. It's the default style if you ask ChatGPT to write a couple of paragraphs that explain why lightfastness is important. Second, while I know there are reasons to be skeptical about AI text checkers, the au
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by hinterlands 1y ago
I think there's a fundamental disconnect here: the article says that you should be focusing on strategies that, for the most part, make aging more dignified. The goal shouldn't be even curing cancer. And maybe that's right. B
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Although someone will challenge me on that, I'm 100% sure that large chunks of the text are AI-generated. That said, the website itself has been around at least since 2017 (the text just wasn't as verbose - e.g., https:/&#x2
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by hinterlands 1y ago
The problem is that these "small things" are not necessarily small if you're an individual. If you're an individual pirating software or media, then from the rights owners' perspective, the most rational thing to do
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by hinterlands 1y ago
The actual claim is that you can keep the game state for a rather minimal 8x4 game board in two uint32_t, one uint64_t, and one uint_8t. That's not the entirety of program state - stack aside, there are some loop counters that the auth
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Are controls uniquely important, though? There are hundreds of things in a car that could be made better (more durable, longer lasting, better looking) for just $10 to $100 extra a piece. But it adds up. It's not just cost, though. T
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by hinterlands 1y ago
The other problem are people doing price arbitrage. You find the item on eBay and think to yourself, "cool, I'd rather patronize a small business" - but as it turns out, the item is drop-shipped from Amazon, Walmart, or the l
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by hinterlands 1y ago
Because most of the "loopholes" aren't actually loopholes: they are created for a specific reason under some specific economic theory. Most often, to encourage people to make certain types of investments, avoid double- or tri
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by hinterlands 1y ago
More to the point, it's a field where we're constantly told that our experiences from a month ago are in no way relevant and that the latest thing is fundamentally different to what we know. Should expertise degrade just as quickl
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by hinterlands 1y ago
> In case you wondered, $1M in cash ($100 bills) weigh approximately 15.4 pounds (about 10 kilograms). Your answer is incorrect. You asked Claude to calculate $7M, which netted 154 pounds, but you then divided it by 10 instead of 7 to ge
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by hinterlands 1y ago
These MCUs are generally targeted for low-power uses and various industrial & automotive stuff. They're not meant for anything high-bandwidth - you'd be using a 32-bit ARM or RISC MCU for that, or a SoC. So, think of it more i
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by hinterlands 1y ago
It's being used in a way where biases matter. Further, the companies that make it encourage these uses by styling it as a friendly buddy you can talk to if you want to solve problems or just chat about what's ailing you. It&#x27
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by hinterlands 1y ago
> Train it only on Wikipedia Minus most of history...

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