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by ytpete 7d ago
There's also this famous comparison chart meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/t0lnjt/fahr... ...making the point that Fahrenheit's 0-100 range is better suited to normal day
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by ytpete 7d ago
But you still do need to support different aspect ratios if you want your app to work on any other iPhone models, because many of them differ.
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by ytpete 1mo ago
Maybe instead of "easy" what they really meant that axis to convey is something more like "low stress" or "not frustrating"
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Commercial sea drone approaches and films Chinese warship close up(reuters.com)
3 points by ytpete 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ytpete 2mo ago
It could also be because the headline of that post is more generic (and IMO more clickbaity, less informative) – "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T" – compared to the one here. It always bugs
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Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker(nytimes.com)
71 points by ytpete 2mo ago|46 comments
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by ytpete 2mo ago
A US administrative labor law judge judge found that software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an engineer after she pushed back against manager layoffs and other policy changes. > The ruling found that the engineer, Denise Unterwurza
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by ytpete 2mo ago
> Why not just say "Irresponsible use or agentic-based PR's will be auto-rejected"? ... tools like Github Copilot can just act like fancy autocomplete. For what it's worth, this is basically what the Godot policy doe
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by ytpete 2mo ago
Larger discussion (400+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743472
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by ytpete 2mo ago
Larger discussion (400+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743472
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University of California STEM professors call for reinstating SAT in math(ucstudentsuccess.org)
6 points by ytpete 4mo ago|3 comments
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by ytpete 4mo ago
The open letter, signed by over 500 faculty from various UC sites, says "current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STEM majors." "We now observe preparation gaps s
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by ytpete 4mo ago
But if the flip side (getting compensated) wasn't also an important concern then maybe far more software would be OSS in recent decades...
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by ytpete 4mo ago
For the 'don't want to live in transit-dense cities like London' crowd, beating the economics of taxis may not be enough since that's not what you're competing with out in the suburbs. On the other hand, the suburbs
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AI prefers resumes written by itself: Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring(arxiv.org)
3 points by ytpete 5mo ago|1 comments
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by ytpete 5mo ago
- When GPT 4 was asked to evaluate resume executive summaries, it preferred ones written by GPT over human-written ones > 93% of the time. - Similar "bias" was exhibited by other models including LLaMA 3.3 and Deepseek v3. - Ev
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by ytpete 5mo ago
Intercepting a meteor falling to Earth may be not too unlike intercepting a ballistic missile in its terminal descent from high altitude.
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What Teens Are Doing with Role-Playing Chatbots(nytimes.com)
6 points by ytpete 6mo ago|1 comments
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by ytpete 6mo ago
TLDR: The majority of teens surveyed by Pew Research talk to AI chatbot characters/companions. Teens were aware of cases of suicide blamed on them, and told the NY Times they know the bots have risks, but mainly for their most vulnerab
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by ytpete 6mo ago
And in fact wasn't a popular Python library just compromised very recently? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501426 . So Python's clearly not "batteries included" enough to avoid this kind of
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by ytpete 7mo ago
Also what is the capitol cost to stand up a golf course vs. a solar farm of equal size? I would imagine solar requires locking up a much larger investment.
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by ytpete 7mo ago
Your main point still stands, but aren't both of them renewable? Corn is a renewable resource, thus ethanol derived from it is too. It's just seemingly a much less efficient renewable fuel for powering a car compared to solar.
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by ytpete 7mo ago
But in this case, isn't the whole pitch that the agent has access to all your data (and the network!) so it can fluidly perform any task you ask of it? Either the agent needs to be a superuser, with all the attendant risks... or you go
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"Grok, Is This True?" Analyzing LLM-Powered Fact-Checking on Social Media(osf.io)
3 points by ytpete 7mo ago|2 comments
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by ytpete 7mo ago
Some highlights from the abstract: - Analyzes fact-check requests on X (Grok and Perplexity) - "exposure to LLM fact-checks meaningfully shifts belief accuracy" comparable to the degree observed in studies of professional fact-ch
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by ytpete 7mo ago
The 3D printers don't generate the plans for the gun for you though. If someone sold a printer that would – happily with no guardrails – generate 3D models of CSAM from thin air and then print them, I bet they'd be investigated to
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by ytpete 7mo ago
3D printers don't synthesize content for you though. If they could generate 3D models of CSAM from thin air and then print them, I'm sure they'd be investigated too if they were sold with no guardrails in place.
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by ytpete 8mo ago
Another thread here also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647307
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Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth(lab.revelium.studio)
85 points by ytpete 8mo ago|40 comments
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by ytpete 9mo ago
Jared Kushner's investment firm Affinity Partners is also involved in the bid, along with their partner the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund...

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