HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

breezeTrowel

218 karma · joined September 28, 2021

submissionscomments
breezeTrowel··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Are you saying they had to hire people to "steal open source"?
breezeTrowel··on When did Google get so weird?
I fail to see how driving users to competitors and crippling the search experience appeases the shareholders. Can you elaborate?
breezeTrowel··on Hackers On Planet Earth is back in Manhattan next month
The original HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) was in 1994 and it's where the phrase "Hack The Planet" originated. The "Hack The Planet" phrase was also used in the movie Hackers and, if you look closely, you can spot some yellow HOPE 1994 stickers in various scenes.
breezeTrowel··on Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund
You'd pay for it what you paid for it. Did the "Buy" button specify that you were buying the movie or did it say you were simply leasing the film and that it can be removed at any time due to licensing agreement over which you (as the buyer) had no control over?
breezeTrowel··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
I wonder if this is the real reason Tim Cook is resigning as CEO. He's a supply chain guy and semiconductor supply chains seem utterly borked right now.
breezeTrowel··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
1996 was 30 years ago. What about comparing prices from 3 years ago? 2023 vs 2026.
breezeTrowel··on 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
Which article is wrongm Both the article and Wikipedia entry focus on The Backrooms which are a type of liminal space. Yes, liminal spaces have existed in fiction, dreams, etc. However, here the discussion is on The Backrooms and how that idea and aesthetic became very popular very quickly.
breezeTrowel··on 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
The concept did not originate in videogames. The whole thing started from a 4chan post where someone posted a photo of a yellow interior. Then, in 2022, Kane Parsons created a viral YouTube video based on that post. You can see it here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo . The video game adaptations all came later.

Wikipedia has a good writeup here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms

breezeTrowel··on Ultrasound toothbrush promises painless checks for hidden gum problems
Despite the headline, this is not a toothbrush. This is a "toothbrush-shaped ultrasound transducer". Mind you, I don't know why this wouldn't "increase dentist margin". This is an analysis tool that makes dentistry easier (just like dental X-rays).
breezeTrowel··on Defibrillation devices save lives using 1k times less electricity
I think the biggest change with external defibrillators has been placement. It's now front and back instead of two on the front.
breezeTrowel··on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies
I'm not sure I understand this analogy. If Meta changes what underlying model they use, it'll still be called Meta AI. Having the criteria be "what new features does it offer to the users of the site" means that things like databases, servers, etc. are not products. This is objectively false.
breezeTrowel··on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies
They see AI features front and center. They dont see the backend (which may or may not be running Llama). Same goes for React although, with React, the framework is what the end user directly interacts with. So, by that logic, React is more of a product than Llama.
breezeTrowel··on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies
Yes and Facebook uses React and GraphQL. Meta AI uses PyTorch. Does that make them all products?
breezeTrowel··on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies
How is Llama a product? It's more like React, PyTorch, GraphQL, etc.
breezeTrowel··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
Regarding Kim Dotcom, the government allegetions aren't about what users do. You can read them here:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-le...

Granted, he's moved on to being a Kremlin propagandist and is now shilling anti-Semitism. See:

https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/1825187568834753021

breezeTrowel··on If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it
He wasn't having trouble with his WiFi since he was connected directly to the device. Although it might have helped to specify an Ethernet link. Still, chatbots are generally a terrible user experience.
breezeTrowel··on The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros
Are you a rhinoceros?
breezeTrowel··on We Are Made of Waves
Yes. That's why fundamental particles are called the "building blocks of the universe". It's buildings all the way down!
breezeTrowel··on Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases
Here you go:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07501-1

breezeTrowel··on Superconducting Computer: Imec's plan to shrink datacenters
Superconductors do not generate heat when in their superconducting state. Otherwise they wouldn't be superconductors.
breezeTrowel··on IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
These are open weight models released under an Apache 2.0 license. There's nothing to buy.
breezeTrowel··on No one buys books
I think there's a fourth option - those little kiosks (like the Little Free Library ones) have started to spring up everywhere so it's a lot easier to just leave one's read books there.
breezeTrowel··on DBRX: A new open LLM
Cranking up the parameter count is literally how the current LLM craze got started. Hence the "large" in "large language model".
breezeTrowel··on SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra
I know some of these words.
breezeTrowel··on Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma
How can it be vaporware if it's already been released?
breezeTrowel··on Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
Simple. The article states they use the UK's death registry. The problem is they have no way to flag an erroneous match for longer than 12 months.
breezeTrowel··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
> Capitalism just isnt set up to punish the Bourgeois.

Please read your own link. There were coverups and censorship galore. The problem was this story eventually got so big it could no longer be swept under the rug like so many things were and still are.

breezeTrowel··on U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums
Sure but public infrastructure doesn't magically appear overnight. It takes years, decades even, and costs a ton of money. I think the solutions may come laterally from developments in autonomous construction robots. They're being developed in Japan due to negative population growth reducing the available construction workforce.
breezeTrowel··on A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely
How would you measure entropy signals at astronomical distances?
breezeTrowel··on Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
I would think that cancer is "this century's cancer".
Page 1 of 3Next →