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itronitron··on Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification
Nice, they could put a sled after the 6th deer.

My only concern is that a lot of people would probably be more inclined to play on them than the standard high-voltage pylons.

itronitron··on My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?
I think you should start off with something stereotypical and crass like Grand Theft Auto to set her expectations very low, and then introduce her to Breath of the Wild.
itronitron··on Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

If they want to innovate then they need to have small teams of people focused on the same problem space, and very rarely talking to each other.

itronitron··on Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
I suppose that's a consequence of having to A/B test everything in order to develop a product
itronitron··on People got together to stop a school shooting before it happened
I don't know the line of reasoning behind it.
itronitron··on People got together to stop a school shooting before it happened
>> This article makes it sound like the only one who was punished was the victim of the bullying

That's standard practice for schools in the US. And I've heard from a relative who is a schoolteacher that during a mediation, the schools make both sides apologize to the other, requiring that the victim apologize to the bully.

itronitron··on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
it accepts the terms in the EULA or it gets the hose
itronitron··on Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
Intuitively, immunity debt is using the same logic as vaccines, that the immune system builds defenses to infections when it is exposed to them (and not before.) But I'd never heard of 'immunity debt' as a term before and I am assuming that it's promoted by people that are also anti-mask and anti-vax.

Anecdotally, I played a lot more in the dirt as a young child than any of my children, and I had much more severe asthma and allergies than they have, including the one that contracted RSV as a two-week old infant and went on to get sick just as often as their two siblings.

itronitron··on The HIRE Act: 25% tax on outsourcing
Yes, there are many people in the US looking for jobs.
itronitron··on Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves
In my experience, you can easily find any buried telecom cable as long as you dig several feet away from the marked utility lines.
itronitron··on Tufte CSS
It doesn't work as white text on a dark background.
itronitron··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Hmm, I wonder how much bitcoin someone could mine with that amount of compute.
itronitron··on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me
if it's dumber than the other ones then it must be really fucking stupid
itronitron··on Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
It's fine to ask during an interview but shouldn't be 'asked' as part of the initial application step.
itronitron··on Privately-Owned Rail Cars
I was thinking you could just park one of those small 'air taxis' to the top of the train car (allowing clearance for tunnels and bridges).
itronitron··on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
uploads high school portrait of Bobby Drop Tables
itronitron··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
I remember fondly visiting my grandmother in the accounting department of Acme Tool & Die in Cleveland, Ohio. After a snack of her homemade molasses cookies we would gather around the fax machine, carefully sending invoices and unrolling the printed confirmations before filing them away.
itronitron··on The Inkhaven Blogging Residency
This submission is just an advertisement, and advertisements submitted to HN usually get flagged dead.
itronitron··on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
Yeah, this is more easily answered without writing any code. Although I'd probably make some remark that the sum will always be zero because 'one' is an odd number so there can't be any 'even ones' in the list.
itronitron··on Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
So as an applicant, I would be left with the nagging feeling that I didn't finish the problem, and knowing myself and seeing the time constraint I choose to avoid those interview processes.
itronitron··on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
>> just barely not touching

Which part of them is barely not touching?

itronitron··on The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that's safe for kids to use
In one of my art history classes we learned of a Bauhaus (or Dada?) artist that would stack their old belongings into the corners of their apartment and then plaster over it in order to reduce the clutter in their home. Might be worth trying out.
itronitron··on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge
If it's fair use to train a model, that doesn't necessarily imply that the model can be legally used to generate anything.
itronitron··on The story behind Caesar salad
I'll have to try that out. My current version substitutes mayonnaise in place of the yolk and oil, and just mixes it with lemon juice, dijon, garlic powder, and pepper.
itronitron··on The story behind Caesar salad
Some people are hungry so they want it cut into more slices.
itronitron··on Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?
Play along, but keep relatively detailed yet abstracted notes on how the AI code is failing. Keep these notes private ... type them into a notes program on your personal device so that you can draw upon them in the future if needed.
itronitron··on How to negotiate your salary package
I'm curious what your thoughts are on the "salary expectations" question in the initial phone screen or first stage. In my experience, I have never been asked that question and then moved onto the next step in the process, regardless of whether or how I answer the question.

So I am left thinking they are just collecting salary metrics for the position.

itronitron··on No More Shading Languages: Compiling C++ to Vulkan Shaders [pdf]
>> There's a huge impedence mismatch between CPU and GPU

That's already been worked out to some extent with libraries such as Aparapi, although you still need to know what you're doing, and to actually need it.

https://aparapi.github.io/

Aparapi allows Java developers to take advantage of the compute power of GPU and APU devices by executing data parallel code fragments on the GPU rather than being confined to the local CPU. It does this by converting Java bytecode to OpenCL at runtime and executing on the GPU, if for any reason Aparapi can't execute on the GPU it will execute in a Java thread pool.

itronitron··on Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'
>> A year earlier, she paneled a garbage truck with mirrors so that people could see themselves in the waste they created.

Genius.

If I recall correctly, there is a photograph of the mirrored truck in Suzi Gablik's book The Re-enchantment of Art. And here is some additional information and images:

https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/mierle-laderman-ukeless-ode-t...

itronitron··on Endometriosis is an interesting disease
I recommend taking probiotic Bacilis Subtilis gummies if you feel a migraine starting, I don't know why it works but it does (and I first heard about Bacilis Subtilis hear on HN.)
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