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kevinh456··on Micron Taiwan increasing salaries for factory workers by 2.7X
Would love an English translation that makes sense.
kevinh456··on Hacker News Site Layout
That’s because it is, friend.
kevinh456··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Built something to report bribes
I anxiously await the 34th report of bribery.
kevinh456··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
Github bro. Github.
kevinh456··on Will It Mythos?
Fable, the same model as mythos with extra safety controls, was much faster, more accurate, and more token efficient than previous models. What I got done with it in 48 hours accelerated my personal project from concept to deployed prototype.
kevinh456··on Show HN: Saysheep – dumpster diving and free stuff app
Kinda cool but it would be great if you made a couple changes…

The ui is confusing. It’s hard to get back to the main ui as you navigate around.

I couldn’t find any stuff. Your app needs to “show me the money shot” when it loads so I see what it’s like and useful for. Even if something isn’t nearby, I need to see the whole interaction loop of the app.

Have you considered partnering with local freecycle groups? There’s whole communities doing this already

kevinh456··on What is your craziest idea to launch in this AI era?
Lol. Sorry. This will not work.

You can't control the way apps cache their data. Each one is going to load and cache its data in its own way. There is no "data to download" like you're thinking.

kevinh456··on HTML Lists
DL is a definition list not a description list.
kevinh456··on Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)
Burn baby burn. Token inferno.
kevinh456··on Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
Captchas are not effective. You can pay 2captcha less than a penny per captcha and humans solve them for you.
kevinh456··on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
Tell me how you feel about DST.
kevinh456··on Ask HN: How to Argue Against AI Enthusiasts?
You anchor on what "AI" actually is. "Artificial Intelligence" is, IMO, useless phrase. Make them clearly define what they're talking about.

AI is a bunch of different technologies that have many uses—neural networks, natural language processing, OCR, speech recognition, machine learning, computer vision, image classification, upscaling models, and our favorite new friends "generative pre-trained transformers" (GPT) and "large language models" (LLM) that make up key parts of "generative AI."

Once you make them specify what they're talking about, you talk about the nature and inherent limitations in the technology.

I like to call GPT and LLM "statistical binary string predictors." IE: given a string of binary, predict the expected binary string based on the inputs. It's an amazing technology, don't get me wrong. We're starting to see the limits already though.

Limited context windows. Larger context/training == lower quality results. More input tokens = lower quality. In some respects, newer models are now regressing from earlier models because they're chasing benchmarks and not the real world use cases.

Start to dive into the details. Ask them to admit the problems with LLM and GPT. Ask them how they see these problems getting resolved. Most AI fanboys don't understand the technologies involved. Expose it.

kevinh456··on Precious Plastic is in trouble
It took way too fucking long to figure out what they’re doing. Maybe they should have paid for pr or marketing or something.
kevinh456··on Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
How did this ai written crap get so far up on hacker news.
kevinh456··on Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?
Shopify does somehow to this day.
kevinh456··on The Goths
They say fashion goes in cycles. That cycle is ~ 20 years to start and ~ 30!years to complete, the approximate time it takes for a generation of teenagers to raid their parents old shit. Which just so happen to hit the second hand market around the same time.

1984 -> 2004 -> 2024. Emo and goth cycles.

1964 -> 1984 -> 2004 -> 2024. First, second, third, and… fourth? waves of ska.

kevinh456··on Super Mario 64 on the Web
It’s a wasm compiled version using the decompiled source
kevinh456··on Melatonin as a treatment for food waste
Ambien makes me wake up screaming at the top of my lungs. Every time. I never remember but it scares the shit out of my wife. No Ambien for me. Lol
kevinh456··on I stopped buying new laptops (2020)
This is part of why Apple is pushing trade in when you buy a new device. They recycle it.
kevinh456··on They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS
I, too, judge Americans who support the current gun culture, oppose a safety net, and fight against socialized medicine.

- a reasonable American

kevinh456··on They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS
Operating under a different set of rules doesn't change the fact that they violate ours. They can be simultaneously right under their own standards and wrong under ours. We can and should judge them under our moral standards.
kevinh456··on Ask HN: Would you pay for a SaaS even if its open source and can be selfhosted?
Yes. I just don't have time to deal with self-hosting most things anymore. Minecraft for instance. Sure, I could host my own server, but it's a pain in the ass. I spent as much time dealing with the server as playing. I just wanna fire up the game and play for 30 mins or so at a time and have a space my friends and nephew can join. Realms does the job for $10/month. No question worth it.
kevinh456··on If Microsoft is doing so good why layoffs?
Even Apple with its giant cash war chest uses loans. A lot of their money is in offshore subsidiaries and would incur a tax if they on-shored it to the United States. It’s often cheaper to borrow money and pay it off with earnings than to pay taxes on the money.
kevinh456··on Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
Coming from the states, tap in/tap out with my watch on the underground was so easy.
kevinh456··on Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
What's the condition of the road like? I assume that it is immaculate.
kevinh456··on Ask HN: How to do the bare minimum when not valued at work?
What signals have you received that you are being “managed out”? What have you been told about your performance?
kevinh456··on I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever?
Practice.
kevinh456··on Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
Imagine if they got some in at an F&I company and convinced car dealers to install the surveillance without the installers even being aware of it
kevinh456··on Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?
This is the most underrated comment on this post. I recently started at a large tech company, the largest I’ve ever been at, and taking meeting notes is the most important decision I’ve made. I have a record of everything that’s happened and the decisions we’ve made. It helps me focus on the meeting instead of getting distracted. I’ve had issues with dominating conversations, so the note taking helps me focus on listening too. Really good choice.
kevinh456··on Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
"everything changes dramatically" - Practice each little bit one element at a time.

Posture is a great place to start. Just practice making sure that you keep a confident posture. Standing up straight. Shoulders back and relaxed. Head looking forward and alert. Focus on keeping your posture. A lot of how people read "confidence" is noticing these cues. It will become second nature if you practice.

Check out "power posing" also. Works for some people, doesn't work for others. Totally works for me.

For your voice, what is it doing? Probably going up higher? That's because your muscles in your neck are tightening up. Gotta keep them relaxed. I bet you'll find when you get your relaxed posture in place that your voice will change less also.

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