nothrowaways

3,304 karma · joined May 25, 2021

“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform....” —Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

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nothrowaways··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market

It did not say scientist-only. HN is deteriorating smh.

nothrowaways··on The collapse of the econ PhD job market

The scientific community needs a new safe haven. It would be

1. A country specifically tailor made for scientists and engineers.

2. A country with no first class citizens

Something like Switzerland or Dubai for science and engineering, but made from scratch.

nothrowaways··on Farewell friends

RIP

nothrowaways··on Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

It would be interesting what the genetically modified pig looks like.

nothrowaways··on Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia?

Unfortunately that's the reality. Kids see what they see.

nothrowaways··on Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia?

Care to explain

nothrowaways··on Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners

Multimodal models do it already.

nothrowaways··on Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video

So much detailed documentation.

nothrowaways··on Meta Ray-Ban Display

What are the privacy guarantees for passerbys (non-wearers).

nothrowaways··on DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?

This is utter propaganda. Should be removed from HN.

nothrowaways··on Apple Photos app corrupts images

Apple photos also distorts photos. It makes all celebrity selfies look they were driving in the UK.

nothrowaways··on iPhone Air

They should have offered a no-camera version.

nothrowaways··on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

I love the 'recently used' in the start menu.

nothrowaways··on The GitHub website is slow on Safari

Lately. Everything Microsoft touches has bad UX.

nothrowaways··on Who Invented Backpropagation?

It still is not efficient approach.

nothrowaways··on We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online

My kids are having a hard time deleting their Snapchat account.

nothrowaways··on Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome

Cooked or raw?

nothrowaways··on Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen

I can bet the missiles and space rockets we launch have a higher effect to unbalance planet Earth's equilibrium.

nothrowaways··on Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen

> Planet Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches

How much would that be in degrees?

nothrowaways··on Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen

This doesn't make sense, it's like taking a spoon full of water from a barrel. Shouldn't affect anything.

nothrowaways··on Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?

Tldr, yes.

nothrowaways··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

Does it have to be written? Does it apply to video and audio contents of similar manners?

nothrowaways··on Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy

> Meta is falling behind in the AI race

How so?

nothrowaways··on Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container

Exactly. Nothing to do with glass bottles.

nothrowaways··on Drinks in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in other container

This is a misleading, half backed, and click bait "finding".

They didn't even identify if problem is the glass or stuff like pains around the glass.

nothrowaways··on I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

Pure pytorch?

nothrowaways··on How I Program with Agents

> That is, an agent is a for loop which contains an LLM call. The LLM can execute commands and see their output without a human in the loop.

Am I missing something here?

nothrowaways··on Forests offset warming more than thought: study

> restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius

nothrowaways··on What “working” means in the era of AI apps

I don't take anything that comes from a16z seriously, specially since their crypto craze

nothrowaways··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)

the NW of 700M guy increased to 750M in 1 min - does he sell eggs?

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