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terminous··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
Basically the only thing a US nonprofit can't do is give dividends to investors. The nonprofit has to funnel any unspent profit to itself as an endowment, but can also have obscenely high salaries for administrative staff.
terminous··on LLM Visualization
Same... this is like a textbook, but worth it
terminous··on Unsupervised speech-to-speech translation from monolingual data
> Also the debate about whether all human speech need be piped through such a preemptive filter.

Have you worked at a company with a PR, Comms, and HR department?

terminous··on OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman
I don't understand your argument. So corruption is OK because he isn't getting paid as much as he could be? That's like saying embezzlement is OK if you're underpaid.
terminous··on As We May Toast
This article is about wanting to cook a croissant quickly. How you eat that croissant once it is cooked is a different topic. I'm struggling to understand how cooking at 200 for 20 mins vs 225 for 15 minutes impacts the "anticipation experience". If the taste, texture, etc. was identical, are you arguing it'd be better to bake at 180 for 25 minutes solely because that extra 5 minutes adds to the anticipation experience? Because I sincerely can't comprehend it.
terminous··on As We May Toast
I'm surprised that this is just some half-baked ideas with no execution. This read as if there were going to be results, then it just stops and turns into an ad for a holiday house swap.

Also, the real optimal answer won't be found in their proposed setup to find the ideal temp+time to turn a frozen pastry into a cooked one. What you do is store a few of those thawed in the refrigerator and pop them in the air fryer for a few minutes. Then replace with the freezer so the next morning they'll be thawed.

terminous··on As We May Toast
Or what I do is store 1-2 in the refrigerator thawed and pop those into an air fryer.
terminous··on Person-in-WiFi: Fine-Grained Person Perception Using WiFi [pdf]
I mean, why should any scientist think about ethics? [INSERT $GOLDBLUM_QUOTE HERE]

Also, when you start to invent new technology, you're not just a dispassionate objective scientist pushing the boundaries of knowledge. You're an engineer whose products are also engineering society.

terminous··on Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
Are you familiar with the state of tech 'journalism' over the past few decades?
terminous··on Fire TV now also displays full-screen video ads on its homescreen
Set it to Store Mode and it'll become very close to a classic display panel. You can't use streaming apps, it just lets you change HDMI inputs, volume, and picture settings, but that's a feature for me. Plus no spying.
terminous··on Developer account removed by Apple
How would you be able to tell by manual review if a fake review from a SEO firm was paid for by that app's developer or by their competitor? There is no signal there. The ads are identical.
terminous··on Stripe live dashboard
No, but they don't get to take the full 2% that VISA/MC charge vendors.
terminous··on Stripe live dashboard
If you enter the wrong CVC or ZIP and it is declined, does that increment your blocked fraud counter?
terminous··on Stripe live dashboard
Ugh, I love the data but the 3d parallax interface kept moving slightly (on mobile) and literally made me feel motion sickness after a minute.

Give me a traditional window layout please!

terminous··on About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"
Linear regression is AI.
terminous··on Developer account removed by Apple
This isn't an Apple problem, it's a problem with every business review platform. If a shady marketing firm takes a contract to give an app fake 5 star reviews, there's no way for the review platform to know if that shady marketing firm was hired by the app's developer or their competitor. Only the marketing firm knows.
terminous··on Tesla workers report explosions, concussions and robot injuries at Texas factory
FWIW, no they aren't.
terminous··on Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
> Mead was famous, but only one of the many voices in very long debate. Whatever people were thinking 90 years ago, it had already lost its influence by the time of AI's societal debut in the 1980s and is totally irrelevant to AI's impact today. While both may share a mindset, linking Mead to today's techno-bros is a bit of a stretch.

Plato was famous, but only one of the many voices in very long debate. Whatever people were thinking 2000+ years ago, it had already lost its influence by the time of AI's societal debut in the 1980s and is totally irrelevant to AI's impact today. While both may share a mindset, linking Plato to today's techno-bros is a bit of a stretch.

The allegory of the cave still has resonance today. Abstract ideas are timeless. That's the point of abstraction.

terminous··on To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees
Site is down: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/board.net

But not per their status board (if your status board has to be manually updated, it is not actually a status board): http://status.fairkom.net/

terminous··on YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers
> Who's paying the creators for the content they watch?

Such a tiny fraction of subscription and ad revenue goes to creators.

> Who's paying Google for delivering that content?

ISPs who have peering agreements with Google.

terminous··on Super Mario RPG is an endearing, perplexing relic
The subtext to this article is that Nintendo has never released SMRPG for the Switch's virtual console, but they are selling a remake for $69.99. No thanks, give me the relic ROM.
terminous··on 'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies
I'm sorry, did the title say "medicine"? What's your problem? If you think these kind of low effort comments are contributing to the discussion, please reconsider.
terminous··on 75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing
> The ACM has a code of ethics required for membership.

The ACM has never taken action against an ACM member for an ethics violation that was not directly related to research misconduct in an ACM publication (edit: or inappropriate behavior at an ACM conference). Unlike a medical board or bar association, the ACM has no capacity, resources, or staff tasked to enforce even research ethics violations outside of ACM publications, much less ACM members day-to-day work they don't submit to a publication. And even then, it is up to the peer reviewers and editors of that publication. Otherwise, it remains just a list of suggestions.

At one time the ethics code said ACM members should respect terms of service, which means no bots or web scraping, but that was never enforced. You can find tons of research in ACM publications that uses web scraping of big sites that prohibit it in the ToS. The ACM certainly doesn't have capacity to police ethics violations by ACM members in industry. And if it started to do so, I suspect you'd see ACM membership plummet by those who fear they could be next.

terminous··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
terminous··on How can you define a 'drug'? Nobody knows
Smog is air with drugs. Bad water is water with drugs.
terminous··on From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees
You estimate at 1.1x and you'll be good, especially if paying by card. Unless you're literally penny pinching, you don't even notice paying 8.75% vs 8.85% or whatever. But if you really just want to hate the US, I can't stop you.

> the history of genocide in North America

Ah, I see where you're coming from.

terminous··on From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees
Found the lobbyist
terminous··on From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees
> This is criminal! Who will be held responsible if my kid gets assaulted in the flight?

I was with you until you went off the deep end here.

terminous··on From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees
> know it's true -- when I loved in SF the fact that I couldn't tell what things cost just made me give up looking at the price altogether :) I just picked things in safeway and payed without even listening to what the amount charged was...

I'm sorry that it's so hard for you to multiply by 1.1

terminous··on What if money expired?
So you came to this thread and saw this comment made 18 minutes before yours, with replies to that comment, and just reposted the same irrelevant, dismissive, low-effort comment? Did you think it needed to be said twice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38294857

On an unrelated note, HN rules forbid me from implying that a commenter has not read the article.

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