Viewing profile — chabons
chabons
HN member- Joined
- Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC
- HN karma
- 422
- Public activity
- 83 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About chabons
No profile information was provided.
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #48688160
They didn't even attempt to make a clean-room implementation, they just had the LLM clone it for them with access to the source.
-
comment
Comment #47907616
> "[…] and these interlopers are the real geniuses […] This wasn’t the framing I was going for. My point was that industry boundaries are fluid and expand/contract as demand dictat…
-
comment
Comment #47885898
“There is a population of qualified workers […]” In my experience, this is not true. Demand for software engineers has been so high, and pay so high as a result, that it’s pulling …
-
story
Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
https://meta.ai/
-
comment
Comment #47332496
Where in academia can one get a Billion (with a b) dollars to research something?
-
comment
Comment #47025676
Developers are users too. If users cared enough not to use cross-platform software because it didn’t look native, then it wouldn’t get built.
-
comment
Comment #45677767
"rather hard" is really underselling things. Without considering generator->motor losses, 250W is a lot of power, even for a larger (>80kg/176lbs) rider. For basically anyone who d…
-
comment
Comment #45184806
Intuitively, I can understand that English Second Language students would struggle in classes other than English, but are the demographics really shifting enough to explain the dro…
-
comment
Comment #45183696
I'm missing something. What change in demographics are we talking about, and why would that influence math results?
-
comment
Comment #42598598
Garmin has a market cap of ~40B USD. Inflation adjusted, that's where NVIDIA was <10yr ago. It's not missing resources to do the work IMO, but it's missing the market dominance to …
-
comment
Comment #42536633
For me, it's that the ergonomics are straightforward, and everything works out of the box. If I find myself on a new machine, just installing fish gives me an ergonomic setup witho…
-
comment
Comment #42454652
I don't have statistics, but given the student visa -> H-1B pipeline changes, it would seem there are a number of H-1B holders who are educated in US colleges (either at the underg…
-
comment
Comment #41820303
The author specifically stated: "Realizing this, I asked for the report to be forwarded to an actual Zendesk staff member for review", before getting another reply for H1. I read t…
-
comment
Comment #41324933
I was thinking the same. Also, I would have liked if they discussed/measured the worst-case power draw of the device before starting to add capacitors, as it's possible a PC USB po…
-
comment
Comment #41039473
Before I knew this I had someone pull out their lighter and point the remote at it when our sensor bar died. Took me a little bit to figure it out.
-
comment
Comment #40908170
> Embrace them and make rules to prevent them from damaging the city they’re coming to experience. +1, squirting the tourists who are already there does little to discourage other …
-
comment
Comment #40753558
The happened for me only in Celsius. It looks like in Fahrenheit the temperature updated for me.
-
comment
Comment #40707843
In general I agree, for instance an Apple Watch crams in so much hardware, that the battery frequently lasts less than a day. Compare that to my Garmin 245, which often lasts 2 wee…
-
comment
Comment #40683684
And more generally, consumers of Windows-only software, of which there is still a ton.
-
comment
Comment #40677856
This doesn't resolve the ongoing incentive to remove the LVT, creating immediate value for the current land-owners.
-
comment
Comment #40250653
This assumes that the same number of vehicles use the charging station. Lower charge times means potentially higher steady-state throughput.
-
comment
Comment #40249162
Here I was scanning the article for what they floated on. I had assumed it was a peat-bog type situation. I guess the key benefit of this strategy is that the water level is high a…
-
comment
Comment #40227507
I really doubt this would be how things play out. Most crime isn't sophisticated or targeted. The same argument can be made about internet-connected security cameras in general, th…
-
comment
Comment #40054534
The videos are all shown at 2x speed, but your point stands, this is still pretty quick.
-
comment
Comment #39992923
> Intel Gaudi 3 has more interconnect bandwidth than this has memory bandwidth. LPDDR5 vs HBMe2. I'm guessing there's a 2-5x price difference between those, but even so it's an int…