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It is fairly rare to see an ex-employee put a positive spin on their work experience. I don't think this makes OpenAI special. It's just a good reminder that the overwhelming major…

My local Cinemark has tickets for $5.50, $8.50... you're probably in a premium market.

> All the 'box office records' since then are the result of charging way more to a continually plummeting audience size. I don't think that going to the movies has gotten more expe…

Yes. Look, I'm not arguing this is bad, I'm just trying to respond to the original question and capture the essence of the debate. There are three pertinent points: (1) it's EDTA; …

Probably, but the process doesn't work that way. The default is that you can't sell medication to people, period. Some pharmaceutical company applied to have a specific form of EDT…

It's about EDTA. It can be legitimately used to treat heavy metal poisoning, plus some other things. Some people (who are probably misguided) want to self-medicate. The FDA won't l…

Because what's the headline you're going to get out of it? If the headline is "Mark Zuckerberg is amassing your data and you know it's for evil", it's an easy sell. If it's "there'…

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. My assertion is that a visible image persists on the screen longer than it appears in the slo-mo clip. You can just point a camera with …

I think it's fairly common for technologies to get really good just as they're becoming obsolete. Vacuum tubes, CRTs, optical disks, photographic film... in fact, they're often in …

That slo-mo video is somewhat misleading, though. The phosphor glows for a good while, so there is a reasonable chunk of the image that's visible at any given time. The problem in …

The Chinese medicinal herb you're thinking about is sweet wormwood, from which we isolated artemisinin. Artemisinin isn't a suppressed secret. It's one of the major treatments for …

> Also, LLMs can generate prompt files too. Sure, but the utility of that for PCB design wasn't demonstrated in the article. This is an expert going out of his way to give the LLM …

Similarly to how most web dev isn't exactly on the frontiers of computer science, a lot of day-to-day PCB design isn't about cutting-edge analog or radio stuff. It's just putting t…

While I think that AI tools can be quite useful for coding, PCB design, and other tasks like that, the setup of this experiment makes it really hard for the LLM to fail. The author…

I do think it's an SFBA / generational bubble. We have plenty of boring, expensive software projects that someone will always bring up in a HN thread. For example, every time there…

The article starts by dismissing scrollsaws as "pretty darn dangerous", but that's a pretty big stretch. They're less dangerous than a sharp kitchen knife. You want to talk to your…

(Note: the original title was "Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies" before being changed by the admin) I honestly think that Quanta Magazine just found the perfect for…

First, it just reads that way. It's the default style if you ask ChatGPT to write a couple of paragraphs that explain why lightfastness is important. Second, while I know there are…

I think there's a fundamental disconnect here: the article says that you should be focusing on strategies that, for the most part, make aging more dignified. The goal shouldn't be …

Although someone will challenge me on that, I'm 100% sure that large chunks of the text are AI-generated. That said, the website itself has been around at least since 2017 (the tex…

The problem is that these "small things" are not necessarily small if you're an individual. If you're an individual pirating software or media, then from the rights owners' perspec…

The actual claim is that you can keep the game state for a rather minimal 8x4 game board in two uint32_t, one uint64_t, and one uint_8t. That's not the entirety of program state - …

Are controls uniquely important, though? There are hundreds of things in a car that could be made better (more durable, longer lasting, better looking) for just $10 to $100 extra a…

The other problem are people doing price arbitrage. You find the item on eBay and think to yourself, "cool, I'd rather patronize a small business" - but as it turns out, the item i…

Because most of the "loopholes" aren't actually loopholes: they are created for a specific reason under some specific economic theory. Most often, to encourage people to make certa…