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JCharante··on Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
He has accountability. If people don't like his choices they can sell their shares and he can be a majority voter in a worthless company. People holding says otherwise.

It's good to see companies actually try things instead of sit there and not innovate.

JCharante··on Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
50 billion can't solve world hunger. It's not even a money issue.
JCharante··on I put my whole life into a single database
> I walk more than twice as much when I'm in New York, compared to any other city

This is why I moved to Tokyo. Even if I want to avoid exercising I still take many steps

JCharante··on Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
Who is deleting passkeys? It’s like 1 kb of data
JCharante··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
what prevents the input from being keystrokes and screen recordings of thousands of lawyers solving cases?
JCharante··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
why not? datasets are not only finished works, there's datasets that go into the process they're just available in smaller quantities
JCharante··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
I experienced living with a host family to transitioning to living alone in that same foreign country where I even had language barriers. I would advise you to get into cycling, it's a very social sport that you can do alone too. Otherwise something like pickleball would be good too. Sorry for keeping this comment short, I have a deadline.
JCharante··on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
to be fair it's possible Sundar is unhappy and just wants to enjoy his wealth but it's hard to say no to $200m/yr
JCharante··on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
naive question: which product and service has gotten worse?

Like they removed the youtube dislike button

what else?

Everything seems to be getting better. Tying incentives to Waymo is almost unfair because Waymo is amazing and just keeps getting better.

JCharante··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
27” instead of 32” is very lame
JCharante··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
are they really two models? are they available via the API or are they wrappers built on top of models available via the API?
JCharante··on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff
HN bans IPs for unusual activity too, luckily they have a human friendly way to get unbanned.
JCharante··on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff
well I'm just glad to find out nobody has been discriminating based on race or sex since that would be unethical
JCharante··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
This is awesome! $3299 is a great price drop. I’m moving countries soon and wasn’t going to bring my old monitor, so this is perfect timing.
JCharante··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Majority of devs are in the global south I presume
JCharante··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
“Told” is different than it being written into law. Go update the laws first and then you have a valid argument
JCharante··on Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake
> it has encountered the patterns you’re picking out in lots and lots of text written by humans?

In pre-training data, yes

There are post-training datasets, where the weights are changed to conform to human preference. These datasets are created by groups of thousands of people all following a 40-page guide, and these guides have example. People over-index on these examples and so sample sentences with these structures are over represented in these datasets and used for post-training.

JCharante··on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs
and the end result of this action will be every neighborhood having a guy who orders the peptides from overseas and mixes it into a liquid with a net reduction in safety for millions
JCharante··on FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs
I'd argue more harm is done by any delays in approval
JCharante··on My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
> And log back in to all my apps

Isn’t this built in when transferring devices? Are backups different?

JCharante··on My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
I think articles are worse when they have to explain everything someone off the street might not know.
JCharante··on Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Cool! I'm not great at Chinese but I have to speak slowly for it to recognize the tones/words. I wonder how fast the training data is.
JCharante··on Ask HN: Notification Overload
I don’t have this problem. Every notification is one I find useful. If I get a useless notification I immediately take action to prevent them from giving me more. I rarely go back and re-enable notifications
JCharante··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
proprietary stack is probably more battery efficient
JCharante··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
ok but who will audit your compiler?
JCharante··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
might be obvious but you have to calibrate it while in your target posture
JCharante··on Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
wouldn't this directly map to cost? Like sure I guess some data centers might use renewable energy sources while another might run on generators 24/7 so you could save carbon by switching data centers, but isn't cost a good enough proxy already?
JCharante··on Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines?
prev company, $3b market cap probably 2000 engineers at the company, vertically integrated e-commerce, we had admin access with an MDM profile added to spy on us
JCharante··on Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'
couldn't the government just pull an Alderaan? e.g. destroy 1 city as a message to all other cities not to resist?
JCharante··on Why IRC is better than Real Life (2000)
Discord addicts?
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