jcoder

In your experience, which happens more often (assuming continuous use): a ballpoint runs out of ink, or a pencil becomes dull/breaks?

> it WAS tech

That’s a pretty small view of “tech”. Development of repeatable agricultural practices for predictable yield is absolutely a technological accomplishment (and not just because there were machines involved)

ChatGPT can’t fetch URLs, right? Is this just extrapolation based on the title, or did you paste the article into chat?

Expecting an interviewee to pick up on that and manage the conversation is completely unrealistic, and it’s unfair to put that on them—if you’re not interested in the direction they took the question, have the guts to say so and redirect them.

That sounds like a them problem—society won’t change any practices to accommodate these toys that are demonstrating how little value they bring every day.

But they must not be requiring it to access these admin systems. Not mentioned in the write up either, surprisingly

? I was replying to your comment.

Astounded != angry does it?

Houten has a population of 50,000. Plenty of American cities much larger than that have the sort of human-scale features and transit you’re describing—they’re all over Portland, OR.

I don’t know that stereotyping more cultures is going to make this better

Yeah I read that part and immediately thought “tell me you’ve never read a single book on tech leadership without…”

It’s pretty obviously an astronaut looking out at space. Buzz (Aldrin/Lightyear), get it? Would it be an issue if it did resemble an Islamic symbol?

How so?

This isn’t really that kind of forum, mate.

Is something less tragic if the victims weren’t fully participating in capitalism at the time of injury? If they’re performing a societal function that you obviously think is beneath you?

Nope, no AI, no NLP. Being so in love with that stuff is why everything is so disappointing now. I’d like a pure speech to text mode where I must get the syntax correct, or the system rejects the command. Eg I must say “set a four minute timer”, not “timer for four minutes”.

It’s sad that the only option is a voice assistant that must learn how to interpret my words through this slow, error-prone process. I would much rather have a pure speech-to-text option where I must learn the exact words to say to get a reliable result.

  Starlink Maritime allows you to connect from the most remote waters across the world

checks map, it’s literally the least-remote waters possible. Why does an actually innovative company feel the need to do this.

This seems interesting, but given that the recommendations in the very first screenshot are >50% “wrong” (“HOW” is not an acronym, “tap” makes no sense in this context), I can only imagine that using this tool would be a huge distraction while writing.

  you can now get custom sleeves which slip over commercial earbuds like the Apple AirPods

How annoying do you find it to remove them to charge the earbuds?

It’s in the sub-headline, and there’s an entire section about it:

    iPhone SE features an all-new camera system powered by A15 Bionic, with a 12-megapixel ƒ/1.8 aperture Wide camera that offers incredible computational photography benefits, including

The farmer was not sued

I don’t know much about the subject matter of the post, but it seems like the sort of blog that would notice that the earth and moon in the hero image rely on the sunlight coming from different directions.

Surely you can cobble together a toolchain circa your old Mac and build from source?

This is new… Siri hasn’t been able to connect for me since this began

Fascinating, thank you

This has been noticed a few times today—is this a new HN feature, where the submitter’s first comment is unreplyable (and pinned)?

Maybe the accuracy of the final work product would be a fine filter for attention to detail, but as a sibling comment points out, “quick and accurate” transcription is likely to just discriminate against otherwise fine candidates.

I thought Moore’s Law is about the density of components on an IC—what about it suggests a constant energy usage of IC as it gets denser?

I was in agreement with most of the article, but the final footnote came out of left field for me:

  7. I have a bunch of ideas around testing how quickly and how accurately people can type, or accurately transcribe text from a second screen, that I think could be decent predictors of job performance but I'm not sure are fair to test out in a professional context without academic research that could validate them at least a little bit.

Can anyone explain how including such a thing in an interview is relevant at all?