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naavis··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
That's good! There have recently been news of companies leaking trade secrets and confidential data by sharing it with ChatGPT: https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-workers-leaked-compan...
naavis··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
> There's still a lot of data entry being done from unstructured text. Where specifics like names and addresses need to be extracted from letters and emails and contracts and other stuff. I've worked on these challenges before using different strategies and GPT blows my mind with what it can do just by asking to grab this data and format it as JSON.

Is this data confidential or something you are willing to send to anyone? If the former, you probably shouldn't be sending it to an AI company that retains the data for its own purposes.

naavis··on ‘He passed the bee baton on to me’: people who inherit hobbies
There is a saying about radio amateurs here: 99% of radio amateurs ruin the reputation of the rest.
naavis··on ‘He passed the bee baton on to me’: people who inherit hobbies
Yet we have people who don't really have anything you could call a hobby.
naavis··on Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
Python 3 came out in 2008.
naavis··on Tauri Mobile – Develop Mobile Apps with JavaScript and Rust
It's also no-go for Linux. Otherwise I would be all over it.
naavis··on Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering
Maybe they are referring to remote meetings where you can mute yourself.
naavis··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
It is the same on desktop. But that is probably because of Chromecast being proprietary to Google, so sadly nothing Mozilla could do.
naavis··on SimulaVR FPGA Image Processing Pipeline
They are probably referring to cameras with CCD sensors but analog output, akin to older CCTV cameras. So any corrections on the digital raw data had to be implemented in the camera by the manufacturer, as the camera user only had access to analog data.
naavis··on Pulsating eclipsing binary AI Hya investigated in detail
Interesting, you are correct! It actually is an "i" instead of an "l", according to the original scientific paper. My mistake.

I assumed it is "al" because a large part of named stars are called "al-something", because the names come from Arabic. But in this case the name of the star actually is "ai hya".

Sadly I cannot edit my original comment anymore.

naavis··on Pulsating eclipsing binary AI Hya investigated in detail
Yes, it is "al hya", not "ai hya".
naavis··on New video of Tesla crash demonstrates the problem of semi-automated driving
It is not impossible to leave space. Granted, you need to do it every time a car moves in front of you. But such is life.
naavis··on New video of Tesla crash demonstrates the problem of semi-automated driving
You don't need to drive significantly slower than others, just slightly slower so a new gap appears in front of you.
naavis··on Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
It was actually distributed as a poster along with the 2014.2 issue of the Finnish computer culture magazine Skrolli.
naavis··on New video of Tesla crash demonstrates the problem of semi-automated driving
Why is this a problem?
naavis··on New video of Tesla crash demonstrates the problem of semi-automated driving
The article links to another article with a video recording of the accident: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto...

The car does stop pretty suddenly.

naavis··on Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering
> saying a pharmacist "works in medicine"

Is this wrong? I mean, they do work in medicine. You can always be more specific if you want, but I don't see anything wrong with that statement.

> Being "in IT" typically means you set up office computers.

This is probably a thing that varies regionally. Here it is very common to call all the aforementioned jobs "the IT industry".

naavis··on Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering
The dictionary definition of information technology (IT) almost exactly describes software engineering. So what is wrong with calling it "working in IT"?

For reference, Merriam-Webster defines IT as follows:

> the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data

naavis··on My bad habit of hoarding information
I once went on an organizing spree and categorized the videos by topic, but never did that again, so the 1800 videos are now the uncategorized videos that are not in one of those more specific folders which I never visit either.

I am rarely in a mood to watch YouTube videos longer than 5-10 minutes for some reason. Shorter ones I often watch right away, but all the others get filed away for a rainy day.

naavis··on My bad habit of hoarding information
I have this same problem with YouTube videos. I have a Watch Later list of 1800 videos, and it keeps growing.
naavis··on Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
To be fair, the readme does not mention ytdl.
naavis··on DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites
That is true, no arguments against that. I merely wanted to point out that it is relatively easy to find the mentioned help page.
naavis··on DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites
You open the DuckDuckGo website, select "Help" from the sidebar and write "syntax" into the search box: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
naavis··on 83% of Developers Suffer from Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds
>> Its higher than people with real stress like physicians, policemen and firefighters.

> The thing is with most non-office professions like that, especially those involving physical instead of cognitive work, it's much easier to disconnect and relax mentally after work

I wouldn't say being a physician, police or firefighter is non-cognitive work. What you say might apply to some other professions, though. But the mentioned professions definitely see stuff that will haunt you and stay with you, and won't let you disconnect.

naavis··on A sand battery could transform clean energy
Are you implying it shouldn't be developed if it doesn't cover 100% of all use cases all over the world?
naavis··on Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped
Whale noises travel thousands of kilometers underwater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_vocalization
naavis··on Fastmail Down?
Seems to work fine right now.
naavis··on Mastodon.technology Shutdown
For reference, based on quick Googling, Twitter publishes around 10 000 tweets per second on average.
naavis··on Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers
In many European countries parking is paid with a mobile app these days. Very few use parking meters.
naavis··on It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999
But if someone stuffs money in an envelope and slips it under your door, the taxman could very well argue that it is yours and want their cut.
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