HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

nitwit005

9,394 karma · joined December 9, 2014

submissionscomments
nitwit005··on Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit
Usually the contract itself specifies how that should work. You often see a schedule of payments, and how dealing with early cancelation should work.
nitwit005··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
Sure, but you have to live in the reality of people's irrationality.

There's no practical way to discover someone's "secret true preferences", baring seeing them enraptured by someone who happens to meet them.

nitwit005··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
That means the only feedback you get is crazy relatives yelling at you, which probably isn't that useful.

Most people won't go out of their way to provide detailed feedback.

nitwit005··on Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com
Because it's still a big hunk of traffic, and moderators report relying on it (it loads significantly faster). They have bolded text relating to moderators in the annoucement: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing...
nitwit005··on America.gov
It's sort of that text mixed in with taxpayer nonsense.

I'm curious if there's something in the prompt they're feeding it that would lead to this result, or if this is just all it has been trained on that is Minecraft related.

nitwit005··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
> A new chip solves nothing.

It solves the problem of Nvidia wanting to sell more hardware.

nitwit005··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Might have interpreted it as captain heading for lifeboat.
nitwit005··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
Saying you're too lazy to actually check if these videos are genuinely all black students, but someone could do it, and you know the answer even without checking somehow, isn't exactly convincing.

There just aren't enough blacks in the US for them to completely dominate any crime. To be at your imagined rate of 90% of instances being black, when only 13 or 14% of the population, would require a ridiculously high rate compared to every other group.

nitwit005··on An airport cooled by natural ventilation
> Ceiling fans with a 7.5-metre (24.6ft) diameter help to circulate the air.

Giant fans are rather different than "natural ventilation" mentioned in the headline.

nitwit005··on Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
If you talk to people working with foster kids about why some kids succeed despite everything stacked against them, they'll tell you some kids are different.

It's possible you're correct and there's some circumstance controlling things we can't see or don't understand, but that's not a testable idea.

nitwit005··on Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
If all it took to ensure a good outcome was to create good circumstances, we'd have fixed society in the prehistoic era. People would have figured it out and asked the good parents to raise all the kids one generation, and problem solved.

Instead what you see is parents with five successful kids, and one that keeps ending up in prison, and no one can really explain how it went wrong.

nitwit005··on Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
I'd have just sat there for hours trying to trick ChatGPT into giving bomb making advice, and then disrupted the others by sharing.

There have been many variations on this idea of "letting kids learn on their own". The basic issue is the one you highlight, which is that it works if the student is very self motivated. Most students aren't. Or rather, they're highly motivated to do other things.

nitwit005··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
I'm always dubious of news reporting on supposed trends for young people. The press regularly makes them up. There's no evidence provided in this article that this is some sort of popular phrase.

An earlier Yahoo article on this mentions adult use of the phrase on Tiktok, if perhaps with different intent: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/article/the-cryptic-meaning-...

nitwit005··on Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
> The results have been striking. New hires on GTM are Kai-native: they use it 2.7x more, and power users close 80% more value than low users within the same cohort. When Account Executives use Kai, they produce 2x the sales activity, create 17% more opportunities, generate 26% more revenue opportunities, and close 39% more deals when compared to the same sellers in weeks they don't use it. In aggregate, Kai has helped shift 25,000 hours per year from administrative work, to revenue generating work.

These numbers feel suspicious. How can the increase closed deals be so much larger than the increase in opportunities? Why is twice the sales activity only generating 17% more opportunities?

nitwit005··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Then you'd still only have a small number of roles up, not the thousands of positions the article is showing for some companies. They'd be hiring hundreds of thousands a year if they were constantly interviewing for all of them, and I don't believe O'Reilly Auto Parts is recruiting people as quickly as a nation at war.
nitwit005··on What AI-Native Looks Like
> 99.9% uptime (CloudWatch, Feb to Sep, insert your real number)

Did we forget to insert the real number?

nitwit005··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
They have been trying to crack down on the people buying the scrap: https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...
nitwit005··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
It's telling that you're concerned about that case, but not concerned about companies successfully getting legal changes.
nitwit005··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
You're absolutely wrong if you think those people are managing to get an answer first try now. People's searches remain frequently incoherent. There's a reason Google's AI results frequently end with some text asking for clarification, or guessing what you actually want to do.
nitwit005··on What Sun got wrong
But possibly not the majority of people who might actually buy those stocks. Look into statistics on stock ownership by age.
nitwit005··on What Sun got wrong
People will eagerly tell you that some types of investments are guaranteed to show returns over a long enough period, but over a long enough period we'll all be dead.
nitwit005··on If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
This is the same story we got about code quality we got before, but with AI added.
nitwit005··on MCP was always a bad idea?
Sure, but if you have a staff of 10000, you're doing this 10000 times. Unless you share that in a common place, and now you're re-inventing the thing we're claiming not to need.
nitwit005··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
I've seen two resdit threads where people insisted the hands were wrong, and people took photos of their hands in the same pose.

But, then, people did this for digital editing before. Insisted there were "clear signs of photoshop", from people who never opened that app.

nitwit005··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
> Normally this isn't the case for any technology except for the time it first comes around.

Well, sure, there's no one left to fight once everyone already lost their job and moved to another career. But, that's sort of a "might makes right" resolution. The workers don't have the political sway needed to get the government to intervene.

Businesses succeed in getting that sort of market intervention all the time. Most of the modern changes to copyright law are driven by business lobbying.

nitwit005··on Most people prefer traditional architecture
Plenty of people will rate the design of classic cars more highly, and will visit shows that display them. They also won't buy a car that looks like that.
nitwit005··on Most people prefer traditional architecture
The people outside the building aren't paying rent.
nitwit005··on Java 27
Until quite recently, the reasonably feature complete open source libraries available for things like DICOM or HL7 were old C/C++ libraries, Java, and C#. That often created a choice between Java and C#. People not doing Windows based development tend not to be interested in C#.
nitwit005··on Ask HN: What would make you trust an AI's assessment of your understanding?
You're saying "not just completing a test", but this will inevitably be a test, just in conversation form.
nitwit005··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
Watch people draw, and you'll realize that can't be true, or at least is a very incomplete description of what's going on.

People have processes they go through to eventually get to something reasonably correct. Systems for drawing people, perspective rules, etc. These get extremely elaborate. They shouldn't need any of it if they could fully visualize the scene. They'd just need to copy that image to paper.

You'll hear people say things like "trust the process". They are struggling with what they're drawing looking wrong to them, until they're fairly far along and the shapes are fairly complete. Even when they're doing things correctly, their brain isn't recognizing it.

Page 1 of 34Next →