PumpkinSpice
No user record in our sample, but PumpkinSpice has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but PumpkinSpice has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
Sort of, but isn't the focus on prompts a bit myopic? The huge difference between earlier GPTs and ChatGPT was RLHF, which not only makes it better at following prompts, but also enforces a lot of hidden dogma. It…
This is actually a very lucid way to frame this. People love to complain that "Google is useless now," but it's pretty clearly not the case if you look at how most people use search. What they usually mean is "nobody…
Huh? Car maintenance is a rational, physical necessity. I don't need to compliment my car for it to start on a cold day. I'd like it to stay this way. Having to be unconditionally nice to computers is extremely creepy…
This is such a weird topic in the ham community. The reason this restriction exists has nothing to do with the retro-justifications used by the community. For a long time, the US government genuinely feared that ham…
It's literally the playbook of every single business. Database vendors and graphics card manufacturers tout studies that show their product performs better. Pharmaceutical companies pay researchers who conduct studies…
Yes, it probably applies to the most qualified hires, so probably folks who are already around $1M total comp where they are. But the most important point is, you don't get that money now, and maybe never. The most…
The work culture isn't putting kids in front of computer screens and discouraging outdoor activities. It's not even something you can control as a parent. My kid, 16 years old, walks to school on his own - but he's…
You're not describing a position taken by sane libertarians, though. Their argument is different: that if the government didn't regulate so much, customers would depend on the merchant's reputation, possibly backed by…
I'd go a bit further with this claim. Most of what's being done in this space is about inventing new retro aesthetics, not about faithfully approximating how things worked in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, color TVs…
I see the problem a bit differently. Perhaps a society could function in a model like that. But we decided it's too burdensome and we ceded this responsibility to the government. In such a world, it is paradoxically…
Well, HN isn't a forum with a well-defined "expert" scope. It's a link aggregator for nerdy news. If you get bored with Rust, you talk about ChatGPT. Or CPU design. Or biotech. Almost anything goes. I think this makes…
In practice, it's a tiny market. CRTs are bulky, unsightly... and for the most part, really not as amazing as claimed. Plus, they are difficult to ship. Most of them end up in the landfill. Meanwhile, antique phones,…
That's gonna be tough with phonetics across several thousand languages... not to mention regional slang and other subculture stuff. I think the surest bet is just to avoid short names. If it's four or five letters, the…
None of this is a problem in any objective sense. It's just that if your goal is to use one name across two languages, it's not exactly what you get in this scenario. Stuff like that doesn't bother me at all, but I…
This is actually a pretty interesting problem and the website doesn't do it full justice. Do you want the same spelling? That's easy, but the pronunciation is quite often completely different. A good example is Jules in…
Right. It's not even that they need to create a market. These things are already selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars. I guess it's a fairly common decor element for offices and homes. The same goes for old…
The desire to disrupt almost always arises out of ignorance. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that if you know the complex reasoning and all the institutional baggage that explains why hotels, banks, or…
Few people write blog posts to say "I worked at Foo Corp and it was okay." There's a strong bias toward horror stories. There's also a HN selection bias: a story about FAANG is a lot more likely to be upvoted than a…
Most large tech companies essentially give a pass to new hires on their first eval cycle. Depending on your start date, you might be either outright ineligible for a rating, or the rating defaults to "meeting…
I think this is a weird take. He found his groove, had a strong popular following, and enriched the lives of two generations of gamers. This is more of a positive legacy than most of us can hope for cranking out…
Folks here are probably reading too much into the "boot sector" angle. This project, like many others on HN, is best understood as "doing something in a constrained way because it's a fun challenge." As to why 512…
They were also on the forefront of the "blockchain revolution" several years back. There's worthwhile research coming out of IBM once in a blue moon, but by and large, they seem to be chasing PR trends.
A single retail account is of no consequence to a national bank that has tens of millions of customers. It doesn't matter if you're spending $10 or $50,000 a month. They care about you as an individual about as much as…
How does this interact with the R&D tax credit? Historically, companies actively sought to classify a portion of software engineering expenses as research, because you received pretty generous tax rebates for that in…
> 1. I’ll only be a millionaire because of inflation over my lifetime. First, statistically speaking, you might only have a couple of years between statutory retirement age and some sort of an "old-age" illness that…