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prsutherland | 29 days ago | on: Layoffs at Block

Seems like if AI is such an accelerator, leveraging 4,000 more people using AI will generate that much more shareholder value.

Any layoff that blames AI and doesn't address the fact that the company is saying it would prefer to make less, they are lying.

Rational actors should be pushing to grow when others are fearful. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

prsutherland | 2 years ago | on: Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

I'm guessing it is because docker runs a linux VM when it is running on macos.

prsutherland | 2 years ago | on: Render a neural network into CUDA/HIP code

I'm curious why that is called "rendering" rather than "compiling". Is the code boiler plate and just a change in the NN's representation?

prsutherland | 3 years ago | on: BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea

Not clear if you need a car first, or if they will mail you a seat like the old netflix dvd model.

prsutherland | 4 years ago | on: Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion

What does a 1% increase in congestion mean for people in traffic?

How much value did that increase in congestion (and environmental impact) provide ride-sharing customers?

prsutherland | 5 years ago | on: Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research

I understand the judgement calls one has to make as a moderator and I see how they are discussing the same topic.

The url for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670 does not indicate that the University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the linux kernel. I judged that as a separate and unique part of the event.

Apologies if that isn't in alignment with how HN conversations are moderated.

prsutherland | 5 years ago | on: LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract

A Wankel has seals attached to the rotor that rub against the wall of the chamber. This engine only has three points on the chamber wall that touch the rotor, so the seals can be installed on the chamber wall and it is significant easier to cool and lubricate a fixed seal rather than a rotating seal.

prsutherland | 6 years ago | on: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

He still will work with Apple although Apple will need a special adapter.

prsutherland | 10 years ago | on: Cool URIs don't change (1998)

I'd still consider a 410 as a broken link. The article states

> Pretty much the only good reason for a document to disappear from the Web is that the company which owned the domain name went out of business or can no longer afford to keep the server running.

prsutherland | 10 years ago | on: Cool URIs don't change (1998)

Pre-DMCA. If this gets an update, TBL should add legal reasons and law enforcement as a reason for URI change.

prsutherland | 11 years ago | on: Tesla Plans to Open Car Doors to All Hackers This Summer

If you put the car's public key on the fob, the fob can validate that it is talking directly to the car over a secure connection and then the car can validate the fob's secret.

prsutherland | 12 years ago | on: The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies

Would drones be considered a loop hole here?

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: Send money with Gmail

http://support.google.com/wallet/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... (linked to from the main article)

> Google properties such as Google Play, Google Drive, YouTube etc. are not covered under the Google Wallet Purchase Protection. Please reach out to those products directly through their help centers.

Is gmail lumped under the "etc." above?

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: HubSpot CEO: We would've struggled on the West Coast

No tech companies in the suburbs of boston? There is Autodesk, RedHat, EMC and many others.

Edit: For a more complete list, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128#The_hig...

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: Kinect can now be used to diagnose depression with 90% accuracy?

p values are a measure of the accuracy of the numbers. They are measuring how close the sample mean is to the population mean. In the case of the paper, the p values represent how close the sample mean of the head gaze, eye gaze, smile intensity and smile duration measurements are to the population means of the same values.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: Kinect can now be used to diagnose depression with 90% accuracy?

90% isn't all that great of a result considering only about 6.7% of the US population suffers from depression each year[1] and the study was done in California. Just returning false would give you better accuracy.

Still Eliza on steroids is pretty cool. Can't wait till they integrate it into emacs.

[1] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1MDD_ADULT.shtml

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: Gamers deemed too fast for real-life race

I realize it is for better sensitivity and control, but the lack of shoes in the picture is amusing.

On a more serious note, maybe taking that talent and having them move up through the ranks on lower series to get the experience to go pro is a viable option. If the talent is as good as they say, then they'll do well on smaller carts and get the experience to race professionally quicker. Nissan should just make it the "senior-class" part of their program.

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: OK Cupid launches Crazy Blind Date

Launches? I used it in Boston ~4-5 years ago.

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: Sub-reddit misspells name of site's deceased co-founder

It has been corrected in the content of the post and reddit doesn't let you edit the title of a post.

prsutherland | 13 years ago | on: We're Better At Design, And That's Not Good

It used to be the opposite. You could tell which was the "better" product by choosing the one with the worst appearance. The train of thought went something like, assuming the companies paid the similar amount to develop the products and the design and engineering cost a significant amount of money, then the company that didn't put the money in design put it in engineering. So uglier products were better engineered, prettier products were crap. Lenovo/IBM laptops are one of my favorite surviving examples of this phenomenon.