Nebasuke (u/Nebasuke)

Nebasuke commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove

alternatex · a month ago

The other inventions would have quite the adoption rate if they were similarly subsidized as current AI offerings. It's hard to compare a business attempting to be financially stable and a business attempting hyper-growth through freebies.

Nebasuke · a month ago

They really wouldn't. Even people who BOUGHT VR, are barely using it. Giving everyone free VR headsets won't make people suddenly spend a lot of time in VR-land without there actually being applications that are useful to most people.

ChatGPT is so useful, people without any technology background WANT to use it. People who are just about comfortable with the internet, see the applications and use it to ask questions (about recipes, home design, solving small house problems, etc).

Nebasuke commented on Accountability Sinks 250bpm.substack.com/p/acc... · Posted by u/msustrik

rocqua · 4 months ago

You hit uppon an important difference between the US and most of Europe/the UK. An system for tracking who your citizens are. In the Netherlands, where I live, the municipalities cooperate to keep track of all citizens, and their address (or lack thereof). This means that you never need to convince any beaurocrat that your identity exists. You might need to authenticate that you are indeed who you claim to be, but that is normally trivial (Show government photo id).

This simplifies the process massively.

Nebasuke · 4 months ago

The UK should not be included in here. There is no official national system for keeping track of citizens and municipalities barely cooperate. This means you have to keep proving your address for things like an opening a bank account.

This is due to a historical political issue and repeal of a national identification system, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006.

Nebasuke commented on The average college student today hilariusbookbinder.substa... · Posted by u/Jyaif

joshdavham · 5 months ago

> What has changed exactly? Chronic absenteeism. As a friend in Sociology put it, “Attendance is a HUGE problem—many just treat class as optional.” Last semester across all sections, my average student missed two weeks of class.

My brother and I graduated from university a little over 4 years ago and we were both top students (he studied music and I studied applied math). There were classes where he and I (without exaggeration) skipped more than 90% of the lectures.

I understand that some professors view this as disrepsectful, but when your lectures consist of simply reading off the lecture notes that you're going to upload online anyway, lectures become a waste of time that could be better spent with more studying on our own.

Nebasuke · 5 months ago

I think this is a good point. I found the following sentences of the article shocking:

> I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes.

It makes you wonder whether the lecturer actually values the time of the students. Having to take notes because they are not provided, rather than getting value from a lecture due to interactive participation sounds like a waste of time. This sounds exactly like the type of lecture I would have skipped.

Nebasuke commented on Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children? · Posted by u/justneedaname

nytesky · 7 months ago

Partly it’s having a constant discussion about society, the world, and news in general. We talk about how advertisers are trying to manipulate you, social media can be addicting and is also trying to manipulate you, etc. Not an angry way, a discussion, like how magnets work or how rain forms. Just the facts ma’am.

As for permissions, my oldest avoided all social media except iMessage (because for her age that is essentially the phone line), and only got Insta at 16 — but I had the password not her, so she could give out her @handle to people to connect, but she would only go only into the fray once a week with us around (vs the zombie doom scroll scenario for instance). We will probably allow Snapchat soon since it’s becoming the new “basic” connection — I’ve not used it, so does it have a feed and likes?

My younger kids all have iPads and the 13 year old had an iPhone — they use them for music and audio books so end up in their rooms even at night. I don’t love that, but I have on tight screentime so I hope that is helping a bit.

I wish there was a good device for ONLY music and audio books, like a souped up iPod. I locked down enough I think her iPad is limited to that, but it’s not obvious. We tried Alexa devices but navigating audio books is impossible and even song selection was tedious. Kindles could almost do it but we are Apple Music family and don’t think there’s and app, and the audio book library app is finicky, and I find kindles pretty kludgy in general.

Nebasuke · 7 months ago

There are good devices for only music / audiobooks, but they're often aimed at younger kids. For example Yoto players (https://yotoplay.com/) or Toniebox (haven't used this one). Basically screenless, except for the number of the playlist.

You can use an app/website to create and upload playlist and couple them to your custom cards (so you don't have to spend money on buying loads of cards).

Nebasuke commented on I lost my Google Play dev account old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/... · Posted by u/BeefySwain

spraveenitpro · a year ago

Just open another one. not a big deal.

Nebasuke · a year ago

Not really. Google tries to recognise it when you re-upload the same game using a different dev account, and will actually ban you for this.

Nebasuke commented on Open Source Farming Robot farm.bot/... · Posted by u/pedrodelfino

ein0p · a year ago

I had the same thoughts when watching this. Cucumbers either require twine, in which case they grow quite tall), or each plant will take up half that raised bed. Tomatoes are not planted directly from a seed, you first need to grow seedlings, a very laborious process that’s hard to automate. Tomatoes can also get quite tall, with some plants exceeding 5 feet. You don’t need such elaborate setups for irrigation either - this is trivially solved with drip irrigation stuff available at any Home Depot. And so on and so forth. I grew up on a farm and will probably retire on a farm. The most labor intensive part was weeding and pest control. If you want to do something real, automate that, without making any unwarranted assumptions on how the various crops are planted.

Nebasuke · a year ago

I get maybe 50 or so tomato plants in about 1 square meter in my garden, just from the seeds that are left in the ground from last year's tomatoes. (Of course I don't let all 50 grow and instead give most away.)

Nebasuke commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Nebasuke · a year ago

Location: United Kingdom (near London/Cambridge)

Remote: Yes (or hybrid)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Haskell, Scala, Java, Go, compilers, ad technology, theorem proving, functional programming, finance, automated trading.

Skills: Software Engineering management, team building, project management, hiring management, product strategy.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basvangijzel/

Email: nene.kotan+jobs@gmail.com

Open to hearing about Software Engineering Management roles, Director level roles, or Team Lead positions with a considerable management/mentoring component.

I have multiple years of experience managing and mentoring teams, and a strong technical background in functional programming (Haskell, Scala). I enjoy directly working with product, and have a strong user focus. I also have 3 years of full-stack software engineering using Dart and Java. Happy to pick up any technology needed.

Nebasuke commented on Things are about to get worse for generative AI garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/eddyzh

injidup · 2 years ago

The EU cannot agree that the Do Not Track flag on web browsers is legally binding but big content should be able to create legally binding flags on their websites to avoid scraping of data? Seems odd!

Nebasuke · 2 years ago

I don't think that's a fair analogy. One forces 99% of websites to make a change, while the other is something that would need to be done by the big companies doing the scraping.

A Do Not Track flag being legally binding would force small websites, e.g. a local restaurant website, to implement something they likely are not aware of and secondly do not technically understand.

A company that is mass scraping data for their AI model is much more likely to understand and respect that scraping the data has legal implications, and would be technically capable in implementing a scraping solutions that accounts for a robots.txt.

Nebasuke commented on Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children? · Posted by u/eimrine

tflinton · 2 years ago

My kids share an iPad and you can enable screen time and parental controls to do everything you’ve mentioned. Also for YouTube just install YouTube Kids it has no ads and prescreened content for kids 8 and less. Parents can also block channels on it.

Nebasuke · 2 years ago

FYI: YouTube Kids does have ads, although a lot less so than YouTube. It also mainly shows an ad at the start, and often only after one episode (for me at least).

Nebasuke commented on Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles... · Posted by u/ClumsyPilot

evancox100 · 2 years ago

What government is arguing that employee wages should be lower/stagnant in order to fight inflation?

EDIT: I mean advocating not just that we should avoid a wage/price spiral through other means, but specifically that individual workers should accept/volunteer for lower wages than they could otherwise get?

Edit 2: seeing several cases of "$Reserve_Bank_Person says wage increases are too high and need to come down", not a lot of "Please turn down your pay increase so we can fight inflation." The reason no one would actually say the second is it is a ridiculous collective action problem that is obviously unsolvable on the employee side. The Australia governor warned against a 5.75% pay raise for govt employees (I think), but he was addressing the employer in that case, not individual workers.

Nebasuke · 2 years ago

The UK government has done this various times in the last couple of years to argue against (high) pay rises for the National Health Service and other government institutions.

One of the more recent articles: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-annual-wage-growth-72-ex... Or here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/would-a-wag...