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erickj commented on Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee    · Posted by u/apohak
erickj · 3 months ago
The legality of who owns that work will depend on your work contract and your local employment law.

You very well might create something, turn around to sell it to them, and find out that your employer legally owns the copyright to the work even if you did it on your own time with your own resources.

Employment law is nuanced.

Tldr; bring your work contract and your idea to a meeting with an employment attorney and ask them who would own this work.

erickj commented on National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers   apnews.com/article/weathe... · Posted by u/geox
raverbashing · 4 months ago
In Switzerland you'll have your grammar corrected by beggars on the street even if you're talking in a regional dialect
erickj · 4 months ago
That's ok, just go 1 train stop. The grammar will change
erickj commented on National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers   apnews.com/article/weathe... · Posted by u/geox
Incipient · 4 months ago
Taking an extreme example, if I go to France, I don't expect government announcements to be provided in English for me. I'm in France, their official language is French, I need to figure out the French myself.

I don't think anyone would debate that point (feel free to swap France for any other country).

While for some reason it does feel more borderline in the case of Spanish in the US, I'm not sure why?

erickj · 4 months ago
s/France/Switzerland/
erickj commented on Show HN: Stop sending files to sketchy servers and convert any file offline   howtoconvert.co?v=2... · Posted by u/jakemanger
erickj · 7 months ago
> ChatGPT

Please give me the Image Magick command to convert a PNG to ICO

>

``` convert input.png -define icon:auto-resize=256,128,64,48,32,16 output.ico ```

...

erickj commented on Colossal Biosciences raises $200M at $10.2B valu. to bring back woolly mammoths   techcrunch.com/2025/01/15... · Posted by u/this_weekend
erickj · 7 months ago
Resurrecting woolly mammoths just in time for their natural habits to become decimated by climate change feels like a cosmic satire on the duality of human technological progress
erickj commented on Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying   nytimes.com/2024/10/17/te... · Posted by u/jhunter1016
mhh__ · 10 months ago
It's possible that it's only one strong personality and some money away but my guess is that OpenAI-rosoft have the best stack for doing inference "seriously" at big, big, scale e.g. moving away from hacky research python code and so on.
erickj · 10 months ago
Its pretty hard to ignore Google in any discussion on big scale
erickj commented on Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting   github.com/splitbrain/cli... · Posted by u/splitbrain
Too · 10 months ago
It’s a good way to drain your battery on mobile devices, even if usage looks low.

Not that this matters for this particular tool.

erickj · 10 months ago
> Not that this matters for this particular tool.

Then the code is perfectly appropriate.

erickj commented on Sears Homes 1915-1920   searsarchives.com/homes/1... · Posted by u/samclemens
Aeolun · 10 months ago
How?! That’s not anywhere near what you pay for a house now. Can the real price (cost to build) really have multiplied by a factor of 10?
erickj · 10 months ago
These houses still had to be built, hooked up to plumbing, wired for electricity, have a lot cleared and excavated, concrete poored... Also you still need to decorate and provide appliances.

Add all that in and you'll see theres a few 100k worth of additional work not in the kit

So that $52k price is really just for building materials and plans, but doesn't include land, permits, building costs.

erickj commented on ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her   awfulannouncing.com/espn/... · Posted by u/starkparker
segasaturn · a year ago
How are these AI recaps generated? Are they fed a video file of the entire game and it spits out a summary, or maybe a score tally with timestamps for goals (written by a human) which the AI then pads with language and makes into a story?
erickj · a year ago
If I was going to build this prototype I'd start with just a semistructured textual play by play recap as the input. Also including roster, injury, amd schedule information with a fairly basic prompt would probably go a long way.

This data exists for most live games at this point via various web services. I'm sure espn has significant resources internally to source that info

erickj commented on Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen   ethz.ch/en/news-and-event... · Posted by u/bornelsewhere
johndough · a year ago
I'd like to point out row 3 of the excellent Fig. 6 where the authors evaluate the risk of fine iron powder being exposed to air, which heats up to about 600°C due to oxidation. https://pubs.rsc.org/image/article/2024/se/d3se01228j/d3se01...
erickj · a year ago
I believe most Swiss scientific investigations are legally required to involve Cervelat

u/erickj

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