I will always remember when my Dad bought a vertically flat, 27in Trinitron back around 1998. I miss those buttery-smooth pans. Probably my biggest gripe with any modern television is how awful panning or tracking shots look. Similarly, I enjoyed this quest to obtain a (the?) 43in Trinitron: https://youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk?si=9XcP5-4lwzrvpvpF
Readit Newsfumeux_fume commented on 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video] youtube.com/watch?v=jHG_I... · Posted by u/ksec
All of the places around here that had first-gen units with a scale on the packing side (to make sure you actually scanned eg a banana and not a two pound block of cheese, yet were constantly wrong) have replaced them with newer versions that don't have scales or any other way that I can see to validate that what you scanned is what you put into your bag.
I'm not sure where I would find the data to back this up, but since it seems like an across-the-board change I imagine the labor savings have proven to outweigh (heh) the inventory shrinkage.
To me, the Uniqlo system where everything has an RFID tag and the machine just automatically scans the contents of your basket is the platonic ideal but I know that comes with issues of its own in different retail contexts.
The horrible scale system of self-checkouts brought my anxiety to a fever pitch. Any slight adjustment to the bag or moving anything around would literally set off an alarm for "assistance." Still gives me low-key ptsd even though I know they don't use them anymore.
Isn't that happening already? Half the usual CS curriculum is either math (analysis, linear algebra, numerical methods) or math in anything but name (computability theory, complexity theory). There's a lot of very legitimate criticism of academia, but most of the times someone goes "academia is stupid, we should do X" it turns out X is either:
- something we've been doing since forever
- the latest trend that can be picked up just-in-time if you'll ever need it
Parent comment is literally praising an experience they had in higher education, but your only takeaway is that it must be facile ridicule of academia.
fumeux_fume commented on When did AI take over Hacker News? zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
Part of this is driven by people who have realized that they can undermine others' thinking skills by using the right emotional language.
For instance, in a lot of threads on some new technology or idea, one of the top comments is "I'm amazed by the negativity here on HN. This is a cool <thing> and even though it's not perfect we should appreciate the effort the author has put in" - where the other toplevel comments are legitimate technical criticism (usually in a polite manner, no less).
I've seen this same comment, in various flavors, at the top of dozens of HN thread in the past couple of years.
Some of these people are being genuine, but others are literally just engaging in amigdala-hijacking because they want to shut down criticism of something they like, and that contributes to the "everything that isn't gushing positivity is negative" effect that you're seeing.
Sometimes there little to zero negativity or criticism and yet, the top post is "I'm surprised by the negativity..." It's disheartening to see Reddit-level manipulation of the comment section on HN, but I accept that shift is happening to some degree here.
fumeux_fume commented on Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way pudding.cool/2025/08/onio... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
So using some complicated angle gets you 4% less std dev than just doing it the easy way that everone already does it. Ok.
I’m confused by the clustering step:
> To find the most informative examples, we separately cluster examples labeled clickbait and examples labeled benign, which yields some overlapping clusters
How can you get overlapping clusters if the two sets of labelled examples are disjoint?
The information you're seeking appears to be left out of the post. My best guess is that a separate embedding model, specifically tuned for document similarly, is used to generate the vectors and then a clustering algorithm is chosen to create the clusters. They may also use PCA to reduce the embedded vector dimensions before clustering.
fumeux_fume commented on Python performance myths and fairy tales lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Slow or fast ultimately matter in the context for which you need to use it. Perhaps these are only myths and fairly tales for an incredibly small subset of people who value execution speed as the highest priority, but choose to use Python for implementation.
fumeux_fume commented on About the BLOBs in Ventoy github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/... · Posted by u/turrini
I used Ventoy for a long time with various distros and even Windows, but for some reason it didn’t work with Arch (btw). I had to use a separate USB thumbdrive just for it.
Arch worked just fine for me
fumeux_fume commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish
Wholesale use of and/or dependence on Claude Code feels like a Faustian bargain from a personal and even a business point of view.
fumeux_fume commented on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com/news/154... · Posted by u/antirez
Thank you! When I was testing out Copilot I was stuck with whatever default LLM was being used. Didn't realize you could switch it out for a non-MS/OpenAI model.