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komaromy commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
alfalfasprout · 7 months ago
Actually, chess commentators do this all the time. They have the luxury of consulting with others, and discussing + analyzing freely. Even without the use of an engine.
komaromy · 7 months ago
Anyone more than ~300 points below the players can only contribute to the discussion in a superficial capacity though
komaromy commented on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety   reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/vinhnx
ramesh31 · a year ago
Came here to post this. There’s just something so comforting to the soul about that world. There are no politics, crime, religion, homelessness, war, or disease. Just melons. Melons, pumpkins, turnips, corn, rice, and potatoes. Visiting that place is like pure heroin for people with anxiety.
komaromy · a year ago
I hear your point, but there's literally a homeless NPC and an NPC suffering from combat PTSD. Another way of looking at it might be that you're empowered to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those people which feels good.
komaromy commented on Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, study finds   washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Mistletoe · a year ago
For people that want more data, I always go back to this study which I find fascinating. I run once per week and 7 miles at a time.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/s0025-6196(16)...

Something like that seems to have the best outcomes (will it help you not die?) and it fits with how I feel. Running more than once a week always made me get worn down. My best 5k time came from running one long run a week and lifting weights the rest of the week. I was effectively just wasting my time with the other runs in the week. I don't suggest this for a real professional runner, but for weekend warrior types like me, I think it works well. And I have won my age group before in a race, so I'm not a total novice.

komaromy · a year ago
What kind of 5k time did you hit with that training?
komaromy commented on Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/n1b0m
ErikAugust · a year ago
I wonder if their product people get their ideas from Hacker News. Just the other day, a top thread comment was about an idea for a social network where you would receive tons of engagement from bots. Coincidentally (or not), Meta actually took a first step in that direction days later.
komaromy · a year ago
Big tech would never ship anything that fast.
komaromy commented on Vernor Vinge has died   file770.com/vernor-vinge-... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
TimSchumann · 2 years ago
I'm stuck halfway through Deepness in the Sky, I should pick it up again.

Also stuck on book 8 of the Wheel of Time series, I was like 5 chapters in and didn't pick up a single thread I cared about from the previous book.

Agree about the expert omission part.

komaromy · 2 years ago
Deepness was well worth it.

Wheel of Time, on the other hand, I was very glad to give up on right around the same point as you.

komaromy commented on West Point discovers time capsule from 1828   westpoint.edu/news/press-... · Posted by u/geox
komaromy · 3 years ago
There would have been some students at West Point in 1828 whose families owned slaves. Slavery was only abolished in New York State one year prior to this. "Incessantly racist" is probably underselling it.
komaromy commented on Ask HN: Where are all the parties?    · Posted by u/throwaway_party
ilaksh · 3 years ago
"Heartbreaking"? Try having no friends, at all, that have hung out with you regularly, in more than 25 years?
komaromy · 3 years ago
That your situation is of a different magnitude (and it sounds terrible; I'm sorry) does not make the relative change in another person's life any easier.
komaromy commented on Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees   futurism.com/the-byte/fac... · Posted by u/cromat3
randomsearch · 3 years ago
Name one new product that Facebook built from scratch (did not acquire), launched, and made a sustained success of since their original social network.

The company cannot innovate and has bet the farm on their ability to innovate.

I’ve said it before: Facebook should monetise WhatsApp via payments (real payments, not crypto) and other services. That’s something within their capability and very much within their reach. Maybe they’re seeing that as a backup when VR fails, but the longer they leave it the bigger the risk someone else takes that market.

komaromy · 3 years ago
> Name one new product that Facebook built from scratch (did not acquire), launched, and made a sustained success of since their original social network.

Marketplace?

komaromy commented on More Subprime Borrowers Are Missing Loan Payments   wsj.com/articles/more-sub... · Posted by u/lxm
brazzy · 4 years ago
Cryptocurrencies.

In the runup to the 2008 crisis, a commonly heard mantra was "yeah, subprime lending is fucked up, but it's a small fraction of the economy, it can't cause that much damage". Turned out that it could, via the CDO shenanigans.

I would not at all be surprised if someone has already cooked up a similar leveraged dependency from the "real economy" to crypto markets.

komaromy · 4 years ago
I'd be more open to this if we hadn't already seen wild swings in the crypto market (BTC is down ~50% from its 12-month peak) without much in the way of broader implications.

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