martyvis (u/martyvis)

martyvis commented on Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia monkeon.co.uk/wikiradio/... · Posted by u/if-curious

RheingoldRiver · 6 months ago

Why does it play an artificial voice saying "Number 9" over and over in between clips in Revolution 9 mode? it's super annoying especially given the clips are shorter

But this is really cool! I've gotten some animal sounds, weather sounds, music, a small kid talking about a soccer match in Spanish, "evil laugh", political speeches in several languages, and a telephone ringing. only pressed skip a couple times for some really unpleasant noises

martyvis · 6 months ago

It's a reference to the Beatles song Revolution Number 9 which includes a lot of clips like that. It does get old pretty quickly here.

martyvis commented on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic theatlantic.com/games/bra... · Posted by u/brgross

JoshTriplett · 9 months ago

Were the terms confidential? If not, would you be willing to share what kinds of terms a deal like this has?

(If you have any doubt whatsoever about whether the terms are confidential, assume they are, and don't put anything at risk.)

martyvis · 9 months ago

Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times for at least a million. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-...

martyvis commented on Boris Spassky: 1937–2025 en.chessbase.com/post/bor... · Posted by u/throwaway81523

purplejacket · 10 months ago

Here's a FEN of the famous position from the Spassky-Fischer world championship match where Fischer weirdly played Bxh2 on move 29 and Spassky went on to win the game:

5k2/pp4pp/4pp2/1P6/8/P2KP3/5PPb/2B5 w - - 0 30

Full PGN here:

[Event "Spassky - Fischer World Championship Match"] [Site "Reykjavik ISL"] [Date "1972.07.11"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "1"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Boris Spassky"] [Black "Robert James Fischer"] [ECO "E56"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "111"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Ba5 9. Ne2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Bb6 11. dxc5 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 Bxc5 13. b4 Be7 14. Bb2 Bd7 15. Rac1 Rfd8 16. Ned4 Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Ba4 18. Bb3 Bxb3 19. Nxb3 Rxd1+ 20. Rxd1 Rc8 21. Kf1 Kf8 22. Ke2 Ne4 23. Rc1 Rxc1 24. Bxc1 f6 25. Na5 Nd6 26. Kd3 Bd8 27. Nc4 Bc7 28. Nxd6 Bxd6 29. b5 Bxh2 30. g3 h5 31. Ke2 h4 32. Kf3 Ke7 33. Kg2 hxg3 34. fxg3 Bxg3 35. Kxg3 Kd6 36. a4 Kd5 37. Ba3 Ke4 38. Bc5 a6 39. b6 f5 40. Kh4 f4 41. exf4 Kxf4 42. Kh5 Kf5 43. Be3 Ke4 44. Bf2 Kf5 45. Bh4 e5 46. Bg5 e4 47. Be3 Kf6 48. Kg4 Ke5 49. Kg5 Kd5 50. Kf5 a5 51. Bf2 g5 52. Kxg5 Kc4 53. Kf5 Kb4 54. Kxe4 Kxa4 55. Kd5 Kb5 56. Kd6 1-0

martyvis · 10 months ago

See the board here on Lichess https://lichess.org/study/facg4YUQ/jnXlZXWo

martyvis commented on Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

martyvis · a year ago

FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.

martyvis commented on Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/stalfosknight

rasz · a year ago

LLMs are really bad at this. I tried finding long lost comic book using everything available on the market and got either basic bitch replies listing biggest authors and suggesting its in one of their works or plain hallucinations.

martyvis · a year ago

And Elon says they have run out of training data ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/09/elon-musk...

martyvis commented on Show HN: Atlas of Space atlasof.space/... · Posted by u/gordonhart

martyvis · a year ago

It doesn't seem it is showing the tilt for Earth correct. When I zoom in for around now, the North Pole is in full sun rather than mid Winter. (I'm in Australia so I don't know if it is somehow using my local timezone wrongly)

martyvis commented on I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cpeterso

sneak · a year ago

> Most big tech companies very rarely/never let a human review private customer data. Therefore I'm fine handing all the data over to big tech companies.

This isn't true. Google and Apple and others turn over user data to human analysts at NSA and FBI and others without search warrants all of the time, on hundreds of thousands of user accounts per year.

To be fine handing all the data over to big tech companies, you have to be fine handing all of the data over to US federal cops and intelligence services, too, because that's what giving the data (in non-e2ee form) to big tech means.

martyvis · a year ago

Actually I have heard the exact opposite of what you are stating is true. Both Google and Apple fight very hard to avoid handing data to authorities. They don't want to be seen as some sort of easy conduit to government surveillance or shill. How does that benefit their reputation? I know of one case where Google spent millions on lawyers fighting government wanting access to an activist's email. Their FAQ here makes their policy pretty clear. https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/9713961...