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Comment · 3 months ago
Poor study design for such sweeping claims. Correlation is not causation. Plethora of reasons people who were later measured with small brain sizes may have been heavy TV watchers earlier in life.

Perhaps people who already have small brains watch more TV. Or perhaps exercise is important to brain size, and people who can’t exercise watch more TV. Or maybe not watching TV, and doing other things with your time, grows your brain size.

Comment · 3 months ago
Exactly. what financial benefit can Apple get from a nonexistent OAI hardware business with no launched products? What actual harm has been caused so far? This is all about preempting future harm by slowing their product launch by years or, like Waymo/Uber, forcing OAI’s hand to cut losses and sunset their hardware ambitions permanently.
Comment · 3 months ago
Great artists steal ideas, not a painting off a gallery wall.
Comment · 4 months ago
more than 80% of workers in the US have paid sick leave without doctors notes required. varies by state. not sure where you’re getting your information…
Comment · 4 months ago
i wonder if multiple choice is the best method to test this. given the ubiquity of LLMs, perhaps an open ended, free text field would be better. that way you’re forced to define the word as you see fit and the LLM checks?

also, some of these words are actually not good ‘obscure vocabulary’ but trivia crap. overall a bit AI slop and too easy.

Comment · 8 months ago
Is there a rule against posting AI slop? Fake photos and web copy. No actual device or working prototype. No details or photos on internal mechanisms. And anyone who knows anything about drip machines would know an insulated carafe is greatly preferred over an active re-heating element.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
moviegoing has always been evolving. from kinetoscopes to grand movie palaces to suburban multiplexes. nothing has ever stayed the same for long in cinema.

heck, most theaters used to be continuous program viewing, meaning you’d show up not knowing what was playing, halfway through a movie, cartoon, or newsreel. scheduled viewing was pretty rare until the early 60s, only reserved for tentpole movies like Gone With The Wind or Ben-Hur.

in some ways, where we are heading is back to where we were: tentpole cultural moments like Barbie or Avatar thrive, but the bread and butter of entertainment happens informally, but now at home.

Comment · 11 months ago
It’s not hard tech, but certainly the use of intelligence “tests,” rorschach blots, etc. fits in line with many other stories shared on HN. Especially these tests being used to separate children in the year 2025 not 1925.

It’s also a popular article trending on multiple aggregators, I read it elsewhere this morning.

Comment · 11 months ago
US, Canada, Australia all did this stuff in the 19th and 20th centuries. The issue is, it’s 2025 and these tests are not illegal in one of the most developed countries on earth.
Comment · 11 months ago
i wonder if foveated streaming combined with foveated rendering could be used in the cloud gaming space?

if latency is low enough, then you could get a super high fidelity experience on a thin client VR display with low cost rendering server side.

Nvidia GeForce Now is already very impressive for streaming games at full field of view 4k.

thin client VR gives you longer battery life, lighter devices, lower entry cost. and with a cloud gaming service rendering the game, an even lower barrier to entry

Comment · 11 months ago
yeah it made me wonder what all this fuss is about. perhaps im numb to big numbers now. but $6b is a miniscule fraction of NVDA.
Comment · 1 year ago
For me in the US, potluck describes the style of food and culinary expectation of guests. The actual gathering could be fun and wild if it’s a fun and wild family potluck or uncool and lame if it’s an elementary school fundraiser potluck.
Comment · 1 year ago
Both of those were funded by and built off of American technology and investment. TSMC as an outsourcing of American made chips and ASML as a direct result of DoD research.
Comment · 1 year ago
The equivalent of an additional $50 uber ride to the airport once a month can tank your business?

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