Hacker News: BrawnyBadger53

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

BrawnyBadger53 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:05:15 +0000

English second language

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

BrawnyBadger53 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:16:33 +0000

I think they're suggesting that lock in implies apple didn't write the code to help support 3rd parties. Lock out implies they actively wrote code to prevent 3rd parties.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

BrawnyBadger53 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:27:44 +0000

After reading through this thread, do you not think you might be being overly selective? You said you're only really applying to European jobs but hiring people that need working visas is usually a pretty big detractor. No LinkedIn can work, but in the LLM era you need something to prove you're real and you also stated you haven't been asking previous coworkers for referrals. It's very normal here to ask coworkers for referrals so I assume it's a cultural difference? But they usually get you to the interview stage. Your resume is likely not baring you but if you are applying to large enough companies that have thousands of applications on each role, they are using LLMs to filter them down. You should be running your resume against an "Act as a hiring manager" style prompt to see if you're getting filtered that way.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Gemini in Chrome"

BrawnyBadger53 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:37:52 +0000

Except people take photos of their kids all the time and there is precedent of parents losing their Google accounts for this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

BrawnyBadger53 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:47 +0000

Banks and government as your first two examples of useless institutions is definitely interesting

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:43:31 +0000

The article seems to only depict it being similar to the H20 in memory specs (and still a bit short). Regardless, Nvidia has their moat through cuda, not the hardware.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:31:06 +0000

We don't need to meander about definitions here, it's defined in the report. It is also described how they reached their conclusions.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Teen safety, freedom, and privacy"

BrawnyBadger53 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:39:39 +0000

It's interesting to see so many people convinced it's related to their specific media they saw (all unique from each other). I think this is more indicative that the issue is just well known and this is a response to the issue at large rather than a specific instance.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "A new theory of China's rise: rule by engineers"

BrawnyBadger53 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:53:05 +0000

China's rise started well before 2020

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies and your employer"

BrawnyBadger53 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:13:04 +0000

The wage of medical staff is independent to the cost of drugs

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

BrawnyBadger53 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:25:21 +0000

This is fair, I don't actually want no protection for creatives, but the enforcement of a law is a large part of what draws the line of generally good or bad for me.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "AI coding"

BrawnyBadger53 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:21:04 +0000

Avoiding context bloat and scoping the chain of thought

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2"

BrawnyBadger53 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:34:28 +0000

Common sense is politicized garbage. It's a defense that only serves to avoid needing to justify your opinion.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:43:14 +0000

Or to write it less pessimistically, the models are trained to prime their own context window such that by the end of the chain they arrive at more valuable responses. By creating intermediary steps in the chain, the next step is easier to generate rather than moving directly to the desired response. We call it reasoning because it is intuitively analogous to human reasoning methods though it is understood that LLMs don't succeed as generally as humans are able to.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:49:18 +0000

Realized I didn't address your concern, I have still seen many creatives able to profit without strong protections. The gaming industry often has controversy with its drm but even drm free releases are continuously able to make large sales volumes and drm has been shown in that EU study from 2015ish to not actually protect sales.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:46:51 +0000

Personally I strongly detest ip law, but I see it as problematic for its implementation rather than its intent. So much so that I would rather it be abolished than hold its current form. I feel this from the perspective of a creator and a consumer because I so often see works that are unfairly removed or have their profits stolen as a result of the guilty until proven innocent style enforcement. This makes me fearful of publishing works that build upon previous work (which many creative fields naturally do). The most blatant abuse I've seen recently was the Gamer's Nexus documentary being taken down by Bloomberg. However, IP is arguably more problematic in industries like medicine where patents are renewed ad infinitum by evergreening to milk a protected monopoly.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:29:50 +0000

At first I thought I disagreed because they put the glass on the back but on further thought, I agree because they put the glass on the back.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

BrawnyBadger53 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:27:37 +0000

I'm in the exact same position down to the Pixel 7 pro. It feels like my options are either to move to graphene os or move to iOS. But grapheneos seems like it'll cause headaches that I am not that interested in dealing with, however my wish to escape vertical integration which plagues tech ecosystems still tempts me.

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

BrawnyBadger53 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:14:16 +0000

Weird framing, I don't think this is what they were suggesting

New comment by BrawnyBadger53 in "Fed helpless as US economy faces structural challenges, not monetary"

BrawnyBadger53 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:40:36 +0000

The answer is, it depends on the good. It's not a single number, de minimis is gone though.