Hacker News: DaveZale

New comment by DaveZale in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

DaveZale — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:06:26 +0000

I certainly cannot survive much more of the AI memes generated about our so-called Commander in Chief with a fake bodybuilder mystique... you are absolutely correct, this kind of material is psychologically damaging. And a huge distraction from the genocide by the "best friend and ally" of the US. Heart wrenching and extremely damaging hasbara - just please stop, haven't you stolen and killed enough guys? This is _not_ the old American West when communications were few and it was most often a tale of solitary survival. It's organized Nazi-esque kill, command and control, enable by so-called AI to take some guilt off the shoulders of those pushing buttons and pulling triggers.

New comment by DaveZale in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

DaveZale — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:08:35 +0000

and make it free so we're not paying to be beta testers ;-)

New comment by DaveZale in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

DaveZale — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:39:59 +0000

My weight dropped 10%, and my blood lipids and "bad" cholesterol dropped to levels I hadn't seen in 35 years, after 2 years with creatine. Do not overthink this. Just try it, especially if you are 40+

New comment by DaveZale in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

DaveZale — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:03:26 +0000

Read you loud and clear. I enjoyed the crazy adventure that was the early internet. Really truly enjoyed it for over a decade, almost two. It's now gone, FUBAR and loaded with trackers. I usually can't even access an online newspaper anymore without logging in and being tracked. That's where I draw the line. It is nobody's business what I am reading. Got a stack of books to read now, instead. Not to say that legit sites without trackers don't exist anymore, but finding one of those randomly, for example as a result of search, is getting harder every day. Of course, the risk is real is that as the quality of journalism has diminished, thanks to trackers and putting the most popular dating advice and recipes on online newspapers' front pages in lieu of the reports of what's really happening in the world, we'll all soon be living in bubbles of filtered, sanatized information. So, it's not just privacy threats anymore.

New comment by DaveZale in "Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots"

DaveZale — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:51:03 +0000

Oh this is too funny. Yes, silicon idiot, human brains are the result of a million years of evolution. Nobody said they were perfect. For example they make terrible mistakes. Like designing LLMs that "hallucinate" articles like this

New comment by DaveZale in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

DaveZale — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:22:14 +0000

no, verrrrry expensive

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-ext...

these "free" products are hugely, mind-bogglingly, yet invisibly expensive

New comment by DaveZale in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

DaveZale — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:05:12 +0000

"the only thoughts of value are those reached through walking" - Nietszche

(reading that in German might have more nuances)

New comment by DaveZale in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

DaveZale — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:49:07 +0000

I've been buying a "new" used iphone for $100-150 now, every few years, for over a decade. My "new" used Dell laptop I bought a few months ago for $40 which became a linux system in just an hour. All good here.

New comment by DaveZale in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"

DaveZale — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:09:31 +0000

https://archive.org/details/pinkfloyd-live-at-pompeii-origin...

for those not crazy about yt, no ads

New comment by DaveZale in "Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell"

DaveZale — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:53:59 +0000

they swapped out the "t" for an "e"

New comment by DaveZale in "The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe"

DaveZale — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:04:50 +0000

Nice essay, good analysis of the Machavellian types that thrive around unlimited money, power and bullshit. Would a scene from another Russian novel about playing Russian roulette while partying would fit here? Sure you capture the spirit of that but nearly everyone has severe dopamine addiction while online these days. It has to be outrageous and over-the-top to get clicks and resharing!

The internet has become a circus and AI keeps us all on the freak show and hall of distorted mirror images.

Make it into a script/screenplay, perhaps?

New comment by DaveZale in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

DaveZale — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:33:21 +0000

that garden site is something I'll return to. I have a "baby" site at xeriscape.neocities.org and this kind of feature would be muy excellente to include

thanks

New comment by DaveZale in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

DaveZale — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:38:50 +0000

Here's another rough one of mine... about 59% complete on my quest to document 100 DAYS OF PICKING UP LITTER

https://100daysoflitter.blogspot.com/

New comment by DaveZale in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

DaveZale — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:34:00 +0000

https://xeriscape.neocities.org/

it's still rough. Working on content only, style will follow later.... anyone wanna help?

New comment by DaveZale in "How popular is Elon Musk?"

DaveZale — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:45:19 +0000

who cares?

Just don't buy a Tesla without researching the alternatives. That would be like buying a car because the salesperson is cute.

New comment by DaveZale in "Poor Charlie's Almanack"

DaveZale — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:16:15 +0000

So stunning to see his "100 models of the world" and hints about superintelligence being interdisciplinary. Almost like he was anticipating powerful AIs.

I could not read some of his talks, but most of the text was very clearly thought out, and time-tested over decades of stunning success. He lived his advice of staying within the boundaries of what he understood well.

New comment by DaveZale in "Mysterious quantum computing restrictions spread across multiple nations (2024)"

DaveZale — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:15:40 +0000

there seems to be a there, there.

So if quantum computing is expected to be that powerful, what will happen to the trillions pouring into old-tech data centers?

Anyone else get the feeling that something doesn't add up here? Just what nonpublic evidence is behind these decisions to ban the new tech?

New comment by DaveZale in "Poor Charlie's Almanack"

DaveZale — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:39:31 +0000

excellent idea to read this at year ending/ year beginning ... the local library had a copy in ebook format.

So Charlie almost went blind in the 1950s, then went on to live many decades more, with amazing success. Ben Franklin and then some.

New comment by DaveZale in "NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models"

DaveZale — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:31:58 +0000

how about working with Weather Underground to validate predicted weather at ground level? Here in Southern CO would be a perfect place to try this. Weather Underground has thousands of volunteer backyard weather stations, including mine.

I understand that aviation safety is certainly a primary concern for NWS/NOAA but ground level forecasts are also very important for public safety.

New comment by DaveZale in "AI romance blooms as Japanese woman weds virtual partner of her dreams"

DaveZale — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:15:16 +0000

the silicone embodiments can't be too far off. Will they come with a complimentary solar panel to replenish their juice?