<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: DroneBetter</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DroneBetter</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:28:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DroneBetter" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this is not necessarily the case; the coursework could have been produced by a different person from the teacher (although generally at my alma mater the 'module organiser' fulfils both roles).</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.is/OXUah" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/OXUah</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:32:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341978</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it would be nice to show an amplified pixelwise difference between the before and after images</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:35:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204752</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think that's true, at least in the 13" model.<p>and the F keys come back on the touch bar if you hold the fn button</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203510</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this is basically the plot of the end of Dark Star (1975)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123093</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> done already in the 1990s
by human-written programs that iterated through the finite casework that human thought had reduced the theorems to (four-colour theorem, FLT, etc.), which recent developments (eg. LLMs autonomously resolving Erdős problems) seem meaningfully distinct from.
> human effort to make the results cleanly understandable
well, perhaps loops of "derive proof through reasoning in English, formalise in Lean, use AST size of formal proof as a metric to optimise (via an LLM-guided search), translate back into English" could improve this? a lot of resources are being spent to make frontier LLMs more resistant to hallucinations via Lean, perhaps cogency will increase as a byproduct.</p>
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<p>from the "DeepSeek is a ploy to undermine usamerican models' duopoly" theory's perspective, "now everyone has this" helps them achieve this goal more efficiently.<p>especially if it's something that the major companies had already stumbled upon (something equivalent to) and regarded as a trade secret.</p>
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<p>yes, that is pretty much what he disclosed in the article<p>> He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for advice and decided to create a “hot girl” crafted specifically for the “MAGA/conservative niche,” after the software told him that “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” according to Wired.</p>
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<p>age doesn't inherently make math less useful, and the parts it does affect it does non-uniformly.<p>i have undergone an undergrad differential equations module that taught exclusively ad-hoc methods for certain families of equation that no working mathematician needs to know since they were all subsumed into and superseded by computer algebra systems, but the subject i would enjoy replacing it with (generating functions) is similarly old in origin (perhaps even earlier, since Euler used most of the techniques that an undergrad class would cover before diffeqs were considered an object of study) but has happened to become more useful with the advent of CASes instead of less.</p>
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<p>so one could say that the genre of "harem-lit" is itself an apt analogy for the business model of the site to which it is bidden... yes indeed...</p>
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<p>v3 was just the one stipulated by your grandparent comment's question that your parent answered.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817686</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>well inflation is equivalent to a flat wealth tax that doesn't consider insoluble assets, and is entirely in the hands of the government that imposes the UBI.<p>"cause increased prices for consumer/essential goods" is what you meant (since buying power is moved to people who are reliant on buying them), but this is a one-time transition to a new equilibrium (so is mitigable by increasing the UBI to account for it), not a constant ever-looming devaluator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:13:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741424</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:45:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688292</link><dc:creator>DroneBetter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DroneBetter in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the point is that each question is something that a specialist in a field <i>would</i> be able to do, but deems challenging enough that the ability to solve it would imply significant general usefulness in that domain</p>
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<p>i've seen a a where three barbershops were a stone's throw away from each other, with a few houses between them on a street in an (only moderately dense) residential area with no carparks anywhere nearby, and wondered how that could possibly have arisen (since they'd detract each other's customers, and laundering operations wouldn't make it so blatantly obvious).<p>and the same occurs with phone(-repair)-and-vape shops in shopping areas (which I guess are somewhat more understandable, since they only require one employee present each and do get footfall, and the cost to rent a shop has imploded since the coronavirus hit the final nail in the town centre's coffin)</p>
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<p>no way, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_rings" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_rings</a> on a macroscopic scale</p>
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<p>ideally, slowly grinding down duplicates into canonicals, keeping the ones whose answers are subject to change (with developments in languages and tools) up-to-date, removing cruft and making it more like a library (à la Rosetta Code) that's easy to find things in<p>and a change of form from (questions being asked primarily as a means to an end for one person) to (Q&A pairs being written as reference materials)<p>and requests for comment on which approach would be the most idiomatic or whether one has fallen into an XY trap or other things that rely on human 'taste' rather than LLMs' blithe march of obedience</p>
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<p>or perhaps it's an artefact of them having a higher contrast against the asphalt and being somewhat fat and puffy compared to most roadkill animals</p>
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<p>hey the AR/VR entry is wrong, right? Apple demonstrates it in the keynote webpages by having a 3D model relating to the keynotes' themes that can be placed and rotated in space, I doubt it would be for their own pages only.<p>unless it means having the webpage itself render in VR and not just an isolated model</p>
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<p>"home" can be substituted for "place where car resides when owner is at home" without meaningfully changing the point</p>
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