Hacker News: EamonnMR

New comment by EamonnMR in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

EamonnMR — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:13:21 +0000

> We have copyright and intellecual property law already, of course, but those were designed presuming a human might try to profit from the intellectual labor of others. With AI, we're in the industrial era of the digital world. Now a single corporation can train an AI using someone's copyrighted work and in return profit off the knowledge over and over again at industrial scale.

The idea that copyright simply doesn't apply to AI has more to do with AI companies deciding that they're not going to comply with those laws than the design of the laws. Also a very successful lobby against enforcement by positioning AI as a strategic necessity.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

EamonnMR — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:46:53 +0000

Gotta be a sunk cost thing right?

Sound of Meteorite Striking Earth Captured for First Time by Ring Camera

EamonnMR — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:23:25 +0000

Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2025/01/15/sound-of-a-meteorite-striking-the-ground-has-been-captured-for-the-first-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721622

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by EamonnMR in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

EamonnMR — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:33:13 +0000

If they wanted to do that they'd probably not try to draw this much attention.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

EamonnMR — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:30:48 +0000

Suppose we each backed up sites we cared about rather than trying to mirror the whole thing...

New comment by EamonnMR in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

EamonnMR — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:28:00 +0000

I keep wanting to do this for old sites, make like a personal mini IA. Besides just using wget or curl, any tips for pulling down useable complete websites from IA?

New comment by EamonnMR in "OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity"

EamonnMR — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:02:05 +0000

His bunker kinda tells me all I need to know.

Finding Deceit in the Chambers of Xenobia (2022)

EamonnMR — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://cgwmuseum.org/columns/index.php?id=5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813387

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by EamonnMR in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

EamonnMR — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:39:05 +0000

For testing shaders you can use the editor, at least.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Meta Llama 3"

EamonnMR — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:50:23 +0000

Would you then say that in general Open Source doesn't matter for almost everyone? Most people running Linux aren't serving 700 million customers or operating military killbots with it after all.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Vice website is shutting down"

EamonnMR — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:47:44 +0000

I'm very interested in something like archive box but:

* Can also download Internet Archive snapshots

* Suitable for (read only) exposure to the open Internet, or saves sites as static content that you could host easily by slapping it into an Nginx or Apache directory.

Is it the tool for the job?

New comment by EamonnMR in "YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again"

EamonnMR — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:02:53 +0000

Somehow both things are true, and I don't know how we disentangle them.

YouTube the site where people can dump videos is incredibly useful because there are visual tutorials for everything.

YouTube the site where people form parasocial relationships with flat-earth-fluencers and break their brains is the worst invention since leaded gasoline.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)"

EamonnMR — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:30:35 +0000

It's a shibboleth for the Rationalist community, that's why.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

EamonnMR — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:46:57 +0000

For them, content is free.

New comment by EamonnMR in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

EamonnMR — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:42:05 +0000

That's a pretty fair characterization of the Roko's Basilisk crowd though, isn't it?

New comment by EamonnMR in "A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay"

EamonnMR — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:43:44 +0000

The idea that they've engineered a bacterium that will successfully outcompete naturally selection indefinitely seems overly optimistic. They blocked the most obvious failure mode with the horizontal gene transfer pathway, sure, but considering how quickly antibiotics become ineffective I'm just not sold that their modified bacteria will be as untouchable as they seem to think. Certainly not 20 grand effective.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds"

EamonnMR — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:33:43 +0000

This is really cool, and perfect for an aughts-throwback music project I've been chewing on. Thanks!

New comment by EamonnMR in "Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat"

EamonnMR — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:25:52 +0000

Actually, he based the gameplay on reading the Elite manual but never actually having played Elite.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat"

EamonnMR — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:12:29 +0000

Wow, another Broken Mirror fan in the wild! Yes, that was the best Trek game there eas until Infinite came out this year. The author really got what made Trek tick and the gameplay was a perfectly serviceable EV like. One of the most technically ambitious flash games I ever played.

New comment by EamonnMR in "Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat"

EamonnMR — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:10:28 +0000

I'm still a bit salty that they didn't leverage any of the perfectly good EV clones or general purpose game engines out there and have spent the time since the Kickstarter building an engine from scratch.