Hacker News: Ericson2314

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:11:57 +0000

Deterministic seed

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:06:35 +0000

Yeah maybe *both" sass and training companies are wiped, imagine that!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

Ericson2314 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:32:47 +0000

Good job, but the parent fork already did macOS, so this wasn't too hard.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:59:18 +0000

Well put. That's exactly right. (And I don't even mind mouse studies!)

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:58:50 +0000

This neural network stuff does give me real divination vibes, not gonna lie.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"

Ericson2314 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:21:25 +0000

There probably is no substitute for the state paying for it. We just need to balloon NPR/PBS into BBC scale (relative to the size of the US, so even bigger) and hope for the best.

Yeah yeah, there are plenty of ways this could go wrong, but those pitfalls are not guaranteed, whereas the ways private sector journalism can go wrong have occurred in practice. So we might as well try it.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:41:49 +0000

Oxford Brain

New comment by Ericson2314 in "WASI 0.3"

Ericson2314 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:01:45 +0000

That's like saying "the US Constitution has clearly shown it's a model that is built to last"

Sometimes bad designs stick around due to pure inertia

New comment by Ericson2314 in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

Ericson2314 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:12:09 +0000

No, a layperson doing a bunch of math but barking up the wrong tree theory-wise is actually super instructive for this forum of autodidacts.

And I say that as one of the autodidacts.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Show HN: Darnix – Darwin Built with Nix"

Ericson2314 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:53:54 +0000

As long as Apple doesn't change the license, I think this means we can make legal semi-hackintoshes good enough for CI purposes. That could be a real game-changer!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "We need a federation of forges"

Ericson2314 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:58:21 +0000

Do you think it will be possible to use them together? Having some sort of unified distributed system is intriguing to me. (e.g. can the Radical foundation and AT-proto foundation integrate, even?)

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

Ericson2314 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:04:10 +0000

Stocks vs Flows! You can't compare (as in subtract and check sign) $ and $/s!

New comment by Ericson2314 in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

Ericson2314 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:31:05 +0000

ISPs almost all offer IPv6. The reason the US number is not higher is lazy corporate networks.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Costasiella kuroshimae"

Ericson2314 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:20:21 +0000

I remember as a kid wondering if we could give humans chlorolaplasts.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:03:40 +0000

Sapling and JJ can sort it out, the outside world will only care for one of them.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:58:38 +0000

Good stuff. But I would blame the Trump admin more then data centers for coal power plants staying on line. Gas would substitute for the coal ata minimum otherwise.

> Nine coal power plants that were set for retirement last year have had their operating lives extended, including five in response to emergency orders from the Department of Energy.

Maybe the other 4 still stay open without the bullshit DoE order keeping the 5 open, but who knows.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:37:10 +0000

Ronan Farrow's expertise is investigations into elite amorality, not evaluating technical products. Why are you asking this question?

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:10:25 +0000

The economic force is the LLMs themselves are worse at maintaining slop than good good.

Everything fundamental that makes good easier for humans to maintain also makes it easier for LLMs to maintain. Full stop.

New comment by Ericson2314 in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

Ericson2314 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:45:41 +0000

I figured it out from context clues

CC: Claude Code

TC: total comp(ensation)

New comment by Ericson2314 in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

Ericson2314 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:28:17 +0000

All legislatures need to work this way as soon as possible!