Hacker News: HKH2

New comment by HKH2 in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

HKH2 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:39:34 +0000

They can just get plotters to write their homework for them.

New comment by HKH2 in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

HKH2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:49:18 +0000

Not being as happy and being unhappy are not the same.

Regardless, you should read Robert Putnam's essay, E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2007). He makes it clear that social trust goes down because of it.

New comment by HKH2 in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

HKH2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:15:35 +0000

I can't see how all the mental overhead of modern multicultural living can make you happier either.

New comment by HKH2 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

HKH2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:43:19 +0000

Israel would still get the US to attack Iran regardless.

New comment by HKH2 in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

HKH2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:01:59 +0000

I'm saying that younger generations don't seem to care about realism as much as they care about having fun creating and sharing things with their friends. A large proportion of younger gamers play Roblox and Minecraft. Will they grow up and start playing more GPU-heavy games, or will they continue to play where their friends are?

Being free is exactly what has made those platforms as well as mobile games so popular. Are they going to start paying for subscriptions?

New comment by HKH2 in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

HKH2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:17:54 +0000

> I can already see Nvidia rubbing their hands together in expectation of the massive influx of customers to their cloud gaming platform.

Roblox is not popular because of its graphics. Younger gamers care more about having fun than having an immersive experience.

New comment by HKH2 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

HKH2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:51:30 +0000

The paradox of the paradox of tolerance.

New comment by HKH2 in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

HKH2 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:09:03 +0000

Yeah, in the future we will mourn the loss of the art of creating a new JS framework every week.

New comment by HKH2 in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

HKH2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:21:01 +0000

It's like learning to read English after speaking fluently for a few years. You may only need the letter sounds and then you can guess the rest. Learning Chinese works that way. You learn some basic characters and then you can guess the rest. (Learning to write without a computer is definitely more of a challenge though.)

New comment by HKH2 in "We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s"

HKH2 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:44:09 +0000

> How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward?

How can it be a constructive conversation if you have presupposed the outcome?

New comment by HKH2 in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

HKH2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:59:51 +0000

"bystanders"

New comment by HKH2 in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

HKH2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:56:54 +0000

That is how it should be, yes. Do PhDs always meet that standard though? No.

New comment by HKH2 in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

HKH2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:26:24 +0000

I don't necessarily disagree, but researchers are not required to be good communicators. An academic can lead their field and be a terrible lecturer. A specialist can let a generalist help explain concepts for them.

They should still review the final result though. There is no excuse for not doing that.

New comment by HKH2 in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

HKH2 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:46:06 +0000

What about externalities? What about policy makers going after short-term gains?

New comment by HKH2 in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

HKH2 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:42:32 +0000

Society depends on long-term 'happiness'. Short-term 'happiness' often makes society worse.

New comment by HKH2 in "Linux is good now"

HKH2 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:23:15 +0000

Ironically, quite a few Linux-compatible games only work for me in compatibility mode.

New comment by HKH2 in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

HKH2 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:11:36 +0000

Yeah that sounds like wisdom, not intelligence.

New comment by HKH2 in "Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order"

HKH2 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:28:51 +0000

There is a big green box at the top of the page explaining that.

New comment by HKH2 in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

HKH2 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:44:02 +0000

Of course there are only two options, low and high.

New comment by HKH2 in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

HKH2 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:03:01 +0000

> High-education countries don't look like basket cases.

They are all low fertility countries.