Hacker News: HanayamaTriplet

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

HanayamaTriplet — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:56:18 +0000

Nitpick: Your math is correct, but you have the US revenue in billions rather than trillions.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Show HN: HumanAlarm – Real people knock on your door to wake you up"

HanayamaTriplet — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:37:14 +0000

How do you verify that a doorway in a photo belongs to a given address?

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination"

HanayamaTriplet — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:53:58 +0000

I can understand that years before ChatGPT would not have any LLM-generated text, but how much does the year actually correlate with how much LLM text is in the dataset? Wouldn't special-purpose datasets with varying ratios of human and LLM text be better for testing effects of "AI contamination"?

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”"

HanayamaTriplet — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:47:09 +0000

The original data includes "train and metro stations", but figure 9 filtered the data to only include train stations and arrived at the same conclusion.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "High-Speed Face-Tracking for Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping"

HanayamaTriplet — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:26:19 +0000

You don't need high speed face tracking to make video edits, those are not going to be done in real time.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

HanayamaTriplet — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:39:14 +0000

This is a good point! My assumption was that they actually do have a high baseline of fake rejection and gave these a fair analysis, given that they would want to maintain credibility and have multiple write-ups on their web site about how they closely analyze submitted cards to detect counterfeits. I wonder if there are any independent tests out there on how well they actually detect and reject fakes sent in for grading by normal people.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

HanayamaTriplet — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:41:06 +0000

Akabane or the buyer could be the original source of the fakes, but the grading company CGC was responsible for "verifying" that they were authentic before they were sold at auction:

https://www.cgccards.com/news/article/13347/

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

HanayamaTriplet — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:18:56 +0000

The fact that a large grading company would not check such a basic type of forgery makes it seem like they're in on the scam. This sounds similar to what happened with video game grading company Wata, who were alleged to have fraudulently inflated the value of games they were grading:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/grading-firm-wata-i...

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO"

HanayamaTriplet — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:57:34 +0000

How long ago do you mean? I tested right now and still got the "You're all caught up, the rest of the posts you see will be suggested" notice. Could it be in A/B testing...?

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of "Saturday Night Live""

HanayamaTriplet — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:57:08 +0000

Small correction: SNL is scripted, not improv. The skits can feel "unpolished" in a similar way to improv, but I think that's usually because they only have a week to produce each one from scratch.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii"

HanayamaTriplet — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:11:35 +0000

You can't use the base unit by itself - according to the specs from the link, the dock has the actual power input and A/V output connectors.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models"

HanayamaTriplet — Fri, 24 May 2024 19:39:19 +0000

It seems to me that LLMs the metaphorical horse and specialized algorithms are the metaphorical car in this situation. A horse is a an extremely complex biological system that we barely understand and which has evolved many functions over countless iterations, one of which happening to be the ability to run quickly. We can selectively breed horses to try to get them to run faster, but we lack the capability to directly engineer a horse for optimal speed. On the other hand, cars have been engineered from the ground-up for the specific purpose of moving quickly. We can study and understand all of the systems in a car perfectly, so it's easy to develop new technology specialized for making cars go faster.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer"

HanayamaTriplet — Mon, 06 May 2024 18:50:47 +0000

I'm assuming it's this one which was posted from their Twitter: https://github.com/KoeAI/llvc

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Court overturns state ruling on San Francisco’s infamous 469 Stevenson project"

HanayamaTriplet — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:33:53 +0000

>This is because Prop 13 prevents cities from collecting RISING taxes from residential properties (but they can collect rising taxes from commercial properties)

The parenthetical here is incorrect - all property taxes, regardless if they are for residential, commercial, or industrial properties, have capped yearly increases under Prop 13. In 2020, there was a ballot initiative, Prop 15, which proposed a "split roll" to remove the Prop 13 rate caps from certain types of businesses, but it did not pass. You can read more about Prop 15 here: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Tax_on_Co...

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "The Touhou PC-98 Restoration Project"

HanayamaTriplet — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:12:06 +0000

Don't forget Beloved Tomboyish Girl (Cirno's theme): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GOA3kvP3Lg&t=547s Or the classic remix and animation, Cirno's Perfect Math Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_bQNPG2OyE

Happy 9/9!

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

HanayamaTriplet — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:38:53 +0000

The OP responds elsewhere that the prototypes are 3d printed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513522

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla"

HanayamaTriplet — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:44:43 +0000

I'm no fan of Tesla, but to be fair, the OP answers here that this it is 2013 model, so this is still an example of a defect from ~2012: https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/vt7w3d/my_teslas...

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "‘Columbo’ shows the benefits of asking just one more thing"

HanayamaTriplet — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:33:42 +0000

I haven't watched my old DVDs in a while, but my recollection is that (in most episodes, at least) Columbo would explain what detail from early in the investigation made him suspicious of the perpetrator and what evidence and/or reasoning he used to rule out the other suspects along the way.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt"

HanayamaTriplet — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:26:55 +0000

I was hoping that this would be a tongue-in-cheek post about how a training a CV model and a robot with enough range of motion would eventually figure out that aiming the light gun off-screen towards a white wall would result in 100% accuracy.

New comment by HanayamaTriplet in "Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”"

HanayamaTriplet — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:45:15 +0000

The key is in your last paragraph: the companies in question are privately owned in the sense of "private property". In the context of (American) public policy, due to factors such as the First Amendment, the distinction of a company being governmental/public vs non-governmental/private is much more likely to be relevant than it being publicly/privately traded.