Hacker News: MRtecno98

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

MRtecno98 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000

These aren't mission critical systems, they can lose their email

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

MRtecno98 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:54:23 +0000

> It's also a mistake that implies a complete lack of familiarity with scientific publishing, unfortunately, which makes it a bit difficult to take your judgements regarding plausibility very seriously.

It's still peer reviewed, and as the sibling comment said, more applicable to this type of research. Also you now went from raising understandable objections to refusing the argument because it comes from a specific journal, which doesn't sound very scientific to me

New comment by MRtecno98 in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

MRtecno98 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:18:17 +0000

They are just predicting the next token. In human text it's more common to talk to other people than a computer, so they end up talking to the computers like they were people.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

MRtecno98 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:15:33 +0000

Because java is garbage-collected and doesn't have any of the problems of C++ exceptions, so checked exceptions just become a nuisance of having to try/catch everything.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026"

MRtecno98 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:21:04 +0000

Earth (and the solar system) is 4.3B years old, a bit more than a third of that, so it's not really that much time in comparison no?

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

MRtecno98 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:17:37 +0000

> There's no point maintaining the illusion that we're soliciting feedback or discussion on the issues tracker when we are not.

You could have just said this (maybe you did when linking the code of conduct) instead of writing a paragraph of confrontational arguments and it would have looked way better imho.

> You may think it hyperbolic but drive-by negativity by non-code-contributor users is the biggest existential risk to projects like Homebrew.

If this was true every oss project would either be dead or be entirely comprised of dicks, neither of which are the case.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower"

MRtecno98 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:06:22 +0000

A human leg isn't designed to be repaired from the outside, it doesn't need replacement parts, it doesn't need external maintenance. It's designed around the maintenance and repair procedures of the human body which are able to fix it in situ and produce new parts on the fly. That allows it to have more freedom of design than a mechanical part that needs to be made from standardized parts in order to be serviced and manufactured.

The limitation is not cognitive, it's a matter of efficiency. We could, if we wanted to, make a lamp with all custom parts with the maximum efficiency possible in the design, but those efficiency gains would be at the cost of extremely difficult manufacturing. It's a tradeoff that the human body can make because it needs to produce only one (or two) legs, while us humans mass manufacture the stuff we make.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

MRtecno98 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:45:19 +0000

On one hand it's true, on the other people want stability in their jobs. You need a compromise between flexibility for the employer and stability for the employee, and one such compromise (in this area) is having a consulting company whose contract with the client can be easily terminated, while keeping the actual people doing the work with a job and stable income.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Nvidia, ASML plunge as DeepSeek triggers tech stock selloff"

MRtecno98 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:21:18 +0000

LLMs are not humans, nowhere near.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

MRtecno98 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:18:04 +0000

We don't know what LLMs encode because we don't know what the model weights represent.

On the second point it depends how the models were made to reporduce text verbatim. If i copy-paste someone's article in MS word i technically made word reproduce the text verbatim., obviously that's not Word's fault. If i asked an LLM explicitly to list the entire Bee Movie script it would probably do it, which means it was trained on it, but that's through a direct and clear request to copy the original verbatim.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)"

MRtecno98 — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:12:25 +0000

It wouldn't amplify them, there's no energy gain. A gravitational lenses just bends the trajectory of the waves. If you do it right it may be possible to use that to focus the signal on a directional trajectory(as in, the same energy is redirected in a single direction instead of being spread out), if I'm not mistaken.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts"

MRtecno98 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:05:16 +0000

That... sounds like an unreasonable bias to me

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts"

MRtecno98 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:54:18 +0000

To add to what other people said: we're talking about criminal trials, here "on average" isn't enough. Criminal procedure requires such a high standard of certainty(proving without a reasonable doubt, unanimity of jurors) because unlike civil trials it actually sends people to jail. So being right "on average" isn't enough because we can't afford to punish innocent people, we would rather not punish a guilty person than wrongfully punish an innocent one.

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says"

MRtecno98 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:48:35 +0000

If there were no patents most of them would just be kept as secrets, and you would, for the most part, get right back where you started(if not in a worse position)

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says"

MRtecno98 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:47:08 +0000

No, they are questioning the parent comment's argument that patents are against the basis for modern technological development itself, which is obviously false if patents where present well before this development

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"

MRtecno98 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:25:48 +0000

Still doesn't add anything useful to the conversation

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit"

MRtecno98 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:48:50 +0000

> I'm pretty sure the vote would be a firm "No"

So... you're critizing having no elections by assuming the outcome of one based purely on personal intuition? I think you're making the same mistake you seem to criticize.

Also just think about the impracticality of doing something like that and at the same time the fact that of that 7.5B, 90% probably wouldn't care. How many complaints about starlink have you received from, idk, China or Zimbawe or rural Russia?

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit"

MRtecno98 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:44:07 +0000

Starlink satellites naturally decay into unstable orbits after 5 years without boost-backs

New comment by MRtecno98 in "28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid"

MRtecno98 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:00:49 +0000

I get your point with blockchain(altough i'd like a source for 2% of the entire human energy production going into it) but ads are useful actually, they make people know about what other people do which drives economy, and economy is basically a fancy word for the system that distributes each human's limited time into the various tasks society needs(which do include large scale planetary development but also for example, your local supermarket which makes you eat).

As for tiktok and silly dances, humans don't need only food and water to work reliably, they also need mental health. So leisure, amenities, relationships etc.(yeah tiktok included) are an addiction in the same sense food water and oxygen are an addiction, we just need them to work.(obviously while "addiction" to leisures is in general not a real problem, addiction to a specific thing in this list is, just like addiction to a specific food is a problem. I'm not saying tiktok addiction is a good thing)

If you think humanity's purpose is to develop their knowledge of the universe and techonological grasp, then i reassure you that(almost) everything we do on this spinning ball is a cog in the machine that ultimately sustains that development

New comment by MRtecno98 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

MRtecno98 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:57:03 +0000

It'd be all fine and dandy if you didn't hop in a car after getting off your Airbus