Hacker News: MinimalAction

New comment by MinimalAction in "The Last Technical Interview"

MinimalAction — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Yes! At some point, the author even complains about the (weaker) US law for employee on how it's a mess to fire somebody, but easy to let go from an internship. So much about stability that employees seek.

New comment by MinimalAction in "Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?"

MinimalAction — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:04:09 +0000

This itself feels generated by AI. Especially the last few paragraphs in there.

New comment by MinimalAction in "Can we have the day off?"

MinimalAction — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:53:35 +0000

Given the pace of AI growth, it is quite possible to have years off if layoffs begin in many places. We are training AI to replace many jobs. It seems like entry-level jobs are the only ones affected, but that's for now. Anything short of executive level jobs are perhaps on the chopping block for time to come. Now, why wouldn't be execs be replaced? They could, but they wouldn't cut themselves off.

New comment by MinimalAction in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

MinimalAction — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:18:57 +0000

There needs be to a careful vetting before such adverse actions. If somebody includes a name and pushed it without express permission, does everyone get the ban? I agree that implemented the right way, this is good.

New comment by MinimalAction in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

MinimalAction — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:58:29 +0000

Well, but if I have a MacBook Air M4 with 16GB, I don't know what useful models can I run.

New comment by MinimalAction in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

MinimalAction — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:52:27 +0000

I strongly disagree on beliefs and hopes are coping mechanisms. Coping from what? Beliefs and hopes are what they are.

But I agree worth should be derived from understanding, not through achievement.

New comment by MinimalAction in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

MinimalAction — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:48:43 +0000

Thanks. This might help. Are you suggesting any particular form?

New comment by MinimalAction in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

MinimalAction — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:47:54 +0000

Thank you for this comment. I often fall into the why of graduate school many times. The pay is insufficient, hours are long, but at least I find it very satisfying on good days. It is just the feeling that what I do may not be unique anymore is what sucks. I didn't necessarily mean to find glory through incredible work alone, but through being unique in the problems I choose. Anyway, I digress.

New comment by MinimalAction in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

MinimalAction — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:50:46 +0000

As a graduate student, this piece made me sad. I always believed that my work speaks for itself and transcends beyond my limited time on this cosmic experience. This notion of immortality was just a small intangible bonus I hoped for when I jumped into grad school. AI is making me feel less worthy.

New comment by MinimalAction in "DeepSeek v4"

MinimalAction — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:33:39 +0000

Regarding the first problem: are you looking at NCP maps for non-Markovian processes given you mention C*-algebra? Or is it more of a continuous weak monitoring of a stochastic system that results in dynamics with memory effects?

I'd be very curious to know how any LLMs fare. I completely understand if you don't want to continue the discussion because of anonymity reasons.

New comment by MinimalAction in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"

MinimalAction — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:07:49 +0000

The idea is cool, but I have become personally allergic to AI generated content and styles. This one is pretty surely built using Claude.

New comment by MinimalAction in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

MinimalAction — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:43:50 +0000

I echo similar sentiments. It is high time to choose self-hosting over handing over essentials to the cloud. You don't know when it could be inaccessible due to plethora of reasons. It is just that, every time I looked into setting up a home lab, it feels cost prohibitively expensive.

New comment by MinimalAction in "1D Chess"

MinimalAction — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:03:16 +0000

I love chess! This version was fun too.

If 1. Rx6,it is stalemate. So it must be 1. N4 N5. Then we could proceed with, 2. Nx6+ K7. Now, if you capture the knight (Rxe), it is stalemate again. So sacrifice the knight, 3. R4 Kx6 so that you force black to zugzwang with 4. K2 K7, and finally, 5. Rx5#

New comment by MinimalAction in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

MinimalAction — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:08:32 +0000

Interesting! Is this similar to Age of Empires?

New comment by MinimalAction in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

MinimalAction — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:47:26 +0000

I agree with some parts but I mostly don't see the point of this article: shooting down ideas is a skill in academia, in industry, in fields where decisions have huge opportunity costs. One needs to shoot down ideas pretty often, because really good ideas are only a handful.

Things that are really worth someone's time are often something that should be well thought out, stress-tested, collectively agreed upon by at least a few. So shoot the unfeasible ones bang on so you don't waste time on it. Just don't make it personal; it's only ideas that need judgement, not the people.

New comment by MinimalAction in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

MinimalAction — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:01:09 +0000

Much more than Google search. Cloud, Waymo, Verily, Deepmind, stake in Claude. So many bets other than just ads.

New comment by MinimalAction in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

MinimalAction — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:24:43 +0000

I hate to read this line when academics and graduate students who work in basic and hard sciences have their funding cut. The grand funding that pays minimum wage to grad students is a burden for this society, yet for a company that took all the valuable data from sources that never got credit, raises billions of dollars. Open says the name, but closed it is by operation. Sorry for this rant, but the priorities of this world suck.

New comment by MinimalAction in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

MinimalAction — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:39:05 +0000

This is great! Love this project. Do you know of anything like this in English as well?

New comment by MinimalAction in "Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves"

MinimalAction — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:37:17 +0000

Yeah, where is their control sample without any substrate on the sampler?

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

MinimalAction — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:56:09 +0000

I didn't say it's not cool. I was trying to understand the utility of it being great.