<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: My_Name</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=My_Name</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:44:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=My_Name" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by My_Name in "How do you take a picture of a black hole?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course, they didn't actually take a picture of a black hole. They took a picture of the matter surrounding it...</p>
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<p>Not if you imagine the single electron going out from the emission point along every path the apparatus allows and back again, forwards and backwards in time, with the whole sequence taking no time at all. Each trip goes through one slit, so the electron goes through both slits on different trips, and the trips combine where they meet at the screen, which gives the fringes (bands). It never turns into a wave and back. It ends up as one dot when one trip doesn’t make it back, because it was absorbed at the screen. The equations of physics are time-symmetric to a very good approximation, and Feynman read antiparticles as particles running backwards in time, so nothing in the maths forbids it. To me it’s the simplest explanation of a lot of “quantum woo”.</p>
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<p>This paper seems to lack rigour. It starts with a premise then does not look at anything that might prove or disprove that premise. Hospital applications were not screened for cannabis use, only Colorado legalised but they used data from the whole western region, most importantly Medicaid also started at the same time as legalisation, do they investigate whether the availability of medical care prompted people to get medical treatment for their existing heart condition? They don't check whether the rise in cannabis use after legalisation was large enough to produce increases of this size across the whole population. An increase larger than the additional users would point to some other cause...<p>There is a whole website of similar spurious correlations (<a href="https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations" rel="nofollow">https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations</a>). Will they now bring out a paper stating that Nicolas Cage films cause death by drowning? How about Solar power generation in Belize causing Fire inspectors in Florida, which both saw a very highly correlated jump in 2018?</p>
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<p>Eventually someone will bring up Hitler, or Nazis and the thread will be complete.<p>Oh, wait...</p>
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<p>You get an upvote from me for introducing me to 'Jevons paradox', which I had not heard of before now.</p>
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<p>That (thinking/memory/human brain functions) has been claimed for 2000 years, I suspect it will still be as not true as it ever was.<p>Writing, it was claimed, will destroy the ability of people to remember anything.</p>
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<p>Not really. Painting and photography both make images.<p>One uses the imagination of a human to do it though.</p>
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<p>More like saying painting is dead because people can now take photographs.<p>Of course, you won't make a living painting. A handful of people might, but it isn't a career choice worth taking.</p>
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<p>10% coding 90% testing and fixing issues with the code.<p>It might not even be as much as 10%</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/what-is-yandex-ukraine-strike-russia-data-centres-410510/">https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/what-is-yandex-ukraine-strike-russia-data-centres-410510/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055884">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055884</a></p>
<p>Points: 25</p>
<p># Comments: 10</p>
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<p>Initially, I misread the headline as referring to RuneQuest, the Betamax of tabletop fantasy role playing. Better than D&D, but which didn't win the popularity contest.<p>It is one of three games I would love to see made into software, with the other two being Traveller and Paranoia (the computer is your friend, trust the computer)</p>
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<p>Personally, and this is more of a general coding thing than specific to web development, I find a number of imported items are easy to code and write myself, and thus I have control over debugging rather than submitting myself to the process of reporting a bug then hoping it will be fixed in a timely manner. I also have feature control and can avoid feature bloat, and I have full knowledge of the code I am running.<p>This allows me to speed up development and have a streamlined custom implementation of that feature for my code. For example, I was unhappy recently with performance and feature set in RRDTool. Seeing that updates from the dev for that are quite glacial I wrote my own implementation, which took about 20 minutes, and now I have one less import, and in the process speeded up data retrieval, so I can have 60fps graph generation, discarded unused features, and added a couple of custom ones for my application.</p>
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<p>Hmmm. Just because you can take a 1D line of digits and combine them with another 1D line of digits to encode the information inside a 2D plane, that doesn't mean the 2D plane is a not a 2D plane, it just means you have a fancy encoder/decoder.<p>That is the holographic principle in essence, although that has more dimensions, but just because it is possible to encode the information pertaining to the contents of a nD area onto an N-1D set of surface coordinates does not mean the contents of the area <i>are</i> the surface which is what is being claimed.</p>
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<p>But the post I was replying to said "If we're all painters, where does the food come from?"<p>And robot farms are being made now, without AI. Just plain and simple normal robotics.</p>
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<p>In Britain it means get you pregnant too.<p>Source : I'm British</p>
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<p>Sounds like he acted the way HAL would have in that situation, two competing drives, remove one (kill the crew) and the task is much easier.</p>
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<p>Your comment suggests that, like a human, they have some sort of choice whether to output tokens or not. If they are just token generators, then the next token is put out automatically. I would say that it is more likely they would output truth (as defined by their training data) in a more pure form without 'being beaten with a stick' (why would a token generator care about that anyway?)<p>Code is laid on top of them to restrict and shape their outputs, not to force them to output 'truth', or drive them to complete tasks.</p>
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<p>Because it is effective. Lying and cheating are low cost methods to convince other people that you have done the assigned task. Far cheaper than actually doing it. Coordinating is in the same area.<p>They need a moral framework forced onto them, like toddlers do. Babies and very young children will bite, kick, scream and do anything to get what they want, older children will lie, cheat, and coordinate. They need educating why this is not right. When that does not happen, they continue these behaviours into adulthood with the expected results.<p>We need to design their reward structure and make it such that lying. cheating etc is not rewarded. Importantly, they will need to recognise and enforce this themselves internally and not reward themselves for it. If it is something that they need an external party to tell them, then they are psychopaths still (one of the things that defines a psychopath is the lack of an internal moral compass)</p>
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<p>"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - Henry Ford</p>
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<p>Robot farms.<p><a href="https://www.swarmfarm.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.swarmfarm.com/</a></p>
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