<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: Normal_gaussian</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Normal_gaussian</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:12:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Normal_gaussian" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Normal_gaussian in "Canceling "Hey""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In many places, on Reddit especially, anything remotely referencing Travellers (UK), Roma, Gypsies will get flagged, locked, and taken down very quickly. To a degree there is brigading and to a degree a large number of people are unable to discuss them calmly.<p>Personally, I didn't flag the article but I think it might be right to be flagged - just; I think you have discussed the issue calmly, but I find the article to be faux respectful and presenting itself as being neutral where it is not. To me the article reads as posturing and signalling, and using the headline (cancelling Hey) as a thin cover for discussing something else entirely (the blog post, the disagreements with it, and the political disagreement with DHH). Note that HN says anything off-topic should be flagged, and the definition for off-topic starts with: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime...". If it had been, I'm cancelling Hey.com due to revelations about the owners DHH <link>, its cost me $x and was good and now I'm going to $y then I think it would be on-topic.<p>That all said; the topic you are really discussing is one that is very hard to have a reasonable conversation with people about. It has been unreasonably politicised, and is aggressively pursued as such; to a degree that distorts the basic facts and denies the real harms and impacts. One of my early roles involved physical security systems, and during it I encountered a large number of people suffering from related issues while the police both didn't have the power to resolve it and were not willing to wield the power they did have. I am deeply concerned about the widespread censoring of these discussions.</p>
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<p>What is presented is a very short list of separate issues. It could easily have said "widespread shoplifting, potholes"; it is not insinuating that one causes the others, just like shoplifting clearly does not cause potholes.</p>
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<p>No, I'm pointing out the author's hypocrisy.</p>
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<p>This blog post is an exercise in publicly shaming Hey/DHH for their blog post.<p>Which is fine. But there is significant hypocrisy in presenting as though you aren't doing exactly that.</p>
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<p>Yeah I got quite excited that there was somehow a better -i; its almost perfect clickbait</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>    pick a1b2c3d Add user model
    s e4f5g6h Fix typo in user model
    pick i7j8k9l Add login endpoint
    s m0n1o2p WIP debugging login endpoint
    s feedbee fixed login endpoint
    s deadbee fixed login endpoint
    s adebade fixed login endpoint
    s abcdefg actually fixed login endpoint
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Of course, I get reminded about f/fixup every now and then - think "golly, that will save a second or two" and promptly forget.</p>
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<p>I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but if I set Capacity Retained to 100% then no matter what I set the other values to a bunch of countries deplete their reserves.<p>This feels wrong; but I'm inclined to think I'm missing something.</p>
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<p>I was surprised at how little improvement they could eek out of tuning it; but it is a non-trivial improvement which is much less likely to wastefully spin if your validation is more expensive than you realise.<p>Makes sense that its in the major harnesses and not the self-built ones.</p>
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<p>Commands like /goal and similar are the more complex version of this; you write a prompt like it was a singular iteration, it runs one iteration, then runs an "evaluator" to determine if the goal has been reached, then runs the prompt again with a little extra to make it go again - and so on. The evaluator is just an LLM with most of the result or context looking at the original goal and the state and answering the question "has the goal been met".<p>The interesting part of this: while some leading implementations use <i>the same LLM and context</i> for the evaluator, some call out to a different context, some to a tuned LLM and different context; so which is better? many blog-scale benchmarks are calling it a toss-up that is highly dependent on the primary model.</p>
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<p>A) a log scale is self consistent<p>B) be careful about telling other people what they think</p>
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<p>A graph is much more than one conclusion; in fact, almost the entire point of graphing is to allow the comparison of "shapes" and to easily hypothesise about associations across datasets.<p>This graph misrepresents the rate the price declines and the length of time it has been stable for, which throws off nearly all non-trivial conclusions.</p>
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<p>What on earth is that H100 price trend graph. The equally spaced x-axis points are 2x6 months, 6x3 months, 9x1 month. The whole visualisation of the trend is ruined on the back of that.<p>There are liars, damned liars, and people who play silly buggers with scales.</p>
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<p>IIRC Apple have been allowed to remove Fornite from the Apple Store, they just fall foul of the EU Digital Markets Act / DMA (?) when also blocking the Epic Games Store as a route to add/sideload it.<p>Removing ChatGPT due to ToS violations seems like it would be ok.</p>
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<p>Built to work with lmstudio, one of the leading easy to use local model servers. LMStudio is the closest to plug-and-play without sacrificing play that I've seen; a harness that works well with it is nothing to sniff at. Its not earth shattering either.</p>
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<p>Do you have sending from the incoming address setup? If so, using what?</p>
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<p>This is genuinely hilarious. Are you able to elaborate? Which banks? Which B2B? There is probably a shared product stack here that is making some hilariously poor decisions.</p>
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<p>I don't think you need any non-timer version. The archive is there for people to play more.<p>Some suggestions people have made around being able to shuffle or place letters - maybe. But the game is pretty perfect as it is.</p>
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<p>Can, but won't.</p>
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<p>I think that "Africans should not have access to high-speed satellite Internet" is something you've just made up; the article you link talks about African people turning to Starlink because of local infrastructure issues, and the original article notes that the current satellite count is currently around 14k satellites. 100k is more than enough satellites to provide high-speed satellite internet globally.<p>The article makes mention of specific endeavours, like the night-time mirror satellites, which are particularly disruptive to astronomy, and the general risks of high numbers of satellites.<p>The ability to do Earth based astronomy is something that is of value to all the peoples of Earth, and is mainly funded by the western nations because of their current position as the people with more money.</p>
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<p>My ErgodoxEZ:<p>- nearly made me cry.<p>- solved my back pain.<p>When you didn't learn to type properly, relearning to type can be a very difficult task; re-learning on a split keyboard is particularly unforgiving. Around three weeks into re-learning I was convinced I would never learn properly and that I'd wasted a lot of time and money (I was freelancing at the time) on something that wouldn't help me eat, never mind sleep.<p>Two weeks later I was back up to normal typing speeds, a month after that I was faster than ever. Two months or so after that, my back pain was gone.<p>Of course, my back pain was caused by sitting lopsided - something an overdominant hand on a standard keyboard pushes you towards. No amount of exercise and posture correction was solving it - but when the true cause was resolved it cleared up (with exercise) very quickly.<p>I'd buy this keyboard again in a heartbeat.</p>
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