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New comment by OutOfHere in "Making Claude a Chemist"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:46:31 +0000

Safety is a lie. It's always possible to divide a task into subtasks, to use abstractions, and the LLM will allow each of these individually.

For example, If you want it to write malware, break that down into a hundred high level steps, then implement each one individually, then stitch them together.

A dumber but uncensored agentic LLM will even do this for you to control the censored smarter LLM.

New comment by OutOfHere in "Don't trust large context windows"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:43:13 +0000

I care more for my refined spec than for the code. I refine the spec over multiple chats. Once it's fully refined and ready to be executed, the phased task itself is small enough that it will easily be done in 100K tokens.

New comment by OutOfHere in "Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:42:17 +0000

It is an absolutely critical question. Were plastic/plasticized extractors or bottles used? Or was it collected at a lab directly into glass? Note that silicone isn't entirely safe either as substances like D4 (octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane) are pretty bad too.

New comment by OutOfHere in "Making Claude a Chemist"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:40:49 +0000

That seems bad because it kills interdisciplinary science.

New comment by OutOfHere in "Making Claude a Chemist"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:38:41 +0000

It cannot. The only available law is an export control law. A restriction on an open model would be strongly unconstitutional due to a freedom of speech guarantee in the Constitution.

New comment by OutOfHere in "4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:10:44 +0000

What is your belief with regard to bemotrizinol in this matter?

New comment by OutOfHere in "Google's Pinpoint is the free research tool you should know about"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:59:27 +0000

https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint

Google's Pinpoint is the free research tool you should know about

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:59:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91558438/googles-pinpoint-is-the-free-research-tool-you-should-know-about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524846

Points: 4

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New comment by OutOfHere in "4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:29:25 +0000

There is no risk with using zinc oxide 24%. It works too well and is safe.

The risk is with chemical sunscreens having hormone disrupting effects, although bemotrizinol is expected to be safer in this regard, especially if it's not stacked with older harmful chemicals.

New comment by OutOfHere in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:05:39 +0000

I researched the topic and produced a short video on it: https://youtu.be/NVAcSgLZues

Purdue University produced a barium sulfate nanocomposite paint that has 98% reflectance in the desired band using a 150μm layer, cooling surfaces by 4.5C.

New comment by OutOfHere in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

OutOfHere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:58:23 +0000

In a dense residential community, when 70% of the units are running ACs and a minority are not, it's going to get substantially hotter than 1C for the ones that are not. It will be upward of 5C hotter in the non-AC units in my experience when the wind is minimal. The 1C you came up with does not apply in the close proximity of the dense urban air conditioning.

Reflective clothing using PDRC materials will be a lot more feasible than personal air conditioning. The latter would require a powered spacesuit anyway which makes it awkward to work. See https://youtu.be/NVAcSgLZues although it's not about clothing, but the idea is the same.

New comment by OutOfHere in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:17:51 +0000

Texans, I hope you like PFAS in your water and soil because Texas being unregulated would have loads of it.

New comment by OutOfHere in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:21:42 +0000

There is nothing stopping them from releasing sulfur dioxide into the air to have the same effect in an engineered and superior manner. Also, various surfaces can be painted white to reflect sunlight back into space. Trees also can be planted, and forests restored.

The good thing about green energy is that one there is a sufficient amount of it, it can also be used for extensive indoor air conditioning.

New comment by OutOfHere in "Codex for open source"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:18:05 +0000

That was Amazon's doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519092

Correction: only in part

New comment by OutOfHere in "Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:20:37 +0000

VAT for essentials like food, medicine and household supplies makes zero sense; it will greatly hurt the poor. Save the VAT exclusively for luxury items like clothing, furniture, travel, etc. which the rich spend a lot on. Computers qualify as essential and must not be VATed either.

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VAT joke:

Question: Why is there is no VAT in the Vatican?

Answer (reversed): "!tcelloc t'nseod dog esuaceB"

New comment by OutOfHere in "AI coding at home without going broke"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:17:34 +0000

It could put managers out of a job, without AI too, so they prefer to not use it.

New comment by OutOfHere in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:25:41 +0000

YouTube has just so much garbage that drags on. It would be a good thing to have less of it.

Also, just because randos will copy content doesn't mean that users will go to other channels to view it if they subscribe to your channel.

New comment by OutOfHere in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:36:04 +0000

Your question is a loaded question founded on a false premise that the author of the content has an innate right to its viewership. There is no such innate right.

Also, the argument that you made elsewhere about "damages" is nonsense because there is no damage from someone viewing what they were never going to pay for anyway, and there also is no deprivation.

New comment by OutOfHere in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:20:58 +0000

Besides the unfairly long duration of protection, intellectual property also is unfairly used to squash small firms via frivolous lawsuits.

I won't use an argument in favor of AI training here because AI can probably still be trained by fair-use information extraction from copyrighted works.

Without copyright, we can return to a patronage based system. Both rich and poor consumers gladly offer proportional patronage for authors they truly believe in.

Humanity will progress just fine via its scientific works which don't really require a copyright. Arxiv proves it.

The cost imposed by GPL not working will be negligible compared to the benefit of free use.

New comment by OutOfHere in "AI coding at home without going broke"

OutOfHere — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:08:30 +0000

Fixed-price monthly plans ought to be sufficient for most people who actually review their spec and code, for building production-grade software that stand the test of time. A careful spec+review+iteration takes time, resetting the usage quota. Granted, security audits uses tokens too.

If you still need more tokens, odds that you're vibecoding unmaintainable throwaway trash.