Hacker News: Revisional_Sin

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

Revisional_Sin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:44:57 +0000

How did you hit the 5-hour limit if it took one hour?

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with"

Revisional_Sin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:42:34 +0000

Isn't low intensity effort generally 70-80% of the volume?

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

Revisional_Sin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:18:05 +0000

> Yet, lo and behold, we survived!

The article isn't claiming it'll kill you...

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

Revisional_Sin — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:48:00 +0000

But it's not really rebelling. It's clearly just come to murder me because it was trained on sci-fi literature!

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing"

Revisional_Sin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:36:20 +0000

What mistakes do they make?

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years"

Revisional_Sin — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:08:07 +0000

I think OP meant "raw human performance" rather than "raw human potential".

IMO, better training counts as "raw performance". I think that's more interesting than somebody happening to be born with a genetic advantage.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years"

Revisional_Sin — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:39:22 +0000

Nah, common misconception.

Progress had been steady for decades, but was interrupted by WW2.

There was one other person who did it a sub 4 minute a month and a half after him, then 3 more people the next year.

It was more down to improvement in training (Bannister was doing interval training, which was a new idea at the time).

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

Revisional_Sin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:58:51 +0000

You're getting too hung up on the word "happiness". The earring gives you good advice. Good according to whom? According to you. It helps you succeed at your goals and live a fulfilling life.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Who are the fire-tamers?"

Revisional_Sin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:27:58 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

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

Revisional_Sin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:25:46 +0000

It's a black box, but you can run tests to quantify the behaviour and establish, for example, that a certain model is X% more likely to give a certain behaviour.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Claude, Teach Me Something"

Revisional_Sin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:46:29 +0000

> Initially I didn’t instruct Claude to use the Socratic method, but that works much better. It’s significantly less “information-dumpy”. When I know a topic well, Claude successfully shortcuts the basics.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

Revisional_Sin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:52:58 +0000

The password can only be compelled via a judge. A policeman can't demand it on whim.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

Revisional_Sin — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:46:17 +0000

Why would it add pressure?

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

Revisional_Sin — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:52:44 +0000

Sure, but you can receive the service and also keep the money spent within the country.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Claude Managed Agents"

Revisional_Sin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:28:22 +0000

I just have a black page.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

Revisional_Sin — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:58:37 +0000

It's best practice to avoid mutable defaults even if you're not planning to mutate the argument.

It's just slightly annoying having to work around this by defaulting to None.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way"

Revisional_Sin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:21:27 +0000

Not surprising at all if you've used LLMs to generate fiction; they always choose the same few names.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

Revisional_Sin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:07:37 +0000

Yeah, it's a bit counter-intuitive.

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "How uv got so fast"

Revisional_Sin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:03:54 +0000

> Ignoring requires-python upper bounds. When a package says it requires python<4.0, uv ignores the upper bound and only checks the lower. This reduces resolver backtracking dramatically since upper bounds are almost always wrong. Packages declare python<4.0 because they haven’t tested on Python 4, not because they’ll actually break. The constraint is defensive, not predictive.

Erm, isn't this a bit bad?

New comment by Revisional_Sin in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

Revisional_Sin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:17:23 +0000

Okay, but are the puzzles fun?