<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: addaon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=addaon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:43:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=addaon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by addaon in "Leaving the Physical World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not a real "no true Scotsman" fallacy. A real "no true Scotsman" fallacy rejects a counter-example, this was a strawman.</p>
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<p>> just for some shortcoming in your own capabilities?<p>It's a shortcoming each of us will have, if we're so lucky as to live that long.</p>
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<p>I assume any dealer who's comfortable signing a contract (terms of service) on your behalf is comfortable with you signing a contract on their behalf. Time to write yourself a new car.</p>
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<p>I'm sure it's not great, but deer mucus is a bit of an extreme description.</p>
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<p>If the agent generates structured JSON checked against a schema, then (to the limit of the ability of the agent to not generate correct JSON) the trick here is to have the transition request include a non-optional jira-update field. The agent can be malicious and give blank or useless jira updates, but if for example the transition to the next state requires a jira-state field selected from an enum (where the only options are valid next states, not necessarily every state; so include "fixed" and "not applicable" but not "open" or "new"; or whatever the business logic wants), then it restricts the ability of the agent to fail to make forward progress.</p>
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<p>> We know some things from experience about the long term (1 year or so) effects on human health of 0g (tl;dr: not good).<p>But we don't know anything about the long term effect of 0g on human fetuses, which live in a very different environment than the humans we have tested. They live in an environment that combines fluid immersion and surface support, with buoyancy playing a major role -- which could (or could not -- absence of evidence etc) seriously change the importance of gravity for development.<p>I'd be more concerned about the impact of zero and low gravity on newborns than fetuses.</p>
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<p>I’ve been using a pattern similar to this with near-frontier models to solve problems harder than coding. Structurally things are even more extreme — no tool calling allowed. Each state gives structured output that the harness then uses to derive the next state and context. So a context in one state may say “you have these lemmas with definition visible, and these by name in other files”; the agent from a certain state can consume the visible lemmas, but can also modify includes to get visibility into and ability to use other lemmas after iteration. So far, seems sane, but haven’t benchmarked on this problem against more free-form solutions.</p>
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<p>> What happens if a Google bot nukes my Google account, will that cut off my entire internet with no warning as well?<p>Yeah, the general approach to get support has been to be famous or to marry a Google employee, but the churn rate on Google employees is at the point that the latter is unsustainable.</p>
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<p>We can call them crypto. Won't make any less sense than the current usages, and it's a really good indicator to stop listening.</p>
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<p>How is "I don't like the price of the readily-available vendor or third-party repair services" the "same" as "no repair is available for any price from the vendor or third parties"?</p>
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<p>I believe that both of those statements are true. Nonetheless, I and other posters are experiencing one here and can't read the article. Your valid anecdote does not help us.</p>
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<p>Yeah, the separate Enter and Return keys on Macs has always been nice.</p>
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<p>> a mass of orange colored Brits are with near a unlimited supply of duty free gin<p>I fly direct from London to Vegas occasionally. The upside is that going through immigration is trivial -- of 270 people on a flight, 265 go to the "foreign passports" line. The downside is the 15 minute wait after getting to the gate for the police to come and arrest the people who were fist fighting in the aisle.</p>
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<p>What's the cost of this in terms of not being able to bzero() simple data structures, or use OS-cleared pages directly without dirtying them? This seems like it would turn some sparse memory usage patterns dense…</p>
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<p>I don't know if there are people who treat turquoise and aqua as distinct, but I certainly treat them as distinct from blue (azure, cobalt) and green. Several of the colors around the mid range in the linked page are not colors I would use the words "blue" or "green" for. That doesn't mean that I have strict rules here; I don't actually know if I would call what you call "cyan" turquoise or blue; ditto plenty of other words like "seafoam." That's kind of my point -- modulo another poster's comment about this being a test of bad monitor calibration, it's really more about language than about color.<p>I think there's another set of questions here -- why is "blue-green family" a thing in your mind, rather than "blue-yellow family"? Is there a "red-blue family"? "Orange-blue"?</p>
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<p>I think you're (accidentally?) hitting on exactly the point there.<p>For some people's language usage, blue and green are adjacent colors, and thus defining a point that divides them is perfectly fine.<p>For other people, these are not adjacent -- for some people, there's a single color (aqua? turquoise?) between them, and green and turquoise are adjacent colors, as are turquoise and blue, and it's reasonable to ask about a dividing point between those adjacent pairs.<p>For those who don't use language this way -- do you consider red and blue adjacent, or do you consider purple (violet?) a necessary intermediate? Are you comfortable defining a point between red and blue, or are you instead comfortable defining a point between red and purple, and a point between purple and blue?<p>And for all I know, there are people for whom blue and green (or blue and red) have a distance greater than one, or greater than two...</p>
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<p>100 g of carbs is 400 calories, not 100.</p>
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<p>> Let’s say a person has 10 units of learning per week.<p>This is… not how humans work? If you have the time and energy to learn ten things, and then spend time babysitting a random number generator to produce evidence of 10 more units of work, you’re paying an opportunity cost compared to someone who spends the time learning an eleventh thing. You can argue who has more short term value to a company… but who is the wiser person after a thirty year career?</p>
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<p>The other classic approach has been a single camera under the table, but that conflicts with terrain use. mmWave radar is probably good enough for to localization at this point, and cheap, but distinguishing pieces is hard.</p>
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<p>Yep. Rancho Gordo bean club member here — when I transitioned from “beans are okay but a lot of work to make a way I enjoy” to “I should make an effort to try a new recipe every two or four weeks”… it took about a month for my stomach to normalize the assault, but now it’s no different than anything with fiber.</p>
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