Hacker News: anankaie

New comment by anankaie in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

anankaie — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:05:05 +0000

To be fair, to some extent that’s up to us. Time to get cleaning, I guess.

New comment by anankaie in "Software Is Not Sentient"

anankaie — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:08:33 +0000

This article seems to miss Dawkins' point, which is not to assert that Claude is conscious -- he clearly states that he does not actually know. He seeks to wonder what brought about the evolution of consciousness in the first place.

New comment by anankaie in "The future of AI is on-prem"

anankaie — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:05:21 +0000

They aren't wrong, but I suspect they are not going far enough in their prediction.

The future of AI will be dominated by Personal Computing, just like with normal application software, since AI, particularly voice and video and computer interaction, are at the IO layer and thus latency-sensitive for online tasks, and that is before privacy gets into the picture at all.

New comment by anankaie in "Banned in California"

anankaie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:23:46 +0000

Much of the pharmaceutical industry depends on petroleum byproducts.

New comment by anankaie in "I fixed Windows native development"

anankaie — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:01:55 +0000

You do not need a Professional or Enterprise license to use the Visual Studio Build Tools:

> Previously, if the application you were developing was not OSS, installing VSBT was permitted only if you had a valid Visual Studio license (e.g., Visual Studio Community or higher).

From (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/updates-to-visual-stu...). For OSS, you do not even need a Community License anymore.

New comment by anankaie in "I fixed Windows native development"

anankaie — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:59:22 +0000

Why not use winget to do it?

`winget install --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools`.

If you need the Windows(/App) SDK too for the WinRT-features, you can add `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.18362` and/or `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8`

New comment by anankaie in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

anankaie — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:27 +0000

> Google and Microsoft have already shut down several failed projects

Could you elaborate on this?

New comment by anankaie in "Grok chats exposed in Google results"

anankaie — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:46:55 +0000

The framing is a bit off - every one of those URLs was created by the user having that conversation. They had to opt in to making it publicly visible.

What’s more curious is how Google got ahold of the URL list itself. Was the individual URLs indexed from somewhere else? Did a clever engineer notice a pattern and add some additional directives for the crawler? Did xAI put them in a sitemap they sent to Google? Something else?

New comment by anankaie in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

anankaie — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:45:20 +0000

I'm feeling a little maximalist about this: How about both?

New comment by anankaie in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

anankaie — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:21:35 +0000

I did not realize the outlet impacts the amperage… Is it a rating issue, or is there an actual part there that will trip?

New comment by anankaie in "Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science"

anankaie — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:05:28 +0000

And also journalists keep getting leaked as having internal journalist-only messaging lists, and often discuss the seemingly coordinated articles (or at least the events leading to them) in advent of publishing. See the JournoList (and related) scandals.

New comment by anankaie in "Please stop the coding challenges"

anankaie — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:14:29 +0000

This is the most Software Engineer answer. Emphasizing only the distinctions that make no difference :D

New comment by anankaie in "Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos"

anankaie — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:18:16 +0000

Nobody seems to be suggesting it is any better when Google does it; but on Android (if you ignore the efforts that Google has gone to to make the experience be limited) one can at least avoid the AppStore altogether, while still installing and running various things on device.

New comment by anankaie in "Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc"

anankaie — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:32:44 +0000

Unless it is a design patent, though I have no idea if Japanese law even supports this kind of IP protection.

New comment by anankaie in "The same origin of quantum physics and general relativity"

anankaie — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:10:22 +0000

Note that this appears to be a pre-print? (Dated Jan 2025)

New comment by anankaie in "Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky"

anankaie — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:28:34 +0000

Yes, it is; governments do not have a magic right to never be questioned or even advocated against.

New comment by anankaie in "More Evidence Links Ultraprocessed Foods to Dementia"

anankaie — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:04:03 +0000

https://archive.ph/X6nVv

New comment by anankaie in "Apple says it uses no Nvidia GPUs to train its AI models"

anankaie — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:06:01 +0000

You are probably right that there is massive disparity between the two re: compute. With that said, it is conceivably possible to use a larger number of weaker chips rather than fewer bigger ones, and come out ahead per unit-time. Also, given their strategy seems to be trying to do as much on-device as possible, they are targeting smaller models, so they likely have less of a packing problem with smaller chips.

So in the goal of producing a strong model, it could go either way; especially for smaller models, data seems to be much more important than compute, as per the “Textbooks are all you need” paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644), especially if you are not looking for a fully generalist model.

New comment by anankaie in "Far-left extremists likely behind France rail sabotage, interior minister says"

anankaie — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:43:57 +0000

Individual liberty is not a “right-wing” concept, any more than “authoritarian dictatorship” is. Left/Right division does not map this axis well, being primarily concerned with the moral implications of excludable/rival property ownership.

New comment by anankaie in "There's No Guarantee AI Will Ever Be Profitable"

anankaie — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:37:17 +0000

Moreover, you get surprisingly out-of-class (size-wise) performance if you fine-tune for your specific problem space. Even if you only train in a parameter-efficient way.