Hacker News: arolihas

New comment by arolihas in "On Really Trying (2009)"

arolihas — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:57:08 +0000

Is everyone really measured on their magnanimity? We all pick our metrics to feel like we’re winning or losing.

New comment by arolihas in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

arolihas — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:08:57 +0000

oh-my-pi is but it's kind of overwhelming

https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi

New comment by arolihas in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

arolihas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:54:43 +0000

What does unethical behavior have to do with unethical behavior? What does looking at data you're not supposed to look at have to do with looking at data you're not supposed look at? Please don't be obtuse.

People whistleblow on Meta all the time. Most recently they got fined half a billion for suppressing child safety research. Kids getting groomed. It doesn't make a difference to a company that has a net profit of $60 billion a year.

New comment by arolihas in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

arolihas — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:47:54 +0000

No one has to say it and plan it out loud. But the data will be sitting there. The incentive to improve the model for enterprise use will only get stronger. It doesn't take much for one engineer or team to go rogue to hack a benchmark. There was a whole cheating controversy with llama 4.

New comment by arolihas in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

arolihas — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:12:15 +0000

I can tell you there will never come a time when American or UK refugees will be able to look to Poland or Ukraine or Afghanistan or India for rescue. It is that level of idealism and high trust naïveté that makes first world civilizations nice places to live but also dooms them to be taken advantage of by tribal mooches if there is no careful pragmatism.

New comment by arolihas in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

arolihas — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:16:05 +0000

No that’s never happened to India you’re right. If you “support” relocation of a Ukrainian like Iryna Zarutska they might end up moving to Charlotte, NC where they get stabbed on a train. Road to hell paved with good intentions and all that.

New comment by arolihas in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

arolihas — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:50:09 +0000

Not really. Just mortified at how incapable the people we have been supposedly helping for decades are after just a short stop in funding.

New comment by arolihas in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

arolihas — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:48:53 +0000

Depends on where and what work they are doing.

New comment by arolihas in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

arolihas — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:48:23 +0000

Just another perspective, no snark intended. I don’t see how helping “refugees” is some objective good.

New comment by arolihas in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

arolihas — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:11:48 +0000

Donating to charities or NGOs might be more harmful than anything you've ever done.

New comment by arolihas in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"

arolihas — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:08:13 +0000

they sound like a fun time

New comment by arolihas in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

arolihas — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:36:20 +0000

I agree, which is why it’s too early to make such grandiose claims about deep learning theory.

New comment by arolihas in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

arolihas — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:20:35 +0000

Idk to me this is just redescribing what deep neural networks do without actually explaining why anything happens. I guess it "unifies" things but I am kinda over most unifying theories. Everything is Bayesian, everything is a graph or a group or some other fancy geometric structure, everything is a category. Ultimately the best framework is whatever is useful enough to explain what's happening in such a way that a practitioner can manipulate the model towards a desired outcome. In other words, where is the knob? The tool they share may be interesting and I hope to play with it to see what happens at different levels of noise applied to the labels.

New comment by arolihas in "Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal"

arolihas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

I'm having a hard time understanding what IP of value could have possibly been generated in less than 8 months to make it worth $400 million. I guess it's just spending some stock into hiring some very smart experienced people to get ahead in the life sciences domain.

New comment by arolihas in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

arolihas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:19:42 +0000

Then there isn't really anything to argue over. No one should have to convince you. Either you see its value or you don't.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:38:22 +0000

They have money. It’s taken from the rest of us and given to them. The rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile, the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there, our zoning laws are developed for fear of the bottom quintile.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:06:44 +0000

The bottom quintile gets everything handed to them and it's still not enough. We all live at the mercy of them and their dysfunction.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:06:00 +0000

Boomers are getting way more than they ever put in.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:56:24 +0000

Like half of our budget goes to welfare (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Income Security, etc). https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

New comment by arolihas in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

arolihas — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:08:26 +0000

The problem is the promotion of values and behaviors that plague a low-trust society. I think making excuses for it is truly inappropriate and immoral.