Hacker News: barrucadu

New comment by barrucadu in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

barrucadu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:46:13 +0000

A style of animated TV show from Japan

New comment by barrucadu in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

barrucadu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:21:18 +0000

Read the rest of the sentence.

New comment by barrucadu in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

barrucadu — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:35:06 +0000

Was the lockdown not during the pandemic?

New comment by barrucadu in "European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale"

barrucadu — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:38:38 +0000

Are these answers so critical they're needed on a holiday?

New comment by barrucadu in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

barrucadu — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:05:12 +0000

Don't the C parts of Linux heavily depend on GCC extensions too? Seems depending on specific compiler features isn't really a blocker.

New comment by barrucadu in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

barrucadu — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:52:03 +0000

How does OpenAI being liable for reproducing copyrighted material imply that a word processor should be as well? Last time I checked, word processors don't have a black box text generator trained on pre-existing works: a word processor only has the text that the user types into it.

> Not really. Youtube is not liable as long as they remove the content after a copyright complain and other mechanisms.

They have to take action precisely because they're liable for the material on their platform.

New comment by barrucadu in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

barrucadu — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:46:34 +0000

I take it you think copyright shouldn't exist at all, then?

New comment by barrucadu in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

barrucadu — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:55:24 +0000

Obviously there's a limit, reproducing a single sentence is unlikely to be copyright infringement just because there are only so many words in a language; but if reproducing some text would be copyright infringement if a human did it, I don't see why LLM companies should get a free pass.

If it's really essential that they train their models on song lyrics, or books, or movie scripts, or articles, or whatever, they should pay license fees.

New comment by barrucadu in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

barrucadu — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:44:33 +0000

> I don’t think a country’s government can justify no commercial LLMs to its populace

They're not saying no LLMs, they're saying no LLMs using lyrics without a license. OpenAI simply need to pay for a license, or train an LLM without using lyrics.

New comment by barrucadu in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

barrucadu — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:26:44 +0000

Why would you want to implement an entire typesetting engine yourself?

New comment by barrucadu in "Accountability Sinks"

barrucadu — Sat, 03 May 2025 17:59:05 +0000

> Meat isn't tasty. If it was you wouldn't always eat it fried almost to a char with salt and spices.

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "steak".

New comment by barrucadu in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

barrucadu — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:33:51 +0000

That's a good point, I've personally not got much use out of LLMs (I use them to generate fantasy names for my D&D campaign, but find they fall down for anything complex) - but I've also never got much use out of StackOverflow either.

I don't think I'm working on anything particularly niche, but nor is it cookie-cutter generic either, and that could be enough to drastically reduce their utility.

New comment by barrucadu in "Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'"

barrucadu — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:55:35 +0000

But the crust is nice, why would you throw it away just because you're rich?

New comment by barrucadu in "The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor"

barrucadu — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:29:28 +0000

In the first paragraph:

> I want to be clear that I am generally limiting my scope here to rigid non-powered armor. Power (or powered) armor – that is, armor that moves with built-in servos and motors, rather than purely under muscle power – is its own topic that we’ll leave for another day.

New comment by barrucadu in "Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?"

barrucadu — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:28:05 +0000

Whether the registrar keeps doing business is irrelevant if the root nameservers stop serving NS for .io.

New comment by barrucadu in "Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?"

barrucadu — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:24:17 +0000

I agree that transparent and documented decisions are good evidence for not being corrupt, and I can see how you could argue that they're required (as a non-corrupt organisation that hides the reasoning behind its decisions is largely indistinguishable from a corrupt organisation that coincidentally makes the same decisions), but what do elections have to do with anything?

New comment by barrucadu in "Is English a “creole Language”?"

barrucadu — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:47:59 +0000

By god you've done it, you've solved linguistics!

New comment by barrucadu in "Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys"

barrucadu — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:46:27 +0000

Obviously the idea is to live longer with good mental and physical health.

There's no point in living longer if your faculties are too degraded to enjoy it, you may as well just be dead.

New comment by barrucadu in "Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph"

barrucadu — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:11:29 +0000

Maybe this is one of those things that's harder to understand if you have an accounting background. As someone without an accounting background, I found it incredibly intuitive: if money moves out of an account, that's a posting with a negative number; if money moves into an account, that's a posting with a positive number; a transaction is a set of postings that together sum to zero, indicating that no money has been created or destroyed out of thin air.

There's no need to learn any confusing "credit" or "debit" jargon, you just need to think about the movement of money (which you had to do already).

New comment by barrucadu in "We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is"

barrucadu — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:43:23 +0000

It's possible to have two important things and yet for one to be more important than the other.