<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: bottom999mottob</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bottom999mottob</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:44:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bottom999mottob" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bottom999mottob in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This analogy almost works, except about a fifth the hay making machines' output is needles.</p>
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<p>This is literally one the most infantilizing and simultaneously insulting analogies I've ever come across on this site. Do you really think consumers of the latest AI tools have no ability to forecast? The parents in this analogy have every incentive to lie</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:35:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687122</link><dc:creator>bottom999mottob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bottom999mottob in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you'd end up with more plastic from just breathing in air and eating seafood than Invisalign, but I haven't done a study on that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474920</link><dc:creator>bottom999mottob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bottom999mottob in "Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One-size-fits-all never fits everyone :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:23:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569106</link><dc:creator>bottom999mottob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bottom999mottob in "Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In theory, if a program is written in a high-level language and you have a correct implementation (interpreter, compiler, runtime) of that language on a new system, then the program should be able to run there.<p>In practice, this is not always so straightforward, especially as you move closer to machine-level details or consider compiled binaries.<p>Many compiled programs are built for a specific architecture (x86, ARM, etc.). They won’t run on a different architecture unless you provide either: A cross-compiler (to generate new native code for that architecture), or an emulator (which mimics the old architecture on the new one)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:19:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569078</link><dc:creator>bottom999mottob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bottom999mottob in "Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious how you've cured your schizoaffective disorder? Diet?</p>
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<p>I think your LLM temperature analogy is interesting in this deprecated dichotomy between autism and schizophrenia.<p>One Youtuber Jreg used a breadth-first search (schizophrenia) vs depth-first search (autism) analogy when comparing the the two, but I think your temperature analogy is more apt. Higher temperature results  in more disorganized thoughts like schizophrenia. And if you buy into the idea that the root of most schizophrenia is thought disorders, then this analogy implies that dialing up temperature corresponds to more signs of psychosis through speech<p>My experience with many friends on the autism spectrum is that their speech tends to be more scripted, but I certainly don't think autism and psychosis are mutually exclusive.</p>
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<p>Sediments including lead tend to accumulate at the bottom of water heaters, so you'd be measuring the accumulated lead and not the locality's with this assumption.</p>
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<p>What a dystopian world we live in where oligarchs controlling anti-trust companies deny medical coverage [0]. Am I surprised this happened...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...</a></p>
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<p>When we ripped out the carpet to install luxury vinyl flooring it was off-gassing for weeks. Had to go over the vinyl with dozens of microfiber clothes before the outside coating stopped wiping off.<p>Imagine all of the people cutting into that inexpensive wood without air filtration is terrifying</p>
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<p>Or it could be that people spend more time in their luxury vinyl planked house, vaping and having ingress air filled with formaldehyde from traffic<p>It'd make more sense and be less ethical to expose people to either formaldehyde or tire dust in a confined area, but that study is definitely not getting funded</p>
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<p>If you read at least 3 paragraphs in, you'll see that this tool attempts to generate a query using an LLM. Dismissing a tool before attempting to understand it is astounding.</p>
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<p>The US owes it to the Vietnamese people to clean up the arsenic, but of course they're never going to do that. I know several elderly Vietnamese who developed leukemia after serving in the war.<p>If you eat rice, please eat white not brown, parboil it with a ratio of 4:1 water to rice, and dump the water afterwards [0].<p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720368728" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...</a></p>
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<p>For long chats, I suggest exporting any artifacts, asking Claude to summarize the chat and put the artifacts and summarization in a project. There's no need to stuff Claude's context windows, especially if you tend to ask a lot of explanation-type questions like I do.<p>I've also read some people get around rate limits using the API through OpenRouter, and I'm sure you could hook a document store around that easily, but the Claude UI is low-friction</p>
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<p>So I tried to search myself just to see how terrible/awesome this product is. On attempting to use the free plan:<p>Error: Failed to subscribe to the plan. You ran out of credits. Please upgrade your Plan<p>Dark pattern, lack of testing, or incompetence? Please do better if you're contributing to the Orwellian surveillance capitalist state</p>
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<p>I'm curious how your experience is using Gameface for day-to-day tasks like coding. I assume you still use a keyboard for typing, but what about selecting blocks of text or general navigation?</p>
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<p>This is really cool, but there's real-world instrument physics that might not be captured by simple Fourier transform templates, like a trumpet playing softly can have a significantly different harmonic spectrum than the same trumpet playing loudly, even at the same pitch<p>Trumpets produce a rich harmonic series with strong overtones, meaning their Fourier transform would show prominent peaks at integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. Instruments like flutes have more pure tones, but brass instruments typically have stronger higher harmonics, which would lead to more complex partial derivatives in the matrix equation shown in the article<p>So this script uses bandpass filtering and cross-correlation of attack/release envelopes to identify note timing. Given that brass instruments can exhibit non-linear behavior where the harmonic content changes significantly with playing intensity (think of the brightness difference between pp and ff passages), not sure how would this algorithm could handle intensity-dependent timbral variations. I'd consider adding intensity-dependent Fourier templates for each instrument to improve accuracy</p>
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<p>That reminds me of Dr. Greenamyre in Pittsburgh who thinks he accidentally gave himself Parkinsons researching rotenone in pesticides [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://youtu.be/7mYEqUrx6dQ?si=x4P6pkUCd7EvCe1N&t=152" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/7mYEqUrx6dQ?si=x4P6pkUCd7EvCe1N&t=152</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:31:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42099282</link><dc:creator>bottom999mottob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42099282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42099282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bottom999mottob in "Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assuming a lunch break is not included as part of 8 hours, do you really think most exmployees are productive for a full 8 hours?<p>Most office workers spend an exorbitant amount of time twiddling their thumbs, reading emails, going to the restroom.  On average, I'd say knowledge workers are typically productive for about 2 to 3 hours per day. I'd estimate physical laborers range up to 4 or 5 hours.<p>Assuming 8 hours of full productivity is a strange number to focus on</p>
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<p>This sounds like the video game Orwell where you investigate social graphs to find dissidents of the state.<p>Of course the NSA has been doing this for years, but their UI probably isn't as pretty as Palantir's :)</p>
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