<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: brazzy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brazzy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:59:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brazzy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TDLR for the other two comments: a Japanese mathematician is claiming to have a proof for it, but it is based on an entirely new very complex field of maths which he invented. Getting into it takes years, so other mathematicians are hesitant to invest that much time only to find out that the proof is broken and the field isn't otherwise useful.<p>It doesn't help that the author is rather withdrawn and not willing to spend any effort in making it more approachable.<p>Some tried, and said they found gaps in the proof, to which the author responded, but they were not convinced.<p>And that's essentially the situation since 2018.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273479</link><dc:creator>brazzy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would they stockpile it when they're used to just buying it in the supermarket?<p>It's not bought for its long-shelflife property anymore, it's basically just an ingredient in some popular traditional local recipes. Sure, those recipes emerged <i>because</i> the shelflife used to make hard-tack a reliably available source of calories, but that's basically gastronomical skeumorphism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:52:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271659</link><dc:creator>brazzy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Today as well. You need special equipment and a lot of time to remove all the moisture without burning it.<p>Sure, you <i>can</i> probably find a way to achieve a "good enough" result with normal household appliances, especially when it doesn't <i>actually</i> need to be stored for years and you're just going to soak it again for some tranditional recipe.<p>But it's a lot more effort than most people want to invest when they just want to replicate that recipe.</p>
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<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:19:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240391</link><dc:creator>brazzy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, and all those women worrying about men following PUA influences, is that also "still a girl issue/hang-up then"?</p>
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<p>Guys don't <i>follow</i> that rule (unless they are gay), they <i>worry about women following it</i>. It appears to be originating from a post on the (rather toxic and apparently now defunct) reddit sub /r/FemaleDatingStrategy many years ago, but apparently is still being brought up.</p>
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<p>I have to admit that I know very little about formalized proofs, but the article seems to put some reasoning behind this distinction, specifically this statement:<p>> Because it is only the proof calculi that have proof objects that seemingly need to put everything into the kernel.<p>I interpret that to mean that for some reason, having proof objects requires or at least encourages putting more logic in the kernel (which is apparently equivalent to having more axioms) and that results in a greater risk of having bugs in the proof checker itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181692</link><dc:creator>brazzy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Read up on current politics in Taiwan. The KMT, the party that lost the civil war, fled to Taiwan, and still claimed to be the true government of China, is now essentially a PRC puppet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:40:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173904</link><dc:creator>brazzy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's because the primary goal of the spending is not to produce a capable military. It's an expensive, inefficient jobs program, but one that you can get conservatives to support</p>
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<p>What's the most unsettling to me is that the one thing that makes it <i>less</i> apt to modern life is the implication that at 8 PM, <i>everyone</i> is at home. Nobody still working or commuting.</p>
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<p>Do they even have <i>any</i> direct exposure to the whole AI bubble?<p>If not, I'd say they don't even count in the "everyone"-</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:37:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154945</link><dc:creator>brazzy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brazzy in "How old is Ann?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me they key step to solving it was realizing that<p>mary_curr - mary_old = ann_curr - ann_old<p>since they must have aged the same amount of years.<p><i>time dilation joke incoming</i></p>
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<p>Yes, but the desparate need is specifically for <i>quick and easy</i> ways to detect AI. If it's error-prone that's unfortunate, but better than nothing. A slow, laborious way, on the other hand, is useless because it doesn't achieve the goal of reducing the workload.</p>
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<p>> This is largely because most people are incapable of thinking critically and evaluating substance.<p>No, with AI it's because it's MUCH faster than evaluating substance, and fast ways to weed out AI slop are desparately needed, since it can be produced so quickly.</p>
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<p>The problem is that the substancelessness of AI writing nowadays tends to be subtle and well-hidden (but huge). Focusing on superficial "tells" is basically an attempt of a quick, cheap defense against the imbalance of human effort, where someone can spend a few dollars and a few minutes and e.g. generate dozens of PRs that would take many hours of real human effort to process and fix the deeper shortcomings of.</p>
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<p>> Where do we invest, absolutely stunning human support?<p>That's a complete non-starter unless you're serving some extreme luxury premium market with absurd margins, and/or your customer interactions already require a lot of human involvement. So 99.9% of digital products are right out.<p>Good human support is absurdly expensive and will easily make your product 10 times more expensive than your competitor's. But almost no customer is willing to pay 10 times more for good support.</p>
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<p>Does it matter (why and how) if you can't tell the difference, no matter how hard you tailor the question towards that end?<p>It's basically the Turing test.</p>
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<p>> Meanwhile, in real companies, you have to wait 2 months or more to access an API endpoint in preprod.<p>> To setup a cross business kubernetes cluster will take 2 years with unknown results.<p>Do you seriously believe those times will not go down 95% if the CEO pushes for it to get done yesterday because it will save the company millions in expenses?</p>
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<p>Wouldn't it be funny if they missing thing <i>is</i> actually the body, and having one to give the subjective viewpoint something to center on directly leads to emerging sentience?<p>Though I think there's at least one more important thing missing, namely the ability to form memories - to incorporate recent context into the model's weights. I don't think it's a coincidence that this is a very complex process in humans as well (involving sleep and dreams as neccessary mechanisms).</p>
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<p>Not if the only result you can judge is <i>also</i> language-only, and the entity has access to a large corpus of descriptions produced by people who <i>have</i> had the experience.</p>
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