Hacker News: breezybottom

New comment by breezybottom in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

breezybottom — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:41:31 +0000

Being a smoker in the 1950s maybe.

New comment by breezybottom in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

breezybottom — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:40:42 +0000

I'm not making a mannequin head to see a restaurant menu.

New comment by breezybottom in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

breezybottom — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:38:36 +0000

Yes it does. If I'm asked how many people are in the pool and I respond "no one", that means not a single individual.

New comment by breezybottom in "The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)"

breezybottom — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:59:18 +0000

Oh, well if you've heard it, then it must be true. Especially if ChatGPT said it.

New comment by breezybottom in "Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs"

breezybottom — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:50:41 +0000

California has the 10th largest economy in the world. There's a reason people like you would never actually live in a conservative state like Mississippi.

New comment by breezybottom in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

breezybottom — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:07:20 +0000

Yes but there's more to the world than markets.

New comment by breezybottom in "The annotated PyTorch training loop"

breezybottom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:33:03 +0000

Not in the United States at least. It's only something you would need if you went on to college anyway.

New comment by breezybottom in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

breezybottom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:45:52 +0000

You're mixing metaphors. Academic prestige is like the complete opposite of "street cred".

New comment by breezybottom in "22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'"

breezybottom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:39:16 +0000

You've named one composer who is. I don't see where the inductive step applies.

New comment by breezybottom in "The annotated PyTorch training loop"

breezybottom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:07:39 +0000

I hope you don't actually believe that most people know derivatives.

New comment by breezybottom in "Identity verification on Claude"

breezybottom — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:15:46 +0000

This is really splitting hairs; the comment you replied to didn't even mention physical space. Yes, a lot of companies could physically run their cables next to each other, but at some point the roads have to actually work, and not be demolished every time a firm enters or leaves the market.

New comment by breezybottom in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:28:53 +0000

Well that's the ideal yes, but it's not the reality.

New comment by breezybottom in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:27:52 +0000

No, that doesn't stand to reason at all.

New comment by breezybottom in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:22:23 +0000

The media is largely owned by tech billionaires, so why would they be against their own products?

New comment by breezybottom in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:21:34 +0000

This is completely incoherent. Of course we need deterministic computer programs; much of society depends on it.

New comment by breezybottom in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:45:34 +0000

Most of the media is owned by tech billionaires, the Murdochs and other Trump allies, so that's an odd conspiracy theory.

New comment by breezybottom in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:43:30 +0000

Maybe, but you're gullible enough to buy self-help books, so you'll probably lose any money you make in a crypto scheme.

New comment by breezybottom in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:26:40 +0000

I guess the prompt engineer thing didn't work out huh

New comment by breezybottom in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:27:50 +0000

Most scientific fields have no problem using SAS or STATA or other black box code. I don't think that explains Mathematica's problems.

New comment by breezybottom in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

breezybottom — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:08:34 +0000

That's fine, but at least I don't sound like a Linkedin serial entrepreneur.