Hacker News: buzzin__

New comment by buzzin__ in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

buzzin__ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:25:03 +0000

And thus the goalpost was shifted. The first question was "where are all the AI coded apps?" And once this was answered, the subject is immediately switched to quality.

New comment by buzzin__ in "xAI joins SpaceX"

buzzin__ — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:37:43 +0000

When a cultist hits you with their side of, ahm, facts, it invariably ends up being some kind of a logical fallacy. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

In this case it is the "how we dare not trusting all the experts at spaceX."

But even the fallacy itself is applied incorrectly, as we hear zero from anyone else other than the cult leader himself.

New comment by buzzin__ in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

buzzin__ — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:42:15 +0000

But transaction fees reset to zero on each block. If relying solely on transaction fees, why would you mine if they are zero? So, on the start of each block, miners will shutdown, or perhaps switch to a different currency where it would be profitable to mine. This surely weakens the security of Bitcoin.

New comment by buzzin__ in "Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?"

buzzin__ — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:51:44 +0000

In machine learning, boosting is a way to combine weak learners into a strong one. Perhaps something similar can be done with language models?

New comment by buzzin__ in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

buzzin__ — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:25:55 +0000

Or you can use the "C# without the line noise", which goes under the name of F#.

New comment by buzzin__ in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

buzzin__ — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:58:34 +0000

So, your argument is that Rust is better because better programers use Rust.

I specifically mean this part: "Rust would never have such a dumb library design".

One could then also say that Rust programmers would never make such a cyclical argument.

New comment by buzzin__ in "A Rust shaped hole"

buzzin__ — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:37:51 +0000

"C is the language that combines raw power of assembly with expressiveness of assembly."

New comment by buzzin__ in "Titan Submersible Marine Board of Investigation"

buzzin__ — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:26:00 +0000

So, a DEAD person is suing a company, and what you see as a problem with that scenario is that the DEAD person will never see those 50 million because the company, that this DEAD person is sueing, does not have that kind of cash?

New comment by buzzin__ in "PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed"

buzzin__ — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:46:33 +0000

Why is world not in the hashset? Even gptchat4 doesn't know and thinks it could be because of out-null, and i should try without it. Anyone?

New comment by buzzin__ in "Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]"

buzzin__ — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:57:03 +0000

It's weird that you would say Altman is a sociopath without also mentioning that Musk is one as well. Musk is also a narcissist and you can't be one without also being a sociopath.

Are you perhaps a member of the Musk cult of personality?

Just trying to create informational balance.

New comment by buzzin__ in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

buzzin__ — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:24:12 +0000

Pliny the Elder and his son Pliny the Younger are also involved in debunking another historical fakery. This one is about Jesus actually existing and not being made up 100 years later and 1000 kms away, in a different country and in a different language.

As much as you can prove a negative, this guys do it by never mentioning him, despite being at the right place and time, and writing about other religions and prophets.

Even the wikipedia entry on this subject starts with a huge logical phalacy.

New comment by buzzin__ in "Want Your Country to Thrive? Give Geniuses a Universal Basic Income"

buzzin__ — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:39:37 +0000

Was his IQ high because he was a stable genius, and had a good you know what?

New comment by buzzin__ in "A Note About Today’s Wordle Game"

buzzin__ — Mon, 09 May 2022 17:22:44 +0000

So, which side of the debate is the word "fetus" on?

New comment by buzzin__ in "The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare"

buzzin__ — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 02:11:24 +0000

If you find a german tank with a serial number 200, your best guess of the total number of tanks they have is 400.

With the same logic, we can guess that civilizations that discover nuclear power live around 150 years.

New comment by buzzin__ in "The rise and fall of rationality in language"

buzzin__ — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:10:54 +0000

How well do the charts match the point at which bottom 50% of population rationality-wise started mass posting on the internet?

New comment by buzzin__ in "More details about the October 4 outage"

buzzin__ — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:15:51 +0000

So, not human error, but inadequate leadership, which is also a human error.

In other words, not human error but human error.

New comment by buzzin__ in "Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)"

buzzin__ — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:55:28 +0000

Yes, I always found "left" and "right" so unclear and ambiguous.

New comment by buzzin__ in "There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here"

buzzin__ — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 22:29:11 +0000

If a pilot of a $1000 kite can manage to glue a Gopro on himself, perhaps a $millions fighter plane pilot on a training mission can do the same.

New comment by buzzin__ in "There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here"

buzzin__ — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 22:17:19 +0000

Flies a 100 million dollar equipment. Does not bring a 100 dollar gadget that records what you see.