Hacker News: danielscrubs

New comment by danielscrubs in "Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash"

danielscrubs — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:42:30 +0000

The "Attention is all you need" paper authors where four (!) Europeans and one from US, amongst others. The "Top 10" lists are just complete rubbish, not worth the paper they are written on.

Europeans do not have the hustle mentality to break the law like Uber so you wont see them compete in anything data heavy. They also are quite risk adverse, probably from having a lower Gini coefficient.

New comment by danielscrubs in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

danielscrubs — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:34:35 +0000

Ive seen it in action. When you get lazy, you start to notice that the single most important aspect is posturing.

So to be lazy you start posturing, selling people how great you and your project is. The more projects you have under you, the higher the chance of something very successful too.

It works, suddenly they can work even less and get promoted.

Ofc this is horrible for the company, having the worst people doing the most “internal sales for positioning”. This also creates a giant middle management layer.

I wouldn’t say they are dumb, they just noticed that great work has no correlation with performance. What does have a correlation is how you act and speak. The All-In Chamaths of the world (not saying he is dumb, he isnt, but damn if boosting isn’t everything for him).

This is why Manifesting, was so popular for the management layer, suddenly it wasnt “being untruthful” it was “manifesting into existence”.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging"

danielscrubs — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:23:25 +0000

Seven of the eight authors of the influential 2017 AI paper "Attention Is All You Need" are immigrants to the United States. The remaining author is the grandson of refugees.

And the majority of them didn’t get their degrees from US universities.

No doubt Google was the catalyst though.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

danielscrubs — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:39:36 +0000

There are studies on that that showed: Steroids WITHOUT training produced more muscle mass and strength than training without steroids. Bhasin et al., 1996 – New England Journal of Medicine

Belgian Blues dont really need to go to the gym, so it’s not really that hard to phantom.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

danielscrubs — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:09:36 +0000

Worse food and less fat shaming.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

danielscrubs — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:58:23 +0000

I think most europeans wouldnt mind agreeing to that most Asian countries are eating healthier, and their bmis will reflect that.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

danielscrubs — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:22:34 +0000

I know I will be downvoted into oblivion for this but here goes: Im sorry to be crass but if someone makes lifestyle changes after taking drugs its 100% the drugs.

Kind of tired of people taking anabolic steroids and then claiming it's a smaller part of their success or people being born rich talking about hard work whilst being on the golf course.

Just be happy that we live in a time where drugs have been painstakingly researched and move on without the ego boost. Be humble.

https://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/

New comment by danielscrubs in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

danielscrubs — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:09:41 +0000

Really hope I can return to Gentoo soon. It was just the most stable and most hacker friendly distro Ive ever used. Hats off to all the contributors!

New comment by danielscrubs in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

danielscrubs — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:31:49 +0000

Space before the command will have the same effect

New comment by danielscrubs in "Amazon demands proof of productivity from employees, asking for accomplishments"

danielscrubs — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:38:08 +0000

The Elon way is to fire the middle manager layer, the communication layer, that are great at writing accomplishments because they can be in ten projects at the same time.

New comment by danielscrubs in "'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory"

danielscrubs — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:18:17 +0000

So you don’t believe in the free market?

New comment by danielscrubs in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

danielscrubs — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:51:04 +0000

I would say basically everything that has won a an Apple Design Award before 2020.

Things for macOS for example.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Attention Is Bayesian Inference"

danielscrubs — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:23:44 +0000

Found it interesting and engaging, but having a CS professor at Colombia putting their name to AI “slop” is a bit unnerving. If they are writing papers for work you would hope they would enjoy the process of thinking and writing (journaling) instead of using ChatGPT.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)"

danielscrubs — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:32:24 +0000

It’s because maths are the ultimate abstraction. It’s timeless and corner cases (almost) fully understood. Ok maybe not, but at least relative to whatever JavaScript developers are reinventing for the thousand time.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

danielscrubs — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:47:50 +0000

I own stocks in an american oil company.

The media can blast propaganda all they want about the reasons. It’s just history repeating itself. Never trust american politicans.

If this started a war with China (it wont, but as a thought experiment), wouldn’t american politicans at least want to pretend this was the will of the people? Or are they just so sure they can set the discourse that democracy no longer has a meaning?

New comment by danielscrubs in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

danielscrubs — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:03:04 +0000

Same

New comment by danielscrubs in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

danielscrubs — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:00:30 +0000

Just tried it. Kind of awful for swedish, try “dem slår de”.

New comment by danielscrubs in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

danielscrubs — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:25:22 +0000

Can you explain it in another way? What you are saying is that instead of loosing 100% they loose 70% and loosing 70% is somehow good? Or are you saying the risk adjusted returns are then 30% better on the downside than previously thought? Because if you are, I think people here are saying the risk is so high that it is a given they will fail.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature"

danielscrubs — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:39:36 +0000

For my part it is the uneasy feeling of maybe being tracked and “sharing” private text/media either by accident or by the software’s malice.

Most devs want to put AI on their CV so they have strong personal incentives to circumvent what is best for their users.

Would you like to have LLM connections to Google from your OSS torrent client?

We can see the painting on the wall, but still not like it.

New comment by danielscrubs in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

danielscrubs — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:19:01 +0000

Do you think it would work on smart tvs with browsers?

If Im having people over I would never start a PC and ask them to hunker down, turning on the tv though…