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New comment by dash2 in "Claude Fable 5"

dash2 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:16:38 +0000

What’s your evidence for this claim?

New comment by dash2 in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

dash2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:46:41 +0000

Let’s accept for the sake of argument that all the cookie banners are malicious compliance. Fine. Then they should change the law to stop the malicious compliance! Regulation has an outcome nobody likes. Are you gonna wait for every company to stop being “malicious”? Or are you gonna fix the law?

New comment by dash2 in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

dash2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:49:15 +0000

I wish Ed Zitron (currently also front page HN) would adopt this calm, measured writing style. It’s much more convincing and shorter to read too.

New comment by dash2 in "AI is slowing down"

dash2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:35:07 +0000

But then why don’t we see this productivity growth in any other statistics? In layoffs or in faster GDP growth or in new software products?

New comment by dash2 in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

dash2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:36:07 +0000

Look if everyone agrees the outcome of the law has been incredibly annoying, then that is ultimately down to the law and/or its enforcement. The point of the law is to provide incentives to self-interested actors for good behaviour. I see a lot of complacency in these threads, combined with a lot of frankly absurd posturing, like if anybody is against the GDPR, they must’ve been brainwashed by Elon Musk. No! People dislike it because they dislike its practical effects, and frankly the EU should take responsibility for that and try to fix it.

New comment by dash2 in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

dash2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:27:32 +0000

If your friends have never said “man I hate these cookie popups”, they sound like a highly selected group.

New comment by dash2 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dash2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:14:18 +0000

As I said, the indexes are stuck in a race to the bottom! I don’t like it either.

New comment by dash2 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dash2 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:40:28 +0000

Unfortunately, repeating the word “conservative” does not stop you from becoming the last buyer of overpriced stock, which others are buying exactly so they can unload onto you.

New comment by dash2 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dash2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:34:04 +0000

I’m seeing a lot of naive optimism about this decision.

The risk S&P takes by doing this is that they will still be forced to buy SpaceX, but a year after everybody else. Given that there is a massive amount of capital that you know will have to buy this stock in 12 months, that itself provides speculative reasons to buy it now.

The indices are in an unenviable position: a race to the bottom. The S&P 500 may be setting up its index funds simply to be the last buyer in a Ponzi scheme.

There is no guarantee that the market will find the “true value“ of SpaceX in the 12 month interval. Markets are frothy and speculative already, and they now have a built in exit liquidity provider.

New comment by dash2 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

dash2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:51:07 +0000

No, it's very likely they did. But to have memorized one proof for every academic paper would be very demanding on parameters, I think.

New comment by dash2 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

dash2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:22:52 +0000

I asked it to prove the theoretical result in a (published, prize-winning - though not really for the theory) academic paper of mine. The proofs hadn’t been that hard objectively, but they’d taken at least a week. I fed it the model. It got the correct basic results in about 5 minutes.

New comment by dash2 in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

dash2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:15:31 +0000

I think there's huge value to learning Latin, but that's because it was the core language of European civilization for millennia more than because it's a gateway to English.

Ancient Greek is a very difficult language. It takes a solid decade of work to learn, and the payoff is you get to read a few - admittedly brilliant - authors. I would not automatically prefer that to being able to talk to everyone in the Spanish-speaking world - or to learning la belle langue. Also, I don't think Greek was ever learnt by the majority of pupils.

A tutorial on conformal prediction [pdf]

dash2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:56:30 +0000

Article URL: https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume9/shafer08a/shafer08a.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384984

Points: 3

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New comment by dash2 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

dash2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:28:04 +0000

Why is that a mistake?

New comment by dash2 in "Book Dedications"

dash2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:37:52 +0000

If you read this and thought “these are twee, and I long not to read their books” - you got a friend in me.

None of these comes close to hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère.

New comment by dash2 in "Anthropic Expands Public Access to Claude Mythos AI Model"

dash2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:16:05 +0000

Actively misleading headline.

New comment by dash2 in "Palindromes by Eric Harshbarger"

dash2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:01:11 +0000

“Sport lacks a task… Caltrops!”

New comment by dash2 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

dash2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:03 +0000

Nobody was talking about Israel or Israeli policies towards Gaza, and there's no evidence that anyone in the thread is anything to do with the Israeli military.

New comment by dash2 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

dash2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:58:58 +0000

Literally the only thing the guy posted was a copy-pasted "Israel" location. What other possible interpretation is there than "this guy is from Israel, so you can't trust him"?

New comment by dash2 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

dash2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:59:42 +0000

Parent is agreeing with you.