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New comment by dooglius in "More Whimsical OEIS Sequences"

dooglius — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:17:56 +0000

I am missing some context here what was wrong with the original description?

New comment by dooglius in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

dooglius — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:12:34 +0000

Since no one is being quantitative, here's a medical source:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/water-intoxic...

> In some people, water intoxication symptoms can develop after drinking about a gallon (3 to 4 liters) of water over an hour or two.

> More than 32 ounces (about a liter) of water per hour is probably too much.

New comment by dooglius in "C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers"

dooglius — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:19:38 +0000

The preceding comment indicates that the intent is to support other compilers. I think a better approach is to define __glibc_attribute__ based on compiler support and to stick to that within glibc since there's no reason to think that another compiler's attributes have the same semantics as GNU C's.

New comment by dooglius in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

dooglius — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:03:00 +0000

Just because other organizations do it doesn't make it not objectionable, and there have been many threads on HN criticizing Mozilla's structure along similar lines.

In this case, my understanding is that e.g. Altman is on the nonprofit board and also makes big $$$ from the for-profit, which seems like a pretty big conflict of interest.

New comment by dooglius in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

dooglius — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:25:33 +0000

The objectional part would be:

- in 2019, OpenAI created a capped-profit subsidiary in order to attract funding from commercial entities

Particularly if it creates a conflict of interest for anyone making decisions on behalf of the nonprofit

New comment by dooglius in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

dooglius — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:34:18 +0000

Technically one of {Newton, Leibniz} was first, but you're missing GP's point

New comment by dooglius in "Accelerando (2005)"

dooglius — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:14:46 +0000

I wish I had read Deepness first as Fire sort of spoils it (granted, either direction will spoil some things)

New comment by dooglius in "Accelerando (2005)"

dooglius — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:06:09 +0000

> how to build shelter, what things I can eat, how to catch stuff, make tools, etc...

None of GP's examples appear to be covered by that training

New comment by dooglius in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"

dooglius — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:37:38 +0000

It would be instructive to actually look at the studies in question and whether or not they were odd or esoteric.

New comment by dooglius in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

dooglius — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:30:16 +0000

Singapore already uses caning in schools, so it sounds this just extends it to be used in cases of bullying

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore?useskin=ve...

New comment by dooglius in "Train Your Own LLM from Scratch"

dooglius — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:15:01 +0000

I don't think GP was being snarky, how else would you expect someone to cite a name he recognized?

New comment by dooglius in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

dooglius — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:35:55 +0000

> biological death is necessary for an ecosystem

Can you expand on this? How do you explain e.g. ecosystems around centuries-old redwoods?

New comment by dooglius in "Zed 1.0"

dooglius — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:43:46 +0000

Further discussion from dang on the "contrarian dynamic": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601

New comment by dooglius in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

dooglius — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:10:16 +0000

Figure 1 in the paper helps contextualize the numbers better.

New comment by dooglius in "DeepSeek v4"

dooglius — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:54:38 +0000

Parent was being sarcastic

New comment by dooglius in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

dooglius — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:10:45 +0000

Have you considered that the smooth-talking "mature" and "professional" people are more likely to sell your data to advertisers at the first opportunity?

New comment by dooglius in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

dooglius — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:43:29 +0000

Normal military procurement is going to go through process and use the APIs that Anthropic gives them. The NSA just has to has to achieve the goal of getting the weights out of the target computer.

New comment by dooglius in "We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models"

dooglius — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:13:15 +0000

The analogy doesn't really apply but if someone had a new solution to FLT that could be understood in an hour that would be a pretty big deal I think

New comment by dooglius in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

dooglius — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:17:06 +0000

Thanks for trying to maintain the list as long as you could!

I think you are assuming that the government does not _also_ have secret agreements with big 3D printer manufacturers (to which the state of CA may not be privy)

New comment by dooglius in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

dooglius — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:35:36 +0000

The bottom of that wiki page has links to EFF pages. However you are correct that they view it as a lost battle:

  (Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable. Although we still don't know if this is correct, or how subsequent generations of forensic tracking technologies might work, it is probably safest to assume that all modern color laser printers do include some form of tracking information that associates documents with the printer's serial number. (If any manufacturer wishes to go on record with a statement to the contrary, we'll be happy to publish that here.)

  (Added 2017) REMINDER: IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT NECESSARILY USING YELLOW DOTS. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE CODES ARE VISIBLE TO THE EYE AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PRINTER MODELS ARE LISTED HERE. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE PRINTERS THAT ARE LISTED HERE AS NOT PRODUCING YELLOW DOTS.

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