<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dreamcompiler</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dreamcompiler</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 21:10:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dreamcompiler" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm about 90% certain that there are numerous huge inefficiencies in these big transformer models. Inefficiencies so big that eliminating them would make it possible to run the equivalent of the latest frontier models on your phone.<p>But nobody wants to look for them too hard because centralized AI as a service is where all the money is. So everybody keeps building bigger rather than smarter.</p>
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<p>Verisign tried this trick too.<p><a href="https://dn.org/the-sitefinder-debacle-that-shook-the-internets-foundation/" rel="nofollow">https://dn.org/the-sitefinder-debacle-that-shook-the-interne...</a></p>
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<p>Very likely they shipped with an ADMIN/ADMIN username/password and nobody changed it. Because who would want to break in to a freezer, right? It's not like there's bitcoin in there.<p>We've been telling people for years that naive threat modeling was going to bite everybody one day. And finally, here we are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:07:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338851</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly. That's part of what I meant by "none the wiser." The other being that the xmitter could in theory detect a missing antenna from the impedance mismatch and try to increase its power (assuming it knows how to do so without frying itself).</p>
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<p>No. Reflections happen with unmatched impedance.</p>
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<p>The detectors they use seem to measure only gamma. Not alpha or beta or neutrons. Which is not surprising since cheap handheld detectors usually only measure gamma.<p>This map is entertaining but it's not terribly useful scientifically.</p>
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<p>The point of a dummy load is to <i>match</i> the impedance so that all the radiative energy gets turned into heat and the transmitter is none the wiser.</p>
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<p>This. I've had this happen with relatives who come to visit. It's unkind to tell them "Don't fuck with the TV" or "Ignore the TV if it tells you it wants to connect to something."<p>They want to be "helpful" and show me they can "work tech" by doing stuff like this. They don't understand that the TV is manipulating them. I don't want to have to explain to them that I'm basically a neurosurgeon and they just tried to impress me by drilling a hole in somebody's head. Because the TV told them to.<p>Disconnecting the wifi avoids the need for unpleasant conversations.</p>
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<p>Better to replace the wifi antenna with a dummy load.</p>
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<p>> it's possible for a black hole to have a lower density than water<p>But that density is not homogeneous. It's <i>much</i> denser in the middle. As you cross the event horizon you wouldn't notice anything happening (as long as the BH is big enough that the tidal forces were small so you didnt get spaghettified). But things would feel very weird as you got closer to the middle.<p>Probably. Nobody has proved any of this but it seems likely.</p>
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<p>You can't build an ordinary 3-sphere in 3D Euclidean space; a 3-sphere is a hypersphere. Are you considering 4D spacetime as the container of the 3-sphere, or did you just mean the volume of the 2-sphere in 3-space (as opposed to its shell area)?</p>
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<p>The novel <i>Children of Time</i> describes a planet where this is the case. The inhabitants are used to it but fires there are pretty impressive.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)</a></p>
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<p>> at 43 percent a lightning strike will cause the entire atmosphere to ignite since it is so high in flammable oxygen<p>Good article except oxygen is not flammable. Oxygen is the stuff that makes other stuff flammable.</p>
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<p>And here I thought there was nothing I would ever suggest we rename after Trump.</p>
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<p>I got a used M2 Air a year ago and it's the best Apple laptop I've ever owned. And I've owned dozens.<p>Plus it runs Asahi linux on the metal.</p>
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<p>Yeah it was my cat. One bite and the screen turned black. He was a kitten at the time. Kittens chew on everything.</p>
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<p>That happened to my MBP without OLED. Fortunately I had Applecare.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:56:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244856</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He has a lot of company.</p>
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<p>I used to think this was a universal law but then there's Warren Buffett, who's rich but doesn't seem stupid. Of course he's not a <i>tech</i> billionaire.<p>And then there's Mark Cuban, who is a tech billionaire but who also still seems to have a working brain.</p>
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<p>You know how on a computer screen you can just drag any corner of a window to resize it? I had a dream once where I had a phone that worked that way. Want a bigger screen? Just drag one of the corners of the phone. Shove all the corners together and drop it in your pocket.<p>I used the hell out of that phone all night. Then I woke up and spent about an hour trying to figure out how to build one. I think I could do it in one dimension (i.e. make the phone wider) by rolling the screen around a tiny roller in the edge of the case, and having the case telescope. But that won't work in two dimensions at once. I never figured out how to do it in two dimensions.<p>When somebody builds one of these, I'll buy one.</p>
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