<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: drtgh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drtgh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:51:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drtgh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drtgh in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You do not need to shred books to scan them. This only happens if you don't care about preserving the integrity of the books and you want to scan more cheaply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:16:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386449</link><dc:creator>drtgh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drtgh in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable.<p>Sounds like some kind of Stockholm syndrome. Years ago, it was standard practice for software to be designed so that users could grant permissions to access invasive methods or functions.<p>Google relies on users' personal data (ads), which is why they introduced a unique ID to their Chrome browser (to track).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:17:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306204</link><dc:creator>drtgh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drtgh in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is different from before. The programmers are used to read the code of smart or creative people, or the code of knolled people working for years to solve a specific problem, and within this process they analyze and learn to improve, thanks to this self-learning path, eureka moments included. This process includes to search (to read the voice of different perspectives and knowledges, to learn to use critical thinking).<p>Now is being proposed to read LLMs' slope and unrevised code constructed from statistics as the way to learn? This is a big mistake. IMHO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:06:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164518</link><dc:creator>drtgh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drtgh in "Europe's fires are just the start"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my country (EU) when large-scale land-use projects are approved —such as solar panel farms, mining operations, and buildings construction— fires break out and they burn everything in their path, tens of thousands of hectares. This -often- even happens the day after the project's approval (they are not scared). Time ago, laws that prevented construction on protected land after a fire were removed (included more sabotages on prevention that came after that. This along two different governments of supposedly opposite colors).<p>On television such fires were/are sold/brainwashed as climate change, rather than corruption and psychopaths.<p>I would recommend to keep an eye on this things, to investigate possible motivations, independently, fire by fire.</p>
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<p>Within the Multi-Account Containers extension (Mozilla's extension) you can setup this, so I guess they will implement it also.<p>The behaviour is, before requesting the domain, to ask you if you want to open such domain in its assigned container or if you want to continue using the current open tab/container. You can also select the Don't ask me again option.  (among other useful options, like if this should be done opening a new tab).</p>
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<p>LLMs are vectorial databases with losses. They use the characters(bits) in the input question to index the query, and are quite bad at retaining the context of such query. This is why companies have named the split and shortening of the length of those inputs as "agents".<p>They named it like this due they follow a marketing that personify the names of the methods, to make people believe they are dealing with a different technology, including the named 'thinking' methods that simply query twice to increase the index of the next query, and so on.<p>I think introducing aliens and robots will make children believe it is magic, like if intelligent entities or a thinking were behind the answers/procedures, and that such "answers" are smarter than them or even their parents, when in reality, it is a marketing personified model joining statistical characters(bits) from the text with created such a vectorial database with loses, and guaranteed errors presence, with joins like a pachinko machine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920195</link><dc:creator>drtgh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drtgh in "Multilingual experience linked to delayed aging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> China at least has begun cutting foreign-language programs because such AI translation is seen as the way of future. Once this tool becomes adopted enough societally, the learning of foreign languages is going to become a very niche hobby.<p>If this happens, professional or reliable translations will only be accessible to those who can afford/pay them, leaving everyone else stuck with the errors produced by LLMs.<p>To use machine translation, one have to know the language to review the output; otherwise, you're doomed to mistakes. Whatever you do with LLMs, the same thing will happen.<p>I would name all the marketing surrounding the A"I" as the LLM's blindness virus, or something similar.</p>
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<p>> But chat control and age verification are different things.<p>Although they appear to be different different things at first sight, they share the same agenda and objective, mass surveillance and identification of the citizens. Once the door is opened, it can be expected that things will not end there; Politicians and their patrons will exploit this data under "committees" (and of course be excluded from such surveillance as an aggravating factor).<p>Nowadays it's needed a court order to access legally to the privacy of citizens, and this must be done by the Police or the Interpol, nevertheless someones want to break this.<p>If they were really worried by the citizens security, they would increase the number of police and judges working in this digital divisions, among other things related to this.</p>
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<p>It goes even further than that. since we don’t know what causes Alzheimer’s, what they’re doing is trying to cure their own laboratory-induced symptoms in mice. It’s like trying to fix a car’s ABS system by simulating tire slippage.<p>This is so obvious that the only thing I can think is that they simply don't care. They just want to find something that masks the symptoms (perhaps to keep patients dependent on the drug for life if they succeed).<p>What causes Alzheimer gentlemen? very few people is really trying to solve this answer.<p>Is it even known what causes the moments of lucidity in patients? Molecules should be mapped to identify the patterns (and therefore track possible sources).</p>
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<p>Surveillance PC, the product will be the people's collected data.<p>(they've gone to the next level this time)</p>
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<p>> AI could repeat this pattern at a larger scale — generating faster results within the existing paradigm, while the structural conditions for disruptive science remain unchanged or worsen.<p>Worsen. LLMs discard/loses and mixes data on their statistical "compression" to create their vectorial database model. Across the time, successive feed back will be homologous to create a jpg image sourcing a jpg image that was created from another jpg image, through this "gaussian" loop.<p>Those faster (but worst) results will degrade real valuable data and science at a speed/rate that will statistically discard good done science on a regular basis, systematically.<p>IMHO.</p>
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<p>Why did you used the "untrusted code" term? sounds like if you were delegating all the weight over the user's shoulders,<p>two years ago, trusted code like xz-utils [0] had seven months of freedom in the infected systems.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891607">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891607</a><p>> its not related to x11<p>Ideally one want to detect malware the earlier possible, and try to restrict what they can do from the beginning, until is noticed.<p>In this case Wayland, voluntarily or not, it's more restrictive than X11 with the access to screen and keyboard.<p>I know, I know, later the reply of the community will be a couple of downvotes more and "that already existed", "you could use, bla bla bla", and this is how Linux is ten years (minimal) behind Windows in tooling for this matter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
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<p>> [Palantir] The Miami-based company, co-founded by the billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel<p>And backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital (CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency of the US).<p><a href="https://fortune.com/2025/07/29/in-q-tel-cia-venture-capital-palantir-anduril/" rel="nofollow">https://fortune.com/2025/07/29/in-q-tel-cia-venture-capital-...</a></p>
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<p>Keyloggers for example.<p>Linux always has been a system were the existence of malware was ignored, specially Desktop, contrary to other OSes (tooling included). But since a couple of years ago can be observed (I observe) slooow movements trying to correct this colossal mistake.<p>If this is the best way to do it or not, I do not enter. I particularly just welcome most of the advancements about this matter in Linux due such absence of worrying, keeping my fingers crossed that the needed tooling arrives on time (ten years behind Windows, I think).</p>
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<p>> It seems to me your design goal is fundamentally incompatible with a lot of the specific complaints of negligence. If you want a design that doesn't melt down when there is an earthquake and a tsunami, then moving the reactor to higher ground isn't helpful because it won't achieve the design goal.<p>My goal? My solution? My design!? you must be now kidding,<p>- GE original design 30-35 meters above the sea.<p>- Warnings about reinforce safety along one decade.<p>- Tsunami at Fukushima's nuclear plant, 15 meters above the sea.<p>> I wasn't going to reply but that seems like it moves the conversation forward; so why not?<p>Foward to... nothing it seems. You just replied with hypotheticals like if the event didn't happened, and as if such event would have been impossible to avoid, with some kind of dissociative reflexions that surpass the cynicism. I'm the one that is not going to reply.</p>
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<p>> I'm just not sure where you are going with that, it doesn't obviously suggest negligence to me.<p>You didn't read the report or search for information about the matter, but I have not problem to repeat it for you,<p>The General Electric's design was originally designed to be placed 30-35 meters above the ocean, instead of this TEPCO modified such design and constructed at sea level (almost) recurring to studies convenient to their purpose, cheaper, this in one of the more tsunami-prone countries, with an history of ones reaching 20-30 meters. When those -for them- convenient studies was not longer justifiable, as deeper studies did finally refute them, they decided to just keep ignoring all the warnings and requests to reinforce the safety. They knew the nuclear plant was in danger, they always knew it, General Electric didn't designed at 30-35 meters above the ocean by coincidence, and this happened with a supposed regulator always closing the eyes to this, conveniently, across those years, ignoring even pipes with fissures.<p>Well, this obviously suggest negligence to me. Decades of bad decisions with a strong smell to corruption.<p>> You're not saying what tolerances you want them to design to.<p>What about tolerance to avoid a meltdown of the core, specially under two events, an earthquake and a tsunami, exactly what happened after ignoring the warnings and requests to reinforce the safety.<p>> Oh well then. I had no idea. I thought the consequences were minor and now I have learned ... there you go, I suppose. I'm not really sure what to do with this new information.<p>Keep the sarcasm for other places, if you don't mind. It is not a mere gentlest engineering disaster as it reached the whole planet, with ate TEPCO's cesium-137, specially the Japanese. And it is not a mere gentlest engineering disaster when you have to force vulnerable people to go to ground zero to move contaminated land and water.</p>
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<p>Did you read the report I put? the pdf,<p><pre><code>    << The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant construction was based on the seismological knowledge of more than 40 years ago. As research continued over the years, researchers repeatedly pointed out the high possibility of tsunami levels reaching beyond the assumptions made at the time of construction, as well as the possibility of reactor core damage in the case of such a tsunami. However, TEPCO downplayed this danger. Their countermeasures were insufficient, with no safety margin.>>

    << By 2006, NISA and TEPCO shared information on the possibility of a station blackout occurring at the Fukushima Daiichi plant should tsunami levels reach the site. They also shared an awareness of the risk of potential reactor core damage from a breakdown of sea water pumps if the magnitude of a tsunami striking the plant turned out to be greater than the assessment made by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.>>
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Even leaving aside they ignored the original placement in order to reduce costs by using biased seismological reports of their convenience, TEPCO knew the plant was at risk, they was warned successively it was at risk. And the supposed regulator NISA [0] closed the eyes conveniently (conveniently for someones).<p><pre><code>    << TEPCO was clearly aware of the danger of an accident. It was pointed out to them many times since 2002 that there was a high possibility that a tsunami would be larger than had been postulated, and that such a tsunami would easily cause core damage.>>
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From the other url I put (I updated it with a cached url, I didn't noticed the article was deleted),<p><pre><code>    << there appear to have been deficiencies in tsunami modeling procedures, resulting in an insufficient margin of safety at Fukushima Daiichi. A nuclear power plant built on a slope by the sea must be designed so that it is not damaged as a tsunami runs up the slope.>>
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[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_Industrial_Safety_Agency" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_Industrial_Safety_...</a><p>>  the gentlest engineering disaster<p>EU raised the maximum permitted levels of radioactive contamination for imported food following Fukushima, this is not a gentlest gesture to the Europeans. Japanese citizens also received their dose, at time the more vulnerable ones was recruited by the Yakuza to clean up the zone.</p>
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<p>In Japan they have the "Tsunami Stones" [0] across the coast, memorials to remind future generations of the highest point the water reached.<p>It was negligent to construct a nuclear plant at sea level, it was just a plant waiting to be flooded, and for such case they had ten years to design protections after being requested to reinforce measures (along with the other Japanese plants), but I can imagine the ones that should put the money was not very collaborative (I even doubt if such responsible learnt the lesson).<p>[0] <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnin...</a><p>If it was a cheese model or not I do not enter (notice that parent of parent and me are different users), their negligence breaks all the possible logic we could apply without introducing the corruption's variable behind such decades of bad decisions.</p>
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<p>Fukushima was designed to be constructed on a hill 30-35 meters above the ocean, but someones decided would be cheaper to construct it at sea level in order to reduce costs in water pumping, others decided to approve this, and much latter, one decade before the disaster when was requested to reinforce the security measures within all the reactors at Japan, those in charge of Fukushima decided to ignore it, again, pushing for extensions year after year until it all blew up. Decades of bad decisions with a strong smell to corruption.<p><a href="https://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp/en/report/" rel="nofollow">https://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp...</a><p><a href="https://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/NAIIC_Eng_Chapter1_web.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp...</a><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210314022059/https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/06/why-fukushima-was-preventable-pub-47361" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20210314022059/https://carnegiee...</a></p>
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<p>Plus, related (storage), you do not want to put hydroelectric in water reservoirs targeted to population consumption, as you could find out one summer that the reservoirs are empty, the result of such water being used with the intention of generate electricity, or even used as inertial stabilizer for renewables.<p>This is the moment were at the news you read "There's a drought because it isn't raining" and similar excuses, when in reality your five years of water's reservoirs become reduced to half -or one third- due they focused the electricity production over the population real water demand.<p>I mean, hydroelectric needs at least two level’s reservoirs, one to generate electricity (or even exclusive two level's reservoirs with water pumps for this), and the next one, absolutely untouchable by the electric companies, targeted as water storage for the population/agriculture, the classic more than five years reservoir, for real.</p>
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