Hacker News: edot

New comment by edot in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

edot — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:36:53 +0000

This makes no sense. If Satoshi's wallets come alive, Bitcoin goes to zero because they were clearly hacked, meaning the entire tech is suspect. Or it would also go to zero but because it's revealed that Satoshi is GCHQ or NSA and the entire tech is suspect. This would happen within minutes.

New comment by edot in "Apple HomeView"

edot — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:42:53 +0000

Yes, it’s insanely slow now. So bad, I unenrolled from the beta. I mostly use Siri for reminders and alarms and somehow it was spending upwards of 5 seconds on the new Siri AI to do these tasks. Unusable.

New comment by edot in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

edot — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:29:44 +0000

Oh boy, please not 2. What if this was a thing already and, since neither Newton nor Liebnitz had kids, we all had to pay some investors who bought the rights to calculus every time we took a derivative.

New comment by edot in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

edot — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:25:59 +0000

Sure and if I make a half court shot after an hour of trying, the result only took 1 second.

New comment by edot in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

edot — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:34:37 +0000

Quote was from Thiel FYI. https://youtu.be/B7yl7fEHeKM?t=840

New comment by edot in "Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage"

edot — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:22:57 +0000

But also: “Whoever allies themselves with the enemies of our liberal democracy will be found out“. So … Russia?

New comment by edot in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

edot — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:18:37 +0000

I must admit I only watched a clip, not the full interview. The quote I’m remembering was something along the likes of AI being more dangerous than nukes. In literally no circumstance is that true. One is a literal nuclear bomb. You wouldn’t say that a nuke is as dangerous as AI, which logically must be true if the reverse is true. You also wouldn’t say a diagram of a nuke is more dangerous than an actual nuke …

New comment by edot in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

edot — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:48:01 +0000

Absolutely based. Finally someone of stature in the industry calling this whole fear overblown. Bill Gates sounded like a nontechnical goofball in his Ezra Klein interview where he basically just screamed that the Terminator is real.

There are lots of real worries (government use to suppress the people with minimal manpower or popular support, brainrot and fake news, unemployment due to the belief that LLMs can replace people, education collapse, etc.) we should instead be looking at. This whole rogue AI shtick is tiresome.

New comment by edot in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

edot — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:09:58 +0000

Proof? Like, do you have logs or something? Not calling you a liar but this seems not correct based on my usage.

New comment by edot in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

edot — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:05:48 +0000

Well, not exactly. Have you ever seen the quality of life of someone on substantial government assistance? It’s not a life I’d want. No one lives on food stamps and Medicaid because they enjoy it.

New comment by edot in "Ember-1"

edot — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:47:12 +0000

There’s a safer way to do this with nearly no added friction. Give it a read only API key. Then just ask it to write the API calls into a bash script and then read it and run it yourself. The agent can still inspect the live resources and diagnose and give you more commands to run. I do agree I wouldn’t give it create / write access.

New comment by edot in "Jev and System One Models: Calibration Beats Accuracy"

edot — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:56:19 +0000

Humans don’t use “quietly” in normal parlance. Come on man, try harder.

Edit: Dude, you didn’t even use the thing you’re talking about? It’s on OpenRouter. Do better!

Edit 2: OP is a ~60 day old account, only other (positive) commenter is a ~48 day old account. Sus.

New comment by edot in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

edot — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:57:30 +0000

Surely if this were the reason, you'd just put it in international waters?

New comment by edot in "ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit"

edot — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:39:36 +0000

It’s good for getting free access to preprints which are often close enough to the paywalled real papers in journals. If I find a paper I want (or more realistically, if ChatGPT finds a paper it wants for me), but it’s behind a paywall, odds are the authors put a preprint on arXiv.

New comment by edot in "ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit"

edot — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:37:49 +0000

Tom Dietterich (Editor in Chief at arXiv) posted on LinkedIn the other day that they’re having trouble keeping up with the onslaught of AI-generated papers. Lots of suggestions in the comments but no magic bullets.

It’s ironic that the LLMs which benefit so much from reading arXiv papers of yore are now being used to pollute it. Personally if I see a single author post 2023, I assume it’s junk, especially if they’re not from an actual research institution. Not all solo independent researchers are phonies but … many phonies are solo independent researchers.

OpenReview is okay but even some of the reviewers are apparently using LLMs or just hardly reading.

New comment by edot in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

edot — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:50:00 +0000

Sure, but I was replying to a comment saying that they "won't sell". My point is they absolutely do sell.

New comment by edot in "Jev Can't Be Calibrated"

edot — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:42:29 +0000

It's on OpenRouter if you want to try it.

New comment by edot in "Jev Can't Be Calibrated"

edot — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:41:37 +0000

But why? Jev-style models seem useful for "I have no clue what my incoming distribution looks like but I need to give some sort of answer". If I know what my incoming distribution looks like I'll just upload a CSV of that into ChatGPT and ask it to fit a basic ML model on my data.

New comment by edot in "Jev Can't Be Calibrated"

edot — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:58:45 +0000

Hah! I did the exact same tests as you! I found that if you give it the choice to say "not sure", it picks that 100% of the time. But if you pin it in a corner, then yes it does these weird things. Also yes, the continuous options were much more accurate than the choices. Not sure why that is.

New comment by edot in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

edot — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:19:18 +0000

There are lots of products we know are bad for the world that still sell plenty well. Petroleum products (to include plastic), cigarettes, alcohol, guns, etc.

People generally understand that all of the above are not clear absolute negatives. There are some positives to each. And to LLMs.