Hacker News: evv555

New comment by evv555 in "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation"

evv555 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:14:00 +0000

You got a source for that?

New comment by evv555 in "Tech takes the Pareto principle too far"

evv555 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:44:35 +0000

I don't really disagree but if you look at the most played games on steam many of them are now old. There's a growing inventory of games that are turning into classics.

New comment by evv555 in "Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice"

evv555 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:31:52 +0000

>The dream can be either vivid or fuzzy, but it plays out in just the same manner as when I'm asleep, just kind of superimposed upon my normal waking senses. I guess this is a combination of "I just thought this is how it was for everybody," as well as "I never stopped and paid attention to what was actually happening, and once I did I noticed how weird it was."

This was the primary effect I got from theta wave binaural beats. Superimposed but at same time not easily accessible as a memory even though it was happening at the moment. Like with a regular dream once a bit of the dream was recalled the rest of it would come back to memory.

New comment by evv555 in "Personality Basins"

evv555 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:33:44 +0000

You can accept that "personalities" have a state space without falling into reductive explanations. They're not mutually exclusive.

New comment by evv555 in "Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives"

evv555 — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:15:42 +0000

bm25 is often used along side vector search with a reciprocal rerank algorithm.

New comment by evv555 in "The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism"

evv555 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:22:14 +0000

It was just the less controversial direction. You would be accused of anthropomorphizing and teleological thinking if you suggested evolution is a search process towards some optimum. Good luck talking to an orthodox biologist about evolutionary processes with constructs like agents and intelligence.

New comment by evv555 in "The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism"

evv555 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:52:17 +0000

>The encoder being evolution is an idea that has been developed by Sui Huang and numerous others.

Parallels between evolutionary systems and hill-climbing algorithms have been floating around for a long time at this point.

New comment by evv555 in "Share of total health spending, by percentile"

evv555 — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:43:32 +0000

Is this over a lifetime or any given year? If it's the latter it's just a different 1 percent every year which will eventually include you. Clickbait framing of data.

New comment by evv555 in "Evidence for global cultural diffusion"

evv555 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:23:01 +0000

I lean towards the "convergent evolution" explanations of perennial philosophies as well. However paleolithic humans have also gone through geographical and population bottlenecks. If there are convergent features in culture you would expect them to also be the ones highly conserved after going through such a bottleneck. I don't draw the same conclusions as the author but the idea of paleolithic story telling as being an ancient memory preservation mechanism is compelling.

New comment by evv555 in "Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search"

evv555 — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:16:09 +0000

Llamaindex rerank module

New comment by evv555 in "The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin"

evv555 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:21:28 +0000

>If you just look at plant morphology and animal anatomy then evolution is kind of obvious.

Before evolution this was the "great chain of being" ontology which tried to explain the continuous gradation of structures in the world. Ideas like "missing link" appear within this worldview before Darwin's theory[1]. It's mostly accurate to say evolutionary theory is the great chain of being worldview with an added temporal dimension.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being#Scala_Nat...

New comment by evv555 in "Google Genie lets users generate AI outputs resembling video games"

evv555 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:01:05 +0000

The images are great for memes/sh*tposting. These are still curated content though.

New comment by evv555 in "28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid"

evv555 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:23:40 +0000

>Tidal energy is wasted by natural coastlines all the time

Erosion is a major part of Earth's carbon cycle[1]. It's not a given that you can scale this technology without impact.

1. https://carbonclaire.com/the-carbon-cycle/#:~:text=The%20geo....

New comment by evv555 in "It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life"

evv555 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:01:36 +0000

>Genes, proteins and processes such as evolution don’t have goals, but a person certainly does. So, too, do plants and bacteria, on more-simple levels

If we're expanding the scope of what we consider to have agency and goal directedness why stop there? Evolution is analogous to a hill climbing algorithm which also has the same properties.

New comment by evv555 in "Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it"

evv555 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:03:00 +0000

Speaking in the context of thinkers like Harris this is the reason why awareness is differentiated from consciousness. Consciousness is the ability to grasp the world "out there". Awareness is the blank canvas where consciousness is experienced. The analogy here is a movie projected onto a movie screen. Consciousness is the movie being played. The screen is the blank space of experience where the movie is projected. I think the confusion is there is no logically consistent differentiation of concepts like intelligence, consciousness, awareness in the sciences and they end up being used interchangeably.

New comment by evv555 in "Why liberalism and leftism are increasingly at odds"

evv555 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:00:05 +0000

In critical theory liberalism is synonymous with colonialism, capitalism, and all the other isms that are meant to be deconstructed. The antagonism is a core component of postmodernism.

New comment by evv555 in "Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out"

evv555 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:10:09 +0000

1) Yes why would you assume a a GenX would not know how to navigate algorithmic filter bubbles?

2) The low quality content on the fyp is actually representative of the state of affairs for many youth. Media and data literacy is not a strong point of GenZ. The amount of ridiculous conspiracy theories(both left and right) going viral is a parallel universe of the infamous boomer political chain emails.

New comment by evv555 in "Anger as some Google cloud customers locked out of files"

evv555 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:18:01 +0000

Its a good start but still falls short of the 3-2-1 principle. You should have an additional backup that is air-gapped.

New comment by evv555 in "US Housing Supply – What happens when all the boomers die? (2017)"

evv555 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 11:16:52 +0000

Ahh I see. Blackstone and friends are pricing out regular people from shelter out of concern for the environment. This must be a big boost for their ESG score.

New comment by evv555 in "Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse"

evv555 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 11:13:56 +0000

Most of these managers have a keepass export option. Best option