Hacker News: freilanzer

New comment by freilanzer in "The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy"

freilanzer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:28:32 +0000

> some of his companies have made substantial contributions to pushing the frontier of technology (reusable landing, high launch cadence, electric cars, energy).

People he hired for these companies made contributions.

New comment by freilanzer in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

freilanzer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:26:37 +0000

I have one, and I used the ipad alternative that a friend has, and the ipad is just better. I haven't used the RM2 in over a year, since the functionality is just lacking compared to even a paper notebook - which is a ridiculous comparison.

New comment by freilanzer in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

freilanzer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:24:19 +0000

The RM2 also fails at organizing: no text search in PDFs and not in notes, if you don't convert every handwritten note into text on a new page; only tags, which means if you don't add tags everywhere, you can't find anything by searching; etc. It's extremely expensive for the functionality it offers.

New comment by freilanzer in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

freilanzer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:22:20 +0000

Don't, it's just an expensive replacement for pen and paper, and the best overall pro is that you have your notes in one place. That's it. No text search, etc. make it so much less useful than it could be.

New comment by freilanzer in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

freilanzer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:18:37 +0000

> only a scratch paper replacement. But it’s not as economical if limited to this.

That's exactly the use case though. It's a replacement for pen and paper, and the lack of functionality is seen as a feature.

New comment by freilanzer in "ReMarkable Paper Pro Move"

freilanzer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:17:38 +0000

My pen is misaligned with the point on the paper by about 1-2 mm often, and no amount of swiping the side of the pen, etc. could fix it so far.

New comment by freilanzer in "China is eating the world"

freilanzer — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:24:49 +0000

Qwen scores very high in the MTEB: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

New comment by freilanzer in "China is eating the world"

freilanzer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:29:08 +0000

Qwen3-Embedding is really good, imo. It allows me to release a global feature that would have been extremely difficult otherwise.

New comment by freilanzer in "China is eating the world"

freilanzer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:27:48 +0000

"My ignorance and stupidity is just as good as your logic and facts!"

New comment by freilanzer in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

freilanzer — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:58:43 +0000

Not at all.

New comment by freilanzer in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

freilanzer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:31:26 +0000

No, cars have these in addition to seatbelts, not to protect drivers who unbuckle themselves.

New comment by freilanzer in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

freilanzer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:30:52 +0000

So, you want an LLM to act as a psychiatrist and diagnose users whether they're allowed to use it or not?

New comment by freilanzer in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

freilanzer — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:04:00 +0000

> It's most glaringly obvious in TV shows. Scenes from The Big Bang Theory look like someone clumsily tries to paint over the scenes with oil paint. It's as if the actors are wearing an inch thick layer of poorly applied makeup.

This might be the uploaders doing to avoid copyright strikes.

New comment by freilanzer in "Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky"

freilanzer — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:57:45 +0000

Same with Mastodon for me. It's good, and the app is well done, but there's just no reason for me to use it.

New comment by freilanzer in "'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court"

freilanzer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:44:12 +0000

That's a very good point.

New comment by freilanzer in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

freilanzer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:19:00 +0000

Training and genetics.

New comment by freilanzer in "Leeches and the legitimizing of folk-medicine"

freilanzer — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:05:37 +0000

Yes, it is. People have gotten better after having been told by someone in a labcoat that what they're taking is a placebo.

New comment by freilanzer in "Why Nim?"

freilanzer — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:55:56 +0000

It's patronizing.

New comment by freilanzer in "Lördagsgodis (Saturday Sweets)"

freilanzer — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:17:59 +0000

> ... patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were unknowingly fed large amounts of sweets to see whether a high-sugar diet would cause tooth decay.

Nice.

New comment by freilanzer in "Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious""

freilanzer — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:23:57 +0000

> People are still free to criticize Trump all they want. The First Amendment is pretty clear on this.

In theory.