<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: ghkbrew</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ghkbrew</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:28:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ghkbrew" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[Citation Needed]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016037</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only if you're made of pure water at standard pressure. Which I'm not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:26:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707867</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This title is clickbait.<p>From the abstract:
"The Index captures technical exposure, where AI can perform occupational tasks, <i>not displacement</i> outcomes or adoption timelines." (emphasis mine)<p>The 11.7% figures is the modeled reduction in "wage value", which appears to be marketplace value of (human) work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:05:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058788</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "Common yeast can survive Martian conditions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they prefer "Jovians".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676260</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well no actually it'd still clear to me that they mean the the multiplication of 3 different variables X, N, and D.<p>I don't think of it as eliding obvious operators. Rather in mathematics juxtaposition is used <i>as</i> an operator to represent multiplication. You would never elide an addition operator.<p>So X next to D still means multiplication as long as you can tell that X and D are separate entities.<p>I would wonder why they switched conventions in the middle of an expression though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127480</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume they use N⋅D rather than ND to make it explicit these are 2 different variables. That's not necessary for 6N because variable names don't start with a number by convention.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122167</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "Eels are fish"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I regret to report that there is surely no such thing as a fish.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/12/04/no-fish/" rel="nofollow">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/12/04/no-fish/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:36:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116347</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mosh looks very cool, though I've never used it. Does Screen provide some advantage over tmux in this setup?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:55:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760101</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My calculations says that moving 1cm up or down earths gravity well (at the surface) changes the acceleration of gravity about 5x more than the acceleration you'd feel from a 100kg mass 1m away.<p>Assuming my math is correct, it's already affected by nearby human scale masses, for certain values of "near".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:09:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575852</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44575852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "CU Randomness Beacon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From tfa:<p>Often, randomness is thought of as something you want to keep hidden, such as when generating passwords or cryptographic keys. However, there are many applications where an independent and public source of randomness is useful. For example, randomizing public audits, selecting candidates for jury duty, or fairly assigning resources through a lottery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499651</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "P-Hacking in Startups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The chance that a positive result is a false positive depends on the false positive rate of your test <i>and</i> on total population statistics.<p>E.g. imagine your test has a 5% false positive rate for a disease only 1 in 1 million people has. If you test 1 million people you expect 50,000 false positive and 1 true positive. So the chance that one of those positive results is a false positive is 50,000/50,001, not 5/100.<p>Using a p-value threshold of 0.05 similar to saying: I'm going to use a test that will call a false result positive 5% of the time.<p>The author said: chance that a positive result is a false positive == the false positive rate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:59:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347023</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "WebGL Water (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here I am running just fine on a 3 year old phone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 01:11:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942454</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43942454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "Java's SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs. Yyyy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why does YYYY exist? Is there some common need I'm not familiar with?<p>Also, I clicked on the title because I wanted to know what format Yyyy was... I feel mislead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:46:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42586637</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42586637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42586637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The second is (and has been) defined independent of length for a while.  It's the time it takes for a certain number oscillations of a caesium atom.<p>The meter was redefined as the distance light travels in a specific time. So you could say that either the meter or the speed of light was redefined to make the speed of light a round constant, but not the second.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:12:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640959</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Doesn't that mean you need all the app's library dependencies installed into your alternate libdirs that you bind mount over top the "real" libdirs? Not just the ones you want to override?<p>You can also create a temp directory with symlinks as a poor mans overlay fs. You bind mount the original dir in an out of the way location so you can link to it and bind the temp dir over the standard location.<p>I believe thats what Nix's bubblewrap based FHSenv was doing last I checked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634368</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "Scale of the Universe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We (the humans) would fit into Texas regardless of whether the land we owned would ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090658</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to your link, both of those are applied to extracted stem cells which are then reintroduced. The ability to perform clonal expansion and DNA sequencing makes it possible that screening for off-target edits could be performed. Though I have no idea if it's actually done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:02:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762994</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "On Proprioception, the Sixth Sense of Storytelling (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really. You actually have a unique set of sensory neurons that tell you the spacial orientation of your body by measuring muscle/ligament stretch:
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception</a><p>Edit: yes your general "body sense" is intergrated over multiple senses, including sight, touch, inner ear, ... but my point is that proprioception is an independent signal in that mix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:34:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159549</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't be ridiculous, Vine Is Not an Emulator</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364395</link><dc:creator>ghkbrew</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghkbrew in "LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, then they're left with a pretty incriminating pattern of behavior when someone objects to the officers behavior during that traffic stop.</p>
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