Hacker News: golem14

New comment by golem14 in "Good type against all odds"

golem14 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:33:44 +0000

Yes, please continue to the Lord's work. Reading this site is always a pleasure.

New comment by golem14 in "OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology"

golem14 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:58:37 +0000

OKI, as in ... my old laser printer ?

New comment by golem14 in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

golem14 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:54:13 +0000

Exactly. We should have a general kickstarter-like fund for cases like this. Maybe John Oliver is interested :)

New comment by golem14 in "Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion"

golem14 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:52:37 +0000

I wish they had used a better name. Why try to make it sound sinister and adjacent to piratebay etc? It's not that these models are illegal to own or download.

New comment by golem14 in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

golem14 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:23:41 +0000

I doubt it. Trademark “infringement “ only happens when the two parties compete in the same space. I think if the other party is the music party game, you’re pretty much in the clear. They may still sue you and lose unless you cave.

New comment by golem14 in "There is NO realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity"

golem14 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:01:02 +0000

My most likely doom scenario is that a frontier model convinces the CIC to press the nuclear retaliation button. Maybe this will only kill 90% of humans, but as far as I am concerned, that’s good enough.

New comment by golem14 in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

golem14 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:03:54 +0000

The famous salami tactic (Yes, Minister)

New comment by golem14 in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

golem14 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:11:41 +0000

These devices should just have an API so that they can be controlled externally, e.g. by a home app. And maybe the EU could force a common API core for devices like this.

e.g., I'd LOVE to have an API to have dryers/ other high current machines refuse to run if the grid is out and the house run on batteries.

New comment by golem14 in "YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning"

golem14 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:12:07 +0000

apt reference:

https://electricliterature.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Tr...

"The Petty and the Small; Are overcome with gall ; When Genius, having faltered, fails to fall. Klapaucius too, I ween, Will turn the deepest green To hear such flawless verse from Trurl's machine."

New comment by golem14 in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

golem14 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:44:01 +0000

Sounds like Rincewind's spell from the Octavo.

New comment by golem14 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

golem14 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:22:20 +0000

Something like this got Schmidt/ Jobs into serious trouble …

New comment by golem14 in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

golem14 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:17:22 +0000

Sure, but without that farming, how would we get our almond milk lattes?

New comment by golem14 in "A/I shuts down"

golem14 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:02:05 +0000

Historically, those family fighters had really trouble keeping their families alive and very little to lose.

New comment by golem14 in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

golem14 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:56:40 +0000

There is also a completely unreasonable shortage of water for a much bigger city.

New comment by golem14 in "A/I shuts down"

golem14 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:50:26 +0000

People with minor kids and/or dependent spouses/family often disagree.

New comment by golem14 in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

golem14 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:38:54 +0000

Ah, so you're one of those hippies hooked on free software too, yeah? What's that your smoking there? Emacs, huh? what's your OS? Linux? I knew it.

Corporal, put him away.

New comment by golem14 in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

golem14 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:33:40 +0000

I think it's even more than that. The hybrid engine has to run one single RPM to drive a generator, it can be vibration insulated, probably needs to be only smaller because it doesn't have to provide the high max power the conventional motors have etc.

It's why I believe hybrid cars that use a gas motor only to charge the batteries are more reliable and more efficient.

New comment by golem14 in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

golem14 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:37:08 +0000

The real benefit really seems to be that the electric motors have a much smaller failure rates than mechanical ones running near their top rpm. The hybrid motor can run at a much optimized RPM, so the idea is that this will improve the overall safety margin of the overall design. I could be wrong, but that's what the video said.

New comment by golem14 in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

golem14 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:39:28 +0000

You're right, yet I agree with the website's approach. The goal of this site is to educate users about how people lived, not educate them about stats. IMO. I would have chosen the same algo.

It's clear to me that an even bigger HC crowd would howl "Oh, how boring, look at him choosing pretty much only still alive people" if he had done the 'uniformly random" selection. C'mon!

New comment by golem14 in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

golem14 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:43:17 +0000

"random" != "uniformly random", if you want to be pedantic.