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New comment by gregschlom in "Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain"

gregschlom — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:04:38 +0000

It would be interesting to hear Hofstadter's thoughts on the new AI / LLM revolution, actually.

New comment by gregschlom in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

gregschlom — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:34:12 +0000

Nitpick: the model is 100m x 100m roughly, so 10,000m^2 which is 0.01km^2

Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute

gregschlom — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:15 +0000

Article URL: https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2026/Alphabet-Announces-Proposed-80-Billion-Equity-Capital-Raise-to-Expand-AI-Infrastructure-and-Compute-2026-b0myAMewCa/default.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362515

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New comment by gregschlom in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

gregschlom — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:14:55 +0000

You have the same issue with LEB128 though, right?

New comment by gregschlom in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

gregschlom — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:28:38 +0000

Here's a representative example that my father in law (in his 70s) shared with me the other day: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puRg-4ZvNYs

New comment by gregschlom in "Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity"

gregschlom — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:01:11 +0000

I made it back to the surface and started feeling that familiar dizziness / light headed sensation. Not sure how to explain. Similar to when you stand up too quickly sometimes and feel like you're going to pass out.

I started swimming towards shore, pulled myself on the rocks there and rested. It felt weirdly wonderful. Warm rocks heating up my body, and a great sensation of calm. Only after a few minutes did I understand the gravity of what had just happened.

New comment by gregschlom in "Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity"

gregschlom — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:14:17 +0000

I love freediving. But I almost blacked out and drowned once when I was doing it alone, hours hike away from anyone. Sure enough, I was using hyperventilation, which I didn't know back then was a big mistake.

When I think back about it, it's crazy how close I was to death. Learned my lesson that day. As she says in the article, don't do it alone.

New comment by gregschlom in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

gregschlom — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:01:38 +0000

The point is that if you have to say it's made with real cheese, the food is complete junk. Even though the cheese may technically be real.

New comment by gregschlom in "Six Characters"

gregschlom — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:57:57 +0000

I suspect it's this part:

"This ticket was priced in GBP, not INR. Because the journey originated in Manchester, the fare is denominated in the currency of the origin country: the United Kingdom."

So: the currency is the one for the country of origin.

New comment by gregschlom in "How to tolerate annoying things"

gregschlom — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:39:10 +0000

I've been reading No Mud, No Lotus recently (https://www.parallax.org/product/no-mud-no-lotus/) by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and this is very much the same advice.

This book has brought me immense joy, I'd recommend it to anyone.

It's fascinating how much Buddhism has gotten "right".

New comment by gregschlom in "Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs"

gregschlom — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:38:52 +0000

From the post:

"Having been able to attend these events by hoarding airline miles and schmoozing certain cybersecurity vendors, Gal Nagli, Sam Curry, and I thought it would be fun to try and hack some of the different supporting websites for the Formula 1 events."

New comment by gregschlom in "Peanut allergies have plummeted in children"

gregschlom — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:26:24 +0000

I know you're being facetious but I wanted to say, a friend of mine's kid recently got diagnosed with elevated lead levels in his blood, likely caused by eating contaminated dirt from their backyard. So... test before you try it, I guess?

New comment by gregschlom in "Find SF parking cops"

gregschlom — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:34:38 +0000

As far as I know you only get a ticket if you're actually parked there when the sweeper comes by. There's a parking cop car following the sweeper and ticketing the cars. You're allowed to re-park in the street after the sweeper has done its job, even if it's still technically street sweeping time.

So if you've got a ticket, there almost certainly was a sweeper that came by at that time.

New comment by gregschlom in "DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list"

gregschlom — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:36:36 +0000

You could. The fix is easy. The problem was the painfully long debugging in order to find the root cause of the issue.

New comment by gregschlom in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

gregschlom — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:45:43 +0000

Not necessarily. Youtube makes extensive use of third-party CDNs. A lot of the videos aren't coming from their servers at all. I believe that's also why it's so hard for them to embed the ad directly in the video. They instead having to rely on splicing the ads client-side, which makes it possible to block.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not at Youtube and have no idea how things work really. This is just based on some info I read online.

New comment by gregschlom in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

gregschlom — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:44:40 +0000

I'm a big fan of Everything (and recently donated to the developer). I tried this Google app and was pleased to see that it seems just as fast as Everything for local file search. Presumably they use the same underlying mechanism for searching files (something about hooking into the NTFS index). I might give it a shot.

(disclaimer: I work at Google, but nothing related to this app)

New comment by gregschlom in "How to Draw a Space Invader"

gregschlom — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:04:25 +0000

Related, and from none other than 00's web legend levitated.net: http://www.levitated.net/daily/levInvaderFractal.html (2003)

New comment by gregschlom in "Show HN: PlutoFilter- A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C"

gregschlom — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:12:42 +0000

The benefit of single-header, specifically, is that it's super easy to integrate with any project. You don't need to mess with your build system, or the library's build system, just include the file and you're good to go.

No allocation is useful for embedded / resource constrained targets.

New comment by gregschlom in "Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface"

gregschlom — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:24:11 +0000

It's a joke. People often have conspiracy theories about Big Pharma trying to prevent access to novel drugs that could disrupt their cash cows. The parent was jokingly talking about "Big Reality" as an imaginary group of people who hate to see "reality" disrupted by psychedelic experiences.

New comment by gregschlom in "Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)"

gregschlom — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:27:32 +0000

This made me realize that I have absolutely no idea what was going on in Africa during medieval times (and only a sliver of an idea in Europe).