Hacker News: grupthink

New comment by grupthink in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

grupthink — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:39:31 +0000

I wonder who is behind this agent. I wonder who stands to gain the most attention from this.

New comment by grupthink in "My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime"

grupthink — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:51:05 +0000

I've implemented something similar to this using Golang Channels during Covid lockdowns. You don't get an emergence of intelligence from throwing random spaghetti at a wall.

Ask me how I know.

New comment by grupthink in "The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles"

grupthink — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:31:57 +0000

You can 3D print it and attach it to a boiling kettle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33HIAFuKoQ

New comment by grupthink in "Marshall Brain has died"

grupthink — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:37:13 +0000

I loved his articles and stories. Hopefully his sites are archived before being taken down.

New comment by grupthink in "Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems"

grupthink — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:32:37 +0000

That wasn't an actual security update; that only fixed a broken toggle switch for "Advanced Data Protection" in Settings. I'm talking about patches for vulnerabilities.

iPadOS 15 hasn't been receiving the security updates for vulnerabilities that have been released for iPadOS 18.

New comment by grupthink in "Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems"

grupthink — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 02:39:57 +0000

I have a perfectly functional iPad 5 that no longer receives software updates. It'd be cool if Apple would at least give it security updates, or allow alternative browser engines that don't have this vulnerability. If my iPad gets pwned, my day is going to suck.

New comment by grupthink in "Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces"

grupthink — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:27:55 +0000

System 1 and 2 is a myth. There is only memory and computation. For a complex problem, retrieving from memory is fast, and performing computation is slow. Furthermore, when performing computation, there are different heuristics that you can use to think about a problem, e.g. If you want to predict the orbit of a satellite, you can use Kepler's laws which gives you the full sweeping elliptical motion. Alternatively, you can use Newtons laws for which you need to calculate each time step. Alternatively, you can calculate all the quantum interactions between the satellite, earth, and sun (are we going to call this System 3 because it is more rigorous and is "closer to metal"?).

New comment by grupthink in "A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters"

grupthink — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:36:26 +0000

Would it be better to store the hash of each output into 3 different arrays?

e.g. currently, it's doing:

    [input] -> [3 hashes] -> [single storage]

but, I'm wondering if it's better to do:

    [input] 
    -> [hash a] -> [storage a]
    -> [hash b] -> [storage b]
    -> [hash c] -> [storage c]

...this way, the output of the 3 hashes don't affect each other during the set and membership-check. I wonder how that would affect how much more data you can store. I'm sure someone has considered this.

AI George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead [video]

grupthink — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 06:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kONMe7YnO8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38977771

Points: 25

# Comments: 12

New comment by grupthink in "The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)"

grupthink — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:14:44 +0000

Agreed. It's like dining out versus having a healthy home cooked meal. Restaurants will sell you delicious food loaded with sodium, sugar, and fat because they want you to crave their food. Likewise, when you outsource your family values, entertainment, news to social media, you meet a similar problem.

Relatedly, beware of the hidden ads in social media. It takes much less money to astroturf a community like reddit than to advertise through conventional means (e.g. commercials, product placements, banner ads). You may be aware of ads on youtube, but you may not be aware of the ads in the comment section. I've seen youtube comments as follows:

    Ed: Christ! My stock portfolio has gone down so much since the pandemic... it hurts.
    Bob: Mine did too, however in the past year I've been able to recover financially.
    Ed: Really? Please help me, how did you recover your losses?
    Bob: I'd hate to share my secret, but Jonathon Harris provided me with amazing investment tips.
    Sal: Mr. Jonathon Harris helped 10X our portfolio! You can reach him at jonharris@gmail.com

That was my re-enactment of their discussion. Sure, that was an example of an obvious ad. But think of all the times you read a conversation about a product or service and became convinced to try something just based on a conversation between two supposed strangers online? I've never bought anything from a conventional ad, but I've purchased plenty of things after reading what the socials say about a product, and that makes me ashamed of myself. Word of mouth is effective for a reason, but it's insidious online. And that's where they get you. Steel your mind, when online.

New comment by grupthink in "NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus"

grupthink — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 21:22:38 +0000

All dimensions are a factor. Life could exist on different time-scales (e.g. it moves so slow we thought it was inanimate). It could exist on different physical-scales (be so large we don't realize we are a part of it). Or, it could exist on an entirely different plane of existence (on a desolate planet in a shard of silicon that is turing complete and quietly simulating its own recursive universe).

New comment by grupthink in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

grupthink — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:15:54 +0000

Wouldn't your iPhone still receive spam SMS text messages with Apple Messages? And isn't Apple Messages commonly exploited by NSO Group (Zero-clicks)? Maybe I'm wrong, but this does not appear to be very fort-like.

New comment by grupthink in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

grupthink — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:01:35 +0000

Heh, I recall seeing many posts arguing against benchmarks when all Macs equipped with an M2/8GB/256GB SSD scored much, much lower than the M1/8GB/256GB SSD. People said the synthetic benchmarks were not representative of real world use and you'd never notice the difference. 'Twas a battle of the optimists, pessimists, and realists. In reality, 'twas just Apple cutting costs in their newer product.

iOS 17 Is a Prude

grupthink — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:12:51 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/16nqk30/ios_17_is_a_prude/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37617864

Points: 63

# Comments: 57

AI-powered drone tried to attack its human operator in a US military simulation

grupthink — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:11:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-powered-drone-tried-killing-its-operator-in-military-simulation-2023-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162907

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grupthink in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

grupthink — Thu, 11 May 2023 02:45:52 +0000

> I'll eat at Cockroach Joe, but I won't pay. I also like to tell people I don't pay because it goes against my virtues. But I'll still go there to eat.

Fixed.

New comment by grupthink in "Apple busts iOS 17 leaker with spycraft ‘canary trap’"

grupthink — Wed, 10 May 2023 22:33:52 +0000

Let me get this straight. The sister gets caught. The sibling expresses concern for impending legal action, but in spite of this, goes online to share EVEN MORE details that could be used against them in court, and cries "woe is me" and "farewell".

This canary story feels like a contrived story intended to scare potential leakers inside the company.

New comment by grupthink in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

grupthink — Wed, 10 May 2023 22:02:49 +0000

The money flow looks like this:

Ad -> YT -> Content Creators

You prevent YT and Content Creators from making money when you block an ad.

Blocking ads of these products, means when you purchase a product (shampoo, razors, etc) more of your money goes into these companies that created these products.

And, in your case, who pays the content creator for the content you enjoy? and who pays for the engineering and infrastructure that delivered the content?

And, since you never saw the ad, you likely didn't buy any product either.

New comment by grupthink in "Apple busts iOS 17 leaker with spycraft ‘canary trap’"

grupthink — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:40:02 +0000

If my sister was caught doing something illegal, the last thing I would do is reveal more details about her inside leaks online (that could be further used against her in court).

It feels like a cautionary tale for would-be leakers inside of Apple.

New comment by grupthink in "Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password"

grupthink — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:30:50 +0000

Banning has nothing to do with it.

You use passkeys as a preferred login method.

If you do not have your passkey, you can tap "Try Another Way" and use your password as usual.