Hacker News: hall0ween

New comment by hall0ween in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

hall0ween — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:55:08 +0000

Amazing that the new stadium has less capacity too

New comment by hall0ween in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

hall0ween — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:39:06 +0000

It’s tough to take your response seriously with loose thinking like “The point is the almost sexual release you get from (2).”

Upon further reading, you use emotional language too - “witch-hunt” and “hysteria”.

Are these witch-hunts? And can you tell if people over the internet are nearing sexual release?

Are you responding to emotional language and other’s loose thinking with your own?

New comment by hall0ween in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

hall0ween — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:11:59 +0000

far be it for me to question your prophetic capacities. i wonder, do you have any historical examples or logic-based arguments that our doom of nigh?

New comment by hall0ween in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

hall0ween — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:16:10 +0000

> Individual action means absolutely nothing.

You may want to view action and sphere of influence. Does an individual have international or national influence? Probably not. How about within their community, home, or person? Probably, yes.

I want a good society and I think that’s will be made up of good individuals making individual action. So to me, this all starts at home with the individual’s sphere of influence.

New comment by hall0ween in "Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea (2015)"

hall0ween — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:18:07 +0000

It makes me wonder about the power of religious zealots being simply having read a book, considered profound, many times. And I’m curious about which book I would choose.

> Christmas is devoted to reading books we all know perfectly well.

Ha, this seems counterfactual to how the americans (traveling around recently and I don’t remember seeing anyone with a book open).

New comment by hall0ween in "How AI destroys institutions"

hall0ween — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:10:26 +0000

> Universities have pushed post-modernism since the 60s which is the precursor for the deprecation of truth.

Call me crazy, but the situation may be more nuanced than this (and your next statement). For example, all universities embraced post-modernism? Also, universities are the arbiter for truth? If so, which universities and which truths? Or is it the transcendental Truth all universities gave out? Lastly, post-modernist ideas on media or some other part of culture?

New comment by hall0ween in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

hall0ween — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:35:12 +0000

Have ye any citations?

New comment by hall0ween in "Llama-Factory: Unified, Efficient Fine-Tuning for 100 Open LLMs"

hall0ween — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:03:33 +0000

are there any use cases, aside from code generation and formatting, where fine-tuning consistently useful?

New comment by hall0ween in "Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI"

hall0ween — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:42:14 +0000

The market hype is real. Check-signers at businesses expect LLMs to have the ability the AI CEOs talk about in their interviews and conferences but don’t exist (and are no where near existing).

New comment by hall0ween in "Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI"

hall0ween — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:38:56 +0000

I’m confused. If 50% of the revenue goes to inference, that means the other 50% goes into research?

New comment by hall0ween in "Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions"

hall0ween — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:21:10 +0000

That’s all well and good, but how can we make money off of this post?

Well I’ve been working on an agentic app with a fun UI (https://aimakememoney.com) to turn complaints into startups ready for their first round of seed funding.

New comment by hall0ween in "Ask HN: What is a physiically disabled person to do in this job market?"

hall0ween — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:21:59 +0000

Current data scientist here, working for a cloud consulting firm. Two things stand out from my experience: (1) my company isn't hiring, while the DS team is doing fine revenue wise, the rest of the company is doing poorly; so uncommunicated moratorium on hiring; (2) I interviewed at an AI company that I'm currently subcontracting under - and they like me - and I didn't get past the first round because their requirements are so high right now (aka I did mediocrely on one interview and that was enough to tank me).

All this is to say, GenAI is booming but there's competing factors going on for businesses to hire.

Also a different take, look for contract jobs. As with (1) above, my company isn't hiring FT but they're open to contractors.

I wish you luck.

New comment by hall0ween in "Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature"

hall0ween — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:04:17 +0000

In my opinion, Nature is part of the problem in academic research. In the US, taxpayers must pay to access the information that they paid to fund! And then the researchers (other taxpayers) have to pay to publish and pay to access the content.

This manner of doing business is frustrating to me. Personally, Springer executive board, I hope this hits your bottom line.

New comment by hall0ween in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

hall0ween — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:44:48 +0000

Classes and workshops, something with the same people that occurs over several weeks. But it’s important that the content is something you’re personally interested in.

New comment by hall0ween in "South Korea Lab Makes Bird Flu 100% Lethal in Mammals"

hall0ween — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:49:49 +0000

> Two experiments with different challenge-to-contact ratios were conducted to assess transmission dynamics and mutation development. In experiment 1, a 4:1 challenge-to-contact ratio resulted in 100% transmission among direct-contact mice, with all mice succumbing to the infection. In experiment 2, a 1:1 ratio yielded 50% transmission, with all challenged mice also succumbing.

It’s not clear from the abstract that any human-made changes were made to the H5N1 either.

New comment by hall0ween in "Immediate PB2-E627K amino acid substitution after single infection (...)"

hall0ween — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:46:55 +0000

After reading the abstract, this title seems to me like flame/click-bait.

This test has been done in mice only (since no other animal was mentioned in the abstract).

If one follows the scientific method, this means whatever conclusion the authors make can only be extended to mice. Extrapolation to “mammals” is not present in the abstract implicitly or explicitly.

New comment by hall0ween in "The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia"

hall0ween — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:24:29 +0000

That’s a tough take but I think fair. There’s also a common thought in industry that nothing gets done in academia (e.g., credentials are often weighed less from a university than from employment). Or at least anecdotally for me.

New comment by hall0ween in "15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python"

hall0ween — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:35:05 +0000

I'm cryptographically ignorant. What does this mean for python?

New comment by hall0ween in "Eight or more drinks per week linked to brain lesions"

hall0ween — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:56:20 +0000

pwnd

New comment by hall0ween in "Microsoft’s original source code"

hall0ween — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:42:51 +0000

I don’t have an opinion on the issue, cause it’s outta my wheelhouse. Well, aside from civility, which you need to work on.