Hacker News: hazbot

New comment by hazbot in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

hazbot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:20:19 +0000

I enjoy having a DVD player for the kids, it makes curating their options so much easier.

New comment by hazbot in "Glasses Got Worse on Purpose"

hazbot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:03:57 +0000

Thankyou, this is the comment I came here for - advice on alternatives!

New comment by hazbot in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"

hazbot — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:44:33 +0000

Yes, it is much easier to train someone to use AI than to train them to have sufficiently baked-in math and language skills to be able to leverage the AI.

New comment by hazbot in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

hazbot — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:27:56 +0000

Integration of the air cooling and water heating. For example, I have a air conditioner pumping heat out of my house right next to a box that's putting heat into the water coming into my house.

New comment by hazbot in "Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use"

hazbot — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:11:40 +0000

We are a happy paying customer at $DAYJOB.

Also, I looked into omfiles for a project recently, I was very impressed with their speed and blown away by the compression ratios!

New comment by hazbot in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

hazbot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:50:16 +0000

Yes this is much stronger and relevant evidence

New comment by hazbot in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

hazbot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:02:49 +0000

When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

New comment by hazbot in "Show HN: Chess on a Donut/Torus and Deep-Dive"

hazbot — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:52:14 +0000

It's fun to sit down and draw what the board looks like when you cut and flatten the torus before you watch the video!

Bonus points if you hit upon the other 2D projection that is useful (I didn't)

New comment by hazbot in "Implications of AI to schools"

hazbot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:58:17 +0000

The way you learn is totally different from the way a novice learns; they don't have a vast memorised store of knowledge, let alone the connected structure over that memorised knowledge. When you learn something, it gets incoporated thanks to these foundations.

But the foundations start with memorisation.

New comment by hazbot in "Implications of AI to schools"

hazbot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:47:01 +0000

Projects are less efficient for learning foundational skills. They have their place, but with infinite funds I would still give my children an education with a bedrock of boring drill and testing and memorisation.

New comment by hazbot in "Implications of AI to schools"

hazbot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:43:46 +0000

I just went and had a flutter at being a high school math teacher. I went in saying 'I never used math to create until my honours year, I want different for my students'.

I soon changed my mind; I think those of us who become expert have often have really rich memories of a project where we learnt so much, but we just don't remember episodically all the accumulated learning that happened in boring classrooms to enable the project-induced higher order synthesis.

New comment by hazbot in "YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff"

hazbot — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:12:08 +0000

Nothing, they just don't make the headlines.

New comment by hazbot in "What Dynamic Typing Is For"

hazbot — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:07:49 +0000

> Okay, but you can do the same in dynamically typed Python

But the rust code is still safer, e.g. you haven't checked for an `AttributeError` in case `req.cookies`, the point is Rust protects you from this rabbit-hole, if you're prepared to pay the price of wrestling the compiler.

New comment by hazbot in "A magnetic field orientation that changes the fundamental design of motors"

hazbot — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:11:26 +0000

Don't talk about it, be about it.

New comment by hazbot in "The average Apple Watch user gets 49 minutes of deep sleep per night"

hazbot — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:56:10 +0000

"deep sleep" here has a technical definition which wasn't what I assumed, and the top 10th percentile is 68 minutes of "deep sleep", so this is probably fine and not a problem.

New comment by hazbot in "The Gentle Singularity"

hazbot — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:30:59 +0000

I'm feeling a bit cheated it's 2025 and I just bought a brand new car that does not drive itself and runs on dead dinosaurs.

New comment by hazbot in "Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin"

hazbot — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:17:49 +0000

Depends if it's a currency or a store of wealth.

E.g. destroy half the gold in the world, price doubles...

New comment by hazbot in "Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin"

hazbot — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:15:33 +0000

The solution to pollution is dilution.

Dilution in time counts as well.

New comment by hazbot in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

hazbot — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 02:44:32 +0000

`What do you think is the root cause for this kind of thinking?`

It's probably quite advantageous to have some individuals irrationally hedging against catastrophe--even though they are likely to be wrong, when one of them is very occasionally right the humans survive.

New comment by hazbot in "Coincidences that make our existence possible"

hazbot — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:52:00 +0000

Given that we can't yet predict our reality from the fundamental up, it seems like a failure of imagination to assert that you couldn't get some high-level-similar-to-our-cognition sentient beings under a separate set of coincidences.