Hacker News: heavenlyblue

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization"

heavenlyblue — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:29:39 +0000

That's really wrong though: it's really hard to not feel effects of fentanyl, opioids, ketamine either.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

heavenlyblue — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:09:35 +0000

Yeah but then if you're trying to replicate Spotify functionality, then you'd need a lot of "dark" tracks so that you could listen to the ones you want to listen on a whim.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "LLMs and self-referentiality"

heavenlyblue — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:30:49 +0000

But do you really know? Hence stuff like mansplaining where people vastly overestimate their knowledge compared to average Joe

New comment by heavenlyblue in "RSA-260 Factorized"

heavenlyblue — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:49:44 +0000

transistors are local unit, qubits are not

New comment by heavenlyblue in "LLMs and self-referentiality"

heavenlyblue — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:50:43 +0000

I had a great game as a kid where me and girls were playing for kisses on "words", i.e. "start the next word with the letter of the word I just said". So I invented a whole new vocabulary and then taught them that vocabulary. Apart from the fact that I got a lot of kisses from them they were so happy they learned something new they immediately went to share this with their (and my) parents. Obviously I got a slap but I just don't get how you can think "a kid can do this". You're either completely ignorant of different cultures (i.e. as an Eqstern European I still find it hard to remember Indian names, let alone tell if they are actually fucking with me) or intentionally simplifying the problem.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior"

heavenlyblue — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:27:39 +0000

Arent bentleys designed to be driven by a separate driver not by the owner? :)

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search"

heavenlyblue — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:23:25 +0000

Let's get it to the next level: shopping for a present for your friend whose birthday is in 5 months? Still higher prices because they can use yiur early reminder to know you'll need that.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "GPT-6 Astra"

heavenlyblue — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:34:37 +0000

But you're not reasoning yourself here. In face you're literally parroting what an LLM would do in this situation: you already know the answer so you think your comprehension of this is better than that if others, when in fact it's just simple pattern matching. It's not a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of memory.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "GPT-6 Astra"

heavenlyblue — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:31:47 +0000

Drawing of a bicycle is not it's photographic copy though

New comment by heavenlyblue in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"

heavenlyblue — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:57:04 +0000

It's amusing you're downvoted when EU clearly has Hungary which is a failed experiment at transforming Hungary (well at least up until last election). You could say the same about Turkey. Both way further ahead of Somalia.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"

heavenlyblue — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:54:33 +0000

EU went to wars before not because of cultural differences though. It's not like Hitler necessarily wanted everyone to be a German, he just thought some cultures to be less important than others. Besides, you can always make the joke about the "paradox of tolerance" which by definition tolerates intolerance (which is probably at least one major ingredient of current rise of the right).

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Mark Cuban: Why US hospitals "don't know their costs""

heavenlyblue — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:15:58 +0000

What is Rx?

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

heavenlyblue — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:41:12 +0000

How's carbon credits not a tax?

New comment by heavenlyblue in "FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20B by rigging billions of ad auctions"

heavenlyblue — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:08:40 +0000

In which way are advertisers like Google or Amazon screwed over?

New comment by heavenlyblue in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

heavenlyblue — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:51:37 +0000

So they are not hosting the ads? But either way, stuff like hashing content (and only whitelisting hashes which are approved) should solve that.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

heavenlyblue — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:37:19 +0000

As a note, while there was no war Russia has already acquired Crimea a few years before and it was only a matter of time before invasion itself was to happen, so Ukraine was preparing for that attack more or less.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says"

heavenlyblue — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:59:10 +0000

Thise face masks are useless against anything that doesn't directly spray in your face.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

heavenlyblue — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:42:17 +0000

None of that matters since instagram has more users etc. Jesus, the question is "why blogs disappear" - they disappear because users don't care about the value proposition of your RSS app. Most of them are quite shit anyway - little commonality in terms of styling etc.

New comment by heavenlyblue in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

heavenlyblue — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:40:36 +0000

I know about RSS, do your users know about RSS? Does a gradpa from midwest looking for a steak recipe care about RSS?

New comment by heavenlyblue in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

heavenlyblue — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:39:19 +0000

Yeah but nobody uses RSS, which universe are you living in?

I love the idea of RSS yes.