Hacker News: hilbertseries

New comment by hilbertseries in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

hilbertseries — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:05:33 +0000

Investigation isn’t finished, but it was almost certainly the US. If it was Iran Trump or Hegeseth would not have been able to contain themselves.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

hilbertseries — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:27:00 +0000

And Python is four years older than Java.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

hilbertseries — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:01:50 +0000

I feel like this argument would make a lot more sense if LLMs had anywhere near the same level of determinism as a compiler.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Academics shocked after T&F sells access to their research to Microsoft AI"

hilbertseries — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:29:49 +0000

You do realize peer reviewers are also unpaid.

New comment by hilbertseries in "ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021"

hilbertseries — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:02:16 +0000

The gpt4 model was able to draw a unicorn and given a program that drew a unicorn, modify it so the unicorn was rotated 90 degrees.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

New comment by hilbertseries in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

hilbertseries — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:24:06 +0000

Taxis have basically no recourse if you just ditch. Waymo has a video of you, your full name, your billing address and your credit card on file.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit"

hilbertseries — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:09:30 +0000

The page you linked on gulf war syndrome talks about how it's a real condition and not psychosomatic.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite"

hilbertseries — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:38:35 +0000

Quantum computers are still not useful, fwiw.

New comment by hilbertseries in "HubSpot Acquires Clearbit"

hilbertseries — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:33:13 +0000

I don't think this is correct. Meta and Google don't sell direct access to your data. They sell advertising targeting you, based on your personal data.

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to sell users email address to a data broker under GDPR.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Tech jobs market normalizing as July unemployment dips"

hilbertseries — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:11:50 +0000

Stock grants are typically vested quarterly, sometimes after an initial waiting period of 1-2 years. RSUs are just cash, I don’t see how they would not be considered being paid. They certainly show up on my W2.

New comment by hilbertseries in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

hilbertseries — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:22:07 +0000

So they planted this with a Korean lab a few years ago?

New comment by hilbertseries in "The papers were not ready for publication"

hilbertseries — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 06:29:53 +0000

Very different than the six years it took before the mathematics community found a flaw in Mochizuki‘a abc conjecture proof.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Metformin shown to prevent long Covid"

hilbertseries — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:26:02 +0000

It's not the first evidence of treatment and preventing isn't the same as treating, because it does nothing for people who have the disease.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Metformin shown to prevent long Covid"

hilbertseries — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:49:54 +0000

Triple therapy is a treatment that proceeds it. Metformin isn’t a treatment, it’s a prophylactic.

New comment by hilbertseries in "Metformin shown to prevent long Covid"

hilbertseries — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:22:10 +0000

You’re not paying attention if you think this is the first evidence of long covid. There’s been significant strides towards understanding long covid in terms of microclots and viral persistence.

https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-02...

For this pathology long covid can be treated with so called triple therapy for instance

https://medhelpclinics.com/uploads/files/anticoagulant-tripl...

New comment by hilbertseries in "Brain fog after Covid-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain’ in humans and mice"

hilbertseries — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:50:32 +0000

Long covid is very real and is not anxiety. There have been studies linking post covid fatigue and conditions to viral persistence and micro clotting. This type of post covid is just anxiety discourse is incredibly harmful.

New comment by hilbertseries in "If a PR Says “Artificial Intelligence,” There’s a Good Chance It’s Meaningless"

hilbertseries — Sat, 06 May 2023 20:30:17 +0000

It’s interesting that we view the fact that it makes mistakes as evidence it’s not intelligent. By this metric then, humans are also not intelligent.

New comment by hilbertseries in "NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'"

hilbertseries — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:54:19 +0000

NPR continuing to publish programming critical of Trump during the Trump presidency, is a pretty strong indication they have editorial independence.

New comment by hilbertseries in "How does database sharding work?"

hilbertseries — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:43:02 +0000

> My intuition is that a properly sharded database will perform faster-or-same as a non-sharded one in all scenarios.

This is workload dependent, if your queries only go to one shard, this is likely true. But if you have cross shard queries, then it’s no longer true.

New comment by hilbertseries in "My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021)"

hilbertseries — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:38:32 +0000

Did anyone commenting read the article? The author was a meditation teacher who had been meditating for over 10 years, when he had this experience.