Hacker News: ifdefdebug

New comment by ifdefdebug in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

ifdefdebug — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:48:35 +0000

well I AM aware that my comments here are shared with the whole world, which Y Combinator startups are a subset of...

New comment by ifdefdebug in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

ifdefdebug — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:24:06 +0000

it's actually black and white, and needed some programming to work like this.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

ifdefdebug — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:22:08 +0000

I have an e-ink photo frame on the wall that switches picture once every 24h, picking one of my pictures of the last 10+ years by random. So every single one of my tens of thousands of pictures gets a real chance to be seen at least once during my lifetime :)

New comment by ifdefdebug in "ChatGPT Pulse"

ifdefdebug — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:24:05 +0000

But transistor designers didn't pivot away from designing transistors. They left Facebook and all the other stuff to others and kept designing better transistors.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

ifdefdebug — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:49:25 +0000

Sure, now show us how to recycle spent fuel rods (and become a billionaire).

New comment by ifdefdebug in "A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs"

ifdefdebug — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:54:17 +0000

Newton's laws are a good enough approximation for many tasks so it's not a "false understanding" as long as their limits are taken into account.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models"

ifdefdebug — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:24:07 +0000

Analogy doesn't work because the bomb came first and the reactor later, that is, regarding fission the reactor isn't even here yet. And it was clear from the beginning that the chain reaction is real not hypothetical.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "One thing Tesla and Comma.ai overlooked in self-driving"

ifdefdebug — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:27:49 +0000

No way I get into a car that has a human driver who literally has no skin in the game.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine"

ifdefdebug — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:02:18 +0000

The fact check will come when some foreign soldier kicks in the door to your basement computer room.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

ifdefdebug — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 01:40:26 +0000

haha that word. back in the 80ies,some polish friends of mine taught me that but refused to tell me what it meant and instructed me to never, ever use it. Until today I don't know what it is about...

New comment by ifdefdebug in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

ifdefdebug — Thu, 01 May 2025 07:27:16 +0000

Obviously they are not talking about the difference between the two browsers, but between the two situations. Your post looks like you chose the least charitable interpretation in order to pick a fight.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "The Imitation Game According to Turing"

ifdefdebug — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:42:06 +0000

Recent claims that current LLMs pass the Turing test seem to be wildly exaggerated.

The Imitation Game According to Turing

ifdefdebug — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17629

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723352

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ifdefdebug in "How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon"

ifdefdebug — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:18:35 +0000

historically, "gaining unauthorized access" IS the second meaning.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?"

ifdefdebug — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:05:11 +0000

Best in class chess program actually is a NN, just not a LLM.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]"

ifdefdebug — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:19:30 +0000

I think you are beating a somewhat dead cow here. systemd wars are over. It's in most mainstream systems nowadays, but there are also lots of cool projects out there doing different things. Everything's fine, nobody wants to go into those old pro and con flame wars any more.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "All clocks are 30 seconds late"

ifdefdebug — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:04:06 +0000

While you could argue that it's flooring, it feels much more like truncating. We have a inner representation of time that's like yyyymmdd-hhmmss-mmmm and we truncate it to the precision we need for a given task. If we need the month we truncate to yyyymm, and if we need hours we truncate to yyyymmdd-hh.

That's quit intuitive for all kind of time precision, and the author's rounding solution would be somewhat counterintuitive, at least for me.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "Ads chew through half of mobile data"

ifdefdebug — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:24:39 +0000

> but it's nice to have something for mobile too

what's wrong with uBlock Origin on mobile? (available in Firefox)

New comment by ifdefdebug in "The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport"

ifdefdebug — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:45:01 +0000

You claim that a 14% or even a 50% reduction of emissions would make no impact. Well, current climate research suggests differently:

- no reduction: > +4ºC by 2100 - 50% reduction: +2ºC by 2100

And those are two very different worlds we are talking about here.

So no, my comment is spot on: you say that, because current CO2 levels can't be undone, there is no difference between allowing this level to raise indiscriminately and trying to keep it at bay. It looks like you are caught in some kind of thought trap you can't get out of, and you feel like you stepped out of the matrix. Be careful, there is no matrix. It was only a movie.

New comment by ifdefdebug in "The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport"

ifdefdebug — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:07:42 +0000

So we burned a pile of wood and now everyone in the warehouse is having a bad time. Some people in the warehouse say: please stop burning piles of wood, we need what's left from the air for breathing. But you say: nah, can't clean it up, so it's fine let's just keep burning more piles of wood.

This is satire right?