Hacker News: j_maffe

New comment by j_maffe in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

j_maffe — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:35:36 +0000

Cheating how? The proof is in the pudding...

New comment by j_maffe in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

j_maffe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:28:02 +0000

> No one is claiming that time is a random variable drawn from a normal distribution.

You are doing that implicitly by fitting a Gaussian curve.

New comment by j_maffe in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

j_maffe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:26:11 +0000

> statistically speaking

That's a very big word you're using there for what is basically making shapes out of clouds. A bell-curve is the amortised function of a random variable with a mean and standar deviation. What does that have to do with a timeseries dataset?

New comment by j_maffe in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

j_maffe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:24:12 +0000

I'd call it significant that the number of questions halved within one year following the release of ChatGPT, the biggest relative or absolute rate of decrease in the timeseries.

New comment by j_maffe in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

j_maffe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:21:24 +0000

You don't just fit a Gaussian distribution to a timeseries dataset. That's not what a Gaussian curve is designed for at all. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1725:_Linear_Regr...

New comment by j_maffe in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

j_maffe — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:18:29 +0000

> There's no one drop where "AI got into the market"

Sure there is, number of questions halved from 100K in first of November 2022 to 50K exactly one year later.

New comment by j_maffe in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

j_maffe — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:21:14 +0000

> better models consistently renders pelican in higher quality The article literally avoid making this argument and gives counterexamples to this statement.

New comment by j_maffe in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

j_maffe — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:15:51 +0000

Yes and that would improve its ability to draw SVGs of pelicans on bikes, no?

New comment by j_maffe in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

j_maffe — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:27:33 +0000

Yeah I felt the same about the decision when they decided to move to database structure. If it had this structure from the start it could've built up an ecosystem like Obsidian's but now it's hard to justify going for it.

New comment by j_maffe in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

j_maffe — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:24:01 +0000

They announced from the start that Fable was going to be on subscription for a trial period only, no?

New comment by j_maffe in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

j_maffe — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:37:35 +0000

Didn't they announce they're stopping that system?

New comment by j_maffe in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

j_maffe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:33:45 +0000

I think it's a worthy retort simply because it's the only other major provider.

New comment by j_maffe in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

j_maffe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:46:02 +0000

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_AiI9_XIAA67_t?format=jpg&name=...

New comment by j_maffe in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

j_maffe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:15:30 +0000

> because whoever was responsible for that would have had paid for it in front of the American legal system or American people

That literally never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre?wprov=sfla1

> By June 17, 2008, six defendants had their cases dropped and a seventh was found not guilty.[5] The only one of the eight charged to face punishment was Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich. On October 3, 2007, the Article 32 hearing investigating officer recommended that charges of murder be dropped and Wuterich be tried for negligent homicide in the deaths of two women and five children.[6] Further charges of assault and manslaughter were ultimately dropped. Wuterich pled guilty to the only remaining charge, one count of negligent dereliction of duty, and was convicted on January 24, 2012.[7][8]

New comment by j_maffe in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

j_maffe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:53:12 +0000

> was to me a shining example of progress and humanity.

Which country was the US bombing to the ground at this period you're reminiscing on?

New comment by j_maffe in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

j_maffe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:56:27 +0000

I think the cited weight loss comes from energy efficiency gains leading to less battery capacity needed.

New comment by j_maffe in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

j_maffe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:43:01 +0000

> Maybe the solution is not more EU, but less EU.

You haven't given a single reason why that would be beneficial.

New comment by j_maffe in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

j_maffe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:51:34 +0000

Because Tesla hasn't been classified as a gate-keeper in the DMA.

New comment by j_maffe in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

j_maffe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:14:53 +0000

Not sure what you mean by blackmailing but it can't be the right word here.

New comment by j_maffe in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

j_maffe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:09:51 +0000

yes but it's also the other way around, no? _businesses pages_ bring hundreds of thousands of eyes to _facebook/instagram_ that otherwise would not see FB/IG.