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New comment by kazga in "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"

kazga — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:22:25 +0000

> Any condition which causes the individual to self-sterilize or not have progeny is maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective

I mean, this is just trivially wrong on a basic factual level. Look at ants, look at bees, even some mammals like mole-rats.

Not that these "biological facts" argument ever hold any water for complex social issues, but would you mind at least using actual facts?

Show HN: Grampax, a "torch.autocast"-style interface for mixed precision in JAX

kazga — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:23:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davidmarttila/grampax

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774445

Points: 3

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New comment by kazga in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

kazga — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:58:42 +0000

> > 'The same language' is usually just a desguised nationalistic claim

> It's the opposite: "it's a different language" is usually just a nationalistic desire for differentiation of what are essentially dialects/variants of a language.

It's both. The idea that Ukrainian is an uneducated farmer's dialect of Russian is a common talking point in the "Greater Russia / Russkiy Mir" narrative. Conversely, asserting the status of the Ukrainian language is a big part of Ukrainian identity in the face of an imperial invasion.

New comment by kazga in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

kazga — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:27:52 +0000

That's not true in practice. Floating point arithmetic is not commutative due to rounding errors, and the parallel operations introduce non-determinisn even at temperature 0.

New comment by kazga in "The Origins of Wokeness"

kazga — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:54:27 +0000

> They just don’t think their daughter swimming against “boys” and then using the same locker room is progress.

Do you genuinely think you're presenting the "woke" side of the argument in good faith here?

New comment by kazga in "A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout"

kazga — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 05:10:19 +0000

>Using steroids and then to promote your programs that act like it's possible to achieve them without is dangerous.

Which one of the linked resources is doing that? The deception part, I mean.

New comment by kazga in "A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout"

kazga — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:37:42 +0000

Mike Israetel is very vocal and open about both his own PED use and its health risks, and how taking them is a very bad idea for 99.9% of people. That does not make his content about exercising and nutrition for general health any less superb.

Steroids a fact of life in strength sports and not even really considered cheating, as long as you compete in "untested" divisions. Training for a top-level competition is not the same as exercising for health, even if you don't take PEDs. The people doing it consider it an acceptable tradeoff.

New comment by kazga in "Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination"

kazga — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:22:42 +0000

Genetic mutations and recombinations, as has been known for centuries. There is no need to make up some overarching esoteric narrative out of thin air that has people on the losing side of the lottery somehow "deserve" it.

New comment by kazga in "Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle"

kazga — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:32:00 +0000

Cycling is not strength training. Did you do some form of resistance training prior to the trip?

New comment by kazga in "Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?"

kazga — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:18:54 +0000

I recommend the book "Digital Minimalism" for some excellent advice on exactly those sort of questions

New comment by kazga in "Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?"

kazga — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:25:38 +0000

That's a huge generalization for something that differs so heavily even within countries. Cities vs rural, east vs west, catholic vs protestant... Compare Poland and the Czech Republic, both V4 countries, neighbors, former Eastern Bloc, yet one is pretty much the least and the other one of the most religious countries in Europe.

New comment by kazga in "Year Without a Summer"

kazga — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:16:52 +0000

That's trivially false by looking at the field of history.

New comment by kazga in "Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?"

kazga — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:07:54 +0000

For me, the username/password gives you read-only access and any kind of transaction requires 2FA.

New comment by kazga in "I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf"

kazga — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 08:31:43 +0000

In western Europe, job postings specifically ask not to include a picture in your application to combat implicit bias.

In Korea, the application form includes fields for height, weight and marital status.

New comment by kazga in "Zugzwang"

kazga — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:52:02 +0000

Zugzwang does not exist in Hearthstone, doing nothing is always a rule-compliant option.

New comment by kazga in "A foundation course in reading German"

kazga — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:53:29 +0000

> I am yet to meet a non-native speaker who wouldn’t have a horrible accent and who wouldn’t make a lot of mistakes

Even the most fluent non-native German speakers I know still mix up genders and adjective endings every second sentence, at least in speaking.

New comment by kazga in "Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms"

kazga — Sat, 18 May 2019 16:39:59 +0000

Spotify automatically creates a playlist from songs you've "liked" while they're playing on radio. So just start a certain song radio, like the kind of songs that go into the direction you want, and then start playlist radio on the "Liked from Radio" playlist.

New comment by kazga in "Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves"

kazga — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:33:24 +0000

I have to admit I'm a bit surprised how many people leave their credit cards etc. in their cars.

New comment by kazga in "Every Ruler in Europe Every Year Since 400 BC"

kazga — Mon, 28 May 2018 07:31:54 +0000

It can be moving and put things into perspective, but if being the momentary master of a fraction of a dot is insignifant, then so are the "rivers of blood" that were spilled.

In the context of the cosmic arena, the Holocaust is no different from me stubbing my toe in terms of impact and significance.

New comment by kazga in "Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)"

kazga — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:51:14 +0000

>It’s not racism to make factually accurate observations.

That is not as true as it sounds at first glance. For example, a statement like "blacks are more violent and less educated than whites" is factually accurate, but frames the situation in a definitely racist way if you just leave it at that because without elaboration, it makes it sound like a fact of nature.

This is the problem with "facts and statistics can't be racist". No, technically they can't be, but if your conclusion you're drawing is that certain ethnicities are just genetically more criminal, you're handling the facts in a racist (and very incorrect) way (not implying in any way that you think like that).