Hacker News: kkwteh

New comment by kkwteh in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

kkwteh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:23:10 +0000

$1B at a $3.5B valuation. Seems problematic from a cap table perspective.

New comment by kkwteh in "What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization"

kkwteh — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:29:26 +0000

One advantage of PRNG assignment is that you can reproduce your assignment procedure whereas this is impossible with true RNG. If you use true RNG how could you ever prove to anyone that that was what you actually did?

New comment by kkwteh in "Shipping at Inference-Speed"

kkwteh — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:49:24 +0000

It seems telling that there are no comments 2 hours after this has been posted. The community is literally speechless.

My Excellent Conversation with Sam Altman

kkwteh — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:18:32 +0000

Article URL: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/11/my-excellent-conversation-with-sam-altman.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836204

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by kkwteh in "Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)"

kkwteh — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:32:17 +0000

Maybe it’s a remnant from a nuclear ancient civilization.

We made top AI models compete at Diplomacy

kkwteh — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:44:50 +0000

Article URL: https://every.to/diplomacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312762

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by kkwteh in "The average college student today"

kkwteh — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:54:01 +0000

What makes you think that other countries aren't seeing the same decline? In France, as far as I can tell, the situation is similar.

For instance, I've seen a lot of interviews like this https://youtu.be/7Pl4rvZ9amc?si=RMm8B1BmSSdNt0vq

My brother, who is a high school teacher in Canada tells me similar stories from his first-hand experience.

New comment by kkwteh in "Keynes on the influence of furniture on love"

kkwteh — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:54:05 +0000

We had one such case at our startup in San Francisco. Several coworkers came together to get him a bed frame as a group birthday gift.

New comment by kkwteh in "Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it"

kkwteh — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:03:07 +0000

Watching Doug Polk discuss hands on YouTube really opened my eyes as to how professional pokers think about hands.

American Nightmares

kkwteh — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/american-nightmares

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877795

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by kkwteh in "Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study"

kkwteh — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:35:05 +0000

One theory is poor facial structure that develops due to faulty breathing technique.

Reference https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4686746/

New comment by kkwteh in "Meta's new Threads, a rival for X, is now Apple's most downloaded app"

kkwteh — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:20:52 +0000

It’s because they just launched Europe.

New comment by kkwteh in "Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris"

kkwteh — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 11:48:33 +0000

For one they tend to be located at certain places: intersections, tourist attractions, entrances to the metro, and bridges, among others.

New comment by kkwteh in "Braid, Anniversary Edition trailer [video]"

kkwteh — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:06:17 +0000

Jonathan Blow tweeted that Mac support will come later on in 2024.

https://x.com/jonathan_blow/status/1722710169744757071?s=46&...

Making Chukudu scooters by hand in the Congo [video]

kkwteh — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:20:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ9lFl3H6SE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38062328

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kkwteh in "Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)"

kkwteh — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:12:04 +0000

I never knew how to square this with stories about Feynman’s sexual predation. Were these two distinct phases of his life?

New comment by kkwteh in "Threads users down by more than a half"

kkwteh — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 06:41:49 +0000

I’m still waiting for Threads to be launched in Europe.

The AI Organization

kkwteh — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 04:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mutable.ai/p/the-ai-organization-part-i

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916933

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kkwteh in "Cormac McCarthy has died"

kkwteh — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:57:25 +0000

I read on Twitter that it’s a reference to the introduction of barbed wire fencing that marked the end of the wild era that the book was set in. It makes sense but I never looked into it.

New comment by kkwteh in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

kkwteh — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:32:10 +0000

I've lived in Paris for over four years now, and I have no idea what these no-go zones people are talking about. I've never heard anyone in Paris talk about them. There is no neighborhood in Paris that I would flat out refuse to go to, even though there definitely a very small number of sketchy areas where I would be more on guard (the Barbès metro comes to mind). There is nothing here that is near as bad as the misery on display in the Tenderloin, or Skid Row.

I have also lived five years in San Francisco, and Paris overall feels much safer to me.