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New comment by ladberg in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

ladberg — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:57:38 +0000

If anything I think the Vision Pro is more discreet on a plane! No big bright screen to annoy or distract other passengers with, plus I can keep my laptop nearly clamshelled on my lap while I work without having to use the tray table

New comment by ladberg in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

ladberg — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:45:19 +0000

I'll work for 4+ hours straight in my Vision Pro when I'm on a plane or train, but when I'm in a less cramped place I'd rather just use a normal screen

New comment by ladberg in "Don't Roll Your Own"

ladberg — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:03:25 +0000

Do you not believe developers should be paid for the work they do? And if not, what do you think the majority of people on this forum do?

New comment by ladberg in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ladberg — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:35:11 +0000

At risk of being "lost in the AI sauce", do you seriously believe that AI isn't actively changing the fabric of society? Almost feels like we're living in totally different realities if that isn't clear-cut

New comment by ladberg in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ladberg — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:55:06 +0000

Hypothetically you take the leading expert of a field and say "they believe in their own field too much - far more than I do as a layman - and therefore surely must have psychosis."

Why should I trust that your assessment is correct? Is it likely to ever be correct in the case of a doctor/mechanical engineer/athlete/economist/whatever? So why do so many people insist that an incredibly intelligent AI researcher has fallen into some obvious trap?

New comment by ladberg in "Native all the way, until you need text"

ladberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:36:32 +0000

And yet if I open Activity Monitor right now: "Emoji & Symbols" is using 1GB of memory, "Spotlight" using 749MB, "Control Center" using 727MB, despite not having used any of the features recently (and additionally restricting Spotlight to index basically nothing or else it'll drain my battery). Each one of those is larger than any of the Electron apps I always have running (Claude, Cursor, Signal, 1Password).

New comment by ladberg in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

ladberg — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:37:28 +0000

It's always been tcook@ - and it will get looked at by someone at least

New comment by ladberg in "Why Japan has such good railways"

ladberg — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:20:20 +0000

I'm very aware! I live in NYC and have taken many trains up/down the corridor. But it still pales in comparison to the experience I get in Japan (which is cheaper, nicer, faster, more frequent, often more direct, connects up better to local transit within cities, etc.)

New comment by ladberg in "Why Japan has such good railways"

ladberg — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:19:43 +0000

Is that not similar to both the west and east coasts of the US?

New comment by ladberg in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

ladberg — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:14:03 +0000

How would you recommend that creators of valuable content get paid?

New comment by ladberg in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

ladberg — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:30:01 +0000

You are paying the smartest people in the world to think really really hard, and turns out they might also think really really hard about not making the world a worse place

New comment by ladberg in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

ladberg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:00:12 +0000

I'm curious - what were you doing that polars was leaving a 40-80x speedup on the table? I've been happy with it's speed when held correctly, but it's certainly easy to hold it incorrectly and kill your perf if you're not careful

New comment by ladberg in "Claude Code Remote Control"

ladberg — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:30:26 +0000

You can't seriously claim points 2) and 3) if you've ever actually paid for and watched cable

New comment by ladberg in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

ladberg — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:46:14 +0000

> Unless of course you need aerospace or space-qualified screws in which case they are definitely coming from the US.

Are you claiming somehow that China would be incapable of making these? Or just admitting that the USG generally restricts such contracts to be sourced from the US only? And what does this have to do with Apple?

New comment by ladberg in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

ladberg — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:28:04 +0000

iPhones have had lidar for years, have cameras been affected?

New comment by ladberg in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

ladberg — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:36:50 +0000

I'd assume Starlink satellites do the minimal possible amount of compute required (thus power used, thus heat generated) to provide service. The builders of data centers are hungry for as many watts on Earth as they can source.

Alleged Navier Stokes Existence and Smoothness Proof in Lean

ladberg — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:09:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/davidmbudden/status/2002627726877069805

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343705

Points: 2

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New comment by ladberg in "40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"

ladberg — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:02:43 +0000

The study misleading claimed to produce images from brainwaves. In reality, they effectively built a combination of classifier from brainwaves to one of a few predetermined classifications of images shown (still cool, but less impressive) and a neural net to reproduce images it was trained on given a classification (boring).

New comment by ladberg in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

ladberg — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:06:57 +0000

Apple is the leader of nearly all new developments to the ARM ISA, which has evolved considerably since Acorn died.

New comment by ladberg in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

ladberg — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:31:32 +0000

Do you know a single person who'd buy an iPhone without a camera? I don't