Hacker News: lainga

New comment by lainga in "The Roots of Fear: Understanding the Amygdala"

lainga — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:08:32 +0000

What a fucking website this is! Farewell, cruel dang!

New comment by lainga in "How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me"

lainga — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:05:50 +0000

Nobody ever bikesheds me or makes me break flow to attend a Fun Team Event in Factorio :)

New comment by lainga in "New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively"

lainga — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:21:28 +0000

I guess there would be a silicate famine in the seas, that seems to be the limiting factor for diatom presence overall among plankton

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom#/media/File:Diatoms_Egg...

New comment by lainga in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

lainga — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:49:49 +0000

I encourage you to explore, as a thought experiment, what profit opportunities can arise from the intersection of mass medicalisation and body positivity.

New comment by lainga in "UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay"

lainga — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:13:03 +0000

What solution do you propose? No more UCLA?

New comment by lainga in "How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video]"

lainga — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:41:03 +0000

I believe this is an example of ludonarrative dissonance. The camera is simply at a fixed offset from the train model.

New comment by lainga in "Show HN: GoSQL – A query engine in 319 LoC"

lainga — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:57:08 +0000

Try this talk about sqlite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKLA81tBis

New comment by lainga in "How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children"

lainga — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:18:50 +0000

Did you RTFA?

"This jaundiced real-estate porn is meant to satirize the housing crunch in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the commenters are all in on the joke"

I come from a cultural background such that I clued in on this when I first encountered the videos. Is the joke overplayed now? Definitely - but it's not braindead, it's equal parts over-the-top satire and wish fulfilment (if ONLY you could knock out your building's walls and extend your coffin apartment, Kowloon Walled City-style)

New comment by lainga in "Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator"

lainga — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:46:31 +0000

what does the

     # insert your code to print out some C code

mean?

New comment by lainga in "What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?"

lainga — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:14:10 +0000

The author's workflow sounds like writing ideas onto a block of post-its and then having them slosh around like they're boats lashed up at harbour. He wasn't actually gaining any new information - nothing that really surprised him - he was just offloading the inherent fluidity of half-formed ideas to a device which reified them.

Imagine an LLM-based application which never tells you anything you haven't already told it, but simply takes the statements you give it and, every 8 to 12 seconds, changes around the wording of each one. Like you're in a dream and keep looking away from the page and the text is dancing before you. Would institutions be less uncomfortable with its use? (not wholly comfortable - you're still replacing natural expressivity with random pulls from a computerised phrase-thesaurus)

New comment by lainga in "Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work"

lainga — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:07:02 +0000

Close! If Hollywood starts doing it, it will become copyrightable. (But somehow only if you can retain 5+ lawyers.)

New comment by lainga in "I Am Tired of AI"

lainga — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:02:06 +0000

People in meatspace are not (in James C. Scott's sense) legible to HN's user base, and never will be.

New comment by lainga in "Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you"

lainga — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:57:52 +0000

What was he selling?

New comment by lainga in "The Intelligence Age"

lainga — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:10:55 +0000

You call some numbers in an ACHS a concrete achievement? I was thinking more like a dam or a school or something...

New comment by lainga in "The Intelligence Age"

lainga — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:35:06 +0000

Mit dem nächste Kapitalrunde wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.

New comment by lainga in "The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]"

lainga — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:57:44 +0000

> Add in the challenge of remote learning

Why? Are K-12 keeping on with remote classes now in the USA?

> not to mention smartphone access prevalently available

Also why? Has there been a change in policy about bag and equipment checks?

New comment by lainga in "Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone"

lainga — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:50:38 +0000

What privileges the square root over any other fractional power?

New comment by lainga in "Nothing: Simply Do Nothing"

lainga — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:43:36 +0000

Petrarch climbed a mountain for fun in 1336.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_of_Mont_Ventoux

New comment by lainga in "Learn Git Branching"

lainga — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:41:15 +0000

Has anyone used `git describe` in anger?

New comment by lainga in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

lainga — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:15:47 +0000

Very!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roy_Engloys