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New comment by lfmunoz4 in "Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]"

lfmunoz4 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:00:50 +0000

Penrose is saying a computer cannot understand / has no intelligence, and the incompleteness theorem proves this. Think in terms of the semantics (the meaning) of what the AI is outputting. The incompleteness theorem proves it does not understand and can never understand the semantics. It operates at the syntax level. How can something operating at the syntax level be intelligent? All it can do is look at symbols and rearrange them. There are algorithms to categorize and give these symbols (tokens/words) weights etc but all it can do is rearrange symbols. Do humans re-arrange symbols, no, they understand. They experience the color red, but to a computer the color red is a number. What is the connection between the number for red and the color red? AI pretty much collects every instance of red and in some sense approximates what red actually is.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

lfmunoz4 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:01:30 +0000

Not sure what the point you are making is? Should we just keep going back in history and try to cherry pick events to blame and justify current conflicts? That can go on indefinitely and is why we keep having wars.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

lfmunoz4 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:22:34 +0000

Do you remember what happened when Russia tried to install missiles in Cuba? The USA put its foot down and was willing to have a nuclear war. Same thing is happening in Russia, making Ukraine part of NATO is just too close. Why is it so hard for people to understand this?

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:29:40 +0000

I was trying to say that the average american does care, but the average politician does not care. But the point is that recently there has been a reason to pretend to care. i.e, to oppose dodge. They need a reason to oppose dodge and concerned for privacy has that "for the people" tone to it. So the insane part is how a cause like privacy suddenly is important when there is a political need for it to be important, i.e, to find a reason to oppose dodge. When the opposing party is trying to solve a problem you as a politician you need to oppose it. It doesn't matter if it is good or bad. You as the opposing party need to find the bad side of it. And the reason cannot be "I am in the opposing party" or "because I want to be the one to solve the problem". It has to be a possible real reason. So which came first actual concern for privacy or the need to be concerned for privacy. Clearly the need to be concerned for privacy. This kind of why two party system works, because you always have someone opposing what you are doing even if it is right, just to keep it in check.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:43:24 +0000

Okay so you care, do you think politicians who are now pretending to be concerned for privacy reasons care? Think the average american realizes that they have never cared about privacy and they look like clowns pretending like all the sudden they do.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:20:07 +0000

This kind of thinking is what leads to zero progress. Also I think most people will be surprised how unless a lot of the data is compared to private sector data. I.e, in 2017 Equifax leaked data on 150 million people and no one cared (you get a free 6month credit check). That data went to foreign governments and private databases and it is easy to access on darkweb so real actual scammers and criminals have it. Millions of people were targeted for scamming because of this. That is just ONE leak. Now imagine the amount of data Visa has on your for example, all your purchases. Apps that have collected your browsing history and actual GPS location. Don't think this data isn't sold and combined with other databases. There are companies that just collect data and buy data. And you are worried about 1 database with people given explicit access makes me think the real objection is something else.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:24:16 +0000

Is this article written by AI? Seems poorly written, few real details and substance, short so that it is within its context window. More like trying to market instead of report.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:10:48 +0000

For me cannabis 100 percent effects sleep. You should determine that for yourself, which quite easy to do by keeping a dream journal for 1 month on weed and completely free from weed. That for me is reason enough not to do it. Sleep in critical for high performance, for many people sleep might not be the limiting factor but it is likely a huge factor to being at your best each day.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:51:55 +0000

My understanding is that not having H100s is irrelevant because most Chinese companies can partner or just own companies in say Australia that can load up on H100s in their data centers in Australia and "rent them out" or offer a service to the Chinese parent company.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:48:37 +0000

Agree that US is at a disadvantage for innovation because of lawsuits, wonder if it will eventually lead to US becoming 2nd place of innovation.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "[dead]"

lfmunoz4 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:42:30 +0000

They got cameras now

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts"

lfmunoz4 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:14:44 +0000

Might be a projection, i.e, you think teens do drugs to be cool. My group of friends we were legit curious read books like The Doors of Perceptions where we thought we would meet God or Aliens travel to astrospace. Any recent books like that? That made teens curious about drugs?

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts"

lfmunoz4 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:09:46 +0000

Good point, most people I know who refuse to do drugs (psychedelics) is due to fear

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

lfmunoz4 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:46:34 +0000

lol, hard to imagine? You said it not me, didn't even mention Trump, so you imagined it.

Raising taxes on the rich doesn't work because they don't have income in the same way ordinary people do. They take out loans against their assets, use shell companies, use company credit cards etc

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

lfmunoz4 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:33:11 +0000

Sounds like over philosophizing, could it just be that corruption (i.e, are Biden/Harris the most qualified people in the USA to run the country? If not that is a form of corruption.) is at an all time high, and inequality is growing. If you look at US elections you see the educated elite in NY and CA verses the rest of the country.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts"

lfmunoz4 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:51:46 +0000

Think it is more subtle than that. Straight out lying back fires easily it is more of spinning the story, i.e, on January 6 did we have an insurrection or protest? You have to push the agenda of your side so you have to try to re-define words. What is the definition of insurrection and protest? Those definitions need to be twisted so it is more subtle. Another example is "I did not have sexual relationships with that women. Oh I thought oral isn't a sexual relationship, so I didn't lie"

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor"

lfmunoz4 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:36:44 +0000

If I buy it and plug into my computer, I guess my computer will see it as a storage device. If I send it a picture, does it overwrite the fpga bitstream? Do I have write custom drivers so that it does something useful?

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor"

lfmunoz4 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:21:03 +0000

I first I thought this was a regular storage microSD with an FPGA that allows you change the data live as as it is saved or something. But seems to be an fpga that has microSD connection with no real storage capability like you would have in a reguar microSD (other than storage for fpga bitstream), i.e it is not storage device use case. But why microSD? Is it just because you can load the bitstream without having to use uart or jtag?

"The Signaloid C0-microSD has two main use cases: You can either (1) use it as a hot-pluggable FPGA module, or (2) use it as a hot-pluggable Signaloid C0 RISC-V co-processor module."

That is not really a use case. Use case usually gives examples of how they are used in production, i.e, more specific about applications.

New comment by lfmunoz4 in "Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles"

lfmunoz4 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:52:57 +0000

Why do we have self driving cars but someone can't make a completely automated McDonald's?

Ask HN: Company Failed from Poor Code?

lfmunoz4 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:17:39 +0000

Have you been at a company that failed from poor code quality?

We all know the importance of code quality but it is very difficult to quantify. Many companies have average code quality and seem to do fine. To understand this better please share your experience when working with poor code quality and what was the breaking point.

Also share what language and technologies were used and if managers were forcing language choices or making bad decisions. Also if from experience give your opinion if certain technology leads to poor quality.

For example I think JavaScript leads to bad code quality. Mangers will want to use JavaScript because they think it is faster to write and can find more qualified candidates. They don't realize that good programmers should be able to write code in any language and that code writing efficiency is significantly less important than code reading efficiency.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42018501

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