Hacker News: lupire

New comment by lupire in "Tiny Little Office"

lupire — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:25:35 +0000

A crime is a violation of law that can result in prison time.

A civil violation can result in financial penalties but not criminal penalties (prison)

New comment by lupire in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

lupire — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0000

What you are missing by waiting 5 years for an X-ray is that the rate of growth affects when the cavity needs to be filled.

New comment by lupire in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

lupire — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:09:48 +0000

Climbing a mountain is different from flying a helicopter to the top

New comment by lupire in "I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep"

lupire — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:07:22 +0000

AI systems have Reinforcement Learning

New comment by lupire in "The LLMentalist Effect (2023)"

lupire — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:03:26 +0000

A human cannot start a conversation. Every human conversation is predicated on the human being activated by its parents.

New comment by lupire in "Returning Soldier Effect"

lupire — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:00:20 +0000

The graph makes it pretty obvious that the effects isn't real. The newy steady growth in ratio 1910-1950 is more interest, but even so, the magnitude of variations is tiny.

If anything, infanticide is likely the cause of distortion. Look at China's One Child Policy.

New comment by lupire in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"

lupire — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:48:21 +0000

It's human-modified AI slop. No human is able to write so much so badly

New comment by lupire in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"

lupire — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:43:41 +0000

Interestiny, the article mentions that, in comtext of PhD students desperate to escape to industry labs.

New comment by lupire in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"

lupire — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:40:04 +0000

In addition, per OP's own source, Computer Eng and Comp Science have the highest Median Wage Early Career. That's a great trade for slightly higher unemployment rate.

New comment by lupire in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

lupire — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:27:16 +0000

Engineering is a religion based on faith. Math is the god you follow :-)

New comment by lupire in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

lupire — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:26:05 +0000

That's leaning into engineering, away from math. Heuristics aren't always accurate. Math history before proof is the history of delusion. Idea, heuristics, and motivation aren't nearly enough for correctness outside of a sandbox.

New comment by lupire in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

lupire — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:23:46 +0000

LLMs have LLM intuition, not human intuition. (See the movie Her.)

LLM cannot reinvent Euclid from scratch, but a larger system including LLM might.

New comment by lupire in "If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it"

lupire — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:19:38 +0000

Love is more important than breathing. It is and it isn't.

What good is an end you can't reach, or worse, you can reach but it's wrong?

New comment by lupire in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

lupire — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:20:26 +0000

And now you see the business value of Nueralink with DRM.

New comment by lupire in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

lupire — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:17:19 +0000

Disintermediation.

It's Amazon's whole business model.

https://prosperousamerica.org/amazons-heavy-recruitment-of-c...

New comment by lupire in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

lupire — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:06:21 +0000

10 years ago Google Photos already had AutoAwesome with Hasslehoff Photo bombing.

New comment by lupire in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

lupire — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:03:26 +0000

Ruby ln Rails and are you sure you need all that? Do you have dozens of interrelated products with a billion users for each?

New comment by lupire in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

lupire — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:01:40 +0000

Ethos is lived not told.

New comment by lupire in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

lupire — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:59:49 +0000

If it is fashionable for 20-30 years running across multiple categories, maybe it's actually valuable and worthwhile.

New comment by lupire in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

lupire — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:58:15 +0000

Because it's not as conventient or functional as cloud and they don't pay me to talk it up.