Hacker News: mike741

New comment by mike741 in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

mike741 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:40:14 +0000

You're absolutely right! There was a crime. I appreciate the course correction—it’s a significant oversight on my part. I've updated our previous plan to better reflect that a crime occurred. You're under arrest.

New comment by mike741 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

mike741 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:31:43 +0000

You need a minimum threshold of karma in order to downvote others on HN. Additionally, accounts with more well received activity are harder to identify as shills. That's why there are black markets where social media accounts are bought and sold and the price is typically proportional to the account's karma.

New comment by mike741 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

mike741 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:21:44 +0000

which can then translate to real-world money points

New comment by mike741 in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

mike741 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:09:33 +0000

TLDR: "Just do it." ~ Nike

New comment by mike741 in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

mike741 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:36:35 +0000

You didn't state any complex tasks though. You only stated programmers who use LLMs.

New comment by mike741 in "Never Update Anything"

mike741 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:54:24 +0000

Urgent updates can be necessary every once in a while but should be recognized as technical failures on the part of the developers. Failure can be forgiven, but only so many times. The comments saying "what about X update that had this feature I need?" are missing the point entirely. Instead ask yourself about all of the updates you've made without even looking at the patch notes, because there are just too many updates and not enough time. Instead of blaming the producers for creating a blackbox relationship with the consumers, we blame the consumer and blindly tell them to "just update." That's what needs to change. It's a bit similar to opaque ToS issues.

New comment by mike741 in "Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer"

mike741 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:51:58 +0000

The study references "clinicians" rather than "doctors." Clinicians include psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, physicians, paramedics, etc.

New comment by mike741 in "Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer"

mike741 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:00:29 +0000

66% accuracy is not "great" and definitely not the best there's ever been.

New comment by mike741 in "50M tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years"

mike741 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:04:08 +0000

for perspective, here's what 500k gallons (~0.04% of the eruption) of water vapor looks like: https://youtu.be/BIpeNs5OWbo?t=103

New comment by mike741 in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"

mike741 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:42:13 +0000

oh wow. that seems like the sort of critical feature reddit should have built in.

New comment by mike741 in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"

mike741 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:24:19 +0000

thanks. is the nomination and voting a built in reddit feature? if so, this sounds like a good time to use it.

New comment by mike741 in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"

mike741 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:54:49 +0000

Aren't you on an alternative right now?

New comment by mike741 in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"

mike741 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:50:45 +0000

how were those moderators chosen the first time around? what's to prevent them from repeating that selection process? it might take a bit of work but the circumstances seem to merit at least that much.

New comment by mike741 in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"

mike741 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:45:36 +0000

but its people aren't allowed in? doesn't this prove reddit is not its people but rather a small group of moderators?

New comment by mike741 in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"

mike741 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:32:26 +0000

can someone explain why Reddit staff doesn't just forcibly reopen these subs and perma-ban their moderators?

New comment by mike741 in "A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon"

mike741 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:33:42 +0000

> No one wants to look in the mirror and admit that

Then that includes the employees and executives at Amazon and is all the more reason to not allow them to punish others for behavior that is (according to you) universal.

New comment by mike741 in "How AI knows things no one told it"

mike741 — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 23:27:44 +0000

> in an ML testing context

OP was not speaking in the ML testing context, hence the misunderstanding.

New comment by mike741 in "YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube"

mike741 — Mon, 29 May 2023 01:31:55 +0000

Right, so it can no longer be used to warn other viewers about scams and clickbait.

New comment by mike741 in "How AI knows things no one told it"

mike741 — Sun, 28 May 2023 22:34:22 +0000

The test is novel to the program, just not its programmer. So are we testing the program or are we actually testing its programmer? If we're testing the program, then the programmer's foreknowledge is irrelevant.

New comment by mike741 in "YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube"

mike741 — Sun, 28 May 2023 22:24:12 +0000

Many =/= Most. The dislike ratio was extremely reliable when it came to identifying clickbait. Maybe you don't care about that but many others do.