Hacker News: monetus

New comment by monetus in "Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl"

monetus — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:48:40 +0000

I've been using critcl for a long time, and maybe weirdly still end up using it despite often using nim. Fantastic software.

New comment by monetus in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

monetus — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:42:48 +0000

I feel like when society has an air of doom you are more likely to see it wherever you are. HN is still fairly international though.

New comment by monetus in "UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US"

monetus — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:33:50 +0000

It feels like hearing Diddy advocate for various legalized recreational drugs, sadly.

New comment by monetus in "How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale"

monetus — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:38:42 +0000

Can I ask what time periods?

I have no personal experience of Kyrgyzstan or Russia, but my hunch would be that the noughts were riddled with taxi drivers like you say, while that has slightly improved over time? I mean, perestroika is known for having those problems, wasn't it? Correct me if I am wrong please anybody, thank you.

Also, kudos on your travel.

New comment by monetus in "Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease"

monetus — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:36:43 +0000

> And it’s way beyond the comprehension of human knowledge.

Are you fairly religious, if you don't mind my asking?

New comment by monetus in "Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach"

monetus — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:46:16 +0000

Are there any LLMs available with a, "give me copyrighted material" button? I don't think that is how they work.

Commercial use of someone's image also already has laws concerning that as far as I know, don't they?

New comment by monetus in "Extreme skydiver Baumgartner dies in paragliding accident"

monetus — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:37:02 +0000

> Grow up. One isn't an automatic asshole just because they don't share your worldview.

This has self contained irony; I hope you realize that.

New comment by monetus in "Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses"

monetus — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:31:34 +0000

It can be pretty shocking seeing all the shell games immediately underneath the Eiffel tower, to your point.

New comment by monetus in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

monetus — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:35:15 +0000

How in the world did Juche become our national philosophy? I'm not sure, but I think about it all the time now.

I'm on HN, so I tend to want to blame the ad industry. It's pretty nebulous to think that "made in America" directly snowballed into this; so many things did. The freakier nativism in advertising really could use a break right about now though.

New comment by monetus in "No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office"

monetus — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:08:20 +0000

Indefinite royalties on Spotify are one thing, but how are they supposed to work in neural nets? Dividing equal share based on inputs would require the company to potentially expose proprietary information. Basing it on outputs could make sense as well I suppose, but would take some slightly ridiculous work for an arguable result.

Your point remains, but the problem of the division of responsibility and financial credit doesn't go away with that alone. Do you know if the openAI lawsuits have laid this out?

New comment by monetus in "Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä"

monetus — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:37:35 +0000

Almost entirely.

On 20 September 2022, Luhansk Oblast governor Serhiy Haidai reported that Russian troops had "razed [Bilohorivka] to the ground" during their failed attempts to recapture it, stating that Ukrainian forces had full control of the town.[78]

On 18 October, Russia attempted an assault with artillery support on Bilohorivka, but the attack was repulsed. Russian troops continued to shell liberated settlements.

The armored vehicle assaults and drones destroy trenches and buildings, make craters too, but the sheer extent and size of those craters is from artillery. The tank battles weren't too destructive relatively IIRC

New comment by monetus in "Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors"

monetus — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:17:31 +0000

Elon has positioned adopting lidar as a personal defeat - I am curious if his ego would allow that course correction.

New comment by monetus in "Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future"

monetus — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:58:26 +0000

> You vote for a person not a specific policy

You're not wrong as general rule of thumb imo, or in a straight sense of reality, but tell that to the evangelicals who spend their time slandering abortion.

New comment by monetus in "RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines"

monetus — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:36:04 +0000

One question that they presume the answer to iiuc, is that they have a pardon waiting for them. - an inverted sword of Damocles hanging out waiting to save them. IMO, many probably do, but plenty who think they will be safe don't have the right profile and will only be offered one if they have enough money. Guliani offered them for.. 2 million I think last time? You'll have to check that.

New comment by monetus in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

monetus — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:02:07 +0000

At Google's scale, what would be the hosting costs of this I wonder. Very expensive after a certain point, I would guess.

New comment by monetus in "Chimps strike stones against trees as communication, study suggests"

monetus — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:40:07 +0000

Contemporaneous notes are used in courts a lot though, aren't they?

New comment by monetus in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

monetus — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:41:08 +0000

The lack of originality is proof that God exists. First time I've heard that tbh.

New comment by monetus in "Uber's Shower Gate Scandal"

monetus — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:33:37 +0000

This comes across as naivety to the point of trolling their own employees. It might be worth following where those particular executives go, and to maybe avoid being involved with those companies with services and the like if you have options.

New comment by monetus in "Closures in Tcl"

monetus — Sat, 03 May 2025 17:23:01 +0000

r/TCL is worth a mention

New comment by monetus in "Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired"

monetus — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:57:12 +0000

People very much need this. Making them visually more fitting, less distracting, would be a nice next step.

This won't replace the mixer I run my audio through, though. A bit of a pain, and you need a mixer, but try it if you can.