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New comment by nairboon in "When AI Trading Works, You Won't Hear About It"

nairboon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:32:49 +0000

Yes, more profitable for the bot operator, given the available capital to deploy. But it doesn't follow that the bot wasn't working in the first place. Although there are many bots for sale that are indeed not working.

New comment by nairboon in "Can Claude Fly a Plane?"

nairboon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:22:33 +0000

Let's hope you don't reach Claude's session limit during approach, while trying to correct a slightly too steep descent angle.

New comment by nairboon in "Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks"

nairboon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:03:09 +0000

Already happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680

New comment by nairboon in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

nairboon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

Why do you say unverified? You can activate the hybrid satellite view and look around. There are many towns and cities showing up on satellite view without any label. That's easily verifiable.

New comment by nairboon in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

nairboon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:33:30 +0000

It's a social science? Economics is much broader and much less unified than you purport it to be. The (social) science of (in this case) Macroeconomics is just that, an observational science, a bunch of theories and observations (controlled experiments are not really feasible). The propaganda is caused by politicians, administrators, and policymakers, not really the scientists. There I agree with you, central bankers are a prime example of such propaganda. Ever wondered why almost everywhere the inflation target is 2%? Not 1%, not 3%, but exactly 2%? There is no real scientific reason behind it, that is just policy, or propaganda if you want to name it like that.

New comment by nairboon in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

nairboon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:20:29 +0000

There are some resemblances, which indicate that you might not have a fully functioning free market. But central planning in the context of von Mises refers to something else. It's about the organization of whole national economies, as in planned economies, a thing you find in communist states or Lenin's "war communism".

New comment by nairboon in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

nairboon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:43:14 +0000

Propaganda is quite a strong term to describe the works of an economist. If one wants to debate the ideas of von Mises, it'd be useful to consider the Zeitgeist at that time. Von Mises preferred free markets in contrast to the planned economy of the communists. Partly because the latter has difficulties in proper resource allocation and pricing. Note that this was decades before we had working digital computers and digital communication systems, which, at least in theory, change the feasibility of a planned economy.

Also, the last time I checked, the US government produced its goods and services using the free market. The government contractors (private enterprises) are usually tasked with building stuff, compared with the government itself in a non-free, purely planned economy (if you refer to von Mises).

I assume that you originally meant to refer to the idea that without government intervention (funding for deep R&D), the free market itself would probably not have produced things like the internet or the moon landing (or at least not within the observed time span). That is, however,a rather interesting idea.

New comment by nairboon in "Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK"

nairboon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:40:35 +0000

They have a lot of data in the form: user input, LLM output. Then the model learns what the previous LLM models produced, with all their flaws. The core LLM premise is that it learns from all available human text.

New comment by nairboon in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

nairboon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:52:37 +0000

That sounds more like a CEO issue than a reporting frequency issue.

New comment by nairboon in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

nairboon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:15:19 +0000

> What a strange comment. The US did not force Russia to invade Ukraine

OP's comment doesn't state that. It refers to the US forcing Germany to stop Nord Stream.

New comment by nairboon in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

nairboon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:29:40 +0000

I assumed that "tests" refers to a program too, which in this example is likely GPL. Thus GPL would stick already on the AI-rewrite of GPL test code.

If "tests" should mean a proper specification let's say some IETF RFC of a protocol, then that would be different.

New comment by nairboon in "Senate fails to block US involvement in Iran war"

nairboon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:06:41 +0000

The Senate could have failed only if they intended to do something, but then couldn't do it.

New comment by nairboon in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

nairboon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:57:19 +0000

No, GPL still holds even if you transform the source code from one language to another language.

New comment by nairboon in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

nairboon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:55:35 +0000

That code is still LGPL, it doesn't matter what some release engineer writes in the release notes on Github. All original authors and copyright holders must have explicitly agreed to relicense under a different license, otherwise the code stays LGPL licensed.

Also the mentioned SCOTUS decision is concerned with authorship of generative AI products. That's very different of this case. Here we're talking about a tool that transformed source code and somehow magically got rid of copyright due to this transformation? Imagine the consequences to the US copyright industry if that were actually possible.

New comment by nairboon in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

nairboon — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:22:52 +0000

Which changes every day.

New comment by nairboon in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

nairboon — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:06:48 +0000

Just the raw numbers? You list the y's and the x's and the model is approximating y=f(x) from the above example. You can totally do it with pen and paper. This is what it'd look like (for linear regression): https://observablehq.com/@yizhe-ang/interactive-visualizatio...

New comment by nairboon in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

nairboon — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:56:42 +0000

Google chose "understanding" in that context, because the relevant AI/ML task is called "Natural language understanding". But that term is an aspiration. It's the problem of trying to reveal the "meaning" of text data (language) as in making sense of the symbols with computers.

Just because Transformers work well on the "Natural language understanding" task in AI, doesn't mean that a Transformer actually "understands" language in the human sense.

New comment by nairboon in "D Programming Language"

nairboon — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:02:07 +0000

> We all know...

HN isn't as homogeneous as you think. By this measuring stick, half of the posts on the front page can be put into question every day.

Swiss Venture Capital Report 2026 [pdf]

nairboon — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:04:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.startupticker.ch/assets/files/attachments/VCReport_2026_web.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957078

Points: 3

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New comment by nairboon in "Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?"

nairboon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:08:34 +0000

I wonder if the people in 100 years will refer to the current time period (now) the same way as we sometimes do to about ~100 years ago. As in did the scientist and curious minds in the last century really have this golden period to just wander around in all these greenfields, whereas nowadays the fields are not so green anymore. Or is this just a normal phenomena of any time period?