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New comment by noobermin in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

noobermin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:18:56 +0000

I don't mean to shit on their interesting result, but exp or ln are not really that elementary themselves... it's still an interesting result, but there's a reason that all approximations are done using series of polynomials (taylor expansion).

New comment by noobermin in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

noobermin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:46:40 +0000

If I'm not mistaken, they were told the point of the experiment was supposed to be about "memory and learning". If a teacher was doing a "commission" as they put it, they aren't really following the purpose of the experiment any longer.

New comment by noobermin in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

noobermin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:12:29 +0000

I do feel like the conclusion is a bit of a stretch, but there is a slight discrepancy where disobedient participants followed the rules more than the obedient ones, which is an interesting observation. It just feels a bit weak.

New comment by noobermin in "Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage"

noobermin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:09:45 +0000

Didn't OpenAI cancel a bunch of memory orders? Seems premature to announce this as there soon will be a glut of memory in the market.

New comment by noobermin in "Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage"

noobermin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:24:21 +0000

Are heavily ironic posts still considered non-kosher for HN? It does seem times are changing.

New comment by noobermin in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

noobermin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:01:26 +0000

If you read the article, it will be clear that one of its core theses is that their lighting tech and graphic designer was essentially a pioneer of selling merchandise as a revenue generator for a band.

New comment by noobermin in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

noobermin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:25:03 +0000

I have to say, the long line of comments from obvious bots thanking the opener of the issue is a bit too on the nose.

New comment by noobermin in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

noobermin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:05:04 +0000

The opening paragraph bothers me greatly. "multiply a gaussian and a power law, the power law dominates." They literally are distributions of different variables, why would you "multiply" two different distributions that exist on different domains!? The example they're using as an opening is very wrong, it makes no sense and makes the author sound incompetent.

Even if I get the point they're trying to make (if I try hard to find it), the very fact that they don't even know how mathematics in the "mathematical" part of their opening does not inspire confidence in the rest of the essay. It's very hard for me to move past the opening after the very first few lines!

Perhaps this is just because I'm a scientist, I'm surprised no one is picking at this because I feel insane reading this and this not being the first nitpick at the top of every comment. The correct way you're represent this (dist of "life outcomes", whatever that means) is that it would be a 2D histogram with IQ and wealth on the different axes. But this is not "multiply the two" wherein "one would dominate".

New comment by noobermin in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

noobermin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:33:30 +0000

This is so funny. The consultants are having their ai agents tell your boss the same thing about you, but you're different, you're bright. I bet chat told you that too.

New comment by noobermin in "Migrating to the EU"

noobermin — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:38:15 +0000

Europeans are so blind to how they are essentially on the same path as the US, the US just got there first.

New comment by noobermin in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

noobermin — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:42:55 +0000

The context is that this is in response to California in the US potentially passing a law that requires age verification on the operating system level.

New comment by noobermin in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

noobermin — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:45 +0000

Like 1 year ago, wallstreet bros were being interviewed saying they decided all the green pledges and all that was woke from the pre-trump 2 era, and I haven't heard anything at all about climate change really from any world leader in the last few years. I guess once again, people have their coming to jesus moment when it's far too late.

New comment by noobermin in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

noobermin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:55:48 +0000

You think? I will get banned from HN if I bring up that these models are fundamentally theft but we just don't put them in jail because they had the foresight to bribe the trump admin like everyone else who wants favor did.

New comment by noobermin in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

noobermin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:54:02 +0000

People are you. You can make the change.

New comment by noobermin in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

noobermin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:52:26 +0000

Even the author eventually admits the problem is fundamentally academic funding and the stupid publishing culture we have. I wonder if the author had the courage to actually expound upon that as opposed to leaving it as a triffling mention at the end if it would have been published as a cute little op-ed in science in the first place.

New comment by noobermin in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

noobermin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:49:03 +0000

So, I'm no professor, but as an ten year post-doc (unfortunately) I can say that most university groups benefit from both types. Again, the problem fundamentally is funding and the wrong incentives, as it always has been from before I entered grad school till now.

New comment by noobermin in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

noobermin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:42:32 +0000

To be honest, given the issues with the NHS, the UK isn't the best example to use for a "universal healthcare" system these days.

New comment by noobermin in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

noobermin — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:24:01 +0000

That is NOT the line for doxxing at all, I don't know why you hang your argument on that aspect. Even institutions that care about secrecy like governments state that documents that aggregate ostensibly public information can raise the classification level of a document above being non-classified. The reasons for this are obvious, essentially aggregated information can lead one to draw conclusions that otherwise are not obvious. That is akin to what the original article by Gyrovague does.

New comment by noobermin in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

noobermin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:23:21 +0000

I love this article. "btw don't do PRs, they're dead! (source: me)"...alright buddy.

New comment by noobermin in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

noobermin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:45:55 +0000

I understand being mad but no, unfortunately, despite me knowing humans are human and they get angry at times, this response does still leave a bitter taste in the mouth and many people will perceive it that way. Changing the content of the archived pages is the worst thing they've done honestly. The "3 Hz DDoS" is funny perhaps but then if it's so harmless, then why even bother? But regardless, tampering with the archives, that is, tainting the content that people appreciate you for won't sit well with people.

I don't know, I feel like everyone loses here.