<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: paulsutter</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paulsutter</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:39:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=paulsutter" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulsutter in "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want furigana on display glasses, like Even Realities. Since the application would know my vocabulary, it can show just the words that I'm not likely to know.<p>Assuming you could hint the furigana from the application, the phonetic transcript would make it more accurate.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008872">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008872</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>I was dismissive when I saw the title, but they have real statistics: foreign holdings are at 2012 levels while total treasuries outstanding are 3x larger.</p>
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<p>The answer is in Google's Capex trends:<p>2023: $32B<p>2025: $91B<p>2027: $300B (projected)<p>2029: $400B (projected)<p>“I’m happy to go bankrupt rather than lose this race” -Larry Page</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:07:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687511</link><dc:creator>paulsutter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulsutter in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The big question is whether OpenAI is training on "de-identified" sessions that are marked as "do not use for training"<p>The answer is almost certainly yes, and this is a problem for most users.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://trustedrouter.com/blog/they-are-still-training-on-your-data">https://trustedrouter.com/blog/they-are-still-training-on-your-data</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624131">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624131</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:22:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://trustedrouter.com/blog/they-are-still-training-on-your-data</link><dc:creator>paulsutter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulsutter in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here they basically admit that they use session data for training, even sessions that are marked "not for training", and they justify this by "de-identifying" the session.<p>Which means they can learn from whatever you discuss with ChatGPT unless you are going through a clean API (perhaps Bedrock? Anyone know?)<p>> We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem. <i>While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models </i>. However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs unforced).</p>
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<p>Oops you built a database!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487029</link><dc:creator>paulsutter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulsutter in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Giving parents control of child mode is much better than the state deciding. If Parents want to fake the ages of their child, that sounds good to me.</p>
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<p>The right implementation is to have parents mark certain devices as "under 18", and then have those devices perform accordingly.<p>This give parents useful control, and removes the state overreach.</p>
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<p>The best way to write concurrency in any language is a single threaded polling loop. Goroutines and messages are just as bad as all the other alternatives, which is to say they are a miserable way to write code.<p>But Go is also perfectly good at single threaded polling loops.</p>
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<p>Actually the rule is that your solar system must stop feeding power to the utility if the utility is down. You are allowed to run in isolated mode if your system supports that. Yes, even in Germany.</p>
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<p>It is definitely and absolutely caused by LLMs. I must do 20x more GitHub operations now, and since the agents know GitHub far better than me, I'm using more advanced features. Multiply this times all of us.</p>
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<p>It would have been a lot more interesting if her has just explained Beads (the only thing her claims is novel).<p>So probably there is nothing here.<p>Very painful read.</p>
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<p>Could this somehow be a scissor statement? This is simple logic, there is no motivation here.<p>HYPOTHETICALLY let's say your uncle has an 80% chance of having cancer. Do you say that he has cancer? Or would you say it's likely that he has cancer?<p>"Trump's pathetic attempt at saber rattling" is the truest and fairest statement on the whole affair that I can possibly muster. Which is nothing like threatening to invade. Hilarious and sad, but not frightening.<p>Email me we could even discuss live! sutter at gmail</p>
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<p>Reasonable and true statements:<p>- "He hinted at use of force" (he did!)<p>- "I think he's implying the use of force" (you own your thoughts!)<p>Problematic statements:<p>- "He IS implying use of force!" is actually just a guess, even if (let's say) it's 80% likely to be true. It's still a guess. It's not something you know.<p>- "HE THREATENED TO USE FORCE!" you've just promoted your guess into yelling fire in a crowded theater because you're a troll<p>None of this reasoning applies if you're a cat. For a cat, words and sentences just register as an emotional valence, with no comprehension of what it means to distinguish fact from inference.<p>If you are a cat, I apologize for misapprehending your lived experience.</p>
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<p>The most important observation is that open source matches their business model, which is to provide fine tuning services for enterprises, etc.<p>That what makes this a (potentially) safer model to build on top of</p>
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<p>The hard way was tariffs, you know that.<p>Now you’re saying he didn’t actually make a threat, but he implied one?<p>Which means you’re assuming his intent to be whatever makes for the most lurid headline.<p>Funny that these professional journalists didn’t think to ask to clarify such a monumental possibility. Or maybe the ambiguity was what they wanted all along. And apparently people (such as yourself) just eat it up</p>
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<p>It’s not a threat, and yes it’s atrocious statesmanship.<p>Did he hint at the use of the military? YES<p>Was that offensive on both sides of the atlantic, inside and outside of diplomatic circles? YES<p>Did he actually threaten to use the military? NO<p>Neither his poor statesmanship nor his lack of character change the meaning of the words, I can’t understand why you keep bringing that in.</p>
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<p>Yes, he definitely refused to rule out use of military force!<p>But that really and truly is not a threat to use military force.<p>Consider the following hypothetical:<p>- * IF * the questioner had followed up with, "Are you threatening to use military force?" and<p>- * IF * Trump answered "of course not"....<p>Would that be a contradiction? Not at all! Because his first statement wasn't a threat.<p>This is literally strategic ambiguity combined with bad statesmanship. But if you look up any and every time he has been asked whether he would rule out the use of military force, I would expect that in every case he declined to rule it out. Of course he's a buffoon, so he might not have adhered to that correctly.</p>
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