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New comment by pavelrub in "Herdr has released native app"

pavelrub — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:29:31 +0000

Although this isn't a direct answer to your question, but everything that can be done in Herdr is trivially discoverable by asking a CC (or equivalent) session inside Herdr. In fact a lot of the things I do in Herdr I do by asking an agent to do it for me, instead of trying to learn how to do it manually.

Some things might require a non-trivial workaround, but a coding agent will also happily build and test it for you.

New comment by pavelrub in "Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later"

pavelrub — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:12:52 +0000

Is winning the lottery 50% of the time good? It’s what you’d expect by posing “will I win the lottery today?” and then flipping a coin to get the answer.

New comment by pavelrub in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

pavelrub — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:02:55 +0000

The common approach is to take a photo of an object from above together with a ruler or something of a known size for scale, then import that directly into the CAD software, scale according to the scaling object, and create a cutout along the object's outline. No need for calipers, 3d scans, or other complex measurement procedures. There are a lot of videos and guides on how to do that.

New comment by pavelrub in "New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro"

pavelrub — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:37:48 +0000

What do you mean? The previous iPad Pros didn't have a home button either. The last iPad with a home button was the 9th generation iPad, released in 2021.

Human or Not? - A Social Turing Game

pavelrub — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:10:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.humanornot.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35625216

Points: 7

# Comments: 5

New comment by pavelrub in "What all is involved in simulating an economy for a game that involves trading?"

pavelrub — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:58:32 +0000

(2014)

New comment by pavelrub in "Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests"

pavelrub — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:24:45 +0000

No. Because you have to consider:

1. Current or future means of intercepting hypersonic missiles.

2. The ability to disable or reduce the enemy’s ability of launching hypersonic missiles, or of pinpointing and accurately tracking the exact location of aircraft carriers.

New comment by pavelrub in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

pavelrub — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:29:37 +0000

Yes — discussing the actual motivations for the law, as provided to us by Israeli politicians and previous Supreme Court decisions, is a good and valid starting point for discussion. Claiming that the law is bad simply because it disproportionally affects some subset of the Israeli population, is not. The argument I was addressing in this particular subthread is the latter, not the former.

New comment by pavelrub in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

pavelrub — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:19:50 +0000

It targets people who sleep under bridges. If, for example, there is a major safety hazard associated with sleeping under bridges, it would make sense to prohibit it, and it would be bizarre to criticize the law just because it affects mostly homeless people. If, on the other hand, the law prohibits only homeless people from sleeping under bridges, it becomes clear that the intent is discriminatory, and this becomes a valid criticism.

New comment by pavelrub in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

pavelrub — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:10:07 +0000

There is a fundamental difference between a law that prohibits a specific ethnicity from doing X, and a law that prohibits everyone from doing X, but a specific ethnicity/minority is more affected by it than others. The former is pretty much never legitimate, while the latter is often unavoidable, and I imagine exists to some extent in any country with minorities.

New comment by pavelrub in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

pavelrub — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:44:09 +0000

The restriction applies to everybody, not just Israeli Arabs. However it is true that Israeli Arabs are the ones most affected by it.

New comment by pavelrub in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

pavelrub — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:39:05 +0000

> this is about Arab or Christian Israeli citizens

This is incorrect. There is no distinction in the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis. The law applies equally to Israeli Jews who wish to marry a resident of the WB/Gaza, or one of the other countries mentioned in the law.

New comment by pavelrub in "Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)"

pavelrub — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:38:40 +0000

Israel has neither an authoritarian nor a semi-authoritarian regime. From your analogy I think you are misunderstanding NSO and its relation to the Israeli government. NSO is not a civilian cover for government operations. It’s an Israeli arms manufacturer. Its foreign sales require approval by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and as such can be facilitated by the government based on diplomatic considerations. This is not unlike other arms manufacturers in the US or in western countries in general.

New comment by pavelrub in "AI could end foreign-language subtitles"

pavelrub — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:41:18 +0000

In my experience people who dislike subtitles are mostly native English speakers living in English-speaking countries, who are used to the fact that almost all the media they consume is produced in their native language, and so they’ve never developed the ability to read subtitles comfortably.

When the occasional rare case arises where they need to watch a foreign film/show, they find it straining to both read the subtitles and watch the film, and so they conclude that subtitles are bad or “not for them”. In practice this stems from lack of practice — the perceived conscious effort of having to read subtitles while watching a film disappears entirely after you have done it a few times with sufficient regularity, and becomes completely effortless, subconscious, and automatic. But this is a skill that needs to be developed. Saying that subtitles are bad because they distract from the film is like saying that riding a bicycle is bad because you fall all the time, when in reality you just haven’t learned to ride one.

New comment by pavelrub in "Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji"

pavelrub — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 15:34:00 +0000

They have a very limited amount of hydrazine, used for small course corrections for drag compensation and debris avoidance. It's not used, nor can be used, to "change orbit" in the sense of redirecting the satellite to look at some specific location on demand, outside of the satellite's original orbit.

New comment by pavelrub in "Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji"

pavelrub — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:46:23 +0000

Satellites in general aren’t maneuverable. The camera angle can be changed to point at, and capture, a region of interest when the satellite passes over it, but the satellite’s orbit is determined on insertion and doesn’t change on demand.

We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out with Courage

pavelrub — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 23:01:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.commentary.org/articles/bari-weiss/resist-woke-revolution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28884130

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me

pavelrub — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:17:05 +0000

Article URL: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28757882

Points: 109

# Comments: 59

New comment by pavelrub in "Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine"

pavelrub — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 04:20:35 +0000

The argument you are addressing is a strawman. Nobody claimed that anal sex is limited only to sex between men. Anal sex is, however, far more common in frequency among homosexual men than between heterosexual couples, and significantly increases the risk of HIV transmission compared to vaginal sex, therefore it is a risk factor that is strongly correlated with sexual orientation.

New comment by pavelrub in "Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine"

pavelrub — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:13:44 +0000

HIV transmission is partially related to attributes that are correlated with sexual orientation, the most prominent of which is the fact that the chance of transmission is much higher for anal sex than it is for vaginal sex.