Hacker News: phyalow

New comment by phyalow in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

phyalow — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:31:27 +0000

Or you can just try stuff and see if it works

New comment by phyalow in "OpenClaw is dangerous"

phyalow — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:15:31 +0000

Ok bot.

New comment by phyalow in "Anthropic Claude Max $200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: $780"

phyalow — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:55:30 +0000

“Mid level developer $150 per day”, is that a joke?

Also the math in this gist doesnt math.

So maybe the chargeout rate is highly informative.

2/10 would not read again.

New comment by phyalow in "Show HN: Yashiki – A tiling window manager for macOS in Rust, inspired by River"

phyalow — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:02:05 +0000

AI reply. Hmm

New comment by phyalow in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

phyalow — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:33:53 +0000

Unfortunately thats how the politics and economics of violence work when you are the most powerful country in the world (n.b. I am not American and think this situation is deplorable, but the legal facts and construction support Trump’s actions)

New comment by phyalow in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

phyalow — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:16:20 +0000

As Jonathan Turley reports https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/03/the-united-states-capt... this operation will be justified as executing the criminal warrant (issued by the Biden DOJ and outstanding since 2029) and responding to an international drug cartel, a very similar legal framework to the one used against Noriega in 1989 - which was tested in multiple US courts. So like it or not there is longstanding court affirmed precedent supporting that earlier operation, which will now be used to defend the actions in Venezuela.

New comment by phyalow in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

phyalow — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:37:42 +0000

                    *
                   /|\
                 [ROOT]
                n=25000
              /    |    \
           [N]    [I]    [C]
          .33    .51    .94  <-- UCB1 winner
           |      |    /   \
         [OH]   [MEH] [E]   [E]
         coal   socks NICE  NICE
           |             \    \
          :/              :)   :)

       MCTS: Monte Carlo Tree Santa

   "in the limit, all children converge 
        to the nice list" - S. Claus

Merry Xmas Nerds!

New comment by phyalow in "Show HN: Thermodynamic Alignment Forces Gemini Thinking into "Burn Protocol""

phyalow — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:28:50 +0000

Sorry but this just reads as hyperbolic one shotted nonsense

New comment by phyalow in "CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025"

phyalow — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:41:02 +0000

Its reductive, but also roughly correct.

New comment by phyalow in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

phyalow — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:13:38 +0000

Bot comment. Its not x its y… Why bother?

New comment by phyalow in "How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface"

phyalow — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:38:50 +0000

I love it

New comment by phyalow in "Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files"

phyalow — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:48:19 +0000

I had to bash my head against the wall and submit myself to paying for a creative cloud license. At least acrobat just works. Although I wish there was a reasonable alternative.

New comment by phyalow in "GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers"

phyalow — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:07:32 +0000

Absolutely.

New comment by phyalow in "The Quiet Disappearance of Skeptics in the AI Gold Rush"

phyalow — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:36:49 +0000

Maybe, I'm just having fun reducing entropy locally in my codebase, while it gets ejected as heat in some data center on the otherside of the planet.

New comment by phyalow in "The Quiet Disappearance of Skeptics in the AI Gold Rush"

phyalow — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:44:58 +0000

Sure, but only until Claude Opus 6

New comment by phyalow in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

phyalow — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:59:17 +0000

What? You can get consistent output on local models.

I can train large nets deterministically too (CUBLAS flags). What your saying isn't true in practice. Hell I can also go on the anthropic API right now and get verbatim static results.

New comment by phyalow in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

phyalow — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:22:56 +0000

“non-deterministic machines“

Not correct. They are deterministic as long as a static seed is used.

New comment by phyalow in "A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition"

phyalow — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:55:36 +0000

Huh? These are documents written (not a Maori technology), printed (not a Maori technology), bound into a book (not a Maori technology), placed in a library (not a Maori idea/concept). A Computer database is irrelent here, you seem to be picking out arbitrary words to try and sound smart?

People arent threatend by this specific activity, less so the nonsense behind it. The threat is the corruption of useful and working systems to virtue signal for no benefit, whilst espousing their apparent (but on close examination lack of benefits). It is the social and intellectual degredation which is alarming.

Creating a custom filing system is busy work simply put, changing to a propritory system lowers discoverability of information to an overwhelming majority of people initmately unfamiliar with "Maori gods" (99.9%), the same activity could be accomplished under standard tooling (Dewey), at lower cost, greater compatability and therefore benefit. It would be discoverable by default.

New comment by phyalow in "A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition"

phyalow — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:19:52 +0000

Honestly, many New Zealand’ers (especially the inner city Wellington/Auckland public service class) have a major problem with native cultural relations (bordering on obsequiousness) that is increasingly out of step with developed global practices.

It gives rise to the utter nonsense exemplified in this Article, which is pure virtue signalling.

I am a New Zealander, I have been lucky enough to spend a huge amount of time working overseas (in many different countries, settings and regions) as well as having attended foreign and (domestic NZ) universities. I have seen it all. Screeching about “booing and hissing” says more about you than the person you are replying to. Put up a coherent response rather than saying because someone isn't in a tiny community they cant have an opinion. That is just braindead behaviour.

New comment by phyalow in "A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition"

phyalow — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:11:14 +0000

Except Mātauranga by definition refers to “TRADITIONAL” knowledge.

And as OP points out this isnt it.

I too feel gaslit respectfully, reading your reply and the article.