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New comment by pleurotus in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

pleurotus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:11:36 +0000

? The united states have blocked exports by a Dutch company to China, and somehow got away with it.

New comment by pleurotus in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

pleurotus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:42:49 +0000

...I never found another person with the same experience. Here we are. For me though, it's not that sunlight makes it more noticeable, it's that I will see the same shades until I've had too much sunlight—eventually my left eye gets tired, I guess, and sees a lot less red than my right eye. After sleeping it resets and I see the same shade in both eyes. Maybe i should talk to a researcher about this..

New comment by pleurotus in "Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty"

pleurotus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:49:47 +0000

They're not referring to the m-dash that LLMs are known for, but hyphenation in the middle of a word to split the word over two lines.

The article shows it in the example screenshots, but does not explicitly mention it or how it interacts with the different options discussed

New comment by pleurotus in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

pleurotus — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:36:39 +0000

I'm struggling a bit when it comes to wording this with social decorum, but how long do we reckon it takes until there's AI powered adult toys? There's a market opportunity that i do not want to see being fulfilled, ever..

New comment by pleurotus in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

pleurotus — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:56:15 +0000

I think it's important to note—which isn't mentioned on their website at all, stupidly enough—that wero has two parts. The p2p payment, that you can see in the parent article. And the e-commerce functionality, which is based on the dutch iDeal. See https://sowieso.wero-wallet.eu/nl-en/

Kinda odd that their marketing does nothing to clarify this...

Cow Tools

pleurotus — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696021

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pleurotus in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

pleurotus — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:26:14 +0000

Thanks for the explanation! It makes a lot of sense that voxels would scale as badly as they do, especially if you want to increase resolution. Am I right in assuming that the reason this scales a lot better is because the Gaussian splats, once there's enough "resolution" of them, can provide the estimates for how light works reasonably well at most distances? What I'm getting at is, if I can see Gaussian splats vs voxels similarly to pixels vs vector graphics in images?

New comment by pleurotus in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

pleurotus — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:19:24 +0000

Thanks for the explanation!

New comment by pleurotus in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

pleurotus — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:33:02 +0000

Super cool to read but can someone eli5 what Gaussian splatting is (and/or radiance fields?) specifically to how the article talks about it finally being "mature enough"? What's changed that this is now possible?

New comment by pleurotus in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

pleurotus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:21:13 +0000

As far as I read on Ladybird's blog updates, the issue is less the formalised specs, and more that other browsers break the specs, so websites adjust, so you need to take the non-compliance to specs into account with your design

New comment by pleurotus in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

pleurotus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:17:29 +0000

Yeah they mention it in the article, most network connections are restricted. But not connections to anthropic. To spell out the obvious—because Claude needs to talk to its own servers. But here they show you can get it to talk to its own servers, but put some documents in another user's account, using the different API key. All in a way that you, as an end user, wouldn't really see while it's happening.

New comment by pleurotus in "A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green.""

pleurotus — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:31:08 +0000

> Not to mention that a liar doesn't necessarily have to mean someone who tells a falsehood in every single statement.

FTA: >Note: this question was originally set in a maths exam, so the answer assumes some basic assumptions about formal logic. A liar is someone who only says false statements.

I think it's pretty clear how on definitions

New comment by pleurotus in "Mitochondria Are Alive"

pleurotus — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:30:14 +0000

That's more a flaw of classification systems though. Because even if they comprise a distinct life form does not mean they need to have a unique species. Consider lichen, which comprise two (or more!) separate "species" which becomes a meaningless distinction when they cannot survive on their own, or even if they could, not in a form recognizable in any wayas they were when they were a part of the symbiotic system

New comment by pleurotus in "Hyphanet is a private peer-to-peer platform for publishing and communication"

pleurotus — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:33:22 +0000

Idk man if your splash page links to Wikipedia to explain your project maybe rewrite it instead

New comment by pleurotus in "Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?"

pleurotus — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:12:16 +0000

I think this is what they are referring to: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/