<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: ponow</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ponow</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:50:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ponow" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Rats Play DOOM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then make your own world where you don't benefit from the knowledge gained by means you don't approve of.  This world is not that world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:44:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256865</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Legislation is much worse than organically derived common law, for the common law comprises decisions that apply to particular conditions with all their details while the former are mere idealizations.</p>
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<p>Yes, I would argue that it would be better for more to have been incarcerated, for that would bring greater focus to injustice and the law would be changed.  Selective enforcement interferes with the feedback mechanism that would otherwise make the law work better.</p>
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<p>Categorical rejection of alternatives is premature without context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:21:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723760</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Federal funding of research is un-American.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722370</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Go is still not good"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Go was a response, in part, to C++, if I recall how it was described when it was introduced.  That doesn't seem to be how it ended it out.  Maybe it was that "systems programming language" means something different for different people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:39:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988158</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44988158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm happy enough if I'm better off for having used a tool than having not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:02:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875726</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meaningless?  The participation in a usefully predicting path is meaning.  A different meaning.<p>And Gemini has a note at the bottom about mistakes, and many people discuss this.  Caveat emptor, as usual.</p>
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<p>> LLMs are [...] sophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text<p>Most humans are unsophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:55:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875643</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "The great displacement is already well underway?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could it be that your particular position required more ongoing learning, and that has kept you better prepared for a changing world?<p>What fraction of positions require that ongoing learning, or at least to that degree?<p>Also, consider many other jobs, are they doing their job, and the doing of their job <i>itself</i> provides the experience that makes you a more valuable worker?  Or is the doing of the job basically a necessary distraction from the actual task of preparing yourself for a future job?  What fraction of humanity actually takes on two jobs, the paying job and the preparing-for-the-next-job?  Might doing the latter get you fired from the former?  Most importantly, is doing that latter job getting <i>more</i> important over time, that is, are our jobs less secure?  If so, is this what is an improving economy, rising, as it were, with GDP?</p>
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<p>These are welcome changes, as the practice of DEI (not it's idealization) is actively discriminatory and intolerant of dissenting views.  Let competence be the only metric.</p>
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<p>False.  Mass accumulations of capital allow exploratory research without a clear path to commercial benefit, but it's a cherry on top, a kind of motivator for researchers.</p>
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<p>It's ironic that the much more significant ultimate success of deep learning happened despite a lack of government funding, if Hinton is to be believed.  The 90s were a neural net winter, and success required faster computation, a private success.<p>I lose zero sleep at the prospect that there would be zero government robotics research funding.  If the advantages are there, profit seekers will find a way.  We must stop demonizing private accumulations of capital, "ending" billionaires and "monopolies" that are offering more things at lower cost.  Small enterprises cannot afford a Bell Labs, a Watson Research, a Deep Mind, a Xerox PARC, etc.</p>
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<p>Yes, reduce, even end government research.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 16:29:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43938617</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43938617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43938617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As if centralization with one big company weren't enough, now we're not even satisfied with one country, but a block of them.  Yikes.<p>Nope, run in the opposite direction.  Unsuck from any teat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43341833</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43341833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43341833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unless you bound compensation, a proclamation of "non-profit" rings hollow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:31:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330373</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of that is combatting sexism, but reality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:40:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663099</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We need one title one owner.  Shared ownership is confusion.  Governmens shouldn't run interference between managers and stockholders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:35:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663076</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Developing defence capacity is a basic responsibility.  Humans can scream foul if they lose out to machine hybrids or extraterrestrials.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:33:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663066</link><dc:creator>ponow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ponow in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Brevity informs diction.</p>
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