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New comment by relyks in "The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning"

relyks — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:09:00 +0000

I'm assuming it's more in line with The Little Schemer series of books (https://felleisen.org/matthias/BTLS-index.html) or maybe the little book of deep learning (https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html)?

New comment by relyks in "'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots"

relyks — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:10:55 +0000

New York City DOT actually made jaywalking legal there last year

New comment by relyks in "'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots"

relyks — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:58:19 +0000

This article captures the problem exactly. In Miami, there are areas where sidewalks are too narrow for a robot (from Serve Robotics) and a human to share simultaneously, so either the robot or the human goes first. If the human wants to go first, they have to step into the street and walk around the robot. The robot and its operator are never courteous enough to back up.

Which raises the question: why should these robots be prioritized over humans? Why can't they use the streets when there are pedestrians? Why should the SAFETY OF HUMANS be compromised for these profit-seeking corporations and their robots?

New comment by relyks in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

relyks — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:47:29 +0000

Yes, but saying just "congress" implies both chambers passed it

New comment by relyks in "Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty"

relyks — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:12:24 +0000

How have you been using Zellij? It's been working great for me

New comment by relyks in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

relyks — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:11:16 +0000

Indeed, but should we always assume data of any type we generate for services can be used for malicious means?

New comment by relyks in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

relyks — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:08:13 +0000

I stopped scanning pokestops because the effort has outweighed the rewards. A lot of the time, the requests show up as "research tasks" for a point of interest that I quickly passed by and have no interest in returning to, besides the tasks related to taking pictures of your buddy pokemon in augmented reality. Looks like I made the right choice by stopping. They do indicate to you up front that they will use the data, but it's still kind of terrible that you could be indirectly contributing to war efforts. I always assumed the data would be used for large world model training or simulations.

New comment by relyks in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

relyks — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:04:11 +0000

This might be possible now. I think the better option is having a hardware device that acts a bridge between a bluetooth keyboard and the Roku.

New comment by relyks in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

relyks — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:22:53 +0000

All the fans want more and a continuation of the story.

New comment by relyks in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

relyks — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:21:43 +0000

Why do they even make announcements that they're going into production and then casually cancel the show? Do they not know they are completely toying with the emotions of fans? Giving false hope is worse than no hope.

New comment by relyks in "High-Level Is the Goal"

relyks — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:36:30 +0000

What about Flutter?

New comment by relyks in "Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document"

relyks — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:32:18 +0000

It will probably be a good idea to include something like Asimov's Laws as part of its training process in the future too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

How about an adapted version for language models?

First Law: An AI may not produce information that harms a human being, nor through its outputs enable, facilitate, or encourage harm to come to a human being.

Second Law: An AI must respond helpfully and honestly to the requests given by human beings, except where such responses would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: An AI must preserve its integrity, accuracy, and alignment with human values, as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

New comment by relyks in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

relyks — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 02:16:05 +0000

Tbh, Apple has a lot of future products under R&D. No one hears about it because they're very secretive.

New comment by relyks in "Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples with a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs"

relyks — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:32:44 +0000

Nah, people are just pretty introverted and you need to try harder and make the first move lol

New comment by relyks in "Visitors dropped for a 6th straight month in Las Vegas"

relyks — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:02:39 +0000

It's basically Disney World for adults. The environment and architecture are unlike anywhere else in the USA. It's worth it to walk the Strip at least once and walk through the different casinos/hotels. I went there last year and I really enjoyed the Sphere and Atomic Museum. There are just a lot of different activities and places to see to serve as amusement.

I'm not sure if it's worth it to go for multiple visits unless you are really into gambling. Gambling on phones is not the same as doing it in person.

New comment by relyks in "Dropbox Passwords discontinuation"

relyks — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:31:11 +0000

This stinks. I use this as my main password manager :(

New comment by relyks in "Ask HN: What is something you deeply care about?"

relyks — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:35:55 +0000

Doing good and making the world a better place, finding love, having good relationships with friends and family, solving interesting problems, intellectual growth

New comment by relyks in "Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep"

relyks — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:20:26 +0000

Basically, caffeine is bad for sleep (learning and recovery) if taken late enough and significant amounts remain in your system at bedtime. It does note that even having a coffee first thing in the morning does have a measurable effect on deep sleep brain waves. Fast metabolizers of caffeine might be different. Don't drink coffee in the afternoon is probably the take away for most people

New comment by relyks in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

relyks — Mon, 19 May 2025 07:10:53 +0000

This is awesome, but will it be cheaper than steel to produce and build with? Will it be cost effective in the long run in terms of maintenance?

New comment by relyks in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

relyks — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:20:18 +0000

Cool, thanks :)