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New comment by rudhdb773b in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:05:18 +0000

Modern LLMs are fairly good at that as well.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:00:47 +0000

Sure the implementation details are different.

I suppose I should have asked by what definition of "consciousness and agency" are today's LLMs (with proper tooling) not meeting?

And if today's models aren't meeting your standard, what makes you think that future LLMs won't get there?

New comment by rudhdb773b in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:17:09 +0000

> what actually is happening inside an LLM has nothing to do with conscience or agency

What makes you think natural brains are doing something so different from LLMs?

New comment by rudhdb773b in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:11:07 +0000

Because today it will be used as a first responder.

Tomorrow a police officer will suggest that these drones (that we are already using successfully) could be very useful for checking up on that "dangerous" neighborhood.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

rudhdb773b — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:52:12 +0000

Yes. These HN guidlines already basically cover it:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

rudhdb773b — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:24:20 +0000

Not to single out your comment, but it feels like it's gotten to the point where HN could use a rule against complaining about AI generated content.

It seems like almost every discussion has at least someone complaining about "AI slop" in either the original post or the comments.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

rudhdb773b — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:37:32 +0000

I remember trying out some voice-to-text around 2002 that I believe was included with Windows XP.. or maybe Office?

You had to go through some training exercises to tune it to your voice, but then it worked fairly well for transcription or even interacting with applications.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

rudhdb773b — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:47:51 +0000

"adb backup" is buggy and deprecated.

It's easier and more reliable to use adb root to rsync everything. No apps need root access that way.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

rudhdb773b — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:46:10 +0000

Maybe for your threat model. Not mine.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

rudhdb773b — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:47:14 +0000

Backing up all app data.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"

rudhdb773b — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:28:25 +0000

I think your 2nd point is less likely.

Anecdotal, but I've spoken with many taxi and ride-share drivers, and my impression is that their decision to seek out and continue that line of work is almost always driven by outside economic considerations. I've never heard someone base their decision on their ability to perform the job.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

rudhdb773b — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:43:36 +0000

Why regulate? Look at the failure that is the "war on drugs".

The solution is education. The government should be educating society and especially parents on how to protect their children.

Education worked to cut cigarette use, and is starting to lower alcohol consumption as well. It can work for social media without all the negative impacts on civil liberties that come with regulations.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

rudhdb773b — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:09:52 +0000

The government can do a whole lot more than embarrass CEOs and powerful people they don't like. Look at how China controls its tech CEOs by making them disappear until their views align.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Honda is killing its EVs"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:46:28 +0000

Have you ever actually heard it used in conversation or writing where the speaker's intention was a meaning that included people outside of the USA? I haven't.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Have a fucking website"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:07:49 +0000

So which walled garden owner regularly has sex with prepubescent children and is a heavy meth user?

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Honda is killing its EVs"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:01:19 +0000

The word "American" already unambiguously describes people of the USA. You don't need to make up a new word.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

rudhdb773b — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:55:38 +0000

I don't really mind the pain itself, but I could see myself thinking the worst in that situation and imagining the strong pain meant the probe had punctured my colon.

I assume that's not actually a realistic risk, right?

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider"

rudhdb773b — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:26:51 +0000

I don't think your complaints are a common experience.

I've used neovim for the last 10 years, but before that I used emacs with R for many years at work and it was great, certainly not slow.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

rudhdb773b — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:44:52 +0000

The issue with police departments trying to maximize fine revenue has a simple solution.. pass a law that says all fines go directly to the treasury.

A similar law could eliminate most of the problems with civil forfeiture.

New comment by rudhdb773b in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

rudhdb773b — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:47:48 +0000

I'd love to see what Tim Daly could with LLMs on Axiom's code base.