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New comment by sapientiae3 in "Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers"

sapientiae3 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:47:39 +0000

The interesting thing is that the laws being created to protect against such extreme attacks will be used against the people when they are controlled by an extreme group.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

sapientiae3 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:42:39 +0000

The main challenge is that the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for impulse control and other things, only fully develops around age 25.

The problem with that is without some explicit instruction or guidance or invention before they have full control of their impulses, not everyone tames the beast unscathed.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Home Battery versus Generator"

sapientiae3 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:47:06 +0000

This is the way.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race"

sapientiae3 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:10:28 +0000

This makes sense - as Paul Graham mentioned in his essay from January [1] “outrage means traffic”.

No-one gets more outraged than left leaning viewers watching Trump videos.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

sapientiae3 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:02:28 +0000

Fair enough, but is the notion that some of the time, in a company that explicitly promotes DEI, that a person is there not entirely based on merit, evil and stupid?

Serious question.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code"

sapientiae3 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:38:53 +0000

This is a great start, well done!

Eventually it would be amazing to import (for example) a buck converter circuit with a wide voltage input, fixed output suitable for RF, and have it automatically check available components at JLCPCB and then lay it all out with, adhering to best practices (ground planes & capacitors right next to pins etc.) If the available components change, it can tweak the footprints and layout without having to start from scratch.

Good luck, I’ll be following closely!

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Artificial Intelligence and Peace"

sapientiae3 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:52:01 +0000

One of my favourite stories is of George Lemaître who came up with the Big Bang theory, and predicted the Higgs Boson - while Steven Hawkins bet against it, and was proved wrong.

George Lemaître was a Catholic Priest.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything"

sapientiae3 — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:51:36 +0000

I too have the same problem. I’m really good at starting things, and unless I find someone or some important reason to complete it, I seldom get there.

Nowadays I try to only start projects with those in place or else I find that I don’t fi…

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are starting to ask why"

sapientiae3 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:53:50 +0000

Not just individuals, but relationships too.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Ask HN: Tricks to enjoy your job more?"

sapientiae3 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:27:32 +0000

Take a look at https://www.optimalwork.com/

I have only completed the free trial and listened to some of the podcast so far, but some of the ideas like “reframing” are game changing.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt"

sapientiae3 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:23:48 +0000

Isn’t that what the UK did with Australia?

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Ask HN: How to say no to a GitHub issue feature request?"

sapientiae3 — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:35:27 +0000

Create a label “no bandwidth” or “f… off” if you prefer - then close it.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?"

sapientiae3 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:16:10 +0000

It’s never enough because you think external circumstances (your job, your income, your family) are responsible for your happiness - they are not.

Being happy with the way it is has very little to do with your external circumstances and more to do with your internal disposition. That’s why you can find people in all different kinds of circumstances that are happy.

How to get there is a much longer discussion, but focusing on what’s good and feeling grateful for those things is a start.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)"

sapientiae3 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:18:46 +0000

Fluss is startup that is moving the world towards smarter physical access control.

We build hardware and software, and our stack is AWS, NodeJS, Vue.js, Typescript.

Kotlin / Swift / IoT, Embedded Software experience would be nice, but not required.

We are a small, focussed team looking for someone who would eventually be able to manage their own team, but happy for that person to grow into the role.

Please email info@fluss.io with your CV / Resume.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost"

sapientiae3 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:10:56 +0000

The only way to be really happy is to serve others. Most of the time that means doing whatever it is that you do (working, parenting, teaching etc.) as well as you can with others in mind. Sometimes you have to do a bit more.

That’s just the way we are.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness"

sapientiae3 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:35:57 +0000

I once heard someone say that depression is a spiritual problem, as in the cause lies with your relationship (or lack there of) with a higher power.

I just had a thought - what if there is a biological or evolutionary quirk that believing in a higher power results in more happiness? It would certainly explain why some people who seem to have a supernatural outlook are so happy dispite what seems like terrible suffering.

E.g. Carlo Acutis [1] was known for his cheerfulness despite suffering and dying from leukaemia.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Acutis

Edit: spelling

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Existential Comfort Without God"

sapientiae3 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:42:31 +0000

Then in some way, we are in agreement. Science cannot say anything meaningful about things that don’t affect reality. Religion (or theology) concerns itself with the reason that reality exists.

The purview of science is limited to phenomena that can be observed or experienced. The purview of religion (specifically theology) is that which cannot be explained by science (now or ever)

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Existential Comfort Without God"

sapientiae3 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:25:05 +0000

Not really - empirical science makes the assumption that nothing exists outside of the game (or at least anything that exists outside the game has to be proved from elements within the game)

New comment by sapientiae3 in "Existential Comfort Without God"

sapientiae3 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:57:04 +0000

The way I see it (using an analogy that necessarily oversimplifies things) is that if this existence were like a computer game, and we were the characters in it, then science attempts to understand the game, and religion (or perhaps more accurately theology) tries to understand the game developer.

New comment by sapientiae3 in "I'm not an anti-vaxxer but vaccine passports treat me like I am (anaphylactic)"

sapientiae3 — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:31:00 +0000

It was a good selling point, only now it seems that vaccinations don’t prevent the spread as much as previously thought, especially the variants such as Delta variant. So it seem there won’t be any herd immunity anytime soon.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...