Hacker News: selfselfgo

New comment by selfselfgo in "DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress"

selfselfgo — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:37:19 +0000

I also find it strange. Do you think that it could be for political reasons?

New comment by selfselfgo in "Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites"

selfselfgo — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:16:06 +0000

I don’t support the bombing of Iran, but where is the US media that reflects my opinions? I will literally throw money at any publication using the “T” word to describe Trump’s actions here.

New comment by selfselfgo in "Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it?"

selfselfgo — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:40:20 +0000

Its funny to me, because there’s many strong studies that basically show the life expectancy for vegetarians is about 10 years higher, but most people including myself wouldn’t become a vegetarian despite the clear health benefits.

New comment by selfselfgo in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

selfselfgo — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:33:05 +0000

Yeah that’s what really worries me, many people have been clinging to this ability as something that’s really special and AI is really going to disillusion them.

New comment by selfselfgo in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

selfselfgo — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:50:37 +0000

And there’s no richer state in the union.

New comment by selfselfgo in "Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI"

selfselfgo — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:12:46 +0000

To me it’s a totally insane argument from the judge, if it doesn’t stop the authors from making money on their works, then the judge is basically capping the income on all writers. The AI is totally useless without their knowledge and yet they have to prove they aren’t hurting its profits. Like these authors are entitled to derivative uses of their writing, if they’re not it’s a total farce.

New comment by selfselfgo in "I'd rather read the prompt"

selfselfgo — Sun, 04 May 2025 19:53:39 +0000

When I was kid in school I would write original essays, and I mean truly original creative ideas. But of course any new idea has a chance of failure, so these essays were mostly bad and got bad grades. At a loss for what to do I quickly stopped reading the books I was assigned basing my essays on Wikipedia summaries and other people’s reviews. I saw my first few As and even A+s and I realized if I write something original of even just average intelligence roughly 50% of people will be too dumb to understand it. For an idea to truly be considered intelligent in literature it has to be appealing to people have no actual memory of the things they’ve read. Even for a knowledgeable intelligent person they have a sea of similar information clouding their view.

New comment by selfselfgo in "Accountability Sinks"

selfselfgo — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:58:15 +0000

I ask for something, when they say they can’t do that. I say the magic words “Maybe your manager can do it?” You just don’t accept the possibility of your request not being fulfilled, say they are contractually obliged to do, even if you’re not sure, if all else fails reverse the charges on your card. Threatening small claims court works well. I now do that on the on the second email, do I look like a fool? Yes. Do I have a lot of time to investigate your platform's org structure and capabilities when I have dozens of companies like this I deal with daily? No.

New comment by selfselfgo in "Making synthesized sounds more acoustic"

selfselfgo — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:54:48 +0000

I always wondered about doing this with hardware. Surely there must be some other mechanism for accurately creating sounds then a flat magnetic speaker.