Hacker News: sharikous

New comment by sharikous in "China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world"

sharikous — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:40:00 +0000

> If that's the case, then you should be able to provide tons of evidence. It's difficult to "hide" or "manipulate" data in a country the size of china that is tied to the global trading system.

not very tied, actually, precisely because of heavy government interventions

> "Democratic countries". Like russia? Or venezuela? Oh, let me guess, democratic countries you don't like are not "democratic countries". Right.

I think that we can agree that democratic countries are countries where there is a choice and you see changes of government caused by free elections. That's not the case for Russia or Venezuela but it is (still) the case for most of the Western world

> You are just repeating the standard anti-china propaganda. It's the same of nonsense over and over again. > "None of china's data can be trusted. They are lying and they are about to collapse". Followed by, "Oh my god china is an existential threat. They are going to overtake us. Deep seek, rare earth minerals blah blah blah". > Make up your mind.

Who said that? Only you

New comment by sharikous in "Four Fallacies of Modern AI"

sharikous — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:05:47 +0000

> I've always had the feeling that AI researchers want to build their own human without having to change diapers being part of the process. Just skip to adulthood please, and learn to drive a car without having experience in bumping into things and hurting yourself.

I partially agree, but the idea about AI is that you need to bump into things and hurt yourself only once. Then you have a good driver you can replicate at will

New comment by sharikous in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

sharikous — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:13:58 +0000

China is decades behind the West in EUV technology. The attempt to create an independent supply chain is also a forced choice since all the EUV supply chain and knowledge pool are heavily protected by the West and are so complex and big that China cannot sidestep it even with a lot of resources.

Those numbers are realistic. EUV is the most complex machine ever built by humans

New comment by sharikous in "It might be possible to detect gravitons after all"

sharikous — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:11:44 +0000

the statistics would be different. Check out Rabi oscillations (classical EM) vs Jaynes-Cummings model (quantized EM) and phenomena like quantum antibunching (only possible for quantized EM)

New comment by sharikous in "MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS"

sharikous — Mon, 13 May 2024 09:27:53 +0000

Why does it need an internet connection?

New comment by sharikous in "Living human brain images of "unrivaled clarity" from new 11.7 teslas MRI"

sharikous — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:04:04 +0000

Still the question remains, are they dangerous?

I guess some materials in the body have some response to magnetic fields

New comment by sharikous in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

sharikous — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:30:29 +0000

With typical usage they contain more sensitive data and people are less aware of what happens in them than PCs.

And mobile phones are perfect spying devices too. So the security question is more delicate

New comment by sharikous in "Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account"

sharikous — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:47:11 +0000

Honestly what you describe seems to be an attempt by Apple PR to save face.

They fear the spotlight on the fact that even on alternate stores only accounts controlled by Apple can publish apps, which might become the focus of new regulations

New comment by sharikous in "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war"

sharikous — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:28:32 +0000

Southern Gaza, Israel considers a part of Southern Gaza an humanitarian zone and dropped fliers explaining that.

New comment by sharikous in "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war"

sharikous — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:20:11 +0000

So what do you think would happen if terrorists took over the MIT campus, students sympathized with them, rockets were launched from it, and the US police had no presence there and very sparse intelligence?

New comment by sharikous in "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war"

sharikous — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:57:51 +0000

Even accepting that, you can ask what is the limit after which you can say that the occupied does morally reprehensible things

New comment by sharikous in "Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines"

sharikous — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:25:52 +0000

No. It will be slow as hell

But something like El Capitan will be somehow acceptable and Lion will be actually usable

New comment by sharikous in "How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?"

sharikous — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:47:37 +0000

The more elaborate books of the Bible, like Isaiah/Yeshayahu and Psalms/Tehillim, make use of this kind of structure a lot in the original. You can easily find "triple chiasms" with structure ABCCBA. I don't know why this isn't emphasised usually.

Catullus of course is one of the masters. There is also the "da mi basia mille deinde centum..." that has the structure of an abacus

New comment by sharikous in "Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla"

sharikous — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:12:51 +0000

China is now the biggest car exporter, thanks to the electric car boom.

Are there state security issues with Chinese cars too?

New comment by sharikous in "Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100B"

sharikous — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:43:26 +0000

That's "just" special relativity. I would suggest to see it exposed in current textbooks.

Spoiler: E=m_rest c2 + E_kinetic unless you redefine the mass as a function of velocity. Something that people used to do a century ago but is unusual to it nowadays

New comment by sharikous in "Artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back"

sharikous — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:51:33 +0000

We don't have lie detectors even for AIs and we can look at every single bit inside them

New comment by sharikous in "No one wants simplicity"

sharikous — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:50:40 +0000

FYI it doesn't render too well on my phone. The image overflows horizontally.

New comment by sharikous in "Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones: odd plan to stop election fraud"

sharikous — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:24:06 +0000

Making open source, transparent, auditable, voting machines that can be trusted to be secure and are more efficient than physical counting is a very interesting challenge.

A challenge that I am sure politicians are not very interested in solving.

Why spending so much to gain the trust of your citizens if most people know nothing about cryptography anyway?

New comment by sharikous in "English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals"

sharikous — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:19:20 +0000

I think they tried to make a compromise with the closer to phonetic transcription they could get with the least invasive spelling change they could impose. Not something 100% accurate

I actually like this proposal

New comment by sharikous in "English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals"

sharikous — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:05:15 +0000

Sometimes even the entire word is pronounced differently: read/read