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New comment by shmageggy in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

shmageggy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:50:24 +0000

Except when that regulation actually has teeth, which is why he opposed California’s SB 1047. I agree with GP that Altman (and all the rest) want regulation insofar as it protects their moat but no further.

New comment by shmageggy in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

shmageggy — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:10:15 +0000

I personally solved this by never clicking a short. We don't have to engage with every technology presented to us.

New comment by shmageggy in "What is a manifold?"

shmageggy — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:18:56 +0000

FTA

> The term “manifold” comes from Riemann’s Mannigfaltigkeit, which is German for “variety” or “multiplicity.”

New comment by shmageggy in "Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands"

shmageggy — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:31:45 +0000

> ...the United Arab Emirates (UAE) accused of backing the RSF with supplies and mercenaries...

And also helping to launder Hemedti's gold via Dubai. https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/conflict-resources/ex...

New comment by shmageggy in "American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana"

shmageggy — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:47:25 +0000

> You'd probably be shocked at just how much wilderness is in the UK.

You're right. I was shocked at just how little there is. If one's definition of large is more than a few square km, there's virtually none, for any sensible definition of wilderness, at least south of the Cairngorns.

New comment by shmageggy in "Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels"

shmageggy — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 07:55:58 +0000

I’m sure I’ve heard of research along these lines, and indeed searching for something like “modern stress versus…” finds some work, such as https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8832552/

New comment by shmageggy in "Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights"

shmageggy — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:22:54 +0000

Very cool and hopefully will help influence policy in the future. (Here’s [not] looking at you, insanely overbright LED shop window ads blasting well into the late night in my city)

Looks like anyone can get involved here https://lichter.nachtlicht-buehne.de/

New comment by shmageggy in "Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks"

shmageggy — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:43:49 +0000

Nice. AI-powered replacement for my missing executive function. Now I just have to remember to use it…

New comment by shmageggy in "NASA to launch space observatory that will map 450M galaxies"

shmageggy — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:10:46 +0000

This is so cool, but I did not see a key piece of info in the article: does the ongoing operation of this mission fall under NASA's science budget and therefore at risk of cuts and defunding under Trump [1]?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/white-house-may-seek-t...

New comment by shmageggy in "Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast"

shmageggy — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:32:00 +0000

Looks like it will be free and open

> We’ll be releasing our model’s code, weights, and forecasts, to support the wider weather forecasting community.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weath...

New comment by shmageggy in "Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)"

shmageggy — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:22:39 +0000

Von Neumann randomness extractor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neu...

New comment by shmageggy in "USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas"

shmageggy — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:22:27 +0000

Actually it looks like their arguments are presented entirely in terms of tradeoffs. They argue that the carbon benefit from electric cars (cited as very far down the list on e.g. https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions) isn’t worth the cost to biodiversity, water use and pollution, cultural values and history, peacefulness and tranquility, etc. https://www.protectthackerpass.org/mining-lithium-at-thacker...

New comment by shmageggy in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

shmageggy — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:52:29 +0000

This is (one of the many) reasons why I care primarily about biodiversity and preventing as many human-caused extinctions as we can. Those are a permanent loss to the beauty and complexity of the universe built up over millions of years, and they are permanent and irreversible.

New comment by shmageggy in "Siberia's 'mammoth graveyard' reveals 800-year human interactions with mammoths"

shmageggy — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:33:38 +0000

That was exellently presented. Clear, informative, compelling. I especially appreciated getting to the end without being bombarded with any ads, popups, or begging for email signups. Curious how I could support such media, I found https://pressroom.rferl.org/about-rfe-rl/ which says,

> RFE/RL, Inc. is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation funded by the U.S. Congress through a grant from the United States Agency for Global Media...

Yay taxes!

New comment by shmageggy in "GNU Justified Public License"

shmageggy — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:56:07 +0000

It cheats!

> IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN *WRING* WILL

New comment by shmageggy in "Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years"

shmageggy — Wed, 15 May 2024 12:54:06 +0000

Paper link https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319652121 Absolutely infuriating that university press releases don't include this. They should be embarrassed.

New comment by shmageggy in "Show HN: I built an AI tool to help with ADHD task paralysis"

shmageggy — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:17:19 +0000

I'd try it if there were other sign in options. Also the back button is broken on the sign in page (FF on Android)

New comment by shmageggy in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

shmageggy — Fri, 10 May 2024 08:24:53 +0000

It goes beyond aesthetics for me. It's like they took everyone's deepest fears about technology and AI, that it will replace or "crush" authentic human experience and creativity, and they just embraced and celebrate it by literally crushing representations of human creativity. At least I'm glad the corporate types were actually honest about their goals, though, instead of their typical doublespeak

New comment by shmageggy in "Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger"

shmageggy — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:52:32 +0000

This is currently downvoted, but it's a valid question. The concept at play is "ghost acres". The idea being that you might have a wonderful regenerated plot of productive land, but if it requires a massive amount of land elsewhere to maintain, you might not have gained as much as you think.

New comment by shmageggy in "Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces"

shmageggy — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:05:02 +0000

Judging by the figures in the paper, it appears to attenuate low frequencies better than high frequencies, which is perhaps to be expected judging by experience with noise-cancelling headphones. This could be a game-changing complement to traditional acoustic treatment for recording studios and other acoustic spaces, where low frequencies are traditionally much harder to treat, requiring much larger and more expensive panels.