Hacker News: shrubhub

New comment by shrubhub in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

shrubhub — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:18:18 +0000

it must have made a big impression on you!

New comment by shrubhub in "UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme"

shrubhub — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:27:20 +0000

You don't need a passport to have a job. A digital ID could be handy in loads of places - like showing you're eligible for hospital care, voting, stuff employment... Even buying a drink! (not everyone drives).

Most countries have them and it's not for no reason.

Whether we can trust our government, though, is a different matter.

New comment by shrubhub in "The story behind Caesar salad"

shrubhub — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:37:33 +0000

That's an incredibly American take IMO. Pizza is loved worldwide... Caesar salad?! Where are the famous Caesar salad global chains? I don't think it's much of a thing in Europe, at least.

New comment by shrubhub in "Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models"

shrubhub — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:24:13 +0000

The diffusion models are (or can be) transformer models! They're just not autoregressive.

New comment by shrubhub in "How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school"

shrubhub — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:38:32 +0000

https://pca.st/episode/48e89a05-2812-4f81-99dd-ff18f7819df0

There has been a huge decline in American reading since this focus started.

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

shrubhub — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:29:53 +0000

What's the point of being proud of one system of government if you're willing to relinquish it in the face of adversary?

Shouldn't they have to follow the law?

New comment by shrubhub in "The Headlight Brightness Wars"

shrubhub — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:40:42 +0000

Wow... Fuck cyclists and other road users, I guess!

New comment by shrubhub in "Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals"

shrubhub — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:07:23 +0000

Strange to see no mention of TPUs...

New comment by shrubhub in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

shrubhub — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:58:38 +0000

It's bad because there's a strong whiff of being entitled to someone else's body.

New comment by shrubhub in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

shrubhub — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:15:44 +0000

But also, some people are stupid, right?

New comment by shrubhub in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

shrubhub — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:14:39 +0000

Most people don't try hard at the gym. Most people don't try hard at music. Most people aren't comedians.

This reads like the foreword to the incel handbook.

New comment by shrubhub in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

shrubhub — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:12:05 +0000

So you're saying success at maths isn't an inbuilt ability. Instead, it depends on an (inbuilt) ability to hyper focus... Which you are just born with?

New comment by shrubhub in "Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover"

shrubhub — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:20:43 +0000

This is an April fools, right?

New comment by shrubhub in "Things software developers should learn about learning"

shrubhub — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:06:58 +0000

How do you decide who gets to study a subject full time at a famous institution?

New comment by shrubhub in "WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers' strike"

shrubhub — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:28:01 +0000

Woosh!

New comment by shrubhub in "Understanding British Money: What's a Quid? A Shilling? (2020)"

shrubhub — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:50:50 +0000

Born and bred Londoner, never heard nugget in my life. TIL!

New comment by shrubhub in "The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN"

shrubhub — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 21:55:47 +0000

It's not a him, right?

New comment by shrubhub in "The relativistic discriminator: a key element missing from standard GAN"

shrubhub — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 21:55:34 +0000

Same guy? Try... Not a guy!