Hacker News: shwaj

New comment by shwaj in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

shwaj — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:00:07 +0000

I’ve heard about that “open secret” and I don’t understand.

What’s the incentive for Anthropic to pump up the token usage on their top end plan? Is it to move Pro users up to Max? That’s the only plausible idea I can think of.

New comment by shwaj in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:39:18 +0000

Maybe I just don’t know how the business works. Many of the support calls that I make are for things or services that I’ve had for a while, not just purchased. So I expected that to be more of a trailing indicator rather than the first area hit.

New comment by shwaj in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:20:35 +0000

I’m as skeptical of fiat currencies as the next guy, but denominating in Bitcoin is the ultimate cherry pick.

The price of everything has crashed in the last 10 years when denominated in Bitcoin. If we measured GDP in Bitcoins, the statistics would show that we’re in an unprecedented depression.

New comment by shwaj in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:55:14 +0000

Sales people sure, but secretaries and support staff?

New comment by shwaj in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:35:04 +0000

Not on my timeline, this has been the name the whole time.

New comment by shwaj in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

shwaj — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:11:39 +0000

Relatively small amount compared to the billions we see thrown around for AI startups a couple of years old.

New comment by shwaj in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

shwaj — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:04:37 +0000

I thought they’re primarily water vapor resulting from the combustion reaction, not from wing tip turbulence.

New comment by shwaj in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

shwaj — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:43:08 +0000

You’re absolutely correct. A jitter buffer is necessary for a human listener, but a LLM isn’t aware of a time lapse, just like it isn’t aware of the time since your last message in the conversion (unless the chat harness explicitly informs it).

New comment by shwaj in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

shwaj — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:16:16 +0000

It’s manipulative if you don’t care and pretend you do, especially to achieve a goal of your own.

It’s not manipulative if you cultivate the tendency to actually care about others, and not treat them like NPCs who are only important for your goals.

New comment by shwaj in "Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me"

shwaj — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:23:37 +0000

Why do they call it a speed limit on the highways?

New comment by shwaj in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

shwaj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:58:24 +0000

In fact, it didn’t. Trump continued to make “no new wars” a plank of his platform.

Some of his base will follow wherever he goes, but he would not have been elected without those who supported him on the basis of this (broken) promise.

New comment by shwaj in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

shwaj — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:40:27 +0000

The videos are good training data, but the comments? The comment UX is so non-conducive to discussion, and the general quality is very low compared to what used to be on Google+ (to be fair, the self-selected users of Google+ were not representative of the general population).

New comment by shwaj in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

shwaj — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:40:23 +0000

Hence the eye roll. Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley like, say, Trump or Biden is white people.

New comment by shwaj in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

shwaj — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:15:05 +0000

> spelling out Silicon Valley’s plan to weaponize religion in a war against democracy

:eye_roll: Is Google on board with that plan? Or Apple or Meta or Netflix or anyone? Who is “Silicon Valley” to this author?

New comment by shwaj in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

shwaj — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:58:34 +0000

Why do you say that, did Meta sponsor similar legislation in another country? It doesn't seem like they have strong incentives to push for this. How does it make them more money?

New comment by shwaj in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

shwaj — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:26:28 +0000

I need a pair that can measure pitch and timbre.

New comment by shwaj in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

shwaj — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:28:48 +0000

Any patent. The question was who owns a (arbitrary) algorithm. The elaborated answer is that nobody “owns” an algorithm (i.e. has intellectual property rights to it) without a patent: in USA and many other jurisdictions, patents are the IP tool relating to algorithms.

New comment by shwaj in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

shwaj — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:43:47 +0000

Can you provide examples that support your assertion, that the US system was already generally seen as obsolete in 1926?

Smells like BS.

New comment by shwaj in "The Pentagon threatens Anthropic"

shwaj — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:52:05 +0000

What, Dario is just going to turn on unlimited-token-CEO-mode and ask Claude to devise a plan to out maneuver the military and intelligence services? It’s not AGI yet, and this request would be far outside the training distribution: it would just hallucinate something based on Tom Clancy novels.

Edit: typo

New comment by shwaj in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

shwaj — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:29:33 +0000

From what I read here, the required chip size would scale linearly with the number of model weights. That alone puts a ceiling on the size of model.

Also the defect rate grows as the chip grows. It seems like there might be room for innovation in fault tolerance here, compared to a CPU where a randomly flipped bit can be catastrophic.