<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: siffin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=siffin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:13:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=siffin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by siffin in "The dead economy theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Time to start a business called "white billionaire" or name your kid "Rich White".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 18:24:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339233</link><dc:creator>siffin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by siffin in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought it already was used to sexually harass people by creating naked versions of them.</p>
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<p>Let me get this right.<p>The accusation that an article was written by AI negates the science of toxic chemical leeching?</p>
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<p>They are saying that, and most real world LED lighting uses very cheap diodes, like, 99.9999% of them, which create very poor colour compared with incandescent bulbs, which create perfect colour representation.<p>It's a big thing and you can buy LEDs which produce a better colour range, but they're much more expensive and not as energy efficient, because creating bold reds costs hard energy that no diode trick will ever get around that.</p>
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<p>I'm sure the trip to the police station and immediate release is a real setback for these people. Unless they're breaking more serious laws, no one is paying to put these people behind bars for any length of time.<p>I mean, you're right in theory, but in the real world things are very different.</p>
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<p>Extremely talented, studied, hard working humans perform complex tasks all the time, and never with 100% win rate over all time.<p>In other examples, almost every single person has had the experience of saying, "turn right", "oh I meant left sorry, I knew it was right too, I don't know why I said left". Even the most sophisticated humans have made this error. A computer would never.<p>Humans are deeply flawed and after pre-selection require expensive training to perform complex tasks at a never perfect success rate.</p>
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<p>Seems like you're making a judgment based on your own experience, but as another commenter pointed out, it was wrong. There are plenty of us out there who would confirm, because people are too flawed to trust. Humans double/triple check, especially under higher stakes conditions (surgery).<p>Heck, humans are so flawed, they'll put the things in the wrong eye socket even knowing full well exactly where they should go - something a computer literally couldn't do.</p>
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<p>Spreadsheet would have been the better analogy.</p>
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<p>It could never be anywhere near as irresponsible as the original bad security practices, though. At some point, if you wanna make money by handling people's sensitive data, you are the responsible party, not everyone else.</p>
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<p>I don't think it's the environmentalists stopping atmospheric tampering, it's other things like the economics of it, or some countries being very against it.<p>Geoengineers have talked seriously about this for a long time, but it's a mostly a political issue, then who actually wants to pay to do the science and pay for the outcomes, when you've got no real idea who will get destroyed in the long run.<p>Is Europe going to help fund it, with a consequence being they have less rainfall? Nobody really knows, so no one really wants to pay to do it at scale, forever.</p>
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<p>If I remember correctly the size of the rolling window differs, more modern vehicles may allow about 100 code discrepancy before ignoring the transmitter, while old models might have been 5 to 10.</p>
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<p>I guess there is a difference in the fact that gift certificates are always devaluing with monetary inflation, whereas prepaid credit can be used to purchase a service which is just as energy intensive (cost to provider) in 10 years, as it is if used in the next month. Yet in 10 years, the cost to the provider will be more to deliver the same energy (due again to monetary inflation).<p>There doesn't seem to be a neutral option here, because it's very hard to account for inflation without the holding party paying dividends at the exact rate to offset it.</p>
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<p>That's true, but isn't it so awkward to type, or maybe you're disabled so it's difficult or impossible.<p>So you use a voice memo to capture your words and email them, but it seems almost as silly as calling up and chatting to an LLM, which has the added benefit of being able to confirm it has understood your request and maybe even begin actioning it.<p>However, this is silly talk, the real future is just gonna be your agent who you talk to directly, who then talks to the contractors' agent, who passes the info on to them in the exact format they like.</p>
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<p>I would sooner make the argument religion is.</p>
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<p>If people are actually relying on LLMs for validation of ideas they come up with during mental health episodes, they have to be pretty sick to begin with, in which case, they will find validation anywhere.<p>If you've spent time with people with schizophrenia, for example, they will have ideas come from all sorts of places, and see all sorts of things as a sign/validation.<p>One moment it's that person who seemed like they might have been a demon sending a coded message, next it's the way the street lamp creates a funny shaped halo in the rain.<p>People shouldn't be using LLMs for help with certain issues, but let's face it, those that can't tell it's a bad idea are going to be guided through life in a strange way regardless of an LLM.<p>It sounds almost impossible to achieve some sort of unity across every LLM service whereby they are considered "safe" to be used by the world's mentally unwell.</p>
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<p>Everyone has different objective and subjective experiences, and I suspect some form of selection will promote those who more often feel excited and relieved by using AI than those who feel it more often a negative, like it challenges some core aspect of self.<p>It might challenge us, and maybe those of us who feel challenged in that way need to rise to it, for there are always harder problems to solve<p>If this new tool seems to make things so easy it's like "cheating", then make the game harder. Can't cheat reality.</p>
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<p>Surely we must rid ourselves from a story with any finality, as it stands, we reach for something, but we've no idea what.<p>For most people, a better life is a life where their children are healthy, nourished, well-educated and living in peace (technology be damned). More importantly, for most people, a better life for themselves is one of extremely little, basic food, peace, community, movement.<p>All those children grow up to find what makes them happy is less, not more. We all know it. It's the intangibles, not the material. It's the people, our pets, the sun shining and a bird singing.<p>The end isn't worth the means, maybe instead of looking for some quant to see it all, we could just see ourselves and move forward slowly with what we know to be good and true, without falling on our face trying to punch a baby.</p>
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<p>What are you talking about? The burden is on you to explain how manipulating the chemical makeup of the atmosphere DOESN'T have a direct impact, even at the tiniest levels (1ppm).<p>At the levels we're at now, CO2e imbalances definitely impact every single weather event on the planet to some degree, and you'd have to be delusional not to accept that.</p>
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<p>There is for certain a wide gap between a sponsored segment from the same voice and some random ad coming in and blaring over the top. For me, I can handle the narrator delivering an ad, it's the intrusive slot machine aspect of generic ads that irk me. Happy youtube subscriber here, use the music too, great deal.<p>Youtube is one of the platforms where I find real value, usually in making/maintaining/repairing things, being able to skip through videos to find answers without worrying about ads definitely saves me significant time and therefore money.</p>
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<p>If only.....the banks believe it's a better investment to destroy the planet. Let's not even mention the hubris of tech companies.</p>
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