<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: sillyfluke</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sillyfluke</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:29:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sillyfluke" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Trump is facing the biggest US humiliation since Vietnam"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you think about it for more than a second, the title seems ridiculous. It would seem Vietnam and Afghanistan exceed this humiliation by orders of magnitude when considering their cost in blood and coin with nothing to show for it. But those wars were intertwined with the goals of reluctant and half-assed nation building. In terms of signalling the demise of the American empire, this one gives the others a run for their money just in terms of the sheer delusional idiocy of their stated expectations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:10:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697371</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's weird, I don't know how normally pedantic comp sci. people let this meme that the Turing test is beaten by LLMs to spread so unchallenged. As far as I'm aware, there is no restriction in the Turing test that demands that the interrogator be ignorant of the latest state-of-art in computing (and AI tech), nor is there a strict time limit enforced for the questioning?<p>Given these conditions, it should be relatively easy for the interrogator to expose the AI in this current day and age.</p>
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<p>If you want to call it that, I find the confabulation in LLMs extreme. That level of confabulation would most likely be diagnosed as dementia in humans.[0] Hence, it is considered a bug not a feature in humans as well.<p>Now imagine a high-skilled software engineer with dementia coding safety-critical software...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/confabulation-dementia" rel="nofollow">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/confabulation-deme...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692552</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your first priority is judging the author then yes. If your first priority is judging the company, as it is with many people in this thread, then it is less so. In that case, it only suffices to ascertain the truth of the author's statements.<p>To take a more extreme example, if a mob hitman turned FBI informant blows the lid on the corruption within the FBI, if there is truth in their statements, then them having benefitted from the corruption they are exposing is frankly secondary to my primary focus in the matter.</p>
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<p>>66F is ridiculously cold to me...I would find that very uncomfortable and elderly people would be shivering constantly and highly susceptible to respiratory illness.<p>I know people who live in the Mediterranean and get by with no heating during the winter with indoor and outdoor tempuratures this low or lower, so it seems that one can be conditioned into doing so.<p>Perhaps it's the presence of more sunlight on average rather than the temperature that makes the difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:02:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628352</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure, but by Bradley Cooper's admission even his mom is hooked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:58:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579004</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>A tall structure designed to put the panels high up in the air and leave a lot of space for cars is a lot more expensive than normal rooftop solar or even field setups.<p>Since you emphasized height of the structures that need to be built, I have trouble imagining some 10 feet poles and material to support the panels would make a drastic difference versus rooftop installations. What specifically in the details of the installations make significant additions in cost?</p>
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<p>I'm guessing you wouldn't say this if you attended the paraolympics, or perhaps it would enforce your already held views, I'm not sure. But there are already 64 different classes  of impairment that compete as far as I can tell. Frankly I found it a bit fascinating.</p>
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<p>I'm relying on memory and it's a little pedantic, but did he actually ever experience life as a slave? His mother was a slave, but as I recall his deadbeat and slaveowner father accepted him as his son and introduced him to French society early on, but I'm not sure if he dragged his feet before doing so in the French colonies before returning to France.</p>
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<p>A reminder that The Count of Monte Cristo is inspired by the mixed race father of the author, General Alexander Dumas, who also had a somewhat fascinating life riding currents of fate during the French revolution.<p>The Black Count<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330922-the-black-count" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330922-the-black-count</a></p>
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<p>>Even US hostage Merz is starting to stutter about it.<p>Is he stuttering into an iron dome?<p>"Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership"<p><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/volkswagen-israel-missile-defence-osnabrueck-plant-jobs-air-components-126032500259_1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/volkswagen-isra...</a></p>
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<p>A third of Jews in NYC voted for an anti-Zionist Muslim mayor, which equates to roughly half the population of Tel Aviv according to demographic statistics. I advise you discuss "Jew hate" with them before you start attacking everyone else for racism.</p>
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<p>If the current admin wasn't waging a war on the renewables they don't have personal investments in and propping up their own AI investments energy needs with revitalized fossil fuel barons while they get in on the new pie-in-the-sky "future" energy sources the tech oligarchs point to (nuclear fusion startups) in order to at least get rich if an alternative fuel source they actually invested in pans out, I could perhaps reconsider the notion that this comment isn't worth the pixel it's colored on.</p>
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<p>I think you might be slightly misinformed on how many 10,000+ dollar purchases the average person makes in their lifetime to make sweeping statements of that nature. Advertizing sales on medical procedures or daycare could have the opposite effect I would imagine</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402810</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Stop Sloppypasta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think I understand that, which is why I specifically singled out your suggestion that "AI is not the problem" instead of your comment as a whole. Automated processes of Person A talking to automated processes of Person B is not a novel concept. It's been going on in various forms since computers have been invented. You call an Uber and get your phone to talk to Uber's servers and the driver's phone so you don't have to talk to the driver, same with Doordash and the restaurant, same with Amazon and the retail store personnel. In these cases the back and forth between two humans are, as in your words, a type of "formal communication that none of the interested parties actually read" or "two English speakers both bringing Spanish interpreters to talk to each other."<p>It's this way because us nerds want to remove the need to talk to other humans in order obtain what our hearts' desire at any given point. So we have been trying to remove  non-deterministic roadblocks (humans)  and replace them with deterministic automation from the very beginning. This is not new. If LLMs were the same deterministic processes but 1000x more versatile and capable then it wouldn't be a problem.<p>But even though LLMs have lowered the barrier on who can create these automated processes and the speed at which these automated processes are created, to achieve this they brought with them non-deterministic side effects that currently evade a holistic and deterministic fix. This is why it's an AI problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:45:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400541</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Stop Sloppypasta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>To be fair, I don't think it is an AI problem, more of a quirk of formal communication, the same happen with human secretaries.<p>Obviously you're not a golfer. Human sectretaries don't have non-deterministic hallucinations and random critical ommissions in their summaries, which I've witnessed first hand with LLMs. More importantly, if they do you have more deterministic mitigations with them than you do with LLMs, as there are no mitigations with LLMs except praying that a new model in some unspecified future will be magically better with the summaries down the line.<p>The only way to stay sane when using these tools is to pretend that these things won't ever happen and just go about your business like the rest of the zombie workforce, because no one wants to stop the train and address the issue.<p>There is a reason why the title of Dr.Strangelove is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:17:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397941</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm also often not desperate for a pun from a stranger, but I think a 'get' it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:11:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380681</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Now that you got the balls rolling in an unwanted direction, I'm sure you're not the only one here with blue jewels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380648</link><dc:creator>sillyfluke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sillyfluke in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>literally almost everything I have bought on sale is something I wasn't looking to buy at that moment in time.</p>
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<p>>You can't train LLMs on proprietary data, at least not if you want to make that LLM as accessible as Gemini. Otherwise random people can ask it your home address.<p>If this is your only criteria I think you have a misunderstanding of what proprietary data is and ways companies can mitigate the situation in the inference stage.</p>
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