Hacker News: sophrosyne42

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

sophrosyne42 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:15:37 +0000

This would be interdependence expanding. Manufacturing isn't the only kind of economic activity

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

sophrosyne42 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:04:45 +0000

The definition issue cuts both ways. It is just as much an issue for those insisting that LLMs are intelligent/conscious in some way.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

sophrosyne42 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:31:31 +0000

When the build system expects a certain metadata which is removed by the force pushes or tag removal, then that is arguably not the preferred form. Grapheneos notes this elsewhere in the thread. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368983

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

sophrosyne42 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:53:58 +0000

You take it for granted that everyone agrees with you that what you regard as addictive or radical should be restricted by the government. These are not facts-of-the-matter, but opinions, and opinions for which there is disagreement, and for which people deserve the opportunity to decide for themselves and make a decision. You want to make that decision for them. You are a disguised dictator and fascist. Simple-as.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

sophrosyne42 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:27:09 +0000

Ok, take it the other way.

You want to marry someone? Make sure the government approves for your safety.

Want to make dinner? First you have to send the recipe to your local overseer with proof of your safe cooking credentials or you will have to pay heafty fines for noncompliance.

Want to make love, read a book, speak your mind, make a contract with someone, work the job you want? Sorry, you can't decide that yourself, first the politburo must approve it.

Sounds great!

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

sophrosyne42 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:20:41 +0000

Similarly, I do not understand the willful ignorance and bootlicking attitude of those who want to support coercing others into sharing orivate information.

The reasons are mentioned every single time these laws are brought up, I can only assume you're willfully ignoring the concerns people have:

It's a security black hole, increasing our attack surface astronomically.

It causes undue compliance costs for websites to meet basic security standards.

It does not reliably prevent the determined teenager from bypassing these restrictions, e.g. with a vpn, but imposes enormous costs on allegedly a nontarget demograpgic (e.g. everyone else). Small benefit with a large cost is a bad policy.

The problem is entirely manufactured by bureaucrats, the public is concerned with gas prices and making ends meet. The parents that are concerned about their child's internet access can and do take the appropriate precautions because child controls already exist.

Whatever justification is given, the end result is mass surveillance, with the expected consequences in reduction of personal and social liberties. This is nothing to scoff at.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

sophrosyne42 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:36:41 +0000

That's more of a problem on the distro side, no?

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "[dead]"

sophrosyne42 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:34:34 +0000

Ah yes, the classic fascist ploy of... being concerned about propaganda...

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

sophrosyne42 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:10:35 +0000

Because the prices of ddr5 are causing people to use substitutes

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

sophrosyne42 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:38:08 +0000

Framework has a fingerprint sensor. [1]

[1] https://frame.work/products/fingerprint-reader-kit?v=FRANTD0...

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

sophrosyne42 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:49:31 +0000

I love when tech bros think they can make up a new groundbreaking theory about a topic, in this case economics, they demonstrate zero knowledge in. You're definitely projecting on the confusion point

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

sophrosyne42 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:22:22 +0000

> It can simultaneously be true that the populated areas of the Amazon where deliberately and carefully managed by the population and that the Amazon was largely untouched for any other reason.

Certainly, though nothing about the quoted fact that 97% of forest was uninhabited should lead us to make statements like "the pristine untouched Amazon idea is a European myth", nor does it give any information to go off of regarding their possible knowledge of environmental engineering.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "KOReader"

sophrosyne42 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:34:38 +0000

Bro has never played the thousands of shitty visual novels. Hell even from software games, which are beautifully well designed, are technically embarrassing

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

sophrosyne42 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:45:15 +0000

Most europeans love their chains, they call it freedom as a coping mechanism

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

sophrosyne42 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:40:05 +0000

First mover advantage is theoretically only a short-term advantage. Long-term revenues come from entrepreneurship, and a first mover may or may not better insight into long-term market wants than later entrants.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

sophrosyne42 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:24:00 +0000

Copyright is not a way to compensate for innovation. Innovation is compensated by being first to market. The specific rent that copyright causes is due to holding the copyright and restricting the produced supply. Copyright provides compensation even while mantaining the status quo and not doing any innovation, just by holding the intellectual property. Without copyright, there is a specific revenue for bringing something to market, and that revenue disappears as the new becomes old. Since the specific revenue is bringing something new to market innovation is compensated.

Intellectual property creates compensation without a corresponding benefit to the public.

Edit: to add to this, the existence of copyright today does not show it has been effective for creating innovation. You need a counterfactual for that, which you did not provide.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

sophrosyne42 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:18:42 +0000

Sure, and I say we should exclude a system of rights and privileges which involves intellectualnproperty

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System"

sophrosyne42 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:53:26 +0000

There are sounds in sanskrit that don't exist in Hindi, including vocalizations that exist in Sanskrit which are omitted in Hindi for the same glyphs. Additionally, Sanskrit meter has pretty specific rules on which should be stressed and unstressed, when to have pitch changes, and the length of each sound.

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

sophrosyne42 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:26:00 +0000

Nobody has a right to have an economic value for what they sell. That is a special privilege, not a right, and harms everyone for the enrichment of the privileged

New comment by sophrosyne42 in "Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets"

sophrosyne42 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:37:45 +0000

Whats the difference between a siphonophore and a single organism? Aren't all the organs of an organism genetically identical, specialized, fused together, and functionally dependent on each other?