<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: sssilver</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sssilver</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:48:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sssilver" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not saying this is what's happening to you, but in my case this is exactly what I believed for many years.<p>And then it turned out that typing-vs-hand-writing benefits being equal was in fact due to how atrophied my hand-writing skills were.<p>I've learned that once I got back into fluent hand-writing in a flow-state, the benefits for learning, memorizing, and understanding, were so overwhelmingly superior to keyboard-typing, that I resented the cognitive handicap I had placed upon myself for literal decades.<p>Now I always carry a tiny spiraled notebook and a Rotring pen. They're as indispensable and practically useful to me as my smartphone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:34:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849585</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Supplies" as in, self-assembling landing and launch pads?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:50:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796612</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Grok 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I take issue with your use of the word "bend" here.<p>Can you provide specific examples of where Elon has <i>bent</i> the levers of government?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:49:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789789</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google Buzz is buzzing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782941</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turns out the entities you control / regulate less, tend to do things that are less in your interest and more in their own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:31:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778544</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A “perfect simulation” is no longer a <i>simulation</i>.<p>The definition of the word “simulation” is:<p>> A simulation is the artificial imitation of a real-world process, system, or event using a model<p>As we know, “all models are wrong; some models are useful”.<p>A “perfect simulation” is, then, an oxymoron.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777249</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then, logically speaking, you get a <i>simulation</i> of griefing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:23:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776779</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Insofar as grieving is an inherently, fundamentally a very particular <i>chemical process</i>, the answer is a resounding “no”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773130</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don't see how cutting pay for conductors is going to make anyone's lives better<p>It's going to make passengers' lives better by making their train rides more affordable, allowing them to improve their lives by leveraging those funds.<p>Or, it's going to make shareholders' lives better by increasing their profits.<p>Either way, some people will benefit from it. The question is -- what is the real, practical tradeoff, and is the tradeoff worth it to the participants in the system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:03:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757980</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Configuration Complexity Clock]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html">http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721812">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721812</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:36:26 +0000</pubDate><link>http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't the <i>US producers</i> sell oil outside of the United States, where it's more expensive, thus generating more profits for their shareholders, thus creating a shortage in the United States, thus dragging the prices up to the global equilibrium, thus dissipating any effects of the US producing more oil than it consumes?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:29:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718472</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Apple iPod Engraver (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I engraved mine for two practical reasons — tell mine apart from others and have contact info in case I lost it and it was found by a decent person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:11:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679609</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Eating Fruit Skins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And then an airplane: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:07:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676658</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Logo Programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is "3rd world country" basically "Not a NATO country, but also not an Eastern Bloc country"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:38:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674214</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don’t need more surveillance in the guise of consumer tech in my life, much less if anything.<p>Who said this is being done because <i>you</i> need it?<p>You're the product here. The shareholders demand growth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:12:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660850</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:10:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660813</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...and a brave new price</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633305</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd love to see the numbers and the arithmetic that compute down to "more than 10%"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:32:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628241</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "I resigned from Anthropic today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This explains it pretty well: <a href="https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-api/temperature" rel="nofollow">https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:34:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621041</link><dc:creator>sssilver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sssilver in "I resigned from Anthropic today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures<p>There's nothing <i>inherent</i> about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.</p>
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