Hacker News: stevenalowe

New comment by stevenalowe in "Canadians told to "Exercise a high degree of caution in Germany""

stevenalowe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:26:03 +0000

‘Due to the high threat of terrorism’*

*not specified

New comment by stevenalowe in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

stevenalowe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:12:04 +0000

Very cool sim!

New comment by stevenalowe in "Trump Expands Glyphosate, and Now the MAHA Moms Who Elected Him Are Done"

stevenalowe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:49:10 +0000

“MAHA supporters had been 'treated by MAGA like a convenient group of useful idiots ever since Kennedy joined Trump on the campaign trail.'”

They’re all useful idiots, surprise!

New comment by stevenalowe in "Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein"

stevenalowe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:09:37 +0000

Looks great but on mobile the popover covers a quarter of the screen, obscuring the sun

New comment by stevenalowe in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

stevenalowe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:21:10 +0000

How about a pale blue dot on a black background

New comment by stevenalowe in "Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US"

stevenalowe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:29:48 +0000

The USA consumes 2 trillion gallons per year in lawn irrigation so what?

New comment by stevenalowe in "Moscow Hints at Potential US-Russia Tunnel Deal"

stevenalowe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:36:17 +0000

“There were already talks about the US and Rusisa splitting up the Donbas resources as part of a deal”

The USA is not, nor should it be, an Imperialist conquerer, nor should we collaborate with one.

“Bold moves” my ass

New comment by stevenalowe in "Moscow Hints at Potential US-Russia Tunnel Deal"

stevenalowe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:51:45 +0000

Cargo yes, that would make sense - in peacetime with rational allies

We have and are none of these at present

New comment by stevenalowe in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

stevenalowe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:42:48 +0000

I’m happy you shared that moment with us all, so brave!

New comment by stevenalowe in "Moscow Hints at Potential US-Russia Tunnel Deal"

stevenalowe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:05:32 +0000

Why? Not a great place to live or drive, do we do significant trade or will it make the odd invasions easier?

New comment by stevenalowe in "Police remove biabetes researcher, other experts from medical conference"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:06:02 +0000

Cannot read paywalled article but lede photo is the lead author of the critical article

If they were peacefully handing out copies of an article, the conference runners should get their free-speech suppressing asses sued off

New comment by stevenalowe in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:55:45 +0000

Thanks for this - holography as a theory strikes me as an absurd math trick - if a 3d world is really just a 2d surface, would it not logically follow that said 2d surface is itself merely a projection from 1d, and perhaps that is a projection from 0d?

Obviously I don’t understand this, and probably won’t but what limits the dimension reduction?

Going the other way, would our 3d space not be the “surface” of a deeper 4d space, and that of a 5d space, etc?

New comment by stevenalowe in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:46:33 +0000

Well, I read it, but none of it made any sense, so ok gravity is “magic”

New comment by stevenalowe in "SETI Panel Revises Recommendations for Dealing with 'Disclosure Day'"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:25:11 +0000

“These new protocols ensure that scientists maintain the highest standards of evidence before making announcements to the world.”

New comment by stevenalowe in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:07:43 +0000

That would be great but apparently it doesn’t work like that here (except Alaska)

New comment by stevenalowe in "She won a religious exemption from using AI at work"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:09:36 +0000

It’s kinda worse than that - an Orthodox Jew would, by long-standing traditions and teachings, not be expected to touch pork. The same beliefs that make this person object to using AI could easily apply to any cloud-scale service dependent on data centers.

Like say… Google search (the old non-AI one)

New comment by stevenalowe in "She won a religious exemption from using AI at work"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:05:08 +0000

“Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special treatment in April, citing environmental and ethical objections to AI that don't align with her religious beliefs”

Ummm… Unitarians in general do not believe in anything specific, so this seems arbitrary but don’t worry she will probably be fired for underperforming soon anyway

This is the dumbest timeline…

New comment by stevenalowe in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

stevenalowe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:46:56 +0000

Cool cool can we own half of all of the other industries that benefit from the commons? Oil, gas, gold,…?

New comment by stevenalowe in "The Environmental Cost of AI: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints"

stevenalowe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:01:01 +0000

The article/PDF makes a lot of pointless Big Scary Number comparisons, none of which seem compelling in context

New comment by stevenalowe in "Facing life-threatening miscarriage in Arkansas, calls to governor didn't help"

stevenalowe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:20:20 +0000

The penalty is $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail