Hacker News: sytelus

New comment by sytelus in "Claude Fable 5"

sytelus — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:12:54 +0000

Enterprise subs not allowed to use Fable if they have setup zero data retention :(

StreamHope – Merge Duplicate Playlists in YouTube Music, Transfer from Spotify

sytelus — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:41:56 +0000

Article URL: https://shital.com/blog/streamhop-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304491

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hacker Folklore – AI Koans

sytelus — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:44:08 +0000

Article URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287624

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sytelus in "Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)"

sytelus — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:54:13 +0000

Amazon remains totally complacent of these issues which are now professionally hacked by China based providers day in and out. Tons of vitamins are now fake and downright harmful. A lot of books, even small scale ones, are also fake and very low quality.

I tried to move my purchases to Walmart and surprisingly, even after 25 years, they haven’t got act together. Walmart even haven’t recognized that they should jump on this problem by prominently showing authentic brand logo or something.

I also tried to move all my books purchasing to B&N and again, surprisingly, they haven’t learned any real lesson in past 25 years. Their website is clunky, they charge $7 delivery fee, they can’t even deliver to my nearest their own shop for free!

Amazon is definitely riding on this utterly deficient competitors and that’s why they get to be so complacent.

New comment by sytelus in "Implementing Logic Programming"

sytelus — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:25:21 +0000

This is great article but it is ruined because author chose to use substack. I don't know why people keep following herd and endup publishing on substack. If you already don't know, Substack has disallowed ChatGPT to crawl anything so you cannot take AI assistance to work on the content. They got this content for free but they want to gatekeep it for profiting from it. Additionally, substack is intentionally horrible at letting allow nicely formatted pdf or readable versions downloaded to lock out the content even further. No one in their right mind should be using substack.

Folks, really, using GitHub pages with static website generator is all you need. Your content will be nice and truly freely accessible to everyone.

Pareto Frontier for the Agents

sytelus — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:39:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/datarobot/syftr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117843

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Sad, Short and Perplexing Life of Computer Whiz

sytelus — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:28:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/05/21/sad-short-and-perplexing-life-of-computer-whiz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678057

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sytelus in "Gary Marcus discusses AI's technical problems"

sytelus — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:45:49 +0000

At different points he has claimed (1) current models are not intelligent at all and can never be intelligent like us, (2) also we need to ban current models because they will outsmart us and take over the world.

Depending on how he can get interview or get seat at the table, he may chose exact opposite of positions.

New comment by sytelus in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

sytelus — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:39:54 +0000

The doge.gov website is just amazing. You can browse through the entire org chart of a typical government, average age of employees, avg salary in that department and so on. I hope they upload this data on GitHub and open sources for the future keeping. I am becoming fairly certain that all these will be removed when ruling party changes. Doge guys truly rock for doing this.

And now, keep in mind that US govt is likely still way more "efficient" than most others on the planet.

New comment by sytelus in "Gary Marcus discusses AI's technical problems"

sytelus — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:43:09 +0000

I lost faith in Marcus after just a few interactions. He is indeed what one would refer to as "crackpot" in academia. The most glaring thing was that he is technically extremely shallow and don't have a clue about most of the details. I also got impression that is enormously enamored with having attention and recognition at any cost. Depending on weather, he will change directions and views, basically just do anything it took to get that attention no matter how ridiculous he looks doing that.

While writing this, it occured to me that he would get even goose bumps at reading this comment because it, after all, I am giving him attention.

New comment by sytelus in "The year I didn't survive"

sytelus — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:23:08 +0000

Amazing writing. When you become parent, the person you were at that point goes away. Growing as parent is part of letting that person go.

New comment by sytelus in "A counter-intuitive guide to better leadership"

sytelus — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:14:18 +0000

All these articles proposing "intuition" as secret magic dust is quite funny. This is culturally amplified by movies and media ("May the force be with you", "follow your feelings").

In reality, intuition is simply a pattern recognition mechanism that sometimes work. Entire science is basically testimony of how our intuition lead us astray and why we need to be disciplined about looking at data, evidence and crafting experiments. Our intuition has always said Earth is flat, Sun rotates around us, time is constant... Virtually every single thing in science is how our intuition (aka the primitive pattern recognition) was so magnificently wrong.

New comment by sytelus in "Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell"

sytelus — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:40:45 +0000

PowerShell should be taught in university as example of how poorly designed system devoid of taste and aesthetic looks like. It's an ugly monstrosity that makes me puke every time I try to use it. The only reason some people might like it is because they have been tortured by Windows defaults for many years and finally they got used to this utter mediocracy.

New comment by sytelus in "Susan Wojcicki has died"

sytelus — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:12:28 +0000

Why on earth you want 10X longer video with same information content as the shorter video?

New comment by sytelus in "Susan Wojcicki has died"

sytelus — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 12:05:35 +0000

YouTube is absolutely the business that is resting on laurels, just like Google Maps and Gmail. Sometime I wonder if these products have any real active development teams at all besides ads. YouTube massively screwed with users by forcing poorly executed botched migration to YouTube Music. Even outsiders can see that this was entirely internal Google politics which powerful people like Wojcicki should have been able to avoid but she didn't. It just makes me wonder if these billionaire leaders of Google products really care anymore about anything. There is visibly an utter lack of hunger at the top and these people clearly should have been spending more time with family leaving these products with more hungry minds. YouTube recommendations are crap and it's still amazing that in 2024 just clicking one video will fill up most of recommendations with same thing. It never got around to incentivize creators to produce concise content and to this day creators keep producing massive 30 min diatribe that could have been done in 3 mins. TikTok took full advantage of this but YouTube CEO just kept napping at the wheel. Ultimately, the original product mostly just kept going but the measure of success is not about retaining audience but what it could have been if there was an ambitious visionary leader at the helm.

New comment by sytelus in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

sytelus — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:43:28 +0000

CloudStrike had managed to invade into StarBucks IT. All of the online order taking systems are down.

New comment by sytelus in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

sytelus — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:36:13 +0000

This is amazing sales tactics! So, you buddy up with insurance, they create a checkbox and recommend you for a revenue cut! Now you suddenly have millions of customers out of nowhere and your product gets installed on billions computers before you even know it. I have seen this tactic get used for many mediocre products. For example, 3rd party dishwasher soap recommended by dishwasher company. Amazingly powerful. I don’t think most of CrowdStrike employees even knew they were in more than billion computers with paid service. The CEO was just busy doing brutal marketing of this pointless product.

New comment by sytelus in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

sytelus — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:02:17 +0000

Genuine question: How the heck crapeware like CloudStrike got into all critical systems from 911 to hospitals to airlines? My understanding was that all these critical systems are just super lazy to upgrade or install anything at all. I would love to know all the sales tactics CS used to get into millions of systems for money!

New comment by sytelus in "25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite"

sytelus — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:37:57 +0000

I used to make this argument until I came to know of law (at least in USA) that if you don't use your house and someone else starts using your house then they can claim the legal ownership of your entire house in as little as 10 years! It was very shocking and complete antithesis of property rights in US that are so dearly held. When you think about this, in long run, it might sometimes make sense that future generation can use what previous generation has built.

New comment by sytelus in "25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite"

sytelus — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:32:54 +0000

These studios used to make ton of money because only a few are in town. Now, every teenager is his/her own studio and content pool is so vast that their revues must shrink. They have nowhere to run. I think their end state is to publish on YouTube/Netflix and continue living at fraction of revenue that they are used to. That's what they should prepare for and plan for. Their existence and importance was supported by scarcity imposed by cable network and they need to understand that. But instead they live in fantasy of becoming next Netflix and burn in billions of dollars in debt.