<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: tediousdemise</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tediousdemise</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:56:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tediousdemise" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Uncleftish Beholding (1989)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Total nonsense.<p>Using valid words in one language doesn’t mean that they directly translate. Only the author knows the intended meaning—no one else would, without some sort of table that maps the nonsense expressions to the proper loanwords.<p>No one but the author would be able to decipher the true meaning of this essay, making it useless as a form of communication.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:53:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643666</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if indicating likeness would be legally safe, i.e., “Song name - Artist [Drake-like/Drake-style]”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:49:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643600</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Someone asked an autonomous AI to 'destroy humanity'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems like something there should be some AI safety ground rules for.<p>The number one rule for firearm safety is: always point the muzzle in a safe direction. Even if you know the gun is unloaded, you always obey this rule.<p>Deliberately spinning up a GPT with the intent to destroy humanity seems like it would fall under a similar category, but I'd go a step further and say that this should be against the law on the basis of instigating AI-related terrorist activity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561954</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When layoffs like this happen, I cringe for these companies and the poor souls who keep joining them. What HR really needs to do is a full retracement.<p>Who hired "X" employee, and why? Follow this up the chain. Follow it as far up as it needs to go, to the very email or slide deck from an upper-level exec whose failure of a pet project was greenlit to begin with. Fire the entire chain of command complicit in the lowest level employee's firing.<p>Truly, drain the entire swamp, otherwise the execs will keep making bad choices and playing music chairs while the boots on the ground get mutilated for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34347472</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34347472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34347472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have free will, and the atrocities you mention are acts of men. Why would you blame God for them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:24:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33866002</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33866002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33866002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the actual mechanism of action here?<p>I assume it was an elephant coincidentally born without tusks, which then survived being poached thanks to the adaptation that was then passed on to subsequent offspring.<p>An impeccably timed advantageous mutation for an endangered species. We rely far too often on the word “coincidence” to describe what is clearly an unknown gene expression phenomenon, which gives me chills and seems to borderline the supernatural.<p>At what point to people throw in the towel and say, yup, God’s real? Or do we just keep saying these unexplainable things are coincidences since it somehow jives better with our worldview?<p>I never understood why people think that spirituality and science are mutually exclusive. In 2014, even the pope himself came out and said the Big Bang and evolution are real [0]. Maybe it’s part of the whole “works in mysterious ways” tidbit, if you believe that kind of stuff? Let’s try having an open mind.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-evolution-big-bang-theory-are-real-n235696" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-evolution-bi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 09:48:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863465</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava no longer contained to summit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As have plagues and other pandemics. I'm curious to see if there will be any more interesting volcanic activity!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:25:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773335</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An always-on camera would be my favorite cyborg eye use case.<p>Imagine being able to go back and relive memories from your perspective. ML could be used to automatically caption and bookmark significant events for searchability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:21:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319540</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to try to fight back against these guys. Slowly but surely, they purge Wikipedia articles of anything that portrays the US government in a negative light.<p>The last straw for me was when they deleted this Wikipedia article. Luckily it was backed up on IPFS, and then later on Everipedia.<p><a href="https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/List_of_authoritarian_re...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:01:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306286</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bet someone on Hacker News can set up a website that mirrors AirBnB reviews as they are posted. This would prevent revisionism.<p>They can slap vacation ads on it and now they have a stable source of income!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:11:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288827</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33288827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What I have found is snake oil peddlers that like to hear themselves speak and throw around 'creative' ideas that get lost in a sea of dialogue.<p>What’s the real story here? Why characterize them as “snake oil peddlers who like to hear themselves speak?”<p>Anyone who makes a creative attempt to improve the workplace gets a gold star in my book.<p>Negativity is contagious, and I wouldn’t want an underminer on my team who characterizes other peoples’ ideas as “snake oil.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202049</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks cool! Might try it out one day if I ever become unhappy with Notion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:08:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33201946</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33201946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33201946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is this different from Super? (<a href="https://super.so" rel="nofollow">https://super.so</a>)<p>Super is a tool to turn Notion pages into websites. Your tool seems extremely similar, but more expensive, so where's the value proposition?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:09:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125623</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1) <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419581/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419581/</a><p>2) <a href="https://n.neurology.org/content/90/15_Supplement/P6.079" rel="nofollow">https://n.neurology.org/content/90/15_Supplement/P6.079</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101170</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’re getting a lot of advice about ADHD and the medications prescribed for it. My advice is to tread cautiously and know the risks, because most doctors won’t tell you (or they’ll just gloss over them).<p>Amphetamines are addictive and, used as prescribed, you can find yourself with way worse attention and psychological problems. This is especially true if you take them on a daily basis as prescribed. Taken this way, they can lead to chronically depleted adrenals and long term downregulation of your dopamine receptors, which means you’ll feel like shit when you run out of medicine. The road to up-regulating your receptors is long and arduous.<p>Hopefully you don’t have a problem filling your medicine, as most people who take controlled substances inevitably come across righteous pharmacists who will refuse to fill them (instead, they will tell you they are out of stock).<p>There are also long term risks such as the development of Parkinson’s disease. Is a little bit of productivity now for your boss worth developing a debilitating disease in retirement? Only you can make that call.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083348</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Parent time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice attempt at guilting me, Satan, but my mom is way, way worse than you.<p>If I were you, I’d be deeply concerned about only having 15 years left to yourself. Enjoy hell while it’s still warm and toasty down there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:10:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066992</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Concluding that knowledge influences behavior isn't science. It's common sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:40:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298146</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  a small percentage of people write their opinions and then a much larger percent of people read them, eventually shaping aggregate opinion independently of any opinion held predominantly by “lurkers.”<p>ELI5 brainwashing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:39:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298132</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Knowledge influences behavior? No way, I don't believe it.<p>Say I want to learn how to do a backflip. I do a quick search, find an instructional video, and nope the fuck out because of how dangerous and difficult it seems to perform. A prime example of knowledge that influenced my behavior.<p>Pointless study since this is just common sense. So much time and money is wasted in science just so that people can make a name for themselves or get a promotion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298076</link><dc:creator>tediousdemise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tediousdemise in "House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, hubby's strats are too lucrative for that. It's a non-starter.<p>We need to establish age limits and get all the old greedies out of politics.</p>
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