<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: thaumasiotes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thaumasiotes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:19:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thaumasiotes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaumasiotes in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Making them less able to do whatever it is they might want to do is pretty much the definition of making them less powerful.</p>
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<p>> Isn't it safe to assume that no video file can escape the browser decoding sandbox?<p>Why would that be safe to assume? If that were a reasonable assumption, you could just as well assume that it's safe to run ffmpeg.</p>
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<p>> Therefor if you are not putting human effort on the document it is low-value.<p>That's true. The document is low-value.<p>Asking people to put in personal effort isn't going to change that. If they comply, the document they produce will still be worthless, and you still won't want it.<p>You're diagnosing a problem unrelated to the problem you actually face.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508973</link><dc:creator>thaumasiotes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaumasiotes in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are two names for the same sound. There is no particle "er" in American English. There could be one, theoretically, but there isn't.</p>
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<p>They're quite different vowel sounds in the same sense that "back" and "back" use "<i>quite</i> different vowel sounds" when pronounced by American vs British speakers.<p>But not in any other sense.<p>> in case it wasn’t clear: I was quoting from the start of the article in that sentence.<p>You don't seem to be quoting from the article at all, actually. You've combined two different sentences in a way that grossly misrepresents what the article says. But that's not really relevant to the point here.</p>
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<p>He thinks that way because it's the only correct way to think.<p>Try raising the value of the record and see what you think about it.</p>
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<p>>> It leaves <i>um, uh, er</i> and elongated versions (<i>ummmm, uhhhhh</i>) alone.<p>Something's already gone wrong here. <i>Uh</i> and <i>er</i> refer to the same sound. <i>Uh</i> is the American spelling. <i>Er</i> is British; to them a following "r" like that is just a kind of vowel.</p>
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<p>> If someone wants me to spend my time and attention on something they have shared, I would like them to demonstrate that they put a proportionate amount of time and effort into its production.<p>First: why? How does that help you?<p>Second: Is that actually true? Do you ever watch videos that a friend recommends to you? Even if the amount of time and effort your friend put into <i>producing</i> that video is zero? Do you ever read anything that a friend recommends? Even if they didn't write it?<p>How much time and effort, in your estimation, did jjfoooo4 put into producing this article on tombedor.dev?</p>
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<p>This headline has been seeing some popularity. But it's never made any sense. This is just the labor theory of value, applied to documents.<p>The labor theory of value doesn't work for documents any more than it works for anything else. If I do something that's easy for me, and it's valuable to you, you'll still want it. If I do something that's difficult for me, it will be less valuable to you, because the difficulty I have with it implies that what I produce will be of lower quality.<p>This is all equally true of automatically-generated documents. If they're valuable, people will want to read them. Whether it was unpleasant for someone to create them isn't a factor.<p>So where is this slogan coming from? Are people just afraid to admit that the documents they're getting are valueless?</p>
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<p>So just to be clear about it: they are traditional shadow puppets, displayed in the traditional manner, but for a camera?</p>
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<p>In this case, you have to compile the OS yourself and patch the trusted certificate store.</p>
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<p>> Online services most assuredly billed by the minute. He'll, AOL had a huge marketing campaign offering "free" minutes for new customers. You might also have charges from the phone company but those were independent of the online service charges.<p>AOL was offering free minutes because it was an ISP, not because it was an online service. (It was also an online service. Most of that service was indeed free; some of it billed by the minute, but that was separate from the rate you paid for connecting to the internet.)</p>
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<p>> Dedicated Internet wires came much later, and then the dedicated phone lines were dropped as voip was better quality and cheaper compared to the dedicated lines.<p>The telephone network made the utterly bizarre choice to intentionally degrade the audio signal of a call, guaranteeing that people would have an unnatural, distorted voice if you spoke to them over the phone. There was no way for voip not to be better quality.</p>
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<p>The Fortress of Doors blog had a good article on the history of flash game development. That article included an overview of the process, in which <i>an explicitly-considered step</i> was "after you upload your .swf file to the site that paid you to display their logo, every other site rips off the file and republishes it themselves".<p>That's why what the first site paid for was having their logo displayed in your game.</p>
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<p>> Why would people author published works if they won’t get compensated?<p>Do you think no one was publishing anything before the year 1500?<p>I mean, your question is basically right. People won't do things if they won't get compensated. But copyright isn't even a large portion of the compensation people get from authoring works.</p>
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<p>Of what?</p>
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<p>> it’s unlike anything I’ve seen before<p>It's a filmed shadowpuppet performance.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_play" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_play</a></p>
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<p>Let's recall the claim here:<p>>>> I think in general the ability to spoof numbers should be banned / controlled. Someone from India should not be allowed to call me with a caller ID from Mayo Clinic.<p>>> This has absolutely nothing to do with burner phones and the proposed changes won't do anything to change that.<p>> That is not correct. There a phone farms operating purely on burner phones<p>This is total nonsense. A phone farm that doesn't spoof caller ID <i>isn't presenting false caller ID</i>.</p>
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<p>> This is how it works in Australia, which means it's a pain for tourists as you need to provide a passport for ID and get it activated, as opposed to just grabbing one at an airport kiosk and being ready to go<p>I don't see the connection. This is also how it works in China, which means... when you grab a SIM card at an airport kiosk, they take a picture of your passport. You obviously have your passport with you, because you just arrived in China and haven't left the airport yet.<p>What part of that isn't also true of Australia?</p>
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<p>But... what does your comment have to do with burner phones?<p>A burner phone is a phone number whose owner is not officially registered somewhere as the owner.<p>A spoofed phone number is a false declaration that you're calling from number XXXXXXXXXX when in fact you're calling from YYYYYYYYYY.<p>You might notice that there is absolutely no relationship between these two ideas. You can be registered and lie about your phone number. You can be unregistered and not lie about your phone number.</p>
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