Hacker News: thealig

New comment by thealig in "What it's like working for American companies as an Australian"

thealig — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:08:06 +0000

think you're grossly misunderstanding what social safety net means - public spending is not the same thing as a safety net. the public healthcare system that countries like Gemrnay have is an example of a social safety net.

New comment by thealig in "India's government is trying to silence US critics"

thealig — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:42:57 +0000

That claim that news outlets in general are free to express their opinions without censorship is unfortunately, not really true in practise - most outlets may express opinions but might face sanctions, bans or other forms of censorship, depending on the topic of the opinions. NDTV has faced multiple such actions in the past (one example: https://www.dw.com/en/ridiculous-and-arbitrary-indian-journa...) Another topic with heavy censorship is the ground situation in Kashmir. Social media and internet bans have been common since a long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Kashmir).

New comment by thealig in "Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution"

thealig — Sat, 11 May 2024 18:48:05 +0000

THe way current empirical models in ML are evaluated and tested ( benchmark datasets) tell you very little to nothing about cognition and intelligence. Mainly because as you hinted , there doesn't seem to be a convincing and watertight benchmark or model of cognition. LLMs or multi-modal LLMs demonstrating impressive performance on a range of tasks is interesting from certain standpoints.

Human perception of such models is frankly not a reliable measure at all as far as gauging capabilities is concerned. Until there's more progess on the nueroscience/computer science (and an intersection of fields probably) and better understanding of the nature of intelligence, this is likely going to remain an open question.

New comment by thealig in "AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules"

thealig — Thu, 09 May 2024 17:18:35 +0000

> all its ideas were absorbed into Stockfish

don't think that is true, Stockfish incorporated NNUE techniques through a fork https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfishnnue-strongest-ches...

being transparent with the setup of your invention is always a good thing.

New comment by thealig in "The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)"

thealig — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:45:18 +0000

events with historical significance are far more interesting than these kind of movie/popular references that don't mean much

New comment by thealig in "Indian investigators ask Apple to access Delhi chief minister's phones"

thealig — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:27:03 +0000

Well, in itself that doesn't mean much - irregularities and power struggles within indian political paries is routine. Plus given the track record of the law enforcement agencies to arrest/Crack down with an agenda, usually along the lines that suits the political party. Even worse, legislation now provides the police and so on broad power in arresting subjects without allowing a fair trial( or just a trial!) For example under the anti terrorism act. Such legislation is frequently used to arrest on grounds that probably have little to do with their supposed criminal act.

This methodology of enforcement goes back decades way before India got independent, inherited from British Indian authorities. It's even more blatant under the current ruling party.

New comment by thealig in "Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]"

thealig — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:40:37 +0000

sorry, what do you mean by "Consciousness regularly/usually claims to have omniscient knowledge of all that is, something which is not supported by physics."? i do not follow what you mean by consciousness claiming to know something - consciousness is not an entity that sense? Your usage of consciousness as an entity doesn't seem to make sense to me.

War Clouds over the Indian Horizon?

thealig — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:30:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/war-clouds-over-indian-horizon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837030

Points: 3

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New comment by thealig in "Working more than 55 hours a week kills 750k people a year worldwide"

thealig — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 03:10:49 +0000

I don't think personal and family issues are necessarily edge cases. Plus it also depends from where the person is and what the technology industry scene is like there. Nowadays jumping companies is easier and more acceptable (atleast in tech) for sure, but then there's always some uncertainty with respect to interviewing and obtaining offers(and possible stress) in particular when you're past a certain age.

New comment by thealig in "I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser"

thealig — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:07:17 +0000

it might be easier, but that doesn't mean all criticism should be ignored.

In the spirit of cliched reductive "feel good" statements of this whole comment section, ignoring criticism is also easier than building something that ends up to be extremely subpar.

New comment by thealig in "Don’t mess with a genius (2010)"

thealig — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:57:45 +0000

This story is about his anti counterfeiting exploits though, which usually requires skills not necessarily related to intellect. he was dutiful and unforgiving which is why he had some level of success in it. Same reasoning applies to his investments tanking, it's a different skillet and far more unpredictable.

New comment by thealig in "Don’t mess with a genius (2010)"

thealig — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:35:20 +0000

For that matter no one's respect really means much however you look at this particular excerpt, not sure what you trying to say with this line of argument

New comment by thealig in "Regex matching in P with backreference (2019)"

thealig — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 08:04:12 +0000

FYI the title stated in the github readme itself is misleading and incomplete.. in the fine print clarifies that this is in polynomial time "in the size of the input text for a fixed number of backreferences in the pattern."

New comment by thealig in "The many planned moon landings of 2023"

thealig — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:13:45 +0000

Yikes, didn't they discuss this in their daily standup? Maybe open a task in Jira to handle high cliffs on Mars?

(/s)

New comment by thealig in "Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands"

thealig — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:34:29 +0000

Tangential question: is there a way to participate in the demoscene,as a beginner or in serious competitions? Looks like the popular meetings happen in Europe, and looks like are in person

New comment by thealig in "CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day"

thealig — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:49:06 +0000

What does banking mean here? Managing bank accounts online in your browser

How to do distributed locking (2016)

thealig — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:17:44 +0000

Article URL: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35910201

Points: 103

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New comment by thealig in "GPT makes learning fun again"

thealig — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:22:25 +0000

Finding out what you don't know to start learning is also a part of learning, and it is a bit difficult to trust LLMs like ChatGPT when it had a tendency to spout correct sounding answers that are incorrect, inaccurate etc.

Search engines are much better On uncovering guides on that, specially from experts and verified sources. It's a bit of work to verify that, but then it is part of learning itself, not sure trying to punt on that to fast track your learning your whatever is going to make a meaningful difference in terms of time

New comment by thealig in "Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?"

thealig — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:11:16 +0000

have you tried firefox sync? recently gave it a try and on android it works seamlessly. Cross browser integration is an extra step though.

C++ Rvalue References Explained (2013)

thealig — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:46:37 +0000

Article URL: http://thbecker.net/articles/rvalue_references/section_01.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34117228

Points: 2

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