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New comment by thegrim33 in "Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field"

thegrim33 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:19:47 +0000

I hope the data releases are a bit better than what I've seen from recent telescopes.

The common pattern seems to be that the majority of data is locked away behind multi-year embargo periods, or never released to the public at all with no explanation why, with only the smallest little crumbs of raw data actually released to the public, and usually years out of date. Also you have to go through some kafkaesque chain of technologies/servers/bureaucracy to get access to that little bit of data.

It's a little depressing to me when the public funds these telescopes and then get snubbed when it comes to getting access to the data they produce.

New comment by thegrim33 in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

thegrim33 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:20:54 +0000

Your theory is that some people don't find it financially worthwhile to work in NYC, so therefore they decide to just give up and not work and not move anywhere else and just do absolutely nothing instead?

New comment by thegrim33 in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

thegrim33 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:18:18 +0000

Wait until you find out where they get the money from to replace them

New comment by thegrim33 in "Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered"

thegrim33 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:31:14 +0000

What a strangely written article. Multiple blatant spelling mistakes, the grammar consistently just feels so .. off. It feels like it was written by someone with such a strange grasp of the English language. But the editor seems like somebody that was born and raised with English as their primary language. It almost feels like they're using a really old LLM model to generate the text, so that it doesn't show the modern LLM fingerprints/mannerisms, but the sentences it produces are just .. weird.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

thegrim33 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:28:44 +0000

Sounds like an opportunity then for you to create a competing company that functions the way you feel it should function. If that's what people value, you'll take all the business since you're the only one offering it.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages"

thegrim33 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:42:11 +0000

A thought experiment I sometimes think about is if it'd ever be possible for the world to somehow, in some way, agree that every country would switch over to the same constructed language over the course of generation or two. A modern conlang without all the idiosyncrasies, irregular verbs, exceptions to rules, etc. that's endemic in current organic languages. Of course, how long a language like that could stay relatively clean is an open question.

It's interesting to think about the next generation being taught both their home language and the new language, they're the intermediate generation that can bridge the two worlds, and the generation after that being only taught the new language, and how that process might work.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Big Food vs. the People"

thegrim33 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:43:22 +0000

People have to learn to recognize the patterns.

In this case, lighthouse reports is an international NGO which receives on the order of ~1MM in income per year (an extremely common pattern for these NGOs), which was directly given to them by (unspecified) government grants and (unnamed) private donors (can see all this in their openly published annual reports). In exchange for the funding (80.38% of which they paid out to themselves as wages/compensation), they put together and release "reports", "studies", etc., that push the messaging the NGO was created to push.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Teacher arrested for clapping in opposition at an AI data center meeting"

thegrim33 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:15:25 +0000

Propaganda* article

New comment by thegrim33 in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

thegrim33 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:01:01 +0000

I haven't read or engaged in mainstream media in over 15 years now. I just pulled up the Economist website for fun to see what's on it. I see stories that have absolutely nothing to do with me or the country (e.g. an article gushing about how China managed to stop massively polluting one of their rivers. In what universe is that remotely relevant to me? Why is this the front page story?), I see the typical biased articles and bias in choosing what to report on, everything all biased politically the same way (of course, if you hold the same biases then you don't see the bias, it all just just looks normal/neutral/true to you), I see stories increasing the fear and hate in the world (China has a scary secretive shadowy maritime militia! Oil markets are scary right now! Be afraid!), there's absolutely nothing of interest to me. Guess I'll go another 15.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?"

thegrim33 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:49:52 +0000

So, instead of everyone in unison adjusting their clocks twice a year, you suggest that individual schools should all decide for themselves when/how to change their school's start times, which now causes schedule changes which clash with the unchanging schedules of other places/businesses that don't do any clock changing?

New comment by thegrim33 in "Canada is taking an outsized role in the construction of the post-American world"

thegrim33 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:34:18 +0000

Just flag it, scan through the poster's other submissions/comments and flag all similarly rule breaking posts, and move on.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

thegrim33 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:41:45 +0000

As an analogy, imagine buying a movie you've always wanted to see, and when you start watching it you find the previous owner added a voice over on top of the audio containing their off the cuff thoughts about the movie.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

thegrim33 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:13:28 +0000

The same namecheap that at the outset of the Ukraine war decided to terminate the service of every single one of their customers (private citizens, businesses, everyone), that had a Russian address associated with their account? Well, if you're still using them, that's on you.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Pixel phones getting ad notifications"

thegrim33 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:02:58 +0000

They've already been periodically/rarely doing ads like that for a number of years now, and it's stopped there. It's not a new thing.

New comment by thegrim33 in "How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?"

thegrim33 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:57:30 +0000

It's less a fault of "democracy" and more a fault of partisan extremism where all dimensionality and nuance is removed, it's intentionally made into an "us" vs "them" issue with only two extreme sides, where either you're fully with "us" and everything we believe, or you're evil/horrible/etc. If you dare to fall in the middle somewhere, that's not allowed by the extremists on one side; you're lumped in with and seen as no different than the opposite extreme.

New comment by thegrim33 in "Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids"

thegrim33 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:41:00 +0000

Were people not able to accomplish that transition in the times before AI existed?

New comment by thegrim33 in "5 Cups of coffee per day (up to 400 mg of caffeine/day) is safe for most adults"

thegrim33 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:18:32 +0000

Do you not think that taking doses of literal amphetamines on a daily basis might be more associated with your complaints than consuming caffeine?

New comment by thegrim33 in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

thegrim33 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:48:26 +0000

aka this very thread - top comment and most of the entire comment section has been taken over by literally "how dare anyone say anything even remotely negative about China, what's wrong with you".

New comment by thegrim33 in "Qwen 3.8"

thegrim33 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:28:58 +0000

Scroll the front page. Find literally any story that has to do with a major US tech company. Open the comment section. Look at the the top comment. It will be negative. Most of the other top comments as well. Trying to gaslight us into not believing our own eyes ..

New comment by thegrim33 in "Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states"

thegrim33 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:51:36 +0000

>> The suggestion that this is a CCP play shows a lack of theory of mind.

As if destruction / denigration of US AI / cloud / IT infrastructure wouldn't massively benefit the CCP. Surely there's no correlation there at all, just means, motive, and opportunity, but I'm sure it's nothing.