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New comment by throwaway81523 in "Why is it so expensive to send an email?"

throwaway81523 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:41:37 +0000

It's because of IP reputation and spam blocking. You can't start with a "clean" address and send mail. You need to spend some time on "address warming" to build reputation for the address before the big providers will accept mail from it.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map"

throwaway81523 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:50:30 +0000

HN doesn't have DM's.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats"

throwaway81523 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:46:41 +0000

How much does the upgrade cost to turn the Nest thermostat dumb? It's probably cheaper to buy a dumb thermostat in the first place.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

throwaway81523 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:06:43 +0000

It's basically impossible to not use gmail. Even if you don't have a gmail account or address yourself, the person you're emailing probably has it, so your messages gets sent to a gmail server and gets scanned by them. What I want to know is whether Google uses the contents to profile YOU.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Economic Policies Have Weakened Europe"

throwaway81523 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:23:33 +0000

Original title "Democratic Socialism Demolished Europe."

Study identifies first corporate psychopath (17th century trader)

throwaway81523 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1148675

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213752

Points: 3

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New comment by throwaway81523 in "In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible"

throwaway81523 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:36:34 +0000

The photons have energy, so through mass-energy equivalence, they aren't massless, I thought.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

throwaway81523 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:35:42 +0000

I wonder whether they were trained for this on purpose, to accelerate the general public turning on each other and handing the world to the broliarchs. Added: alternatively, I wonder if the training materials have a sociopathic bias because of the kinds of places they came from.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Κ = 0.003 for integer multiplication crossed"

throwaway81523 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:00:51 +0000

This might help, https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn...

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

throwaway81523 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:10:57 +0000

Yes, you do a state prosecution even if there are already federal charges, since Trump can only pardon federal charges. Pardoning state charges, though, can be done by the state governor, same deal. So you do all 50 states to be very nearly sure.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:50:22 +0000

I thought that in an expanding universe, mass isn't conserved. I don't see why charge would be conserved in that case.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:45:02 +0000

I'm sure the crime reached into all 50 states. Maybe they should be tried and sentenced in all of them, so avoiding jail would need 51 pardons instead of just one.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:43:27 +0000

> Our American obsession with jail is nuts.

If we were really obsessed with jail for executives, a lot more of them would be locked up right now. There might be an obsession, but it's only about jailing peons.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Gradium open-sourced its on-device TTS"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:26:06 +0000

Sure, TTS is useful now and then, like for the voice prompts from my car GPS. I find myself wanting STT much more of the time.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:24:24 +0000

Not even slightly.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Did Satoshi Get Bitcoin Wrong? Claude's NSA Discovery Sparks Debate"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:10:14 +0000

This is a non-story? secp256k1 was a reasonable choice at the time, the NSA curves had the NSA smell about them and didn't purport to be better. Now it turns out that they likely would have been ok after all, but it doesn't matter, the alternative chosen has been working fine. In secp256k1 there are various implementation hazards but you just have to be careful. Not sure if the NSA curves had the same hazards.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Gradium open-sourced its on-device TTS"

throwaway81523 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:02:19 +0000

I almost always want STT. TTS seems intended to degrade reading skills, almost.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?"

throwaway81523 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:02:09 +0000

Would knowing that it's true cull an incredible number of paths? Well, it's either true or it's false. So imagine setting half of the world's mathematicians on proving "true" and the other half on proving "false". Being told in advance by an oracle that "true" is the right answer at best doubles the number of mathematicians you can deploy on making an understandable proof.

There's a joke telling what purportedly happened after the famously abrasive physicist Wolfgang Pauli died and went to heaven. Pauli supposedly got to meet God, and asked God why the fine structure constant had the value 1/137.08 or whatever it is. God said "good question!" and started covering a blackboard with equations. Pauli marveled at the mathematical elegance, said "that's wonderful", etc. until God got to a certain point in the calculation, where Pauli said "that's wrong!!!".

We want explanations, not just answers like 1/137.08.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

throwaway81523 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:36:16 +0000

I didn't know that Jerry Solinas had died. I knew him slightly. He wasn't all that old. RIP regardless of whatever minor controversies he might have gotten into.

New comment by throwaway81523 in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

throwaway81523 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:13:50 +0000

Try lichess.org. Supposedly it takes 10,000 of intentional practice to reach true expertise.