Hacker News: uncomputation

New comment by uncomputation in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

uncomputation — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:20:04 +0000

> what are billions of people doing on Facebook if it's harmful? I don't know.

This is extremely naive and akin to asking "why do people drink if it’s bad for you then??" Popular != healthy

New comment by uncomputation in "Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly"

uncomputation — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:52:44 +0000

It's the television and the Internet. It's that simple.

Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas

uncomputation — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:11:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/trump-to-add-new-100-000-fee-for-h-1b-visas-in-latest-crackdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304666

Points: 66

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New comment by uncomputation in "Real-time AI hallucination detection with timeplus: A chess example"

uncomputation — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 02:26:01 +0000

There’s a more generalizable work on this recently for those expecting more. https://github.com/leochlon/hallbayes

New comment by uncomputation in "I hacked Monster Energy"

uncomputation — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:28:44 +0000

A lot of pearl clutching over extremely average marketing material.

New comment by uncomputation in "Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada"

uncomputation — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 23:37:03 +0000

“Bans ByteDance” might be better wording.

San Francisco to Shutter 9% of Public Schools Amid Budget Crisis

uncomputation — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-09/san-francisco-to-shutter-9-of-public-schools-amid-budget-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789724

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Coprime .app Domains for Sale

uncomputation — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:03:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coprime.io/domains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747759

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by uncomputation in "TikTok Stunt Motivates Lawmakers to Take on the App"

uncomputation — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:10:50 +0000

Wow, this might be one of the worst PR decisions in recent history.

New comment by uncomputation in "OpenAI and Elon Musk"

uncomputation — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:09:27 +0000

> they don't refute that they did betray it

They do. They say:

> Elon understood the mission did not imply open-sourcing AGI. As Ilya told Elon: “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science...”

Whether you agree with this is a different matter but they do state that they did not betray their mission in their eyes.

US Patent Application for Profile Information Associated with a Contact (2016)

uncomputation — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20160246477

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39488227

Points: 1

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New comment by uncomputation in "Interview with Jeff Geerling"

uncomputation — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:40:47 +0000

Can the title be updated to include the “Meet”? Otherwise it’s a bit ominous…

New comment by uncomputation in "Researchers analysed novels to reveal six story types"

uncomputation — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:55:47 +0000

The reporting on this study is conflating sentiment with plot structure, which misrepresents the study.

See for example, Frankenstein. The sentiment rises slightly during the Creature’s narration to Victor of his circumstances - likely the narration of the French family he was “living”/stowing away with - but that’s certainly not a “rise” in the sense Oedipus rises to noble status. It’s hard to interpret Frankenstein as anything other than the protagonist’s consistent and tragic downfall (riches to rags in this analysis).

Not sure if that’s fundamentally a problem trying to extrapolate plot beats from sentiment alone, or a bit of less than accurate journalism.

New comment by uncomputation in "Subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language"

uncomputation — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:40:54 +0000

TLDR:

Word standardizes text through:

- Document templates

- English as lingua franca

- Auto correct and completion

Whether or not you agree (I personally do not find it convincing) it up to you, but there’s a summary because the article is very long-winded.

New comment by uncomputation in "We are investigating reports of degraded performance"

uncomputation — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:03:26 +0000

The internet is not centralized. It is literally the largest decentralized network in existence. A network of networks with no central hub.

New comment by uncomputation in "GitHub was down"

uncomputation — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:57:11 +0000

Seems intermittent. Sometimes a refresh will work to display files and commit history.

New comment by uncomputation in "Cosmopolitan Third Edition"

uncomputation — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 03:53:38 +0000

You have it backwards on two counts. First count is the point of POSIX is any OS vendor doesn’t need to worry about any other OS compatibility. Just implement POSIX interfaces. Second count is that is OP’s exact point: it never has been done before, because too many OS vendors give POSIX very little thought. This helps realize the original vision of POSIX.

New comment by uncomputation in "Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise"

uncomputation — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:30:13 +0000

Yes. No one likes a sore winner. Providing your customers with assurances? Good. Providing tips to Okta customers? Sure. Publicly chastising another company you do business with? Unnecessary. That should be kept private. Just my opinion

New comment by uncomputation in "Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise"

uncomputation — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:14:43 +0000

> Recommendations for Okta

Seems a bit haughty to publicly chastise another company. The tone of this article is a bit off-putting for me personally.

Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics

uncomputation — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/20/music_publishers_sue_anthropic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961408

Points: 3

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