<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: unusualmonkey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=unusualmonkey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:15:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=unusualmonkey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by unusualmonkey in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> a brain can innovate, and as of this moment, an LLM cannot because it relies on previously available information.<p>Source needed RE brain.<p>Define innovate, in a way that a LLM can't and we definitively can prove a human can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:21:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343150</link><dc:creator>unusualmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by unusualmonkey in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just wait until after launch. You get a refined experience and often much lower prices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239914</link><dc:creator>unusualmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by unusualmonkey in "AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I pointed out the claim is both irrelevant and factually wrong.<p>That should be sufficient rebuttal.</p>
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<p>Humans are not deterministic.<p>Ironically AI models are iirc.<p>Come up with a real argument.</p>
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<p>> Not spending all the wealth you before you die would be irrational if your children won't inherit it.<p>Sure, but that's only one small aspect of the economy.<p>Maybe younger generations would earn more with all the spending and save more knowing there is no inheritance coming.<p>You only look at one aspect, claim you know what would happen, and the proclaim yourself right.</p>
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<p>You've not established that your suggestions are core principles of modern economics or derived from them.<p>For example, you are asserting there would be 'no reason to own property beyond a certain age'... which isn't supported, and then jumping to the conclusion that that would lower savigns rates.<p>None of this is clearly true, just supposition.</p>
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<p>If no sources exist, then you must accept making claims such as this would 'lower savings rates' are simply not backed up. Maybe it will... maybe it won't.<p>So what if there is no reason to own property beyond a certain age? Even if we take this claim as true... that doesn't explain if this is a good or bad thing.</p>
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<p>I'd need a source to back up those claims, as you note it's not trivial to understand how economy would react.<p>I also don't see why buying a house would be much riskier? If you buy a house for your family  it's because you either prefer the lifestyle or think it provides economic advantages over renting. Given you only need housing when your alive, I think what happens after you pass is not as major a concern as presented.</p>
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<p>Why is spending everything before you die a perverse incentive?</p>
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<p>Except that if rendering was magically free... why not just pathtrace everything?<p>DLSS might not be as good as pure unlimited pathtracing, but for a given budget it might be better than rasterization alone.</p>
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<p>> Rasterizing results in better graphics quality than DLSS if compute is not a limiting factor.<p>Sure, but compute <i>is</i> a limiting factor.</p>
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<p>In part because it's an odd compromise. With the exception of LLM's which are a decent development... there wasn't a lot of need to high memory, but moderate GPU compute parts. You'd either have a lot of memory and a CPU, or a lot of memory and a beefy GPU.</p>
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<p>Remember that AMD has been making x86 SoC's with unified memory for quite some time.</p>
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<p>Sure, but the same likely applies to Oil as well right? Fossil Fuels don't magically extract and refine themselves.<p>What analysis do you point to that suggests fossil fuels have a smaller impact than, say, wind?</p>
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<p>> One oil well can produce an amount of free energy (24/7) that a 100 acre wind farm can only produce sporadically, assuming the well is a reasonably high volume producer. It depends on the specific well/geology.<p>Except it can't, a 100 acre wind farm can produce energy indefinitely while a oil well will eventually run dry.<p>The idea that fossil fuels are more ecologically favorable because it's 'dense' needs to address not only external factors, but that fossil fuels are non-renewable.</p>
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<p>> The energy density of fossil fuels means that those side-effects would be worse with other sources of energy.<p>Can you expand on this? How does the density of fossil fuel make them a better source of energy than say wind?</p>
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<p>Lol, adding a hue is usually a crutch for a too small screen with lifted blacks... which doesn't paint the pro in a very positive light!<p>Ironically by adding a gue to a nomral screen, you're effectively 'adding' pixels to the display... unlike the pro which wastes pixels on the 'hue' because many of them are not in the ideal viewing angle.</p>
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<p>If you're implementing you're idea's... who is marketing them? Who is handling customer support? What about sales, legal, finance, hr etc?<p>Writing code is not building a business.</p>
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<p>You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance.<p>Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie image.</p>
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<p>"The movies that play in virtual screens are native to the films’ aspect ratios, which can vary movie to movie, eliminating the black bars of “letterboxing” and “pillarboxing” you typically have on iPads, iPhones, or MacBooks."<p>Then proceeds to show screenshots where more than 50% of the screen is background. Just because you decided to show cloud instead of black doesn't mean it's not letterboxing.</p>
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