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New comment by uoaei in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

uoaei — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:45:29 +0000

Not available on mobile on account of WebGL

New comment by uoaei in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

uoaei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:28 +0000

Do extra work in step 2 because you got lazy in step 1 is not my idea of efficient or complete.

New comment by uoaei in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

uoaei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:36:31 +0000

The persistence of data means that if you expect a firm to eventually become hostile, you should treat them as hostile today.

New comment by uoaei in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

uoaei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:57:02 +0000

Chrome and YouTube are both owned by Google. There's an obvious reason why they want to discourage use of that extension.

New comment by uoaei in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

uoaei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:09:33 +0000

Aerobraking causes heat cycles. Expanding and contracting a material that already has "not large, large chunks missing" doesn't seem very prudent. Even before the evidence of deterioration, I'm not sure the safety culture at NASA would reach for that any time soon when a single high-temp event would work.

New comment by uoaei in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

uoaei — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Like if cars measured fuel efficiency or range using the knobs in the tread on your tire.

New comment by uoaei in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

uoaei — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:17:33 +0000

So you've saved 30 seconds per customer for a total of 3-10 customers calling per day.

New comment by uoaei in "You are not your job"

uoaei — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:41:06 +0000

Yes let's all revel in the sunlight of Enlightenment thinking. That's really going well.

New comment by uoaei in "90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective"

uoaei — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:37:18 +0000

You were paid by rich companies to write those laws, or else given access by people with more money and influence than you. These things are often done in ways that result in those same people making more money. It is incentive and reward all in one.

New comment by uoaei in "Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists"

uoaei — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:36:16 +0000

Priors are not used in construction of frequentist approaches, but that does not mean that the analyses aren't isomorphic in theory.

Point distribution <=> point estimate as a sample from an initially flat distribution. A priori vs a posteriori perspectives, which are equivocal if we are to take your description of frequentist statistics into account ;)

New comment by uoaei in "Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists"

uoaei — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:15:07 +0000

Not true. In frequentist statistics, from the perspective of Bayesians, your prior is a point distribution derived empirically. It doesn't have the same confidence / uncertainty intervals but it does have an unnecessarily overconfident assumption of the nature of the data generating process.

New comment by uoaei in "Some things just take time"

uoaei — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:43:38 +0000

If you start a business without a concrete idea of the timber you need to achieve the idea you have, an axe will be all but useless.

New comment by uoaei in "90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective"

uoaei — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:34:35 +0000

Your statement is one of those "not even wrong" pedantic ploys that falls apart at the lightest sneeze in its direction.

Money is the only way to exert pressure on society and narratives. If you think that has no effect on elections then you are about as antisocial and antipatriotic a person as I can imagine.

New comment by uoaei in "90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective"

uoaei — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:32:13 +0000

Reinforcing the status quo is one of the primary reasons lobbying is deployed.

You can trust that people with money are frugal and only spend when they expect to see a return.

If the region was going to go that way anyway, then the lobbying was wasted spend. So what would you rather have as your truth: that the money was spent to overturn public will, or that it was a dumb error to spend that money in the first place? What does that say about the people who see the status quo as something worth preserving?

New comment by uoaei in "Efficient sparse computations using linear algebra aware compilers (2025)"

uoaei — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:14:15 +0000

Speaking of, where is Mojo?

New comment by uoaei in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

uoaei — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:24:17 +0000

It has nothing to do with oversight and everything to do with extralegal means of enforcing your win.

New comment by uoaei in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

uoaei — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:23:32 +0000

I may use different definitions than you, but I put it as "they conflate rationality and reason".

New comment by uoaei in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

uoaei — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:51:02 +0000

"Open source" means the source code is open to the public for reading and copying. Licenses have complicated the idealistic definition to restrict copying, but that is only within the context of taking credit (ie implicit relicensure). The only winning move is not to play the game at all.

New comment by uoaei in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

uoaei — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:48:42 +0000

The difference is that you have theory of mind of your human counterparts -- you can trust that their reasoned explanations are consistent with what you know about them.

I have not encountered an agent yet that I can trust in the same way.

New comment by uoaei in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

uoaei — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:15:28 +0000

I need WebGL to play audio on HTML pages now?