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New comment by user_7832 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

user_7832 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:45:25 +0000

…I'm a bit afraid to ask, but are folks from Greenpeace supposed to be rich or something? (I'm not from the US so idk if it's a cultural thing I'm missing.)

New comment by user_7832 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

user_7832 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:34:06 +0000

But fundamentally speaking, they were trying to understand the brain, right? IMO that counts as science/study in my books. They understood parts/basics of intracranial pressure so long back.

And if we say it's not science if it's not correct, well, (modern) physics isn't a science then, right? ;) As we haven't unified relativity with quantum mechanics?

New comment by user_7832 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

user_7832 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:16:16 +0000

Sorry lol, to me it felt like you were (pleasantly) surprised by this research. IMO I'd hardly be surprised to see breakthroughs in LLM understanding years or even decades from now. I guess I misunderstood your tone.

New comment by user_7832 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

user_7832 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:56:24 +0000

I hate to "umm, akshually" but apparently we have been studying the brain for thousands of years. I wasn't talking about purely modern neuroscience (which ironically for our topic of emergence, (often till recently/still in most places) treats the brain as the sum of its parts - be them neurons or neurotransmitters).

> The earliest reference to the brain occurs in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written in the 17th century BC.

I was actually thinking of ancient greeks when writing my comment, but I suppose Egyptians have even older records than them.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_neuroscience

New comment by user_7832 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

user_7832 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:49:33 +0000

Oh I very much agree that it's great to see more research and findings and improvements in this field. I'm just a little puzzled by GP's tone (which suggested that it isn't completely expected to find new things about LLMs, a few years in).

New comment by user_7832 in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

user_7832 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:24:41 +0000

How about the privacy darling Flock?

New comment by user_7832 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

user_7832 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:03:05 +0000

> I love that we're still learning the emergent properties of LLMs!

TBH, this is (very much my opinion btw) the least surprising thing. LLMs (and especially their emergent properties) are still black boxes. Humans have been studying the human brain for millenia, and we are barely better at predicting how humans work (or for eg to what extent free will is a thing). Hell, emergent properties of traffic was not understood or properly given attention to, even when a researcher, as a driver, knows what a driver does. Right now, on the front page, is this post:

> 14. Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years (mtlynch.io)

So it's pretty cool we're learning new things about LLMs, sure, but it's barely surprising that we're still learning it.

(Sorry, mini grumpy man rant over. I just wish we knew more of the world but I know that's not realistic.)

New comment by user_7832 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

user_7832 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:19:14 +0000

Regardless of whether it's a "perfect setup" or not, the facts speak for themselves.

Most competent governments don't say things that are outright wrong. They may use double speak, or not comment on a topic. But this government (and unfortunately it's this specific adminstration/president) has acted time and again in a way that both of us know very well.

New comment by user_7832 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

user_7832 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:29:15 +0000

Hate to say it and sound so "conspiracy-like", but I no longer can trust what the current US administration is saying. Ever since the path of a hurricane was redrawn with a sharpie, it's been... unusual.

New comment by user_7832 in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

user_7832 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:22:06 +0000

I desperately hope so too. It will be absolutely terrible if there were to be an issue, and moreso if people can say “We knew about it beforehand but still went ahead”.

New comment by user_7832 in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

user_7832 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:16:10 +0000

Not sure why you were downvoted; it's quite possible that Nextcloud was more concerned about the political independence/potential sanctions aspect.

New comment by user_7832 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

user_7832 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:28:17 +0000

So he'd have a better idea of what the govt would want to do?

Keep in mind that a govt that feels (admittedly reasonably) that it has been backstabbed and has its head assassinated would not hesitate to call bluffs instead of acting cool. You've ever seen how a cornered wild animal behaves?

New comment by user_7832 in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

user_7832 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:08:31 +0000

> I wouldn't want them to get a notification if I suddenly revised my profile because maybe I'm shopping around for a new job, for example.

If I'm not mistaken, LinkedIn has options for all of this. You can edit your profile with or without a notification post. You can select "show open to being hired only to people outside your company".

Not that I have great (or any) love for the platform, but if I understood you right, these things aren't really issues.

New comment by user_7832 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

user_7832 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:46:32 +0000

Fully agree. I wonder in the long term how this will show up. Will every business/CEO do more of what he/they anyway want to do, but now supported by AI/LLMs?

The possibilities in "dangerous" fields are a bit more frightening. A general is much more likely to ask ChatGPT "Do you think this war is a good idea/should I drop a bomb", rather than an actually helpful tool - where you might ask "What are 5 hidden points on favor of/against bombing that one likely has missed".

The more you use AI as a strict tool that can be wrong, the safer. Unfortunately I'm not sure if that helps if the guy bombing your city (or even your president) is using AI poorly, and their decisions affect you.

New comment by user_7832 in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

user_7832 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:08:56 +0000

I suppose I was mistaken, or perhaps outdated, in getting my geopolitical news from the NYT instead of HN comments apparently.

New comment by user_7832 in "The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022)"

user_7832 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:43:20 +0000

Yeah, that was interesting.

I replied to that comment on Kiwi (chromium), android. The two letters were literally identical (I even zoomed in).

On desktop (also chromium)… the difference is obvious. I don't know if it's an android vs windows thing? Or what? But it's definitely something.

New comment by user_7832 in "The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022)"

user_7832 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:19:55 +0000

> That's only a problem with some sans-serif fonts. This very site is using a sans-serif and the capital 'I' has bars in either end so it's not confused with 'l'.

I'm not sure if my browser is broken or what but they literally look identical to me in your comment.

New comment by user_7832 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

user_7832 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:36:47 +0000

> Tehran "spent" 2T USD on the nuclear weapons program, which they could have spent on water desalination for example.

(Side note: That... seems like a very high figure to me?) For comparison the US spent close to $1 trillion in 2024 on the military. It could have saved lives and spent that money on healthcare. But that's not how govts work. Iran didn't get a drawstring bag with 2T in it and chose to throw it all on nukes.

Additionally, you're trying to bring a (totally valid tbf) logical argument ("Desalination is critical and an excellent place to spend money that's not going into saving lives") to a government that behaves like a cornered wild animal. It will act to save itself first, even if attacking the aggressor hurts itself too in the process.

New comment by user_7832 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

user_7832 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:21:11 +0000

Damn, really, 2 downvotes? Do you guys think what I said is wrong (or irrelevant or something)?

I'll be happy to correct myself if I said anything wrong, but downvotes without comments really don't tell me much.

New comment by user_7832 in "Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'"

user_7832 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:09:26 +0000

(I know this isn't exactly your intention, but it's a similar situation.)

Do you think that we should give funding to study the mating habits of endangered iguanas in the Sonoran desert, or should we be funding cures for alzheimer's and diabetes?

Trick question, it's the same thing!

Science often finds weird things in weird places.

Shamelessly plagarized from this tumblr post:

https://i-draws-dinosaurs.tumblr.com/post/811645777885741056