Hacker News: ushiroda80

New comment by ushiroda80 in "The case against social media is stronger than you think"

ushiroda80 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:28:01 +0000

I don't think reasoning needs to be that complex. Addictive things are harmful, social media is design to be addictive (and is increasing). There is a correlation of higher addictiveness with harm. Children in particular are vulnerable for addictive things. So given the above, the expectation for social media which is highly addictive is that it would be highly harmful, unless there are clear reasons that it's not harmful.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

ushiroda80 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:59:51 +0000

And far more than that

New comment by ushiroda80 in "So you think you've awoken ChatGPT"

ushiroda80 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:44:33 +0000

The driver is probably more benign, openAI probably optimizes for longer conversations, i.e. engagement and what could be more engaging than thinking you've unlocked a hidden power with another being.

It's like the ultimate form of entertainment, personalized, participatory fiction that feels indistinguishable from reality. Whoever controls AI - controls the population.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department"

ushiroda80 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:07:12 +0000

So basically one Ruoming Pang each...

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

ushiroda80 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:15:40 +0000

21th century will be remembered as the great digital drug crisis.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "How do you process the news?"

ushiroda80 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:40:10 +0000

Yes. Just need to protect speech by an gov official on gov topics. As in no lying.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "How do you process the news?"

ushiroda80 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:38:03 +0000

This is what is going on.

https://youtu.be/CvQhTbCY4xc

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models"

ushiroda80 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:43:16 +0000

Were there like 20 or 30 other cycling cheaters that were caught alongside lance Armstrong?

New comment by ushiroda80 in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

ushiroda80 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:50:09 +0000

He is being criminally reckless

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

ushiroda80 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:21:25 +0000

The concept is kind of analogous in many ways on if one should have solar power to hedge against power outages. I.e definitely can be worth it but will take up time and investment with long payback period.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames"

ushiroda80 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 13:05:25 +0000

Yeah not sure what’s impressive about this. Having the model be both the guesser and clue giver will of course have good results as it’s simply a reflections of o1’s weighting of tokens.

Interestingly this could be a way to potentially reverse engineer o1’s weightings

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents"

ushiroda80 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:23:07 +0000

It should never be used for essential goods like housing and healthcare.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain"

ushiroda80 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:57:50 +0000

Plastics need be banned from clothing and food.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters"

ushiroda80 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:36:20 +0000

DOJ need to crackdown on all of this collusion as a service nonsense

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged"

ushiroda80 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:51:43 +0000

Cops should shoulder responsibility and be insured individually. Like docs.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review"

ushiroda80 — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 11:59:41 +0000

What kind of software are the masses being denied? What is the malware risk associated with said software?

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border"

ushiroda80 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:56:56 +0000

The Supreme Court has been nearly perfectly consistently shitty in the last 5 years.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]"

ushiroda80 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 05:03:26 +0000

Many many Japanese websites do not work. They have idiosyncratic navigation and dense and convoluted signup processes. Japanese user are used to this friction but websits do not succeed because of this complexity, they pass because of tolerant user base.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T"

ushiroda80 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:56:01 +0000

Nvidia has a de facto monopoly on AI hardware and software. The gross margins are clear telltale sign. The real question is are they doing anything anti competitive to unjustly create/maintain their monopoly which on the surface there does not seem to be any evidence of.

New comment by ushiroda80 in "Apple Vision Pro Customer Interest Dying Down at Some Retail Stores"

ushiroda80 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:42:56 +0000

I wish AVP had seamless language translation app. It could be worthwhile if two people who do not speak each other’s language could just put these on and communicate.