Hacker News: wwarner

New comment by wwarner in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

wwarner — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:07:27 +0000

I long for the days when voting for outsiders was a fun way to fill out a ballot, back when election outcomes didn’t matter very much because the probable winners were all qualified to hold office.

New comment by wwarner in "Mindscape: Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans Are Cognitive Cousins"

wwarner — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:11:45 +0000

Great discussion with a cognitive scientist on what LLMs might reveal about the role of prediction in human cognition.

Mindscape: Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans Are Cognitive Cousins

wwarner — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:10:09 +0000

Article URL: https://preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/08/10/363-chandra-sripada-on-how-llms-and-humans-are-cognitive-cousins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252924

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by wwarner in "Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't"

wwarner — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:38:42 +0000

It means that there is a spectrum of outcomes, and there is a band left of center which is anti-crime enough to support cameras with laws to govern them.

New comment by wwarner in "Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't"

wwarner — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:34:38 +0000

Uh, I guess you haven't compared my town's crime rate to London's. I'm for curtailing people's gun rights as well, for essentially the same reason as I'm for more cameras. There was an apparently random shooting at an intersection not far from me, and the shooter escaped in a car. The police pieced together some footage from the two private cameras that showed the car first getting some gas, and then parking before the shooting. They found the driver and he confessed to the shooting.

New comment by wwarner in "Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't"

wwarner — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:34:52 +0000

Unpopular opinion: I’m fine with cameras if they can be shown to solve crimes and lower the crime rate. No, I’m not ok with ICE surveillance, or secret police punishing free thinkers, but the extreme anti position simply cedes the technology to the authoritarians. So basically, if you’re promising London safety and the freedom and safeguards of the UK, I’m all for it!

New comment by wwarner in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

wwarner — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:20:00 +0000

Maybe, or maybe it was eaten into extinction.

New comment by wwarner in "Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation"

wwarner — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:45:36 +0000

warning: this shows a living mouse in a mouse trap.

632nm Podcast: John Bowers – Silicon Photonics and the Future of AI Scaling [video]

wwarner — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:19:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQ3Yorw-Ps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670046

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

632nm: Dr Michael Levin on Bioelectricity and Morphogenesis

wwarner — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6EFV2gSSmg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467644

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wwarner in "You Can Run"

wwarner — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:27:25 +0000

Honestly i come to hn to escape true crime.

New comment by wwarner in "Rothko for your current weather conditions"

wwarner — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:33:51 +0000

Expected a generator.

New comment by wwarner in "The Art of Money Getting"

wwarner — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:19:18 +0000

I've only ever been good at dancing to punk music, which has only cost me money so far.

New comment by wwarner in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

wwarner — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:58:41 +0000

Yes, and wondering why all the AI tooling is written in node.

New comment by wwarner in "Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory"

wwarner — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:46:54 +0000

Wouldn’t apache arrow serve the same purpose?

New comment by wwarner in "Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model"

wwarner — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:46:10 +0000

Haven't finished this but for me it's so refreshing to read some science on deep learning and not just weird predictions.

New comment by wwarner in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

wwarner — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:11:11 +0000

I feel the same, but then I remind myself of how I used to feel about dark matter (I really disliked it). Having an arena where no scientific question is out of bounds is great.

New comment by wwarner in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

wwarner — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:16:51 +0000

I run emacs without graphics from this docker image i maintain https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarner/emacs-native

I just use emacs for programming, not note taking or email reading or the other things people love it for. Strengths: magit, wgrep, vterm, buffer management, plugins & packaging. Weaknesses, irritations, embarrassments: yaml-mode, responsiveness, overlays & mini-buffers.

New comment by wwarner in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

wwarner — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:34:58 +0000

My usage of emacs is so vim-like that I’ve tried switching a few times. Vim is definitely faster, and overlays and cursor placement is much simpler and more intuitive. But there were still feature gaps and configuration issues that prevented full adoption.

New comment by wwarner in "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

wwarner — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:03:04 +0000

Sane & interesting enough to have been disproven, by Boaz Barak iirc. Maybe not surprising since simulated annealing never achieved the results of gradient descent + backprop.