Hacker News: ypeterholmes

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

ypeterholmes — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:29:47 +0000

Moderate

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

ypeterholmes — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:33:23 +0000

The current situation in the US is the depressing thing- articles like this give me hope. Real Americans aren't having these BS authoritarian violations of our constitutional rights.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "alpr.watch"

ypeterholmes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:17:02 +0000

Any change in behavior? Is that a joke? Setting aside the masked men terrorizing our communities, immigrants are being literally tortured inside camps across the country. They are being treated worse than criminals- tortured. Abused. What's happening right now is horrific, and the dehumanization propaganda can only be compared to Hitler's vilification of the jews.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "alpr.watch"

ypeterholmes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:13:37 +0000

Nah, it's your support for lawless authoritarianism because you think it will improve your safety- that's the part you missed in history class. That's the con you are falling for. The truth is that once authoritarianism takes hold, nobody is safe. Many Germans who thought the Nazi's would only target "bad people" learned this the hard way.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "alpr.watch"

ypeterholmes — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:53:53 +0000

Setting aside their lawlessness, it sounds like we agree they are unidentifiable, meaning their identity is a secret. So they are a secret police. And you support that for some reason, maybe because you haven't read a single history book.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "alpr.watch"

ypeterholmes — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:58:15 +0000

Then why are they wearing masks?

New comment by ypeterholmes in "alpr.watch"

ypeterholmes — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:38:32 +0000

If you think authoritarianism will lead to order and peace, you're gonna have a bad time. The presence of a secret police is already causing wide scale violation of our constitutional rights.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center"

ypeterholmes — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:33:50 +0000

These things destroy local communities. But none of the locals have access to the fuhr

New comment by ypeterholmes in "ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data"

ypeterholmes — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:05:13 +0000

They have already detained many citizens. They are not following our standard laws.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "MCP is eating the world"

ypeterholmes — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:56:52 +0000

How does it sell a basic protocol that anyone can use?

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

ypeterholmes — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:58:01 +0000

Liquid glass is gorgeous. But it's hard to reconcile next level design like this with complete disasters like Apple TV. Maybe spend some time on getting the fundamentals right too, before inventing the future

New comment by ypeterholmes in "The Einstein AI Model"

ypeterholmes — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:17:43 +0000

As I noted, this post is saying AI can't achieve "genius" level creativity. Just a year ago the criticisms were that it couldn't match a human. How is that not moving the goalposts?

New comment by ypeterholmes in "The Einstein AI Model"

ypeterholmes — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:06:16 +0000

Hey look, the goalposts are being moved again. This time it's from top end researcher to generational genius. Question: what evidence is there that this benchmark will not be reached also? Time and again these essays make the mistake of assuming AI is a static thing, and refuse to acknowledge the inexorable march forward we are witnessing. As humans, we cling to our own fragile superiority. Even on this thread- I thought Hinton said the world would be transformed by now. That's NOT what was claimed. We are like three years in! Posts like this will be laughable in 10 years.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Generative AI Hype Peaking"

ypeterholmes — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:49:13 +0000

So Deep Research and the latest reasoning models don't deserve mention here? I wish there was accountability on the internet, so that people posting stuff like this can be held accountable a year from now.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads"

ypeterholmes — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:15:22 +0000

Advertising has gotten out of control. What's bizarre to me is that the people violating us are literally the ones who want something from us. Is there no way to boycott anyone advertising in our car? AND the car itself of course.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]"

ypeterholmes — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:28:49 +0000

What does that mean?

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year"

ypeterholmes — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 06:42:41 +0000

Typo: "Your pay your taxes into the system"

Sorry to be this way.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

ypeterholmes — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:05:43 +0000

Awesome comment. I've written a piece here about the relationship between AI and human consciousness. Would love some feedback if you're able. Thanks! https://peterholmes.medium.com/the-conscious-computer-af5037...

PS. I'm buying your book right now.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

ypeterholmes — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:52:01 +0000

You are asking two different questions here. In house vs contractors is one. The second is whether you should be using a third party product.

My advice would be to continue using contractors, but different ones, and focus their attention on building a better product.

New comment by ypeterholmes in "In a new book, Christof Koch views consciousness as a theorist and an aficionado"

ypeterholmes — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:29:04 +0000

I was basing my number on Wolfram's work here: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

"In human brains there are about 100 billion neurons (nerve cells), each capable of producing an electrical pulse up to perhaps a thousand times a second."

So maybe that's wrong. Thanks for the links. Even so if we look out 10, 100, 200 years from now, that level of complexity will be greatly surpassed by AI.