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H8crilA··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
To explain the joke, a Żabka is like a 7-Eleven, but there is way more of them per unit of area. And they have more services in offer.
H8crilA··on Show HN: Hallucinopedia
If you hit a page for the first time it streams the tokens, one reason for JS that I've found.
H8crilA··on Three Inverse Laws of AI
Object personification is actually common in autism:

> Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don’t read it - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361318793408

Common, not universal, as those are different dimensions.

H8crilA··on Three Inverse Laws of AI
This is actually more like one of these personality disorders / types, except it's not pathological - it's not something you choose, yet you do have one of the versions of the trait and it affects your daily life. And most people are completely unaware that it is possible to have a completely different version, that most people they meet are on a different spot on the spectrum and thus have a quite different internal experience even if given the same stimulus.

For example I have never anthropomorphized an inanimate object in my life, or an LLM, though I am sensitive to human and some animal suffering. I sometimes reply too nicely to an LLM, but it's more like a reflex learned over a lifetime of conversations rather than an actual emotion. I bet this sounds like a cheap lie to many people.

Another example, from psychiatry: whether or not one has ever contemplated suicide. Now, to the folks that have, especially if many times: there exist people that have never thought about it. Never, not even once.

The only such trait that has true widespread recognition is sexual orientation. Which makes sense, it is highly relevant, at least in friend groups.

H8crilA··on Agent Skills
You will develop quite a lot of illnesses sleeping for this long, but your choice I suppose. Who knows, maybe it happens as soon as next year. I would strongly suggest living a life, any life really, instead of waiting like that.
H8crilA··on Days without GitHub incidents
Can you believe I got downvoted though, for a half decent joke on HN ...
H8crilA··on Agent Skills
I am so much faster with the bots. If you're not faster with the bots then either you write very very little code, or you're doing it very wrong. Tactically they outsmart me 10-100x if you account for the write speed. Even if you just consider the knowledge of languages, libraries, patterns they clearly outperform me. Strategically I do not trust them at all, poor things suck at it, mainly because they always try to take the shortest possible path to the current destination.

And if you think that your personal protest against the automation will in any way affect the direction in which the industry goes then you're delusional. You would have to start something like a political party and collect way more people.

H8crilA··on Days without GitHub incidents
and it leads to triple 9 availability (80.999%), or better
H8crilA··on Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
Exactly as much as closing your eyes and covering your ears.
H8crilA··on Men who stare at walls
Dopamine is more like a particular type of a transistor in a large semiconductor. What this type of a transistor does heavily depends on the area of the circuit. And it's never the only thing that's responsible for an entire high level feature, not by a mile. There are some common correlations, but that's about it.

I have never understood why people feel the need to use terms like "dopamine" in very pop culture and highly unscientific way, instead of just describing the state that they are talking about.

H8crilA··on Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
The oil trade structure actually does make sense, because this is how you buy oil, or really any commodity that takes so much space and weight. You order it ahead of time, then if you hold till the contract settles you are allowed to pick it up from the place and in the way designated in the contract specification. In fact you are obliged to pick it up, that's why prices can go negative in exceptional situations. Prediction markets are then just a clean cash-only derivative.

Most of the other prediction markets seems rather stupid to me (they are completely detached from any real world activity), other than their prices being a fairly reliable source of information for bystanders.

H8crilA··on Claude Design
Didn't know that anyone needed to hear that, but here it is: "hot" companies often have such workdays, especially pre-IPO and with such a fast growth.
H8crilA··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
No, and nothing I've written suggested that. If you're an AI bot then your alignment needs fixing.
H8crilA··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
Whether an arbitrary piece of code can be exploited is obviously undecidable (i.e. it is equivalent to the halting problem). Let me give you an example that will sketch why this is the case: `if(sha(input1)==12345) { run_shell(input2);}`. The real question is how does this look like in practice, for the code that we as humans actually use in our networks.
H8crilA··on Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
"why isn't everything that could be discovered already discovered"
H8crilA··on Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran
It got much more than that - they blockaded off the entire Persian Gulf. They are a few shots away from removing the East-West Pipeline. Their proxy in Yemen had already demonstrated that they can block off the Bab al-Mandab Strait - even a replacement US aircraft carrier is going around Africa right now just because the threat exists. This is a proper clusterfuck if you understand the logic of global freedom of navigation, as enforced by the (clearly declining) superpower. No wonder the leader of Kuomintang went to Beijing to talk things out with Xi Jinping.
H8crilA··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
The patches could have been written by humans, it doesn't matter that much. Or written by a clanker and polished by engineers. The difficult part is usually not in writing the patches that fix such vulnerabilities, but in finding the vulnerabilities. And these days it's even harder to exploit them, since you need to bypass modern hardening features.
H8crilA··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Ffmpeg confirmed on Twitter that they sent the patches.
H8crilA··on Peptides: where to begin?
A lot of these peptides are designed to optimize bodies. And a lot of these people suffer from OCD - often a similar type to anorexia. No, it is not normal to intrusively think about your body every few minutes, most people that you see around you do not think about their bodies more than maybe once a day, when they look in the mirror after a shower. And maybe not even that.
H8crilA··on The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
> crummy code, but not the very tool that's supposed to be the state-of-the-art coder

Why not? It is subject to the same pressures, in fact it is subject to more time pressure than most corp code out there. Also, it's the model that's doing the coding, not the frontend tool.

H8crilA··on France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
You treat your brokerage account this way? I'm sure that the retirement funds don't.
H8crilA··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
Yes, winning a war means achieving your political objectives. For example Iran wins this war even if they maintain the status quo. And they are on track to get even more, like obtaining ownership over the strait.
H8crilA··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
America has lost every war in the recent past.
H8crilA··on How the AI Bubble Bursts
I was thinking more remotely managing the computer in a warehouse, replacing the mouse of an architect, or some physical object engineer. That your grandma can finally find Discord by speaking to such a bot is just a nice side effect.
H8crilA··on How the AI Bubble Bursts
Where to go next? I don't think anyone has gotten close to automating everyday PC usage, likely via screen capture and raw keyboard+mouse inputs. Imagine how much bigger would that market be than vibecoding.
H8crilA··on The first 40 months of the AI era
Okay, but the answers in [1] look something like:

AI generated. Some of the clues include:

- Most obviously, a failed ISBN checksum

- Other source-to-text integrity issues; for example, the WWF source says very little about Malaysia specifically, only mentions Sunda tigers (Panthera tigris sondaica), and does not mention tapirs at all

- Very short yet consistent paragraph length

- Generic "see also" links, one of which is redlinked

This is not the sort of thing that I pay attention to unless I'm doing detailed research. And even then I'd probably have a bot check these for me, ironically, since it's such a mechanical job. At the very least detecting AI like this requires conscious effort.

H8crilA··on The first 40 months of the AI era
Do you regularly find text content that you know is AI written (but is not marked as such)? Because honestly I don't, and it must exist in decent quantity by now. Or perhaps it's still sparse?
H8crilA··on Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
Someone still has to.
H8crilA··on Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice
People do try psylocybin, or ketamine, or frankly just about anything. Esketamine even has regulatory approval as a tretment. Research is sometimes posted here on HN. But nothing seems to be as effective as ECT, it truly is the king of affective disorders.

BTW, and not many people know this, it is a procedure performed under full anesthesia, including muscle blockers. From the outside it looks very calm, and from the inside the patient's experience is pretty much identical to taking a nap.

It is not risk free, precisely because of the anesthesia, so in most areas one can only get it if they try enough other treatments - like 2 or 3 or something like that, ideally from different classes of drugs. But definitely do consider this if you're suffering and nothing seems to help (enough).

H8crilA··on Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice
This seems to be mainly about the so called negative symptoms, not positive symptoms (like hallucinations or delusions). While it is often hard to argue with people about their positive symptoms in schizophrenia or in mania, pretty much nobody who has negative symptoms wants to have them. The fact that antipsychotics do little about the negative symptoms is probably the biggest pain of schizophrenia sufferers - and they are aware of that.

Also, and this depends on the jurisdiction, but people can be forced to take psychiatric medication against their will. Or even forced to go through a treatment like ECT, for example when presenting with strong and dangerous mania. BTW, ECT has an extremely unfair popular opinion, it's one of the best treatments in all of psychiatry. It could even be that it is impossible to get a response from the patient, for example if they are catatonic and don't budge within a reasonable time - you just inject them with benzodiazepines, as this is a serious condition if left to last a long time.

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