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alex77456on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

Someone wanted to make sure to be the first?

alex77456on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

> The fact he thinks otherwise tells me how out of touch he is.

We don't know what he really thinks. Maybe he knows it's a risk he wouldn't want to take but presents it as a goodwill

alex77456on The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets

Not that kind of predict. And this reverse-time brain instantly forgets things it saw for the last time.

Consider a black box. A person opens it, sees a dice with a number, closes it. In our version of the time flow, the person finds out there's a dice and remembers it. In the 'reverse time' persons brain, they would know they would open the black box and know which number they will see. Then they will close it and completely forget what was inside forever.

alex77456on The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets

If you consider a person, their brain in particular, flowing backwards in time, the brain becomes a prediction tool. Events-memories (neural connections) appear out of nowhere (from the state of being 'forgotten' in the forward time flow) then completely disappear when the corresponding event happens, annihilating its 'predicting' memory.

alex77456on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

I didn't read the top level comment as dismissive or 'proving it wrong', but rather as adding context, or even being humorous somewhat

alex77456on LLM policy?

As with evertything, there's always nuance. If everyone followed similar midset to the comment you were replying to, likely llm generated pr issues wouldn't be as much of a problem and we wouldn't even be here discussing it

alex77456on A question about memory management

I don't care about ssd lifetime. This is purely an experiment. But you are inadvertently illustrating my point pretty well

alex77456on A question about memory management

What you're saying should make sense.

However:

32gb ram no pagefile: crashes

28gb + 2gb ramdisk pagefile: no crashes at all

alex77456on A question about memory management

No, the question is 30gb + 2gb ram swap vs 30gb + 2gb ssd swap

alex77456on A question about memory management

So in the described scenario, what advantage does an ssd-backed pagefile has over a ramdisk-backed one? Assuming the same sizes.

Because the common recommendation is "you need at least a few GB swap". We can change the total ram amount to 64 or 128.

alex77456on GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels

If anything, it would be detrimental to their mission. Asking them to improve android in every way is the lawyers equivalent of ddos'ing an adversary with paperwork

alex77456on Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland

This is a maximalist view, in reality not feasible or scalable. Of course this is what we need to strive for, but aiming to decrease 'total unhappiness' with what we have, is a rational, if somewhat cynical, aim.

But even at aface value, more rational long-term approach would be to treat it, surely

alex77456on Show HN: Autism Simulator

Would you consider making a version/mode with resulting effects disclosed before the choice? I feel like that would make the whole experience smoother and more illustrative.

alex77456on Show HN: Autism Simulator

I am, and ironically it prevented me from being able to enjoy this; too many inaccuracies and absolutist perspective frustrated me.

Like others said, skipping breakfast should not be that big of a deal for a reasonably healthy adult, we didn't evolve having 3 meals a day. Intermittent fasting is a thing too.

'Masking' parameter misses the point in my opinion. Picking what I would personally realistically do (having adapted over the years) causes it to drop to 0 over a few days. Picking what i think author wants me to pick, same result. Yet somehow I managed not to get fired in 3 days irl.

I get it, it's an illustration of 'autism is hard' for 'normies'. But it was painfully close to being realistic/enjoyable too.

Not to say it's not useful, ADHD popups were 10/10, general vibe was spot on, will probably forward it to a few friends; it's just not nuanced enough to not annoy me personally.

One of rare times where I can be blunt honest and hopefully not come across arrogant.

alex77456on Claude Sonnet 4.5

I share the sentiment. I would add that people I would like to see use LLMs for coding (and other technical purposes) tend to be jaded like you, and people I personally wouldn't want to see use LLMs for that, tend to be pretty enthusiastic

alex77456on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

Part of the issue is, big portion of the footage being recorded, is not worth recording, let alone publishing. (Except for personal value of the person recording, but that doesn't require public sharing)

With the OP example, people getting recorded are not bystanders catching stray camera focus, they are the subject of the video. Without other participants, there would be little 'content'. Imagine going to an indoor climbing venue, recording someone else, and publishing just that.

alex77456on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

> In any case, here, the issue is somewhat different, since it is a private site, where people engage in private activity (a hobby)

alex77456on Does AI Get Bored?

> AI does not have feelings or thoughts or ambitions or goals

one of those things that if you have to explain it, there’s probably no point in explaining

alex77456on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

I remember it too, but vaguely remember evidence of compromised boards

alex77456on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

Airlines and airline middle-men organisations are the worst offenders and centralised identification is not going to help there. Having flied with a few airlines, your details are out there. In the UK, national and travel passport are the same.

alex77456on SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think

Semi related, Veritassium channel made a nice video on protein folding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI

alex77456on Ask HN: Private Discords – Invite Only

Just use linkedin at that point? Or write some userscript to hide HN comments from people without contact info in their profile.

'Dignity' is the last word i expected that sentence to end with

alex77456on Ask HN: Private Discords – Invite Only

Can you expand what you are looking for that HN does not offer?

alex77456on Cure for the Fear of Death (1949)

I disagree with a lot here.

- I don't know anyone understanding Hell literally. Besides, while body decays, mind is what perceives pain (of various kinds). If anything, mental pain has potential to be much worse than physical.

> So what do people fear?

They fear to lose what they have, their life - all they know.

> The opposite of fearing death is to love life

I think the opposite is to not fear death.

alex77456on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

It only works well for mainstream search subjects. If something is slightly off the spotlight, it will often fail to find it even with exact name of the page/article in quotes in my experience.

alex77456on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

https://beta.jdownloader.org/developmentquicktutorial

svn://svn.jdownloader.org/jdownloader/trunk

it's right there on the home page

alex77456on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

There are rumours of next xbox generation supporting steam platform and 386 architecture. I know it's a bit off topic, but it could be an elegant solution to the cheating problem, gradually move to standardised consoles. This could solve the dma problem too

alex77456on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

DMA hardware and cheats are getting more and more accessible. It's not just chosen few anymore

alex77456on Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)

A noname version of this from a local store

https://www.stanleytools.com/product/stst14114/22-compartmen...

alex77456on Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)

I have been using stackable hardware/diy organiser compartment boxes for this purpose. It's great