HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

namenotrequired

1,599 karma · joined March 15, 2012

Google mail: danamenotrequired
submissionscomments
namenotrequired··on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
I don’t disagree with your overall point but I’m confused what the evidence is in this case, could you explain?
namenotrequired··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Yes, legally and geographically and in every other way Ireland is part of Europe.
namenotrequired··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Very different from Europe? It is part of Europe.
namenotrequired··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
It’s fair, but telling people what they should prefer is a bad way of doing business

The proper solution would be to have the farmers pay for the externalities somehow so that they are priced into the decision to consume a-seasonal products

namenotrequired··on English: A vs. An
I learned English as a second language and was taught it was thee before vowel sounds and thuh before consonants. Is it wrong?
namenotrequired··on English: A vs. An
I once wrote “an FAQ” and someone corrected me that it should be “a FAQ”. Turns out she pronounced it “fak” and not “ef ay cue”
namenotrequired··on English: A vs. An
Who says this? I haven’t heard it once in my life
namenotrequired··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
Very similar to:

https://random-lives.github.io/random-lives/

namenotrequired··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
Anything sharp or heavy.
namenotrequired··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
Yes? “one of us made a mistake” vs “someone is attacking us” is a difference that people care about.
namenotrequired··on São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
According to the article, Hélio’s work was also purposefully destroyed several times
namenotrequired··on I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
There are definitely LLMs that can count to 100
namenotrequired··on Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
Even if not a single researcher goes from the US to China, it may still benefit them
namenotrequired··on Surprise, pay $1000
It would be perfectly crumulent if it was explicitly communicated in advance.
namenotrequired··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
He means it doesn’t make sense for the startup. The comment you’re replying to, is arguing that this point from the gp is a disadvantage instead of an advantage:

> hotel rooms are regular/familiar

namenotrequired··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Nitpick: earlier this month ≠ in early May. “Earlier this month” includes yesterday
namenotrequired··on The user is visibly frustrated
If you’ve ever worked with a stupid but incredibly friendly coworker, the feelings are similar
namenotrequired··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
The original title says he “got cheers” which is much less ambiguous than the HN title
namenotrequired··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
No. Then you missed the opportunity to make 9k.
namenotrequired··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
> How is it misleading if this would be the consumer's cost?

Because it does not say “equivalent of”, it literally says he spent money that he did not spend

namenotrequired··on GitHub is sinking
The author mentions this and links an article that expands on it
namenotrequired··on Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
Isn’t calling AMOC “the primary source of warmth for northern Europe” wildly overstated?
namenotrequired··on Three Inverse Laws of AI
Not OP, but I think their point was the corollary of that.

Yes, obviously bad use of a good tool is dangerous. But correct use of a malfunctioning tool is also dangerous.

Millions of people understand when they get in their car that there’s a tiny chance the car will crash/explode that day through no fault of the driver. Most do not have the knowledge and competence (or even the time) to thoroughly check the engine every day to guarantee that that won’t happen. They get in anyway.

At some point you have to trust in something.

namenotrequired··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
Thanks for your answers!

> Del Monte was killed by COVID. Canned food sales spiked and they thought that would last, but it didn't.

Why can’t they reduce to their former size? It seems the California plants had been around long before Covid

namenotrequired··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
“Attributed to Banksy”? It has his signature and he posted about it on his instagram. What else is needed to confirm the creator?
namenotrequired··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
I thought even after the merge the Neanderthal genes continued to get rarer, indicating natural selection against them
namenotrequired··on Commenting and approving pull requests
New code has bugs regardless of whether it entered on the same PR or a new one
namenotrequired··on Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
It’s not the same. Presumably public domain works are much more frequently shared on the public internet and therefore much more common in the training set
namenotrequired··on Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
> There are plenty of old books in the public domain already

Yes but showing that it happens in books in the public domain does nothing to prove that it happens for copyrighted books

namenotrequired··on Commenting and approving pull requests
The way my company works, it doesn’t break it. You approve and merge, then any suggestions can be implemented in a next PR

That way the average customer doesn’t need to wait for your code style change or edge case fix

Page 1 of 27Next →