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teshier-A··on Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”
Unless if you list AI as a co-author, people are still responsible for the code they ship. Whatever tool was used to write said code
teshier-A··on OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
I wasn't aware, thank you
teshier-A··on OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
Can't help but notice this is now on the second page of HN (position 42), 37 minutes after being posted with 52 points. I was top 10 when I clicked
teshier-A··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I built a cmux-like sidebar for a fork of wezterm, called wezmux https://github.com/vcabeli/wezmux

If you know, you know. I wanted to like cmux but I had tons of problem with fonts or scrolling behaviors and I don't need a web browser in my terminal, so I went back to wezterm and added the nice sidebar for my claude code / codex notifications and output previews.

teshier-A··on Intelligence is not like height
Well it does sound reasonable but I don't think it is as convincing as OP thinks. If you take two IQ tests in your life and get 130 and 138, I imagine the variation to be higher than the group vs group comparisons he mentioned (maybe not doctor vs craftsmen? it is after all very correlated to education level) but it doesn't mean the measure is "nonsensical and ever-chaning values such as whether I liked today's dinner.."
teshier-A··on Thanks to DALL-E, the race to make artificial protein drugs is on
Oh come on. "Protein structures" almost exclusively means "experimentally determined protein structures". That sentence is correct.
teshier-A··on Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers
Surprised to see no mention of LightOn and its Optical Processing Unit !
teshier-A··on What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?
My experience with MMD is that unless you've been using it and are familiar with other kernel methods, you probably won't know what to do with it : what kernel do I use ? how can I test for significance (in any sense of the word) ? Add the (last I checked) horrendous complexity, to me it looks like a less usable mutual information (or KL div) and without all the nice information theory around it.
teshier-A··on Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
Take a look at this experiment in Siberia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

>The aim of the project is to research the climatic effects of the expected changes in the ecosystem. Here the hypothesis is that the change from tundra to grassland will result in a raised ratio of energy emission to energy absorption of the area, leading to less thawing of permafrost and thereby less emission of greenhouse gases.[8][9] It is also thought that removal of snow by large herbivores will further reduce the permafrost's insulation.

>To study this, large herbivores have been released, and their effect on the local fauna is being monitored. Preliminary results point at the ecologically low-grade tundra biome being converted into a productive grassland biome and at the energy emission of the area being raised.[10]

teshier-A··on GitHub Copilot
Is there a rule for banning users that sell their account for this type of comment ? If not there should be
teshier-A··on What Makes Sand Soft?
It reads like GPT-3... And it's not a compliment.
teshier-A··on Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough
It seems to be the scientific consensus. I personally don't think genetics carry any hereditary claim to a thousand years old culture but it always bothers me to see people go against state of the art scientific conclusions (unless they have good evidence of their own).

>Copts share the same main ancestral component than North African and Middle East populations (dark blue), supporting a common origin with Egypt (or other North African/Middle Eastern populations). They are known to be the most ancient population of Egypt and at k = 4 (Fig.3), they show their own component (dark green) different from the current Egyptian population which is closer to the Arabic population of Qatar.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446898/

teshier-A··on Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors
Your comment sounds a bit like obscurantism ? The classic "You shouldn't do this, it's bad because you're biased. Besides, it's impossible to not be biased, so don't bother". Even though there are documented descriptions of the physical aspect of these people.

https://medium.com/@voshart/appearance-of-the-principate-pt-...

teshier-A··on Software bug causes YAM cryptocurrency to implode two days after launch
This tweet is unrelated then ?

@brockjelmore "i’m sorry everyone. i’ve failed. thank you for the insane support today. i’m sick with grief"

https://twitter.com/brockjelmore/status/1293820056682377216

teshier-A··on Surge of virus misinformation stumps Facebook and Twitter
How about "Follow official recommendations" instead ? In France Macron made a show of going to the theatre urging people to live normally (within the new regulations, e.g. no mass gathering above a certain size).

Advising people to stockpile food this early is sure to make the situation even worse.

teshier-A··on For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality
They are smart enough to outsmart anyone but not to get jobs ? As always in Korean movies the protagonists had to be smart. It seems that they are not interested in anyone who's even slightly dumb.
teshier-A··on Worst Epidemics in History
There is a discrepancy, and Wikipedia is sourced... pretty hard to back the other one in this case isn't it ?
teshier-A··on Worst Epidemics in History
How was this published with wrong numbers? A simple wikipedia search gives you different estimates (parentheses)

Plague of Justinian 541-542 100,000,000 (25-50M)

Black Plague 1346-1350 50,000,000 (75-200M)

1918 Flu (Spanish Flu) 1918-1920 20,000,000 (50-100M)

teshier-A··on The Wuhan Virus
>Moreover we got here by small modifications of the DNA.

That's not true, at least not if you start from the beginning.

There were a lot of "freak events", large scale mutations like whole genome duplication, integration of other organisms e.g. mitochondria, transposons etc...

teshier-A··on The Wuhan Virus
The 'compiler' is also built from DNA. The amount of epigenetics inheritance is subject to debate AFAIK. In the end look at what's being passed on to carry the information through generations. It's (almost) just the DNA !
teshier-A··on Man vs. Horse – Racing Ultradistances (2018)
Do you think horses don't sweat ?
teshier-A··on ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
Like the local maxima that the GLUE benchmark was for a few weeks (months?) before SuperGLUE got released ? This field is moving so fast, it's probably wiser to hold off over the top ominous predictions for a little while.
teshier-A··on A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's
> friends I haven’t seen for weeks and don’t otherwise know their cycle.

The cherry on top of your out-of-this-world comment. Do you know and/or keep track of some of your friends' cycles ?

teshier-A··on How to Make a Great Puzzle Game
If anyone has that itch they can turn to Obduction and Quern : Undying thoughts, both recent and both very good.
teshier-A··on People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
>Localised populations of devils have also been severely reduced by collisions with motor vehicles, particularly when they are eating roadkill.

>They are also found near roads where roadkill is prevalent, although the devils themselves are often killed by vehicles while retrieving the carrion.

From the Tasmanian Devil wiki page.

teshier-A··on Make More Land
The parallel with Mauna Kea is too tempting to not be mentioned!
teshier-A··on Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by wasabi consumption
Well no ? A poison is a substance and emotional stress is a state of mind that causes vaguely similar symptoms. Seems fairly straightforward to me...
teshier-A··on More Older Couples Stay Together Because They Live Apart
Separate bedrooms are common enough, bathrooms I can somewhat understand, but kitchens ? Why does your dream have this ?
teshier-A··on ‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages
"Until the 14th week of pregnancy, baby boys and girls look exactly the same on ultrasound" [0]

"Most countries in the European Union allow abortion on demand during the first trimester, with Sweden, the UK and the Netherlands having more extended time limits. After the first trimester (Ed : after 12 weeks), abortion is generally allowed only under certain circumstances, such as risk to woman's life or health, fetal defects or other specific situations that may be related to the circumstances of the conception or the woman's age." [1]

0 - https://www.livescience.com/45582-boy-or-girl.html

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law#Europe

teshier-A··on A critical step to reduce climate change
Do you have any idea how much surface there would be to cover outside of your own backyard for this to be effective ? Are you aware that 1/3rd of the Earth's surface is covered with snow at some point of the year but that snow cover has been declining for decades ?

It truly boggles my mind that you think painting stuff white is the first step to take to take on climate change.

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