HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

JoshTko

1,439 karma · joined August 4, 2011

submissionscomments
JoshTko··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
I wonder though how much of science has similar issues, that there are hundreds of semi-promising but niche areas that require tons ton of deep analysis that would have simply cost too much to explore all areas, but now become feasible.
JoshTko··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
ah, the Koch brother's PR firm the CATO org. Brilliant spin org.
JoshTko··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
prolly bots and meta employees
JoshTko··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
It's a litmus test of who understand basic physics and thermodynamics
JoshTko··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
And water is wet
JoshTko··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
So what's your intelligent argument as to why SpaceX's deserves an exception? Please lay out a case that's comessurate to the gravity of such an exception
JoshTko··on War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare
Ok. tiny might have been a stretch but Iran spends $10B a year on military compared to $900B for the US. Iran has 500 aircraft (pre conflict) vs 13,000 for US.
JoshTko··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
It's ironic that these speakers tout AI benefits but failed to use it to learn what college students are concerned about
JoshTko··on War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare
War game is not needed. The war with Iran has already proven that a relatively tiny but sophisticated opponent can have massive asymmetric impact on USA.
JoshTko··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Mac Mini is a stellar product...
JoshTko··on Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
I bet Anthropic just had marketing strategy discussions with Mythos to get the "breakthrough hacking tool!" framing.
JoshTko··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Sounds like the story of capitalism. CEOs, VPs, and middle managers are all similarly pressured. Knowing that a few of your peers have given in to pressures must only add to the pressure. I think it's fair to conclude that capitalism erodes ethics by default
JoshTko··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
The challenge is how you prevent such features being abused by like stalkers
JoshTko··on Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry
I’m guessing Meta isn’t the only one doing this
JoshTko··on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
"ChatGPT can you give me a catchy phrase I can use to sway the public discourse against Meta that puts OpenAI in the most favorable light? Also sprinkle in some alliteration if you could"
JoshTko··on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
Competitors just need to lobby sufficiently to get action
JoshTko··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
What key feature are you providing that can't be easily done by a google sheet?
JoshTko··on Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days
This. Mass Spectrometry should portably only be used to confirm/train AI vision models. Once a large enough data set has been created for a particular pathogen, incremental diagnostic cost would be effectively 0.
JoshTko··on Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
Thank you for pinpoints my confusion/disconnect on what lack of improvement that I was sensing. There was an improvement on pacing, and cadence, yes, but that was not the main challenge with Victors accent. Visually I'd say victor improved by at most 5% and not 50% as indicated by the visualization. In some regards it was even harder to understand than the original due to speed and cadence without improvement in core pronunciation.
JoshTko··on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies
The societal brain drain damage that infinite scroll has caused is definitely not overblown. These models are about to kick this problem up to the next level, when each clip is dynamically generated to maximise resonance with you.
JoshTko··on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies
How do you know the models are actually managing and not simply amplifying?
JoshTko··on Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists
My bet is that free versions of models will become sponsor aligned.
JoshTko··on Pope Francis has died
His persona as being simple focus is just PR, no different than puff pieces about bill gates driving a Prius, or Warren buffet living in the first house that be bought.
JoshTko··on Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)
Agree, very weird
JoshTko··on After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
"These are not serious people"
JoshTko··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
Nothing to see here. Just Another hot take from a influencer way outside their domain of expertise.
JoshTko··on Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)
If one was aware that the prosperity disparity is predominantly due to circumstance and if one had empathy for other fellow human beings. Then I think it would be a natural response to want to alleviate other's suffering by sharing some of their prosperity. You can call it guilt, or perhaps just empathy. The other heritable attributes can't be easily be shared.
JoshTko··on Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful (2019)
Almost universally prosperity is gained through privilege, compounded over generations. Privilege being rules/customs/systems that favored your group over others.
JoshTko··on The world should mitigate risks from the United States, not from China
I guess we really are entering this darkest timeline.
JoshTko··on White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal
Such a neutral term of such an insane decision
Page 1 of 20Next →