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h_tbob··on GPT-5
When's it coming to github copilot?
h_tbob··on Ask HN: CS Course
haha, I'm a genius and way smarter than you. So smart I didn't have to graduate high school. Ha, I dropped out of 10th grade.

--lol--

h_tbob··on If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor?
Jesus said "sell your possessions, give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven".

I didn't read the whole article, but it's a great question.

On my religious journey, I have read things like this:

"You cannot serve God and money".

Ultimately, the smartest people, if they are Christian, will actually get rid of their money.

I asked God about it and he told me this:

"There's not enough money for everyone. A truly good person lets everybody else have the money, and just lives on charity".

It shocked me, but Jesus told me this:

"You can get more done without money than with it".

He pointed out the queen of england will never know her true friends, as everybody acts like it.

But if you are poor, you have that knowledge, and can thus live a healthier life.

Ultimately money is based of terror. It is literally based on the terror that if you counterfeit it you go to jail.

So I think that good people would not want to use a medium that requires terror to function.

This may sound crazy, but I think, as a programmer, it is the truth!

But maybe I'm wrong?

h_tbob··on Ultrascript = Ts and Go
I made this small language to demonstrate a proof of concept. A go like language that is compatible with javascript. Once I add python support, it will rule all languages! I need Claude Code for it, so please consider donating a claude code subscription to further development
h_tbob··on Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
Bro the numbers don’t lie. Look at the average income of doctors and price of medical equipment. Then look at % profit of insurance.

Insurance makes 20%. Doctors and suppliers make 5x what normal people make.

So the problem is with the laws preventing folks from becoming doctors.

I’m gonna fix this, it’s actually so easy, just need people to trust me.

I’m really good at this kind of stuff I just hate dealing with people because the average person is so certain the world can’t get better.

h_tbob··on Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
My problem is this:

Being homeless is not inherently wrong. But I feel when a society makes camping on common ground a crime - like native Americans did, it owes it to them to a) give them land to camp on or b) give them housing.

It shouldn’t be a crime to sleep, ever. It horrifies me that the “conservative” Supreme Court could deny the most fundamental right to existence, literally jailing people for sleeping.

h_tbob··on As Russian losses in Ukraine mount, Putin faces devastating demographic timebomb
So sad.
h_tbob··on Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?
Honestly, what if taking drugs as a kid desensitized him and made him feel it was fine? Sure it is legal vs illegal, but once you get used to the idea “drugs are good” it could be bad for the mind
h_tbob··on Nvidia announces $3000 128gb Blackwell desktop GPU/CPU mini super computer
This could be a big game changer and rival the Mac!
h_tbob··on Einsum in Depth
I found this video to be fantastic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVwUVEHmfI

h_tbob··on Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb
I think they should make it so the stuff is on an “elevator” that can be moved up and down. For safety.
h_tbob··on Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?
All right, well I didn’t mean to be offensive in what I wrote. Please forgive me, it was written quickly. I hope we can all learn from each other in this forum, it was very kind of you to post those studies!
h_tbob··on Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?
I believe that school is a huge problem. Don’t give drugs, they can permanently mess up his mind.

ADHD and ADD are defense mechanisms the mind has. His brain is basically saying that what he is learning in school is a complete waste of his time. Even though we all do it, school is a really weird behavior! No animals do it and we aren’t designed for it.

I don’t believe that school is worth it for many people. They become business leaders etc.

Take him out of school and ask yourself what you would want if you were him. Then do it.

That’s my advice for anyone wondering what to do with adhd.

h_tbob··on Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos
Haha that’s funny, the beehive one lays out the hexagons as if they were squares - so they overlap and have empty space lol! But still it’s a promising concept.

Btw for some reason on iOS I had to download to view the video

h_tbob··on Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It
Until we understand consciousness, I think it perfectly reasonable to study the possibility of life after death.

If you think about it, consciousness doesn't exist in the material dimensions we understand. It's impossible to have an SI unit for happiness, for example.

So something within us is not material. Could it exist beyond the body? I think it's a question worth studying.

h_tbob··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
I for one love the “wall of ai” this author decries. It is super helpful for most of the questions I ask. I don’t know why he doesn’t like it.
h_tbob··on In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline
Prison has been proven to be a horrible idea (Stanford prison experiment) that turns normal people into monsters. The whole thing needs to be abolished.

Call me crazy, but the golden rule should be applied to all people. “Do to others what you would have them do to you”

I believe that if someone needs to be separated from others because they are dangerous or insane, the government should be obligated to say “this is what I would want done to me”, and treat them as such the entire time. Raw Punishment is asinine and insane, especially when the average person doesn’t even believe politicians who make the law are the most virtuous citizens.

h_tbob··on More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
I concluded that we really should have the speed limit at 45mph on highways. Then one body dying on the road would be so rare it would be newsworthy.
h_tbob··on Earth's subsurface may hold up to 5.6 × 10⁶ million metric tons of hydrogen
CO2 has its problems but at least nature automatically recycles it and produces O2 again.

But what about hydrogen? Wouldn’t burning it consume our oxygen supply with no way to replenish without large scale electrolysis? Seems like this could be a worse disaster since nature doesn’t do that by default.

h_tbob··on GPT-5 is behind schedule
From what I read openai is having trouble bc not enough data.

If u think about it, any videos on YouTube of real world data contribute to its understanding of physics at minimum. From what I gather they do pre training on tons of unstructured content first and that contributes to overall smartness.

h_tbob··on GPT-5 is behind schedule
It seems google has a massive advantage here since they can tap all of YouTube to train. I wonder what openai is using for its video data source.
h_tbob··on GPT-5 is behind schedule
That so weird, it’s seems like everybody here prefers Claude.

I’ve been using Claude and openai in copilot and I find even 4o seems to understand the problem better. O1 definitely seems to get it right more for me.

h_tbob··on "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"
I wonder why everyone on here isn’t saying “copyright is stupid”. You know it grants a monopoly?
h_tbob··on Kennedy's Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Question: if it gets banned, is there an alternative?
h_tbob··on Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports
Haha I want to work for you guys! This sounds like so much fun, hope you guys become trillionaires!
h_tbob··on Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
I do not want to criticize anybody. But I think this is a fire hazard and I would not recommend it in a place so close to jet fuel and jet engines.
h_tbob··on Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail
This may sound weird but I think the CHIPS act tempted intel to overextend. Counterintuitively they may even have been better without the money.

i don’t think problem was never lack of manufacturing capacity. I think it was process tech.

So I think the free govt money tempted them to invest in something that wasn’t mission critical - old node capacity, when they really needed r&d

h_tbob··on Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
Didn’t they get Jim Keller to design Zen?
h_tbob··on Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
That’s actually a pretty good pint, honestly
h_tbob··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
I don’t get why Israel waged war on Gaza instead of just going for the guy who ordered the attack. Any thoughts?
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