Personally I've only seen mild criticism of her. Mostly about her commenting on minutia in fields of science she's not educated in. She does pretty ok as an 'anti establishment' science communicator overall though, especially compared to some of her peers like Eric Weinstein.
Readit NewsSabinus commented on Ask HN: Why do people hate on Sabine Hossenfelder so much? · Posted by u/ieuanking
Burning gas to power this DC and cool it in a hot climate shows how hollow their net zero promises are.
If solar is cheaper per watt than gas then they will build solar and use the gas plants to level the output. Assuming the grid capacity and/or nearby land is available.
Sabinus commented on Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work? · Posted by u/mrs6969
chatgpt was acting like my dads therapist and was making him pretty depressed.
this motivated us to get him a real therapist and have a long conversation about the dangers of humanizing ai
What was it telling him if you don't mind sharing?
Sabinus commented on Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work? · Posted by u/mrs6969
Seems like an intentional move to get more people accustomed to Gemini (or the others)
It's so users run more searches and are exposed to more ads. Google used to firewall the Search development team from the Ads team. That changed, some managers were fired, and now the Ads team can tell the Search team to make changes to how search works to make more ad money. Happened before the current AI era.
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Sabinus commented on As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I disagree. I think if we stop using oil and gas, we fall into a new dark ages pretty fast and half or more of all humans will die. Is that what you intend?
We have more options than just (instantly) stop using oil and gas and those options would have been far more easy to implement had we been doing them for the last 50 years instead of arguing about if climate change is happening, and now, if humans have caused climate change.
These other options require resources and time to implement, and the political capital required to make that happen has been and will be increased because of the aforementioned 'debates'.
That would essentially make the Voter ID fight a non-issue. I'd be fine with it, but I'm not naive enough to believe that election integrity is the motivation here, because it's not.
It's about keeping the undesirables out of the voting booth.
Exactly. In this very thread a democrat voter is arguing that low education people that are easy to pursuade shouldn't vote.
For the Republicans it's the immoral and poor and 'non Americans' who shouldn't really be voting.
And IMO it's gross attitude for a democracy.
If you work at someplace other than Chik-Fil-A you're not guaranteed Sundays off either
Early voting solves this. There are some voting booths open all week, then on the Saturday/Sunday the main vote happens and they all open. If you can't make the Sunday you pop in during the week.
How on Earth are we able to have a global digital financial system that is able to keep track of trillions in transactions per year but running a seasonal election with < 100 million participants through a digital system seems too hard?
Because of the incentives of the US voting system. Voting is not mandatory so parties are incentivised to mess with voting access to make it easier for their demographics to vote but not others. There's also a general distain for letting 'the wrong people' vote in America.
Sabinus commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
That seems like a bad reason to swear off streaming services. Do you not shop at stores because they don’t carry offensive clothing?
If a tshirt rental store was renting me my favourite tshirt (not available to buy) for two decades then decided it wasn't available any more because other people don't like the shirt design, I would be pissed and not want to support the tshirt rental industry any more.