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shawnz commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make   samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs
shawnz · a day ago
If you are looking for a vertical mouse with USB-C charging, a high-DPI sensor, robust switches, high polling rate, etc., consider this mouse that recently launched on Kickstarter: https://www.hansker.design/

I got one recently due to some persistent wrist issues I've been having because it is the first ergo mouse I've had that ticks every box for me. It's not flawless but I still strongly recommend considering it if you're looking for something in this category.

The designer previously posted about it on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613630

shawnz commented on Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math   quantamagazine.org/busy-b... · Posted by u/defrost
xelxebar · 2 days ago
Pentation? How quaint. For other Large Number fans, David Metzler has a wonderful playlist that goes way down the rabbit hole of the fast growing hierarchy:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A50BB9C34AB36B3

Highly recommended.

Almost all of these mind-bogglingly large numbers are built around recursion, like the Ackermann function, which effectively has an argument for the number of Knuth up arrows to use. Then you can start thinking about feeding the Ackermann function into that slot and enjoy the sense of vertigo at how insane that becomes.

I find it fascinating how quickly the machinery of specifying large numbers probes the limits of what's definable within the mathematical systems we use.

shawnz · a day ago
You might already know this, but the busy beaver function grows faster than any computable function. So although the best known lower bound of BB(6) can be expressed with just pentation, generally speaking the BB function is certainly beyond any standard operation in terms of fast growth
shawnz commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
mrintegrity · 6 days ago
My dream is to have a phone like this that supports thunderbolt host mode, runs grapheneos or similar and can drive a couple of displays via usb-c docking station. With the memory and CPU this phone could easily replace my work laptop (vscode and ssh for the most part). Sadly I haven't found any phone that would make this possible (Samsung Dex doesn't count because it's proprietary)
shawnz · 6 days ago
Android 16 will have this (at least for a single external display): https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...
shawnz commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
barbazoo · 6 days ago
When phones are no longer considered reliable to make emergency calls in certain places, what alternative is there?

Sure it sucks for the operator to get a call, "Sorry, just testing to make sure emergency calling works, thanks, bye" and it would also suck, probably even more, for an individual to not be able to make an emergency call. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, hopefully someone improves the system, lol.

shawnz · 6 days ago
What's the threshold by which a phone isn't considered reliable enough to make emergency calls?

I've never personally had an emergency call fail on a Pixel device, and I don't know the broader statistics of how often they fail for other people compared to other phones. Do you?

shawnz commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers   pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
lixtra · 6 days ago
A naive approach could still leak information through side channels. E.g. if you search regularly for foobar, the answer might suddenly get slower if foobar appears more in the document base.

Depending on the context it could be relevant.

shawnz · 6 days ago
That's nothing specific to LLM-enhanced search features though, right? Any search feature will have that side channel risk
shawnz commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade?   sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx
shawnz · 8 days ago
> But the types and structures of electric car and mobile phone batteries are not the same. Car batteries are designed to last far longer.

What prevents the same advancements from being applied to phone batteries?

shawnz commented on Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need   theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
shawnz · 10 days ago
Regarding point 9, there is an audio device switcher in the pop-up panel you get when you click the speaker icon
shawnz commented on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable   arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919... · Posted by u/Cynddl
frumplestlatz · 14 days ago
Which is why it’s valuable in small, generally familial groups, but pathological when scaled to society at large.
shawnz · 14 days ago
What makes you say that? I can think of several examples of those kinds of situations in society at large, like climate change for example.
shawnz commented on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable   arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919... · Posted by u/Cynddl
frumplestlatz · 14 days ago
Empathy biases reasoning toward in-group cohesion, overriding dispassionate reasoning that could threaten group unity.

Empathy is not required for logical coherence. It exists to override what one might otherwise rationally conclude. Bias toward anyone’s relative perspective is unnecessary for logically coherent thought.

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Modeling someone’s cognition or experience is not empathy. Empathy is the emotional process of identifying with someone, not the cognitive act of modeling them.

shawnz · 14 days ago
> Empathy biases reasoning toward in-group cohesion, overriding dispassionate reasoning that could threaten group unity.

Because that provides better outcomes for everyone in a prisoner's dilemma style scenario

u/shawnz

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