Hacker News: 4death4

New comment by 4death4 in "US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing"

4death4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:33:38 +0000

It’s not self centered at all. People act because there is some benefit to them in their action. You suggested I take an action without providing a convincing benefit. I was actually hoping to help you, by explaining why the types of suggestions you’re providing to people are likely to fall upon deaf ears.

New comment by 4death4 in "US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing"

4death4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:13:39 +0000

And yet, there are upvotes and they’re displayed to the poster. Also, I used the word ostensibly to imply I may personally have some other motivation. But in either cases, the broader point still stands: there are diminishing marginal returns to being more correct.

New comment by 4death4 in "US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing"

4death4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:44:29 +0000

I wasn't aware one died of a staph infection. The other officially died from suicide.

New comment by 4death4 in "US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing"

4death4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:01:54 +0000

Two Boeing whistleblowers "committed suicide" within a few weeks of each other.

New comment by 4death4 in "Google DeepMind shifts from research lab to AI product factory"

4death4 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:45:24 +0000

Definitely the people working on the model. It ultimately doesn’t matter what the users want because you can’t arbitrarily deliver an experience. You can only deliver what it’s possible to extract from the model, so growing the possible things the model can do well is most important.

New comment by 4death4 in "Sales happen when buyers fear missing out"

4death4 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:41:12 +0000

Being the one best suited to meet your customers needs is a sales strategy. That might include staying open late if you can convince people they’re going to regret not tasting your food after a night out of drinking.

New comment by 4death4 in "Sales happen when buyers fear missing out"

4death4 — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:17:31 +0000

It’s not a captive market. It’s a market where the buyer has a need and if they don’t have that need met, then the buyer will suffer. That’s FOMO, and that’s when sales happen. If the buyer can sit on their laurels without any negative repercussions, then they’re not going to pull the trigger until their situation changes.

New comment by 4death4 in "Sales happen when buyers fear missing out"

4death4 — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:09:40 +0000

I disagree. For instance, let’s say I’m an auto manufacturer and I need some parts made. If I don’t get those parts, I have to stall my assembly line and lose a lot of money. If I find someone who can supply the parts in a short time frame, then I will definitely fear missing out by declining the sellers offer. If I capitulate and the seller delivers reliably, then I am going to gladly return for their services because they can ensure my business stays running.

New comment by 4death4 in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

4death4 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:59:02 +0000

The flaw in your logic is that you’re taking too myopic a view. In your world “making something worse” is somehow divorced from the tyranny of convenience, but in reality it’s not. Changing society is itself inconvenient, and therefore unlikely to happen unless leaving society as-is is less convenient.

New comment by 4death4 in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

4death4 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:48:05 +0000

You should read this piece in the NYT titled “The Tyranny of Convenience” [1]. It asserts that your entire worldview is essentially flawed. En masse, people do what is most convenient, which is completely orthogonal to what is right / wrong / best / worst. For instance, it’s an empirical fact that eating healthy and getting exercise is better than eating poorly and living a sedentary life. Yet, most people live sedentary lives.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-co...

New comment by 4death4 in "What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)"

4death4 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 03:51:17 +0000

Reducing variance in a random outcome still has value. For instance, you might have the money to cover an adverse outcome, but if you could guarantee you wouldn't need the money, then you could park it in an illiquid asset (e.g. some type of investment).

New comment by 4death4 in "Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour"

4death4 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:50:25 +0000

How does it not work that way? Password cracking is infinitely parallelizable.

New comment by 4death4 in "Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour"

4death4 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:53:39 +0000

So 99 of them could crack a password in 1 year? That is easily obtainable and not secure at all.

New comment by 4death4 in "Job openings fall to lowest level since February 2021"

4death4 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:59:01 +0000

Also in the NYC area. There seems to be a major shortage of blue collar labor: contractors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. the cost of home renovations is truly staggering due to this lack of supply.

New comment by 4death4 in "API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS"

4death4 — Wed, 29 May 2024 04:59:06 +0000

Even if the copy the header, they can only perform a replay attack, which is an improvement over leaking an API key. Also, you could include a timestamp in the signature to limit the amount of time it could be replayed.

New comment by 4death4 in "An air quality model that is evolving with the times"

4death4 — Tue, 28 May 2024 18:04:18 +0000

It’s really unclear to you why a long term neurotoxin that leads to lifelong disability is worse than allergy producing pollen?

New comment by 4death4 in "An air quality model that is evolving with the times"

4death4 — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:52:13 +0000

Yes, but isn’t lead getting into your bloodstream worse than pollen? I mean oxygen gets into your bloodstream via inhalation…

New comment by 4death4 in "Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”"

4death4 — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:03:39 +0000

I don’t really consider making an API call as “logging in”. The term sounds really out of place other than in a few specific contexts.

New comment by 4death4 in "Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)"

4death4 — Wed, 15 May 2024 06:05:07 +0000

Everything is interconnected. People who commute to work need a car. If parking is unavailable, then commuters cannot live there. If workers can't live there, then property taxes are lower and less money enters the local economy. You can't apriori say what impact these parking policies have.

New comment by 4death4 in "Why Isn't Google's "Generative AI Search" Copyright Theft?"

4death4 — Wed, 15 May 2024 01:20:03 +0000

Clearly there is a limit. Otherwise, you could circumvent all copyright by saying "The contents of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is ". While technically a fact, it's protected by copyright.