Hacker News: CabSauce

New comment by CabSauce in "OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped"

CabSauce — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:49:42 +0000

Or domestic. I'm shocked this information is this available.

New comment by CabSauce in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

CabSauce — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:29:59 +0000

While true, this is just one pretty small state. There are others.

New comment by CabSauce in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

CabSauce — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:31:04 +0000

Don't worry, if it all comes down, you'll be able to buy RAM and GPUs by weight.

New comment by CabSauce in "Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo"

CabSauce — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:58:36 +0000

These two gentlemen have been making the rounds on late night and political shows. They seem nice enough and I appreciate their efforts. However, I haven't heard them suggest a single functional/practical change to move toward "abundance".

We have to overturn Citizens United and get unlimited corporate money out of politics. This is far and away the most important barrier to having a government that works for people.

New comment by CabSauce in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

CabSauce — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:50:02 +0000

You're right. I guess we just shouldn't do anything. And somehow it's virtue signaling and reduces output?

New comment by CabSauce in "H.R.25 – Repeal income tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service"

CabSauce — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:22:19 +0000

People with lower incomes do spend larger a portion of their money on things that incur sales tax.

Higher income people spend more of their money on investments and other assets.

New comment by CabSauce in "H.R.25 – Repeal income tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service"

CabSauce — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:35:05 +0000

I believe the most commonly supported tax strategy by economists is an income tax that goes negative below some threshold.

Personally, I'm open to VAT tax because it would be much easier to incorporate the disposal cost into goods and remove externalities (like pollution).

As you've said, it would be ideal to have strategies in place to lessen the burden on people with lower incomes.

This bill doesn't have any of those strategies or objectives.

New comment by CabSauce in "H.R.25 – Repeal income tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service"

CabSauce — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:56:34 +0000

It shouldn't really need to be mentioned at this point, but sales taxes are extremely regressive. The burden is shouldered by people with lower incomes.

Edit - source: https://taxfoundation.org/taxedu/glossary/regressive-tax/

New comment by CabSauce in "Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast"

CabSauce — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:01:05 +0000

But that's the point of a weather forecast. We don't do them for the science. (I'm not arguing against weather research.)

New comment by CabSauce in "ChatGPT Pro"

CabSauce — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:31:20 +0000

They sign business associate agreements. It's good enough for HIPAA compliance.

New comment by CabSauce in "ChatGPT Pro"

CabSauce — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:29:20 +0000

You just hit the chatGPT api for every row of data. Obviously. (Only 70% joking.)

New comment by CabSauce in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

CabSauce — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:40:32 +0000

Ah, yes. Trump won because of his well-known ability for measured and rational speaking.

New comment by CabSauce in "100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born"

CabSauce — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:28:20 +0000

I think this is the cause of my depression. It's horrendously sad to think about what we could be accomplishing if we were just a little efficient.

New comment by CabSauce in "Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service"

CabSauce — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:38:59 +0000

Not quite as alarming as these people most likely trying to stalk someone without their permission.

New comment by CabSauce in "Learnings from employing ChatGPT as a ML Engineer for a day"

CabSauce — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:28:26 +0000

It's trivial to de-identify someone from shockingly limited data. Just by submission to an outside service, they know a date, location, and whatever information was submitted. That's plenty, especially assuming they referenced a procedure or comorbidities.

New comment by CabSauce in "Learnings from employing ChatGPT as a ML Engineer for a day"

CabSauce — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:16:18 +0000

That would require a Business Associate contract between the provider and Open AI.

New comment by CabSauce in "Learnings from employing ChatGPT as a ML Engineer for a day"

CabSauce — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:04:08 +0000

You're sending patient information to a third party without any contractual agreement?

New comment by CabSauce in "The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile of nonsense"

CabSauce — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:33:18 +0000

Several people I know are using it for sales and customer service writing. As a user, that's not really what I want, but they are finding it to be a useful tool in generating text for them to review and modify.

New comment by CabSauce in "Bard and new AI features in Search"

CabSauce — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:19:01 +0000

That's good for users, potentially. But not good for the sites where google is sourcing the information.

New comment by CabSauce in "A startup is deploying armed bodyguards to NYC"

CabSauce — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:46:42 +0000

I think it's satire? But hard to tell.