Hacker News: ChoosesBarbecue

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

ChoosesBarbecue — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:21:26 +0000

But this is posted on Nex's GitHub, not on "Rio de Janeiro's" GitHub.

i.e. this is the maintainer posting on their own GitHub Issues.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

ChoosesBarbecue — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:38:16 +0000

> If a catalytic number of those had formed, they could have also even made real impact through shareholder initiatives and actions demanding changes by pressuring board members who rely on votes, etc.

For SpaceX, from Matt Levine [0]:

> SpaceX will have dual-class stock, with Class B shares getting 10 votes per share. Musk owns 93.6% of the Class B (and 12.3% of the low-vote Class A), for total voting power of 85.1%.[5] Tesla does not have dual-class stock, Musk is a minority owner, and he has worried aloud about the risk of losing control of Tesla’s robot army because he doesn’t have voting control of the company. Not a problem at SpaceX! Build all the robot armies you want!

> Because of Musk’s voting control, SpaceX is a “controlled company” under stock exchange rules, so it doesn’t have to have a majority of independent directors or an independent compensation committee. So the board of directors can be made up of Musk’s buddies, and they can pay him whatever they want.

> Even aside from controlling 85% of the voting stock, Musk gets to appoint a majority of the board of directors himself, without the Class A shareholders even voting.[6]

Does not sound like this is remotely true for SpaceX, then?

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-21/spa... (the other footnotes are from the article itself)

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

ChoosesBarbecue — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:48:55 +0000

> Please be careful when revoking tokens. It looks like the payload installs a dead-man's switch at ~/.local/bin/gh-token-monitor.sh as a systemd user service (Linux) / LaunchAgent com.user.gh-token-monitor(macOS). It polls api.github.com/user with the stolen token every 60s, and if the token is revoked (HTTP 40x), it runs rm -rf ~/. (It looks like it might also have a bunch of persistence mechanisms. I haven't studied these closely.)

Jesus, that's vindictive.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

ChoosesBarbecue — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:05:21 +0000

I'm passively curious how the long-term maintenance of this all ends up. You don't just build a bridge, you have to keep it up when the natural strain of the world impacts upon it. Given provinces already have debt problems [0], how the hell will all of this infrastructure look in 50 years?

[0]: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3254680/c...

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ChoosesBarbecue — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:12:11 +0000

> Part of Cialdini’s large book-buying audience came because, like me, it wanted to learn how to become less often tricked by salesmen and circumstances. However, as an outcome not sought by Cialdini, who is a profoundly ethical man, a huge number of his books were bought by salesmen who wanted to learn how to become more effective in misleading customers.

(Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charlie Munger)

Content for Content's Sake

ChoosesBarbecue — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:46:01 +0000

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/content-for-contents-sake/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010180

Points: 10

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New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ChoosesBarbecue — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:08:09 +0000

The book really helped me put things into perspective as a teenager who was habitually "angry", and "on the less adept at social side of things"[0]. Had a much healthier time growing up afterwards. Honestly, I should re-read it.

[0]: I am not formally neurodivergent, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was mildly so.