Hacker News: CrossVR

New comment by CrossVR in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

CrossVR — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:17:21 +0000

The problem is that you're comparing numbers from before Trump's presidency, but the understaffing of FAA ATCs goes all the way back to when the Reagan administration fired all ATCs to break up the union and forbade the FAA from rehiring any former union members.

The FAA has been playing catch up with training enough ATCs to meet demand ever since, which isn't helped by a sequence of bad decisions made regarding ATC training schools.

New comment by CrossVR in "FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall"

CrossVR — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:37:58 +0000

You're supposed to feel the superiority, not taste it.

New comment by CrossVR in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

CrossVR — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:23:43 +0000

If I were asked to give up 10 years of my life I would rather choose to give up the final 10 years than 10 years in the prime of my life.

New comment by CrossVR in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

CrossVR — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:16:36 +0000

There's one elephant in the room that's not being addressed:

Training an AI on GPL code and then having it generate equivalent code that is released under a closed source license seems like a good way to destroy the copy-left FOSS ecosystem.

New comment by CrossVR in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

CrossVR — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:12:31 +0000

> If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing.

If robots/AI work out we will need to use 100% of our spare time to work what few jobs are still available to humans so we can earn enough money to pay rent.

New comment by CrossVR in "The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19"

CrossVR — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:19:37 +0000

That money is better invested in providing affordable family housing. Even if IVF is available no one is going to actually have kids if you do nothing to make it economically sustainable to start a family.

Do we really want to rely on IVF to solve the fact that people can only afford a family home once they're well into their 40s? It's insanity if you ask me.

New comment by CrossVR in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

CrossVR — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:36:27 +0000

It's always a good idea to disguise your identity collection as "age verification".

New comment by CrossVR in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

CrossVR — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:04:07 +0000

In fact in sectors like the game industry the pandemic resulted in a massive hiring boom. The layoffs only materialized after the pandemic was well and truly over.

New comment by CrossVR in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

CrossVR — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:56:53 +0000

Security just isn't their vibe, that's for nerds.

New comment by CrossVR in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

CrossVR — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:56:56 +0000

This isn't a simple operation, killing a foreign head of state is about as clear of a declaration of war as you can imagine. The law was introduced to put a check on the president's use of military force, it didn't give the president the power to declare war on another country.

New comment by CrossVR in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

CrossVR — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:57:11 +0000

> Trump has no structured paramilitary militias like the Squadras or the SA. The January 6th was mainly a crowd movement, participants were a heteroclite bunch with very different political ideas.

The black shirts were no different.

> ICE is a state agency, which existed before and has never been known for its benevolent and non-violent actions.

Much of the prosecution of minorities in fascist regimes was not done by the militias, it was done by law enforcement.

> Lack of democratic approval for a war isn't facism. It's a strong presidential regime. France has the same and is not fascist. And it's legal in the current form[0].

A hallmark of fascism is the refusal to acknowledge any democratic limitations on the power of the leader. The article you reference states clearly that he has no legal authority to start the war, as he would need congressional approval.

France has the same system as the U.S., only parliament has the power to start a war.[0]

> Words are important because if you earnestly want the situation to change, you need to assess it clearly.

I'm glad we agree on that. I will concede that Trump may never become a true dictator, but the ideology is clearly there and if his power is not checked I worry about who will succeed him.

> The Trump presidency has a more to do with the influence of money in US politics

Fascists regimes have historically been well-funded by money in politics.

[0] https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

New comment by CrossVR in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

CrossVR — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:57:54 +0000

The dramatic difference is that Biden had Congressional approval to ship weapons to Israel and Ukraine.

New comment by CrossVR in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

CrossVR — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:34:52 +0000

> I'd suggest you read about fascist Italy to get a sense of what fascism is. So far I haven't seen Democrats repeatedly kicked out of cars in Times Square after drinking a bottle of castor oil.

January 6th had all the hallmarks of the black shirts marching on Rome. And ICE is definitely pulling people out of cars and homes in Democratic cities. But I guess everything is fine because they're not making them drink castor oil.

Immigration enforcement is necessary, but these actions clearly have less to do with people's immigration status and more to do with political reprisal.

> Trump said that he wouldn't look to be reelected for a third mandate.

They'll always say they'll follow the Constitution to legitimize themselves, but their actions don't reflect it.

> The Iran war is mainly a consequence of the Israeli influence on US politics; it has nothing to do with fascism, and it is in continuity with the previous administration.

It has everything to do with fascism, not because of its motivation, but it's lack of democratic approval. This administration has a clear disdain for the democratic process.

I sincerely hope there was some secret vote by Congress that we don't know about.

> So yeah, populism likely, a plutocracy (evidenced by the role of AIPAC in elections) but not fascism.

I would've agreed with you if we were talking about Trump's first term, that was clearly just populism. This second term goes far beyond what any populist leader has done in Europe.

New comment by CrossVR in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

CrossVR — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:31:40 +0000

> Let's not waste the meaning of words by throwing them at any occasion.

Honest question, but if this is not fascism, then what is? Aren't you also wasting the meaning of a word by refusing to acknowledge any application of that word?

New comment by CrossVR in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

CrossVR — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:53:36 +0000

> Dario Amodei published an essay warning about potential dangers from powerful AI — including domestic mass surveillance (which he brands “entirely illegitimate”)

Why is only domestic surveillance by an AI dangerous? I guess Europeans are not worth protecting from the dangers of AI?

New comment by CrossVR in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

CrossVR — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:03:58 +0000

So you have a fudiciary duty to put the company's interest first and you have no legal duty to put the public interest first (as long as no crimes are being committed).

What do you expect to happen in such a system?

New comment by CrossVR in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

CrossVR — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:52:17 +0000

So the reason companies act against the interests of society is just a personal moral failing of the CEO and nothing else?

New comment by CrossVR in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

CrossVR — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:40:05 +0000

You're absolutely right, but the line between acting in the interest of the company and acting to maximize profits is so thin it might as well not exist.

It can be in the company's interest to act for the good of society and a CEO can claim that it is his fudiciary duty to act in the interest of society.

But when society's interests are in direct conflict with the interests of the company you cannot expect a CEO to act in the interest of society.

Even if a CEO is perfectly within their rights to act against the interests of the company, it doesn't change the fact that investors might replace him if the CEO does so consistently.

New comment by CrossVR in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

CrossVR — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:36:50 +0000

I do, but that's the unfortunate reality we find ourselves in. It's why you should never trust a publicly traded company that promises to self-regulate, it is impossible for them to do so.

If a CEO consistently passes up large profits to protect society then investors will attempt to put a new CEO in charge.

New comment by CrossVR in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

CrossVR — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:49:38 +0000

Why should a well-behaved AI company be singled out for continued access? If the industry can't regulate itself then none deserve access no matter if they're "well-behaved".

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