Hacker News: Fauntleroy

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

Fauntleroy — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:02:41 +0000

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New comment by Fauntleroy in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

Fauntleroy — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:56:53 +0000

You started this (soon to be flagged to nonexistence) chain with whataboutism.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Scancity: QR Codes for the Discerning"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:06:17 +0000

The front page of this website is almost comically uninformative. I'd take this post down, update the site to explain itself better, and submit it again at a later date.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf]"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:53:03 +0000

They want to ban it for absolute facial recognition coverage, and pretty much nothing else.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:16:56 +0000

The video to audio examples are really impressive! The video featuring the band showcases some of the obvious shortcomings of this method (humans will have very precise expectations about the kinds of sounds 5 trombones will make)—but the tennis example shows its strengths (decent timing of hit sounds, eerily accurate acoustics for the large internal space). I'm very excited to see how this improves a few more papers down the line!

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:50:29 +0000

Suggesting that giving the rest of the world the "fox news viewpoint" would somehow improve foreigner's views or knowledge of America is spurious at best, and delusional at worst.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:57:46 +0000

You don't need examples when you have faith

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

Fauntleroy — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:32:15 +0000

It's amusing to me that anyone would think a random smattering of ADUs would do anything at all to push the needle when it comes to housing. This is like fixing linter warnings (but not even doing that!) instead of building an entirely new section of an app. We need the latter.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:29:31 +0000

Err—"hopefully"?

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Airline Demand Between Canada and United States Collapses, Down 70%+"

Fauntleroy — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:49:44 +0000

This presumes the government will be acting in good faith, which is increasingly unlikely day to day.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Konva.js - Declarative 2D Canvas for React, Vue, and Svelte"

Fauntleroy — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:55:21 +0000

The site and docs for Konva are conspiciously pleasant and well fleshed out. The "price" link jumpscare is also something I haven't yet seen.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:29:21 +0000

It's a historic tech-related government coup, which I'd think is of great interest to "Hackers". It's very rare that a bunch of tech whiz-kids are so directly embedded in current events. For better or worse, Musk and his minions are very much at the forefront of tech related news for the forseeable future.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:00:38 +0000

A bit late for that

New comment by Fauntleroy in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:57:31 +0000

Yes, yes, we know. You won't believe us until we actually are living in the feudalist society they're working, right now, to create brazenly in public. Enjoy gloating about crazy we are until you realize we really are not.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:37:05 +0000

I don't know how long it will take, but you'll eventually catch up on the grift, too.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services"

Fauntleroy — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:03:26 +0000

Hopefully this round of extremely poor government decisions helps edify the populace in future elections.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:49:44 +0000

This is an extremely weird thing to say. I don't know a single node dev who wants more dependencies. Anyone with a modicum of experience in the space knows the cost of bringing in more external code.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

Fauntleroy — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:56:38 +0000

Maybe you could point some of the media to these primary sources you're citing.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:41:09 +0000

We can't exactly stop the government for a rebuild, you know.

New comment by Fauntleroy in "Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks"

Fauntleroy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:19:45 +0000

I'm certain they've thought of this and have decided that the alternative—a firehose of whatever data the AI has in its grasp—is worse than the "censored" version. I'm curious to know what your ideal approach would be.