Hacker News: Footnote7341

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

Footnote7341 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:54:19 +0000

I'm using grok to help bring awareness to black and brown and latinx communities that live within 100 miles of Colossus 1!

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

Footnote7341 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:47:42 +0000

The current bottleneck on compute is power and zoning. Solar panels are 5x more efficient in space, and there is no zoning in space.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

Footnote7341 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:42:14 +0000

IDK what world you're living in, but in the real world Americans are the richest people on earth and richer than ever before in real terms. And yes international seigniorage is part of that.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

Footnote7341 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:33:33 +0000

It is technically possible for mandatory 15 minute support call wait times to increase total user happiness by lowering average wait time in the queue.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

Footnote7341 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:18:48 +0000

Everytime I use Gemini, the pro paid version, it ends almost every interaction with "This relates perfectly with do you want to learn how it connects to that!?"

and it is just annoying and never useful or interesting. Hilariously hamfisted.

I'll be asking about linear programming and it's trying to relate it to my Italian 1 class or my previous career.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

Footnote7341 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:07:46 +0000

That has nothing to do with the point of my post.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

Footnote7341 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:32:29 +0000

Isnt this silly when you can calculate the chance of war in Iran by oil futures instead. Prediction markets are just explicit markers of information that is already being traded on in 100 different ways.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

Footnote7341 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:48:03 +0000

No, there is hardware based attestation, and it could be set by an administrator / parent for the user account.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)"

Footnote7341 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:31:11 +0000

Creating a strong image to adversaries, aka deterrent, is a key function of all nations militaries. But the US conducts tough rigorous exercises against impossible odds constantly. All ground forces are rotated through NTC and JRTC where expert opfor units are given all the toys, home-field advantage, and usually win.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

Footnote7341 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:27:38 +0000

We're still moving thousands of pounds of vehicle around a public highway to carry a 1lb burrito, obviously lightweight aerial drones are the future for food and grocery delivery.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

Footnote7341 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:45:59 +0000

I managed to write a fairly large GTK application without the GTK type system encroaching on my code at all. It just meant hooking a bunch of lambdas in where they want you to be inheriting from and extending their own classes to allow all the parts to communicate together.

In the end it wasn't that messy, but probably confusing for anyone used to writing dogmatic GTK applications.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

Footnote7341 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 04:13:05 +0000

Foreign countries are already banned from owning TV stations in the United States so this is certainly not a speech issue. I dont think its clear that Trump can really save TikTok without passing a law through congress though.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm"

Footnote7341 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:33:43 +0000

When did we start calling markov chains 'wave function collapse'?

New comment by Footnote7341 in "NY governor signs law making the restaurant reservation black market illegal"

Footnote7341 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:02:37 +0000

Scalping is good and there is no such thing as a distorted price.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

Footnote7341 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:19:02 +0000

We aren't used to draconian internet control in the west yet, in China and Russia the population is. Everyone who's anyone just uses a VPN and uses western internet when they like. China banned western social media for the exact same reason that the US wanted to, they were just ready to do it earlier.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky"

Footnote7341 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:04:19 +0000

Ok thats nice and all, but 'a general vibe' doesn't survive actual incentives.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Using drones to terrorize a city [video]"

Footnote7341 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:51:16 +0000

Aren't the civilians in Kherson largely Russian citizens according to the official Russian line here? It's one of the territories they officially annexed.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Twitter Okta Leak Exposes Class of "Protected Users""

Footnote7341 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:59:44 +0000

This looks really fake, especially the anglo-centric british-english list of slurs rather than American slurs.

And the list of slurs is so short and incomprehensive almost like someone made it for a screenshot based on whatever came to mind

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Waymo Driver 3.5x better at avoiding injuries over 14.8M miles in SF and Phoenix"

Footnote7341 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:10:21 +0000

This fear just seems ridiculous to me when you compare it to going on a train, bus, taxi rideshare, or just walking down the street.

New comment by Footnote7341 in "Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions"

Footnote7341 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:10:36 +0000

Does anyone ever feel like they can enter too much of a flow state where you can solve a programming problem or an equation and not even consciously know what you just did and how it works