Hacker News: HighGoldstein

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

HighGoldstein — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:52:36 +0000

Considering how many AWS and non-AWS services go down at least partially when us-east-1 fails, this reads somewhat like "Don't worry that the steering wheel and pedals aren't working, your engine is still running on cruise control".

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test"

HighGoldstein — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:04:39 +0000

The Greek term would be decatetrahedron.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

HighGoldstein — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:03:35 +0000

> That's the problem though. Thinking your product will get by on looks when it's clearly outcompeted on performance, price, availability and longevity. That's not just optimism, it's delusion.

May I present to you the Apple corporation, at least until recently.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

HighGoldstein — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:38:58 +0000

> Haven't most people looked around and asked themselves where are all the 50+ engineers? They basically don't exist in large numbers.

I'm not discounting ageism in the industry, but how popular of a career was it 30+ years ago compared to now?

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

HighGoldstein — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:17:39 +0000

> P.S. I also live in Poland, not Polish. I also lived in Berlin, and I dont think the salaries are always so different.

Anecdotally this is also my experience. Several countries in eastern Europe have vastly lower taxes, and as a result international companies can pay salaries that are on par with western Europe but still cheaper than an equivalent worker in Germany or France because the cost to the employer is much lower.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

HighGoldstein — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:48:08 +0000

An article without telltale signs of an LLM is indistinguishable from an article written by a human, so yes.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

HighGoldstein — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:09:03 +0000

Do we? Or are we born with pre-training (all the crucial functions the brain does without us having to learn them) and a context window orders of magnitude larger than an LLM?

New comment by HighGoldstein in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

HighGoldstein — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:11:04 +0000

> They do see those use cases. It's not surprising that they focus on the enormous number of other, negative use cases. It's misleading to describe the medical use cases as "more important" - yes, they are, in the same way that healing a person is "more important" than ruining their lives. That's not what you're implying by your usage of the term, though.

This comment could just as easily apply to a conversation about computers in general, it's just that people whose lives have been "ruined" by now-established technologies have been largely forgotten by society.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Claude Opus 4.7"

HighGoldstein — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:47:23 +0000

> I think it's what led to Google's downturn.

What downturn is that exactly?

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

HighGoldstein — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:03:12 +0000

> "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."

Anthropic's thing has always been that they are perceived as slightly ahead of the competition, if they 2X their pricing then the competition that used to be "slightly worse" suddenly becomes an absolute bargain and guts their user base.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

HighGoldstein — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:33:10 +0000

Essential services (banks, government services, public transport) generally still support SMS as an alternative to their mobile apps when there's no completely offline process.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

HighGoldstein — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:22:26 +0000

Wild guess, touching this with a 10-foot pole risks validating his claims. If they sue for breach of NDA, it means his claims are factually correct, and if they sue for libel and it goes to court, they may be forced to submit documents they don't want to.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

HighGoldstein — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:40:32 +0000

I could've sworn I saw a comment like this in 2016 when Tesla was blowing up

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

HighGoldstein — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:58:39 +0000

If you hold the belief that the Trump administration (and Trump himself personally) have not commited a rather long list of crimes openly, you are either willfully ignorant or complicit. I do not care if this statement irritates you in any way. After a certain point, we are firmly in the realm of personal responsibility.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

HighGoldstein — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:57:54 +0000

> A connector of any kind reduces signal quality.

Like the M.2 connector?

> Data lines need to be longer

Like the data lines going all the way to an on-motherboard storage device?

New comment by HighGoldstein in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

HighGoldstein — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:52:09 +0000

Freedom without supervision vs supervision without freedom, both failures of parenting.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

HighGoldstein — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:04:40 +0000

Apple has their high-bandwidth chips, the rest of the commercial desktop market is effectively running Windows, and Microsoft has no incentive to move towards local AI, their ideal case is that you use their cloud-based services and pay for them forever (you being enterprise clients with thousands of PCs).

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

HighGoldstein — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:34:31 +0000

> Struck the ICE agent with her car

One of the above comments gives a pretty clear cut showcase of how this is not, in fact, a fact.

> I think they both contributed to the tragedy.

"Between me and Jeff Bezos we are worth several hundred billion dollars". The ICE agent contributed the bullets that made this a tragedy, the victim contributed not following the orders of people who are not police officers, I'd say it's not much of a "both" situation.

> Nobody protesting peacefully gets shot.

At least one person already has, but something tells me you'll just move the goalpost of what "peacefully" means.

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

HighGoldstein — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:29:59 +0000

> I thought Republicans were for small government and were anti-censorship.

They are against very specific parts of big government and censorship

New comment by HighGoldstein in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

HighGoldstein — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:27:06 +0000

The bar in the US right now seems to be if someone with any authority feels like killing you.