Hacker News: JSteph22

New comment by JSteph22 in "All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme"

JSteph22 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:47:37 +0000

>how would a non-coder know if the output if the emulated understanding is accurate

QA for non-AI code is limited at best to begin with, why would AI code be any different?

New comment by JSteph22 in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

JSteph22 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:08:25 +0000

There definitely bad apples that spoil it for the bunch.

New comment by JSteph22 in "A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings"

JSteph22 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:03:32 +0000

I'm surprised the authors just completely abandon the standard first-use notation for acronyms.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Bitcoin miners say fee drought poses existential threat to network"

JSteph22 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:33:32 +0000

But I bought some early and I deserve to become a gajillionaire overnight without working.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms"

JSteph22 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:22:40 +0000

>as a Canadian

Canada arguably has an even more ingrained system of lobbying.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code"

JSteph22 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:46:56 +0000

So it's made by another company but "released" by Anthropic? What does that mean?

New comment by JSteph22 in "Who does your assistant serve?"

JSteph22 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:01:10 +0000

Therapists are incentivized to tell the people who paid them what they want to hear.

New comment by JSteph22 in "The militarization of Silicon Valley"

JSteph22 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:24:44 +0000

It used to be that the propaganda needed to launch a war (Iraq) would be published by the NYTs of the world, but even that is no longer needed thanks to social media.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

JSteph22 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:20:14 +0000

I am looking forward to the "news industry" breathing its last breath. They're the ones primarily responsible for the distrust and division.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

JSteph22 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:22:45 +0000

>And even land cost them more in soldiers more than the pre-war population that lived there

This is very easily verified as false. It's hard to take the rest of your comments seriously.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

JSteph22 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:59:02 +0000

>Why would that be the case?

It's not speculation that Ukraine is being assisted to a huge degree.

One angle of that assistance: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-...

New comment by JSteph22 in "Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts"

JSteph22 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:49:45 +0000

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for the info.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts"

JSteph22 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:45:37 +0000

>that's already China for almost everything, or am I wrong there?

Yes, you're wrong. Most car parts in the current supply chain are not coming from China and Stellantis is a prime example of this.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)"

JSteph22 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:41:57 +0000

The placebo effect is a helluva drug.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Dépanneurs"

JSteph22 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:25:59 +0000

>I find it funny that in France it’s more common to see anglicisms (parking, le weekend) whereas in Quebec more “francized” terms are more common

Because Quebec culture is largely about demonizing anglophones and trying to push them out of the province.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

JSteph22 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:44:42 +0000

>mental fog, cognitive overload, wrong muscle memor

Agreed. The sequence of events also supports this.

I believe one of the pilots made a terrible muscle memory mistake and cutoff the fuel instead of raising the landing gear. This would explain why the landing gear was never raised, why the pilot who was accused of cutting off the fuel denied it (in his mind he had only retracted the landing gear) and why the engines were turned back on after presumably realizing the mistake.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation"

JSteph22 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:25:11 +0000

Wouldn't it be the Indian authorities who issue a report?

New comment by JSteph22 in "The death of partying in the USA"

JSteph22 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:16:55 +0000

Unless you have some compelling evidence to the contrary, this cannot be dismissed as "edge cases" when cultural norms have changed across the board and all it takes is one complaint...

New comment by JSteph22 in "The death of partying in the USA"

JSteph22 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:13:04 +0000

If you let kids today "explore their own world" they'll just end up glued to phones.

New comment by JSteph22 in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

JSteph22 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:15:10 +0000

But Trump won more convincingly in 2024 without it? That doesn't support your argument.