Hacker News: John23832

New comment by John23832 in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

John23832 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:22:58 +0000

If you take it you're not eligible to unemployment. I think in this market, given the undefined length of employment searching at the moment, that's a major consideration.

New comment by John23832 in "Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved"

John23832 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:41:54 +0000

I’m sure they’re working on that, but that takes time. It definitely doesn’t happen in the relative “overnight” that this new influx of code spam spun up.

New comment by John23832 in "Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'"

John23832 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:39:47 +0000

How will you know when to unplug the power? How will we know it hasn't replicated? A true unaligned AGI is a APT. If you have an APT in your machine, you have to rip out everything. Are we going to do that with all of our computer infra?

This is all still "what if's", but the tail end's are truly F'd beyond our ability to fix.

New comment by John23832 in "Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke"

John23832 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:14:13 +0000

Your intuition is busted if you can’t tell the difference between a joke about frivolous naming, and managing a global pandemic.

Malicious Version of ArrayRef (0.3.10) Published

John23832 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/droundy/arrayref

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372310

Points: 1

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New comment by John23832 in "Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause"

John23832 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:45:27 +0000

It’s the lack of community. In prior eras, we had more community to help us deal with ourselves. Now, without community, we just ruminate. Or fall into toxic, one subject, online community.

New comment by John23832 in "Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters"

John23832 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:42:29 +0000

And then the "good guy" gets shot in the back and killed. https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/mother-of-good-samar...

New comment by John23832 in "The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border"

John23832 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:34:11 +0000

iPhones have unique identifiers. So do you, via your set of emails used. The email maps to the iCloud account, which then maps to the iPhone. It would be trivial to map a backup to an iPhone.

New comment by John23832 in "The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border"

John23832 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:36:13 +0000

But if the data is backed up on iCloud, Apple will provide it with a warrant.

New comment by John23832 in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

John23832 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:37:13 +0000

You’re yelling at clouds.

New comment by John23832 in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

John23832 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:52:24 +0000

Yes. None of the supposed action of creatine was backed by any statistically significant study. Just drink water. Or don't. It's up to you.

New comment by John23832 in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

John23832 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:45:02 +0000

Knowledge of the potential is peripheral expectation.

If you can say "Oh yea that makes sense" with the same set of knowledge you had both before and after some event happens, all else being equal, you have an expectation. That is enough for placebo.

You have to have literally 0 knowledge about an event to rule out placebo.

New comment by John23832 in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

John23832 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:22:44 +0000

Placebo.

New comment by John23832 in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

John23832 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:17:25 +0000

If you actually drank enough water daily, sans creatine, I'm sure you'd feel better.

New comment by John23832 in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

John23832 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:10:08 +0000

Most people taking creatine just need to drink water. They drink more water using creatine. In reality, the water/hydration is doing the heaviest lift, not the creatine.

New comment by John23832 in "Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO"

John23832 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:22:37 +0000

> Seems odd that they don't discuss a common reason to short a stock: you expect it to go down, without any real opinion on the business.

The reverse is true for meme stocks as well. You can buy a stock because you expect it to go up without any real opinion on the business.

Though we all know the opinion on the business. Great science project, bad business.

New comment by John23832 in "Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts"

John23832 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:28:06 +0000

> The algorithmic trading firms were already doing this via scraping.

That doesn’t matter. That’s fundamentally different than the president selling access to himself.

New comment by John23832 in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

John23832 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:03:28 +0000

Then show us the example of Claude uploading a home directory to Anthropic because we have an example of Grok uploading a home directory to X.

New comment by John23832 in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

John23832 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:36:05 +0000

Because we learned more, gathered more public concern, and then acted?

If there’s not a eureka moment of knowledge, should we do nothing?

New comment by John23832 in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

John23832 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:28:38 +0000

> Human change can be subject to the law of large numbers, but nothing necessitates any particular change being towards progress.

The same can be said of the "Great Man Theory" (or its adaptation by selecting immigrants based on some selected set of skills). You don't know that you're making society better, you're just selecting for a certain set of skills.

> The American melting pot works well (or worked well) because it was a nation made up from a blank canvas with no prior historically established dominant ethnicity or culture the kind other nations have had going for millenia.

This isn't true and it ignores the cultural differences amongst all of the original colonists (religious, language, political, and country of origin). That's before you even consider the stark differences in culture between the Native Americans and the European colonist.