Hacker News: Pseudocrat

New comment by Pseudocrat in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

Pseudocrat — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:51:14 +0000

He left to found an AI startup

New comment by Pseudocrat in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

Pseudocrat — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:24:45 +0000

> It’s a machine run on actuarial tables and its calculations are telling insurers that they’ll probably have to pay out a damage claim if they cover a Tesla EV.

How is something as recent as this already affecting interest rates? If this is true, then only negative short term trends can have such an effect. Otherwise I would expect rates to lower just as quickly when public ire moves onto the next outrage generator.

New comment by Pseudocrat in "Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU"

Pseudocrat — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:32:37 +0000

Have you considered selling fake moon landing content to conspiracists as a side hustle?

New comment by Pseudocrat in "TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting"

Pseudocrat — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:06:56 +0000

Depends on use case. Hybrid approaches have been dominating the M-Competitions, but there are generally small percentage differences in variance of statistical models vs machine learning models.

And exponentially higher cost for ML models.

New comment by Pseudocrat in "Adam Neumann Submits Bid to Buy Back WeWork for More Than $500M"

Pseudocrat — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:40:21 +0000

What shame is there to be had?

New comment by Pseudocrat in "Fisker Trading Suspended by NYSE"

Pseudocrat — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:32:38 +0000

I'm steeped in bias on this one, but overall this is not a surprise. The stock has been trading sub $1 for a while and there has been very little positive coverage of the company in recent months.

The only deal they had in the works was speculated to be with Nissan and that fell through. Although a successful deal with Nissan would've made me even less optimistic after reading about their mandate to cut new build costs by 30%.

New comment by Pseudocrat in "US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices"

Pseudocrat — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:01:53 +0000

Actually faster here to dial the non-emergency. I once called 911 because a 7 year old child approached me at a gas station asking for money. I was put on hold. When I called the non-emergency I got through right away. The cherry on top was when I received a callback from 911 dispatch over an hour later to check if I was okay.

New comment by Pseudocrat in "Novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT"

Pseudocrat — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:25:05 +0000

It was interesting to me that OpenAI admitted (according to the article) that they used Bibliotik to train the models.

Novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT

Pseudocrat — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:18:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/in_brief_ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665955

Points: 2

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New comment by Pseudocrat in "WinLinux 2000"

Pseudocrat — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:36:50 +0000

I love the Y2K disclosure. I was a kid at the time so all I remember are the stickers on everything.

> YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE

> The WinLinux 2000 Program has been designed and tested to work for our customers in the Year 2000. We will continue to provide detailed information to customers about Year 2000 readiness, but contractual warranties specific to Year 2000 readiness are not appropriate given the nature of Year 2000 issues and the simple fact that a single technology provider, even one as well prepared for the Year 2000 as JRCP USA L.L.C., cannot solve all issues related to the Year 2000 transition, and are hereby expressly disclaimed. The information we disseminate about Year 2000 readiness does not constitute an additional warranty for the WinLinux 2000 Program; JRCP USA L.L.C. merely provides this information to assist our customers in evaluating and correcting potential issues for using dates into the next century.

New comment by Pseudocrat in "I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you"

Pseudocrat — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:35:41 +0000

I've never wanted to downvote comments on YC more than this thread.

New comment by Pseudocrat in "With few other outlets, inmates review prisons on Yelp"

Pseudocrat — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:04:18 +0000

http://www.yelp.com/biz/san-quentin-state-prison-san-quentin

http://www.yelp.com/biz/twin-towers-correctional-facility-lo...

My two personal favorites.

A short list since they can be hard to find on Yelp itself.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-12-best-prisons-on...