Hacker News: Sivart13

New comment by Sivart13 in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

Sivart13 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:28:34 +0000

I don't think they changed much about the ending. There's one scene added that's not in the book, but the outcomes are all the same.

New comment by Sivart13 in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

Sivart13 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:38:08 +0000

FACO, f around and cash out

New comment by Sivart13 in "We Will Not Be Divided"

Sivart13 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:24:14 +0000

Not all tech employers are total weenies who would refuse to hire someone for taking this stance.

Most are, but not all.

New comment by Sivart13 in "How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet"

Sivart13 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:12:54 +0000

...so?

New comment by Sivart13 in "Abundant Intelligence"

Sivart13 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:05:49 +0000

> Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer.

Something I've never understood: why do AGI perverts think that a superintelligence is any more likely to "cure cancer" than "create unstoppable super-cancer"

New comment by Sivart13 in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

Sivart13 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:40:47 +0000

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New comment by Sivart13 in "IRS Direct File on GitHub"

Sivart13 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:40:01 +0000

this was supposed to be exactly that

New comment by Sivart13 in "Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles"

Sivart13 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:56:50 +0000

but anyone who gets into a Waymo that smells like dogshit can get out, report it, and wait for the next one. Are you describing a real problem or just one you imagine?

New comment by Sivart13 in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

Sivart13 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:23:23 +0000

Once you're a big enough company hiring needs to be its own workstream just to keep up with attrition.

New comment by Sivart13 in "New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike"

Sivart13 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:44:02 +0000

The point of organizing a union is to negotiate a contract. One that includes terms that individual workers wouldn't have been able to secure on their own.

A union that's recognized but doesn't have a contract may as well not be a union at all. Basically the only power they can exercise is to strike.

New comment by Sivart13 in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

Sivart13 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:25:43 +0000

Why would we be any more likely to implement it, relative to the solutions that humans have already figured out for climate change?

New comment by Sivart13 in "“Attention assault” on Fandom"

Sivart13 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:45:09 +0000

Moreso than just the visual assault from going to a Fandom page, these things have got to have an impact on global battery life.

Having a couple Fandom pages open in tabs can drive my laptop fan crazy and turn my phone into a griddle.

New comment by Sivart13 in "IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season"

Sivart13 — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:54:33 +0000

I can speak to Arizona and New York: they both have state taxes but didn't have any existing web portal that could be integrated with Direct File.

They were in the pilot because the organization I worked for, Code for America, offered to build them one: https://codeforamerica.org/programs/tax-benefits/state-tax-f...

We reached out to other states as well, but those were the two that ended up being most impactful + most cooperative + easiest to implement :)

New comment by Sivart13 in "IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season"

Sivart13 — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:25:28 +0000

In an effort to keep the scope manageable for the pilot year, the Direct File team chose to have an upper income limit so they would not have to support Form 8959: Additional Medicare Tax (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8959.pdf) which only kicks in at that threshold.

Though it's also very likely at these high incomes that you would be disqualified for other reasons (investment income etc)

New comment by Sivart13 in "The worst programmer I know"

Sivart13 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 21:10:45 +0000

A union doesn’t have the power to change management, and is just as likely to advocate to retain low performing ICs in the name of “solidarity”

New comment by Sivart13 in "Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983"

Sivart13 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:35:11 +0000

Daycare is considered by many to be very expensive and a lot of parents would prefer not to (or can't!) pay daycare prices until their kids leave the house.

New comment by Sivart13 in "JavaScript Gom Jabbar"

Sivart13 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:03:55 +0000

this list feels just a short jump from “we didn’t start the fire”

New comment by Sivart13 in "Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?"

Sivart13 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:01:08 +0000

100%, my guess this is someone putting Disney or Nintendo characters in compromising situations and Valve would have rejected it AI or not

New comment by Sivart13 in "Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale"

Sivart13 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 02:13:12 +0000

Counterpoint, I'd wager they were already on a downward trajectory which is what drove both the sale to Sapporo and the rebrand.

The alternative to the rebrand might not have been sticking with the existing style forever, but shutting the place down.

New comment by Sivart13 in "Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health"

Sivart13 — Mon, 15 May 2023 16:53:55 +0000

What's easier to change, human nature or technology?