Hacker News: TheBlight

New comment by TheBlight in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

TheBlight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:17:20 +0000

Because of your personal politics?

New comment by TheBlight in "xAI joins SpaceX"

TheBlight — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:52:31 +0000

Ok then short SpaceX stock when it IPOs.

New comment by TheBlight in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

TheBlight — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:35:45 +0000

Bookmark it.

New comment by TheBlight in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

TheBlight — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:44:44 +0000

What it looks like to me is that Carney the businessman is trying to work for the best terms in an eventual annexation scenario.

New comment by TheBlight in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

TheBlight — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:50:12 +0000

This ignores physical geographical reality.

New comment by TheBlight in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

TheBlight — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:47:41 +0000

Isn't it somewhat laughable when something like 3/4 of Canadian exports are to the US?

New comment by TheBlight in "In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation"

TheBlight — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:30:05 +0000

If you type something into the computer you should assume everyone in the world will eventually be able to see it.

If you send your DNA to a company in the mail you should assume everyone in the world will eventually be able to see it.

New comment by TheBlight in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

TheBlight — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:27:59 +0000

Simulation scaling will be the most insane though. Simulating "everything" at the quantum level is impossible and the vast majority of new learning won't require anything near that. But answers to the hardest questions will require as close to it as possible so it will be tried. Millions upon millions of times. It's hard to imagine.

New comment by TheBlight in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

TheBlight — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:13:03 +0000

"Scaling" is going to eventually apply to the ability to run more and higher fidelity simulations such that AI can run experiments and gather data about the world as fast and as accurately as possible. Pre-training is mostly dead. The corresponding compute spend will be orders of magnitude higher.

New comment by TheBlight in "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"

TheBlight — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:38:55 +0000

So by your logic, there's only room for one gatekept source of general purpose information on the web? No one besides entrenched progressive interests can do anything to Wikipedia. It's like reddit. We're tired of your guys' spaces. So sorry if this offends.

New comment by TheBlight in "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"

TheBlight — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:25:46 +0000

Although I'm sure it's been a blast, we don't need to play by your rules any more.

New comment by TheBlight in "Rapid Brightening of 3I/Atlas Ahead of Perihelion"

TheBlight — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:06:15 +0000

Planetary scientist academics are angry because he's getting all of the attention and it isn't even in the field he's most known for previously. Even smart humans are still humans.

New comment by TheBlight in "Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations"

TheBlight — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:14:33 +0000

Try reading the article. You might enjoy it and it will answer your question.

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:50:22 +0000

Biden issued several blanket pardons for any crimes that people may have committed for a period of a decade. That doesn't strike me as particularly discerning.

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:06:43 +0000

I don't think you know what you're talking about. Surely everyone on the Coinbase platform is vetted seeing as they're a publicly traded company. Presumably the vast majority of Binance users are not in fact money launderers.

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:04:47 +0000

No one was imprisoned for "insurrection." The vast majority were charged only with entering restricted grounds.

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:02:20 +0000

How does pardoning CZ "prop up the ecosystem"?

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:00:49 +0000

Balaji was the former CTO of a rival company. Wouldn't he be incentivized to not support CZ?

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:57:47 +0000

There's a potential implication that the president wasn't the one making the decisions and they were political favors doled out by unnamed and unaccountable staff. If the president felt strongly about that perception he could've signed them himself. But he seemingly didn't.

New comment by TheBlight in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

TheBlight — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:40:34 +0000

There's an argument the prosecution was political. See: https://x.com/balajis/status/1981423831572238856