Hacker News: VS1999

New comment by VS1999 in "Austria to 'Super-Speeders': We're Taking Your Car"

VS1999 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:49:48 +0000

I don't have any tolerance for people who put everyone else at risk. Take their license, take their cars, send them to prison if they try driving again.

New comment by VS1999 in "Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle"

VS1999 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:51:45 +0000

This habit of latching onto one word specifically to ignore what everyone knows is obnoxious, pedantic, and most of the time not even technically correct. It's just stupid quibbling over how words in English can be used to mean different things. And just so you know, the model doesn't "learn" anything, you're just adjusting weights until you get a desired result.

New comment by VS1999 in "PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet"

VS1999 — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:05:35 +0000

You don't have to use your phone any way. Just don't download something if you don't want it, silly.

New comment by VS1999 in "PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet"

VS1999 — Mon, 27 May 2024 16:03:09 +0000

This dismissive, snarky one-liner only works if people already overwhelmingly agree with you. Most people are tired of companies adding more and more surveillance "features" and grew up in a time that set a higher bar for how much privacy they're willing to give away. A user taking a note? Sure. The OS recording everything you do 24/7 to send through an AI? Maybe we need new legislation to address your behavior.

New comment by VS1999 in "Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)"

VS1999 — Sun, 26 May 2024 10:52:24 +0000

Nearly every post that uses exclamation marks like this is off-putting. Fake enthusiasm is creepy. There is no way you are enthusiastic about people having no inner voice.

New comment by VS1999 in "One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid"

VS1999 — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:15:48 +0000

You came up with an extreme example that virtually never happens as a counterpoint to something that is ubiquitous in modern life. This behavior is why people don't like this forum.

New comment by VS1999 in "One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid"

VS1999 — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:10:52 +0000

>To add insult to injury, means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs! Not to mention, the biggest fraudsters with Medicaid are providers not recipients.

Intuitively, I'd expect fraud to go up (at least to some degree) as means testing goes down like a differential equation. The depressing part of this is that it doesn't matter what is actually true, or what either of us are convinced is true, as the system will do its own thing.

New comment by VS1999 in "Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)"

VS1999 — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:42:50 +0000

It's overvalued but still useful for the average person to have an easy way to think about if they're about to run 1000 operations or 1000^3 operations on something.

New comment by VS1999 in "Online censorship's institutional power"

VS1999 — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:39:35 +0000

There's also the issue when private companies just do what the government expects of them, or even pressures them to do. There was a brief controversy (canonized by CBS news) when the current administration ordered social media sites like twitter, youtube, and and facebook to remove posts that they thought were false or painted them in a bad light. What is the point of placing restrictions on government if they can just have a private company do it?

I'm also tired of seeing people say "It's a private company, they can do what they want." I don't know why the average person is so enthusiastic about the idea of getting taken for a ride by huge corporations.

New comment by VS1999 in "Online censorship's institutional power"

VS1999 — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:34:14 +0000

I'm glad this covers the "canonization cycle" that's popular among news sites right now. The path to getting something declared as truth on wikipedia is to convince an unqualified journalist to uncritically repeat your claims, and now you can point to that as an official source. Often it goes even deeper if you try to track down a source on wikipedia and it's a reputable news site citing another, citing another, citing another, all the way down to the original source being some cooking blog. This means that unqualified bloggers and the tech company who host the infrastructure are the final arbiters of truth.

New comment by VS1999 in "Gemini Flash"

VS1999 — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:29:13 +0000

I'm not working with a company that can just write in the ToS "we can do anything we want. lol. lmao" and expect me to follow it religiously. Corporations need less control over speech, not more.

New comment by VS1999 in "Chatbots tell people what they want to hear"

VS1999 — Tue, 14 May 2024 01:08:33 +0000

It depends on the subject. They'll argue until the end of time if you disagree with one of their manually preprogrammed opinions, but otherwise you can convince them the world is made of pudding.

New comment by VS1999 in "Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]"

VS1999 — Mon, 13 May 2024 01:58:28 +0000

Do you use twitter? The rhetoric in this post has the exact cadence of someone who spends a lot of time on social media.

New comment by VS1999 in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

VS1999 — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:49:30 +0000

How would I feel if I didn't eat breakfast this morning? I don't follow you. I did eat breakfast.

New comment by VS1999 in "MTA banned from using facial recognition to enforce fare evasion"

VS1999 — Wed, 01 May 2024 02:27:29 +0000

I'm always going to be against piling on significantly more invasive tools to make the state's job easier. I wonder if there's a word for this process where organizations make something intentionally difficult for us and then say "look at how hard this is, clearly you need to let me do this other thing to make it easier".

New comment by VS1999 in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

VS1999 — Wed, 01 May 2024 02:16:31 +0000

Why would you not enforce a particular belief about how a language should be designed? There are languages designed around being able to do anything you want at any time regardless of if it makes sense, and then you end up with everyone using their own fractured subset of language features that don't even work well together. Not every language needs to be the same feature slop that supports everything poorly and nothing well.

New comment by VS1999 in "Xbox 360 marketplace will stop accepting purchases per July 29th"

VS1999 — Wed, 01 May 2024 01:19:35 +0000

I'd go the other way here. A complete refund of everything you've spent on their store after it shuts down, or some other way to continue playing those games.

New comment by VS1999 in "Man who mass-extorted psychotherapy patients gets six years"

VS1999 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:10:27 +0000

What would this large network of criminals do? Perhaps they should be in isolation if they're that negative an influence.

New comment by VS1999 in "Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions"

VS1999 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:20:44 +0000

You have having a wonderful time not understanding what is being said. It seems deliberate at this point.

New comment by VS1999 in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

VS1999 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:49:31 +0000

"Impulses" here means the mind. Medication with side effects also effect the body. You're giving three options of altering the mind, body, or environment. On principle I'm against altering the mind and body of millions of people because their environment is shitty. This also doesn't buy anyone any time, it just makes it the new "baseline" normal as companies and society adapt around it like these snack companies you're saying take advantage of people.