Hacker News: ajcp

New comment by ajcp in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

ajcp — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:29:33 +0000

one core tenant of Christianity is that Christ the Messiah obviates prophecy. No denomination of Christianity (AFAIK) considers the LDS as true Christians...except for the LDS themselves

New comment by ajcp in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

ajcp — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:40:02 +0000

It's technically called Autopilot* Scout if you can believe it...

New comment by ajcp in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

ajcp — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:52:13 +0000

The comment you are replying to is correct. The Soviet Union had massive amounts of resources and capital (both human and economic) to be able to develop and support technical innovations. The wider-Soviet bloc itself was of such a scale as to be able to completely support their own divergent technologies and innovations. The higher education systems themselves were sufficient to provide and foster the talent, even if they were overly-politicized.

Of issue, especially as time went on, was the overly-centralized nature of national resource and economic strategy and planning. Especially ESPECIALLY constraining was the dual-circuit monetary system of its economy, which literally prevented half of its "capital" to follow innovation or market forces outside of centralized allocation.

I highly recommend the book Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok

New comment by ajcp in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ajcp — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:27:35 +0000

"I did the same thing; whoever designed these doors was a sadist." -

"Do you like that bag? I've been meaning to get a new one, I'm so tired of this one." -

"Now see, if we were as good looking/rich/smart as him we could have figured that out." -

"Is that thing broken again? I'm telling you, we're in the wrong business man." -

"Nothing to do with talent, it's a money and equipment problem, we're awesome at this." -

I've used each one of these in the past week with complete strangers, in neutral-to-unfamiliar surroundings, in passing, and the most hostile reaction I've gotten is "hahaha, I know right?" :)

New comment by ajcp in "Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown"

ajcp — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:34:17 +0000

> Despite working at a terrible school

Literally zero need for that; none. And it's that kind of language that calls into question the authors motives. I went from "Excellent reporting here" to "This guy is emotional and not a reliable source of information" in 6 words.

New comment by ajcp in "HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X"

ajcp — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:32:17 +0000

That too makes sense.

New comment by ajcp in "HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X"

ajcp — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:03:50 +0000

Apparently it was video clips originally posted, but it seems like posting unpublished(?) copy of any type can fall under DMCA, which I guess makes sense.

-> [HBO Lawyer] classifies the infringing content as 'summaries of unpublished, character, setting, and plots of a forthcoming series'

New comment by ajcp in "The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright"

ajcp — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:40:53 +0000

100% that's actually what we found missing/were disappointed in from the Taliesin West "self-guided" audio tour was it was more social/artistic approach of his architectural style, and not at all on the actual architecture and it's effects.

New comment by ajcp in "The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright"

ajcp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:14:21 +0000

-> which [is?] pretty bland

That's a shame to hear, as Taliesin West in Arizona is very fascinating and interesting, but rather poorly curated and run.

New comment by ajcp in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

ajcp — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:12:54 +0000

For what it's worth I found Oslo Airport to be one of the best airport experiences I've ever had. 5 stars.

New comment by ajcp in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

ajcp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:45:25 +0000

Just select one of the 5 successor states to Yugoslavia, forward all traffic to their ministry of foreign affairs, and then enjoy the heartfelt exchange of brotherly love and munitions that ensues!

New comment by ajcp in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

ajcp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:47:24 +0000

> $800k doesn't sound like that much of money for someone that has access to that kind of insider knowledge

I think you over-estimate by a large margin how much congressional staffers and/or Pentagon employees make, many of whom could have access to this kind of information in the course of their duties.

New comment by ajcp in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

ajcp — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:03:46 +0000

And conversely having all of your teeth, and straight ones at that, help prevent jaw wasting.

New comment by ajcp in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

ajcp — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:30:50 +0000

While it has many many amazing scenes, I think Patriot's "cover" of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator is absolutely top notch.

https://youtu.be/FFK7RHYdWCc?si=w8R0eO6W3uGgXt3R

New comment by ajcp in "CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'"

ajcp — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:30:40 +0000

Putting a rock in your shoe instantly changes your gait signature.

New comment by ajcp in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

ajcp — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:50:37 +0000

Yes, I believe a person on a hacker forum who has said, through their own evaluations, that they have observed LLM driven agents exhibiting illegal behavior, such as when they have asked an agent to complete certain tasks with what sounds like abstracted levels of context. I believe them because I know I can get an agent to do that myself by simply installing OpenClaw and telling it to apply for as many mortgage loans as possible at the best rate possible.

New comment by ajcp in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

ajcp — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:05:18 +0000

Fraud is a real thing. Lying or misrepresenting information on financial applications is illegal in most jurisdictions the world over. I have no trouble believing that a sub-agent of enough specificity would attempt to commit fraud in the pursuit of it's instructions.

New comment by ajcp in "Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy"

ajcp — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:05:10 +0000

-> Its e-commerce and wholesale operations are not affected by the filing because they are operated separately.

Eddie Bauer the brand is not going bankrupt; the company that runs the brick-and-mortor stores in North America as Eddie Bauer is. So if you get your Eddie Bauer from anywhere that isn't an Eddie Bauer store you should be fine.

New comment by ajcp in "The Waymo World Model"

ajcp — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:13:14 +0000

Not at all. It's not the counter-factual they're generating, it's the "too rare to capture often enough to train a response to" they're generating.

They're implying that without the model having knowledge, even approximate, of a scene to react to, it simply doesn't react at all; it simply "yields" to the situation until it passes. In my experience taking Waymo's almost daily this holds.

I would rather not have the Waymo yield to a tornado, rising flood-waters, or charging elephant...

New comment by ajcp in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

ajcp — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:07:23 +0000

As someone who has spent a good portion of my career in the RPA/intelligent automation field this take was a spit-coffee-close-laptop moment.