Hacker News: alexsereno

New comment by alexsereno in "A brief history of code signing at Mozilla"

alexsereno — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:05:26 +0000

It’s such an insane take that proof would be amazing

New comment by alexsereno in "Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated"

alexsereno — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:30:52 +0000

I’d love to see this placed into the context of the (actual) average Joe. If you consider that the average person dramatically overestimates their reasoning skills and can’t correctly do high school level math, I think it would help understand if we have reached AGI. It would also just provide some color to the state of things.

New comment by alexsereno in "T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next"

alexsereno — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 04:22:15 +0000

This is a wonderful example

New comment by alexsereno in "T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next"

alexsereno — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:07:13 +0000

Hacker news is peak contrarian. If your stance was that this merger was incredible, your replies would be entirely about competition lol.

New comment by alexsereno in "Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights"

alexsereno — Thu, 23 May 2024 18:50:44 +0000

Pay a bit extra to board earlier.

New comment by alexsereno in "US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers"

alexsereno — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:22:34 +0000

No, devaluing the 5th because they regularly have completely insane takes is logical. They regularly twist legal frameworks for completely out of pocket takes. Criticizing government actors instead of blindly trusting every ruling without reading it is how democracy functions and grows. If you’re so upset over that, you probably need to re evaluate if you should live in a country where citizens get to distrust their government. That’s exactly the foundation of this one.

New comment by alexsereno in "US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers"

alexsereno — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:01:34 +0000

Sorry for the confusion there, but I bought that up as a point that their rulings have been so bad that even the current, extremely partial SC, has been forced by the politics of the situation to slap down their rulings. It’s as if your own friends tell you you’ve gone a bit too far.

New comment by alexsereno in "US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers"

alexsereno — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:52:35 +0000

Well judging how bad a court is by how many times this Supreme Court reverses it isn’t the best metric, that would require the SC to be a fair and reasonable actor

New comment by alexsereno in "US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers"

alexsereno — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:19:12 +0000

Adding the 4 missing Supreme Court justices for the circuits that don’t have them would go a long way to solving this in the short term.

New comment by alexsereno in "US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers"

alexsereno — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:17:37 +0000

This exactly, the 5th has the wildest and most twisted rulings to the point even the current Supreme Court has slapped a few down. Any reasonable person should be skeptical.

New comment by alexsereno in "How to Start Google"

alexsereno — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:27:35 +0000

That’s a super thoughtful response, thanks. Also my armchair understanding is that HVDC electric is superior and our electrical grid needs the rework anyways haha

New comment by alexsereno in "How to Start Google"

alexsereno — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:58:37 +0000

You know I remember hearing this way back in the early 2000s but forgot about it, Carl is pretty low key, no Wikipedia / etc

New comment by alexsereno in "Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure"

alexsereno — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:18:22 +0000

Yes of course - it depends on what lens though. If you mean "I'm learning to build better from this" then no, but its very informative on Meta's own goals and mindset as well as real numbers that allow comparison to investment in other areas, etc. Also the point was mostly that Meta does publish a lot in the open - including actual open source tech stacks etc. They're reasonably good actors in this specific domain.

New comment by alexsereno in "Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure"

alexsereno — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:31:27 +0000

Honestly Meta is consistently one of the better companies at releasing tech stack info or just open sourcing, these kinds of articles are super fun

New comment by alexsereno in "WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability"

alexsereno — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:44:30 +0000

You’re right, I could have specified that even if you don’t use iCloud you have a keychain on iOS

New comment by alexsereno in "WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability"

alexsereno — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:50:59 +0000

You certainly can not, here's some more info. Passwords and the keychain are separate items.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/441112/how-can-i-r...

New comment by alexsereno in "WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability"

alexsereno — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:52:24 +0000

Hey I can shed light on this. It’s the iCloud keychain. Disabling the keychain doesn’t delete existing entries. There is no way to modify the keychain on iOS (you can on Mac). Lots of apps store sign on data in the keychain for obvious reasons.

It would be really great to have a keychain section in iOS’s settings, like Keychain Access on Mac. The dev can build in-app functionality to delete keys from the keychain, but there’s not a huge incentive to.

Keychain storage doesn’t let FB track you, just store sign on info, keys, and the like. It’s not able to execute arbitrary code, it’s an encrypted place to store login info that Apple syncs between your devices.

Use them via Safari if you don’t want this (then your logins are saved & synced in Safaris keychain.)

New comment by alexsereno in "HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD"

alexsereno — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:15:55 +0000

Masochism

New comment by alexsereno in "A record number of Americans can't afford rent"

alexsereno — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:20:26 +0000

This is quite simple, cities are run by voters. Any property owner, and all the landlords, are incentivized to keep housing stock as low as possible. To get around this you need federal housing regulation to prevent local governments from doing what’s clearly in their loudest voters best interest, and instead change the incentives to favor building high rise condos and dense housing

New comment by alexsereno in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

alexsereno — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:02:48 +0000

That’s valid