Hacker News: asadotzler

New comment by asadotzler in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

asadotzler — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:46:52 +0000

If you exclude model training costs, customer acquisition / sales, and most of employee compensation, sure they're profitable. If, on the other hand, you prefer GAAP reporting to bullshit, then they're entirely in the red.

New comment by asadotzler in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

asadotzler — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:47:35 +0000

compute is fine. its necessary battery is not. compute is almost weightless, battery crushes heads.

New comment by asadotzler in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

asadotzler — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:46:20 +0000

If you're good with 1990s era text fidelity, you'll love it. If, on the other hand, you prefer text that's readable enough to not care that it's digital, this will certainly let you down.

Even Apple's Vision Pro is only half-Retina, the same jaggedy text a my 1998 G3 PowerBook. I kid you not, the PPD is identical. And taking off Vision Pro and looking at your iPhone or MBP screen makes you want to smash Vision Pro against the wall. The displays absolutely suck -- and Frame's are even worse.

(If Apple narrowed the FOV down to about 75-80 degrees, they'd get decent text. But 80 degrees isn't deep immersion so we got 100 degrees and terrible text.)

New comment by asadotzler in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

asadotzler — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:34:36 +0000

You don't need intent to be fined or jailed for criminal negligence. Let anthrax or smallpox escape your lab, and kill and maim people and see how your "no malice" defense holds up.

New comment by asadotzler in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

asadotzler — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:29:28 +0000

Negligence works fine.

New comment by asadotzler in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

asadotzler — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:29:03 +0000

Accidents that don't rise to the level of negligence can be excused. Letting your dangerous product escape the lab because of amateurish counter-measures is hardly an accident. It's a systemic failure within a company of novices with billions of dollars to blow and it's time we held them accountable for their lab leaks, just like we would if it was anthrax or smallpox. You don't get to be sloppy with dangerous things.

New comment by asadotzler in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

asadotzler — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:57:57 +0000

Imagine telling a kid they have to learn arithmetic while there's a kid next to him with a calculator.

Imagine telling a kid they have to learn to paint the barn with a brush before they get to use the $12,000 spray rig.

Imagine telling a kid they have to learn to wash mom's car with a sponge and bucket when there's a drive-through car wash down the street.

Imagine telling a kid they have to master a Walmart 20" bicycle before they get to use the Trek Madone $16,000 road bike.

This idea that kids must have it maximally easy is ridiculous. Something broke with parenting in the last few decades because this isn't normal thinking. We are supposed to help children develop themselves into adults, not give the excuses not to. That's some goddamned lazy parenting.

New comment by asadotzler in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

asadotzler — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:48:23 +0000

Absolutely. Of course. Is there any question about this? Do you see people advocating for something other than this?

New comment by asadotzler in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

asadotzler — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:47:17 +0000

He was saying, vendors put that flag in the OS and parents set that flag in the OS and internet services respect that flag from the OS. No website anything, all in the OS. No staying ahead of anything, one and done. This, as noted above, requires that services respect the flag, which they do not universally do today. That requires legislation, something that will be a part of any workable solution.

New comment by asadotzler in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

asadotzler — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:41:27 +0000

It's been a slow decline for about 15 years. It's as if the median age went from about 23 to about 15.

New comment by asadotzler in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

asadotzler — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:23:20 +0000

The jeweler might have a smaller selection and steeper, retail prices. Many jewelers don't deal in diamonds at all.

I mean, you're right, just ask them to set a lab-grown rock. You're not bringing in ingots of gold for the ring, after all.

Then again, even synthetic diamonds can get expensive so maybe any savings is good savings.

New comment by asadotzler in "Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA"

asadotzler — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:21:18 +0000

That's about half total comp of juniors at any FANG.

New comment by asadotzler in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

asadotzler — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:11:31 +0000

See bio containment labs in the US. We do do it and we can do it and your fatalism is either misplaced or pushing an agenda.

New comment by asadotzler in "OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3"

asadotzler — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:18:43 +0000

24.9% is damn close to the 24.8% average over the ast 25 years, for the thing it's measuring-- jobless, people working part-time or involuntarily, and workers earning less than $26,000. Since 2000, it's been over 30% for more years than it's been under 24%.

New comment by asadotzler in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

asadotzler — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:21:45 +0000

the acid test is surfing the web. it doesn't matter how many tests it passes if users can't get to the sites they want and use them the way they want because their browser doesn't support some feature properly or because gets rejected by the sites for not being Chrome/Safari/Firefox.

New comment by asadotzler in "Starbase, LA"

asadotzler — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:26:40 +0000

It will be comms mostly, and mostly civilian. That other stuff will happen, but it'll be dwarfed by the effort of supporting several tens of millions of Starlink users.

New comment by asadotzler in "Starbase, LA"

asadotzler — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:25:39 +0000

Do you know where NASA's launch facilities are? The Florida coast.

New comment by asadotzler in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

asadotzler — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:26:30 +0000

The only serious EV maker in the US has received more US subsidizing than any single Chinese maker.

New comment by asadotzler in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

asadotzler — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:41:05 +0000

You are arguing the slippery slope, which may play out or may not. Instead, argue today, with the facts as they are not as you imagine they will be at some future point.

New comment by asadotzler in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

asadotzler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:37:43 +0000

You always have a choice. If my job made me bash puppies on the head with a hammer, I'd quit. All you have to decide is where you draw that line.