Hacker News: bennyhill

New comment by bennyhill in "Thousands More Teslas Are Piling Up in Parking Lots"

bennyhill — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:01:51 +0000

Tesla has more than double the P/E of the rest of the industry so this had better be a logistics problem that means they are moving to a lot more sales and not just tapering demand.

New comment by bennyhill in "Proposal would have motorists pay by miles driven instead of per-gallon gas tax"

bennyhill — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:40:15 +0000

For (2) registration being weight per year seems good enough to me, it should just be a lot more, especially if a vehicle is oversized for its axels or license class.

I don't like parked trash and I believe the disposal/recycling process will have environmental impacts proportional to weight in terms of energy, etc.

New comment by bennyhill in "Yubikey 5.7"

bennyhill — Sat, 18 May 2024 07:34:49 +0000

The problems described sound like they have more to do with government interference. How would yubico be responsible for delays multiple shipment companies have and are unable to talk about?

New comment by bennyhill in "52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes"

bennyhill — Sat, 18 May 2024 07:01:10 +0000

The DEA has to do with this topic since you are contradicting a federal decision.

Your use of statistics here is meaningless. 52000 is not the number of guns they put on the street.

The market impact is real and covered in the article. People specifically search for police guns because they are cheap relative to other properties that make them appropriate for human on human violence.

New comment by bennyhill in "52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes"

bennyhill — Fri, 17 May 2024 17:00:03 +0000

I find it rather humorous to suggest that an agency like the DEA, with no actual function besides getting marketable goods out of a market should marginally lower their costs because market impact is a pipe dream.

New comment by bennyhill in "Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East"

bennyhill — Wed, 15 May 2024 05:37:21 +0000

There's no people who deny travel reimbursements that use Saudi gas.. Does that mean we all need to fly to Saudi Arabia to plan future businesses and garrison death squads in our houses?

I think there's a difference between doing the minimum that is not a disadvantage and making a relationship with an ethical discount country your competitive advantage.

Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof flees after jail sentence

bennyhill — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:48:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69006043

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348234

Points: 8

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New comment by bennyhill in "GPT-4o"

bennyhill — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:05:41 +0000

It's equivalent to "nothing to see here" which is exactly the TLDR I was looking for.

New comment by bennyhill in "People who won't give up floppy disks"

bennyhill — Sat, 11 May 2024 19:49:29 +0000

The flash drives give an interesting sense of reliability since the controller will keep freshening and error correcting. I havent dared to leave one unplugged for a few years with data I wanted.

New comment by bennyhill in "Obesity Rates by Gender and Country"

bennyhill — Sat, 11 May 2024 17:57:54 +0000

Kuwaitis are a minority within the actual population in Kuwait. Seems kind of like measuring only at the golf club.

New comment by bennyhill in "EA CEO: "Real hunger" among developers to use AI to speed up development"

bennyhill — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:30:35 +0000

Seems like the difference between cell phones and landlines implies things like self driving cars will be spread without relying on most people in a region affording them before construction starts.

The fully automated vehicles may be a lot more dangerous in some places than others, but you'll probably be able to get run down in the middle of nowhere.

New comment by bennyhill in "In medieval England, leprosy spread btwn red squirrels/people, genome evidence"

bennyhill — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:58:37 +0000

When we are only talking about a few samples in each group, 4 cases every few years seems fine.. I would hypothesize that many of the symptomatic cases are people who are foreign but exposed to UK endemic leprosy. Of course to establish how true that is means there are more data points to collect for cases with foreign contact and the involved lands.

New comment by bennyhill in "GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs"

bennyhill — Fri, 10 May 2024 19:22:09 +0000

Are you saying it exclusively has lidar? If not then I don't understand your comment.

New comment by bennyhill in "GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs"

bennyhill — Fri, 10 May 2024 18:50:16 +0000

With cameras alone it seems pretty easy to trick them into dismissing road signs as nonexistent.. I think Lidar alone should be telling you there is a sign, so your camera is faulty or someone is putting up blank signs.

Lidar as I was told to use it would be in conjunction with a database of way points like signs, so the trouble would be knowing if the sign was updated.

New comment by bennyhill in "The largest carbon removal plant is here, and bigger ones are on the way"

bennyhill — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:07:58 +0000

Probably worthless as a solution, but it seems to me like a good quantitative tool to start fining at a realistic cost. I.e. VWs fines for emissions falsifications were at best based on first estimating with fantasy offset costs instead of a hypothetical build out cost.

New comment by bennyhill in "European Accelerationism"

bennyhill — Wed, 08 May 2024 21:14:23 +0000

You are saying that Europe is rich because it has recently become a melting pot similar to the US' role when it became rich?

Ask HN: PC with Hard Switches?

bennyhill — Mon, 06 May 2024 18:32:44 +0000

Can anyone recommend a way out of soft switch hell?

Computer power supply with a real switch?

Monitor that can support multiple inputs and remember where it is if it insists on sleeping? Maybe firmware that can at least remember 1k of state?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40277929

Points: 1

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New comment by bennyhill in "Balsamic vinegar is likely fake"

bennyhill — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:18:58 +0000

Sounds more like wine and fortified wine to me..

New comment by bennyhill in "At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down"

bennyhill — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:15:09 +0000

Right, something that runs on windows is the periphery from an OS engineers perspective. "You don't have to leave the company, but you can't stay here."

New comment by bennyhill in "At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down"

bennyhill — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:02:30 +0000

My impression was that they did a hard switch to proper Secure OS engineers for Windows about 10 years back.. I kind of wonder if that pushed engineers and managers with the worst habits out to periphery things from the OS perspective..