Hacker News: btmiller

New comment by btmiller in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

btmiller — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:29:34 +0000

A full sentence answer for you: yes.

New comment by btmiller in "Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case"

btmiller — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:25:42 +0000

There’s a big distance between libertarian and liberal societies. The libertarian tendencies of corporations are what tend to cause more harm.

New comment by btmiller in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

btmiller — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:39:08 +0000

RFC 2822, for the curious :)

New comment by btmiller in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

btmiller — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:10:06 +0000

It’s been highly valuable. It taught me about undertones, color temperature, 60/30/10 rules, strengths and weaknesses of various countertop materials, load bearing, space planning, power delivery, millwork, lumber quality and cost, HVAC options, building code requirements, ceiling projections and light planning, fixture restoration, exposure to new vendors … should I go on?

You bookmarked those once, surely you meant to go back to them ;)

New comment by btmiller in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

btmiller — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:55 +0000

Really? I have bookmarked:

- 758 posts on home construction and interior design - 487 posts on cooking - 58 posts on relationship health - 605 posts on leadership - 58 posts on fitness - 19 posts on woodworking

, and countless others on travel and dining.

Would you like to restate your claim with more nuance? I have collected a vast amounts of knowledge through TikTok. Their algorithm is insanely good at capturing whatever it is you’re after. It’s a challenge to put the app down and I think any person that can’t impose their own healthy limits or can’t modulate their topical interests is going to have an even harder time. Let’s remember that amidst the real negative aspects, there is a really great system for learning buried in there.

New comment by btmiller in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

btmiller — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:41:44 +0000

Remind me who's owning and operating these driverless cars? A private company?

New comment by btmiller in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

btmiller — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:39:27 +0000

Thanks for the reply. The perception of safety in attended ride shares is masking the larger economic constraint. So let's assume for sake of conversation that your safety concerns are warranted. I'd ask you to consider how much money additional money you're willing to spend on ride shares. The urban utopia of autonomous vehicles is often championed, yet fully unconsidered in a capitalist regime. How much additional money do you expect most Americans to spend toward ride shares, to the degree that they abandon vehicle ownership? What degree of broad behavior and spending change do you expect to occur as result of unattended ride shares?

New comment by btmiller in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

btmiller — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:35:49 +0000

I’m skeptical. Is the presence of a human driver keeping you from using Uber/Lyft/taxis more than you currently are? Why would you think removing a driver will lead to more ride share trips? Capitalism is going to do its thing, so between the touted benefits of driverless ride shares and capitalist economics, could you please explain how exactly our city landscapes, namely parking lots, will be revolutionized in any way, shape, or form other than zombie lots occupied Waymos endlessly arranging and charging themselves? Forgive my cynicism, it feels like I’ve seen this how this dream turns out many times before.

New comment by btmiller in "When someone says they hate your product"

btmiller — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:36:39 +0000

Interesting thought! In moments like these, capturing the innovation can be ignited by asking whether the comment was frustration or feedback, or said slightly differently “was that trying to be helpful or hurtful?”. Tends to get the other party to rethink their words and produce a more productive dialogue. It’s a tool we can all use both at and outside of work :)

New comment by btmiller in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

btmiller — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:31:38 +0000

Never let a good disaster go to waste ;)

New comment by btmiller in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

btmiller — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:27:25 +0000

Hey, which town do you live in? I want to know where I should be steering clear of Subarus in the winter ;)

New comment by btmiller in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

btmiller — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:37:59 +0000

How are we feeling about the usage of the word research to indicate feature sets in LLMs? Is it truly representative of research? How does it compare to the colloquial “do your research” refrain used often during US election years?

New comment by btmiller in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

btmiller — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:53:33 +0000

It’s the sign of a health economy when we respect the creation of content.

New comment by btmiller in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

btmiller — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:51:09 +0000

Would you like to rephrase what you said then? As written, it’s hard to come to any conclusion other than that you could stand to gain some respect for the long road of research and progress needed to achieve fully autonomous driving fleet. 8 is bigger than 0, and approving any non-zero number is recognizing the value of technology.

New comment by btmiller in "Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules"

btmiller — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:18:09 +0000

Yep and they should never have been allowed to exist. Tactile operation keeps your eyes where they need to be.

New comment by btmiller in "Blind spots on American cars are expanding"

btmiller — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:54:38 +0000

That’s an important point to remember. Do you think all the car safety regulations were the most effective and achievable solution in the US? Or are there alternatives to achieving safety without resorting to mass transit? Don’t get me wrong, I live in a city and good mass transit would be AWESOME (for safety too). I don’t think that environment is shared by a majority of Americans, and so I’m still skeptical whether extensive mass transit networks across America would ever be economically and technically realistic (i.e. the suburb i grew up in will certainly never have city walkability).

New comment by btmiller in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

btmiller — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:05:56 +0000

You don’t say.

New comment by btmiller in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

btmiller — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:50:40 +0000

Thanks for the background! It leaves me confused since this is marketed for internet lovers yet the connection to a love for the internet isn’t answered. For instance, I see a bunch of Cat6 cable colors as your choices, or perhaps you could’ve selected a ranked collection of the most popular colors used on the internet, or even the colors for best legibility on digital screens. Where’s the connection, what in particular should fans of the internet be drawn to about your particular palette?

New comment by btmiller in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

btmiller — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:03:50 +0000

How were these specific colors chosen to represent the internet?

New comment by btmiller in "Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income"

btmiller — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:18:36 +0000

Yep. Paying taxes is the right thing to do for the country. Yet the system gets purposely broken, people lose faith that any system could work, tax dollars run for the shadows, and the cycle accelerates. I don’t know what the fix is. We need to restore faith, but you need revenue to build faith, and revenue depends on established faith.