Hacker News: carlob

New comment by carlob in "Tesla Roadster"

carlob — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:03:27 +0000

> Stop getting your business/economic news from BlueSky/reddit.

And where should they get them? From Twitter?

New comment by carlob in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

carlob — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:54:43 +0000

Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are saying, but if I do: there is a fundamental difference between Gypsies and homeless people, you are born a gypsy by no fault of your own, but most people are not born homeless. As such racism towards Gypsies is far more heinous because you could have any education, profession, income, housing situation you'll always stay a Gypsy and face the same prejudice, whereas you can (somewhat) more easily stop being homeless.

Now we could have a discussion on whether being poor is a choice or a consequence of societal inequality, but I think more people agree on racism here...

New comment by carlob in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

carlob — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:22:13 +0000

still less tedious than ads or no background play

New comment by carlob in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

carlob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:41:02 +0000

can someone figure out the right invocation of defaults write to script it? I think it would be pretty ironic if that same person used an LLM to achieve it :)

New comment by carlob in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

carlob — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:41:37 +0000

so Australia is in Europe, but Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland are not?

New comment by carlob in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

carlob — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:35:05 +0000

how to disable gen ai features

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366

it used to be one toggle

New comment by carlob in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

carlob — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:54:57 +0000

> Although, no joke, a lot of peoples first reaction is: "They need to compete in Eurovision first. Otherwise they should wait for Australia to join first."

What? First time I hear of this. Honestly, Eurovision doesn't really have anything to do with the EU. We all know the main sponsor is from a non-EU country whose participation is much more controversial than Canada anyway.

New comment by carlob in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

carlob — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:43:44 +0000

I don't think killing people solves world hunger, we already produce enough food to feed everyone, it's just not evenly distributed.

New comment by carlob in "Will there be a 7G?"

carlob — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:20:49 +0000

and that has definitely improved everybody's experience at concerts /s

New comment by carlob in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

carlob — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:35:27 +0000

The fact that corporations have more privacy rights than people is dystopian.

New comment by carlob in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

carlob — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:32:31 +0000

A great example of this triad is driving a car: many people choose to do so every day and a small but not insignificant fraction of them will die because of it.

New comment by carlob in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

carlob — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:29:00 +0000

> Nobody is forcing people to risk their lives to infringe on other people's rights.

Except poverty, ignorance, hunger, addiction, untreated mental illness...

New comment by carlob in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

carlob — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:27:49 +0000

Or you could have a society with a welfare safety net or even viable forms of transportation other than a private car. It appears that places where that happen also tend to have much lower crime rates as an added benefit.

New comment by carlob in "The turbulent AI era is here"

carlob — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:27:22 +0000

let's set aside for a second the fact that this is not how things work, but you are off by an order of magnitude

EDIT: parent comment was edited: it used to say $15

New comment by carlob in "The End of Mathematics"

carlob — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:56:27 +0000

...on openai request to spin up some critihype

New comment by carlob in "Grok 4.5"

carlob — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:49:07 +0000

a non-peer-reviewed preprint with an high schooler as the first author is the best citation you can come up with?

New comment by carlob in "The Private Capture of Public Genius"

carlob — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:49:16 +0000

at this point I'm just confused whether you are talking about north korea or the us

New comment by carlob in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

carlob — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:18:16 +0000

And who is the kingmaker behind those three?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo

Look him up and his connections to Opus Dei.

New comment by carlob in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

carlob — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:21 +0000

> trying to stay cool

FTFY

New comment by carlob in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

carlob — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:51:42 +0000

I'm pretty sure no Marxist considers Piketty a fellow Marxist, he's much closer to social democracy and Keynes. Piketty advocates for market economy and a global capital tax, Marxists on the other hand advocate for the violent overthrowing of capitalism and collective ownership of the means of production. Can you spot the difference?