Hacker News: chucksta

New comment by chucksta in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

chucksta — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:40:32 +0000

What's the other promising to do with it?

New comment by chucksta in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

chucksta — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:07:35 +0000

Its implied the talk is to rally the troops not gather general opinion

New comment by chucksta in "ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market"

chucksta — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:43:40 +0000

There is a double digit percentage of Americans who are relying on winning the lottery for retirement.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-millennials-would-rather-...

New comment by chucksta in "A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'"

chucksta — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:36:42 +0000

They also designed some amazing validation for that audit software:

>Data reviewed by the EFF included searches labelled 'LMAO', 'LOL', 'Hehe', 'Haha', 'idk' and 'blah'. Other entries included 'asdfg' and strings of apparently random keyboard characters. In one case, an officer entered: 'robbery I don't remember the case number leave me alone'.

Seems like they really put a lot of thought into preventing abuse

>Network Size and ReachTotal Count: Flock Safety reports having over 120,000 active cameras.Community Spread: These cameras are placed in more than 6,000 communities.Data Collection: The system records roughly 20 billion vehicle scans every single month. [1] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/14/trump-e...), [2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety)

He searched ~1/5 of the cameras available in America..

New comment by chucksta in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

chucksta — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:37:32 +0000

They just found a hidden biolab in US earlier in the year which was connected to one found in 2023.

New comment by chucksta in "British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry"

chucksta — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:41:54 +0000

Public institutions don't take donations in the UK? They certainly do in the US.

Since when are donations equal to corruption? I certainly wasn't claiming that.

New comment by chucksta in "British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry"

chucksta — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:22:19 +0000

No you book it on the grounds of "I have too much money" and then they don't ask questions.

New comment by chucksta in "British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry"

chucksta — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:19:55 +0000

He has the possibility to become one? Maybe they were trying to draw donations.

>Guests at One Aldwych hotel, where rooms cost more than £1,000 a night, are also able to get tickets without joining the online queues.

He certainly could've booked a room at that price

New comment by chucksta in "Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers"

chucksta — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:26:54 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_scandal

New comment by chucksta in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

chucksta — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:30:36 +0000

How many man hours could the department in question realistically dedicate to the investigation without the technology

New comment by chucksta in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

chucksta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:22:26 +0000

Both Merriam-webster and thesaurus.com have intimate as a synonym for persaonl. Thesaurus.com says its one of the strongest.

New comment by chucksta in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

chucksta — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:14:58 +0000

Wild, there are also other people around you who might they're more fun too, they might want you to turn it up.

New comment by chucksta in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

chucksta — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:16:30 +0000

Even a completed one has limited use to other industries

New comment by chucksta in "Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool"

chucksta — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:47:25 +0000

No expert but I would think an indoor pool in a temperature controlled environment would control for a lot of heat loss from the water.

New comment by chucksta in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

chucksta — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:11:35 +0000

It also just so happens grey scale is almost always cheaper. Car color historically correlates with prosperity in the US

https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/life/cars-trucks/au...

https://www.ppg.com/en-US/autocoatings/color/history-of-colo...

New comment by chucksta in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

chucksta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:48:43 +0000

That's definitely a point but doesn't address mine. People like corn, people don't like AI.

New comment by chucksta in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

chucksta — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:45:36 +0000

You can? Is that not what all the the lobbyist and special interest money is doing? Perdue told everyone OxyContin had a low addiction risk

New comment by chucksta in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

chucksta — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:09:16 +0000

Okay - people like eating popcorn, beef, and driving too.

New comment by chucksta in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

chucksta — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:28:17 +0000

Generally people enjoy being around them, looking at them, and eating what they produce.

How does HN feel about ai written blogs? Who wants to go stand next to a 30' warehouse?

New comment by chucksta in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

chucksta — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:09:08 +0000

If the neighborhood was all built around the same time or by the same developer, I would say high