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New comment by cool_dude85 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

cool_dude85 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:33:06 +0000

Imagine you are a restaurant reviewer. Your job is unquestionably to go to restaurants, order and eat food, and write a review. The restaurant's job is to provide you food to eat and review.

You go to a new restaurant, and order some dishes, and one of the plates your server brings out is a big ol pile of dog shit.

Who's being anti-social in this situation? The restaurant is doing its job and all they're asking is that you do yours. On the other hand, you have certain expectations about what you order from the restaurant and they're not being met. Who's anti-social?

New comment by cool_dude85 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

cool_dude85 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:13:39 +0000

If you're reliably beating the market over a long time horizon by picking specific stocks, you're a billionaire, or soon to be.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

cool_dude85 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:59:54 +0000

Selling winners and buying losers sounds an awful lot like "buy low, sell high".

New comment by cool_dude85 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

cool_dude85 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:34:14 +0000

In the US it's illegal for someone who's not a postal worker to put things in your mailbox for exactly this kind of reason.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

cool_dude85 — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:16:16 +0000

And when you find that your state senator's votes don't actually matter, will we start engaging in federal politics? I suspect, if it makes the right person a buck, that even once the federal legislature votes against it, you'll find a treaty or free trade agreement or something requires those votes to be overridden. And by the way, the data center was built and began operating 10 years ago.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

cool_dude85 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:55:32 +0000

I believe there are still some echoes of the concept. Even top engines will play certain grandmaster draw lines unless told more or less explicitly not to. So if you were playing a match against Stockfish you'd want to play the Berlin draw as White every time, for example.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "New Modern Greek"

cool_dude85 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:04:34 +0000

Merging all the iota sounds into ι, and ω into ο destroys too much grammatically. I don't understand what the point of this is?

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cool_dude85 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:08:23 +0000

Right. So, no left wing party, not even a center left party, has been in power in Ireland in its history. But I'm supposed to believe that it's one of the most left wing countries in Europe?

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

cool_dude85 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:49:42 +0000

Ireland, the country with 2 center right parties that differ with regards to patronage networks and political history from 1940, is one of the most left-wing leaning countries in Europe?

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

cool_dude85 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:27:35 +0000

I think the big use case for Oracle products are for businesses that are not in the IT space. A lot of reasons for this, a big one is the breadth of Oracle's products is very solid and, similar to Microsoft, you can be sold on Oracle solving all your database needs across your business: HR, asset management, customer relationship stuff, your actual business, all with a single vendor. Non-IT management will be told that it all integrates seamlessly, you don't need to hire IT staff dealing with software from 10 different vendors, just the one.

For instance, I work in the utility industry. They offer specialized utility-specific software for managing data from our meters, our customer and billing system, asset management, HR, accounting, reporting from all these systems. Even more specialized stuff exists that we don'tbuy. No doubt if you had a different use case, Oracle would sell us on their ability to handle it. I think this is the model they follow. They are not trying to sell to startups, tech platforms, software companies, etc. They are trying to sell to your bank.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

cool_dude85 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:08:21 +0000

>Iran has been waging war since the Islamic Revolution

On who?

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

cool_dude85 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:06:26 +0000

Probably the most dangerous aspect of the job in the US is driving.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

cool_dude85 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:29:40 +0000

Funny enough, the utility business broadly wants to move away from this model to more of a cap-based prepaid model. Where I live, to get on the standard payment system may require a quite hefty deposit up front, but the prepaid payment option does not. I get the impression that, if not for customer sentiment and inertia, this would be the default option.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

cool_dude85 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:04:37 +0000

For those who are not / were not aardwolf players, lasher is the coder, owner, and main imm for aardwolf.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)"

cool_dude85 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:09:46 +0000

And nowadays, if this happened in Florida, she could pretty credibly run the protesters down in the street and avoid even getting charged.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution"

cool_dude85 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:42:45 +0000

Diesel is less fuel efficient than regular gasoline except when you measure by volume. It gets fewer miles per unit of energy in the fuel.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "XKeyscore"

cool_dude85 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:11:47 +0000

The NSA lacked legal authority to do this bulk collection prior to the Snowden leaks, and yet that didn't stop them from collecting. Why would I believe that their lack of legal authority today would stop them?

Retracted: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup

cool_dude85 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:18:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715?via%3Dihub

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150878

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cool_dude85 in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

cool_dude85 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:08:47 +0000

Exactly so. It was not able to be published in its initial state as a Twilight fanfic due to copyright and had to be re-worked so as not to infringe.

New comment by cool_dude85 in "1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long"

cool_dude85 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:17:07 +0000

Can someone who knows a bit more about this help me understand how structures like this are produced? Is there some kind of computer search, perhaps guided? Is this a clever combination of sub-structures, timing mechanisms, etc. that are then fit together like Legos?