Hacker News: daedrdev

New comment by daedrdev in "Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch"

daedrdev — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:35:05 +0000

Them is flock responsible for reducing auto thefts and should be counted too?

New comment by daedrdev in "Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits"

daedrdev — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:22:09 +0000

Japan’s work life balance, and their housing regulations are only slightly related and I’d say almost completely unrelated

New comment by daedrdev in "Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits"

daedrdev — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:50:04 +0000

This is because our glorious government makes it illegal to build housing. Japan doesnt force anything, their private companies built tons of housing because there is profit to be made and its not illegal without years of reviews, insane taxes, bribes to various orgs, etc.

Your policy doesn’t even work in CA, new housing is absurdly expensive to build and the profits aren't even high.

New comment by daedrdev in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

daedrdev — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:59:46 +0000

I’d like to point out that basically all education research is only partially reproducible or not reproducible at all. So even though this study says it’s good for your brain. Have some skepticism.

New comment by daedrdev in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

daedrdev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:19:51 +0000

But they dont have to do either of these things. Thats just what people prompt

New comment by daedrdev in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

daedrdev — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:51:34 +0000

Its simply a cost thing as the majority of gros michel bannana plants in areas with the fungus will die every few years as infection takes that long, and most areas gained the fungus during the peak of gros miachel cultivation. But at a small scale you can avoid the fungus or just plant new plants when the fungus takes hold, its just more expensive and limited in scale.

New comment by daedrdev in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

daedrdev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:43:45 +0000

Insurance companies make like 2-4% hardly breaking the bank here. Pharmaceutical companies make a lot of money, but the US also funds most drug development which other countries freeload off of. US healthcare workers get a state enforced shortage to drive up their wages thanks to residency limits, but nobody ever wants to look at that.

If you can't tell I am extremely pessimistic about the changes of universal healthcare improving on our current system. And to be clear it's universal, not unlimited.

New comment by daedrdev in "Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B"

daedrdev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:56:29 +0000

In the US this isn't even true. The costs of grid upgrades are paid new capacity up front, which actually means there is a queue for grid connections twice the US total production, with no costs to ongoing customers.

New comment by daedrdev in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

daedrdev — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:14:34 +0000

This is quite true. Also, there is no project you can make as a junior to demonstrate your unassisted competence because 10 other people used AI for a similar project

New comment by daedrdev in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

daedrdev — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:32:14 +0000

> that were fired as a result because there was not a space in the department to hire them full time (Dutch work law requires contracts to become permanent after a certain number of years of working).

This is a very common law in european companies and is killing economic growth. Idk why they do this.

New comment by daedrdev in "Egypt Is Building a New Nile"

daedrdev — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:10:52 +0000

This is not the first project like this Egypt has tried. All have failed

New comment by daedrdev in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

daedrdev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:32:03 +0000

Because capital gains taxes really discourage selling which gums up the economy

New comment by daedrdev in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

daedrdev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:14:47 +0000

Shooting a cop gets you 50 years even if they shoot someone first. They also didnt shoot anyone. In this case where the cops had quite reasonable worry for their safety in the dead of night with explosions already having gone off and better armed people about, so it was perfectly reasonable for them to have their guns out.

New comment by daedrdev in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

daedrdev — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:46:17 +0000

It is not legal to shoot the police who have their gun out. Considering they had much more firepower than the cops it's quite reasonable for the police to draw their gun

New comment by daedrdev in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

daedrdev — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:06:59 +0000

If you think that this was a protest then yeah it's worrying.

The feds case, which they did win convictions based on, was that they were terrorists who set off fireworks to lure police into an ambush, and there weren't more casualties because one of the members shot early and only injured one cop. An accessory to this who hid evidence is also part of the crime in the Feds case

Is this embellished by the Feds? I think so, it seems some of the group did not think this was the plan. But there did seem to be a plan and it did involve bringing guns, setting off fireworks, opening the gate and trying to break out the prisoners, and "not going quietly"

New comment by daedrdev in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

daedrdev — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:28:55 +0000

You can build new production, a chip monopoly will have incredibly profits for anyone bold enough to startup a new competitor. This is HN for gods sake

New comment by daedrdev in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

daedrdev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:23:39 +0000

Or in a few years time memory chip production will meet demand, and prices will decrease.

New comment by daedrdev in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

daedrdev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:14:24 +0000

This means most of the profit goes to the consumer since every part of the retail chain has such little profits. Its common for retail to be as low as 3%

New comment by daedrdev in "U.S. science is in chaos"

daedrdev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:15:25 +0000

The US has DOUBLE its current power production in proposed expansions, mostly solar and batteries. In 2004 it had like 20%. The US grid is set to grow.

New comment by daedrdev in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

daedrdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:59:12 +0000

Google has said to turn right at an intersection where you are turning left for years because it doesn't know about a T shaped intersection that tens of thousands use a day.