Hacker News: datatrashfire

New comment by datatrashfire in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

datatrashfire — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:45:51 +0000

i feel a lot of people in tech have this incuriously deterministic attitude about llms right now… previous revolutionized the world, therefore llms will! despite there really nothing to show for it so far other than writing rote code is a bit easier and still requires active baby sitting by someone who knows what they are doing

New comment by datatrashfire in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

datatrashfire — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:42:11 +0000

both my kindle and wife's work great and we have been using them regularly. they are actually very well made and durable devices.

New comment by datatrashfire in "How we give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster"

datatrashfire — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:42:57 +0000

as a clickhouse architect, i can’t help but feel they would have been better served by understanding their db’s native capabilities better before jumping into implementing this.

row level access control, resource quotas, scheduling policies, session settings, etc. all could have been used in concert to achieve a very similar outcome with a dozen or so ddl/dcl statements.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

datatrashfire — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:08:22 +0000

or just at any point in the last 20 years to the present works too

New comment by datatrashfire in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

datatrashfire — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:37:59 +0000

the problem is as a means of cash it’s inferior to existing systems in pretty much every dimension. more expensive, slower, more risk, higher volatility. the cash story for crypto is not good.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

datatrashfire — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:53:09 +0000

premise is wrong. have seen a number of claude/codex disasters that never make it to production with clients, yet consumed an enormous amount of human time and bandwidth.

expertise and effort is and will continue to be for the forseeable future essential.

talk, like this, still cheap.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

datatrashfire — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:23:19 +0000

i bought a builder license from newegg in 2017. unfortunately i was not diligent about saving the product key. this was actually the third time i had been in this scenario after changing hardware. no idea why it wouldn’t work this time around.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

datatrashfire — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:11:39 +0000

i recently upgraded a computer. windows 10 deactivated itself due to the hardware change. i tried everything i could to reactivate. microsoft support told me my only solution was to buy a new license. microsoft treats its customer with contempt.

New comment by datatrashfire in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

datatrashfire — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:11:13 +0000

i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people given the popularity of apple hardware which has for a very long time been on the far end of the irreparable, but smaller, quieter, etc, spectrum.

New comment by datatrashfire in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

datatrashfire — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:34:25 +0000

lol no it won’t

New comment by datatrashfire in "The VPN panic is only getting started"

datatrashfire — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:07:46 +0000

every generation thinks they live in unique times. that there existed some idyllic lost time innocence. it’s a fantasy.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

datatrashfire — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:06:57 +0000

Electrifying the economy is not a path to 0 pollution.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

datatrashfire — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:57:04 +0000

No sympathy for Larry here! Just the point that development is going to coincide with some level of increased pollution. Even an electrified economy with 0 carbon emissions is going to be ecologically devastating after all the mountain top removal mining has gathered the materials to make it possible.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

datatrashfire — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:11:05 +0000

Would you accept 0 pollution if it meant you had no electricity, electronic devices, or access to transportation? All of those things create pollution.

New comment by datatrashfire in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

datatrashfire — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:45:31 +0000

It undermines the value of decentralization itself given intermediaries tend to pop up in all of these various platforms and become the dominant way to use them.

New comment by datatrashfire in "How does the US use water?"

datatrashfire — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:40:31 +0000

Why is water used for golf a waste vs other uses?

New comment by datatrashfire in "Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M"

datatrashfire — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:11:53 +0000

Major city police are typically some of the highest paid public employees of any area. Often with a more generous pension tier than what is given to other public employees. Ie starting pay for SFPD is $115k-$164k https://www.joinsfpd.com/entry-level-program

New comment by datatrashfire in "I don't think AGI is right around the corner"

datatrashfire — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:30:36 +0000

Am I missing something? Predicts AGI through continuous learning in 2032? Feels right around the corner to me.

> But in all the other worlds, even if we stay sober about the current limitations of AI, we have to expect some truly crazy outcomes.

Also expresses the development as a nearly predetermined outcome? A bunch of fanciful handwaving if you ask me.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)"

datatrashfire — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:27:34 +0000

Except for Finland nobody has actually created a long term geologic disposal site. Like so many problems, the issue is dominated by political coordination, not physical limits.

New comment by datatrashfire in "Treasury Yields Soar as Ballooning U.S. Deficit Worries Wall Street"

datatrashfire — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:56:10 +0000

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

Because the deficit was positive between 1997 and 2001, during Bill Clinton’s second term as POTUS.