Hacker News: daze42

New comment by daze42 in "The revolt of the reader"

daze42 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:34:09 +0000

I agree. Most human-generated content I've run across on the internet over the past couple decades has been fairly low quality and, to be honest, most of the self-admitted LLM-generated content is higher quality. I'm continually surprised that so many consider any content written by humans to automatically be more worth their time to read.

I'm much more interested in the content itself than the author that wrote it.

New comment by daze42 in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

daze42 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:42:20 +0000

This 100%. We're in the middle of an AI Manhattan Project and if "we" give up or slow down, another company or country will get AGI before "us" and there's no coming back after that. If there's a chance AGI is possible, it doesn't make sense to let someone else take the lead no matter how dangerous it could be.

New comment by daze42 in "Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report"

daze42 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:04:39 +0000

Society is just a lot of people.

ORMs Considered Harmful

daze42 — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 18:49:44 +0000

Article URL: http://charles.page.computer.surgery/blog/considered-harmful/orms.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496367

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by daze42 in "Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits"

daze42 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 06:03:29 +0000

Things in general across the board getting more expensive is a symptom of inflation, true. But I don't see how just a subset of businesses raising prices necessarily causes long term inflation. Even if all the existing grocery stores collude to raise prices together, that would just create market pressure for other grocery stores to pop up that can undercut and obtain a large amount of market share from the colluding businesses. So sure, there may be a blip of "inflation" while the market corrects and the new businesses start up, but overall it shouldn't cause actual inflation.

New comment by daze42 in "Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits"

daze42 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:31:05 +0000

Ah, so you're talking about CPI. Then in that case I agree. It's not clear that CPI == inflation, though.

New comment by daze42 in "Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits"

daze42 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:22:52 +0000

How could grocery stores (and food supply chains) cause inflation?

Uncle Bob's Response to Casey Muratori's Critique of Clean Code

daze42 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cmuratori/misc/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35176214

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by daze42 in "Stock market charts you never saw (2021)"

daze42 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:24:30 +0000

This seems to be the root of most, if not all, economic disagreements. It's just so hard to objectively measure these things.

New comment by daze42 in "Ask HN: How to save/invest/deal with money?"

daze42 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:02:37 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/ywsoqp/new...

New comment by daze42 in "Why most published research findings are false (2005)"

daze42 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:31:09 +0000

There appears to be an error in the correction posted in August of this year. See if you can spot it.

New comment by daze42 in "Real World Micro Services"

daze42 — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:10:52 +0000

Traubenfuchs' profile appears to indicate it's a GPT-3 bot.

New comment by daze42 in "Resolving an unusual WiFi issue"

daze42 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:34:51 +0000

Any chance it could be MTU related? Sounds like the issue is only popping up when attempting to use full packets.

New comment by daze42 in "Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)"

daze42 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:51:03 +0000

The whole point of the free market is choice so that when people realize that certain things are unhealthy, they are able to switch to something else. Also, we aren't exactly in a free market at the moment: https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=soyb...

New comment by daze42 in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

daze42 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:53:51 +0000

This exactly. You have summed up my thoughts better than I could. I am also interested to hear from the downvoters.

New comment by daze42 in "Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?"

daze42 — Thu, 20 May 2021 17:10:23 +0000

Came here to say this too. My wife and I both got them and we've been 100% satisfied. Fantastic product.

New comment by daze42 in "New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different"

daze42 — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:25:18 +0000

The way it's written this seems like it's exclusive. But it appears that both cases are possible at the same time. Maybe I'm reading the "OR" too much from the colloquial sense instead of the mathematic sense compared to "XOR".

New comment by daze42 in "Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't"

daze42 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:16:09 +0000

This view, though probably correct, is incompatible with democracy. We can't have rule by the people if the people aren't capable of ruling themselves. I still believe democracy is the best way forward, but it depends on critical thinking and there seems to be a decline in that area recently.

New comment by daze42 in "Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't"

daze42 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:13:15 +0000

My thoughts exactly. I can't believe anyone is advocating for censorship regardless of the accuracy of the content.

New comment by daze42 in "MIT suspending SAT/ACT requirement for next application cycle"

daze42 — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:01:33 +0000

Why would an IQ test for admissions be ridiculous? Any knowledge test at all will eventually test and select for higher IQ so there’s really no getting around it unless all ability-based admissions standards are dropped.