Hacker News: emestifs

New comment by emestifs in "OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026"

emestifs — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:03:59 +0000

Dumb question (I should just sit down and watch rest of the movies, I've only seen the first one): can you explain the "matrix vibes" you're referencing. Spoilers are fine.

New comment by emestifs in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

emestifs — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:40:08 +0000

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/PEVs_in_...

Sure. But the numbers are certainly trending in a direction that US doesn't seem to want to go in. So, it is what it is, I suppose. Draw your own conclusions.

New comment by emestifs in "Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI"

emestifs — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:36:55 +0000

Starting your comment with "Get wrecked" doesn't inspire confidence. Makes you sound, to me, like an edgy teenager.

New comment by emestifs in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

emestifs — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:01:55 +0000

I thought the same thing. Incredibly short term thinking at the corporate and government level to flip flop. Meanwhile Norway is now 97% EV sales and covered in chargers north to south. Not to mention China's fierce EV market domestically.

New comment by emestifs in "Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)"

emestifs — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:03:30 +0000

Reminds me of this story: fan spotted a mole on a hockey team's staff's neck - https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2022/01/03/hock...

New comment by emestifs in "Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)"

emestifs — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:56:43 +0000

Amazing. Exactly the insightful comments that I hope to see on HN...perhaps not on the current subject but nonetheless

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

New comment by emestifs in "Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too"

emestifs — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:23:53 +0000

Oh that's a cool fact. I feel that plot direction would've been cooler from a SciFi perspective. Battery angle is fine, but a bit limited. A gaint hivemind type thing is pretty cool plot element.

New comment by emestifs in "Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too"

emestifs — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:43:29 +0000

We got this squishy thing between our ears that blows their GPUs out the water. We'd all end up in data centers if they could harness it...well, our brains at least, the rest isn't useful.

New comment by emestifs in "Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)"

emestifs — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:33:06 +0000

That's not very useful. The market has seen volatility for unrelated reasons over the past month.

And effects of this, resist and unsubscribe, wouldn't be a factor so quickly. AFAIK this only launched less than a week or two ago.

New comment by emestifs in "'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant doctors"

emestifs — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:05:18 +0000

Sorry, but as an outsider from one of those other countries you mention, I don't get what you mean by top notch? Top notch for whom? The people who can afford to pay out of pocket? Or those willing to do into debt to just get treatment? Whenever I see news from places like PBS News Hour, it's about some low wage or senior person struggling to just care for their medical needs or prescriptions.

I don't know my guy, your system isn't exactly top notch for most people - I don't think you need to look very hard to see that if you try.

Random examples:

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/OECD_hea... - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...

There's something very very wrong here when your paying that much per capita and a lot of people are still struggling.

New comment by emestifs in "Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users"

emestifs — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:49:16 +0000

Or you know, like not use such an operating system, I guess?

New comment by emestifs in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

emestifs — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:26:52 +0000

My comment was sarcasm.

The difference here is are you downloading a random dll from a well known source or from http://free-vpn-fast-internet.dwnloadfree.ru/free-chrome-vpn...? My mom isn't going to know the difference and will click the big green DOWNLOAD NOW button blindly.

New comment by emestifs in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

emestifs — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:40:59 +0000

Inject dll's from the internet right into the browser. Yes, let's!

New comment by emestifs in "Memos: stick private notes on your email"

emestifs — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:27:16 +0000

Use something like imail, thunderbird, etc? Those should all work offline for browsing cached content

New comment by emestifs in "Memos: stick private notes on your email"

emestifs — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:24:04 +0000

Looks like a simple and non intrusive and potentially useful feature. Your concern seems unnecessary (for now). They may not be perfect, but they seem to be better than most SaaS companies as far as my experience with them goes. Their web app works, hasnt enshitified or gotten slow, they aren't shoving AI into their stuff afaik. Theyre alright imo for now.

New comment by emestifs in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"

emestifs — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:31:36 +0000

Try this in your mpv.conf file

    no-config
    target-trc=pq
    target-prim=bt.2020
    vo=gpu-next

Wont be 100% accurate, but hopefully somewhat watchable

New comment by emestifs in "Online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping"

emestifs — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:30:26 +0000

What type of chemicals would these be?

I can only think of cosmetics (makeup), skin care (acne, moisturizer), botox, and steroids/PEDs/HGH/etc that could improve physical disadvantages that cant be improved otherwise. But not an area I'm too experienced in. What type of chemicals are you talking about?

New comment by emestifs in "Ask HN: Should I remove work experience from resume?"

emestifs — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:10:40 +0000

It's a very bad hiring market according to some accounts (personal, as well as people on HN).

US figures are here, https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-l..., click "Information" in the graph options and you'll notice it hasn't rebounded much since the 2022/23 downturn.

If you have people you can get your direct referrals for positions, you'll better your odds of getting something right now vs cold applications.

New comment by emestifs in "EPA rule limiting certain 'forever chemicals' in drinking water is challenged"

emestifs — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:00:38 +0000

3.6 ppb, not great not terrible[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YDV6vC2qo

New comment by emestifs in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

emestifs — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:39:50 +0000

You're not old or grumpy, you're just stating the quiet part out loud. It's the same game, but now with 100% more AI.