Hacker News: etblg

New comment by etblg in "Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay"

etblg — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:47:39 +0000

Adobe has a shit ton of product lines, people think of it as just the core Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., but just go look at how much random stuff there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.#Products

That's in addition to running the big SaaS offering of the creative cloud and all of the other SaaS's (behance, adobe express, adobe stock, etc.).

All of those include software engineers, SRE, support staff, PMs, etc.. Then there's the massive amount of sales staff, go to market, etc.

There's also a lot of R&D and domain experts, stuff like Adobe Firefly? That was spun up in like a year apparently, probably continuing existing in-house research.

New comment by etblg in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

etblg — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:46:18 +0000

Never had a steak as good as a mapo tofu to be honest.

New comment by etblg in "Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO's Bank Data in Public Slack"

etblg — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:19:04 +0000

> a literal illegal immigrant was elected to the House in Minnesota.

who?

New comment by etblg in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

etblg — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:25:44 +0000

Ok but that's still stupid as shit so what's your point?

New comment by etblg in "SF $192 fine for teaching tennis to his own children"

etblg — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:10:21 +0000

City parks departments don't want random instructors to book courts to teach, they want them to go through their own instructor staff, and want the courts to otherwise be used for people playing the game. I don't think it's an uncommon practice, I think the NYC Parks department works the same way.

New comment by etblg in "Why the AfD Wins"

etblg — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:03:00 +0000

"Er ist wieder da", or "Look Who's Back" in English.

New comment by etblg in "Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?"

etblg — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:03:17 +0000

The em-dash tell makes sense for things like personal technical blogs, usually written by a non-professional writer, and without extensive editing.

It doesn't work so well for things that are professionally written and edited, in my opinion. I saw a similar statement in a thread about an nytimes article.

Em-dashes were not invented by AI, publications used them before, it's not strange that someone whose job is to write will use them, and its not strange that something professionally edited may have em-dashes added to it. It's only a tell when someone who has never before used one before (or is not likely to have ever used one before) suddenly starts throwing them around like candy.

New comment by etblg in "Ask HN: How do we handle the rise of low quality "This is LLM" comments?"

etblg — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:34:45 +0000

Maybe people should stop posting shitty LLM-written articles that don't generate any good discussion beyond "I think this was written by an LLM" and we won't have this "problem".

New comment by etblg in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

etblg — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:24:05 +0000

I'm not sure where you're getting that from, from wikipedia:

> Anker was founded in 2011 by Steven Yang in Shenzhen, Guangdong, but the company moved its headquarters to Changsha, Hunan.

And its listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange as a public company.

New comment by etblg in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

etblg — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:38:49 +0000

I feel like you have to expand the taxonomy of people expressed in milli-jobs. Does anyone out there exceed 1000 mJobs? Does anyone come the closest? Is there a suitable conversion to other systems of measurement?

New comment by etblg in "TikTok is now collecting more data about its users"

etblg — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:33:14 +0000

Damn, imagine if an Australian or a South African billionaire did that with big media companies, oh well, that's just a weird thought, nothing to take from that.

New comment by etblg in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

etblg — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:37:14 +0000

The day of the dollar slice in NYC is dead, most places have switched to $1.50 slices.

New comment by etblg in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

etblg — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:03:24 +0000

> I hate to be that person, but the fact that so many people on HN think OF is prostitution is revealing of the site's demographics (i.e. older). It is, as some may put it, boomer thinking.

Well it's not non-existent either, there are a fair number of onlyfans models (and also general actors in the field of pornography who do the same) who do escorting on the side.

New comment by etblg in "xAI Raises $20B Series E"

etblg — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:20:54 +0000

Judging from the recent news, it's also now so weirdos online can get an AI to make CSAM about your daughter's cousin. Fascinating twist.

New comment by etblg in "The ruin of Gaza: how Israel's two-year assault has devastated the territory"

etblg — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:54:31 +0000

> 67,000 Palestinians

> 30,000 Hamas fighters

those are different things.

New comment by etblg in "America is now one big bet on AI"

etblg — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:58:45 +0000

> the idea is to use AI to build super productive farms and greenhouses

How? What are the mechanisms in which AI will lead to farms and greenhouses being more productive? How will AI improve the existing automation that already exists for the farming sector, and has existed for a hundred years?

New comment by etblg in "Even light alcohol drinking raises dementia risk, according to largest study"

etblg — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:49:29 +0000

Alcohol makes a good solvent so it extracts flavours in things that don't tend to go in a liquid. That's for liquors at least, for things like beer and wine, they're tasty drinks that also happen to have alcohol in them through the process of creating them.

Also it's fun having a drink or two!

New comment by etblg in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

etblg — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:25:23 +0000

Third time's the charm, just one more revolution and we'll have it all sorted out, juuuuuust one more /s

New comment by etblg in "US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf]"

etblg — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:21:50 +0000

This unsubstantiated rumor coming from......the Secretary of Commerce?

"Reuters was not immediately able to establish how the fee would be administered. Lutnick said the visa would cost $100,000 a year for each of the three years of its duration but that the details were "still being considered.""

"Lutnick said on Friday that "all the big companies are on board" with $100,000 a year for H-1B visas. "We've spoken to them," he said."

https://archive.is/WYuI1#selection-1571.0-1575.32

New comment by etblg in "Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford tells Borderlands 4 critics: "code your own engine""

etblg — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:31:08 +0000

> The exec also said "less than one percent of one percent" of players are filing customer service tickets about performance issues, and asked people to "code your own engine and show us how it's done, please."

???

Why wouldn't we just use your competitors engines instead.