Hacker News: everly

New comment by everly in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

everly — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:31:47 +0000

$40 billion is about a quarter’s worth of profits for Google. They make that much every 3 months, what’s the risk

New comment by everly in "What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted"

everly — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:22:21 +0000

A funny scene in 30 Rock is when Tracy learns about the Peter Principle and responds "but my incompetence knows no bounds!"

New comment by everly in "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

everly — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:38:38 +0000

David Robinson was an example of this.

New comment by everly in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

everly — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:14:47 +0000

Gary is an insufferable blowhard but he's had skin the AI game for awhile. I believe he sold an AI startup to Uber back in the 2010s.

Many of his criticisms of OpenAI and LLMs have been apt.

New comment by everly in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

everly — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:13:59 +0000

I’m not familiar with any stores that have Jordans that can be purchased via self checkout.

New comment by everly in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

everly — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:54:30 +0000

It's from a 10+ year-old blog post so I wouldn't expect it to be in line with modern psychotherapy.

It's an insight that has stuck with me since then and seems to strike a chord with others when shared, regardless of whether or not it's "great".

Of course it's fine to want something and then get it. Last night I wanted a Klondike bar so I walked to my freezer and got one. This misses the point entirely.

Plenty of examples of people getting what they thought they wanted and still feeling unfulfilled.

I appreciate your point about the serenity prayer, I think there's something relevant there for sure.

New comment by everly in "A vending machine, on the internet"

everly — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:50:46 +0000

If you introduce a process susceptible to credit card fraud then you're not keeping it low stakes.

New comment by everly in "Nobody Profits – George Hotz"

everly — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:08:50 +0000

Not many people can get down to brass tacks like geohot

New comment by everly in "A vending machine, on the internet"

everly — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:00:36 +0000

OP addresses this directly, if you bothered to read the whole thing:

"The stakes should be low. Whatever you’re selling, it’s gotta be cheap. And if things go awry? No one’s going to launch a chargeback crusade. Just like a reliable vending machine, if it jams, it’ll return your coins."

New comment by everly in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

everly — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:21:50 +0000

Sounds like you've got this all buttoned up

New comment by everly in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

everly — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:10:20 +0000

That's fine

New comment by everly in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

everly — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:40:38 +0000

I'm reminded of a passage from the last psychiatrist blog:

“One of the great insights of psychoanalysis is that you never really want an object, you only want the wanting, which means the solution is to set your sights on an impossible ideal and work hard to reach it. You won’t. That’s not just okay, that’s the point. It’s ok if you fantasize about knowing kung fu if you then try to actually learn kung fu, eventually you will understand you can never really know kung fu, and then you will die. And it will have been worth it.”

I don't think it's sad at all.

New comment by everly in "Should more of us be moving to live near friends?"

everly — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:01:05 +0000

I just don't agree (aside from the part about small towns, I guess, but that's not relevant to SF).

If OP can't find differing personalities in a place like SF, it's a skill issue, sorry to say.

New comment by everly in "Should more of us be moving to live near friends?"

everly — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:38:51 +0000

Sounds like you're thinking inside of a fairly small bubble. If you picked 10 people, at random, from the 800k residents, I assure you that there would be substantial differences.

Off the top of my head, you might get SF State students, tech bros, Chinatown senior citizens who have never left an 8-block radius and don't speak english, Marina moms, Mission District multi-gen families. I mean, come on.

Maybe if you were only picking from people working at tech cos, but even then my experience does not match yours.

New comment by everly in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

everly — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:02:09 +0000

Comment from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459808

New comment by everly in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

everly — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 05:30:34 +0000

Cable TV (or even OTA antenna in the right service area) is simply a superior live product compared to anything streaming.

The Masters app is the only thing that comes close imo.

Cable TV + DVR + high speed internet for torrenting is still an unmatched entertainment setup. Streaming landscape is a mess.

It's too bad the cable companies abused their position and lost any market goodwill. Copper connection direct to every home in America is a huge advantage to have fumbled.

New comment by everly in "Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan"

everly — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:18:15 +0000

Oh man, the BLK360 can be a frustrating (albeit incredible) device even in the best of conditions, let alone this. Glad to hear everything survived!

I mostly use the Pro3 now but did a big chunk of this Georgia Tech scan with the BLK: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PB8FgAyyjHx

New comment by everly in "Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan"

everly — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:29:43 +0000

Definitely one of the better implementations I've seen using Matterport's SDK, nice work.

Did you use the Pro3 as the capture device? Before the collapse anyway!

New comment by everly in "How the music industry learned to love piracy"

everly — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:47:39 +0000

This was a really great comment, thank you

New comment by everly in "How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”"

everly — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:28:56 +0000

Neither does blood doping, it's just the term they use for manipulation.