Hacker News: flipbrad

New comment by flipbrad in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

flipbrad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:21:43 +0000

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack

New comment by flipbrad in "Waymo Safety Impact"

flipbrad — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:30:27 +0000

Isn't the correct answer to this, lobbying for higher speed limits? Rather than chastizing obedience to current rules.

New comment by flipbrad in "LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)"

flipbrad — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:07:42 +0000

N00b question from me, perhaps, but how easy is it to mount and run Lidar on aerial drones?

New comment by flipbrad in "ChatGPT Health"

flipbrad — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:43:21 +0000

"we built foundational protections (...) including (...) training our models not to retain personal information from user chats"

Can someone please ELI5 - why is this a training issue, rather than basic design? How does one "train" for this?

New comment by flipbrad in "My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions"

flipbrad — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:16:42 +0000

Something so grim should be accompanied by its citation, just so we can check it's not a windup

New comment by flipbrad in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

flipbrad — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:06:56 +0000

This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.

New comment by flipbrad in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

flipbrad — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:41:34 +0000

Hacker News is social media, isn't it?

New comment by flipbrad in "AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]"

flipbrad — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:01:54 +0000

Check out how Wikipedia and the rest of the wikimedia universe is run.

New comment by flipbrad in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

flipbrad — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:44:04 +0000

EU Data Act will be more relevant here, but will take a while to roll out.

New comment by flipbrad in "Introducing Stargate UK"

flipbrad — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:27:44 +0000

Given https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-agreement-o... , what does sovereignty even mean here?

I also wish we were attracting industries that weren't going to significantly push up electricity consumption on windless days, which will have an outsized effect on electricity prices everyone else pays. At least this says the datacentres will be up north, hopefully not exacerbating transmission issues.

New comment by flipbrad in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

flipbrad — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:53:47 +0000

This is about the Category 1 duties arriving by 2027, not this year's tranche of rules (such as age gating).

New comment by flipbrad in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

flipbrad — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:49:57 +0000

A lot of what you are posting is not true. Take for instance your claim that "Ofcom is an industry self-regulation body"

New comment by flipbrad in "Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware"

flipbrad — Mon, 26 May 2025 20:02:35 +0000

Law enforcement / national security. E.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-serv...

Although I can anticipate what you'll say...

New comment by flipbrad in "Human"

flipbrad — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:20:03 +0000

Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

New comment by flipbrad in "Increasing Timber Production, an Emergency Situation on National Forest Lands [pdf]"

flipbrad — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:24:35 +0000

Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)

New comment by flipbrad in "The surprising powerhouse behind rapid V2X growth: electric school buses"

flipbrad — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:46:39 +0000

I don't see it as dumb at all. I have solar PV, but adding a 5.8kWh battery would cost over USD 2k / local currency equivalent. As a result, I frequently have to export solar to the grid (during low demand, mid day periods) and then buy it from the grid when it's already in high national demand (and priced accordingly). I also have a 13 year old car that our family is fast outgrowing. It's used once or twice a week mostly for shopping, and also for some occasional long drives to see family etc. The latter are the only times I'd be at risk of starting with low charge (easily avoided). My next car will almost certainly be an EV, or PHEV. I'm supremely eager to be able to leave it in the garage/on the driveway as a home battery that's an order of magnitude bigger than a standalone battery I would buy and then have to devote attic or closet space to (and have to accept a fire risk for). I'm effectively deferring several buying decisions (car upgrade, battery purchase) until I get a good V2G option that is an all-in-one solution.

New comment by flipbrad in "One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone"

flipbrad — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:29:09 +0000

Particularly appropriate comment since in this case, everyone in the EU has had this for months, and the UK would as well if it hadn't Brexited. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/11/facebook-and-instagram-to-...

New comment by flipbrad in "Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2B of U.S. Income in 2024"

flipbrad — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:00:34 +0000

"Those are taxable events for the people who sell the shares Tesla is buying back."

But in which jurisdictions is that tax payable, and at what rates?

New comment by flipbrad in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

flipbrad — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:32:20 +0000

I dont think we know the actual range of motives for shutdown. Oracle may have forced it, for instance.

New comment by flipbrad in "The exponential growth of solar power will change the world"

flipbrad — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:44:11 +0000

First time I've heard of nuclear being a cheap technology to deploy