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New comment by foolswisdom in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

foolswisdom — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:10:08 +0000

People with lots of power and clout contribute to making predictions reality by all making predictions that make similar assumptions. The predictions become more likely because people already behave as if they're likely.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent"

foolswisdom — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:50:10 +0000

Not just instinct, I'd need to be able to justify the choice against any potential downside of not choosing the default option.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent"

foolswisdom — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:48:49 +0000

Marketing people like the features they're getting, and Google and Meta are dominant, so big that they're the default, in the same way that we talk about github being the default option, and "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM / (big tech company of your choosing)". I wouldn't dream of saying they should choose something else, without researching and guaranteeing that nothing they'd ever want from GA (and they may not know everything they'll want in the future right now) is missing in the alternative. In a role (marketing) that's completely out of my wheelhouse. So I don't even bother.

New comment by foolswisdom in "PySimpleGUI 6"

foolswisdom — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:03:17 +0000

Depends on exactly how the project is managed. Older python tooling (`pip` module) doesn't have a native mechanism to differentiate between the spec (direct dependencies) and freeze (all dependencies, including transitive).

New comment by foolswisdom in "PySimpleGUI 6"

foolswisdom — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:25:07 +0000

Given it was older code, were you not able to use an older version of pysimplegui that was freely available?

New comment by foolswisdom in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

foolswisdom — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:36:02 +0000

In other words, the set of github core services has expanded because you don't use third party tooling for some of those services anymore.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

foolswisdom — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:46:58 +0000

The important part was the following paragraph(s) that explained why this coupling is a compelling problem. It's not the same as just having a platform API.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials"

foolswisdom — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:02:03 +0000

This reminds of the conversation the other day about the deleted production database at railway. "this person obviously didn't follow best practice of being hyper distrusting of LLM agents", and the response "yeah but every company is marketing it as safe. someone is gonna fall for it".

New comment by foolswisdom in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

foolswisdom — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:08:47 +0000

Or not, because telling the agent is misbehaving may predispose it to misbehaving behavior, even though you point told it so to tell it to not behave that way.

I remember this discussed when a similar issue went viral with someone building a product using replit's AI and it deleted his prod database.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

foolswisdom — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:46:08 +0000

Because including it in a plan results in un-metered usage?

A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United

foolswisdom — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:09:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/19/citizens-united-super-pacs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842916

Points: 7

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New comment by foolswisdom in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

foolswisdom — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:59:16 +0000

Personally, as a developer, I interact with figma to use designs made by designers. So a portion of that userbase probably isn't going anywhere?

Hospitals That Sue You for Getting Sick

foolswisdom — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:48:34 +0000

Article URL: https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/hospitals-that-sue-you-for-getting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832516

Points: 12

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New comment by foolswisdom in "Cloudflare Email Service"

foolswisdom — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:25:43 +0000

There have been stories about people with heavy internet traffic (generally media streaming I think) being more or less shut down unless they upgrade their cloudflare plan (to enterprise I guess). Some were posted on HN in the past.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

foolswisdom — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:06:10 +0000

The jury in this case is required to rule by preponderance of evidence (= more likely than not given the evidence). One of the economic experts calculated this number as being overcharged based on internal ticketmaster documentation.

Cases aren't always about the actual problem, they're about what you can prove in court.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

foolswisdom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:56:17 +0000

I think cynicism is deserved just from observing Dario's remarks.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Against Query Based Compilers"

foolswisdom — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:30:35 +0000

I would really appreciate if rust analyzer was faster, actually. It feels even worse with the fact that you need to save the file before it updates the type checking (though I assume it's because it's too slow to feel smooth if you do it while typing?).

New comment by foolswisdom in "Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it"

foolswisdom — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:34:04 +0000

It's not a single page.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI"

foolswisdom — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:15:55 +0000

Probably the first time I'm saying this, but this site appears heavily AI written.

New comment by foolswisdom in "Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices"

foolswisdom — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:51:14 +0000

You asked how a price cut translates to raising prices everywhere, and the parent comment answered. Though even without the further raising of prices for the competitors, the effect of many such agreements is that the competitors have a harder time competing, some shut down, and now the Walmart can also charge more because there's less competition.