Hacker News: forthefuture

New comment by forthefuture in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

forthefuture — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:57:48 +0000

Except that's the point. It is the same store. It is two different cashiers. The second one doesn't know you got the ID from the first one, that's why it works. The point is that if a store like that existed, it would be stupid as fuck.

Also, at least in ChatGPT, it has access to every other session, so you're never working with zero context unless you create a new account (and even then they could have other fingerprinting, I just haven't tested it).

New comment by forthefuture in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

forthefuture — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:17:56 +0000

Unfortunately not, each version of RAM uses a different physical slot.

New comment by forthefuture in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

forthefuture — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:00:26 +0000

Uber lost all of the money all of the original investors gave them, and sold that bag of dog shit to the public. Everyone who bought the IPO lost money.

New comment by forthefuture in "Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%"

forthefuture — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:35:57 +0000

Amazon was founded in 1994 and turned their first profit in 2001. A better example would be Uber, which ran negative until they had less than one year of runway remaining and then were somehow allowed to scam pedestrians into keeping their unprofitable taxi business solvent.

New comment by forthefuture in "Is ChatGPT a “Code Red” for Google Search?"

forthefuture — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:09:10 +0000

Here's the other five threads:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

New comment by forthefuture in "New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions"

forthefuture — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:48:57 +0000

It’s already priced in. You’re just paying more for the features you aren’t using.

New comment by forthefuture in "‘Just stop buying lattes’: The origins of a millennial housing myth"

forthefuture — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 11:58:54 +0000

The way it’s supposed to work is that the government sells bonds and the money goes away. Much like your original premise, it doesn’t much make sense that people think modern monetary policy only thought up quantitative easing and not quantitative tightening.

Can’t speak to how it will end up working, but its definitely not a surprise.

New comment by forthefuture in "Parler Databases Disclosed"

forthefuture — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:24:55 +0000

They mean that the corporation is paying for the people downloading 70 terabytes from them.

New comment by forthefuture in "Microsoft Edge is now the second most-used desktop browser"

forthefuture — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:09:41 +0000

It's an aggregate of the months you're selecting (2019/04 - 2020/03). If you select just March you can see what they're seeing:

https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22...

New comment by forthefuture in "New York Times is taking down its paywall for World Press Freedom Day"

forthefuture — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:30:16 +0000

This is something I love about watching business / finance news channels. Everyone is trying as hard as they can not to lie because it's illegal in their context.

New comment by forthefuture in "Bitcoin falls below $5,000"

forthefuture — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:30:06 +0000

I’d go even further: I hope it keeps falling until a better crypto currency is worth more. Bitcoin even existing proves the market is more speculative than functional.

New comment by forthefuture in "A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled"

forthefuture — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:33:00 +0000

Well no, every system requires people with power to be generally good. No system survives with only bad actors. You’re incorrectly assuming a generous billionaire isn’t a feature of capitalism / democracy.

New comment by forthefuture in "Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple"

forthefuture — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:36:44 +0000

But they all used to, which means functionally the only difference is now there isn't a link so I have to make an additional request, in a new tab, directly to Wikipedia for more information (Demographics, Economics, Government, etc).

New comment by forthefuture in "Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple"

forthefuture — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:45:31 +0000

Much of the time I don't see a link to Wikipedia.

If I Google "Malta" there is a paragraph on the right and no link to Wikipedia. This also happens in Google Maps, when you click on a city and they have the blurb, much of the time there is no link, so you have to leave the page to Wikipedia the name of the city.

Actually having just tried a few different queries, it seems to be inconsistent. I'm not sure why they'd show the link sometimes and not every time, but definitely Malta doesn't show a link for me.

New comment by forthefuture in "A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use"

forthefuture — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:47:44 +0000

Many people listen to audiobooks in situations where they can't watch or play things, like driving or working out.

New comment by forthefuture in "Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M"

forthefuture — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:09:59 +0000

Australia = 24 million in 296,790 square miles of habitable land.

California = 39 million in 163,696 square miles of total land.

California has twice as many people in an area half the size (not including inhabitable parts of California since half of it is a desert).

New comment by forthefuture in "South Korean cam-hunter squads conduct electronic sweeps of public spaces"

forthefuture — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:25:24 +0000

It's the opposite. A false sense of security is feeling safe when it isn't safe. In this case, it is safe, but people mistakenly feel unsafe.

The police are providing a real sense of security that both represents the actual security and the peoples' feeling of security.

New comment by forthefuture in "Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero"

forthefuture — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:43:27 +0000

If a stock dropped 60% you wouldn’t consider “it was very recently 10 times lower” a positive.

New comment by forthefuture in "[dead]"

forthefuture — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 02:42:45 +0000

How can this keep getting reposted?

New comment by forthefuture in "Kraken down 24 hours on system upgrade"

forthefuture — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:20:46 +0000

No one releases money in accounts numbers.

Kraken was doing $711M in daily volume before the maintenance. [1]

Only the top 8 exchanges have cracked a billion in daily volume. [2]

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/kraken/

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/all/