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New comment by freddealmeida in "Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems"

freddealmeida — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:38:11 +0000

By that, they mean they don't want Palantir to see what is going on in those systems. Palantir has an unmodifiable blockchain to track all additions, changes and modifications, and deletions and by whom. No way to cheat. In many ways, Palantir is so much safer than any other system. But my guess is there are things they don't want the Trump DSI/NSA/CIA/Military Intelligence to see.

New comment by freddealmeida in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

freddealmeida — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:25:04 +0000

Governemnt money should be approved by elected politicians or the President's electives. Until now the approach has led to abuse in many ways. Especially gatekeeping by professors on new ideas. Cold fusion comes to mind. Probably put behind by 40 years. I do not mind this new strategy by the President at all.

New comment by freddealmeida in "ACLU Secures $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired over Charlie Kirk Post"

freddealmeida — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:16:09 +0000

That post was disgusting. He shouldn't find a job anytime soon. But being fired for speech is wrong. So from that point, he deserves the settlement. But I certainly don't want to be near someone that revels in someone's assassination.

New comment by freddealmeida in "How Mamdani and Hochul Are Solving New York City's Budget Crisis"

freddealmeida — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:19:32 +0000

They are cheating. 100%. I want a full audit.

New comment by freddealmeida in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

freddealmeida — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:53:52 +0000

Good luck on that one. God often requires us to go to war in the bible. Once he even asked for the total destruction of a whole culture. Man, woman and child. Divine justification is perfectly fine. Much like some wars we consider just (WWI, WWII, and hundred others). War is bad the weak always say. Yet anyone that studies it knows it is often needed, is often leveraged to achieve other goals unachievable without it, and sometimes it is justified, and sometimes it is divine. We will see other wars soon spurned and and supported by God. The Pope can not stop God. Maybe not even interpret him.

Escapting the Claws

freddealmeida — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:53:20 +0000

Article URL: https://8gent.world/blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609800

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by freddealmeida in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

freddealmeida — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:10:51 +0000

lol. Sure they are. Totally massive skills.

New comment by freddealmeida in "Gardening Boosts Brain Health"

freddealmeida — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:07:36 +0000

I suggest it is not the gardening but the sun that is giving this benefit.

New comment by freddealmeida in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

freddealmeida — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:22:37 +0000

I hate workday.

New comment by freddealmeida in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

freddealmeida — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:21:46 +0000

At my firms I saw this happen often. HR would review, or a junior engineer and pass on very good candidates. It wasn't until I set up a review system with A-class engineers that we started to catch the best people. A-class engineers recognize themselves far better than anyone else. But they prefer to build than review resumes.

I ended up building my own head hunting firm specifically to address the whole pipeline. That helped somewhat but head hunting is its own very odd space. Full of inefficiencies and bias.

With any AI company, there are always limits you hit. Energy, compute, optimizations, inference, team resources, money, and all the flows to make it a company. HR is usually the one that gets the fewest resources.

New comment by freddealmeida in "Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding"

freddealmeida — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:38:37 +0000

Sheesh. 12B. Here I am working my ass off for $25M.

New comment by freddealmeida in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

freddealmeida — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:34:03 +0000

Chamath's new company 80/90 is targeting this pain. Large firms often have no idea what their software is trying to do. Rebuilding it is cheaper and leads to better software.

New comment by freddealmeida in "Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs"

freddealmeida — Tue, 06 May 2025 01:38:09 +0000

That title is very misleading. The facts are convoluted as well. This is a mix of greed, espionage, incompetent government agencies, and companies that do not vet their remote workers yet giving them access to software and data they shouldn't have. Crazy. But with the stories coming out of DOGE, I am not even shocked. At least in this case one person (out of how many?) is going to jail. How many more of these people exist in the US now?

New comment by freddealmeida in "London's National Gallery purchases a painting by an unknown artist for $20M"

freddealmeida — Sat, 03 May 2025 07:34:14 +0000

Same. Thought this was just another tax scam.

New comment by freddealmeida in "Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work"

freddealmeida — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:31:06 +0000

Vibe coding for me meant a roll-the-dice approach to building something that world. Never a care for strong architecture or good code standards. Allowing anyone to become an "engineer". A friend of mine, who can't code, used Cursor to build fully functional Nextjs web apps. I was impressed. Vibe coding is a super power for average people.

I do think this article fully grasps that change. Using AI to do tasks is not vibe coding. At least to me.

When will the first vibe coding book come out I wonder?

New comment by freddealmeida in "A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics"

freddealmeida — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:34:55 +0000

Hahaha. I had one and look at that I worked in robotics and AI. Never realized that before. Toys do have impact, don't they?

New comment by freddealmeida in "Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines"

freddealmeida — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:21:57 +0000

Wait the philipines is real?!

New comment by freddealmeida in "I got kicked out of Columbia for taking a stand against LeetCode interviews"

freddealmeida — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:43:15 +0000

Why the hate for leetcode testing?

New comment by freddealmeida in "U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions"

freddealmeida — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:51:48 +0000

Tornado Cash is a 1A issue. Should never have been pulled down.

New comment by freddealmeida in "Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1"

freddealmeida — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:15:21 +0000

how is this open vs whatdeepseek did?