Hacker News: gazebo2

New comment by gazebo2 in "Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix"

gazebo2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:39:41 +0000

Noise and increased electricity costs. I feel like the people balking at anti-datacenter rhetoric are just intentionally missing the most obvious and directly impacting complaints from residents.

New comment by gazebo2 in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

gazebo2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:15:23 +0000

I similarly have a weird affinity for Gemini that I can't really articulate. I used Gemini's free chat and found it great for exploring technical topics (and random one-off general walking-around-questions) and appreciated its speed, tone and accuracy. I spent a month playing with Gemini CLI / Antigravity and found it also an effective coding agent, at least for my workflow (entirely in the loop development and review). I also was really surprised that I could just paste it images of a project I was working on and have it immediately understand what it was looking at -- which I've come to learn is considered a unique strong point for Gemini. I've been playing with GPT5.6 for about a month and it's definitely powerful but I honestly think I'll go back to Gemini. There's something kind of charming about working with an AI that not only is particularly good at web search and information gathering, but also one that doesn't feel like some superhuman overengineering freak when it comes to code.

New comment by gazebo2 in "Grok 4.6"

gazebo2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:20:29 +0000

It was always possible to modify images to produce inappropriate or insensitive content, but plugging a turbocharged state of the art image generator with virtually no guardrails into every Twitter reply and then failing to address the issue long after it was obviously being used for CSAM or deepfakes of real people against their will.. well that's worse

New comment by gazebo2 in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

gazebo2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:21:45 +0000

Took me a sec to realize you weren't quoting the guy from Tool lol

New comment by gazebo2 in "After the AI Crash"

gazebo2 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:14:18 +0000

Do we really believe marketing copy from Anthropic re: RSI considering their recent model releases seem to be markedly regressing in real world performance vs. past models?

New comment by gazebo2 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

gazebo2 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:53:37 +0000

There are very little (read: zero) references to politics in my codebase so I don't really care if the free Chinese frontier model throws an error when I ask about Tiananmen Square. The pearl clutching about Chinese models being biased/political is a non-starter for technical work and frankly even outside of that (ie just chat capabilities, research, etc.) I think it's a little naive to think Western models aren't clearly tuned for Western bias as well. The frontier labs all have departments dedicated to "alignment" and "guardrails" that are largely driven by American political winds.

New comment by gazebo2 in "Qwen 3.8"

gazebo2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:00:58 +0000

These models were trained on massive scale copyright infringement, I really don't think they're drawing the line at training on the requests you send them

New comment by gazebo2 in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

gazebo2 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:52:15 +0000

You caught me, I was too on the nose using the classic Russian disinformation tactic of saying mass surveillance is bad

New comment by gazebo2 in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

gazebo2 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:11:23 +0000

I think in general people are a bit distrusting of a tech firm headed by billionaires with deep political ties that sells AI driven surveillance state technology to governments

New comment by gazebo2 in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

gazebo2 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:29:40 +0000

Are we really saying that Anthropic claiming AI would take over industries was some benevolent ethical move rather than marketing their product as a cheap replacement for human labor that works in any industry? Wouldn't the ethical thing, if they were actually concerned about labor displacement, be to shut down the lab and work to disrupt and disable other labs instead?

New comment by gazebo2 in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

gazebo2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:45:29 +0000

Probably meaning C-Suite thought productivity was up because of AI, either because A) metrics showed high AI usage or more commits/LOC or B) we're mandating AI usage, why wouldn't it increase?

New comment by gazebo2 in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

gazebo2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:29:33 +0000

Pretty massive difference between "being employed" and "being employed with a decent wage". Yeah, there's plenty of low-wage service industry or gig economy work available to take you out of the unemployment statistic -- there's a lot less employment available that enables you to live a decent lifestyle (i.e. live somewhere without 4 roommates or raise a family)

New comment by gazebo2 in "Rent collections are down in New York"

gazebo2 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:32:07 +0000

Maybe people shouldn't be buying homes for the purpose of renting them then?

New comment by gazebo2 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

gazebo2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:59:00 +0000

I'm not interested in explaining to you something immediately evident that you clearly disagree with. If you don't feel that trillion dollar companies training commercial products on the free labor of human writers/artists/engineers/etc. without their consent or compensation isn't "stealing" you're welcome to that opinion, but I believe that's what the GP was implying.

New comment by gazebo2 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

gazebo2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:46:56 +0000

It's ironic to proclaim fear of a risk and then dedicate your life to actualizing the risk

New comment by gazebo2 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

gazebo2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:33:13 +0000

>economy-wide automation would make the US wealthy beyond imagination

Somehow I doubt the average American would be partaking in this unimaginable wealth

New comment by gazebo2 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

gazebo2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:06:23 +0000

Any text, code, image, video or audio they/anybody has ever uploaded to the public internet? Is this a real question?

New comment by gazebo2 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

gazebo2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:31:13 +0000

>Yeah, but measuring things that are poorly understood (to wit: community environmental factors on health outcomes) is part of the scientific process.

Is this really poorly understood? I think that's (partially) their point. I think we all pretty well understand that income correlates with health and that poorer people will tend to live in less healthy environments.

New comment by gazebo2 in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

gazebo2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:17:05 +0000

>You say this based on what?

I say it based on the fact that I experience consciousness and therefore know it is a phenomenon wholly separate from the outward effect I have on the world via speech or any other physical action.

>It assumes that there's some parallel realm of spirit that the brain is peculiarly able to tap into, but which computer programs that function in very similar ways to the brain don't tap into.

Ruling this out completely implies that modern science has a total and complete understanding of consciousness and the universe in its entirety, which it does not. I don't think it's unreasonable to leave open the possibility that there is an unexplained phenomenon that explains the conscious experience which is still bounded by the laws of physics.

>.. the difference between thinking and an extremely good simulacrum of thought is meaningless. They become the same thing.

Do they? To me it seems like you equate the process with the result, like saying if I gave you a gift, it doesn't matter whether I bought it or made it by hand, in either case I "made" it because the end result is the same. There is a conscious experience that (hopefully) all humans experience and can testify to, the question is whether or not an LLM predicting tokens based on a giant vector map is experiencing the same thing, which I'd say is obviously not happening. My point about chatbots is about exactly this -- 10 years ago even you would have laughed at somebody that said a hand-rolled chatbot was conscious/thinking, but because the output has improved, now suddenly it's all the same, and your brain is a computer, and Claude has feelings, blah blah.

New comment by gazebo2 in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

gazebo2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:49:35 +0000

>It's hard to argue you'll still be reading code a year from now

groan