Hacker News: gypsy_boots

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

gypsy_boots — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:25:36 +0000

> It's why a Tiktok sale was forced

Well that and the overwhelming pro-palestine content on that platform. We certainly couldn't have that.

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

gypsy_boots — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:21:25 +0000

It's funny how you can look at obscenely overvalued Western AI companies, with capex's that are unsustainable, and along comes a system which pokes a gaping hole in this model, and the response is "Ya, but what do those sneaky Chinese have up their sleeve here?!"

Perhaps the question should instead be "Why are these Western AI companies getting insane valuations on dubious ROI, and how can these Chinese models run on a fraction of the infrastructure?"

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence"

gypsy_boots — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:40:51 +0000

You're led to this conclusion because you have a lack of understanding of the structure of Hezbollah, and a seeming disinterest in understanding it more.

Like it or not, Hezbollah serves a number of functions in Lebanon. They have civil servants (think trash collectors, postal delivery representatives, etc.) They also have politicians.

A corollary would be if the Democratic Party in the United States had a militarized wing, politicians, and civil servants.

It's a structure that those in the West don't recognize or understand, and leads you to the conclusion that anyone killed in the pager attack, for instance, is just terrorist adjacent. So a trash collector who's killed in the pager attack, and their family, are not in fact, 'terrorists'.

Also worth investigating in all of this are the structures and centers of power that are labeling them as a terrorist organization and why.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly"

gypsy_boots — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:20:24 +0000

Take any econ 101 course, and you'll realize that this isn't a factor in the capitalist system. Capitalism is simply concerned with maximizing profit, and in this case, returning shareholder value. It's just simply not in the purview of the system to think about what happens when you completely get rid of your labor force.

Envisioned another way, the future of labor might look the way it did for laborers over 100 years ago, before major industries unionized; making 'Amazon-bucks' that can only be redeemed at the 'Amazon company store'.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

gypsy_boots — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:59:41 +0000

> The attribute is that we must never actually do anything to address the real problem, which is that the lion's share of the wealth and resources are being claimed by a tiny group of people who use monopolies, coercive tactics, buying up politics and technology to hoard and protect their wealth and power.

Yes, thank you for saying this. Truly the "Steven Pinker" of these times. "There is actually something wrong with you if you're not loving this".

Although saying this on this platform, unfortunately, won't get much traction.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

gypsy_boots — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:59:37 +0000

The US version of The Great Leap Forward

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

gypsy_boots — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:03:05 +0000

not only trained that way, the justice system upholds this by not prosecuting police violence in any meaningful way

New comment by gypsy_boots in "SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources"

gypsy_boots — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:40:09 +0000

> Or did the trading firms treat order flow from RH differently than from other sources?

I'm not well versed in financial language by any stretch, but i believe it's this.

Matt Taibbi did a piece on them last week and goes into this. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/pandemic-villains-robinhood

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Justice Department: Resolution with Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family"

gypsy_boots — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:19:15 +0000

> ...the resolution in today’s announcement re-affirms that the Department of Justice will not relent in its multi-pronged efforts to combat the opioids crisis

> The criminal resolution includes the largest penalties ever levied against a pharmaceutical manufacturer

Jeez the DOJ surely sprinkled a ton of 'self-congratulating' language in this for simply doing their job.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Ampyx Power: Wind energy systems using tethered wings above 200 meters"

gypsy_boots — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:40:16 +0000

> The only press they ever received was from credulous buzztech sites that just wanted something flashy to grab eyeballs, so they weren’t used to anyone actually being engaged enough intellectually to point out the lack of clothes that they were wearing. I love the way this is written.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin"

gypsy_boots — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:26:37 +0000

Thank you for this. The headline of the article certainly seems to be taking advantage of the recent hysteria around everything else happening in our lives right now (covid-19)

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé"

gypsy_boots — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:15:43 +0000

This article is kind of all over the place, at first blaming the Guardian but then backing down a bit to say that they had limited resources to fight what would be an expensive legal battle, which is understandable.

> He said he was put in touch with Gavin Millar, a well-known London lawyer who had worked on the Edward Snowden case. Wylie said the lawyer suggested he give the story to a U.S. newspaper because the First Amendment provided a stronger defense against accusations of libel..."it was actually The Guardian's Katharine Viner who reached out to Dean Baquet at the New York Times to help set up the partnership." Wylie’s revelations were published jointly by The Guardian and The New York Times

This should be the main takeaway from all of this. They were making a calculated choice based on the resources they had available. The Guardian should still be seen as a trustworthy publication

Bike Tire Sizing Systems

gypsy_boots — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:30:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895938

Points: 2

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New comment by gypsy_boots in "It seems that Google is forgetting the old web"

gypsy_boots — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:53:03 +0000

Author says:

> I also find misleading the title of BoingBoing’s report of this story: “Google’s forgetting the early web”. The two posts mentioned here are not “early web”, nor really “old”.

While the title of this author's post is "Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web"

New comment by gypsy_boots in "What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?"

gypsy_boots — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 23:04:46 +0000

For anyone interested in further reading on the topic of the placebo effect, I'd recommend the book 'Cure'[0] by Jo Marchant

[0]:https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Journey-into-Science-Mind/dp/038...

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)"

gypsy_boots — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:45:41 +0000

> 7. Don't have multiple people editing the same piece of code.

Do others find this pretty crucial? We do this at my org and I’m interested in knowing if it’s detrimental.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)"

gypsy_boots — Wed, 02 May 2018 15:26:51 +0000

MJ Freeway | Senior Software Developer | Full-Time | Denver, CO | REMOTE or ONSITE

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New comment by gypsy_boots in "Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’"

gypsy_boots — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:50:04 +0000

This is a fantastic ELI5. Thank you

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’"

gypsy_boots — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:47:54 +0000

Those last two sentences are pretty depressing: > Should we define the Anthropocene by when humanity invented the technology to make themselves extinct? If so, then the nuclear bomb spike recorded in the loneliest tree on the planet suggests it began in 1965.

I hope we do better than being remembered for this.

New comment by gypsy_boots in "Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'"

gypsy_boots — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:22:35 +0000

I find it hard to believe that Unilever really ‘cares’ about any of these issues so I’m chalking this up to virtue signaling. Really just seems like posturing more than anything