Hacker News: hashberry

New comment by hashberry in "Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law"

hashberry — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:58:30 +0000

> The Office of Technology and Innovation spent nearly $600,000 to build out the foundations of the MyCity chatbot, which will be used for future chatbot offerings on MyCity. [0]

This was experimental tech... while I admire cities attempting to implement AI, it seems they did not spend enough tax dollars on it!

[0] https://abc7ny.com/post/ai-artificial-intelligence-eric-adam...

New comment by hashberry in "The Pornography Paradox"

hashberry — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:59:12 +0000

My name is hashberry, and I am a porn addict. Do not follow my path into the erotic abyss, especially with a chemsex stack of stimulants + cannabis + alcohol.

I recently discovered Stable Diffusion. I've always loved photos of beautiful women, but now porn is 100% customizable. Every fantasy can now have a realistic lifelike visual, even of people you know.

This article subheading reads: "Reformers fear that ever more outré sites are warping users’ desires. But transgression has always been part of the appeal."

Ah, yes, "transgression." In this erotic hell, you'll find your mothers, your daughters, you sisters. You'll find "futa" transsexuals, bukkake cumshots, and rape-like scenes. This nonstop pornography has no limit because degeneracy has no limit.

New comment by hashberry in "My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank"

hashberry — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:46:55 +0000

Same. I'm convinced OBEs are a form of dreaming, especially when comparing the techniques used for initiating wake-back-to-bed lucid dreaming (relaxing the body & mind, feeling vibrations, being amazed how "real" it is, etc).

New comment by hashberry in "Ask HN: Not liking my first dev job. Any tips?"

hashberry — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:40:40 +0000

lol welcome to capitalism 101. you are a servant paid to do work no one else wants to do. your feeling is called alienation.

> I love to start with that blank canvas and through sheer will and dexterity forming it into something beautiful.

I have built many beautiful tools for clients, but there is extreme alienation when no one uses it, when you find out it's just a marketing gimmick.

love/passion is for projects you own.

New comment by hashberry in "How A.I. Conquered Poker"

hashberry — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:30:55 +0000

I like your taxonomy. But just to clarify: is the cruise control on my car "artificial intelligence?" Because a lot of dumb 15-year-old teenagers don't know they have to increase power while going up a hill, while my cruise control algorithm does.

New comment by hashberry in "How A.I. Conquered Poker"

hashberry — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:50:45 +0000

> he opened a computer program called PioSOLVER, one of a handful of artificial-intelligence-based tools

So I checked out this tool, and the team describes themselves as "programmers interested in algorithms"[0] ... what is the difference between A.I. and algorithms?

[0] https://www.piosolver.com/pages/about-us

New comment by hashberry in "Slowing Down, Yes, but to What?"

hashberry — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 13:51:22 +0000

The NYTimes regularly publishes articles such as "179 Reasons You Probably Don’t Need to Panic About Inflation"[0] with highlights such as:

> most products are actually seeing very modest inflation.

> the inflationary surge might be “transitory,” or fade quickly on its own.

> As we move past the worst of the Covid-19 crisis, such base effects will fade.

> For now, inflation is well contained

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/18/opinion/infla...

New comment by hashberry in "Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work"

hashberry — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:27:05 +0000

Yeah, the guilty feeling sucks, I also had a devops job where I worked 2-3 hours a day. I finally found a more demanding job that required 4-6 hours of work per day. Being remote also helped instead of trying to keep up appearances in the office.

New comment by hashberry in "How Philosophers Think"

hashberry — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:40:31 +0000

> Quantum Thinking, which is holding multiple contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. By oscillating between radical extremes, you put ideas at war with each other in the name of truth. By doing so, you stretch each idea to its logical conclusion.

Isn't this the 19th century Hegelian dialectic, not a quantum-whatchamacallit?

New comment by hashberry in "Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange"

hashberry — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:24:13 +0000

I am college-educated and live in a diverse urban city, yet when I saw Gebru's Medium photo I did not realize she was a Black woman. If a human has trouble with facial recognition, then A.I. definitely needs a lot more help and guidance.

New comment by hashberry in "Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?"

hashberry — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:11:54 +0000

I found it useful to match dev OS with prod OS... for example, if prod is running Debian-based distro, write code in Debian-based distro. Also encountered a lot of horror stories upgrading macOS to Catalina... that is lost productivity.

Drug harmfulness: Lethal dose ratio and dependence potential

hashberry — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 19:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness#/media/File%3ADrug_danger_and_dependence.svg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23449954

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hashberry in "What is the most dangerous drug? (2019)"

hashberry — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 19:09:49 +0000

As someone who experimented with numerous drugs in college, I always remember being buzzed or drunk when the second drug was introduced. Alcohol lowers inhibitions and puts one in a "party" mode. It's also everywhere, making it easy to consume more than one drink. Plus it's fun to "stack" with other drugs like stimulants, making intoxication more dangerous. Alcohol is THE gateway drug.

New comment by hashberry in "Most tech content is bullshit"

hashberry — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:13:21 +0000

And social media (including LinkedIn). There are many tech firms who hire marketers to write tech content for other marketers and potential clients as an advertising and brand-building strategy.

New comment by hashberry in "Mindset Health (YC S19) raises $1.1M to develop hypnosis apps"

hashberry — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 02:15:57 +0000

I will gladly hand over my money for an app that will hypnotize me to stop procrastinating and make me like my job.

New comment by hashberry in "Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (2018)"

hashberry — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:36:11 +0000

> Easier to conceive of Mark Zuckerberg as a machine.

The memes of Zuckerberg as Data from Star Trek always amuse me.[0] Sure, it's teasing, but Data is a likable character! Data doesn't strive to be superior but to be more human, even if this means being analytical instead of emotional.

Mark Zuckerberg would be far more interesting if he were "evil"--if he tried to create new values, if he tried to replace God. But he isn't even an atheist anymore and is embracing religion and Judaism[1].

And then of course we must separate the man from the corporation: Facebook is a public company has an obligation to its shareholders to make money. Facebook stopped being about Zuckerberg a long time ago... it is now about surveillance capitalism.

[0] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/354/185/719...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-embraced-h...

New comment by hashberry in "Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data"

hashberry — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:40:41 +0000

I have a personal gmail and a work gmail (G Suite), each using my full name, but both run in separate browsers using the same IP address. I always wonder if Google keeps a "master record" of people and all their associations, if not for security or to work with law enforcement.

New comment by hashberry in "Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg"

hashberry — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:13:01 +0000

The premise of "power" and "domination" seems correct. Though there are other things he believes in:

- Mark Zuckerberg believes/believed in China. He read Chinese president Xi Jinping’s latest book and recommends it to his employees, learned Chinese, and asked president Xi for a baby name suggestion. [0]

- Mark Zuckerberg believes in Judaism. He has grown “more religious” after becoming a father and as a result of the “challenges we’ve been through as a company.” [1]

- Mark Zuckerberg believes in Sheryl Sandberg, his Chief Operating Officer since 2008. Author Shoshana Zuboff called Sandberg "the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism." [2]

[0] https://qz.com/1115960/an-idiom-uttered-by-xi-jinping-perfec...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebooks-zuckerberg-says-hes-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg#Criticism

Path of Exile Developers Reveal Their Working from Home Desks

hashberry — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2828228

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22822172

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hashberry in "S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week"

hashberry — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:54:36 +0000

The market has been overvalued and manipulated for years. Even Apple took out billions in loans for stock buybacks.[0] Boeing took out $43 billion in loans for stock buybacks[1] instead of investing in planes, QA and employees. Everyone knew this was a stock bubble caused by record low interest rates. COVID-19 is the pin that woke everyone up.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/05/apple-is-borrowing/

[1] https://wolfstreet.com/2020/03/11/boeing-crashes-as-43-billi...