Hacker News: invig

New comment by invig in "xAI joins SpaceX"

invig — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:59:32 +0000

Your argument is that Elon isn't grandiose enough with his statements and timelines?

New comment by invig in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

invig — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:26:28 +0000

We tried to scale "University". Turns out it doesn't scale well.

New comment by invig in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

invig — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:52:57 +0000

That's not quite true, what they can measure with the "tap on tap off devices" is people's movement patterns (point to point). That is valuable data that you can't really get just by counting people on and off or taking cash.

New comment by invig in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

invig — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:51:37 +0000

This is a problem that needs to be solved. I guess we should have solved it before the regulators got involved, alas, here we are.

New comment by invig in "LLM Inevitabilism"

invig — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:54:32 +0000

The debate stage is a deliberately constrained environment. The world and where it goes doesn't work like that.

New comment by invig in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

invig — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:34:58 +0000

Summary: "Users get to decide if they trust Apple. Users shouldn't get to decide if they trust anyone else."

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:45:07 +0000

Why bound it to the US Federal service?

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:43:14 +0000

I get what you're trying to say, but 'ideologically diverse' doesn’t really work that way—it’s about ideas, not how things look on the surface.

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:05:58 +0000

You don't really mean "ideologically" there do you?

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:43:55 +0000

What percentage should there be?

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:31:34 +0000

People who take disgruntled actions are definitely the kind of people you want working for you.

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:30:32 +0000

Name the values.

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:28:19 +0000

Well working? Estimated FY 2025 deficit is $1.9 trillion. If they had stopped ALL defense spending they would still lose over $1 trillion dollars in FY25.

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:22:08 +0000

Makes sense that the kind of people who would flip to espionage against their country are the exact kind of people you'd want to keep employed by your government.

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:16:38 +0000

You can make up absolutely anything and call it an unstated goal.

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:12:32 +0000

White men can't be ideologically diverse?

New comment by invig in "A Letter to the American People"

invig — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:10:58 +0000

You're not seriously making the case that the government was hiring strictly based on merit are you?

New comment by invig in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

invig — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:15:58 +0000

Given that in all cases interpretation is required, are you trying to make the claim that the President (who is elected and can be voted out) should not make the interpretation, and that some employee who is not elected and works for them should?

New comment by invig in "The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype"

invig — Sun, 05 May 2024 23:32:54 +0000

GPT-4 is absolutely incredible and even if we never get beyond it the world is a much better place with it than without it. It makes total sense to bet on the team that made this being the best placed people in the world to advance it.

New comment by invig in "Humane AI Pin review: not even close"

invig — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:50:29 +0000

I don't want to unlock to the home screen, I want to unlock to Apple Notes or Notion or whatever your favourite flavour of notes app is.

Being allowed to replace the home screen with some app would be game changing for making the device feel helpful rather than like the little universe of chaos that is is. Let me access other things from the app switcher.

Alas, we will never be allowed to do that.