Hacker News: ivewonyoung

New comment by ivewonyoung in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

ivewonyoung — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:38:12 +0000

Huh, India was socialist.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:01:47 +0000

It makes it true in court, which is the only thing that matters for this discussion.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:44:16 +0000

And for good reason too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:39:43 +0000

Wrong. https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/75/00.001.00...

> "Pedestrian." Any of the following:

(1) An individual afoot.

(2) An individual with a mobility-related disability on a self-propelled wheelchair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designated for the exclusive use of an individual with a mobility-related disability.

(3) A personal delivery device.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:22:35 +0000

No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

You couldn't do that to a mute person, an infant or someone's pet, what makes you think it's legal. At least if it was a mute person you could try to claim you didn't know they were a mute, with a robot it's straightforward that you blinded it on purpose because you knew it couldn't respond.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:11:29 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

Depends, did they actually block mail delivery and did they do it on purpose in your hypothetical?

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:07:57 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

She admitted that her intention was to block the robot and she took actions in furtherance of that, and that she wasn't trying to pass the robot.

Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men

ivewonyoung — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/13/suicide-rates-highest-ever-among-middle-aged-men/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093180

Points: 598

# Comments: 825

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

ivewonyoung — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:23:34 +0000

So you can get a notification when the milk expires.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "[dead]"

ivewonyoung — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:31:39 +0000

This is misleading, according to comments on the earlier HN story.

The Cloudflare data is showing the bot traffic from the Yandex crawler, which identifies itself as a bot(like Google search bot).

The data apparently does not show malicious bot traffic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042093

New comment by ivewonyoung in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

ivewonyoung — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:18:18 +0000

> In areas where theft was particularly rampant and losses were as high as 83 percent, according to Tata, the companies took a different strategy. These pockets of Delhi were predominantly occupied by low-income families. Tata Power, and later BSES, worked to improve the water supply for these residents and provide educational opportunities, such as instruction in reading and writing in Hindi as well as financial literacy. These efforts focused on the women, who were at home more, and paid them to collect electricity payments from their neighbors. Bill payment rates from these areas are now on par with those of other parts of Delhi

This is... interesting on multiple levels.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon"

ivewonyoung — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:11:37 +0000

Those would hurt legacy auto much more than Tesla, which is why the last admin who had a lot of legacy auto union donations banned them. If anything Tesla will benefit from the charging infrastructure created due to a lot more EVs on the roads.

Woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10M over AI facial recognition

ivewonyoung — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:01:06 +0000

Article URL: https://abcnews.com/US/grandmother-falsely-accused-bank-theft-after-alleged-ai/story?id=136536444

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777628

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Just one drink a day ups the risk of dying from at least 10 types of cancer

ivewonyoung — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:42:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/health/alcohol-impact-cancer-deaths-wellness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49664265

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Regular coffee beats decaf in protecting the brain from chronic stress: study

ivewonyoung — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:39:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psypost.org/regular-coffee-beats-decaf-in-protecting-the-brain-from-chronic-stress-mouse-study-finds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570547

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New Zero-Cal Sugar Is 3,500 Times Sweeter Than Sucrose,but Doesn't Spike Insulin

ivewonyoung — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-zero-cal-sugar-is-3500-times-sweeter-than-sucrose-but-doesnt-spike-insulin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525185

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

ivewonyoung — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:23:13 +0000

> 16GB RTX 9070

What's an RTX 9070? Do you mean the RX 9070 or RTX 5070?

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

ivewonyoung — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:01:14 +0000

The whole point of the plan is to remove some of the incentive for an invasion, thus making it less likely.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

ivewonyoung — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:23:52 +0000

The issue is that it only goes in one direction of partisanship.

New comment by ivewonyoung in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)"

ivewonyoung — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:10:22 +0000

I believe that's new public debt per annum.