Hacker News: jhickok

New comment by jhickok in "Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre"

jhickok — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:30:46 +0000

Not bad, just a lawnmower.

New comment by jhickok in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

jhickok — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:08:34 +0000

Yeah that's what I was thinking. And if someone sent me a bill for 17 billion I would just tell them I don't have it and never will, sorry.

New comment by jhickok in "Sam Neill has died"

jhickok — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:43:27 +0000

It's a great movie! One of the best attempts at capturing a Lovecraftian vibe, maybe only bested by The Thing or his excellent Event Horizon.

New comment by jhickok in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

jhickok — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:57:45 +0000

Assuming we eek thru a whirlwind of catastrophic dangers, one day we will look at this period of time with the same reaction as if we had been sprinkling lead on our cereal.

New comment by jhickok in "How Kalshi Infects the News"

jhickok — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:52:22 +0000

It's bad on social media, especially Tik Tok. I don't use it often, but when I do I bet I get 3 Kalshi ads every 10 minutes easy.

New comment by jhickok in "Googlebook"

jhickok — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:14:32 +0000

Yeah I saw that, looks like this is a new laptop class, perhaps an AI-infused evolution of the Chromebook Plus spec: https://www.google.com/chromebook/chromebookplus/

New comment by jhickok in "Googlebook"

jhickok — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:12:03 +0000

I thought that too, but it looks like this isn't a laptop but a new laptop class, and Lenovo, Dell and HP will all be producing Googlebooks. This does not appear to be a first-party laptop product.

New comment by jhickok in "Googlebook"

jhickok — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:05:17 +0000

I wanted to like the Pixelbook, but it had a lot of limitations, ChromeOS being the major one. I recall that people were able to run Linux on them, but no idea what that experience was like.

New comment by jhickok in "Googlebook"

jhickok — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:03:26 +0000

Not sure if it matters that they compete with Apple blow-for-blow, it's probably just the threat of existential risk if they don't own any platform. They want to make sure they don't get Facebook'd by Apple if/when they decide to go fully vertical on AI.

New comment by jhickok in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

jhickok — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:34:51 +0000

If it's an offsite backup, you would deal with it like you would any DR site-- either plan for yet another backup, or presume that it's unlikely that both the primary and replica would go down simultaneously and accept the risk.

New comment by jhickok in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

jhickok — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:51:54 +0000

IBM sells hyperconverged AIO OpenShift on Dell & Lenovo hardware now: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-hci-systems/2.12.x?topic=...

New comment by jhickok in "Magnificent 7 lost over 5B of market capitalization from their all-time highs"

jhickok — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:48:13 +0000

I think you mean 5 trillion?

New comment by jhickok in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

jhickok — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:18:02 +0000

"My father died from cancer, and this is what it taught me about B2B SaaS sales..."

New comment by jhickok in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

jhickok — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:37:58 +0000

We had a great candidate for a job decline to relocate to the US for precisely this reason. I really do not blame anyone for making that decision

New comment by jhickok in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

jhickok — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:55:05 +0000

Are you being cheeky or do you really drag a monitor outside?

New comment by jhickok in "AI Will Never Be Conscious"

jhickok — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:27:14 +0000

I don't have the data to demonstrate that this is incorrect, and that's because we lack a fundamental model of how brains operate. Brains probably compute under an expansive definition of computer, but to say it's a classical computer is sorely underdetermined by the evidence.

New comment by jhickok in "We mourn our craft"

jhickok — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:30:20 +0000

I disagree a bit. Coding can remain an artistic passion for you indefinitely, it's just your ability to demand that everyone crafts each line of code artisinally won't be subsidized by your employer for much longer. There will probably always be a heavily diminished demand for handcrafted code.

New comment by jhickok in "Why Normativity Remains Challenging for LLMs"

jhickok — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:30:42 +0000

Interesting article! I think I get what the concern is, but I think your view of human cognition is going to heavily color what you think the limitations of an LLM are. For example, if you think that broadly speaking, the human learning process (concept acquisition, inference and concept revision, etc) is modeled by modern LLM training, these limitations might apply to humans in the same sense they do to LLMs.

Systematicity is a really powerful concept that can drive a wedge between classical cognition folks and connectionists/associationists, but it has never been clear to me that we actually instantiate systematic cognitive patterns, only that in some arenas we should.

New comment by jhickok in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

jhickok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:59:00 +0000

why does it have to connect to prod in order to be useful?

New comment by jhickok in "Claude is a space to think"

jhickok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:49:28 +0000

I can't really imagine any statement they could give that would ease concerns that at some point in time they change their mind. But for now, it is a relief to read, even if this is a bit of marketing. The longer it goes without being enshittified the better.