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New comment by jimnotgym in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

jimnotgym — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:42:32 +0000

What about potential employees, can they look? The local community that consents to let the company build and operate in their town? How does that help, if they don't follow have to follow GAAP anyway?

New comment by jimnotgym in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

jimnotgym — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:43:56 +0000

This is an interesting anomaly in the US. In the civilised world all corporations have to file public accounts, as the price for their limited liability. The detail and audit requirements depend on the size, turnover, staff numbers etc. This is because the shareholders are not the only stakeholder. The companies creditors, for instance, who are exposed to the limited liability have a right to see what they are lending to.

To answer the sibling comment, all of these public accounts follow local GAAP or IFRS.

The US still astounds me with its willingness to allow corporations to rip people off!

New comment by jimnotgym in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

jimnotgym — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:19:18 +0000

They have the whole software industry addicted to AI. They will be pushing the price continually up, and like addicts they will find a way to pay

New comment by jimnotgym in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

jimnotgym — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:54:14 +0000

There is no difference. Spain just got the right answer before the US

New comment by jimnotgym in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

jimnotgym — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:53:27 +0000

And it is regulated in many (most?) other countries and requires a licence to be a bookmaker. Hence the ban

New comment by jimnotgym in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

jimnotgym — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:50:50 +0000

Agree, the ministry just applied the existing law. Simple.

New comment by jimnotgym in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

jimnotgym — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:43:03 +0000

Saving this one for the next time an American says, 'In your stupid European country you can get arrested for simply saying something online'

New comment by jimnotgym in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

jimnotgym — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:57:49 +0000

I had sudden memories of playing Frontier: Elite 2.

I wanted to go to Sol, buy luxury goods...and take them to Barnards Star

New comment by jimnotgym in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

jimnotgym — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:46:57 +0000

Would you choose the weapons, armour and tactics as described in the Iliad? Even though it is thought they are inaccurate for the time period that they think the Iliad is set? Not so easy I would say.

And the extra you describe, where does he appear on screen? Front and centre, or in the fourth rank behind the people in better costumes?

And the longboat, does it appear on screen in its original form, or with additions to make it look more period accurate?

New comment by jimnotgym in "Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone"

jimnotgym — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:35:33 +0000

Wspr is very optimised for weak signals, though. You wouldn't actually hear anything but noise.

New comment by jimnotgym in "Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone"

jimnotgym — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:02:50 +0000

Baofengs also have terrible receive filtering. It is perfectly possible to hear no stations because you are being overloaded by something on another frequency. I tried my first SOTA activation with a Boafeng. A transmitter on another hill meant I received nothing, although stains could hear me. By a Yaesu, still cheap

New comment by jimnotgym in "Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone"

jimnotgym — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:57:24 +0000

The only hams I ever enjoyed talking to were SOTA chasers when I was the activator. Bit of an all day job, and therefore something I don't really have time to do.

New comment by jimnotgym in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

jimnotgym — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:12:12 +0000

Being told to eat shit has been typical of most of my experience of trying to get normies to understand my mild nuerodiversity.

My slightly more serious experience is that in my late 20s I started getting digestive problems and gaining weight. I feel like my neurodiversity got worse, but that could easily be that environmental factors exposed it.

How does one take advantage of a study like this? I would be difficult to get medically sanctioned poo right now. So what can I do? Coprophilia seems high risk.

I mean I can eat Kimchi and oats, but that seems more about encouraging the bugs that are already there than replacing missing bugs. Are we close to over the counter poo pills?

New comment by jimnotgym in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

jimnotgym — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:11:05 +0000

Presumably if you paid them enough money they would give you the books without you having to pay to scrape at all?

New comment by jimnotgym in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

jimnotgym — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:05:11 +0000

I would love it if you could detect AI scraper bots, and feed them AI generated bs instead of the real books...

New comment by jimnotgym in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

jimnotgym — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:52:03 +0000

Well I have some evidence to support your hypothesis. During Covid my kids were at home, eventually with some kind of self learning website from school. I was upstairs working, checking in with progress on the parents app. Finish your daily school work and then you can game.

The kids learnt all about Team Fortress 2, Roblox, Rainbow Six etc. They also learnt how to game the learning system so it looked like they were doing their work.

New comment by jimnotgym in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

jimnotgym — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:43:17 +0000

You can still do competitions. But you'll all need to fly to the same place and work on laptops with a fresh install of Linux. 1 hour to install tooling then Internet off, challenge revealed.

Not as easy logistically...

Tell HN: Audible app used 19.8GB of data while not being used

jimnotgym — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:11:10 +0000

Seriously, Audible used nearly 20GB of data in a day, while not being used. I listened to a downloaded book in the morning. Left my phone on my desk. Picked it up later to find warnings from my phone company about data usage. The phones usage monitor says it was Audible. Of course they don't care. Won't even raise a bug report!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152594

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New comment by jimnotgym in "What can singing mice say about human speech?"

jimnotgym — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:55:47 +0000

And if you read the article there is no link to audio of them singing. Google has lots of very similar articles, with no singing. YouTube has videos of them with no singing. Wikipedia has a tiny excerpt of them singing a bit.

Infuriating! First they tell you this mouse sings, then don't let you hear it???

Finally:

https://youtu.be/eNc1PI4PkG0?si=LWCLU7AlXxqhM5pX

I didn't find a duet like the article suggested

New comment by jimnotgym in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

jimnotgym — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:30:50 +0000

Serious question

Were these trees ever profitable? If the true cost of water resources were added?

If the true cost of picking them with US workers were paid?

Any other subsidy?

In my country there is a farm lobby too, but they rather look after the massive agribusiness at the expense of small farms. Is that the case in the US?

I have never seen a californian peach orchard (I have read Grapes of Wrath, if that counts!), are they a similar environmental disaster to the almond monoculture?