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New comment by killjoywashere in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

killjoywashere — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:09:49 +0000

Elon making outrageous projections? Noooo.....

New comment by killjoywashere in "The dead economy theory"

killjoywashere — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:31:22 +0000

My wife owns a business in a highly AI-resistant field (occupational therapy) in the most historically price-insensitive market (Silicon Valley). Her CAGR is 88% over the last 8 years. But we were talking about this economy problem today and with the SWE layoffs starting to roll through she said this morning: "It doesn't matter if AI can't replace us if no one can afford the service." That's crazy. Shit has changed. Not getting OT for your autistic kid is like not getting a wheel chair for a bilateral below-the-knee amputee. Whatever it takes.

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

killjoywashere — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:19:19 +0000

Where is the Petrova line?!

New comment by killjoywashere in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

killjoywashere — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:31:49 +0000

GAF did. There are two issues: 1) too expensive 2) not modular. I like that I can separate my solar decision from my roof decision. Panels make that possible.

New comment by killjoywashere in "Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft"

killjoywashere — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:22:51 +0000

How's a 170 million pieces of evidence for poisoning children's minds

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/09/...

New comment by killjoywashere in "France pulls last gold held in US"

killjoywashere — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:58:24 +0000

Uh, yeah, I'm gonna need more of an explainer on that.

New comment by killjoywashere in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

killjoywashere — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:57:45 +0000

Fair, but software engineers are especially known for this. There was an XKCD about it

https://xkcd.com/1831/

New comment by killjoywashere in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

killjoywashere — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:51:38 +0000

This will get downvoted to oblivion, but consider a major change: enlist in the military, sign up for a stint on a commercial fishing vessel, or go work as a firefighter. You will have tons of time with other people, even live with them for extended periods, but they will also tend to respect your space.

New comment by killjoywashere in "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike"

killjoywashere — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:11:01 +0000

that sounds plausible. For people not tracking, the concept of intelligence at play is "object based development". One analyst drops a label, brief synopsis, whatever, and it just sits there for the next person who comes along. The world view gets more accurate over time, but there's a recency error that's hard to measure until the probability function collapses with a measurement.

New comment by killjoywashere in "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike"

killjoywashere — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:07:34 +0000

Yeah, Hanlon's Razor applies.

New comment by killjoywashere in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

killjoywashere — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:35:03 +0000

Table 1 and Figure 4: why are the Virginia controlled-access highways different? That population stands out in a way that smells like either a cultural difference or a policy difference.

I spend most of my time in California, have lived in SoCal and NorCal, and I spend a fair chunk of time driving around Virginia. My guess is that there's something fishy with the Virginia data being reported. Because if there is anyplace on earth with an insane number of controlled access roads, it's gotta be NVA/DC metro area (or the Tri-Border Area as I like to call it).

Also, they need to either update the caption for Figure 4, or move the plots to correspond with the caption. Clearly the Virginia data is on top (or the code is wrong, which seems exceedingly unlikely).

New comment by killjoywashere in "Who Owns and Operates Pubmed.ai? Definitely Not the National Library of Medicine"

killjoywashere — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:52:45 +0000

Possibly Bruno Villoutreix, but dropping this here to come back to later (and solicit help!)

https://www.pubmed.ai/blog/how-pubmedai-works

https://www.pubmed.ai/about-us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VipU6oC8EUw

Who Owns and Operates Pubmed.ai? Definitely Not the National Library of Medicine

killjoywashere — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pubmed.ai/home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949247

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by killjoywashere in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

killjoywashere — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:57:13 +0000

You're saying Nial used guassian splatting for his video? Or the style of camerawork, staging, and costuming is similar?

Put another way, is this a scientific comparison or an artistic comparison?

New comment by killjoywashere in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

killjoywashere — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:01:47 +0000

If you're using Windows, you're using a computer controlled by a corporation and your actions on that machine are not your own. Even if you walked into a store and bought it, your actions on that computer may not belong to your boss, but you're definitely working, directly, for Microsoft.

Any "feature" of Windows is there because one or more organizational leaders wanted it. Government, commercial, academic. Somewhere in between. But they pray every night for your more complete subjugation.

New comment by killjoywashere in "Tamiko Thiel posting a new project emulating ELI5-like Feynman Lectures"

killjoywashere — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:19:40 +0000

It kinda picks up where Eureka! Left off: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLISEtDmihMo3HR3Zh757Rf7ZG...

New comment by killjoywashere in "The Legacy of Undersea Cables"

killjoywashere — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:09:19 +0000

I thought they were going to go into Oliver Heaviside. Instead we get gutta percha. /sigh

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

New comment by killjoywashere in "Tamiko Thiel posting a new project emulating ELI5-like Feynman Lectures"

killjoywashere — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:59:34 +0000

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

Tamiko Thiel posting a new project emulating ELI5-like Feynman Lectures

killjoywashere — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:59:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ28Mdx-ewGW1Cvdg3kbs_g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435275

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by killjoywashere in "Mozilla's latest quagmire"

killjoywashere — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:51:12 +0000

I think something people should take a hard look at is Firefox's crypto libraries. Firefox's implementation of cryptography in NSS is fundamentally in the browser. Chrome works with the OS. One could argue which implementation is better, but as a user, it's really helpful to have Firefox laying around from time to time. For all sorts of reasons.