Hacker News: lisplist

New comment by lisplist in "Incident with Multple GitHub Services"

lisplist — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:17:40 +0000

The only problem I've found with Forgejo is a lack of fine grained permissions and also the lack of an API for pulling action invocations. The actions log api endpoints are present in gitea from what I can tell.

New comment by lisplist in "Ask HN: If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job?"

lisplist — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:14:49 +0000

New comment by lisplist in "XDP for game programmers"

lisplist — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:03:51 +0000

What is a metaverse client? Do you just mean a cross platform VR app?

Ask HN: If the singularity is nigh, why be frugal?

lisplist — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:21:38 +0000

Hypothetically speaking - if the singularity is indeed within the next few decades, why bother saving any money at all and instead live as lavishly as possible?

Practical reasons to save:

a) What if it isn't? i) Maybe ASI takes a lot longer or the notion of exponential intelligence gains actually doesn't happen ii) Perhaps we wipe ourselves out via climate change/nuclear war/etc (in which case money still won't matter much)

b) Money might still matter in a post-scarcity economy i) Some resources will still be scarce - how do we allocate them?

c) Saving money is wise regardless of what happens i) People still saved during the cold war when nuclear war destruction seemed imminent

Arguments for lavish living a) A post ASI world would likely look radically different. Hopefully in a good way, but still different. Might as well experience the world as it is now. i) If life becomes much worse, then either we will be dead, which means money doesn't matter, or life is terrible, in which case we might wish we'd enjoyed the good years we had. ii) If life becomes much better, then our savings probably don't matter so much as we've figured out the scarcity problem.

b) Climate change might (and already has) result in the radical transformation of ecosystems, causing many experiences to possibly not exist in the future. i) Ideally ASI would help resolve climate change? Or at least greatly mitigate it.

I, myself, am a pretty frugal person. I pay debts as quickly as I can, save as much as I can for retirement, and spend as little as possible. I think ultimately my 401k savings might useless by the time I'm old, but I do it anyways. My actions certainly conflict with the premise of my question.

I have no clue if I should even believe in the concept of the singularity. Perhaps, in a lot of ways, it is like a religion. We've replaced the second coming of Christ with the arrival of AI.

I think, ultimately, the sanest take is to assume nothing and continue to be frugal even if it's just giving myself the illusion of control over my own life into the future.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801006

Points: 20

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New comment by lisplist in "IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company"

lisplist — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:29:03 +0000

There’s some pretty nice stuff you can get. Vacation packages as well. Just takes forever to earn enough to do anything useful with.

New comment by lisplist in "Why Germany Is Rich but Germans Are Poor and Angry"

lisplist — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:10:39 +0000

Tbf there are some (mostly rich) people that believe wealth inequality isn’t a problem as long as the standard of living keeps going up for everyone. But that falls apart once you consider monopolization generally leads to rent seeking and not better services

Ask HN: What does a post AGI economy look like?

lisplist — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:50:40 +0000

I know this is a question that has been asked and pondered a thousand times over, but it’s still something I can’t wrap my head around. If our ability to think becomes useless (in the economic sense at least), then how does an economy even function if the price of knowledge and mental labor basically becomes free?

If everyone switches to a physical job then the value of those jobs plummet as well, especially as robotics get better, we get better training via AI, etc.

UBI is proposed as a solution, but our resources are still scarce, so how would you even decide allocation if everyone has the same amount of cash?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38200969

Points: 9

# Comments: 23

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:21:38 +0000

Yes, I’m not sure why but the link got swapped out when I posted the story

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:19:37 +0000

They used to wait until end of year to match funds until recently they switched to monthly matching. So if you left before end of year, your match didn’t pay out iirc. Now they’re getting rid of 401k matching entirely so suppose it’s a moot point.

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:05:45 +0000

Legally, I believe this is a pension fund. Still, they have to be pocketing the difference somewhere because why else would they make such a controversial decision that also increases administrative overhead?

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:11:42 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101464 additional thread/Boggleheads Forum

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:47:47 +0000

Fair, just giving a point of reference

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:39:03 +0000

First 3 years, yes. After 2026 you either get 3% or whatever the 10Y is yielding, whichever is greater

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:27:34 +0000

The fund is based on 10Y treasury bonds which have significantly underperformed the S&P historically. First 3 years, you get a 6% guaranteed return. The remainder, you get only 3% guaranteed. For reference, my HYSA yields 4% a year.

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:23:37 +0000

Speculation is that it’s beneficial to IBM because the money will be under their management rather than Fidelity’s. What exactly they’re allowed to do with that money, I’m unsure.

New comment by lisplist in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:17:28 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/17lc4jz/is_ibm_replaci... link to the thread. Not sure why the link got replaced

IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA

lisplist — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:12:12 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/17lcfxe/401k_is_being_replaced_by_a_proprietary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101388

Points: 219

# Comments: 138

New comment by lisplist in "I live in my car: Parking lots open for those who can afford a car but not rent"

lisplist — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:24:35 +0000

Tbf I don’t mind renting as a concept. The problem I had was ever increasing rents and walls so thin you can hear your neighbor snoring. If we didn’t build buildings with such terrible noise insulation and had better rent control, it wouldn’t be so bad.

New comment by lisplist in "'A.I. Obama' and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok"

lisplist — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:10:52 +0000

They don’t require verification unless that’s changed very recently

New comment by lisplist in "Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O"

lisplist — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:57:38 +0000

To add to this: I had lots of problems with Emacs terminal emulators until I switched to VTerm. Most things work like you’d expect in VTerm.