Hacker News: lokar

New comment by lokar in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

lokar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:38:34 +0000

I don’t know the numbers, but DNA exonerations give a bit of a natural experiment (where testable evidence was preserved).

New comment by lokar in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

lokar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:55:36 +0000

Can anyone share how other countries handle this?

New comment by lokar in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

lokar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:55:12 +0000

Re point 1, not just an expectation, and explicit legal requirement.

New comment by lokar in "Waymo Premier"

lokar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:22:45 +0000

Not really related to my reply

New comment by lokar in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

lokar — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:56:18 +0000

Instead of downvoting try responding. Do you not believe me? Do you think the law enforcement access was bad?

New comment by lokar in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

lokar — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:43:01 +0000

I agree, internally, looking at a fuller picture of his activity, he was off. Constantly bringing the subject up out of context, starting fights, etc. but they should have just warned him.

New comment by lokar in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

lokar — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:40:29 +0000

The PRISM stuff about google was mostly BS. The only thing was the non-encrypted traffic on “dark” fiber between data centers. And some may have been a reference to systems to comply with court orders via the DOJ which everyone of any scale does (eg a “wiretap” on a Gmail account).

The military work came out in 2018

New comment by lokar in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

lokar — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:11:17 +0000

Your argument is not really responding to his.

He has, and has had, a specific moral philosophy he follows. When he took the job the public (and once he started, internal) words and actions of the company fit within that philosophy (or closely enough). Now the company has changed and they don’t fit. Further, the obvious changes happened without any real notice or explanation.

It seems reasonable in that situation to leave. FWIW; I was in the same situation, and left.

Do you fault him for his personal moral code? He is not telling you how you should act.

New comment by lokar in "Waymo Premier"

lokar — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:04:08 +0000

I think people vastly overestimate the extent to which would be criminals think ahead to the likelihood of being caught and the severity of the punishment.

New comment by lokar in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

lokar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:22:49 +0000

Several gates at Santa Rosa airport are in a fancy tent. You don’t even notice at first.

New comment by lokar in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:49:07 +0000

South Korea is also hard

New comment by lokar in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:41:53 +0000

Every line of code is a liability

New comment by lokar in "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:41:31 +0000

IME it’s possible to have good clear APIs, limited scopes/goals, etc in a normal (macro?) service. But it requires a level of discipline and process many teams are unwilling to engage in.

New comment by lokar in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:39:10 +0000

The cost is almost certainly in time, not staff

New comment by lokar in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:34:26 +0000

Even anchorage is pretty bad

New comment by lokar in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:30:12 +0000

It’s not the job, it’s the location.

There is a shortage of most careers that require and college degree in rural areas.

Also, rural areas don’t have the tax base to out pay urban areas.

This is about the stagnation and lack of vitality in rural towns in general.

New comment by lokar in "The IRS Moved IT and HR Staff to Process Taxes. It's Not Going Well"

lokar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:18:53 +0000

Working as intended. Their goal is to degrade government

New comment by lokar in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

lokar — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:49:50 +0000

And to give women full agency over their own lives

New comment by lokar in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

lokar — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:31:18 +0000

And they manage tours for bands. So it’s very hard for them to play independent venues and still have access to the big livenation venues

New comment by lokar in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

lokar — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:30:05 +0000

Check who owns vs manages shoreline amphitheater