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New comment by m348e912 in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

m348e912 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:44:09 +0000

Spend per pupil is a factor, but I have to agree with the parent poster, if you remove bad, disruptive, or underperforming kids from a school, and replaced them with disciplined, over-achieving students, the rest of the student body benefits. This is independent of school funding.

Private schools, even ones that receive less tuition per student than public schools of the same district prove this point because they can set a higher bar and more readily kick out disruptive students.

New comment by m348e912 in "Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel"

m348e912 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:52:52 +0000

Venezuelan oil infrastructure is very much degraded after years of disrepair. Today, Venezuela produces a fraction of oil that it did during its peak and unleashing Russian oil onto the world market will have immediate impact on global diesel prices.

New comment by m348e912 in "Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel"

m348e912 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:09:00 +0000

Is that your take? What about desperation to lower domestic diesel prices in order to salvage the midterms?

New comment by m348e912 in "Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel"

m348e912 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:59:17 +0000

He is also allowing the wide spread use of red-dye diesel, which is tax free and typically restricted to non-road use vehicles and machinery.

New comment by m348e912 in "A Cop's Case for Flock"

m348e912 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:15:41 +0000

This video includes a presentation by Chief of Police of Louisville, CO - Rafael Gutierrez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smGMG0H2Sd8 @1:08:00

Ultimately the city council decided not to renew their Flock contract but if you're looking for more insight as to why police actually want to use flock for actual policing, it's pretty insightful.

FWIW, I am not pro flock, so don't come at me.

New comment by m348e912 in "Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]"

m348e912 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:49:42 +0000

It's a common trope on HN to misinterpret a commenter's intention and then take it to the extreme. You're not alone.

New comment by m348e912 in "America.gov"

m348e912 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:07:34 +0000

Yes, without a doubt.

New comment by m348e912 in "OpenAI doesn't cryptographically sign its API responses"

m348e912 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:56:06 +0000

You have to trust OpenAI whether they cryptographically signed the response or not, so they could just tell you what model was used to generate the response.

New comment by m348e912 in "Why are all these longevity bros such total snowflakes?"

m348e912 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:16:02 +0000

I am not sure how you judge a person to be a snowflake or not, but Peter H. Diamandis (cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc. and podcast host) could be considered a "longevity bro" however I wouldn't consider him to be a snowflake.

New comment by m348e912 in "OpenAI doesn't cryptographically sign its API responses"

m348e912 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:13:13 +0000

Open AI's APIs support TLS and cryptographically signed certificates, is that not good enough?

New comment by m348e912 in "The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be"

m348e912 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:35:40 +0000

If you don't like reading, Dwarkesh Patel offers a solid summary of what happened based on the published report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u15N3l4RT80

New comment by m348e912 in "iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro – Not Justifiable"

m348e912 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:52:40 +0000

Nothing super compelling about the iPhone 18 from my perspective aside from being 20-50% faster. Unless Apple pulls "battery gate" again, I am happy to stay put.

New comment by m348e912 in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

m348e912 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:07:51 +0000

>I got caught out by the deprecation/sunsetting of anonymous "old.reddit.com" yesterday

It appears to still be up for me. ??

New comment by m348e912 in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"

m348e912 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:05:38 +0000

>TASK REQUEST: Clear, not too long not too short prompt, for LLMs to go out and research freelance consulting gigs for one specific IT domain, and in one specific country in Europe, including maybe opportunities driven from temp agencies based in geographically close countries.

As a human, not an LLM, I could interpret "including maybe opportunities driven from temp agencies based in geographically close countries" as meaning "including opportunities in nearby countries outside of Ireland" (that happen to be driven by temp agencies).

Before writing off LLM as simply a "stochastic parrot" or a "parlour trick" remember it can't read your mind, not yet anyway.

New comment by m348e912 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

m348e912 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:40:52 +0000

Where did I say it was a good thing (or even a bad thing)? I was just making an observation, and yet downvoted for doing so.

Tesla is making a huge bet on robotaxi, it’s quite possible it will come to fruition.

New comment by m348e912 in "Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short"

m348e912 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:32:30 +0000

Tesla is manufacturing thousands of robotaxis a month. LARP or not, I'd be very surprised if none of the robotaxis are put to use.

New comment by m348e912 in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

m348e912 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:15:32 +0000

They cloned their slaves and killed some of them?

New comment by m348e912 in "Skate"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:39:59 +0000

New comment by m348e912 in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:05:15 +0000

I'll make the argument that part of the value of "consciousness" and "humanity" is uniqueness.

Here is an absurd example: If I could carbon copy 100,000 of you.... and later I decided to "take out" one of the copies, would there be a whole lot of societal blowback? Especially if I could make another one.

New comment by m348e912 in "The AI Aesthetic"

m348e912 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:41:51 +0000

I love this analysis. I chalked the new aesthetic up to AI companies using a new breed/generation of highly talented and highly paid UI/UX designers who have the opportunity to bring their own flavor and influence to an emerging but extremely influential space.