Hacker News: maigret

New comment by maigret in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

maigret — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:29:04 +0000

Actually private equity have been accumulating stakes quickly in renewables lately. Makes sense. Talk bad of a future tech to own most of the cake early for cheap...

https://www.cfainstitute.org/insights/articles/private-equit...

New comment by maigret in "Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation"

maigret — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:41:16 +0000

“Distilled”? I mean what model is not distilled from other data? The American models happily trained from my blog and social media data without any kind of rewards. If I can pay the inference I don’t see why I wouldn’t do this. Also, I have not seen proof that the US lab do not use other models for training either.

New comment by maigret in "Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation"

maigret — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:38:01 +0000

In Germany you are obligated to provide usable contact information, and there are even lawyers who make their business model on suing you for not applying that perfectly (it’s has been abused a lot in the past decades btw).

New comment by maigret in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

maigret — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:22:12 +0000

VS Code is hard to escape as well.

New comment by maigret in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

maigret — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:40:16 +0000

Yes because most people don’t have an off site backup strategy.

New comment by maigret in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

maigret — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:40:35 +0000

Most French people write cursive.

New comment by maigret in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

maigret — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:19:12 +0000

I never understood that point too. It shows quite some cognitive decline in the users mind. Searching for 20 minutes is now too much even if your privacy depends on it. I suspect also this was a well planted thinking point by the social media conglomerates.

I mean of course I have to choose an instance! That’s called a market. People have been lobotomized to prioritize monopolies.

New comment by maigret in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

maigret — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:06:34 +0000

Indeed a lot of social media platforms are used by foreign powers to create discord. Human psychology is much more attentive to negative messages and this is too easy to weaponize. A solution against that would probably be world changing. It would have to preserve anonymity still of course.

New comment by maigret in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

maigret — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:01 +0000

Well the thing is that people often love when the government tells other families how to live, and partly for good reasons including enabling basic education for everyone. Partly the wants of the parents and the needs of the kids might be at odds. Society is a complex construct.

New comment by maigret in "The dead economy theory"

maigret — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:32:02 +0000

If the rate of failure is slightly consistent then more layoffs will lead to more startups, so more will get on top. Many companies business are easier to attack than it looks. Look early 2000, early 2010 have both brought their set of amazing startups. 5 years ago people were most motivated to switch companies for more money.

New comment by maigret in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

maigret — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:32:40 +0000

In Europe drought is measured from the amount of water at different depths. I would be surprised it’s different in the US.

New comment by maigret in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

maigret — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:58:03 +0000

I know very few average people who would say such a thing though.

New comment by maigret in "Write less code, be more responsible"

maigret — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:23:45 +0000

Not yet, maybe.

New comment by maigret in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

maigret — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:08:37 +0000

Sorry but 40 tons trucks have been around for decades in Europe and people drove small cars. Its car marketing, group think and FUD.

New comment by maigret in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

maigret — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:54:11 +0000

Actually European integration the last 30 years has been pretty remarkable. In the past, not even electric plugs were compatible. But the EU is not a country. A lot of the inefficiencies are actually features sought by key members to protect their own local incumbents.

New comment by maigret in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

maigret — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:13:19 +0000

LOL are you looking at the news lately. Everything is blatantly in the open now.

New comment by maigret in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

maigret — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:11:03 +0000

I’ve seen many essential people being laid off for stupid reasons, the gp reason above being part of the story for some. Finance runs the world not tech. Tech is only welcome when it helps finance else it is marginalized.

New comment by maigret in "European Alternatives"

maigret — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:09:54 +0000

It was a single election in 2016, and a few governors and senators and… oh it’s actually a pattern, a system that people feign to ignore when convenient for them.

New comment by maigret in "European Alternatives"

maigret — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:16:56 +0000

The trains that are 10 min late in Germany mostly not exist in many other countries. Sure Switzerland is the best, but Germany is pretty high up. It’s just less good than it used to be. Oh and you can ride almost everywhere for 60 EUR / month.

For healthcare if you get an IT salary you can either move to private insurance, or buy additional insurance, or just pay a consultation yourself for a fee that US people won’t believe.

New comment by maigret in "Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface"

maigret — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:39:22 +0000

Plex Monospace is great for coding as well.