Hacker News: mensetmanusman

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

mensetmanusman — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:43:13 +0000

It's interesting how delta-function-esque security issues are, which makes it nearly impossible for young organizations to properly risk asses.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened"

mensetmanusman — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:40:16 +0000

It's important to understand the difference between handouts and investments with an expected ROI.

It's unfortunate that 0th order thinking jumps to this framing, it's one reason I always laugh when people talk about SpaceX taking 'government handouts' without these folks realizing the 100x ROI the government got out of their investment. All investments are 'hand outs' but not all 'hand outs' are investments.

Clear thinking at a large enough scale will prevent a populace from self destructing due to stupidity about this topic.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

mensetmanusman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:01:26 +0000

It’s the same as photography. No photographer built the multibillion dollar supply chain for the optics train in a camera, nor did they build the city scape they are enjoying as a background, they simply set the stage and push a button.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says "unwarranted intervention""

mensetmanusman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:58:55 +0000

Do this to Apple, I need the option to delete Siri and replace with anything.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

mensetmanusman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:42:56 +0000

Anyone who says it’s about one thing is probably under-informed, we also saw how tiktok was pressured into showing people different realities in Russia and Ukraine.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:31:17 +0000

Doesn’t matter, more supply equals lower costs. Also, China can barely afford all of its states propping up the BYU supply chain with free cashflow.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:30:10 +0000

These situations usually lead to price collapse in the long run. Prices are simply an information vector on what humans should be doing for others globally.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Using AI generated images to get refunds"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:28:01 +0000

All we know is that we have no idea what the consequences are going to be after this plays out.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Using AI generated images to get refunds"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:27:36 +0000

Good idea. It’s a type of image that doesn't need to be modified, so an encoding verification scheme would work.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Nightshade: Make images unsuitable for model training"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:25:09 +0000

It would be funny if this type of research ends up adding major insight to what it is about human vision systems and mental encodings that make us different than pixel arrays with various transformations.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:06:51 +0000

But #1 is so poorly framed, you would think it would be written by someone who only knows America via the corporate media.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:05:38 +0000

That's the story many Europeans are hearing from their hand rectangles.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:04:58 +0000

That was only to save face. It was part of a negotiated exit.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:13:00 +0000

“ it's completely unacceptable”

How do you reach this conclusion that you can’t help suffering?

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:09:00 +0000

“ How about not going there at all for whatever reason, under any circumstances.”

What moral and ethical system brings you this supposition?

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:07:42 +0000

As it was all collapsing because no one cared enough to make oil to support those things?

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:04:38 +0000

There has never not been a bully in anarchic systems.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:00:48 +0000

“ The US should not be the decider of who stays in power on another country.”

This is a new opinion. What is your basis for not believing might makes right in an anarchic system?

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Hacking Welfare Doubles Somalia's GDP"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:13:40 +0000

Corporate supporters attack the messenger.

New comment by mensetmanusman in "Hacking Welfare Doubles Somalia's GDP"

mensetmanusman — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:07:27 +0000

Nick is awesome. He asked questions, they didn’t have answers.