Hacker News: milesward

New comment by milesward in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

milesward — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:32:41 +0000

put the onus on the people, of course. how about make AI music come with a warning label?

New comment by milesward in "If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems"

milesward — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:37:46 +0000

Correct, but I'd frame it to confused leaders a bit differently. Because we made this part easier, we've increased how critical, how limiting, other steps/functions are. Data's more valuable now. QA is more valuable now. More teams need to shift more resources, faster.

New comment by milesward in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

milesward — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:31:45 +0000

I can think of no stronger rationale to work with this company.

New comment by milesward in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

milesward — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:13:59 +0000

Enshittification.

New comment by milesward in "GCP Outage"

milesward — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:54:32 +0000

It's updated now, shows the impact to console, dataproc, GCS, IAM and Identity Platform: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

New comment by milesward in "GCP Outage"

milesward — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:26:24 +0000

What region?

New comment by milesward in "GCP Outage"

milesward — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:24:59 +0000

I'm on a meet, in cal, editing a dozen docs, in GCP, pushing commits and launching containers; it's not clear yet what exactly is going on but it's certainly intermittent and sparse, at least so far

New comment by milesward in "GCP Outage"

milesward — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:20:47 +0000

I just logged into several of my GCP accts, everything popped up, multiple home regions.. I wonder what % of folks are feeling this right now.

New comment by milesward in "Sly Stone has died"

milesward — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:37:22 +0000

Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip, and come on to the mothership :)

New comment by milesward in "Sly Stone has died"

milesward — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:36:27 +0000

Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin

New comment by milesward in "Unhappy Meals (2007)"

milesward — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:38:38 +0000

Uhm, this sounds yummie, I am in seattle, got a link?

New comment by milesward in "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"

milesward — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:57:08 +0000

Huh, parameters as LLM bandwidth.

New comment by milesward in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

milesward — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:46:10 +0000

Check out Schiit Audio.

New comment by milesward in "Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities"

milesward — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:31:19 +0000

* because most of 'em aren't all that creative *

New comment by milesward in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

milesward — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:08:48 +0000

I'd guess a reasonable start at delivering near-equivalent capabilities, capacity, and reliability from a standing start today, in just Europe, to be about €50b. The shopping list isn't all that tough. Who wants to pony up?

New comment by milesward in "Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU"

milesward — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:52:10 +0000

https://custom-images.strikinglycdn.com/res/hrscywv4p/image/...

New comment by milesward in "Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU"

milesward — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:49:55 +0000

I put 8 of these on a mini-ITX computer on a fake moon in my backyard, AMA.

New comment by milesward in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

milesward — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:39:57 +0000

Creating more value than you capture has ways been the jam.

New comment by milesward in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

milesward — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:31:10 +0000

...Good?

New comment by milesward in "Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline"

milesward — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:14:47 +0000

amen to BT