Hacker News: mrgoldenbrown

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:48:16 +0000

I think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:46:27 +0000

If you've never seen this level of perverse incentive, you have been lucky. The creation of and subsequent exploitation of them aren't new. For pre computer examples: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-2/

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:20:51 +0000

> I have no idea how that situation arises unless the slower folks are just auto-approving PRs.

Restricting changes to PR's is nowhere near universal.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:12:45 +0000

Pretty sure the million dollars was not meant seriously. There are plenty of regulated fields in which people still participate, despite various risks of liability. Professional engineers, doctors, every Uber driver in the US, who could potentially be punished for negligent driving while on the job. The point, I think, is that the current level of responsibility for writing bad code is essentially zero, but should probably be higher for some applications.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:09:14 +0000

A proper experiment wouldn't have cherry picked the data. This seems more like rage bait than an experiment.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:07:05 +0000

What about the authors' behavior justifies the lies about proper documentation for the transfer? There was no documentation. How does lying about documentation help protect anybody?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:54:58 +0000

It's weird to have the same rules when there are several orders of magnitude difference in manueverability, maximum damage possible, and visibility between the two modes. Imagine if pedestrians had to follow all the same rules as cars. Or everyone in an electric wheelchair. It wouldn't make sense.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:06:23 +0000

As a former cashier it kills me to scan one at a time, the self checkouts all have painfully long mandatory wait times between scans. Most of my time is just spent holding back my muscle memory, or getting yelled at for trying to scan at a normal cashier scanning pace.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:03:36 +0000

We have similar rules in the US, but depends on your state. In mine they have to give you the price on at least one of the items but you can't demand they give you 100 of them at the wrong price. Or yes you can demand but they are not required to do so.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:16:48 +0000

tex was pretty bug free.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:44:08 +0000

Sensible working hours is a luxury for many people, at least in the United States. Especially the ones considered low socioeconomic status. 40 hours a week at minimum wage will barely pay the median rent in my state. That leaves nothing for food, health care, utilities, transportation, etc.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:36:58 +0000

What percent humidity? That is just as important as temperature for understanding how tolerable a particular sauna is.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "A school district tried to help train Waymos to stop for school buses"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:01:59 +0000

Tesla specifically programmed their self driving mode to roll through stop signs without stopping. I don't think anyone has believed the claims of the self driving marketers for a long time now.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:39:05 +0000

The selling wasn't the problem here. The problem was lying about what they were doing and violating the terms of the license.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:35:11 +0000

How is there no legal problem with violating the license terms, which explicitly require attribution?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:13:41 +0000

TFA goes into a lot of detail explaining why they "allegedly" aren't actually allowed to do so in the EU.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:51:32 +0000

Agency to do what? What are you suggesting they do to escape their captors and then survive in the foreign country they've been trafficked to? How will they protect their family back home from the revenge from the traffickers?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:38:45 +0000

The employee probably already knows fax is stupid, and was probably looking forward to the proposed new secured document portal, but the legislature voted down the funding again this year so they could claim to be fiscally responsible. (Don't know the author but I do know govt workers who have expressed this kind of frustration ) Blind author needs to piss off their legislator, not a cog in the machine.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

mrgoldenbrown — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:32:20 +0000

Needing a job to survive in our money based society is not the same as being happy about that job.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022)"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:19:02 +0000

Not for me. The font we are all seeing depends on our browser and whether we have the requested fonts. No bars on the sans serif my Firefox on Android is displaying.