Hacker News: negamax

New comment by negamax in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

negamax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:18:29 +0000

The irony of this is so strange..

New comment by negamax in "Claude mixes up who said what"

negamax — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:40:59 +0000

Claude is demonstrably bad now and is getting worse. Which is either

a) Entropy - too much data being ingested b) It's nerfed to save massive infra bills

But it's getting worse every week

New comment by negamax in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

negamax — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:46:12 +0000

I keep on wondering how much of the AI embrace is marketing driven. Yes, it can produce value and cut corners. But it seems like self driving by 2016 Musk prediction. Which never happened. With IPO/Stock valuations closely tied to hype, I wonder if we are all witnessing a giant bubble in the making

How much of this is mass financial engineering than real value. Reading a lot of nudges how everyone should have Google or other AI stock in their portfolio/retirement accounts

New comment by negamax in "Why does Britain feel so poor?"

negamax — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:45:30 +0000

Was it ever rich to begin with if the colonies are removed? It's simply going back to its natural state. Although worse off because of the socialist policies that can't be sustained

New comment by negamax in "Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M"

negamax — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:14:22 +0000

You mean a very active Twitter user who is all about cutting government inefficiency didn't know repercussions of his tweet? It was up for 5 hours. By then damage was done. People with large loses have sued and are getting their money back directly from the scammers. How crazy is this

New comment by negamax in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

negamax — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:12:10 +0000

Driver didn't take delivery from Tesla by themselves and used a third party. In situations like these chances of parts replacement by older/faulty parts is high

New comment by negamax in "Nvidia, ASML plunge as DeepSeek triggers tech stock selloff"

negamax — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:22:58 +0000

The bigger correction will be in tech stocks that are overly exposed to datacenter investments to accommodate for ever rising AI demands. MSFT, AMZN, META they are all exposed

New comment by negamax in "[dead]"

negamax — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:52:17 +0000

If we can laydown undersea internet cables all across the world, surely the nuclear power plants can be someplace else and energy generated can be transferred.

Securing nuclear power is a pain and US oscillates between far left and far right. France is the nuclear power horse of Europe and supply the excess power all around.

New comment by negamax in "Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest"

negamax — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:14:33 +0000

The cognitive decline can also be attributed to extreme isolation that everyone was subjected to. My super enriched, flow like heavenly water life came to a complete standstill. All future plans and timelines thrown in disarray. Covid has ended but my life trajectory has completely changed

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:54:22 +0000

That's no different than saying most/all corporations are foreign owned. Why is that a right wing claptrap? Irish right wingers are the dumbest people on the planet. Living off the foreign population in one of the largest welfare state

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:49:29 +0000

Unlimited weekly money of €250 for people who don't work. This isn't a small amount. Specially on top of free housing by schemes like HAP. That can give as much as €2000/month in rent

End result is a destroyed housing market and young people who rather get trapped into welfare

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:46:42 +0000

Have you heard of HAP? Please read up on it. It's budget and impact on the everyday person. It's a roundabout way to giving free housing to people who don't work by taking money from people who do.

End result is a broken and inflated marketplace

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:44:04 +0000

Please visit https://whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en/

Welfare dependency in Ireland is of another level. 4% figure is cooked by engaging people into government skill programs

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:36:59 +0000

What are you talking about? Ireland's population is mere 5M. That's €60K debt for each soul. And over €200K debt for a family. What does Ireland has to show for all this debt?

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:35:01 +0000

Yeah GDP is cooked and is largely inflated by the foreign corporations. What does Ireland have to show for that €223B debt? All of that money was thrown into the welfare pit.

What does Ireland has to show for such a large government employees. Health service is in tatters, so is housing. Come on. Put down the rose tinted glasses.

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:31:01 +0000

By law all new developments are required to have 20% social housing. And google search will show you the extent of corruption and free money that goes hand in hand

source: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/law-change-to-make-...

Also city councils run a large stock of social housing where tenants pay nothing and live for generations

New comment by negamax in "Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing"

negamax — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:24:15 +0000

Ireland should be an international study about how a state destroyed itself by running a gigantic welfare state despite all of world's money pouring into it

Almost €300B national debt. Government is giving free houses, money to people who don't work. It's the only relatively wealthy European country with unlimited dole. And people make a lifestyle out of living on welfare forever.

This is despite huge corporation tax receipts and income tax receipts by largely foreign born workforce

One in five people are directly or indirectly employed by the government of a tiny country.. it's just a waste from bottom to top and all are complicit

New comment by negamax in "Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous"

negamax — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:03:46 +0000

Sorry, I have to counter you. Because someone close to me has always been about countering survivorship bias. And they have absolutely ruined their life. It's an easy out that people who are sharing their successes with you and the world have a survivorship bias. This is a fairly recent idea and quite a poison in itself.

What it actually preaches is don't look and emulate the successful people in your environment and society as this is all based on luck. Can't disagree more

New comment by negamax in "Becoming a contractor"

negamax — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:08:09 +0000

That only causes Accenture etc. body shops to thrive in EU market. EU as a market is very government policy driven. Government contracts are lucrative but typical body shop pays 1:10 as compared to what they are paid. And then the "employee" also pays high taxes on the income. Not sure what can change it. May be more US companies should get contractor friendly in EU markets?

New comment by negamax in "Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense"

negamax — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:20:01 +0000

Not buying this. People choose their quests by societal pressures and what's rewarded. Dumb money loves VC. They eventually find even more dumb money in pension funds. This is what society rewards. These are our heroes. Want to change this, come up with a different societal game of rewards