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New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget"

nyc_data_geek1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:17:37 +0000

This is not creating widgets or lines of code, not creating a product for consumption, this is fostering the development of inquisitive minds, hopefully encouraging them to become critical thinkers and ultimately the next generation of leaders who will push the bounds of human knowledge further than ever before.

Why would better tools be expected to do enable teachers to do that for more students at a time?

There is a lot of research out there showing worse educational outcomes as class sizes increase. This is one of the areas where wealth disparities in education manifest; rich areas tend to have smaller class sizes, and historically the very rich would pay for private tutors for their kids, whereas poor kids are stuck with bigger class sizes, less individual attention from educators, and typically average worse educational outcomes.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

nyc_data_geek1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:02:49 +0000

Corroborates that zero-trust until now has been largely marketing gibberish. Security by design means incorporating concepts such as these to not assume that your upstream providers will not be utterly owned in a supply chain attack.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:42:40 +0000

I will sell you hotdog default swaps. Even if I lose, I win.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:58:58 +0000

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And I wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change.

So what can you do?

Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

nyc_data_geek1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:17:58 +0000

Very cool that these companies can scrape basically all extant human knowledge, utterly disregard IP/copyright/etc, and they cry foul when the tables turn.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

nyc_data_geek1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:38:14 +0000

Cool story, bro!

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:37:58 +0000

Significant crop price increases, which tends to be bad news for anyone who eats food.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:05:00 +0000

>>or lint traps stuffing and toilet cloggings will happen.

Thank you for your service

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:02:55 +0000

Without Qatari helium, there's a massive global semiconductor crunch.

The fertilizer crunch and food scarcity too.

It's wild to me how oblivious ostensibly intelligent people on this site regularly manage to be.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

nyc_data_geek1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:59:16 +0000

That's true, I was referring to the United States.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:36:37 +0000

I beg to differ, as I see it, it's both. Solving the problem necessarily entails punishing the malicious actors attempting to subvert and demolish our governance, justice system, society and way of life. Allowing Jan 6th to go unpunished at the highest levels was a key factor in what brought us here.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:33:26 +0000

Go away, 'batin'!

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:49:22 +0000

You're a fool if you believe this. Nation states will still have utter impunity. That's why they build, buy or bully backdoors to secure design. The Epstein class will still get away with murder. All the little poeple will cower in fear of reprisal for speaking their minds.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:47:02 +0000

No, this is an entirely pragmatic take. Show me where it's not been proven correct.

It's in fact an argument in favor of strong encryption, privacy by design, and security by default.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight"

nyc_data_geek1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:20:14 +0000

Makes me look at steganography in slips on sunglasses an entirely new light.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

nyc_data_geek1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:06:17 +0000

Take the slop to moltbook.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

nyc_data_geek1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:58:56 +0000

If a technology, backdoor or capability exists, it's not a question of if it will be abused, but rather when, how, and by whom.

Stop being obtuse.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:25:00 +0000

Tell that to the millions of Hasidic Jews in the United States who do not believe that a Jewish nation should exist at all.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

nyc_data_geek1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:23:45 +0000

He said what he said.

New comment by nyc_data_geek1 in "Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests"

nyc_data_geek1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:04:43 +0000

Remember when he said he couldn't imagine raising a human child without AI?

Why are we still pretending this man is anything but a middle-distance gazing charlatan selling snake oil?