Hacker News: pleasantpeasant

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "OpenAI is transitioning to a for-profit business"

pleasantpeasant — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:43:31 +0000

They made a mockery of non-profit status and displayed how weak government enforcement of corporations are.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "America is becoming less "woke""

pleasantpeasant — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:02:48 +0000

I think "woke" is the wrong word here.

I believe most Americans are aware of politicians and the media focusing on culture war divisions and are sick of it.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government"

pleasantpeasant — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:49:40 +0000

They realized they could use the government to protect their interests. After years of praising open-source, they also realized that they don't really like competition. Queue up Peter Thiel's Zero to One and his praising of monopolies.

Competition Is for Losers

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California"

pleasantpeasant — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:38:45 +0000

Those tax dollars go back to California and country. Amazon does everything in its power to not pay taxes or help society. It really shows little Amazon is taxed at, if at all.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Imitating China, now South Korea may also ban iPhones in the military"

pleasantpeasant — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:53:56 +0000

Anti-Chinese comment thrown in there for some reason. Is anyone surprised S. Korea is choosing Samsung's preferred OS, Android?

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Why a $100k income no longer buys the American Dream in most places"

pleasantpeasant — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:00:23 +0000

Until we reverse Reagan's disastrous Trickle-Down Theory(Voodoo Economics), we won't see this changing.

Even in the '80s they knew this current world would be the outcome. This isn't a surprise to the Fed or the Reaganites.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Why a $100k income no longer buys the American Dream in most places"

pleasantpeasant — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:58:44 +0000

Reaganomics. We should try to slowly go back to a pre-Reagan economic world.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Ask HN: How do you avoid AI in technical interviews?"

pleasantpeasant — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:49:24 +0000

Only thing to truly stop it is by having in-person interviews like we used to do pre-COVID.

IMO, online video interviews are the worst, for both sides, and doesn't allow for that close connection to ever take form.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "The Reddits"

pleasantpeasant — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:32:25 +0000

Not sure but there seems to be a lot more bots on reddit. Entire threads with hundreds of comments from bots are all around reddit.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Liquid Death Is Valued at $1.4B in New Financing Round"

pleasantpeasant — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:41:29 +0000

Surprised at this. I've seen a lot of people calling Liquid Death, Corporate Water, nowadays.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper"

pleasantpeasant — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:19:59 +0000

The internet wouldn't have become as big as it is, if it wasn't for the internet's open source models.

The internet has been taken over by Capitalist and have ruined the internet, in my opinion.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]"

pleasantpeasant — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 17:25:13 +0000

This is a huge problem in the US. Tax-payers are subsidizing a lot of medical advances, then the US government gives it to the private sector, privatizing whatever medical advances were paid by tax-dollars.

Socialism seems to create a lot of markets for the Capitalist private sector.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "OpenAI accuses NYT of hacking ChatGPT"

pleasantpeasant — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:36:34 +0000

Are regular people going to be accused of hacking if they do something similar to what NYT did? This is a bad precedent to set moving forward.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England's 'piecemeal' right to roam laws"

pleasantpeasant — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:47:25 +0000

California has some strict laws about beach access for everyone and you still see beach-side homeowners trying to fence off the public's access to the beach or putting up illegal signs that say "Private Property, No Beach Access" or something like that

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses"

pleasantpeasant — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:25:06 +0000

I wonder if they'll still do this once Reddit IPOs

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time"

pleasantpeasant — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:55:57 +0000

I think you're going to see people start leaving Reddit as the IPO approaches and many will be coming to HN or other reddit-clones.

Half the comments on Reddit really do seem to be made by bots, you can easily tell when you look at their post history.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)"

pleasantpeasant — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:33:42 +0000

I leave up articles for days hoping I'll read them, they pile up in my tabs— wasting so much memory. A lot of pc memory is wasted from just this on my end and I know I'm not the only one.

It's interesting to think about how much wasted energy comes from tabs you're leaving open, hoping you'll get back to them one day.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public"

pleasantpeasant — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:52:57 +0000

Maybe their lawyers are when it comes to taxes

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public"

pleasantpeasant — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:39:30 +0000

It's best to view OpenAI as any other private tech company even though they try to appear as a non-profit company in the public's eye.

New comment by pleasantpeasant in "Netflix is turning into cable TV"

pleasantpeasant — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:50:28 +0000

It's becoming TV. All it needs is a live news & sports section and you'd never need to leave the Netflix app.