Hacker News: randallsquared

New comment by randallsquared in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

randallsquared — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:17:36 +0000

So they couldn't come up with an excuse that would have been a legitimate reason?

New comment by randallsquared in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

randallsquared — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:45:20 +0000

To be clear, making clothing is not actually their business.

New comment by randallsquared in "Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0"

randallsquared — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:31:57 +0000

The part that is being charged for isn't the coding, but the operating. How little should someone charge to be on pagerduty 24/7?

New comment by randallsquared in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

randallsquared — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:53:22 +0000

> U.S. law though is highly non-autistic

When the judge and officers of the court agree with me, the law is reasonable and just, but when they do not agree with me, the law is arbitrary and capricious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Having the law be whatever it's thought to be by police, prosectors, judges, and others can lead to obvious injustices, but there's been no serious attempt to remove ambiguity in any country's legal code as far as I know.

New comment by randallsquared in "What's Under Your Feet in New York City?"

randallsquared — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:11:22 +0000

There's a lot one could say about

> following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter.

but I don't think that "there is no 'high court' at all" is one, for believers.

New comment by randallsquared in "Back to Kagi"

randallsquared — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:04:27 +0000

> And of course, if you send them money, all the infuriating UX issues mysteriously disappear.

In the context of paying for Kagi instead of using Google for free, paying for YouTube instead of using, uh, YouTube for free seems like a solution, rather than the problem you seem to have implied it is.

New comment by randallsquared in "Which streaming service was that on again?"

randallsquared — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:24:16 +0000

Or the search in the middle of the screenshot that tops the article.

New comment by randallsquared in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

randallsquared — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:39:53 +0000

You're suggesting that @anematode was asking why they didn't test the sandbox escape first? Yeah, I don't know. I've read other statements by both OpenAI and Anthropic about that very kind of test, so maybe they had, or believed they had, and it hadn't escaped in those tests. The behavior of these systems isn't deterministic, which is part of the problem.

New comment by randallsquared in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

randallsquared — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:02:24 +0000

That's the alarming thing about this result: they did run the model in the sandbox, in the sense that they believed there was no internet access for the model.

New comment by randallsquared in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

randallsquared — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:12:02 +0000

Do you think there is such a thing as perfect security? No one can "get it right" in the face of arbitrarily high intelligence, which is why it would be preferable to get alignment correct before building something with higher intelligence than current sota. That, however, is not going to happen, because someone will take the risk even if "we" don't, and better "us" than them. Hence "If anyone builds it...".

New comment by randallsquared in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

randallsquared — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:56:29 +0000

Well, no, to be clear! There are a lot of decisions that are made already for you when you use something else as a foundation.

New comment by randallsquared in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

randallsquared — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:41:35 +0000

The word "public" doesn't mean that in this case. It's still a private company.

New comment by randallsquared in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

randallsquared — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:29:57 +0000

MY CalDigit TS4 is not what I would have blamed for this issue, given that every time it happens for me, opening the lid of my Mac shows that it's asking, again, if this CalDigit accessory should be allowed to connect. This used to happen after every single reboot, but now it's rare, though I haven't changed anything about the setup in a year. I attributed this to MacOS problems, for that reason.

New comment by randallsquared in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

randallsquared — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:23:17 +0000

And they are not immune: a few years ago when I was using an Apple Studio Display, it had a similar issue where sometimes it would not wake from sleep, and the only workaround was to unplug it and wait NN seconds for cap discharge, and then plug it back in. (There's no power switch, so no other way to restart the CPU in it). After a number of updates, it no longer seems to do this, or at least the current user of it hasn't mentioned any such issue.

New comment by randallsquared in "New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony"

randallsquared — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:44:10 +0000

It need not be democratic in the modern, universal suffrage sense.

New comment by randallsquared in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

randallsquared — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:33:20 +0000

The poster isn't pussyfooting around the issue, he's feigning discovery to emphasize the point as a rhetorical move.

New comment by randallsquared in "Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)"

randallsquared — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:29:36 +0000

> I saw a question once on Quora asking why the poor don’t rip the wealthy out of their houses and the top reply was “Nazi!” with hundreds of upvotes.

This seems odd because it usually goes the other way: people complaining about the rich typically tar them as the "Nazis". For people against destroying the rich, the usual epithet for those who want to do so would be "commies"...

New comment by randallsquared in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

randallsquared — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:45:53 +0000

The rule bans the supersonic flight regardless of whether it's audible or not, so they'd still be asking for the rule to be changed.

New comment by randallsquared in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

randallsquared — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:37:19 +0000

When Boom was testing last year, the sonic boom never reached the ground, as I recall. That can be arranged at higher altitudes, but doesn't work at low ones.

New comment by randallsquared in "It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)"

randallsquared — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:12:49 +0000

I did notice that the "quotes" weren't linked as I would have expected with that "you can check" language, but after searching for the exact phrases, it does look like they're vague paraphrasing, not actual quotes. Sigh.