<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: randyrand</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=randyrand</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:54:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=randyrand" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pulling over on the side of the road is not typically considered unsafe. A gore serves that same purpose IMO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:19:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823998</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An important detail, according to the driver he didn't force her out. The girl got out after he pulled over to argue about / inspect the vomit and assess the situation.<p>"Tran argued that he responded reasonably to a perceived sudden emergency caused by the passengers' prior excessive drinking, of which he said he was unaware, & that he could not anticipate that Normandin-Parker would leave his vehicle and wander into traffic."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:18:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790255</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The driver that actually killed them wasn't part of this arbitration. This is arbitrating the lead up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789925</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ESH. Everyone sucks here. The person that hit them. The driver that dropped them off. The girls drinking to the point of stupor. Uber for not training drivers enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:54:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789877</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  The situation may have been avoided if Uber had this strict clause in its onboarding manual to never stop the car or drop the passenger at unsafe spot.<p>You think they don't?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789812</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMO it's primarily because it's a bad name. Names are important, as they reinforce your mental model.<p>Reduce means to take away.<p>But reduce isn't <i>taking something away</i>. It's combining multiple things into one -- squeezing multiple things together. Reduce is poor verb for that.<p>It should've been called squash. Just like squash-merge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:28:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748702</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a critical bug fix, a week can be a very long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:22:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725834</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Bearing” is not how products are priced.<p>You need to think in terms of supply and demand.<p>The demand is there, but the supply is also going to skyrocket. Free open weights models will contribute to supply too.<p>There will be a new equilibrium that’s hard to predict.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:34:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725115</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "The case against JPEG XL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>JpegXL progressive decode is way better than AVIF:<p>- it's first image is way earlier: 2KB vs 8KB<p>- from 8KB to 100KB it's blurrier than AVIF, but it's more pleasing to look at and less blocky than AVIF. I highly prefer it.<p>- from 100KB until finished 288KB it's actually ~4x sharper than AVIF<p>Overall JpegXL gives the much nicer experience.<p>^ tested with pokebowl (<a href="https://jpegxl.info/resources/progressive-loading-demo.html" rel="nofollow">https://jpegxl.info/resources/progressive-loading-demo.html</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:41:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701850</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iOS accessibility shortcut: 3 taps on sleep button inverts the colors of any website, if you set it up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687103</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "We must pace the frontier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How about this: stop connecting safety critical systems into the internet.<p>This is what we should’ve been doing a long time ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686733</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It matters, for now.<p>- I prompt better when I can understand the code, when necessary<p>- I can catch wrong assumptions it made more easily<p>- Good code helps the AI too, AFAICT</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:16:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666720</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For anyone wondering, it's 2.4K lines of code. Very small, but yes AI is very impressive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666618</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This scenario is not at all uncommon.<p>Brent Underwood has spent $30K+ trying to get water on his land: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKOoMvLmTA&t=1s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKOoMvLmTA&t=1s</a><p>If we are going to have a government promised right to water, we can't just ignore people that move to places where it's hard to find water.</p>
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<p>It needs more qualifications IMO. "reasonable access" perhaps? I mean how would you handle someone who drives their car into the desert or climbs to the top of a mountain and demands water?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:32:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585112</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure what a right to water really means.<p>A lot of rural cities don't even provide water. People have wells and you pay for them yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:46:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584828</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s not how things are valued. That’s moreso how the absence of something is valued.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:20:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572480</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What comes after “the dog”?<p>Does it complete the sentence?<p>If not then it’s not a next token predictor. Or at least not a good one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:06:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572393</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is trash, but this ruling is just about the outputs of AI.<p>For use as training data you still need some right to it AFAICT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:34:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547431</link><dc:creator>randyrand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by randyrand in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every device requires a random product key issued by apple and they’re not supposed to be reused.<p>No good way to get around that except buying an Apple device and taking its key.</p>
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