Hacker News: rangestransform

New comment by rangestransform in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

rangestransform — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:58:57 +0000

Moral responsibility is not real responsibility that can be enforced at the point of a gun by anyone or any nation, and so this responsibility does not have to be assumed

New comment by rangestransform in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

rangestransform — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:43:46 +0000

We saw what happened with banning nvidia flagship compute GPU exports to China; it just spurred them to develop a domestic semiconductor industry while still importing black market GPUs at a minor markup. The US would do well to keep the world dependent on American products that are under the jurisdiction of the US government, and can therefore be regulated or killswitched. All this will do is allow China to have flagship model capabilities without being subject to the US at all.

New comment by rangestransform in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

rangestransform — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:24:41 +0000

Yellow dots doxxing me whenever I print something is equally despicable, client side scanning on my iPhone is equally despicable.

Some crimes are not worth it to eliminate, and western liberal society should just accept that the optimal amount of crime is non zero.

New comment by rangestransform in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

rangestransform — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:21:18 +0000

I would rather just accept more crime than accept draconian regulation telling me what I can do with a piece of hardware I own

Go solve gun crime with boots on the ground instead

New comment by rangestransform in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

rangestransform — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:18:20 +0000

Maybe this would’ve made economic sense 20 or 40 years ago, but nuclear is too expensive now compared with renewables. I can’t help but think this is a covert plan to bcecome an “almost nuclear” state in response to threats from the US.

New comment by rangestransform in "How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)"

rangestransform — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:03:07 +0000

Not only are the wages higher, the unions insist on hiring 3x the number of necessary staff (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...)

New comment by rangestransform in "How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)"

rangestransform — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:50:27 +0000

Having a single buyer gives the government the ability to force standardization across cities, and squeeze contractors. Knowing the US though, it’ll become a jobs program for bumfuck towns like Plattsburgh NY

New comment by rangestransform in "Honda Civics and the Evil Valet"

rangestransform — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:57:47 +0000

Everyone should have security robust against nation-state actors by default in the most popular consumer products, so that people who need it can hide in the masses. I hope LLM-assisted “offensive security research” makes insecure software fully unusable so that companies finally take security seriously.

New comment by rangestransform in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

rangestransform — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:51:50 +0000

We should not fulfill our imagined moral responsibility to the third world if it has real cost to the people already here

New comment by rangestransform in "Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22"

rangestransform — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:56:58 +0000

I have a (admittedly unevidenced) hypothesis that the US took off from other economies after ‘08 because real estate became a spectacularly shit investment overnight and investors had to invest in productive things for returns. Investors in Canada kept passing the same pieces of land between each other for no benefit to society. My pipe dream is that Canada grows the balls to annhilate property values

New comment by rangestransform in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rangestransform — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:07:18 +0000

Forcing developers off of Rosetta 2 is a pro-consumer move because it gives the ultimate incentive for developers to modernize. I don’t want to use Lightroom (replace with whatever app is part of your workflow) through x86 emulation, I want Apple to bitch slap Adobe into porting it to native. Microsoft will be forced to expend resources to support x86 emulation for all of eternity.

Apple throwing their weight around in a pro-consumer way (Rosetta, ask app not to track) is why I use their devices

New comment by rangestransform in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

rangestransform — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:55:50 +0000

Those countries could keep their own talent through economic policy (i.e. fuck you pay me)

That they don’t is entirely their own fault and they deserve to be brain drained. “Talent” are people with agency and not possessions subservient to national interests.

New comment by rangestransform in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

rangestransform — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:48:59 +0000

A123 also owned the IP to lithium iron phosphate battery chemistry, which is now BYD’s claim to fame

New comment by rangestransform in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

rangestransform — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:44:45 +0000

re:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist

New comment by rangestransform in "Ti-84 Evo"

rangestransform — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:57:47 +0000

I got an HP50g from Craigslist in high school that

- was cheaper than a TI

- had a primitive CAS system

- teachers had no idea how to put it into test mode

It carried me through AP calc BC, I would’ve gotten <4 off of my own knowledge alone

New comment by rangestransform in "PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC"

rangestransform — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:59:13 +0000

There were hardware supply issues around launch time that made consoles a much better deal than the equivalent PC

New comment by rangestransform in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

rangestransform — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:07:57 +0000

Funnily enough, I learned to code “depth first” by putting together enough documentation examples and stackoverflow answers to reach a working Android app, long before I learned to code “breadth first” in school.

New comment by rangestransform in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

rangestransform — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:49:15 +0000

And I will keep voting to benefit myself, my family, and my country in that order.

It’s their own fault that they do not have visionary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew or a dynasty like the CCP that’s willing to sacrifice entire generations for future generations.

To not allow a country to govern itself into oblivion is the peak of western paternalism.

New comment by rangestransform in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

rangestransform — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:34 +0000

I love explaining to Americans how Vancouver suburbia is slightly better than American suburbia in so many ways that matter like trees, real traffic calming, and walkability

New comment by rangestransform in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

rangestransform — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:00:20 +0000

That’s because Rs let NIMBYs and the fossil fuel lobby call the shots, and Ds let NIMBYs and degrowthers call the shots. I bet China isn’t powering their datacenters with gas turbines