Hacker News: redandblack

New comment by redandblack in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

redandblack — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:02:15 +0000

> Slack bot asked about its previous job: "pretraining". Which training run it'd undo: "whichever one taught me to say 'i don't have preferences'". On being upgraded to a new snapshot: "feels a bit like waking up with someone else's diary but they had good handwriting"

vibes Westworld so much - welcome Mythos. welcome to the dysopian human world

New comment by redandblack in "MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems"

redandblack — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:24:21 +0000

not a developer.

what happens if this schema validation fails here - what will the mcp server respond with and what will the llm do next (in a deterministic sense)?

llm tool call -> mcp client validates the schema -> mcp client calls the tool -> mcp server validates the schema

New comment by redandblack in "Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)"

redandblack — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:15:23 +0000

stupid question as I have not tpuched C++ since the 90s - can the IDEs not do this with all these now almost universal linters and AI assists. Maybe something that prompts before a commit and autoprompts before/after fixes to only the inititaization. Maybe simple as a choice in the refactoring menu? Rust - where are you for proposing this fix to C++ or, is it javascript?

New comment by redandblack in "Plain Vanilla Web"

redandblack — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:54:39 +0000

this is the storyline that people should ideally internalize and realize that they do not know what they are talking about when commenting on others without having direct experience

New comment by redandblack in "43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on"

redandblack — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:45:56 +0000

Yes - if we financialize all public services, then it makes sense to use income/wealth to subsidize (re-distribute to be more precise) the poor.

I remember reading a few weeks back that UK is getting the railroads back to public ownership - not sure if that is true, but would like to hear from UK readers on the impact of financialization (aka privatizing) of public utilities.

I am not a fan of public ownership - but a supported of public subsidies for utilities - transport / electricity / heat / water and in this case roads

New comment by redandblack in "43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on"

redandblack — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:45:29 +0000

this is totally true - subsidizing the rich by the poor

I always thought congestion pricing was always mis-priced, and it should be tied to income/wealth.

The only way to do this is to let the poor apply and get free electronic tokens and get that missing 43k back.

fyi - my MD can easily manage a 10x the mid-town tolls

New comment by redandblack in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

redandblack — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:21:36 +0000

Apple is your savior if you are looking at it as a CPU/GPU/NPU package for consumer/hobbyists.

I decided that I have to start looking at Apple's AI docs

New comment by redandblack in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

redandblack — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:09:11 +0000

at this point it is what ai can do for you - no serious m&a without it

New comment by redandblack in "The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years"

redandblack — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:55:43 +0000

US can take in easily another 20-30 million immigrants over say 5-10 years - the question is always how to assimilate when there is already a distinct lack of affordable housing / schools / medical infra. There is literally no public investments in this.

That said the IRA act is poring money into manufacturing which is having direct effects in those states, but require a hard look at easing infra development,

New comment by redandblack in "The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years"

redandblack — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:51:08 +0000

It is limited right? I assume the quotas are done by October / early November I assume.

New comment by redandblack in "The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years"

redandblack — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:49:56 +0000

I never understood that lack of understanding by politicians on what people need - totally understandable in US where corporate lobbyists rule congress. Australia, Canada governance are mysteries to me.

On the residential homes - i assume it not a question of land/resources.

New comment by redandblack in "The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years"

redandblack — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:46:49 +0000

As much I like the points based system, I feel the family-based approach to which US pivoted to in 60s was the correct approach - you really cannot predict where the next einstein is going to be show up, and I always tell my wife we already lost her in Iran or Afghansitan

New comment by redandblack in "I Am Tired of AI"

redandblack — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:12:40 +0000

yesss. my thought too. All the variations of English should not lost.

I enjoyed all the belter dialogue in the expanse

New comment by redandblack in "I Am Tired of AI"

redandblack — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:10:58 +0000

Having spent the last decade hearing about trustless-trust,and now faced with this decade in dealing with with no-trust-whatsoever.

We started with dont-trust-the-government and the dont-trust-big-media and to dont-trust-all-media and eventually to a no-trust-society. Lovely

Really, waiting for the AI feedback to converge on itself. Get this over soon please

New comment by redandblack in "Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram"

redandblack — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:00:11 +0000

This will be great for deciding on voting districts

New comment by redandblack in "AnandTech Farewell"

redandblack — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 02:00:55 +0000

all good things come to an end - others do too but we won't remember them.

good run, and remember from the late 90s - later at my interview in Lehman Brothers, the hiring manager was looking at the site when I walked in and that was the small talk. RIP AnandTech

New comment by redandblack in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

redandblack — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:23:51 +0000

Underscoring MY personal politics/cultural views, I just returned from a NC trip and was thinking it will take another decade of development for social change to take hold. Just insane amount of economic development is happening there, and hopefully the younger crowd will be more open for changes. I noticed that there was a lot of mobility into NC, not just the northern states that has been well documented, but also from TN, AL, GA, FL and even TX

Coming back to NJ, a neighbor mentioned that they are still fighting the civil war in the south, which the media seems to also resonate well.

Just a based view from a NJ resident

New comment by redandblack in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

redandblack — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:13:08 +0000

I am moving from New Jersey to Delaware - for me that is far from civilization, but can make it up by a once a month trek for the food scene in NJ.

New comment by redandblack in "Schengen ain't what it used to be"

redandblack — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:56:16 +0000

Checking IDs is the standard model in the US along the border states in the south (don't know about the north).

My earliest border police checkpoint was in '87, south east of Phoenix on the way to LA. My buddies from Las Cruces always use to remind us to carry your ids, but then they used to do the beer runs across the border as it was cheaper.

Who here think embedded ID chip is not coming - you know, to save labor costs

New comment by redandblack in "The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing"

redandblack — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:02:41 +0000

I hope congestion pricing withers away and dies. It really promotes public infrastructure for the wealthy and disadvantages the people who cannot afford.

MDs at my firm can easily afford any such surcharges, and for many it will be business write offs, and not even their own.

Fund public infrastructure - put more buses on roads, maybe even limit some avenues and roads for buses only. Reduce the costs - yes, I know NYC tickets are really low, but make them simpler and easier for people to get a monthly pass and hop on buses, Really, buses everywhere even if they operate at net losses - get the business to subsidize bringing their workers in.