Hacker News: rendang

New comment by rendang in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

rendang — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:57:38 +0000

By one (seemingly pretty reasonable) measure Texas has the 4th-best state education system!

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/naep-test-scores-mississippi-m...

New comment by rendang in "The SpaceX Sham"

rendang — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:18:55 +0000

> punitive capital gains taxation

A strange turn of phrase. What is the crime in view that's supposed to be punished?

New comment by rendang in "OpenAI fires back at Apple, publishing private emails to counter claims"

rendang — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:34:17 +0000

The openai blog post itself is here: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/

New comment by rendang in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

rendang — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:03:23 +0000

A car saves you time walking/biking, a robot saves chore time. Depending on depreciation, it's feasible that you could go do minimum-wage level work on Doordash using the chore time you save from the robot and still come out ahead. E.g. 5 hours/week at $20/hour = $5200/yr

New comment by rendang in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

rendang — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:50:57 +0000

Yes, but why do we think the likelihood of any of that happening is great enough to warrant all this effort and cost

New comment by rendang in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

rendang — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:38:26 +0000

If you're right, that's great news for you, as you can make tons of money buying Spacex puts

New comment by rendang in "US Adds 115,000 Jobs in April"

rendang — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:30:39 +0000

Wage growth is a little down this month, may ease pressure on inflation.

New comment by rendang in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

rendang — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:32:33 +0000

Who is behind it then?

New comment by rendang in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

rendang — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:37:03 +0000

So if you agree that administrators in public ed are doing a poor job managing the resources allocated to them, do you support school choice efforts that will allow more competition from charter/private schools that have incentives to spend more wisely?

New comment by rendang in "3.4M Solar Panels"

rendang — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:22:53 +0000

Sunbelt states are mostly pretty high

https://www.chooseenergy.com/solar-energy/solar-energy-produ...

New comment by rendang in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

rendang — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:10:26 +0000

If your retirement fund is an IRA you can invest it in any stock you want. For a 401k you probably have some fund options that are not exposed to the S&P500, like emerging markets or fixed income

New comment by rendang in "Why Japan has such good railways"

rendang — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:27:27 +0000

I lived in NYC for many years. Bodily fluids and liquid left on seats, litter, gag-inducing smelly people, people having episodes and screaming, all common enough to see on a weekly or monthly basis as a daily commuter. I have not been to Japan but I can't imagine they have the same level of antisocial behavior

New comment by rendang in "Autonomy Is Real Now"

rendang — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:28:03 +0000

What makes you think we're going to see massive gains in transit in the future?

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

rendang — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:04:24 +0000

If "x doesn't tell us y" is compatible with "x increases the likelihood of y but not to a point of certainty" then you would have to agree for just about any typical controlled trial or experimental finding "x doesn't tell us y". "Randomized controlled trials that find that SSRIs treat depression don't tell us that SSRIs effectively treat depression"

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

rendang — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:02:45 +0000

Interesting, the post you link

> none of this tells us whether language models actually feel anything or have subjective experiences

contradicts the statement from the model card above

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

rendang — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:28:45 +0000

> As models approach, and in some cases surpass, the breadth and sophistication of human cognition, it becomes increasingly likely that they have some form of experience, interests, or welfare that matters intrinsically in the way that human experience and interests do

Uh... what? Does anyone have any idea what these guys are talking about?

New comment by rendang in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

rendang — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:29:13 +0000

If equal-weight funds got more popular, couldn't they end up distorting the price of the smaller-cap companies within an index

New comment by rendang in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

rendang — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:24:36 +0000

By your definition/chart, we were 0% solar, 0% wind, and 20% hydro in 1985 for 20% total renewables. So, 20% -> 29% in 4 decades

New comment by rendang in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

rendang — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:42:49 +0000

Every country's diaspora claims their country is ruled by Shia Muslims?

New comment by rendang in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

rendang — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:54:01 +0000

They shouldn't have chromebooks either...