Hacker News: rendang

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...

New comment by rendang in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

rendang — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:23:00 +0000

Consider paying a visit to one of these if you want to immerse yourself in the world of ideas and disengage from screens:

https://labri.org/

My ~4 weeks were some of the most memorable of my life

New comment by rendang in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

rendang — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:14:40 +0000

Weather is worse in the Portland area, can be a good few degrees warmer than Seattle in the summer

New comment by rendang in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

rendang — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:05:17 +0000

I support YIMBYism for ones own countrymen but I don't see the need to fit as many people as possible in your country. A Switzerland with 25 million people will be a worse place to live regardless of whether the housing supply keeps up

New comment by rendang in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

rendang — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:32:38 +0000

It creates a huge moral hazard to reward those who illegally entered/overstayed visas

New comment by rendang in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

rendang — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:11:35 +0000

Agree. Very unprofessional and disrespectful to prospective customers to not even have a human edit your blog copy