Hacker News: rogerrogerr

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Taste Is All That's Left"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:53:03 +0000

But no _individual_ speaks like this. It is not common that a guy representative of the Average Of All People Plus Some RL writes a blog post.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:50:22 +0000

In most jurisdictions, what you can take out of a deposit is legislated.

And it's really not that hard to make an unnoticeable drywall repair.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:44:04 +0000

Why can't you hang a picture on the wall? Fixing holes in drywall is super trivial, a good life skill to learn.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:17:13 +0000

I’ve thought this for a while, but why hasn’t it happened yet? At this point, OpenAI and Anthropic and friends could definitely remove the AI “smell” from writing output, or give users a first class way to specify a writing style.

So why haven’t they? My theory is they see this as a sort of fingerprint, useful to not train on later. Or something. Maybe they just don’t care. Certainly feels either intentional or a result of ambivalence.

It’s certainly true today that I probably wouldn’t know an AI written article if the author went out of their way to use one of the many prompts available to tone down the AI-isms.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:02:52 +0000

I remember in the west a few years ago we were seeing purported pictures of electronic billboards in China shaming low-social-credit-havers. Was that all a weird psyop?

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:54:50 +0000

I can, because I charge it every night. Also, I have never once engaged in a long road trip that I did not know about at least a few hours in advance.

I think you should not get an EV. But I like mine.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:53:47 +0000

> the people that jumped in now need to defend their $60,000 purchases.

First, you're not assuming good faith.

Second, I got a used Model 3 for $16k. I also have an F150. I _choose_ to drive the 3 on road trips. I am not suffering from whatever mental illness you think EV drivers are.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:44:55 +0000

And you mostly aren’t charging to 80%, usually it’s closer to 40-60%.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:43:13 +0000

> This is such a euphemism to pretend that you’d like to wait two hours at a refueling station.

What? I said no such thing. I would hate to wait two hours at a refueling station.

> it’s almost fantasy to sell it as “5-10 minutes every two hours”.

I guess I live in fantasy land then.

Maybe the non-Tesla charging story is crap, but I made conscious choices not to participate in that circus.

I have no range anxiety. I point the car where I want to go, it tells me where to charge and for how long, and it’s earned my trust over many road trips. It hasn’t been wrong yet.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:03:07 +0000

It’s not possible for the standard wage to be substandard.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:44:22 +0000

Yeah, when I take a road trip I genuinely enjoy the cadence of charging. 5-10 minutes every two hours, just enough to go to the bathroom or walk around. I get to my destination not materially later, and feeling far more relaxed than when I was doing death marches in a gas car.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:09:37 +0000

Shame on you for suggesting someone desecrate a cave by using it for shelter. The only acceptable options are $500k houses or refrigerator boxes in the park.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

rogerrogerr — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:09:09 +0000

I’m out of the loop on this, not trying to ignite a holy war, but what’s the gist of the anti-systemd stance?

New comment by rogerrogerr in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:19:08 +0000

> Conventional autpilot is like a zip tie on the throttle, only it deals in outputs (your actual heading) rather than inputs (pedals and stick)

What does this mean? I’m a pilot and none of it is making any sense.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:32:11 +0000

They also could have used their brains.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:02:36 +0000

It’s not about who’s developing the models, it’s the fact that free alternatives that are neck-and-neck are available at all. What’s the story for OpenAI & Anthropic’s valuation if they have to compete against free-weight models? Starts to feel like a commodity.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:48:42 +0000

Holy shit, how’d I miss that? https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-lowers-protein-synthesis-cost...

Forget Iran, this place is what we’re going to wish we’d bombed.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:13:47 +0000

The apparent bias may be explainable as it’s not remarkable for OpenAI or Anthropic to be slightly ahead. It _is_ remarkable for an open weights model to be better than the closed models from the trillion dollar (allegedly) companies.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:36:32 +0000

Works for me on a major US cell network.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "AI Agent – TRMNL"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:49:51 +0000

Pretty sure there are not 250 countries. How hard is it to validate the enormous number in the header image?