Hacker News: romaaeterna

New comment by romaaeterna in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

romaaeterna — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:59:53 +0000

> A Mystery Trader Made $400,000 Betting on Maduro’s Downfall

> Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader

New comment by romaaeterna in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"

romaaeterna — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:38:05 +0000

That will always be true for some individuals. But the sector isn't going away. Everyone is retooling right now and it's hard to tell what this generation of AI is even going to do to jobs. I strongly suspect that the companies that manage the retooling most successfully will be hiring more people not less.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

romaaeterna — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:20:46 +0000

I'd be interested in more details about the 17mph collision as well. Was it a dead-center collision with a pole after hard braking? Was it a mirror clip or a curb clip or something similar? There seem to be a wide range of possibilities.

New comment by romaaeterna in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

romaaeterna — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:31:25 +0000

I saw this on X last week and assumed that it was a question from a Tesla user trying out smart summon.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost"

romaaeterna — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:11:46 +0000

The people most susceptible to consensus mirage are, by the very nature of the beast, the ones least aware of it happening to themselves. Any opinion that you find yourself praised for by any of the groups in your social circle is infinitely suspect.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Be Like Clippy"

romaaeterna — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:41:26 +0000

Clippy is almost certainly the most hated computer avatar in all of human history. Jar Jar Binks or Wesley Crusher come to mind as equivalent foci of psychic negativity. Using him for any movement is self-sabotage, not to mention all the organizations you will scare off because using a copyrighted/trademarked character invites legal risk.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

romaaeterna — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:52:36 +0000

Running the first question as a test against mradermacher's GGUF of the 20b heretic fails when running llama.cpp as Q4_K_M, but successfully generates the tutorial with larger better quality Q8_0

New comment by romaaeterna in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

romaaeterna — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:09:37 +0000

I have a Tesla and a drive FSD back and forth to work every day. It's great

Edit in response to your edit:

Would I risk myself standing in front of a FSD Tesla versus in front of an Uber or an average human-controlled car with the standard percentage chance of the human texting or being otherwise distracted or drunk or tired? I would take FSD. And I think that a mathematical rather than emotional evaluation of the odds would make risk-minded people do the same.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

romaaeterna — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:56:56 +0000

That first crash sure doesn't sound like Autopilot/FSD, given that the car kept going after the crash.

New comment by romaaeterna in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

romaaeterna — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:47:25 +0000

0%. This is entirely on the driver. He's someone who should spend a few years in prison, and then never be allowed to have a license again.

A foot on the gas overrides braking on autopilot and causes it to flash up a large message up on the screen that "Autopilot will not break / Accelerator pedal is pressed"

New comment by romaaeterna in "When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed"

romaaeterna — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:11:40 +0000

> So, for example, when a Florida driver on Autopilot drops his phone and blows through a stop sign, hitting a car which then hits two pedestrians, killing one, Tesla will claim “this driver was solely at fault.” In that case, a judge agreed that the driver was mostly at fault, but still assigned 33% of blame to Tesla, resulting in a $243 million judgment against the company.

His foot was on the gas though

Looking at this author's other articles, he seems more than a bit unhinged when it comes to Tesla: https://electrek.co/author/jamesondow/ Has Hacker News fallen for clickbait? (Don't answer)

New comment by romaaeterna in "Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk"

romaaeterna — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:13:33 +0000

We know that diabetes causes some amount of dementia and that flowers cause no amount of bees. And so on. Your example is specious, and obviously so.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk"

romaaeterna — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:44:55 +0000

Well, in some cases we know that they do.

Dementia is linked to diabetes. And diabetes risk is increased for African-Americans. And African-Americans live in high-pollution urban areas for entirely historical reasons.

So some amount of the causation here does go in the way opposite to what a person might naively suspect.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Eternal Struggle"

romaaeterna — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:46:24 +0000

An edge point's probability of being hit should be proportional to the length of every path leading to that edge point. An area closer to many short black paths and many long white paths will show black expansion (and vice-versa). So I suspect that any variation of the central line from a straight bisection of the circle should get hammered out over time.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history"

romaaeterna — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:05:59 +0000

titlos/τίτλος: Its singular Biblical use in John 19:19-20 (prb. "inscription") is separate from its later use in (heavily Latin-influenced) Byzantine jurisprudence documents, where it frequently gets used to label section numbers: ΤΙΤΛΟΣ Α´.

New comment by romaaeterna in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

romaaeterna — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:43:18 +0000

When evaluating the truth value of claims like this, consider a few things--

1. "Comply with Cease & Desist To Re-activate" is rather unlikely for anyone to program as a standard error message. It's also in a slightly different font from the previous part of the message. The following part of the message says "Update Failed"

2. The creator of the video (a rap video creator) could easily generate the situation by playing a YouTube video (that he created) on his screen

3. The letter (possibly based on a real cease & desist) has all of the information concerning the deactivation in a single paragraph, which would be easy to insert

New comment by romaaeterna in "Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market"

romaaeterna — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:31:44 +0000

Why couldn't he rent a boat?

New comment by romaaeterna in "2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals"

romaaeterna — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:55:23 +0000

> ...this person...

In the Phaedo, just before Socrates' death, Crito asks him how he would like to be interred. Socrates objects to Crito's confusion between Socrates the person -- the soul that will shortly be departing -- and whatever will be left over as the corpse.

New comment by romaaeterna in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

romaaeterna — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:50:59 +0000

Off-shoring much of the manufacturing of American consumer goods to an overseas competitor known for quality issues, and the growth of online retailers that do not police for quality or counterfeits, may have something to do with the overall trend.

New comment by romaaeterna in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

romaaeterna — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 02:12:47 +0000

The class of drugs having a 2+ decade negative health effect greater than the negative health effect of obesity over the same period, without any obvious short-to-medium health effect, is likely to be small.