Hacker News: seiferteric

New comment by seiferteric in "California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget"

seiferteric — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:54:24 +0000

Didn't something like this just happen last year (or year before) but in the opposite direction?

New comment by seiferteric in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

seiferteric — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:32:24 +0000

How could we know this? AFAIK all we can say is the volume of the brain has been relatively stable for that long, how can we say the structures of the brain have not evolved since then? It seems plausible to me anyway that humans could have co-evolved with ideas in a way.

New comment by seiferteric in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

seiferteric — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:10:26 +0000

There are plenty of ways that you might make a large income in a single year like selling a business you have spent years or decades building up. Your "income" for that year might be several million that year, but it took you years to "earn" it. In general I don't think taxing people that actually have to work for a living is a great thing, all you are doing is prolonging the amount of time they have to work to save enough to either retire or start their own business. I would prefer to shift taxes to cap gains (why do long term cap gains rates exist???) and corporate taxes as well as sales tax.

New comment by seiferteric in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

seiferteric — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:20:14 +0000

I think I don't like income tax as it disincentivizes labor and also makes it harder for working people to build up wealth. Making a million a year sounds like a lot, but who knows how long someone might be making that kind of money? Meanwhile already wealthy people are mostly untouched. Would rather see majority of taxes come from corporate taxes and capital gains.

New comment by seiferteric in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

seiferteric — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:22:27 +0000

> Gasoline engines are already 15% less efficient at 20F.

Is that actually true once the engine has reached operating temperature?

New comment by seiferteric in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

seiferteric — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:18:36 +0000

The problem is, energy use is only one part of the equation. Often times new appliances that are more efficient end up being more prone to breaking due to more complexity and companies trying to cut costs to meet a price point. This leads to people needing to replace there appliances much more often which really makes me question how much energy is actually saved if you include the energy used to produce them...

New comment by seiferteric in "What came first: the CNAME or the A record?"

seiferteric — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:29:33 +0000

Now that I have seemingly taken on managing DNS at my current company I have seen several inadequacies of DNS that I was not aware of before. Main one being that if an upstream DNS server returns SERVFAIL, there is no distinction really between if the server you are querying is failed, or the actual authoritative server upstream is broken (I am aware of EDEs but doesn't really solve this). So clients querying a broken domain will retry each of their configured DNS servers, and our caching layer (Unbound) will also retry each of their upstreams etc... Results in a bunch of pointless upstream queries like an amplification attack. Also have issue with the search path doing stupid queries with NXDOMAIN like badname.company.com, badname.company.othername.com... etc..

New comment by seiferteric in "Dead Internet Theory"

seiferteric — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:40:26 +0000

My parents were tricked the other day by a fake youtube video of "racist cop" doing something bad and getting outraged by it. I watch part of the video and even though it felt off I couldn't immediately tell for sure if it was fake or not. Nevertheless I googled the names and details and found nothing but repostings of the video. Then I looked at the youtube channel info and there it said it uses AI for "some" of the videos to recreate "real" events. I really doubt that.. it all looks fake. I am just worried about how much divisiveness this kind of stuff will create all so someone can profit off of youtube ads.. it's sad.

New comment by seiferteric in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

seiferteric — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:29:50 +0000

I have a Samsung neo g9 57" which is like 1/2 an 8k monitor (or 2 4k monitors side-by-side) which is sweet since I use picture-by-picture mode to have my work computer on one side and my personal computer on the other side.

New comment by seiferteric in "How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart"

seiferteric — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:50:15 +0000

I think the real issue is that for the powers that be, inflation is seen as either neutral or a good thing. The only people it hurts is the working class and the blame is nebulous. So it is used as a tool to increase taxes without changing laws, lower the cost of debt, and cut labor wages since they don't get pay raises commensurate with inflation. So I think it is a trick played upon the working class to screw them over in the long term while the wealthy are protected because all their assets simply go up in value with inflation. I think the target inflation rate should be 0%, not 2%. I simply don't believe the justification for the 2% target.

New comment by seiferteric in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

seiferteric — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:09:52 +0000

Similar complaint for the chevy silverado, why can't they just make it look just like the regular silverado?

New comment by seiferteric in "Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage"

seiferteric — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:32:18 +0000

But energy efficiency is improving also.

New comment by seiferteric in "IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act"

seiferteric — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:32:05 +0000

Well technically, this is just a philosophical point, but the bill of rights is supposed to protect _natural_ rights that apply to everyone regardless of where they live. So in theory the UK can and does routinely violate peoples rights

New comment by seiferteric in "Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision"

seiferteric — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:13:50 +0000

While I am not particularly interested in the design, I am intrigued by the idea of making your own monitor. I have had some ideas about features I would like in a monitor before. Are there some boards out there that are easy to hack on to add firmware features etc?

New comment by seiferteric in "YAML document from hell (2023)"

seiferteric — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:52:01 +0000

I wonder if you could make a new standard something based on yaml where every value was prefixed by a type so there is no ambiguity.

New comment by seiferteric in "Based C++"

seiferteric — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:11:56 +0000

The whole thing is a joke but presented in a serious manner. The idea is that if you know your program input at compile time you can turn everything into a constexpr which gets evaluated at compile time so your program is "ran" by the compiler instead of at run time. So he built a "runtime" that is actually ran by the compiler around this idea for fun.

New comment by seiferteric in "When the job search becomes impossible"

seiferteric — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:41:31 +0000

I know this is just anecdotal but just want to say I got my current job just applying to a job from a linkedin email. I admit I was surprised how easily and smoothly it all went actually...

New comment by seiferteric in "KDE launches its own distribution"

seiferteric — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:11:17 +0000

Your telling me google uses Gentoo for ChromeOS but doesn't even host a Gentoo mirror? jeez...

New comment by seiferteric in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

seiferteric — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:57:07 +0000

I’m setting up NSD for authoratative and Unbound for recursive layer at my company and they are a breeze to work with.

New comment by seiferteric in "Building a computer in the 90s (2019)"

seiferteric — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:31:04 +0000

I just remember as a kid somehow always ending up with open box stuff from fry's that was clearly labeled as such and having a lot of stability issues lol.