Hacker News: ses1984

New comment by ses1984 in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

ses1984 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:03:05 +0000

Basic sysadmin monitoring techniques from twenty years ago would have worked too.

New comment by ses1984 in "A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W"

ses1984 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:39:07 +0000

It’s not about the sound being in the language. It most often happens with loan words that are spelled with a w but make a v sound.

New comment by ses1984 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

ses1984 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:25:43 +0000

It depends on your region, insurance company, and plan.

New comment by ses1984 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

ses1984 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:17:09 +0000

There are private options for lots of things in Canada, depending on the province.

Without data on what proportion of people are denied and what the consequences are, this isn’t a good faith argument.

On the flip side, cases that would get care in Canada are denied in the USA by private insurance. Private options are far outside the means of most people.

New comment by ses1984 in "Claude: System Prompts"

ses1984 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:47:08 +0000

Make their problem everyone else’s problem.

New comment by ses1984 in "Claude: System Prompts"

ses1984 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:47:59 +0000

What do you think people on continent x are going to do if there is water on continent y but not continent x…?

New comment by ses1984 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ses1984 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:46:03 +0000

Plenty of people could afford blackberries in 2006. Having uber is nothing like having a driver. A MacBook replaces about $50k out of a million dollar recording studio. The rest if it still costs pretty much a million dollars.

I’m not even sure what my point is.

Being a billionaire was never really about having stuff. It was and is about having power.

New comment by ses1984 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ses1984 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:34:32 +0000

> 20 years ago, they had things we would want and could never afford

Like what?

New comment by ses1984 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ses1984 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:33:27 +0000

Do they sell tvs like this at Walmart?

https://www.cseed.com/en/indoor-tv/unfolding-tv.html

Netflix is a terrible example, it’s cheap entertainment for the masses. Why would a billionaire watch Netflix when they could get front row and/or box seats to any sporting event or concert in the world and fly there via private jet.

New comment by ses1984 in "The session you cannot take with you"

ses1984 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:36:55 +0000

Why would the model bother to check signatures if it doesn’t check tags?

New comment by ses1984 in "Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)"

ses1984 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:19:06 +0000

There can be crime without intent, like manslaughter.

New comment by ses1984 in "Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)"

ses1984 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:20:00 +0000

If someone invents a new weapon to hurt someone, is the first inflicted injury unprecedented?

New comment by ses1984 in "Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)"

ses1984 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:17:49 +0000

The law doesn’t apply to billion dollar corporations.

New comment by ses1984 in "7.1 Earthquake in Japan"

ses1984 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:14:07 +0000

Something doesn’t make sense here because an electric kettle operating at 120v at less than 10 amps will boil water much faster than the large burner on my stove.

New comment by ses1984 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

ses1984 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:14:11 +0000

If you’re the only one in the cast who isn’t cgi, it’s basically the same.

New comment by ses1984 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

ses1984 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:55:06 +0000

Being marginally better than hell is still hell.

New comment by ses1984 in "The state of open source AI"

ses1984 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:18:26 +0000

I’m just challenging your point that ai doesn’t have source.

New comment by ses1984 in "Mozilla: The state of open source AI"

ses1984 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:15:28 +0000

Is training code and dataset not source?

New comment by ses1984 in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

ses1984 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:24:11 +0000

It would be fine if they protected property rights if they also protected human rights.

New comment by ses1984 in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

ses1984 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:13:04 +0000

Police actually exist to protect capital. At least in the USA.