<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: shapefrog</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shapefrog</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:36:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shapefrog" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>strangely, that is exactly how the system works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:49:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057581</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "FBI has obtained 7k Lockbit ransomware decryption keys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are (subtly) saying cyber criminals are all from / in other countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 11:37:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596222</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is very basic maths as well (that evades most small time landlords).<p>100% occupancy at 90% of the market price with high quality tenants makes you more money than 80% occupancy + agent advertising / finding fees at full market price with bad tenants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 11:35:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596205</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Is $203T in derivatives held by top banks causing an ‘everything bubble’?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> everything bubble except gold , oil, and other commodities<p>and wages for everyday working joes<p>but Nvidia tho</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:04:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479550</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "U.S. to invest billions to replace China-made cranes at nation's ports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The rules are clear. There is one set for <i>them</i> and one set for <i>us</i>, we are afterall <i>The Good Guys (tm)</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:02:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478468</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Stable Diffusion 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you are seeing things from a bubble.<p>Most people in the country dont give a shit about historical injustices and are worried about how they are going to pay their rent or put food on the table today.</p>
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<p>> What is it specifically that company management is worried about?<p>As with all hype techs, even the most talented management are barely literate in the product. When talking about their new trillion $ product they must take their talking points from the established literature and "fake it till they make it".<p>If the other big players say "billions of parameters" you chuck in as many as you can. If the buzz words are "tokens" you say we have lots of tokens. If the buzz words are "safety" you say we are super safe. You say them all and hope against hope that nobody asks a simple question you are not equipped to answer that will show you dont actually know what you are talking about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:30:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468557</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Plastic is taking over farms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Plastic is the foundation of so many aspects of modern life<p>I genuinely can not think of a single product that only exists thanks to plastic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:20:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468355</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Most UK firms stick with a four-day working week after trial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the original "experiment" <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/worlds-biggest-4-day-workweek-experiment-shows-big-health-benefits.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/worlds-biggest-4-day-workwee...</a><p>The experiment uses a 100-80-100 model: workers get 100% of the pay for working 80% of the time in exchange for delivering 100% of their usual output.<p>Would only be assuming, however, given the success it would appear that it was achieved.<p>fwiw I do not think that I have encountered a "knowledge worker" who couldnt do 100% of their job in 80% of the time with minimal effort. Manual jobs / service jobs obviously different of course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468097</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Google's Gemma to run locally on Nvidia GPUs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm ok, I self identify as a black woman.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:48:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465095</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Wayfair CEO tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Just fire people and say you over-hired, holy cow.<p>That would be the "lazy" way out. It would also be simple, fast, honest, straightforward and show respect to everyone involved.</p>
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<p>The political class and media STILL to actively ridicule China's Great Firewall while proposing the same thing while claiming that it is "completely different".<p>Wait till you hear their thoughts on the disgusting social credit system ...</p>
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<p>The conservative party bears the mark of a party of the uneducated and unemployed.<p>As little as laywers bring to the table, its at least something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066381</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>prisons don't work, don't deter crime, don't rehabilitate... for poor people<p>rich people on the other hand</p>
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<p>as a former choir boy ... well, let me not finish that sentence</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:14:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066129</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Scientists aren't using ChatGPT – here's why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tldr: it did not perform well enough to be useful<p>I concur</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:57:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38728290</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38728290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38728290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Grid operator to interfere in Finnish electricity market after bidding error"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect you will find "too big to fail" in the utilities sector pre-dates by a couple of decades.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401869</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> she risked people's lives<p>She was found not guilty of that bit. The conviction and jail time is only for defrauding the investors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:44:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38380744</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38380744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38380744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably the way that for <i>most</i> people "free open source software" means 1) Zero cost 2) Some other stuff</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:11:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331534</link><dc:creator>shapefrog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shapefrog in "Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309</a><p>"Yes, we fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments, which includes police: if you don’t like that then please feel free to use a different app."</p>
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