Hacker News: shuckles

New comment by shuckles in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

shuckles — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:10:14 +0000

This is a superficial complaint. In practice, the US doles out enormous amounts of social assistance. Disability, social security, and healthcare are an enormous part of the federal budget. Maybe it will be gated behind make-work or some other scheme.

New comment by shuckles in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

shuckles — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:39:38 +0000

It’s kind of useless to argue through metaphors here. There are a hundred researchers with more significant contributions to theory and practice than Karpathy. If you disagree, I’d love to see what papers or implementations you think he’s offered that pushed SOTA.

New comment by shuckles in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

shuckles — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:11:38 +0000

He can be at the frontier while just having a regular job. Every other option is a lot more work.

New comment by shuckles in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

shuckles — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:49:17 +0000

GPT-1 presumably, which was released a year after he left. Prior to focusing on GPT, OpenAI was pursuing a lot of research directions.

New comment by shuckles in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

shuckles — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:48:06 +0000

No it doesn’t? It matches his skills to the lab’s needs. Karpathy is a media personality, manager, and educator far more than he is a hands-on researcher.

New comment by shuckles in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

shuckles — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:03:46 +0000

Average people don’t want to spend their lives managing permissions. You could go ahead and use Android or ChromeOS.

New comment by shuckles in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

shuckles — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:02:55 +0000

No average person cares about your side project, and most people prefer Apple’s product decisions over the ones you’d like them to make. Based on your history with technology, you are a Windows developer who would like to distribute apps on Apple’s platform without learning about what makes for a great app on that platform.

New comment by shuckles in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

shuckles — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:58:37 +0000

Browser vendors have been able to ship their own engines in the EU for almost 2 years now. What great benefit to consumers has that enabled?

New comment by shuckles in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

shuckles — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:14:31 +0000

You aren’t going to run a network connected 24/7 online agent from a laptop because it’s battery powered and portable.

New comment by shuckles in "I’m joining OpenAI"

shuckles — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:48:08 +0000

OpenAI did not "bet" on Jony Ive. They bought his company io Products.

New comment by shuckles in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

shuckles — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:45:12 +0000

The people complaining about Safari often are running enterprise crapware that requires some esoteric Chrome API or bug to operate correctly and should actually be an app on iOS but cannot be funded as such because its creators don’t care about its users.

New comment by shuckles in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

shuckles — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:29:32 +0000

It’s also strange because I highly doubt Google has manufactured a billion physical units of anything. Most of their consumer hardware is designed and built by partners, including Pixel.

New comment by shuckles in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

shuckles — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:55:15 +0000

In case of a natural disaster, it’s guaranteed that human drivers will abandon their cars on the road and cause gridlock. It happens all the time. Emergency vehicles are built to handle it.

New comment by shuckles in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

shuckles — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:55:15 +0000

Waymo's performance in this outage was horrible. 6 hours into the blackout there were still many intersections where a Waymo was blocking traffic, unable to navigate out of the way. This should never happen again.

New comment by shuckles in "Is it a bubble?"

shuckles — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:55:46 +0000

It took me a while to realize you were using "$WORK" as a shell variable, not as a reference to Slack's stock ticker prior to its acquisition by $CRM.

New comment by shuckles in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

shuckles — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:40:52 +0000

Great then you have even bigger problems to wrestle with regarding solvency. Americans won't choose cost effective treatments, and if you force them to pay out of pocket for experimental therapy you will be accused of running death panels. Good luck with that. On top of all that, they are also unhealthy due to a variety of lifestyle factors including that their primary mode of transportation likes maiming them.

New comment by shuckles in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

shuckles — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:19:09 +0000

> I'm saying "increased rents + rent control not applying = more people should want to build"

This is false. People will want to build more on the margin, but that doesn't mean they want to build. If the profitability requirement (hurdle rate for getting investment from institutions) is greater than the the market rent, people will not build even if market rent is high. Indeed, that's what's happened in the last 5 years as costs have increased much faster than rents.

New comment by shuckles in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

shuckles — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:10:55 +0000

Surely you are capable of thinking there are tradeoffs here where one can set a level without dealing in absolutes. Put differently why not expand Medicaid to cover every American regardless of income? 400% is just as arbitrary as 1000000%.

New comment by shuckles in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

shuckles — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:29:02 +0000

This is right. More supply is bad for landlords. In particular, housing developers and landlords are different economic actors!

New comment by shuckles in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

shuckles — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:50:03 +0000

Central to the challenge of UBI and housing costs is the law of rent. UBI could work if all its redistribution was not immediately captured by landowners. There are ways to make that possible.

Rent controlled apartments being held by tenants no longer using them as primary residences is pretty common. A famous case of this was Cleve Jones in San Francisco who tried to make it a huge political deal when his landlord raised his rent to market because he was 1. living in Guerneville full time and 2. subletting the apartment. The media environment is one where it's ok for a master tenant to be a de facto landlord and make money on real estate, as long as it's not the landowner themselves!