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New comment by silver_silver in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

silver_silver — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:59:36 +0000

What is it about the US you enjoy so? As someone who migrated to Europe from another country (and has never had the privilege of visiting the states) I can certainly think of ways I’d imagine America is better, and vice versa, but comfy is a surprising description. Genuinely curious

New comment by silver_silver in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

silver_silver — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:41:37 +0000

It would be toxic in that environment but I’ve never personally been lucky enough to work at an outfit like that, so I find it difficult to believe the reactive version isn’t more common than the spontaneous you describe

New comment by silver_silver in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

silver_silver — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:43:46 +0000

This reads like an avocado toast critique. Businesses which respect their staff, particularly junior staff, are few and far in between. Why should anyone not “silently quit” when the attitude of their employer is to extract as much value for the lowest cost before a round of layoffs?

New comment by silver_silver in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

silver_silver — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:17:59 +0000

The reality is that it’s not possible to learn if one offloads the work itself to an LLM

New comment by silver_silver in "Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found"

silver_silver — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:57:41 +0000

My friend that is what the whites were doing on a national level before the election of 1994. You seem to still be catching up to what they realised 32 years ago.

New comment by silver_silver in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

silver_silver — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:56:24 +0000

You are missing the forest for the trees my friend

New comment by silver_silver in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

silver_silver — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:18:40 +0000

My boss decreed the other day that we’re all to start maximising our use of agents, and then set an accordingly ambitious deadline for the current project. I explained that being relatively early in my career I’ve been hesitant to use any kind of LLM so I can gain experience myself (to say nothing of other concerns), and yeah in his words I’ve “missed the opportunity”

New comment by silver_silver in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

silver_silver — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:02:17 +0000

The video models aren’t that good yet but for coding the utility is clear, yes. To be fair Darren Aronofsky also overestimates their quality.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but generating video is also much more resource intensive than equivalently productive text-only model use. It seems the industry could save itself a lot of hassle and infamy by simply avoiding artistic fields.

New comment by silver_silver in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

silver_silver — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:14:33 +0000

Not necessarily a lot less but I’m sure removing the aesthetic/cool factor reduces how often they’re carried

New comment by silver_silver in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

silver_silver — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:46:22 +0000

Fair and just societies thrive in refugee camps after all

New comment by silver_silver in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

silver_silver — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:32:18 +0000

My counterpoint is that it’s not possible to buy appliances which last for decades anymore, because the entire industry has changed. Consumers eventually don’t have a choice

New comment by silver_silver in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"

silver_silver — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:26:28 +0000

> 500,000,000 people paying $80/mo

Simply not going to happen

New comment by silver_silver in "People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows"

silver_silver — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:07:18 +0000

To be fair, most forks - especially of Wine - are more like testing branches. The useful stuff tends to find its way upstream eventually

New comment by silver_silver in "Don't push AI down our throats"

silver_silver — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:26:33 +0000

Can second this. Am the only tech worker among my friends and family and every single one of them reacts to AI the same as to crypto or NFTs

New comment by silver_silver in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

silver_silver — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:44:47 +0000

They’re (genuinely) gearing up to release Half-Life 3 at the moment, and not as a VR exclusive

New comment by silver_silver in "Wimpy vs. McDonald's: The Battle of the Burgers"

silver_silver — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:09:52 +0000

There are still a couple of locations around the UK: https://location.wimpy.uk.com/

It's also going strong in South Africa: https://locations.wimpy.co.za/

New comment by silver_silver in "Show HN: Aris – a free AI-powered answer engine for kids"

silver_silver — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:57:13 +0000

“Works on my machine” actually isn’t a good enough response in this case, or to the comment about the video of the man being shot. LLMs are infamously easy to jailbreak and children are very good at getting around guardrails. You should at the very least be doing intense adversarial prompt testing but honestly this idea is just inherently poorly thought out. I guarantee you it’s going to expose children to harmful content

New comment by silver_silver in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

silver_silver — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:31:06 +0000

> You can install your own OS on iPhone hardware

No you can’t? Things like Project Sandcastle barely function on a single model. It can’t even access the network

New comment by silver_silver in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

silver_silver — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:24:29 +0000

The middle path is limiting (not ending) migration while actually trying to help these counties (in particular victims of one’s past colonial ambitions) through aid, investment, and free/subsidised education for their youth.

I say this as a someone who immigrated from a dangerous country to the first world.

The only way the current plan even approaches sustainability is if the brain drain on source nations is sufficient to keep them stuck and suffering. That should make it very clear that the humanitarian impact is a side effect and not the goal.

New comment by silver_silver in "AI is different"

silver_silver — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:47:28 +0000

Realistically, a white collar job market collapse will not directly lead to starvation. The world is not 1930s America ethically. Governments will intervene, not necessarily to the point of fairness, but they will restructure the economy enough to provide a baseline. The question will be how to solve the biblical level of luxury wealth inequality without civil unrest causing us all to starve.