Hacker News: slazien

New comment by slazien in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

slazien — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:21:50 +0000

It is, I agree. My point is that the proportionality of consequences is not there. We seem to be good at criminalizing discrete, individual financial acts, but not systemic corporate decisions that cause diffuse harm. That's even when the aggregate harm is arguably far greater.

New comment by slazien in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

slazien — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:10:58 +0000

Is that the only factor? Is insider trading objective? (hint: it's not, read the law). It's objective only when we can attribute a quantitative measure to it? What's the relative "value" of $1M profit from insider trading vs a single child's destroyed psyche? How much value could that child have contributed to the society had it not been for the harm done to it? Is there really much subjectiveness in terms of the harm done to those kids?

All that to say: I don't think "objectivity" should be the (main) factor resulting in existence of adequate punishment.

New comment by slazien in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

slazien — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:03:59 +0000

Why do we have prison sentences for insider trading, which is arguably (much) less harmful to the society, and not for this?

New comment by slazien in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

slazien — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:58:01 +0000

This feels like a pretty negative take on what seems like impactful technology that is not going away, and will (and already has had) big impacts on how people work and build. Do you completely reject the idea of using them, ever? Do they have absolutely 0 utility for you?

New comment by slazien in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

slazien — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:57:26 +0000

https://www.jmail.world/about

"We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight Committee release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM"

and:

"Data Sources

    Gmail emails: House Oversight Committee
    Yahoo emails: DDoSecrets (brought to us by Drop Site News)

Technology

Document parsing and extraction powered by reducto"

I Wrote Task Manager – 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew [video]

slazien — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:58:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQykvrAR_po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908100

Points: 3

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New comment by slazien in "AT&T Addresses Recent Data Set Released on the Dark Web"

slazien — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:49:27 +0000

While this might be a marketing tactic in such situations, in this case it's a press release, which is a format where it's common to speak about "yourself" in 3rd person. Look at their other press releases.

New comment by slazien in "Dandelion Root Recipes"

slazien — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:18:26 +0000

For anyone interested in incorporating wild plants into their cuisine (including foraging, preparation, storage, recipes, etc.), I cannot recommend Samuel Thayer's books highly enough: https://www.foragersharvest.com/sams-books.html

At this point, he is an authority in the foraging community, and his books are well-written. Got all of them in my bookshelf.

New comment by slazien in "OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO"

slazien — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:37:43 +0000

Ah, good catch!

New comment by slazien in "OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO"

slazien — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:58:07 +0000

OpenAI didn't provide the right type of evidence, so the trademark request got dismissed: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn97733259&docI... (probably until they try again).

Apparently, they... didn't even pay the petition fee

New comment by slazien in "Mapping hospital accessibility with OpenStreetMap"

slazien — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:08:29 +0000

Related: me and my colleagues at Georgia Tech created something similar for multiple types of Points of Interest and developed and accessibility index. Our methodology was a bit different though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06954

Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

slazien — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32898075

Points: 206

# Comments: 51

Ask HN: How to prepare for a potential pandemic-related recession?

slazien — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:50:46 +0000

Pretty much what the title says. Any important factors to keep in mind compared to "normal" recessions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562812

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by slazien in "How I survived being a $220k/year intern"

slazien — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 20:33:38 +0000

I wonder how widespread this phenomenon actually is, anyone has similar stories to share?