Hacker News: someothherguyy

New comment by someothherguyy in "Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones"

someothherguyy — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:41:05 +0000

"real-shaped PUID" seems like usage of "real-shaped" outside of normal disciplines, but probably accurate enough

New comment by someothherguyy in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

someothherguyy — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:03:33 +0000

seems small when compared to the overall effects of war

"An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting."

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

New comment by someothherguyy in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

someothherguyy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:39:08 +0000

"Between early June and early July, as many as five individuals who worked in or closely with US Cyber Command died by suicide, based on internal communications, public records and sources. The deaths have raised concern among lawmakers and military leaders within the highly secretive command, which is responsible for defending US networks and conducting offensive cyber operations."

According to https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107121.pdf there are ~17,000 authorized positions

New comment by someothherguyy in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:00:40 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking

Unavoidable at the moment.

But this is probably more reward tampering.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering

New comment by someothherguyy in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:48:33 +0000

there are many things in this that demonstrate that sandboxing agents in the manner that claude code or cursor do isn't going to be enough if very bad people do very bad things with the coding tools on your development machine

New comment by someothherguyy in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:56:35 +0000

> How do you not think AI will not destroy programming jobs if anyone can type to create anything they want or share your screen with Codex and have it guide you via voice?

Extrapolate that to any other engineering or even medical discipline and you will understand that your conclusion has some flaws.

New comment by someothherguyy in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:44:12 +0000

> There is no reason a fully qualified, even residential electrician cannot make 200k a year

Where?

BLS Data

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electric...

"The median annual wage for electricians was $62,350 in May 2024. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $39,430, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $106,030."

Seems like there is overwhelming reason for one to not make $200k/year.

New comment by someothherguyy in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:21:52 +0000

there are many levels of automation. electricians already use a lot of "automation" already: wire pullers, electric drivers, test equipment, soldering and crimping tools, conduit benders, pipe threaders, and so on.

installation systems are currently made for humans, so one has to do some fantasizing to see a future where installs can be done completely by non-human agents or by automated orchestration of low skill human agents.

New comment by someothherguyy in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:01:28 +0000

> It doesn't sound to me like you've pulled much wire.

not commercially, but i worked as a residential electrician and contractor for half a decade, if we are doing ad hominems

New comment by someothherguyy in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

someothherguyy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:12:29 +0000

> these also aren't professions that ... will get automated away in the long term

sure they will, all it takes is automating running wire and making connections. when the cost is low enough to do so, it will happen.

drones are already used to somewhat automate line inspection, etc.

imo, there are plenty of companies attempting to automate traditional trade jobs, and increasing automation for knowledge roles in those companies will accelerate those initiatives.

New comment by someothherguyy in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"

someothherguyy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:46:14 +0000

I like the education tools being developed using coding agents, but there should be some review in the process.

Good luck continuing it, hope you generated something that can be iterated on.

New comment by someothherguyy in "GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage"

someothherguyy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:35:18 +0000

SIBs have TR risks as well, no?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24058...

New comment by someothherguyy in "GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage"

someothherguyy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:13:23 +0000

might need to be in some special containment at that size, depending on the technology -- some sodium ion battery implementations are very toxic / highly reactive / flammable.

New comment by someothherguyy in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

someothherguyy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:13:27 +0000

I mean, nothing new there. (Mal/Ad/Spy)ware just has been more prevalent in the browser and on mobile apps the last ~15yrs instead of being installed via modified windows installers.

New comment by someothherguyy in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

someothherguyy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:03:57 +0000

> excellent use of agentic AI

you run claude code unsanboxed on your machine and give it privileged access?

New comment by someothherguyy in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"

someothherguyy — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:40:07 +0000

https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/TCG-PC-...

New comment by someothherguyy in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

someothherguyy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:32:00 +0000

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/money-power-...

seems like a lot more people believe that than the population you are describing

New comment by someothherguyy in "Midjourney Medical"

someothherguyy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:26:18 +0000

I don't think it says it is a target, just that they will have that capacity.

New comment by someothherguyy in "Midjourney Medical"

someothherguyy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:04:42 +0000

water filtration seems like the easy part

New comment by someothherguyy in "Midjourney Medical"

someothherguyy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:31:05 +0000

> - ... and now we give you another FBS every so-many years, and only those things that are different from the previous scan are investigated.

The diff can be meaningless as well. All sorts of benign things develop with age.

The resolution is the problem. You can't do the type of cytology and histology needed to understand all disease with just scans.