Hacker News: sylos

New comment by sylos in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

sylos — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:41:56 +0000

The hyperloop was a huge success...in delaying actual transit options like trains.

New comment by sylos in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

sylos — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:48:15 +0000

there was a recent case of a lady who spent at least a month in jail because an ai said it was her. She had physical evidence indicating she wasn't and hadn't been to the state at all during the crime. There was a human in that loop too and she still sat in jail and had her life ruined.

New comment by sylos in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

sylos — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:37:08 +0000

Incorrect.

New comment by sylos in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

sylos — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:36:38 +0000

The store owner was allowed to sell things on consignment.

New comment by sylos in "A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs"

sylos — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:43:04 +0000

Bro is asking claude. He's not gonna do anything. Probably an astroturf bot for claude

New comment by sylos in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"

sylos — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:57:59 +0000

Try adding a bit of psyllium seed.

New comment by sylos in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

sylos — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:51:43 +0000

You got a check for $500, but now your info is who knows where and the company involved is still making more money than not. You lost out.

New comment by sylos in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

sylos — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:04:34 +0000

The power to tax is the power to destroy

New comment by sylos in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

sylos — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:29:40 +0000

Tech first north korea

New comment by sylos in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

sylos — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:45:08 +0000

No, it means the average is too low.

New comment by sylos in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

sylos — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:44:27 +0000

This is unbridled greed, nothing more.

New comment by sylos in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

sylos — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:56:15 +0000

so you memorized them, you just didn't explicitly do it.

New comment by sylos in "Cosmology with Geometry Nodes"

sylos — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:32:43 +0000

What would you want for user friendly? Anything powerful will have a learning curve, that is a fact. The basics of blender usage, i.e. the mechanical aspects of the modeling components minus geonodes, are learned in an afternoon.

Everything else is an understanding of what you, the user, wants. Translating what you want into thing you see on the computer is something that can't be learned quickly.

I excluded geonodes because geonodes are best thought of as just a (simple?) programming language with all the faults and foibles of a programming language.

New comment by sylos in "Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702"

sylos — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:28:40 +0000

Unfortunately the lawyers did argue and it's legal. They really dug in to the wording and not the spirit of the law

New comment by sylos in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

sylos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:59:59 +0000

What are the other competing browsers? There's chrome(and the derivatives), safari, firefox? safari exists only because of ios lockin. Aren't most other browsers an increasingly smaller share? Genuine question.

New comment by sylos in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

sylos — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:57:51 +0000

I don't think volunteering is going to cut it. Big orgs have big money and public commons are just targets to be controlled exploited.

New comment by sylos in "The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence"

sylos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:26:09 +0000

My guy, the vast majority of political violence is committed by the right. It's not zero from the left, but it is much less.

New comment by sylos in "Layoff Thinking"

sylos — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:21:25 +0000

I'm currently in that spiral. It is not pleasant knowing every month makes it harder to get back in

New comment by sylos in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction"

sylos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:02:42 +0000

Maybe if all of those companies hadn't paid large sums of money to one of the most famous child sex traffickers, their cries of "think of the children" wouldn't be so creepy

New comment by sylos in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

sylos — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:51:26 +0000

It doesn't work well. The searches are wrong and uninformative much of the time.