Hacker News: talon8635

New comment by talon8635 in "Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models"

talon8635 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:06:27 +0000

Proposals to ban export of US models and import of foreign models… things are getting interesting indeed. I won’t pretend to know where any of it leads, but we are in a major historical moment. The very beginning, anyways.

New comment by talon8635 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

talon8635 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:10:05 +0000

Help me understand your question. I honestly can’t connect the dots. What do you mean re Zuck?

New comment by talon8635 in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

talon8635 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:30:56 +0000

Oh boy this couldn’t be more wrong. A society overtaken by ignorance does not value you, the self proclaimed genius.

New comment by talon8635 in "Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy"

talon8635 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:41:17 +0000

Which country?

New comment by talon8635 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

talon8635 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:08:14 +0000

My state of California is crumbling from deferred maintenance in pretty much every realm—old houses, busted roads despite the gentlest weather, public schools with lead pipes, painfully loud rickety trains, public spaces converted into public dumping grounds and squatters quarters, empty reservoirs, power lines that fall and spark large fires many times every year, and on and on and on

New comment by talon8635 in "AI 2040: Plan A"

talon8635 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:03:33 +0000

Perhaps it’s because they are #2 strongest entity? Or maybe they are number 1, no one can say for sure.

Your comment also implies that those who haven’t participated in colonization might not fear being colonized. Seems… off.

New comment by talon8635 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

talon8635 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:28:06 +0000

Not to mention the fact that all of those home countries are equally if not more openly racist and restrictive of immigrants from the other direction

The question is, is any country “perfect” in this regard, showing zero degree of self-selecting and internal favoritism? I suspect not, because it’s not really possible to have a country without focusing on, well, itself, first and foremost. Of course integrated immigrants ARE part of “the country”. But if immigrations swells too fast and/or immigrants are not well integrated, then of course that can present obvious non-racism-based problems for the county’s finances, infrastructure, economy, and culture.

Is anyone outside the west throwing the word “racist” around so liberally? It seems to west thinks it’s somehow evolved beyond the natural constraints of state/tribe. But, of course, it can’t.

New comment by talon8635 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

talon8635 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:18:13 +0000

No I don’t think so. The “Germany should know better” is more akin to irony

Soft bigotry of low expectation is not open hostility so much as a giving up on a people—-X people are inherently incapable, so just let them be, don’t expect anything from them. As a result of painless low expectation, no one strives, no one offers them opportunities, the people don’t move forward, and the low expectation fuels further low expectation based on poor performance.

Mor maybe you were referring to expectation of other EU countries to be unwelcoming?

New comment by talon8635 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

talon8635 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:10:14 +0000

I’d be various curious what country you’re from that such people would feel comfortable moving to. But of course don’t share if you don’t want.

New comment by talon8635 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

talon8635 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:02:30 +0000

I have zero knowledge on German politics. But I do wonder, if these same problems are plagues many (most) big cities (and even countries) in the west, including very liberal and high spending governments, how can we safely conclude it’s a conservative problem (or a liberal one)?

New comment by talon8635 in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

talon8635 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:50:53 +0000

Agree 100%

New comment by talon8635 in "Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability"

talon8635 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:41:09 +0000

We’ve really evolved quickly into simple vectors for a magical tool that solves our problems. Can’t solve the problem? There’ll be a new release soon that can!

New comment by talon8635 in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

talon8635 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:00:39 +0000

Believe what you want, but I would consider myself one of those allegedly mythical people

New comment by talon8635 in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

talon8635 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:09:15 +0000

What’s going on with social queues today where so many people here are not immediately understanding this is clearly satire?

New comment by talon8635 in "Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?"

talon8635 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:52:23 +0000

Using “this X” in the title is the definition of bait to me. They could, in as many characters, say the journals name. But they don’t specifically in order to bait you into clicking to find out which journal.

New comment by talon8635 in "The Humbling of the Once Almighty Dollar"

talon8635 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:49:25 +0000

I DO hate him, and still find this black and white thinking unsettling, though not uncommon. Has all of the western world completely surrendered to the nuance void?

New comment by talon8635 in "The Radiation Exposure Lie"

talon8635 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:32:28 +0000

Regarding the beer analogy, can anyone on earth survive 365 beer servings of alcohol without dying? Are you demanding research that 365 beers at once is more harmful than 1/day/year?

New comment by talon8635 in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

talon8635 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:54:46 +0000

> Pro-Israel people actually are in favor of targeting these kids because they might grow resentful of Israel and join Hamas.

I know many in that camp, and this sounds bananas to me.

New comment by talon8635 in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

talon8635 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:54:07 +0000

The real version is much more applicable, because we can’t see far, because we are depressingly shortsighted.

In this regard, we aren’t standing on shoulders of giants, we are like an immense asshole of a dad climbing ontop of his young child’s shoulders to win a chicken fight in the pool while his kid drowns below.

New comment by talon8635 in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

talon8635 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:49:01 +0000

Okay… do you not feel culpable at some point? Do you feel no obligation to expose these various individuals fleecing the tax payers? Your boss, the academics, and everyone else who participated or knows and remains silent. Obviously, you are now in the later group.

Yes I know it’s not all that rare, BECAUSE people can’t be bothered to blow the whistle.