Hacker News: tehjoker

New comment by tehjoker in "AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T"

tehjoker — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:32:42 +0000

That feels more right to me. Maybe inning 8 on money/hype.

New comment by tehjoker in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

tehjoker — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:56:24 +0000

That's because they fucked up. I don't know where you've been but we have been dominating oil markets since the end of WW2. The dollar is sometimes called the "petrodollar" because we shifted from a gold basis to a petrol exchange basis. The latest fuck ups may signal the beginning of the end.

New comment by tehjoker in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

tehjoker — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:30:08 +0000

in the case of airplanes the only thing thats the private market is the planes and the ticket, the entire system of airports, safety, navigation is state subsidized and when the market fails it gets bailed out. the oil is subsidized by constant warfare. it's just an illusion for reganomics so a few rich ppl can make a buck off of a public utility.

New comment by tehjoker in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

tehjoker — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:57:08 +0000

Dropsite news is good, but are you familiar with manufacturing consent’s propaganda model of the mass media? A simplified explanation:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M&ra=m

New comment by tehjoker in "Our position on open-weights models"

tehjoker — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:50:53 +0000

Pro-US slop. The greatest threat is our own government. They are the ones with a right-wing government building a repressive apparatus across a huge number of datacenters and are proven to spy on the entire world. Anyone remember the Snowden leaks? Guantanamo bay? Alligator Alcatraz? Random murders by internal security? Blowing up a building full of school girls?

New comment by tehjoker in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

tehjoker — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:57:09 +0000

NSA probably read and stored a highly significant fraction of those emails.

New comment by tehjoker in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

tehjoker — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:30:35 +0000

The real story here is that prediction markets were banned for a reason and loosening the rules is causing chaos just as was expected. AI plays little role in this story, hacking by humans would also be motivated by financial returns, unless the element is that AI hacking is cheaper and the returns are not so big.

New comment by tehjoker in "Qwen 3.8"

tehjoker — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:52:03 +0000

Whether or not this is really true or just US propaganda, the majority of technology transfer has occurred through the open process of requiring US companies to form partnerships and disclose know-how to access the chinese market. This stuff about espionage is really sour grapes from losers.

New comment by tehjoker in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

tehjoker — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:05:30 +0000

It makes me feel a little crazy seeing the constitutional architecture post-civil war used to diffuse responsibility away from the federal government and divide the people against each other working in action. People act like this isn't a country with very definite choices being made or that if something is bad over there, it doesn't matter over here. The wealthy, the corporations, the army, and the central government all deal with this place as a unified entity with various domestic fractures to exploit for their own purposes.

New comment by tehjoker in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

tehjoker — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:29:50 +0000

This is kind of a strange take.

Local taxes are for petty but useful stuff because the sovereignty of your locality is heavily circumscribed by state and national authorities. That means the real budgetary decisions made about the future of the nation, anything interesting, anything made with some level of self-determination, is made at the national level. Unfortunately, in the USA, budgetary discretion is used for war and rhetorically defended by all politicians while the non-discretionary spending on e.g. social security, is constantly attacked.

New comment by tehjoker in "I Learned to Read Again"

tehjoker — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:27:25 +0000

Books are generally far higher quality texts too. The really good articles get republished as books, think about that.

New comment by tehjoker in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

tehjoker — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:09:06 +0000

That's true, but I still benefit from the games being played. It also weakens the oligarchs slightly by reducing their margins. It's also worth remembering that the laws were written by the oligarchs.

New comment by tehjoker in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

tehjoker — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:59:28 +0000

We have the laws, but I don't have to feel outraged when regular people undercut the oligarchs and those people's interests align with my own.

New comment by tehjoker in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

tehjoker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:17:52 +0000

Generally speaking, companies retaining a competitive advantage with each other is good for their investors but bad for the public. It's usually to the public's benefit for employees to share knowledge, it makes goods and services cheaper and more available.

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

tehjoker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:13:32 +0000

Worth noting that it is the Europeans and Americans that have been colonial. Asian peoples have, with the prominent exception of the Mongols and Japanese Empire, pretty much not done that. In particular, China shut down its exploration program.

This is a settler-colonial mindset that reflects all the bad things we did onto everyone else. Notably, it's a current US ally that is most guilty of this.

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

tehjoker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:04:23 +0000

This is a just so story. The main issue today is the lack of democracy in the country and the use of technology to surveil and govern a restive population as the government has less and less legitimacy. The narrative you are telling is the heroic tale of computing and the internet c. 1990-2010.

Yasha Levine wrote about how this narrative was preceded by a forgotten one where MIT students protested because the computers were going to be linked to government databases and share data on anti-Vietnam war activists. Despite protestations, activists were correct and this happened, and now it happens at huge scale.

http://yashalevine.com/surveillance-valley

New comment by tehjoker in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

tehjoker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:50:54 +0000

Thank you, that's very helpful to know!

New comment by tehjoker in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

tehjoker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:56:44 +0000

I played a little bit around with LISP but I was astounded when I saw that you run programs using the live REPL. I thought, how can you reliably deploy a finished program if it can get messed with at any time? Why isn't there a way to compile to a binary?

New comment by tehjoker in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

tehjoker — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:20:20 +0000

Drones fly over Gaza all the time, scaring the shit out of people and sometimes murdering them senselessly. They have done this over many countries.

New comment by tehjoker in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

tehjoker — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:01:33 +0000

I don't really understand how any of this contributes to "defense". Sounds like "offense" to me. Just patrolling the skies over non-white countries and launching missiles at weddings. The reason the Pentagon invests so heavily in this kind of technology is our wars are so indefensible, they can't convince Americans to sacrifice blood in any quantity for other people's natural resources.