Hacker News: tehjoker

New comment by tehjoker in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

tehjoker — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:46:00 +0000

gifted by europeans? i think you may be overlooking the native americans. this is a settler colonial country

New comment by tehjoker in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

tehjoker — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:16:41 +0000

I assumed that the grocers would want to offer bags. Making it more easy to drop in and buy something is going to be significantly more money than the cost of bags per a customer.

New comment by tehjoker in "One neat trick to end extreme poverty"

tehjoker — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:42:57 +0000

Less racism and not part of the imperial core, though the actions of imperialists make it very difficult for other countries.

New comment by tehjoker in "AI Job Loss Tracker"

tehjoker — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:50:19 +0000

It’s really hard to know if these reports are real or marketing. Usually the company is very nonspecific about the kind of positions replaced. I tried reading a few of these articles and it was just buisness speak drivel about strategic repositioning. I have no idea what those displaced employees were doing and if their function was even replaced.

There is of course some value in self reported claims but usually a careful researcher would look for other evidence that those claims are sensible.

New comment by tehjoker in "One neat trick to end extreme poverty"

tehjoker — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:20:10 +0000

crazy to see that china is doing most of the poverty reduction and not say hey developing countries, copy china (in the ways that you can, china has a unique advantage in size of domestic market)

New comment by tehjoker in "EFF is leaving X"

tehjoker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:59:12 +0000

A lot of it is based in social position / class. People that benefit from the existing ways unsurprisingly want them to continue. People that do not benefit, would like to see it changed.

Conservatives are a minority because we live in an unequal society, so necessarily the people benefiting and wanting that to continue are that same minority. There are a relatively small number of people that are confused about their class position or are aspirational and confuse their current position with actually achieving a social leap.

Of course, then there are personality types that metabolize this in different ways, but the basis of politics is materialism. A lot of money and words are deployed to obscure this, which has been known for over a hundred years. I was reading Thucydides (440 BCE) and in the first few pages he grounds significant political events in materialist forces.

New comment by tehjoker in "More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong"

tehjoker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:29:18 +0000

My guess is that the flat side provides a better surface for distributing pressure so long as the thing you are wrapping isn't a porcupine.

New comment by tehjoker in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

tehjoker — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:19:29 +0000

It’s worth remembering that the chaos is fully coming from America and Israel. The great satan indeed.

New comment by tehjoker in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

tehjoker — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:09:45 +0000

class sizes of 15 is better than 30 and 7 is better than 15.

New comment by tehjoker in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

tehjoker — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:57:15 +0000

Voted in PA. I suspect that regardless of who is president next, from either party, US policy will be changing towards Israel. The right, because they are anti-Semitic, and the liberals, because they lost an election over genocide. If the only thing the establishment wants from us is our votes, well they're going to have to earn them. They have no qualms about being transactional with other folks. They just get mad that we're transactional with them because we're supposed to behave.

New comment by tehjoker in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

tehjoker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:15:56 +0000

Many people don’t vote because it is difficult for them, they don’t see a difference in their lives because they get screwed one way or the other no matter who is in power, and if you’ll recall the last administration was complicit in genocide which is why I voted third party.

It’s true trump is bad but so is genocide. Really hard to make the case of the lesser evil when it’s just variations on top tier criminality. You have to offer something to voters.

New comment by tehjoker in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

tehjoker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:02:02 +0000

Some differences with the human source for those kinds of tools: (1) the resultant generated code was deterministic (2) it was usually possible to get access to the exact version of the tool that generated it

Since AI tools are constantly obsoleted, generate different output each run, and it is often impossible to run them locally, the input prompts are somewhat useless for everyone but the initial user.

New comment by tehjoker in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

tehjoker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:37:34 +0000

I don’t know if this prediction is wrong, it might well be right, but the basis for this prediction is “market forces” without (a) an analysis showing the advantage for sets of market participants or (b) fundamental scientific reasoning why the code will improve to that degree. Without those two things it’s just wishful thinking.

New comment by tehjoker in "Observations from carbon dioxide monitoring"

tehjoker — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:17:29 +0000

it’s a proxy but later work also showed high ppm increased the longevity of sars cov 2 in the air because the water droplets get more acidic due to carbonic acid

New comment by tehjoker in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

tehjoker — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:48:28 +0000

How is this that different from a mixture of experts in a single model? There are some differences in training etc but it’s not that different at a fundamental level. You need to solve the issue with a single model.

The multiple model concept feels to me like a consumer oriented solution, its trying to fix problems with things you can buy off the shelf. It’s not a scientific or engineering solution.

New comment by tehjoker in "How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)"

tehjoker — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:14:46 +0000

I don't buy this but even if it were true, you could say the same if America was winning.

New comment by tehjoker in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

tehjoker — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:03:23 +0000

It would be fine if "defense" is what was meant, but they recently changed it back to a far more honest "department of war".

New comment by tehjoker in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

tehjoker — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:59:22 +0000

So just run a new study this year. I do think the tools have improved, but it should show up empirically. The only people for whom the urgency of "right now" is present is for the C-suite and investor class who are fighting to make sure they survive, but it might also be a crisis of their own making. Don't confuse your identity as a worker with the identity of the capitalist class.

New comment by tehjoker in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

tehjoker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:47:17 +0000

Newspapers used to have copyeditors for this kind of thing. I thought NYT still did.

New comment by tehjoker in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

tehjoker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:04:48 +0000

That's a possible hypothesis, but there was also a rising trend prior, it wasn't stable.