Hacker News: throwaway562if1

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books"

throwaway562if1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:24:41 +0000

For that matter, how dare the government fine me for dumping waste in the river, and stop me from employing minors? Don't they know it will ruin the economy?

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

throwaway562if1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:41:08 +0000

Electron is an 18m orbital delivery rocket (14.5m+payload without the optional third stage).

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

throwaway562if1 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:49:07 +0000

It was passed in 2017 to go into effect in 2023. Trump now wants to suspend it until 2029. You may notice that in both cases it is being passed under a Republican-controlled executive but goes into effect under the next administration. This is the point.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

throwaway562if1 — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:40:49 +0000

Because without thoroughly-enshrined protections for identities, an e-ID system provides an avenue for the government to effectively de-person undesirables at will, by removing their ability to use banks, sign contracts, access healthcare, etc.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

throwaway562if1 — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:55:30 +0000

The current US administration is known for illegally deporting permanent residents and has stated intent to deport natural-born citizens. It should be self-evident why a centralized ID system under the control of the executive branch is a terrible idea.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack"

throwaway562if1 — Fri, 02 May 2025 05:31:38 +0000

I am still unable to pass CF validation on my desktop (sent to infinite captcha loop hell). Nowadays I just don't bother with any website that uses it.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years"

throwaway562if1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:40:40 +0000

They keep all the profits and can still sell "anonymized" data. Surely this chilling precedent will have other corporations shivering in fear.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow"

throwaway562if1 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:38:55 +0000

There is a certain irony in this, given that such behaviour (demonstrating that rule of law applies only to the peons) is what has so inflamed the public in support of Mangione.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly"

throwaway562if1 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:01:49 +0000

In case this isn't trolling, it's valuable to any users who have a question that was previously answered on the forums, and to any users who invested time and energy answering said questions. Neither of these show up as a revenue stream, but instead impact customer retention and onboarding - the absence of community support is a major negative when making a purchasing decision as a new customer.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis"

throwaway562if1 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:44:25 +0000

And so we allow people to trivially circumvent the law by shielding themself behind a shell corporation, and never are consequences seen.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis"

throwaway562if1 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:24:16 +0000

It's trivial to find who to blame - just follow the money. Hit the investors with sentences proportional to their stake of ownership, and just like magic, executives who enable criminal behavior will become rather less popular and internal oversight much more so. Of course this will never happen, since the lack of culpability is the point.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)"

throwaway562if1 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:27:27 +0000

"Not everyone works at black companies" and "nobody works at black companies" are very different statements. People going home at 6 is evidence for the former, not the latter.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash"

throwaway562if1 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:26:51 +0000

AIUI the numbers are for accidents where FSD is in control. Which means if it does a turn into oncoming traffic and the driver yanks the wheel or slams the brakes 500ms before collision, it's not considered a crash during FSD.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI"

throwaway562if1 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:41:31 +0000

Ideally it would have a section on next steps and how YC will prevent such events in the future, but definitely preferable over a corporate nonapology.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

throwaway562if1 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:03:27 +0000

Considering how much negative publicity companies see every time one of they require RTO, and yet not one has published metrics? They absolutely don't have any.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Firmware update hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint"

throwaway562if1 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:37:01 +0000

Only within one second if fingerprinting can be done from a single data point. If it takes 10,000 beacons to identify a device with reasonable certainty, doubling that count is significant.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit"

throwaway562if1 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 05:39:00 +0000

Let's be honest: It will be legal if you're a $3 trillion company, and not if you're not.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability"

throwaway562if1 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:19:10 +0000

I expect this, much like racial bias in many AI applications (e.g. facial recognition), is considered a feature by the companies using ChatGPT to screen resumes - it gives enough plausible deniability to dodge a lawsuit.

Anyone want to bet it discriminates on gender too?

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

throwaway562if1 — Sat, 18 May 2024 00:07:45 +0000

You haven't worked with many contracts, have you? Unenforceable clauses are the norm, most people are willing to follow them rather than risk having to fight them in court.

New comment by throwaway562if1 in "The Downfall of DeviantArt"

throwaway562if1 — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:59:46 +0000

There really aren't many major platforms left for artists at this point - DeviantArt and ArtStation have both dove down the AI hole, Twitter needs an account to view now, that leaves what, Pixiv and Tumblr?