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New comment by throwawaysleep in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

throwawaysleep — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:14:01 +0000

Isn't the goal then demand destruction?

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Ask HN: What if we had to come back?"

throwawaysleep — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:41:09 +0000

Do people generally take good care of their health? I do not think so. So if they will not care about even the present, why would making them return make them care about the future?

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter"

throwawaysleep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:59:43 +0000

Any business where people are looking at a screen should probably sell ads.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter"

throwawaysleep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:37:03 +0000

> The profitability of being able to serve a query wasn't really under question (nor is the margin expected to be anything less than 80%+) I think.

HN had long debates about whether AI inference could even be affordable from a compute perspective.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Ask HN: What if we had to come back?"

throwawaysleep — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:10:52 +0000

It wouldn't change a thing.

People have to live in their bodies. Do they care for them? No.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

throwawaysleep — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:03:33 +0000

People aren't treating it as a thoughtful contribution. It is more of a flag, like "spam".

New comment by throwawaysleep in ""Radical responsibility" means treating people like tools"

throwawaysleep — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:22:00 +0000

> And if you do that, you’ll sometimes assign praise and blame to them, instead of hoarding it all to yourself.

I mean, if things are going well, the logical thing to do is to hoard it.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

throwawaysleep — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:02:34 +0000

The problem with applying Hanlon's Razor here is that it presumes malice is rare. The current administration revels in malice. They very openly decide things based on malice.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

throwawaysleep — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:33:56 +0000

Painters with broad strokes have done extremely well the past few decades.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Trump considers renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' as trade war escalates"

throwawaysleep — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:45:52 +0000

Americans are such unserious people.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?"

throwawaysleep — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:16:17 +0000

But it is currently a strong mitigating factor. The law is full of oopsie defenses.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?"

throwawaysleep — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:10:25 +0000

The US military seems like an organization where there is very little accountability given all the people they kill in training accidents, the number of procurement mishaps they have, or their continuous inability to pass an audit.

So I imagine that if the military is the guidance for how we handle this in the future, there will be paperwork, shrugs, and perhaps some performative rage when an agent commits a crime.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "[dead]"

throwawaysleep — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:30:53 +0000

It is well past the point where writing off bad behaviour as probably a joke is a reasonable thing to do with Trump as he as consistently not been joking about many things people have claimed he is joking about.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Robinhood CEO Says 'Business Has Never Been Stronger' Then Cuts 10% of Workforce"

throwawaysleep — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:19:43 +0000

AI makes certain types of people, like those who need to be trained, obsolete.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

throwawaysleep — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:22:06 +0000

Eh, we might be all better off if a lack of curiosity was more regularly financially excruciating.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

throwawaysleep — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:50:58 +0000

That’s the value of tailwind. You can just skip learning CSS and still get a good result. The benefit to learning it is marginal.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

throwawaysleep — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:54:43 +0000

BigTech is far more competent than a Telco though.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

throwawaysleep — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:52:45 +0000

Most breaches are not in the interests of management, but they happen anyway as management wants to save money or doesn't understand how it could happen.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

throwawaysleep — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:42:32 +0000

> And obviously, a simple email to the data governance and privacy office would be taken extremely seriously.

What is this based on? I used to work for a data governance and privacy vendor that supplied data for audits. Tons and tons of customers asked us to fudge their data.

This is after the Delve scandal, where the hottest tech compliance company was completely fraudulent and numerous other hot tech companies also had completely fraudulent audits.

This is not a reasonable assumption.

New comment by throwawaysleep in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

throwawaysleep — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:39:31 +0000

Cops are too dumb to comprehend that. They would proclaim it impossible and order more donuts.

Most simple criminals get away with their crimes. Anyone with any level of sophistication does as well.