Hacker News: throwitaway222

New comment by throwitaway222 in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:09:49 +0000

Here is a more fun one to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrgEZ8FeZEc

New comment by throwitaway222 in ""A computer can never be held accountable""

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:17:36 +0000

AI will definitely, without a doubt, make executive decisions. It already makes lower level decisions. The company that runs the AI, can be held accountable. (meaning less likely OpenAI or the foundational LLM, but more likely the company calling LLMs that make decisions on car insurance, etc...)

New comment by throwitaway222 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:15:34 +0000

We have a worldwide internet service now.

We have electric vehicles (something that would not have happened without TSLA)

On the other side, the corruption is obvious with billions spent on 8 EV chargers.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:12:30 +0000

Firing is what is needed, but it won't happen for people that report spending, it will happen for those that hide it.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:11:01 +0000

Easiest thing to do IMO is fund anyone that is over 18 that has paid into Social Security. Anyone younger - simple, reduce taxes to not include it. Phase that fucker out. Get rid of all but 10% of federal income tax.

Also, make all black budget projects that involve underground alien bases public and move it all private, so Elon and other people can just directly invest in those instead of coming out of our taxes through the DOD.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

throwitaway222 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:51:54 +0000

Is this about CBP1?

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?"

throwitaway222 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:37:37 +0000

Well no, there are some employees that are actively encouraging people to ignore the rules is different than just ignoring the rules.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "What is the probability of a Biden alternative win? Building a statistical model"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:15:48 +0000

Personally I think there's no chance

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:21:31 +0000

build it with llms

New comment by throwitaway222 in "[dead]"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:21:06 +0000

You're the one not responding to the facts and evidence here, dismissing me out of hand.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Programmers should never trust anyone, not even themselves"

throwitaway222 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:09:54 +0000

-Programmers- > People

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Show HN: Use `code` to edit remote files in local VSCode"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:00:50 +0000

I'm pretty sure there is a ssh plugin for vscode, I have used it in the past and just lets you browse files like they are local.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:06:49 +0000

More countries should exit

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:25:30 +0000

Seems like a completely failed experiment if 100% didn't have housing.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA"

throwitaway222 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 04:51:20 +0000

> told Ars that she has asked NASA for "in excess of $80,000" for non-insured property damage loss, business interruption damages, emotional and mental anguish damages

> "We intentionally kept it very reasonable because we did not want it to appear to NASA that my clients are seeking a windfall," Worthy said.

$80000 is reasonable? $55 for one pack of Shingles, maybe some drywall patch, perhaps it damaged some roof sheathing, but that can be mostly papered over with asphalt patch most likely.

But then I was thinking maybe in 2024 80k is actually kinda small. :shrug:

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Please Stop Using Local Storage (2018)"

throwitaway222 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:43:47 +0000

The software development world was so clean back when it all started. Nowadays its just picking libraries and whatever they do, they do. A lot of the time it's just some kind of react library that uses local storage automatically, and because you use it in your login script it just happily stores your password. Sure it's only on your laptop, but at some point someone is going to pull in a third party script tag that pulls in a live hosted library that at some point could be compromised.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Tetris Font (2020)"

throwitaway222 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:53:23 +0000

Perfect, maybe we can make HN use this font for a day exclusively.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:15:55 +0000

Nothing should be publishable to the public until it is vetted.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Are animals conscious? New research"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:24:11 +0000

The other thing to realize is that the brain's available neuro-chemicals are different in different people. For example there exists people where you could kill their mom, but as long as you replaced it with a sufficiently similar person that provides the exact same services, the child would not be sad - all the services would exist and therefor the atomaton human would operate normally. I've seen this in both autistic and non-autistic persons. The bigger issue with that person being capable of handling the change in their life is how other people push emotional baggage onto them. (For example telling people how they should feel - doesn't make them feel it, but rather makes them feel wrong and then the sadness comes)

In other words we have described emotions that we attribute to all people, but the reality is, not all people have the same emotions - they are some idealised state - and in reality everyone is very different in their emotional capabilities.

New comment by throwitaway222 in "Are animals conscious? New research"

throwitaway222 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:18:58 +0000

I saw your comment and had to re-read it. Damn insightful yes.