Hacker News: timmmmmmay

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:10:35 +0000

oh no he's using computers to write software

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:20:46 +0000

if you want people to use public transit, you need to make it not be a mobile homeless shelter. otherwise everyone who can afford to will insist on a private transport

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:52:14 +0000

it seems like they were trying that last year, it didn't work, so he flipped out and fired everyone and now plan B is to buy Cursor and run a quick rename of "Composer 3" to "Grok 5"

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Starship V3"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:59:17 +0000

there is literally zero evidence to support that assertion

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Teaching Claude Why"

timmmmmmay — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:17:18 +0000

fascinating! we find the objectively correct value system by "currently widespread agreement"! Good thing "the common view" is always correct. Hey, have there ever been any issues where there used to be "widespread agreement" and now there's disagreement, or even "widespread agreement" in the polar opposite direction?

I can think of several off the top of my head, but maybe you need to spend some more time thinking about the history of moral philosophy.

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Teaching Claude Why"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:53:08 +0000

"Mainly, one suspects, to make the open models less ethical on demand"

Or because the user's idea of what is ethical differs from the model creator. The entire "alignment" argument always assumes that there's an objectively correct value set to align to, which is always conveniently exactly the same as the values of whoever is telling you how important alignment is. It's like they want to sidestep the last ten thousand years of philosophical debate.

As a concrete example, the Qwen model series considers it highly unethical to ever talk about Taiwan as anything other than a renegade province of China. Is this alignment? Opinions may differ!

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:06:18 +0000

it's in a former appliance factory that's right next to two pre-existing TVA power plants, a Nucor steel mill, and a sewage treatment facility. you've been lied to about how close it is to a residential area, just look at a map

New comment by timmmmmmay in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:39:26 +0000

You should backtest this strategy over the last 20 years before you make serious decisions off of the vibe from internet comments

New comment by timmmmmmay in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:29:43 +0000

it's been pretty funny seeing people who did not predict Claude Code's success and previously said the whole sector was a nonsense dead end now saying, well okay there's one massively successful killer app, but what if that's the only one ever?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:24:14 +0000

fortunately, you aren't only operating on representations, right? lemme check my Schopenhauer right quick...

New comment by timmmmmmay in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:06:09 +0000

the people that want to make sure the AI never gives you any "potentially dangerous information" also want to rigorously control your google search results, and also what books you're allowed to read

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:27:58 +0000

are these "technological advancements" in storage in the room with us right now? because I'm looking at today's price per TB and it's higher than it was in 2020

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:48:49 +0000

connectors are bad for signal integrity and GDDR is particularly picky about this

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:43:23 +0000

"repeatedly struck down" means somebody keeps bringing it back

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:22 +0000

you've posted this multiple times and it's not actually true. go read the ingredients list on a supermarket burger

New comment by timmmmmmay in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:11:39 +0000

they're obviously trying to steer customers to the monthly subscription instead of the pay-per-token API.

now, the consensus of the commentards on this website, who don't have access to any of anthropics financial data, is that the monthly subscriptions are a money loser!

so either the leading AI company's business dev team is wrong or the Jacker News comment section is wrong, it is a mystery

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:21:12 +0000

no, the other such labeled companies are foreign owned firms like Huawei that the government never intended to do business with in the first place

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:14:41 +0000

Grocery stores track their customers very extensively and cash purchases are fairly rare. I'm very confident that Costco, for example, knows everything that every member has bought from them since the tariffs started.

New comment by timmmmmmay in "The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Hydrogen is so hard to handle that NASA never really figured it out; hydrogen leaks just delayed Artemis 2 last week. There's been about 70 years of trying to solve these issues for space launch and very little progress. It doesn't seem like it'll be easier trying to do this as the scale of every gas station?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Claude Code Remote Control"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:47:32 +0000

coding like a hospital patient