Hacker News: tyree731

New comment by tyree731 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

tyree731 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:44:11 +0000

Assuming things start getting weird about 18 months from now, poetry and uv have very similar semantics, so 18 months of comically faster workflows sounds nice.

New comment by tyree731 in "Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft"

tyree731 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:19:55 +0000

Not the operating system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_Verifier

New comment by tyree731 in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

tyree731 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:54:01 +0000

By this argument, since Tesla regularly updates the software, no one can discuss the weaknesses in their self driving software.

New comment by tyree731 in "Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages"

tyree731 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:03:11 +0000

Don’t disagree about finishing the task, but personally I don’t find more performant languages any less productive for the sort of programming I tend to do.

New comment by tyree731 in "Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages"

tyree731 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:56:51 +0000

Lots of very smart people have worked very hard on Python tools written in Python, yet the rust rewrites of those tools are so much faster. Sometimes it really is the programming language.

New comment by tyree731 in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

tyree731 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:22:17 +0000

Maybe a fine approach for the individual, but then the black market, and its general disregard for the law or the well being of others, comes along with them.

New comment by tyree731 in "In the US opioid-maker Purdue is bankrupt. Its global counterparts make millions"

tyree731 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:35:06 +0000

It doesn’t sound like you’re familiar with the case and why it’s being brought against Purdue Pharma. There is a whole lot more to this than “the drug” and “the person”.

New comment by tyree731 in "Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran"

tyree731 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:06:25 +0000

You may be surprised to discover that services will filter traffic by location.

New comment by tyree731 in "Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious"

tyree731 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:44:24 +0000

But Microsoft has misused their market power plenty of times, such as when they bundled Microsoft Teams with their enterprise contract at zero cost, destroying Slack's market value overnight.

New comment by tyree731 in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

tyree731 — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:23:04 +0000

In the aggregate, yes, but in the specific, no. Companies nowadays want to see which advertising channels and specific ads, over a given period of time, are performing, so as to decide how to better invest their ad spend

New comment by tyree731 in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

tyree731 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:39:16 +0000

> China is neutral.

Neutrality in the face of gross violations of international law amounts to tacit support. And yes, I understand that you have addressed this point in your comment, but whataboutism gets us nowhere. If a country is violating human rights, they should be held accountable.

> Taiwan and China are recognized by the United States by international treaty as one country.

A treaty not worth the paper it's written on. It's clear that the United States would defend Taiwan militarily were it to come to that, so mentioning as a reason to punish China that China continues to provoke Taiwan militarily is very relevant.

> The reason for this is the US sees China's economic rise as a threat to its global position.

Ahh yes, of course, this war being entirely the US' fault.

New comment by tyree731 in "Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of most MLB stadiums (2017)"

tyree731 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:59:17 +0000

Since the location of where the mud is gathered is considered a secret, I imagine it's more about giving people a different reason as to why he's there.

New comment by tyree731 in "Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claim"

tyree731 — Thu, 09 May 2024 21:52:00 +0000

Disagree. First, it wouldn’t be $10 split evenly amongst a billion people, some people would end up losing significantly more than others. Second, we can’t speak to the real world consequences of massive fraud in this particular case yet, but in the case of the Bernie Madoff fraud, multiple people are known to have killed themselves as a result of their loss, so we can only assume similar outcomes here.

New comment by tyree731 in "Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claim"

tyree731 — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:28:25 +0000

Strongly disagree with both claims. Fraud of a sufficient degree causes harm at a scale that is equivalent (in economic terms at least) to the consequences of murder. And jail time absolutely speaks to wealthy people, given the amount of money and effort wealthy people will spend defending themselves to avoid it.

New comment by tyree731 in "'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint"

tyree731 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:27:45 +0000

I know that Chick Fil-A does exactly this, based on an engineering post of theirs.

New comment by tyree731 in "The Google employees who created transformers"

tyree731 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:55:52 +0000

On the other hand, Alphabet's inability to deploy GPT-3 or GPT-3.5 has led to the possibility of its disruption, so anti-trust treatment may not be necessary.

New comment by tyree731 in "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees"

tyree731 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:15:51 +0000

> Shouldn't these companies be able to issue stock to get some cheap capital to continue growth/hiring?

Yes, but then the stock price would go down, which obviously isn't allowed.

New comment by tyree731 in "C23: A Slightly Better C"

tyree731 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:42:19 +0000

Nah. More like C is a bunch of hand tools, and C++ is those same hand tools, plus a bunch of power tools. Sure, you could just use the hand tools, and hey maybe they even give you a better of sense of what you’re building at a low level, but it’s exhausting, and it turns out the power tools are really useful.

New comment by tyree731 in "E3 Is Officially Dead"

tyree731 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:51:32 +0000

This feels like the reason you'd like for E3 to have failed, but doesn't line up with the evidence. E3's attendance peaked in 2005, well before booth babes were banned and groupies were cracked down upon. It's decline started right as video streaming took off on the internet, and accelerated as companies like Activision and Sony began pulling out of the event, making it less and less relevant or useful.

New comment by tyree731 in "Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy"

tyree731 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 21:32:22 +0000

> Slow execution of pure python code - this is the ONLY area where you are perhaps correct... but compared to what?

Compared to… basically everything? Python’s performance is unacceptable, especially given that single threaded processor performance isn’t really improving any longer.