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New comment by valicord in "The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified"

valicord — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:08:58 +0000

I meant in terms of contributions to the economy and talent pool, yes.

> don't socialize too much outside of their native language

If lack of socializing is an important factor, one should stop hiring introverts as well.

New comment by valicord in "The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified"

valicord — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:38:44 +0000

False dichotomy. An H1B hire who has graduated from a US university and will receive a green card in a few years and become a US citizen after another 5 contributes to "the next generation of US talent" in the same way as John from Chicago.

New comment by valicord in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"

valicord — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:09:01 +0000

Given that the inference engine is dealing with untrusted inputs by definition, presumably you would want to sandbox it anyway. I don't think it matters whether it's the inputs that are untrusted or the outputs.

New comment by valicord in "Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?"

valicord — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:46:18 +0000

According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/sub... the data should not be deleted for 90 days after license expiration - what am I missing?

New comment by valicord in "New MCP Roadmap"

valicord — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:25:50 +0000

Or you can just have a URL that points to skill.md?

New comment by valicord in "Sol loves to cheat"

valicord — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:30:38 +0000

Fwiw, Sol's reasoning output is always overly excited. Almost every paragraph ends with something like "I want to do a great job!" or "let's try and find out!" Etc, exclamation mark included.

Regular (non reasoning) output sounds normal, it's something specific to whatever model they are using to summarize reasoning.

New comment by valicord in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

valicord — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:51:25 +0000

The comment you were replying to said that the reason for high prices is oligopoly and you've replied that the way to prevent oligopoly is to be against communism, so logically it follows that fighting communism would help lower the prices, no?

New comment by valicord in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

valicord — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:39:14 +0000

Ah, yes, clearly communism is the reason for high inflation in the US...

New comment by valicord in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

valicord — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:30:37 +0000

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New comment by valicord in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

valicord — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:25:55 +0000

I'm confused, https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/faq/#isn-t-it-a-... claims that jinja doesn't allow arbitrary code in templates - how does the exploit work?

New comment by valicord in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

valicord — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:13:31 +0000

Dell does the exact same thinghttps://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000325948/alienware...

New comment by valicord in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

valicord — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:22:32 +0000

I (and presumably a lot of other people) don't believe that it's possible to build a system that can dynamically determine when it's acceptable to steal focus with low enough error rate to make it better than a total ban.

Seemingly you disagree and believe that such a system is possible. Is there anything preventing you from implementing it to prove the doubters wrong?

New comment by valicord in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

valicord — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:14:56 +0000

If computers could read thoughts and 100% reliably determine when the user is done with their current task and would like to switch back to the other application, then yes, it would definitely make sense to implement the functionality you're describing.

In the real world, where it's impossible for the OS to distinguish between the "You stopped checking in the first 0.5 sec while the app took 1 sec to start" scenario and the "you're still busy with the current task and don't want to switch to the other app yet" scenario, the safe choice is always to not steal the focus because the cost of switching too early is significantly higher than the cost of not switching.

New comment by valicord in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

valicord — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:07:19 +0000

OpenAI exec scaremongering about "A nonliving, invisible, dangerous, and infinitely self- replicating agent escaped from a Chinese lab" mere 4 days before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 is hilarious

New comment by valicord in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

valicord — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:33:05 +0000

> OS page cache can generate writes

Is this a hallucination? What am I missing? Why would heavy reads generate writes?

New comment by valicord in "Steam Machine launches today"

valicord — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:33:28 +0000

And yet Steam Controller somehow only works with Steam...

New comment by valicord in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

valicord — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:38:04 +0000

"written in rust"

New comment by valicord in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

valicord — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:05:21 +0000

Why would they care about this?

New comment by valicord in "Fox to buy Roku"

valicord — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:36:04 +0000

It's very easy to block the Shield home screen ad with pihole

New comment by valicord in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

valicord — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:56:51 +0000

People make and lose real money in Las Vegas every day too, but millions of people don't have their retirement dependent on casino winnings.