Hacker News: valleyer

New comment by valleyer in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

valleyer — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:39:47 +0000

Yes. The people that make up that corporation should care about their fellow man (family, friends) and should take pride in making good things (personal fulfillment).

We are allowed to pierce the corporate veil here.

New comment by valleyer in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

valleyer — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:48:57 +0000

They're just being intentionally obtuse.

New comment by valleyer in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

valleyer — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:35:15 +0000

In a composited window system (i.e., any Mac since Mac OS X and Windows since Vista [I think]), rendering from an SVG would have to occur in a window buffer owned by the application, so it wouldn't save any appreciable amount of memory, assuming the buffer is the size of the window. The days of having an application draw directly into the framebuffer are well in the past.

New comment by valleyer in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

valleyer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:39:46 +0000

Seriously. We already lost "crypto" to such carelessness.

New comment by valleyer in "Discovery Loop"

valleyer — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:51:49 +0000

The Times article lists several.

New comment by valleyer in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

valleyer — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:41:56 +0000

No, you can also take your clothes off and throw them upward with sufficient force.

New comment by valleyer in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

valleyer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:17:00 +0000

The son of the elderly Iranian ruler, aligned politically with his father, took over. The war prompted Iran to operate one of the world's largest economic pressure levers, to great effect. The U.S.'s unilateralism, leadership rhetoric, and war crimes (like bombing a school) have lost it a significant amount of global goodwill.

None of that seems like it jibes with your description.

New comment by valleyer in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

valleyer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:13:53 +0000

Is "cowork" a general industry term now? Here I was just getting used to "coding" replacing "programming".

New comment by valleyer in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

valleyer — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:49:31 +0000

The exception that proves the rule.

New comment by valleyer in "FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums"

valleyer — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:41:39 +0000

It seems so. But why here? The president has the power to ban imports for security reasons; unlike many of his tariffs, a narrow ban like that would likely hold up in court, as long as it were accompanied by some made-up justification.

New comment by valleyer in "Three Virtues by Larry Wall"

valleyer — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:29:51 +0000

Maybe Jobs was encouraging Atkinson to proverbially skate to where the puck will be -- to create something that will be good now but great in the future.

New comment by valleyer in "FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums"

valleyer — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:54:32 +0000

Even if you think banning Chinese-made vacuum robots is reasonable, it seems bizarre to do so by withholding FCC approval. The fear isn't that they'd spam our RF spectrum... is it?

New comment by valleyer in "Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters"

valleyer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:48:16 +0000

The article mentions that, in Georgia, funding for these came from the state budget and even quotes a state legislator on the committee on the education appropriations committee.

It also mentions that the effort is "spearheaded" (whatever that means) by the state legislature in Florida.

New comment by valleyer in "Recursion is lying to you"

valleyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:54:39 +0000

It's not CS 101 that JavaScript apparently sucks at TCO. That was surprising to me.

New comment by valleyer in "Our position on open-weights models"

valleyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:40:47 +0000

Your use of the term "gain-of-function" here reveals your base level of conspiracy-theory-mindedness.

New comment by valleyer in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

valleyer — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:15:15 +0000

Ah yes, the Feynman Algorithm for shell scripting.

New comment by valleyer in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"

valleyer — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:30:11 +0000

That doesn't mean you can't set up DNS names to point at them.

New comment by valleyer in "Kimi Work"

valleyer — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:23:04 +0000

Not if the harness applies an OS-level sandbox to the process, as Codex does.

https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/sandboxing?surface=cli

New comment by valleyer in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

valleyer — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:24:21 +0000

No, merely analyzing or discussing the law generally does not constitute the practice of law. If it did, plenty of newspaper articles, law review journals (often written by law students), non-attorney legal aid, and legal pamphlets would be prohibited.

If you want something more concrete, I googled it, and in New York, there appears to have been a case New York County Lawyers’ Association v. Dacey, in which Dacey wrote a book "How to Avoid Probate!", and the NYCA accepted a dissent in a lower court, stating in part:

    Does the writing, publication, advertising, sale and distribution of "How To Avoid Probate!" constitute the unauthorized practice of law within the meaning of subdivision B of section 750? It cannot be claimed that the publication of a legal text which purports to say what the law is amounts to legal practice. And the mere fact that the principles or rules stated in the text may be accepted by a particular reader as a solution to his problem does not affect this.

and later humorously quoting:

    "[I]t is a prized American privilege to speak one's mind, although not always with perfect good taste, on all public institutions" (Bridges v. California, 314 U. S. 252, 270)

https://accessiblelaw.org/Disclaimer.html

New comment by valleyer in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

valleyer — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:09:08 +0000

The law applies to everyone, so it's reasonable for everyone to try to understand it, not just attorneys.

Similarly, it's fine for people to have opinions on food, dental hygiene, and the tax code without being a chef, a dentist, and an accountant.