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New comment by valleyer in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

valleyer — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:38:52 +0000

Refund for the subscription I started after the announcement of Fable.

New comment by valleyer in "Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)"

valleyer — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:46 +0000

I have one that still works fine today (except for removing the notorious RIFA film capacitors, but those didn't fail after "a couple years").

New comment by valleyer in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

valleyer — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:58:33 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

New comment by valleyer in "Apple Made a Sports App That Does Almost Nothing. It's Incredible"

valleyer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:21:47 +0000

It has ads already — for its own sports broadcasts on Apple TV+.

New comment by valleyer in "Surprise, pay $1000"

valleyer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:19:07 +0000

Yes, civil legal proceedings (and/or hiring a collections agency) are generally how debts are pursued in the United States.

New comment by valleyer in "GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI"

valleyer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:27:26 +0000

There seems to be an 8 meg image here: https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/releases/download/202...

New comment by valleyer in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

valleyer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:24:12 +0000

The root comment of this thread does purport to know when that will happen (well, pending public announcement of those two IPO dates).

New comment by valleyer in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

valleyer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:50:18 +0000

How do you size a directory? Just by creating entries in it and then unlinking them?

New comment by valleyer in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

valleyer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:53:32 +0000

MS-DOS didn't create that limit; the physical memory map of the 5150 did. So Microsoft (and Gates) would not have made that decision.

New comment by valleyer in "macOS needs its grid back"

valleyer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:58:04 +0000

I've had SIP disabled for years, across many updates.

New comment by valleyer in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

valleyer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:31:25 +0000

They haven't approved a change, but they have released proposals, which are tentatively to go into effect on June 8:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...

New comment by valleyer in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

valleyer — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:37:09 +0000

Sure, those are some good counterexamples: both sons of professional athletes. And there are plenty of others.

On the other hand, we have: Allen Iverson, Larry Bird, Shaquille O'Neal, Carmelo Anthony, Michael Vick, Bo Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Fernando Valenzuela, Albert Pujols, Jim Thorpe, ...

Oh, and LeBron James himself!

So my view is that people of both rich and poor upbringings have a good chance in the sports world these days, at least for those sports where the necessary gear is relatively cheap.

New comment by valleyer in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

valleyer — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:31:53 +0000

From your link:

> Equity is equality of outcome for all subgroups in society.

New comment by valleyer in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

valleyer — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:29:30 +0000

Your analogy works against you, given that tons of professional athletes come from poverty.

New comment by valleyer in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

valleyer — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:58:24 +0000

In most modern societies, we regulate all sorts of things that people would otherwise willingly do to their own detriment. We ban drugs; we have labor laws; we have usury laws; we require seatbelts; we have securities regulations; etc. (Notably, until very recently, this included most forms of gambling.)

So the mere fact that losers are voluntary does not, IMO, make the situation good.

New comment by valleyer in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

valleyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:57:57 +0000

Cool. Here's something he said today:

  TRUMP: "They're all crooks.  The Somalians are -- what they've done to Minnesota -- the Somalians.  They're crooked as hell.  Ilhan Omar.  Crooked as hell.  They're all crooks.  And we got 'em."

Really earning that good faith!

New comment by valleyer in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

valleyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:20:48 +0000

Life imitates art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeKX99gZpYs

New comment by valleyer in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

valleyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:21:40 +0000

> It used to be that they only had to say no to more junior engineers’ handwritten PRs, but now they have to say no to a barrage of AI-generated code, some of it generated by managers and VPs who are politically difficult to say no to.

Holy cow. I worked at a big tech firm but left the industry prior to the emergence of InstructGPT et al., so I haven't experienced LLM code generation from the inside. Is this really happening -- upper managers and VPs proposing code changes they generated with LLMs? I don't think I'd survive.

New comment by valleyer in "Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice"

valleyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:52:33 +0000

Sorry, maybe I should have been more explicit.

Facebook, Discord, and Twitter may sell "your data", but when they do, it's likely by selling distillations of their internal databases. (Or, of course, through vulnerabilities like the one the Cambridge Analytica Facebook app used.)

Small-ball Web sites like KGO, on the other hand, just get proposals from data aggregators to plop a snippet of HTML/JS on their site, and they get money for it. There's no control on the number of quality of them.

Big sites can't do that because they'd risk introducing serious vulnerabilities that would compromise accounts. No one has a KGO "account" to compromise. And the amount of revenue they'd provide is likely peanuts to someone like Facebook.

So: they're for revenue.

New comment by valleyer in "Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice"

valleyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:34:26 +0000

They're needed for extra revenue for KGO-TV. (Which is owned by Disney.)