Hacker News: warshinder

New comment by warshinder in "Ask HN: Alternative Careers in the Age of AI"

warshinder — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:45:45 +0000

You can’t eat money.

New comment by warshinder in "The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting"

warshinder — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:13:50 +0000

Knowing this forever. Simple is better, overtraining is overtraining. Maybe I’m biased by American pragmatism or something.

New comment by warshinder in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

warshinder — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:38:31 +0000

People with 401k’s and retirees?

New comment by warshinder in "The Voice of Google"

warshinder — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:34:58 +0000

This is how I feel about excel whenever someone dismisses msft. The ultimate software for the anyman.

New comment by warshinder in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

warshinder — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:26:52 +0000

Your point that “people will be gobsmacked” suggests you think you know something that the broad market does not. In a loose way, that implies the market has enough information to anticipate this but is not pricing assets accordingly. Asked another way, why not just short American assets if you are convinced of your hypothesis? Why live here, assuming you do?

New comment by warshinder in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

warshinder — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:42:20 +0000

So the efficient market hypothesis is wrong?

New comment by warshinder in "No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes"

warshinder — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:59:26 +0000

Didn’t read your links but wonder how they deal with selection bias. People at increased risk for stroke or bleeding disorders, even if just self perceived risk, are told to favor acetaminophen because of the risk inherent in ibuprofen and naproxen sodium.

New comment by warshinder in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

warshinder — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:03:28 +0000

Don’t turn it on unless you need to print something.

New comment by warshinder in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

warshinder — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:01:18 +0000

I know you’re joking, but there is a very small sliver of truth in there somewhere. There are some tools on windows that stand shoulder to shoulder with better os’s.

New comment by warshinder in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

warshinder — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:54:16 +0000

Another example of context collapse. Meta-meta commenting always adds something if only unironically.

New comment by warshinder in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

warshinder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:12:57 +0000

Well, you’ve convinced me. Ai changes nothing, so then we should be terrified of the capital being poured into and the opportunity costs lost to the current thing(tm).

New comment by warshinder in "Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly"

warshinder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:29:15 +0000

Should we control nuclear weapons? Is nuclear technology of the sort we’re fighting a war over right now a bigger technological advance than AI when it comes to war fighting capabilities? I suppose if you think ai is nothing big, it makes sense to not want to control it. Or, if you are all for widespread nuclear proliferation, then your position would make sense. ELSE: you’re totally illogical.

New comment by warshinder in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

warshinder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:22:39 +0000

I’m not defending the internet!

New comment by warshinder in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

warshinder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:40:59 +0000

Not to mention how they will be used by terrorists and evil people to create biological weapons and other tools of mass slaughter. Or how it will be/is being used by criminals to target vulnerable people and businesses. Or how coupled with drone warfare the world becomes an unlivable hellhole in the next decade. But Marc Andreesan said only losers are against “tech accelerationiism” on twitter so here we are.

Edit: all that and spellcheck still sucks too.

New comment by warshinder in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

warshinder — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:58:44 +0000

It’s like people don’t remember the whole outsourcing trend and all the awful code that came from that.

New comment by warshinder in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

warshinder — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:54:07 +0000

It’s just so sycophantic though.

New comment by warshinder in "Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context"

warshinder — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:51:08 +0000

This is social media unless you change your nick often, but even then people run stylometric analysis all over this site. Nobody is truly anonymous on the internet.

New comment by warshinder in "Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context"

warshinder — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:48:24 +0000

I think much of this might apply to Callard: her high public visibility in social media, the attention grabbing colorful attire, her as I recall public advocacy and openness about her own polyamorous lifestyle. I don’t think that’s typical. Certainly it’s not for me. I’d rather be Zelig. But I think most people code shift, and present different personas in private life compared to work. Probably much less so for the average substack author, so it surprises me little the idea might resonate with Derek Thompson, the blog’s author.

New comment by warshinder in "The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use"

warshinder — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:36:08 +0000

I agree, and I think it’s due to the decline of executive cognition and the behavioral training of the TV generation. They believe the news, and grew up in a time when trust was aplenty.

New comment by warshinder in "Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers"

warshinder — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:47:17 +0000

Is it less secure if I simply have nothing to do with language models whatsoever? I take that to be the parents point, but I know you are correct and yes, user restrictions should be a necessary part of the way people who use LLMs setup their system to use them in a safe manner.