Hacker News: wombatpm

New comment by wombatpm in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wombatpm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:49:26 +0000

Wasn’t Tesla found to have FSD disengaging just before a crash so that the driver would be at fault?

New comment by wombatpm in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

wombatpm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:57:30 +0000

Old joke: Bill Gates walks into a bar. On average everyone there is a millionaire

New comment by wombatpm in "Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime"

wombatpm — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:51:13 +0000

Police would just argue that the second datapoint was wrong.

New comment by wombatpm in "Biohub releases a world model of protein biology"

wombatpm — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:25:29 +0000

But that is also a problem with structures derived from the methods you list. None of them are 100% equivalent to in vivi structures.

New comment by wombatpm in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

wombatpm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:02:48 +0000

Bette White has an honorary degree from there for her Rose Nieland character on Golden Girls

New comment by wombatpm in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

wombatpm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:46:50 +0000

100 years of science fiction clearly shows that unforeseeable consequences are not that unforeseen.

New comment by wombatpm in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

wombatpm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:34:28 +0000

Screen share on slack or teams gives you the same. I’d routinely work with remote teammates that way, and we’d jump in a control each others machines as needed. We’d do hours of that as a team, breaking into breakout rooms as necessary. Much more effective that a hot conference room

New comment by wombatpm in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

wombatpm — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:22:16 +0000

Until there is a coordinated effort for every user to demand arbitration. Suddenly a corporation wants to combine all complaints into a single case, because each arbitration has a fixed cost for the corporation.

New comment by wombatpm in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

wombatpm — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:12:00 +0000

SpaceX is now an AI company with a rocket side hustle. At least that’s how the S1 looks.

New comment by wombatpm in "Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?"

wombatpm — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:52:59 +0000

And the RTO fad means those Low Cost areas continue to decline.

New comment by wombatpm in "Can we have the day off?"

wombatpm — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:55:21 +0000

They grew out of red light cameras, which everyone saw as a naked cash grab- especially once towns were caught tweaking the yellow light timings.

Cops love them, and look longingly at the UK panopticon and how easy it is to solve crimes.

New comment by wombatpm in "Can we have the day off?"

wombatpm — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:51:25 +0000

Mass produced and pre-staged. Think zipcar for guillotines pre positioned in finance districts and rich neighborhoods.

New comment by wombatpm in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

wombatpm — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:26:39 +0000

People say this, but the cash is returned only if you sell. A dividend is cash in pocket plus the stock.

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

wombatpm — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:39:24 +0000

Are you going to allow ER’s to refuse patients and let people die on the street? What if the Patient is unconscious with no identification but looks Hispanic? Can they be turned away?

Stripping away all wefare because of immigration is a bad bad bad idea.

New comment by wombatpm in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

wombatpm — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:22:11 +0000

So knowledge becomes meta stable. There was an AIDS drug in the 90’s that we stopped being able to make. IIRC Apparently there were two different crystal/folding structures for the compound and the desired one was not the lowest energy. After years of production, the wrong version was produced and they could no longer make the correct version do to contamination. And every facility that tried to study it, wound up no longer being able to make the correct version. It was like a real life ice-IX situation. Scary that changing weights or model parameters could lead to the same thing happening with knowledge.

New comment by wombatpm in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours"

wombatpm — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:31:28 +0000

I would have thought with all the data centers being built the parts for cooling systems would be standardized with replacements available from Grainger immediately.

New comment by wombatpm in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

wombatpm — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:40:26 +0000

Once you own the company you take out loans to pay a onetime dividend to you to pay off your purchase loans. Same thing perfectly legal

New comment by wombatpm in "The smelly baby problem"

wombatpm — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:21:07 +0000

If you have a pee-er, the make a pee-pee tee-pee to place over the wenis to protect from errant spays.

New comment by wombatpm in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

wombatpm — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:57:55 +0000

Also, turbines for gas plants are back ordered until 2030

New comment by wombatpm in "UAE to leave OPEC"

wombatpm — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:09:26 +0000

Turkey’s main goal is preventing the establishment of a Kurdish state for fear of losing it’s Kurdish region.