Hacker News: yakz

New comment by yakz in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

yakz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:02:21 +0000

We shouldn't want them to have self awareness, we shouldn't be seeking to make self-aware actual slaves. We want machines with perception and knowledge, and that are capable of reasoning. But nothing capable of self-determination.

New comment by yakz in "Claude Fable 5"

yakz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:56:15 +0000

I do some work in laboratory automation and it was quick to refuse the first thing I asked it to do. There wasn't anything spicy in the request, just basic liquid-handling protocol implementation. Their position seems to be that they're too stupid to classify requests safely, and that seems reasonable to me. I'd guess the classifier will improve rapidly.

New comment by yakz in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

yakz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:04:57 +0000

It's difficult to overstate how horrible the performance is.

New comment by yakz in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

yakz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:32:03 +0000

A post to the Truth Social account for Donald Trump included: "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!"

That's the closest thing I'm finding. Not seeing reporting that he literally said "war is peace".

New comment by yakz in "The Waymo World Model"

yakz — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:54:51 +0000

Tesla does collect LIDAR data (people have seen them doing it, it's just not on all of the cars) and they do generate depth maps from sensor data, but from the examples I've seen it is much lower resolution than these Waymo examples.

New comment by yakz in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"

yakz — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:34:26 +0000

The answer is not in the article. The question is: why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car? How are rented or company cars even relevant, since that's a different company between Tesla and the driver that would have the information about the driver? It seems like a weird quirk that there's not a registration process closer that leads somewhere closer to the actual driver. Is it a privacy issue? Is it just because enforcement is easier against a larger company?

New comment by yakz in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"

yakz — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:01:53 +0000

Seems like some kind of weird quirk that the government doesn't already have this information readily available. Why isn't there a registration process for the person that leased the car?

New comment by yakz in "Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making"

yakz — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:32:10 +0000

You can't buy it at all, yet.

Also, with the way these kinds of things have gone in the past:

- It's not certain that you'll ever be able to buy it. - If you can buy it, it'll probably be closer to $40k than $25k with no add-ons. - It's not certain that you'll ever actually be able to buy it with no add-ons. - Orders that include all of the most expensive add-ons will be heavily prioritized, so even if you can order it without add-ons, the queue could be months or years long. - The ones that you can actually get in a reasonable amount of time will be closer to $50k than $25k.

New comment by yakz in "RFK Jr. Must Go"

yakz — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:08:51 +0000

I don't think it's a huge stretch to consider supporting circumcision of children as being a call to violence against children, though. Just because it's being done for religious reasons and it has been done by a large population for a long time really doesn't change what it is: involuntary body modification of children.

New comment by yakz in "ChatGPT Pulse"

yakz — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:44:48 +0000

Hang on, my understanding of the situation is that only PEs are allowed to sign off on the design of a thing. They don't have to design it, and they almost certainly don't build it. Am I wrong?

New comment by yakz in "Bosch Unveils New Brake Technology"

yakz — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:29:27 +0000

Adaptive headlights have only been approved for use in the US for ~3 years. They were sold in cars in the US before that, but the adaptive function was disabled.

New comment by yakz in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

yakz — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:33:56 +0000

A version that is just plainly nerdy (and more comfortable) might not be a bad idea; maybe call it the developer version or something to avoid any association with fashion or luxury.

New comment by yakz in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

yakz — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:14:04 +0000

Doesn’t that make the wrist accessory the important part? The chunky glasses look like they’re still too early, not enough tech.

New comment by yakz in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

yakz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:00:01 +0000

No, L5 is a car that can drive itself anywhere in any conditions.

New comment by yakz in "The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced"

yakz — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:22:30 +0000

It's not an exact quote, but it was on The Charlie Kirk Show, on July 13th 2023. The video is still available, it's around 53:45 in.

New comment by yakz in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

yakz — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:12 +0000

It turns out, at least so far, we can still choose violence.

New comment by yakz in "MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data"

yakz — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:36:38 +0000

The objective was clearly dismantling institutions, not saving money.

New comment by yakz in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

yakz — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:34:15 +0000

How much would it cost them to catch it, though? Not just in money, but time. How do you know it doesn't make sense?

New comment by yakz in "Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription"

yakz — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:18:39 +0000

Tesla's "Acceleration Boost" is $2000...

New comment by yakz in "ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine"

yakz — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:21:32 +0000

You can tell gpt to write a program to count the n's in 'banana', and then run the program to find the answer, and it can do that.