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New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

yeahwhatever10 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:58:01 +0000

I assume they are referring to systems like TPG in Geneva. Basically you buy a pass and when you get on an off a bus or street car there is no checking of payment it is just assumed everyone is "honoring" the agreement to pay. Every once and a while transit cops will board and check that everyone has a pass/has paid somehow and if you get caught not paying it can affect your ability to rent housing etc.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers"

yeahwhatever10 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:37:16 +0000

Like most things on HN it's only ever a moral panic when the U.S. (or U.K.) does it.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

yeahwhatever10 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:06:54 +0000

The debt subsidies are over, time to pay the piper.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

yeahwhatever10 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:47:17 +0000

So same as realtors and most other brokers.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Those who can, teach history"

yeahwhatever10 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:34:37 +0000

I really enjoy Age of Napoleon as well, it’s my only Patreon sub at the moment.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

yeahwhatever10 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:04:48 +0000

Europe almost had in once ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)"

yeahwhatever10 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:58:17 +0000

Thanks, this was a good explanation.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Python is not a great language for data science"

yeahwhatever10 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:17:11 +0000

A little late for this

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "How to Enter a City Like a King"

yeahwhatever10 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:30:17 +0000

I assume he’s talking about Jesus.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

yeahwhatever10 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:28:06 +0000

Why do you need the gibberish text?

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations"

yeahwhatever10 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:33:23 +0000

Is it confusion, or job security?

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs"

yeahwhatever10 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:38:20 +0000

How is the LLM in AlphaEvolve red team? All the LLM does is generate new code when prompted with examples. It doesn’t evaluate the code.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "All Good Editors Are Pirates: In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham"

yeahwhatever10 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:34:21 +0000

A contradictory quote for publishers and editors in the AI era.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Dull Men’s Club"

yeahwhatever10 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:04:42 +0000

https://youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

yeahwhatever10 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:56:37 +0000

I use it as a SO stand in as well.

What I like about Chatbots vs SO is the ability to keep a running conversation instead of 3+ tabs and tuning the specificity toward my problem.

I've also noticed that if I look up my same question on SO I often find the source code the LLM copied. My fear is that if chatbots kill SO where will the LLM's copied code come from in the future?

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

yeahwhatever10 — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:26:20 +0000

Agreed. This doesn't look like 4D chess, this stinks of desperation.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python"

yeahwhatever10 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:51:48 +0000

How are you simulating the designs for the FPGA? Are you paying for ModelSim?

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after"

yeahwhatever10 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:30:01 +0000

This is the forum that fell the hardest for the superconductor hoax a few years ago. HN has no superiority leg to stand on.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference"

yeahwhatever10 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:10:13 +0000

Specialization. Ie specialized for inference.

New comment by yeahwhatever10 in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

yeahwhatever10 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:19:54 +0000

There is this group-think on HN today that services are intentionally left out as part of the US trade balance. That confusion likely comes from tax and corporate structures. Ie all those profits are locked into sub-corps, so Apple-Cayman Islands or Google-Ireland (corporate tax havens) which is why they don't show up on the balance sheet as "trade" into the US (typically those sub-corps buy financial assets with those profits). Read the first chapters of Trade Wars are Class Wars for more depth.