Hacker News: yttribium

New comment by yttribium in "Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some Covid-19 content"

yttribium — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:55:52 +0000

Good thing we came to terms with that in 1789.

New comment by yttribium in "“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update"

yttribium — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:06:51 +0000

Large chunks of the world economy run on specifically Excel.

New comment by yttribium in "[dead]"

yttribium — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:29:47 +0000

Very little on the "how", a lot of complaining that someone is able to publicize what occurs in publicly funded schools, and a huge amount of insinuation that anyone who wants to control their children's education has "blood on their hands".

New comment by yttribium in "FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal"

yttribium — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:00:21 +0000

This thread wildly misunderstands "chevron deference". "Ending chevron deference" does not somehow throw us into a Mad Max anarchic hellscape where agencies cannot actually do anything, because there is always some standard for what administrative rulemaking is permissible. There is a broader question of how much leeway they have, but clarifying that AI generated voices count as "artificial" under the statute barely requires a regulation, any more than they need one to say "hit in the head with a computer" constitutes an "assault".

New comment by yttribium in "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure"

yttribium — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:06:31 +0000

Gerrymandering is required by federal law to make sure that blacks are able to elect black representatives; this has obvious second order effects in how the rest of the map is drawn under adversarial conditions. Somehow it seems unlikely that this requirement is going away anytime soon, so any proposed mechanism that does not accommodate this constraint is going to be impractical.

New comment by yttribium in "What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation"

yttribium — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:07:22 +0000

We learned during the COVID school shutdowns that schools would really prefer parents not be aware of what actually goes on during a typical schoolday.

New comment by yttribium in "Lithuania to introduce pre-paid SIM registration from 2025"

yttribium — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:46:57 +0000

Did you know that within living memory there was an entire network of anonymous telephones you could pay for with untraceable cash in five cent increments?

New comment by yttribium in "Recording your business meeting without consent. Is it legal? [video]"

yttribium — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:49:52 +0000

It's a little bit academic as most platforms (eg zoom) notify participants of in-band recording, and employee handbooks will often mention the possibility of recording and retention.

New comment by yttribium in "Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules"

yttribium — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:37:49 +0000

They will admit testimony by some cop to explain that "based on my training and experience, I believe 'going to the pool' to be code for 'soliciting a murder'"

New comment by yttribium in "CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages"

yttribium — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:22:03 +0000

EU governance structure is set up so that a EU parliament resolution has basically the status of a People's Choice Award.

New comment by yttribium in "AWS Responsible AI Policy"

yttribium — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:38:09 +0000

That looks like a copy-paste of their general TOS, "...but for AI".

New comment by yttribium in "Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says"

yttribium — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:28:10 +0000

That's worldwide, not US. No one seems to know what these "subsidies" are in the US context other than vague complaints about tax treatment of profits. The numbers are never netted out of, eg, fuel tax either.

New comment by yttribium in "Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says"

yttribium — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:25:45 +0000

Those aren't American numbers. Many countries for instance subsidize fuel, the US taxes it.

New comment by yttribium in "Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says"

yttribium — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:15:27 +0000

Give an example of an American fossil fuel subsidy.

New comment by yttribium in "Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?"

yttribium — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:09:25 +0000

SPLK option expiration dates are weekly out to 6 weeks.

New comment by yttribium in "Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories"

yttribium — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:42:39 +0000

Court historians telling the stories the ruling class wants in an effort to buttress their legitimacy is absolutely not new.

New comment by yttribium in "AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are"

yttribium — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:38:34 +0000

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anarcho-tyranny

New comment by yttribium in "AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are"

yttribium — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:15:45 +0000

It's called anarcho-tyranny.

New comment by yttribium in "My Caste"

yttribium — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:56:16 +0000

The United States absolutely does have multiple quota systems in different domains. https://selectgcr.com/blog/minority-owned-businesses-how-to-...

New comment by yttribium in "My Caste"

yttribium — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:52:25 +0000

Identical phenomenon exists in US where groups with well above average incomes are considered officially "disadvantaged groups" for purposes of eg SBA loans.