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Hnrobert42

4,857 karma · joined August 19, 2015

I try to be kind, honest, and fair. Sometimes, I can get a bit riled up by comments. I am sorry if I say something rude or snarky.
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Hnrobert42··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
What argument?
Hnrobert42··on I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
And that's why he built the product and I didn't. Some people just do it and solve for regulatory problems once they have pmf. I get lost in regulatory weeds and never get off the ground.
Hnrobert42··on I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
I have one. It's fantastic. Although, I don't see as many televisions in public spaces anymore. Maybe because now it's smartphones that anesthetize the masses.
Hnrobert42··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Folks feel outrage when companies start charging for things that were once free.

Okay, but what if you run a company whose business model no longer supports giving away free stuff? How can you transition? What would users consider less outrageous?

Hnrobert42··on Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now
Because we can't do anything about land subsidence.
Hnrobert42··on Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite
I have ADHD. I am super sensitive to noise. When other people let their phones ding incessantly, it drives me crazy.

I went hiking in Albania recently. I saw many sheep grazing in the mountains. I wondered about the sheep chosen to wear the bell. Like, was it the same sheep every day? Did the chosen sheep think, "Fuck me this thing is annoying"?

Hnrobert42··on Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
It was the local, not the Westerner, who refused to pay, right?
Hnrobert42··on Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
More to steal?
Hnrobert42··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
Transaction taxes are considered regressive. That is, they disproportionately affect the poor.

The idea is that everyone must spend a certain amount of money to live. For the poor, that amount is a greater proportion of their total income and wealth.

Basically, a wealthy person can choose to pay the same taxes as a poor person by only spending as much as a poor person.

Maybe that's fair. Maybe it's not. But it is a criticism of sales/transaction taxes.

Hnrobert42··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
I'm not familiar familiar with this expression silent green. Do you mean Soylent Green?
Hnrobert42··on Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian
Huh. It works for me in ff focus on mobile.
Hnrobert42··on The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests
Digital: https://libbyapp.com

Analog: https://bookshop.org

Hnrobert42··on Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
That's a lot of liability for police. They would likely buy insurance against it.
Hnrobert42··on Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352
Hnrobert42··on Dogme 25 – Vow of Chastity
Oooh. That explains my friend named Mathilde. Nice. Thanks.
Hnrobert42··on Dogme 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)
What is happening? What is the difference between Dogma and Dogme? What is this site about?
Hnrobert42··on Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
Not exactly what you are asking for, but did you see that Rivian recently provided a way for owners to disable the vehicle's LTE connection? It's straight In Canada. In the US, you have to ask a dealer.
Hnrobert42··on ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
I understand your frustration, but greed? He didn't owe you anything. So what if he cashed out?
Hnrobert42··on The conflation of money and things
Why do people write like this? So much preamble. Unnecessary metaphors. Just make your point and be done with it.
Hnrobert42··on Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
I have heard them called meanderthals.
Hnrobert42··on Talking to strangers at the gym
I avoided the book after reading it high school and thinking along the same lines. I looked at the suggestions cynically.

A college program required I re-read it. That time, I read it as genuine suggestions of good faith actions. In that light, it was fantastic. Almost 30 years later, I still quote from it.

Your admirable openness to reconsideration reminds me of, "I could be wrong. I often am. Let's examine the facts."

Hnrobert42··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
Sure, but we are talking about society as a whole.
Hnrobert42··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
You mean a representative example of an exception? Your example also points out how the judge justified their deviation from the standard.
Hnrobert42··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
We kill and eat conscious animals all the time. I ate some today. Killing conscious beings is not something our society has a problem with.
Hnrobert42··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
You're right to push back on that, but Claude has its own token-leading phrases.
Hnrobert42··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
The refutation of your point is in the article itself. The standard, by law, punishment involves jail time or home confinement. The judge explained how those punishments were not appropriate because of the exceptional circumstances.
Hnrobert42··on New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
Like Flaming Globes of Sigmund

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Attack#Plot

Hnrobert42··on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
> The standard for human drivers is through the floor.

The linked article doesn't describe the standard. It describes a single, exceptional example.

Hnrobert42··on To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
Jeez. How are you so knowledgeable on this subject without already working in the sector?
Hnrobert42··on Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans
Have you thought about how these dashboards could be built for an eink screen?

For a while, I was thinking about starting a side project of selling E-ink screens with easily configured dashboards. The project would support hobbies who want to build dashboards powered by a raspberry pi or something. I never pursued it, but it seems like you are now halfway there.

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