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tim-tday··on FBI Forced to Reveal New Details on How It Redacted Epstein Files
Did they disclose the name they Redacted?
tim-tday··on Lake Tahoe doesn't know where its power will come from after next ski season
Or its snow.
tim-tday··on FBI Director Kash Patel Planning a Trip to Russia
Nice, I wonder if he’s planning to return.
tim-tday··on Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles
Generative AI will always hallucinate because it is impossible to separate the fact lookup part from the generative part.

This problem has been obvious for years and the evidence shows that hallucination rates have been steady the whole time.

tim-tday··on AI Could Shrink Income Tax Revenue and Threaten Economies
Wait what? Millions of people losing their jobs could threaten income tax revenues? How is that possible?
tim-tday··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
This is true most places in the us. Have you looked? You often have to dig up the stake. It helps to have an idea of where it should be before you start digging.
tim-tday··on IEA Warns World Has Just Weeks to Avoid Hormuz Economic Shock
How likely do they think that will be?
tim-tday··on Child's next teacher could be a sex robot
I’m not sure there will be many children. Especially if there are sex robots. People already prefer the company of machines and they’re shaped like little index cards. Imagine when they’re shaped like humans but not as difficult.
tim-tday··on Socialists should embrace luxury apartments
Fair, paywalled article links are basically an advertisement for the paywalled service. Perhaps it will tickle your sensibilities to steal the article.

https://archive.ph/u1qjN

The general argument (which I’m reconstructing from having read it elsewhere) is that the housing market is one thing. Rich people will occupy the top but it’s a single pool. So increasing supply anywhere in the pool alleviates price pressure from the whole pool.

Studies support this theory. Adding luxury homes reduces price pressure by the same amount as adding affordable homes. But it’s an easier sell for developers because they can make more money.

There’s probably a limit to how effective the strategy can be, but the current market is nowhere near that limit.

tim-tday··on Trend Has Russian Men Smashing Their iPhones for a Manlier Look
Russia still has men? I would have thought they’d have used them up in the meat waves by now.
tim-tday··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
They should be required to take down one piece of space junk for every new satellite.
tim-tday··on Toyota pump tech could be key to hydrogen-combustion practicality
Hydrogen is petroleum with extra steps. And a cryogenic supply chain.
tim-tday··on What Makes Humans Stupid
Is it refusing to try?

High Intelligence just seems to be speed of cognition. This isn’t a race. Smart people will never reach the answer if they never bother taking up the question. Sometimes smart people are so busy doing smart things that they don’t bother with the everyday questions like: is the work I’m doing a net benefit to the world? Is the work I’m doing actually harming humans at a large scale?

Willful ignorance is the most dangerous thing in the world.

tim-tday··on Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke, says he'll add cost to tariffs
Well blame this guy. https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/meet-the-canadian-civil...
tim-tday··on Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke, says he'll add cost to tariffs
We’ll blame this guy. https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/meet-the-canadian-civil...
tim-tday··on Ask HN: Are We Getting Dumber?
There’s a real danger of cognitive surrender. When Ai can puzzle things out for you there’s a real danger of relaxing our focus.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

tim-tday··on British coder who revolutionised Ukraine's drone army on paternity leave
“It is not for technologists to decide…”

These are autonomous murder bots. It is 100% for technologists to decide where the line is. I’m pretty sure it is being crossed. Never build weapons that create a world you don’t want your kids living in.

https://archive.ph/PYcpU

tim-tday··on Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says
I love the Streisand effect in play here.

Sucks that she’s getting attacked. Hopefully the punitive damages she wins will be staggering.

tim-tday··on The Best Running Shoes You Can't Get Your Hands On
TLDR China makes some good stuff sometimes.

Rapidly changing Tariffs make it hard for Americans to get that stuff reliably and at reasonable prices.

Go figure.

tim-tday··on Hold Firm on Chinese Memory Chips Ban
Why? China makes a lot of important high tech stuff. If there’s a big picture plan to build high tech capabilities on-shore that’s great.

Show. Me. The. Plan. Hint: the plan will take ten years and cost trillions in investment and will have massive ramifications for many critical industries.

If your plan doesn’t exist or lacks mention of those things above, let’s talk after you revise and resubmit.

tim-tday··on Cutting China reliance would cost the West $23T, research suggests
That’s a weird way to put it. China internalized their supply chain and profited by it. The short term cost was high, the net was positive.

We better figure that out before they attack Taiwan.

tim-tday··on Can AI make honest mistakes?
AI cannot be honest or dishonest. It has no concept of what’s true or right. It’s a generative engine. We should all know that by now.

If it does something you don’t like it’s your fault for allowing it, failing to instruct the agent properly, and/or failing to watch it.

tim-tday··on SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
Correction, worst day so far.
tim-tday··on Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
You misspelled “leak”
tim-tday··on Will there be any more bugs to find after AI has fixed them all?
The number of possible programs is infinite. The number of possible bugs is uncountably infinite.
tim-tday··on Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States
States should require data center builds to put up millions of dollars of matching funds so homeowners can deploy solar at 50% cost. The best hedge against raising energy costs is rooftop solar.
tim-tday··on Are we getting dumber, or is the world just changing?
Yes
tim-tday··on Atlassian wants developers to finally like Jira
Listen, I don’t hate jira, he just sneaks his idiot brother confluence in the back door and for that they both shall burn.
tim-tday··on Ask HN: Is anyone else feeling bad about Reddit's mechanisms
I disagreed with something they did two years ago so I deleted my account(s) banned them with my ad blocker and went on with my life. I don’t even remember what it was. Probably something about monetizing user content or how they treated mods.

All the time you get back from Reddit is time to live the other parts of your life. One downside is that my writing voice gets less practice, but the solution to that is easy. Just write.

tim-tday··on "Autism Is a Spectrum" Doesn't Mean What You Think (2019)
Don’t fucking presume to tell me what I think.
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