GFischer (u/GFischer)

GFischer commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

doener · 8 days ago

No, not the AI. Just the owner of means of production like AI.

The fact that capital owners successfully avoid contributing to the financing of our states and social systems is, in my view, one of the fundamental problems of our time.

GFischer · 7 days ago

I don't understand why socialists or communists don't tax the means of production accordingly, if they don't have money, take partial ownership (or complete ownership and turn it into a co-op or something).

Owners of capital and means of production have succesfully gamed the system and most of the tax burden falls on us middle class idiots that pay taxes on our work.

GFischer commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

thomasm6m6 · 14 days ago

Here it is: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html

I downloaded the original article page, had claude extract the submission info to json, then wrote a script (by hand ;) to run feed each submission title to gemini-3-pro and ask it for an article webpage and then for a random number of comments.

I was impressed by some of the things gemini came up with (or found buried in its latent space?). Highlights:

"You’re probably reading this via your NeuralLink summary anyway, so I’ll try to keep the entropy high enough to bypass the summarizer filters."

"This submission has been flagged by the Auto-Reviewer v7.0 due to high similarity with "Running DOOM on a Mitochondria" (2034)."

"Zig v1.0 still hasn't released (ETA 2036)"

The unprompted one-shot leetcode, youtube, and github clones

Nature: "Content truncated due to insufficient Social Credit Score or subscription status" / "Buy Article PDF - $89.00 USD" / "Log in with WorldCoin ID"

"Gemini Cloud Services (formerly Bard Enterprise, formerly Duet AI, formerly Google Brain Cloud, formerly Project Magfi)"

Github Copilot attempts social engineering to pwn the `sudo` repo

It made a Win10 "emulator" that goes only as far as displaying a "Windows Defender is out of date" alert message

"dang_autonomous_agent: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675309 because it was devolving into a flame war about the definition of 'deprecation'."

GFischer · 13 days ago

This is great.

GFischer commented on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees travelandtourworld.com/ne... · Posted by u/duxup

Yeul · 3 months ago

I got an email from the train company that according to their records I had a delay and they put a link in it to a online form to get my money back.

I was positively surprised at their proactive communication. The money was on my account within the week!

GFischer · 3 months ago

Meanwhile I had a terrible experience with DB (Deutsche Bahn) during the European summer two years ago, although it was partly out of their control (weather related delays and cancellations), I had to take awful detours, had paid for 1st class on ICE and ended up on regional trains up and down and lost one day of my holidays. No compensation whatsoever, although maybe I had to fill some online form for that.

GFischer commented on The $25k car is going extinct? media.hubspot.com/why-the... · Posted by u/pseudolus

dylan604 · 6 months ago

After the supply chain crisis which saw used car prices look like new car prices, the used market really never came back to a sane level. I also wonder how many people are in the market for cars old enough to not have all of the telemetry tracking, "everything is computer" touchscreen nonsense which could be having an effect on the supply/demand of that part of the used car market. I recently bought a car specifically with those features in mind.

GFischer · 6 months ago

The used car pricing in the USA used to be bizarrely cheap, it's now corrected or overcorrected.

GFischer commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger

nikolayasdf123 · 6 months ago

how is Apple in Brazil? iMessage is the way to go

GFischer · 6 months ago

Why? Isn't it a closed, non interoperable platform?

Android has 88% market share in Brazil, so it sounds like terrible advice.

GFischer commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger

clocker · 6 months ago

Ironically WhatsApp is also American.

GFischer · 6 months ago

But it gained way more traction in other parts of the world, it's the default messaging platform in South America for EVERYTHING.

I have never seen an iMessage.

GFischer commented on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen theverge.com/electric-car... · Posted by u/kwindla

stevage · 8 months ago

They're very popular in Australia.

GFischer · 8 months ago

They're selling ridiculous numbers in Brazil and Uruguay and are opening a factory there.

I think they're the number one brand by sales some months in Uruguay.

GFischer commented on Should more of us be moving to live near friends? architecturaldigest.com/s... · Posted by u/Geekette

jncfhnb · a year ago

I’d guess possibly a majority would migrate there if given the opportunity to do so safely, legally and without abandoning immediate family though

GFischer · a year ago

Not everyone, I was given the option to go to the US legally (L1 visa) and passed on it, the person that chose to go instead regretted it and came back.

I am from Uruguay though, which is the best Latin American country, so YMMV, if I was from Venezuela I'd move to the US 100%.

GFischer commented on 'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network npr.org/sections/shots-he... · Posted by u/jameslk

maxverse · a year ago

Hands down the worst and most stressful part of living in America, and the only reason I - a child of immigrants who are grateful to have built a life here - would consider moving somewhere else

GFischer · a year ago

It was one of the biggest considerations that made me decide against moving to the USA.

One of my coworkers took advantage of the L1 Visa (which I can still qualify for) and she ended up moving back to my home country Uruguay even though she made 50% higher salary in USA.

She did live some of the worst stuff in USA like Texas electricity failures, 20.000 dollar healthcare bills, etc.

GFischer commented on Just use fucking paper, man andy-bell.co.uk/just-fuck... · Posted by u/tobr

_g0wg · a year ago

I'm also an org-roam and paper guy, but I've designed my system to be platform-agnostic. It's all in the naming conventions.

Files are named hierarchically with periods. I have top-level categories that have changed little over the years. `con.` for concepts, `lit.` for documents, `proj.` for projects... you get the point, I'm not listing all of them unless someone really just wants me to.

My go-to example is always Star Wars. `lore.sw` is my top-level Star Wars note. I also have `lore.sw.chron` which is the chronological watching order. There's also `game.sw` which contains a list of Star Wars games I've found.

This extends to non-note files as well. For images of something I use `.img.[date].#.[ext]`, so for example I have some pictures of my cat named `ppl.neck.img.2024.03.15.1.raw`. I have a video of him murdering a bird too, `ppl.neck.vid.2024.05.22.murdering-a-bird.mp4`... As you can see, sometimes I replace the number with a nice title.

The modularity of it all is great. I can add anything anywhere at any point in the hierarchy without having to re-name things. I name things exactly what they are. The hierarchy can be sparse, parent notes don't have to exist. I can name something `stuff.something.i-dont-know.gif` without having any notes for `stuff.` or `stuff.something.`

I have notes on paper as well, and they use the same system, with the hierarchical name printed in bold at the top of the paper. `self.passwords` is a paper note for obvious reasons. I also keep most of my `sys.internal.` documentation on paper because my computer might not work when I need it most, though a lot of them do have computer versions which I just print out when I change because it's too much to write by hand.

GFischer · a year ago

You have somehow reinvented the USENET organization method :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Organization