whoiskevin (u/whoiskevin)

whoiskevin commented on Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/breve

theamk · 10 days ago

But unless you are using a single, end-to-end model for the entire driving stack, that "proceed" command will never influence accelerator pedal.

Sure, there will be a VLM for reading the signs, but the worst it'd be able to output is things like "there is a "detour" sign at (123, 456) pointing to road #987" - and some other, likley non-LLM, mechanism will ensure that following that road is actually safe.

whoiskevin · 10 days ago

Not a "proceed" command but they can influence the accelerator. I had a dodge ram van that would constantly decelerate on cruise control due to reading road signs. The signs in some states like California for trucks towing trailers are 55 mph but the speed limit would be 65 or 70 mph. The cruise control would detect the sign and suddenly decelerate to 55.

whoiskevin commented on AI coding assistants are getting worse? spectrum.ieee.org/ai-codi... · Posted by u/voxadam

mikestorrent · a month ago

This was always the case. People obsessing over keyboards, window managers, emacs setups... always optimizing around the edges of the problem, but this is all taking an incredible amount of their time versus working on real problems.

whoiskevin · a month ago

A better keyboard is a hill I will die on.

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whoiskevin commented on Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising tj401.com/blog/formd/inde... · Posted by u/lemonlym

drdrek · 5 months ago

Good, many bad companies will release good developers to work on more productive things. It's healthy for everyone.

whoiskevin · 5 months ago

This assumes that these startups had good developers.

whoiskevin commented on Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims apnews.com/article/domini... · Posted by u/throw0101a

kristjansson · 6 months ago

Agree that it should be more, but what sort of margins do you realize that 1/3 of _revenue_ seems small?

whoiskevin · 6 months ago

I'd like to see something that takes 50% of their revenue for 5 to 10 years.

whoiskevin commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab

whoiskevin · 6 months ago

You don't think it is the one thing being wielded as a personal enrichment device by a giant man child that cheats at golf is the cause? Well okay good luck with that.

whoiskevin commented on A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/elsewhen

kristopolous · 10 months ago

There's this weird idea many Americans have, as if they're 80% of the world and nobody can live without them.

They don't travel abroad, can't point to other countries on a map... The level of international awareness is staggeringly low.

These policies only make sense under that common delusion

whoiskevin · 10 months ago

less than 50% of Americans even voted for this crap so maybe avoid the generalism.

whoiskevin commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

extraduder_ire · a year ago

2020 was exceptional in the amount of voting that happened by mail. I hope nothing makes that necessary again.

whoiskevin · a year ago

Yes let's make sure no one can vote conveniently ever again. :-p

whoiskevin commented on US House panel probes FCC decision to deny Starlink nearly $900M reuters.com/technology/us... · Posted by u/jayantbhawal

whoiskevin · a year ago

Would have been effective based on what evidence? "Starlink had difficulty meeting the basic uplink and downlink speed standards for the program" and added Starlink’s proposal would have required subscribers to purchase a $600 dish to start service.

I'd say that is a pretty good reason for a decision. Questioning it is fine but as usual anything Musk makes some people believe he is smart and magically has the best solution to any problem instead of just mostly a con artist.

whoiskevin commented on Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today? · Posted by u/alvperez82

antisthenes · 2 years ago

It's interesting that finally US techies begin to understand what the job market is like for the average person since the 2009 recession.

And I mean the desirable, well-paying jobs, not the $20/hr service/food jobs that anyone can get.

whoiskevin · 2 years ago

Yes because non of us techies ever had other jobs before we got better jobs. This is such insulting post. Should I refer to you as a "non-techie".

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