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113··on Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules
I've definitely known places to find ways to get rid of staff before 2 years are up but they tend to be hospitality jobs.
113··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Did you respond to the wrong comment?
113··on Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
> Once you can do generative movies, you can do games

No you can't, these are completely different mediums.

113··on Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?
On forums like this people have a frustrating inability to answer the question asked.
113··on The ROI of Exercise
I don't know who your friend is but you haven't addressed any of the points made in the posts you're replying to.
113··on Digg.com is back
Are you talking about medical transition? Why'd you have to use scary euphemisms to refer to something?
113··on British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system
> Are there still adults stupid enough to think that watching porn will mess a kid up?

Not only this but there seems to be no one on mainstream platforms putting forward the argument that what will mess kids up is a lack of access to sex education, which the bill also restricts.

113··on British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system
> Have you talked to a teacher? Think things like

This is just an anecdote with no way to verify it or the cause.

113··on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Do you know if it uses AI to generate any of the titles?
113··on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
That doesn't stop it being a failure of the healthcare system.
113··on Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails
It's a good app, I was happy to subscribe once I used it a couple of times to find new routes about the city.
113··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
> legitimate military targets during a time of war

Israel and Lebanon are not at war.

113··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
You'd be surprised how cheap politicians are.
113··on Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
It looks like all the time spent designing the car went into quirky extras and not the core features.
113··on I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes
That is absolutely not how GPT works.
113··on LCD, Please
Get your orders in early.
113··on Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels
Oh no, is this esoteric knowledge now?
113··on If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
>Those tall buildings? They provide great shade no matter how sunny it is which is critical for walking to bus stops and subway stations.

Did you just make this whole post up? This is obviously wrong.

113··on Programming mistakes made by GPT-4
This uses a lot of concepts like "common sense" and "understanding" that I'm not sure are useful when talking about language models.
113··on Can I do some things with this ChatGPT generated private key?
Not now you've posted it on the internet.
113··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
That would be significantly less funny and interesting.
113··on The singularity is close?
I think it's similar to the apocalypse. Society will never entirely break down because there'd be no one left. It will just become a different society with new rules that we struggle to understand just now.
113··on Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
Surely if it's the case that rent will always absorb any increase in wealth then that is a housing problem, not a wage problem.
113··on Suspicious Discontinuities
But no one involved in creating universal credit did so for any other reason than as an excuse to cut the number of people who are eligible.
113··on Suspicious Discontinuities
Sounds like the business should be paying their employees enough to feed their families.
113··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
> Do you have data / a citation to back up that statement?

It's at the end of their comment.

113··on Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
That's what they mean, using it.
113··on Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
I would be fine with paying for good quality journalism, none of it is though.
113··on My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
It's because people are poor, trying to get more money out of people that are already poor isn't going to work either.
113··on New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces
Have to agree, he sounds a lot like those "infinite energy" guys that were around a few years ago.
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