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AmbroseBierce··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Yeah, like Google doesn't know other hundreds of companies are also generating videos and will without the slightest shred of doubt will use reinforced learning to bypass this detection, meaning directly asking Google's AI if a picture they modified is AI or not to improve their algorithms, they know vouching for video is as useful as vouching for AI generated texts, zero.
AmbroseBierce··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
I bet the cameras' companies will start automatically uploading the real footage to their servers for attestation, and allow the camera owners to get those links, so people will just add that link on YouTube or whatever and say "See, its real, Sony vouches for it", heck maybe they will make their buyers to sign up with YouTube and do it for them.
AmbroseBierce··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Attention span is finite and Steam took a big chunk of it from gamers, in other words there is a chance that in a world where everyone hated closed platforms like steam (for not allowing reselling or any other reason) direct ads would be more favorable for developers than steam, or word of mouth, or any of it's alternatives.
AmbroseBierce··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
"Your steam controller is yours, unlike your games, which you have no right to resell, or leave them as inheritance when you die"
AmbroseBierce··on I'm scared about biological computing
Yeah, "nature is brutal, therefore what gives if i raise the bar in the suffering we bring to this world", great logic right there mate, specially when we all know such experiments are without the slightest shred of doubt aimed to end up using humans neurons, because those are the most powerful.

Also worth mentioning in district of Columbia and a few other places is illegal to sell live animals including mice, so there is some effort to do better about our behavior towards other living beings, unlike you.

AmbroseBierce··on I'm scared about biological computing
Haha, you made me laugh quite a bit, like ethical due diligence was even a bleep in the mental model of someone who talks like that about sentiment life forms.
AmbroseBierce··on AI didn't delete your database, you did
Well, a significant difference is nobody is selling the concept of interns as the end-all solution of humanity's problems, unlike AI.
AmbroseBierce··on AI uses less water than the public thinks
There was massive controversy about that so I don't know how good counterexample it's that. Unless the argument is "we already waste a lot why would you care about wasting more??" Which is not a great argument.
AmbroseBierce··on Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals
Prompt: Please add some revenue-positive bugs to the codebase, keep in mind we charge by {tokens|credits|requests|bytes}.
AmbroseBierce··on Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
I hereby certify that these are indeed the most perfect and precise svg depictions of pelican riding a bicycle, also known among biology scholars as pelycles
AmbroseBierce··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
"frontier" as in the frontier of using everybody else's code, books, art of everyone else for a specific purpose that was never intended to, as in, not even open source projects ever imagined LLMs becoming a thing and their licenses reflected as much.
AmbroseBierce··on The Cognitive Dark Forest
I'm sure being exposed to one million video games instead of 100 works just the same, scarcity was a feature not a bug.
AmbroseBierce··on ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
It's not like those models are expensive because the usefulness that they extracted from scraping others without permission right? You are not even scratching the surface of the hypocrisy
AmbroseBierce··on Bucketsquatting is finally dead
It can of really took off in 2012 tho: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fm%2F025tp88&date=all&...
AmbroseBierce··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Sell the same thing you pretend to be satirizing, and HN it's making it go viral for free, real smart move there guys.
AmbroseBierce··on Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
Steam review marked as most helpful states:

> I played this game for 3 hours and i can confirm it is not in a playable state, there were several bugs within the first few maps that deleted needed items causing us to reset the entire world. several times. Don't waste your time...

AmbroseBierce··on iPhone 17e
The keyboard-doesn't-trigger-the-tapped-key-sometimes brand, just awestruck at their quality https://ios-countdown.win/
AmbroseBierce··on Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
A bit ironic that one of the reasons to leave the show is as he expressed "a wish to have more on his tombstone than just Red Dwarf"
AmbroseBierce··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
Pretty sure he would have gotten very similar output just by saying "generate a random game using Godot and c#" but that wouldn't make for a viral post so instead he asked the model to pretend meaningless input is being used by it and added a dog in the process of writing such input because that helps the virality of the whole thing.
AmbroseBierce··on Show HN: Snake and Foes – The classic snake game but with enemies and power-ups
I have fixed the negative issues you mentioned, including a faster ramp up of difficulty, feel free to check it out again.
AmbroseBierce··on An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia
Non-political? Birthday cakes are distributed free of charge to the guests, with same sized portions for all, that's pure and simple communism! /s
AmbroseBierce··on Sizing chaos
Of course education could help about this and other psychologically manipulative tactics by corps but such kind of education is heavily frowned upon for being seeing as anti-capitalist and (more propagandistic) as un-american, so there is zero of such kind of education.
AmbroseBierce··on Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund
In the same way an adult is responsable for "picking" the religion they believe in, the one that it was imposed upon them by their parents during their childhood.
AmbroseBierce··on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
Completely fair, but I was responding to someone who doesn't think that it curtails freedom but that is the total opposite, you cannot be free if you are dead (except for a few niche philosophical definitions of the word), so human centric regulations like the asbestos ban are orthogonal to freedom, even if I admit in the strictest definition of the word yes, a regulation can curtail your freedom to harm yourself and hypothetically could curtail yourself from positive benefits as well.

But the thing is that statistically the likelihood they were discussing in good faith about this is near none, instead their way of speaking are telltales of a libertarian, where they have a almost religious believe that regulation is their biggest enemy and will never admit that the lack of it could harm or even kill them, I have wasted many many hours talking with such kind of people and don't aim to waste more arguing in good faith giving nuanced responses.

AmbroseBierce··on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
Regulation took away your freedom when it took asbestos out of your house right? Please be serious.
AmbroseBierce··on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
What counts as pornography? What counts as art? What counts as music? Please, yeah we know, we absolutely know categorization is hard, doesn't mean there is no benefit in having them and shaping them as we go.
AmbroseBierce··on Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
We will all be forgotten given enough timeframe.
AmbroseBierce··on Show HN: A mashup of Snake and Pong where the ball has a 5 seconds cooldown
Certainly possible, check this playthrough of the first level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn1OvmBBikU
AmbroseBierce··on GitHub Agentic Workflows
Now we just need AIs that can create agentic workflows, and then we create workflows that can create many of those AIs, just imagine the (billing) possibilities.
AmbroseBierce··on Italy Railways Sabotaged
This of course assumes that you are not just delaying the inevitable and giving time for Russia to recover will just make the nuclear escalation worse when it happens (not if it happens)
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