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cartercoleon I found another defaced page on doge.gov

This one says "This .gov is hosted on insecure Cloudflare Pages" I think its leftover from the original attack but it was never reported on or found

cartercoleon I found another defaced page on doge.gov

I was investigating the other defaced pages and found a document they still haven't taken down

cartercoleon Open Source Tik Tok Bulk Video Downloader

I made a quick rust project to download all your videos from the data dump json and make a html file with all the video files and their meta data

cartercoleon Ask HN: How to Deal with AlphaCode Anxiety?

Not reasonable... if your job can be automated away you probally dont want to be doing it

cartercoleon DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer

If they can automate away my job I hope they do

cartercoleon DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer

That's not saying much...

cartercoleon Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data

oof glad i didnt implement my plan to do this...

cartercoleon Ask HN: I feel like I should be working all the time and its killing me

#meToo

cartercoleon Kickstarter employees vote to unionize

there goes the neighborhood

cartercoleon Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video

i think i saw this in a black mirror episode

cartercoleon Facebook Accepted Thousands of Dollars to Promote Ad Its Fact Checkers Debunked

free speech doesn't mean you need to be telling the truth... do you really expect facebook to arbitrate all truth claims?

cartercoleon Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month

screams in libertarian

cartercoleon The rich don't like negative interest rates, are pulling cash out of Swiss banks

who would have guessed people don't like it when their money evaporates

cartercoleon Twitter tells Clearview AI to stop using site's photos

i was gonna say gee i always follow a sites TOS

cartercoleon Houston's sprawl drives up transportation costs

yea but a bunch of stuff is a ton cheaper and we actually have enough housing... fuck city planning

cartercoleon San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident

I don't understand why this statistic matters... its private property and you have no say how they use their homes... if you want to help people get homes lower the regulations so the barrier to entry lower... oh ya and repeal dumb zoning laws :)

cartercoleon For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests

The minimum wage should be 0 - sincerely any good economist

cartercoleon Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

then their user bases blooms as all the bots are registered to keep crawling

cartercoleon AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

i mean they need to generate a training set first right?

cartercoleon HBO Ending Its Nightly Newscast Produced by Vice Media

get woke go broke?

cartercoleon Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology

this is almost identical to how my dad got me writing HTML... i loved it

cartercoleon According to Forbes many companies are failing to meet basic GDPR requirements

why should we listen to the EU britain doesnt want to

cartercoleon Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few

they did ben so dirty :(

cartercoleon Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature

this is truth

cartercoleon Dear OpenAI: Please Open Source Your Language Model

release the code! you cant stop the signal

cartercoleon Amazon projected to pay 0 federal income tax, second year in a row

rather than making them pay income tax why don't we make it so nobody pays income tax?

cartercoleon Ask HN: What is your best passive income 2019?

the first rule of passive income is you don't talk about passive income... (cuz someone will copy it and end the gravy train)

cartercoleon Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds

we have known this and they state it publicly... who funded this?

cartercoleon Cannabinoids promote neuron growth and have antidepressant-like effects (2005)

Class 1 Controlled Substance - No known medical use

cartercoleon Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps

The the requirements for food stamp eligibility should be changed?