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fxd123on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

> have preferences

Yes, but that's different than saying "I hate hammers, so I don't want OTHER people to use hammers"

fxd123on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

It seems weird to be "pro-AI" or "anti-AI" in general. It's a tool. It's like saying construction workers are pro-hammer

fxd123on New York passes pied-a-terre tax

Property taxes are a type of wealth tax

fxd123on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

Just tried Claude Code on my Pro plan. It worked. So no, it's not removed

fxd123on Cloudflare was down

> Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.

They seem to now, a few min after your comment

fxd123on The latest Hunger Games novel may have been co-authored by AI

I've read plenty of dumb things in pre-AI books.

fxd123on The UI Future Is Colourful and Dimensional

...except Airbnb's redesign is still extremely flat. Three icons that have 3-D shadows is not groundbreaking

fxd123on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

> leftist tarrifs

huh?

fxd123on Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"

> Most people probably don't have 2.5 TB worth of stuff.

But Backblaze is marketing itself towards people who do. The average person is not a backblaze customer

fxd123on Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"

The "Personal backup" pricing plan is $99 USD / year and includes "Unlimited data backup" and "one year version history" which implies they are storing much more than just your data at a given time.

$99 would give you 5-6TB of data for consumer HDD costs. And then factor in that they are likely doing some type of additional backup/RAID it would be even less data per dollar. And that's not including maintenance, rent, and employees.

Honestly I'm surprised they exist

fxd123on Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality

I also find Reddit good- but given I mainly follow subreddits focused on PC hardware, I'm less concerned. I would never go to Reddit for discussion about political or controversial topics where botting would be a target.

But not just due to astroturfing, but their users are also just pretty crazy and exist in a extremely narrow bubble.

fxd123on Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality

> or political ideas

Judging by some of the examples listed by Reddit mods, it seems political astroturfing is a serious goal:

"(This is one of the AI comments used in the experiment.)

As a Palestinian, I hate Israel and want the state of Israel to end. I consider them to be the worst people on earth. I will take ANY ally in this fight."

fxd123on The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

> No - most Asian nations did not recognize the South Vietnam govt

I would not say "most". Thailand, Laos, SK, Philippines, Singapore did.

>US vetoed Vietnamese membership to the UN in 1975 - after losing the War.

Because the war was still ongoing, between North and South at that time. They merged in 1976 and US voted in favor of membership in 1977.

fxd123on The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

Genocidal serbia got off too easy

fxd123on The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

> It was never part of the UN and its membership was explicitly denied.

Solely due to a soviet veto. Most countries recognized it anyway.

fxd123on The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

But yet, no imperialism occurred?

fxd123on The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

How is it imperialism? The internationally-recognized government of South Vietnam asked the US for military intervention.

The US signed peace accords in 1973 and removed all troops. North Vietnam broke the accords and invaded South Vietnam in 1975.

fxd123on The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI What Went Wrong?

> In the fever of the 2024 campaign, Republican influencers and politicians have recast D.E.I. as an all-purpose boogeyman

Republicans seem correct. It's clear that DEI has gone way too far and is regressive rather than progressive.

fxd123on Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use

The repo contains some source code, so therefore it's open source

fxd123on Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program

> If someone can't afford $30-50/mo for Internet

But that's the thing- they CAN afford it. They afforded it just fine before 2021 when the program started.

fxd123on Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program

This is just a subsidy for big ISPs. Good riddance

fxd123on Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Zulu JDK

fxd123on DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges

Your representatives are not part of the DOJ...

fxd123on Harvard's largest faculty eliminates requirement for DEI statements in hiring

Good. DEI, at its very core, is a racist and shallow ideology

fxd123on What Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court

OpenAI's claim is that they used the voice actors' natural voice

> That is a silly thing to believe.

I think it's silly to believe that celebrities should own voices

fxd123on Ask HN: Why don't VCs just "suck it up" and pay founders a competitive salary?

Because VCs don't have a hard time finding startups whose founders will stay around for lame pay.

fxd123on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

> chose to forgo substantial royalties and collaboration potential

We know nothing about their offer to her. Could have just been a bad deal

fxd123on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

> I am still waiting for the war on tylenol, which has killed over 100k in US a year for decades.

That is completely false:

"an estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure each year"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15239078/

fxd123on Why a $100k income no longer buys the American Dream in most places

> They also had adverse social consequences that increased costs for everybody.

This is just not true