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halvo··on Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI
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halvo··on Ask HN: Which news aggregators can provide an alternative to Hacker News?
From their about page, it seems they very much do not want to be like HN:

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halvo··on Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
It is literally difficult for me to understand the problem through your condescension
halvo··on Shopify live dashboard
Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere
halvo··on Debugging tricks in the browser
I switched to c# dev from web a couple years ago and am baffled there’s no built in way to see the network requests my app is making when debugging
halvo··on Show HN: Practice Job Interview with ChatGPT API
To be fair, “definitely” would not be a good answer to that question in a real interview :)
halvo··on Better to micromanage than be disengaged
As a manager you’ll waste your reports time and have them take the blame for missing dates. Where do you work?
halvo··on John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups
My “we’re like a startup” experience was all the uncertainty of a startup along with all the bureaucracy of big tech which resulted in pivoting to a new 12 month roadmap every 6 months…
halvo··on Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse
These just sound like opportunities to learn. If you’re on average outperforming betting odds then of course use your system. For the chess and driving examples you can analyze those recommendations to figure out the rationale and incorporate a new strategy or a new route in your knowledge (or learning the system is unreliable and avoid it).
halvo··on Hacker News or Satire?
It’s headlines posted to HN that follow HN rules that the HN user thought would be of interest to the HN community.
halvo··on MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
No need to reverse engineer, Teams has a public API https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/teams-a...
halvo··on 41 percent of consumers say their next car will be electric
20-30 minute charge time really shouldn’t be held up as a positive for EVs, it’s still dramatically worse than a stop for gas.
halvo··on A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
What are you warning about?
halvo··on Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform
I see this as criticism of Shopify making this decision for their stated reasons, not as advocating for forcing companies to do business with parties they don’t want to.
halvo··on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
Moonlight will do this except for 144hz, trick is to 'stream' your entire desktop[1], allowing you to access any game/launcher regardless if nvidia detects a game or not.

[1] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setu...

halvo··on Adobe has released the last Flash update ever
Downsides to the tech don’t negate the millions of great experiences flash enabled
halvo··on Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies
How can they allow game streaming apps like Steam Link but not xCloud/Stadia