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hoot··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
I read "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts and it completely changed my existence. It really got me away from concepts like searching for meaning, purpose, and making things better.
hoot··on AOL pretends to be the internet
Random people would just message you this out of the blue. When I was about 10 or 11 some girl did this and we figured out we lived two hours away from each other. We ended up talking and kept in touch for years. Eventually our family’s had planned a vacation to the same city at the same time and we met up in person finally and had a good time. It never turned into a relationship but we kept in touch until I was in my early twenties. It just seemed like a different world compared to the social networking of today. Things were more innocent and there was a lot more inherit trust between people online.
hoot··on Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
I’m not an Elon hater but Tesla is the worst offender on Mozillas privacy study.
hoot··on Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Any news on when Bevy will have some legit documentation? I know there was a branch in work a while back that looked to have some in depth docs, but it doesn’t seem like it’s made its way into a release. This has always been a huge hurdle for me with Bevy. I really just don’t want to wade through discord to figure out how to use it. Wishing the best and awesome work. I think I’ll give bevy another shot once there’s an editor and good docs!
hoot··on I stopped buying new laptops (2020)
I recently got my first macbook (coming from a thinkpad) and it’s honestly more about not having to give a shit about a charger. It charges incredibly fast when I plug it into its monitor, but otherwise I just throw it in a bag without even thinking about what my battery percentage is. I’ll leave the house with it and not even bring the charger.
hoot··on Remote work turns America into Suburban nation
You don’t need 2-3 cars living rurally either. My wife and I dropped down to 1 vehicle a year ago with her being a stay at home mom and myself working remote.
hoot··on Show HN: Debate Devil – AI debating practice app
I made three vague 1 sentence arguments and the judge announced that I won. I definitely felt like I got crushed by gpt but I guess it went soft on me :/
hoot··on AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
I've noticed it as well. The most recent example I can think was with gitlab webhooks. I need to manage (create/delete/edit) a lot of web hooks across a lot of different projects. I normally would have probably just started doing it by hand in the web ui, but instead I had some python code from gpt to automate it in a few minutes.
hoot··on An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxiety
In a few years it will be called Pilot instead of Copilot.
hoot··on ChatGPT Plugins
Where the hell do we even go from here? The logical step seems to be to start studying AI now but even Sam Altman has said that he’s thinking that ML engineers will be the first to get automated. Can’t find source but I think it was one of his interviews on YouTube before chatgpt came out.
hoot··on Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor
I wonder what the point of school is even going to be at this point
hoot··on How to start a rocket engine
Did anybody else feel like the musk interview got really awkward towards the end? It seemed like he became really bored of it and just shut down.
hoot··on Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?
I did a basic UniFi setup at my house back in the fall and it’s been pretty simple and fully reliable. It’s pretty much the apple of home networking and security.
hoot··on Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
Yeah there's nothing better for mental health than spending 2 hours a day in a car to sit in a dark windowless room for 8 hours with headphones. I went back to remote work this past fall and it has been such a massive boost to my mental health. I spend a ton more time with my family and friends. I take a long lunch every day to spend with my daughter. Never going back to an office.
hoot··on Programming AIs worry me
Tell ChatGPT that you want it to ask for more context when it's needed and it will do so. I've done this before and it will continue to ask more probing questions until it's satisfied. You kind of have to guide it a little bit but it definitely works.
hoot··on Ask HN: How do I write good documentation?
Get ChatCPT to write it.
hoot··on Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans
I guarantee the OP could have asked GPT to expand on each of those and it would have done so flawlessly.
hoot··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
I bought a Galaxy fold last week and returned it yesterday. The form factor and larger screen was cool, but holy cow did Android feel like a huge downgrade from iOS. It was just all kinds of little quality of life things in iOS that I instantly missed. I think I needed something like one extra button press to get to the flashlight on Android and that did me in.
hoot··on EA: The Human Story (2004)
The article mentions that Larry Probst was ceo at the time fwiw.
hoot··on Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
Yep, clearly anyone who disagrees with you is inciting violence.
hoot··on Anti-Mask League of San Francisco
What evidence is there that masks prevent lockdowns? We've been wearing masks for months now and lockdowns are coming back regardless.
hoot··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
This entire HN discussion is insane. Every comment that is even slightly skeptical of mass-injecting the global population with a substance that we do not fully understand is being down-voted.
hoot··on Horizontal totalitarianism in life and literature
A colony on Mars is not going to be a part of Earth's "global village".
hoot··on Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers
Liberty is not free. If you value it, then you're going to have to fight for it. Submission now leads to your descendants living in an oppressive dystopia.
hoot··on Horizontal totalitarianism in life and literature
> But you can't move out of the global village.

Elon would like a word with you.

hoot··on Germany raided 83 homes in coordinated raids against online hate speech
Yeah but murder is a very concrete action, while an insult is subjective.
hoot··on Germany raided 83 homes in coordinated raids against online hate speech
I wonder if the Nazis used the laws to work in their favor and grow in power. If no one could insult the Nazi party then it would be easier for them to grow in power because they could just censor opposing views via the laws.
hoot··on 'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West
With high-speed satellite internet via Starlink on the horizon, the prospect of cruising full-time while maintaining a remote job is becoming more and more realistic. Good luck on your ventures!
hoot··on Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity
They literally recommended something simple and physical that almost any person could do.
hoot··on Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
I share the same experience. The most talented software developers that I've worked with have just about all been EE's. On the flip side, I've also met some terrible software developers who were also EE's.
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