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lando2319

5,872 karma · joined September 14, 2012

Interested in technology, economics, and living in the future... website: http://www.mikepland.com
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lando2319··on Couples Wanted to Have Children. Rising Costs Are Stopping Them
2000 square foot home, he golfs on the weekends, they spend $600 a month on doggie daycare

They decided not to have kids

A tragedy

Edit: it was 600 a month, not a week

lando2319··on Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators
> "It takes most college students at least four years to earn a bachelor's degree. Christie Williams finished in three months."
lando2319··on Two inmates at an Ohio prison built a secret hacking operation from behind bars
> using computers they were supposed to be recycling, they downloaded and sold porn in return for snacks, built a hacker toolkit with Kali Linux and password crackers, and created fake passes to move freely around the facility.
lando2319··on An 'Intimacy Crisis' Is Driving the Dating Divide
> "80 percent of Gen Z say that they want a romantic relationship, but 55 percent say they’re not ready...We’ve screwed up a whole generation with this idea you need to overly self actualize before you can be in a relationship."
lando2319··on Feds: Brothers stole $25M in crypto in 12 seconds. Defense: outsmarted bots
I'm not a lawyer but it seems like if they booked a transaction based on a basket of goods, and then seconds later changed that basket of goods, seems like in the physical world that would be fraud
lando2319··on Memoji Generator
Who is their customer, what do they do for a living? Is this someone who needs to generate 50 of these for an app or something?
lando2319··on Ask HN: Should I wrap my HDMI/AV converter in tinfoil to protect from lightening
Thanks, I'll def check this out
lando2319··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
yep I've used Devon and now Google Jules, for the big stuff, it has lots of wrong code, but it still end up giving my a much better start than starting from scratch certainly. When it all comes together it give me a 6X boost. But def fixing all the wrong code and thoroughly testing it is the time consuming part.
lando2319··on Why does ChatGPT refuse to say the name David Mayer
It's all over X, people are trying to trick it into saying it
lando2319··on An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs
I don't see where they'd be breaking the law.

> He said that the company is no longer repairing exoskeletons older than five years because the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the devices, has approved their usage for that timespan.

lando2319··on Just Stop Oil soups two more van Goghs hours after sentencing of earlier souping
Discussion from earlier souping https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671548
lando2319··on Fined $88K after kids collect 72 clams from beach thinking they were seashells
> She said the whole experience taught her children and her valuable lessons about wildlife regulations.

They know now at the beach don’t touch anything

lando2319··on State Farm cuts 72,000 CA home insurance policies citing outdated regulations
Well they gave up the at-risk people so they could give you that rock bottom price

So no

lando2319··on Ski town can't fill a job for $167k cuz potential can't afford to live there
I had to do it for space

I even had to delete the word candidate

lando2319··on Willy Wonka experience used AI in promos, causing high expectations, cops called
Here is a Twitter thread that shows the original pictures

https://twitter.com/AlsikkanTV/status/1762235022851948668

lando2319··on "Stolen" radio tower missing for at least a year
So supposedly a radio tower was stolen, causing a sister station to have to shut down as well

But this link suggests maybe the tower's been missing for some time

lando2319··on New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation "is on tipping course"
start tracking all food, from crops to harvest, reduce family farms. Charge people to use carbon on a metered rate, slowly reducing the allowed amount each year. Keep everyone restricted with scarcity.
lando2319··on Ask HN: Best "entry tech" jobs to learn coding?
For what it's worth, I went to a coding bootcamp in 2012. From there, I found people who were willing to pay me money to do software development as a Freelancer.

I did countless events, I listed my services in local blogs.

This leadup to becoming CTO of a startup. 8 years later here we are.

This was in Chicago.

It was one of the best decisions I ever made.

I also did an iOS bootcamp in 2014, mostly because clients kept asking for mobile and I didn't like the hybrid mobile platforms.

lando2319··on A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven
Great idea for another country, I the US there are just too many laws.
lando2319··on Midjourney prompt of '"Clear weather in Yulin China"' shows a bunch of dogs
So I have a bot that generate AI Images, here the prompt was, "Clear weather in Yulin China". Midjourney gave me a scene full of dogs.

I googled the city and the apparently they have a regular dog meat festival.

lando2319··on Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
I've noticed searching the recent questions, the answer count and views are really low, there just seems to be not a lot of people on the site answering questions anymore

There is a big message telling users not to use AI generated content for answers

I'm starting to wonder if the no AI answers rule is a good idea

lando2319··on [dead]
It's cute all the down voters thinking this is only going to happen to the bad people
lando2319··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
Lots of great stackoverflow comments here.

For me, I would say over 5 years ago I would post a question and get a flurry of activity within the first 10 minutes.

Now I post and I get no activity at all, and I end up answering my own question a day later.

lando2319··on Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
I remember when ET was censored to remove shotguns, and replace them with hand radios, I thought he was he okay with that, but not anymore?
lando2319··on Standoff over 95-year-old judge shows downside of lifetime jobs
The problem with competency tests, they would inevitably get abused by political parties, also would a defendant just be able to demand a competency test just because the judge looks elderly?
lando2319··on Show HN: Regex.ai – AI-powered regular expression generator
Regular expressions, and various bash scripting techniques are where I've found chat GPT to be most useful

Just like normal software development you have to check the solution right away, but it really works great

lando2319··on Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
My understanding is the governor's signed it with an understanding that the legislator would immediately water it down.

Which is what happened

lando2319··on The Social Experiment Is Over
I fear for children of the future, they may end up thinking the internet is just a corporate mouthpiece.

Sites like this will be just a memory.

lando2319··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
Sad, I have a hacker news Vim bot, he doesn't even tweet that often.

Ugh

https://twitter.com/HN_Vimmy_Bot

lando2319··on Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
The original post is still viewable if you check the root URL

This appears to be a special message just for us.

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