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mhurron··on Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator
> How many Firefox users actually pay for it?

None, since you can't.

mhurron··on Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
> I hate exercise. Like I really really really hate it. > Should I just accept this and live a life without it?

That is entirely up to you. It's your personal life and your time. No one has the right to say what you should or must do with your time.

Just like socialization, it's up to you on how much you do or don't do. Pretending everyone needs to because you like to is stupid.

Socialization is exhausting, I have to do enough of that working. I am not going to on my personal time. I really don't care what other people think of it, or what justification they use to try and make it some sort of requirement, or how much finger waving they're going to do.

mhurron··on The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
> a prediction their layoff is inevitable

It probably is. Where I work it has been made clear, as in actually stated by leadership, that any process that does not include AI input is to be considered broken and needing to be fixed. It doesn't matter if it works, if it is 100% human made and maintained, it is broken and needs to be fixed by injecting AI in a critical place. You should be in a position that if you lost access to the AI tools, you are unable to proceed.

This is the step towards replacing people. You don't need highly paid people in that process, you just need someone who can speak a language the AI tools can transcribe. This is no different than moving from a codebase or process that is tightly coupled to a specific technology to a more generic process so that you can easily and quickly change the backend tech on a whim. The technology being removed is the people. The AI is important, you are not.

mhurron··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Would you mind providing some examples? I can't say that I'm really up on a lot of psudoscience.

A pretty standard bottle of Vitamin D at 10k IU is 60 capsules/pills/whatever. That's a 2 month supply.

To hit the toxic eventually (77k IU) you would be going through a 2 month supply every ~7 days. To hit the acute toxicity in days or weeks (low end 600k), your going through that bottle every day.

However, every single time that someone mentions Vitamin D, people jump out of the woodwork about toxicity without ever actually bringing up just how much you have to take as if if you take the 400 IU capsule, going one IU over is going to kill you. I'm also pretty sure that a specific group of denialists shouldn't be counted as a reason to scream warnings from the mountaintops every time someone thinks about Vitamin D.

mhurron··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Your own link shows that what is considered toxic levels are far higher than most people would expect. Vitamin D toxicity is not that easy to accidentally hit.

Overdose has been observed at 1,925 μg/d (77,000 IU per day). Acute overdose requires between 15,000 μg/d (600,000 IU per day) and 42,000 μg/d (1,680,000 IU per day) over several days to months.

mhurron··on Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
> the government later changed the rules

Did they, or was it found that they had ignored them and are now being forced to follow the law? Those state and local governments were so supportive that the processes for approvals and reviews was all done in secret and without necessary inputs. You know, the things the laws in those areas said you had to do.

In this particular project, it looks like Oracle and Blue Owl Capital singed the contract before state regulators reviewed and provided necessary approvals.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/new-mexico-regula...

And not seeking necessary regulatory approval doesn't really seem like things 'beyond their control.'

mhurron··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
> Siri is in your pocket, on your wrist, and in your ears

and more often than not isn't reliable unless you have a midwestern US accent.

Siri wasn't good. It still isn't good. Apple hasn't delivered on its promises with it and that's why it's being replaced with Gemini.

mhurron··on The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions
> what is the psychological label for people who do not distinguish artist from art?

There isn't one because you can dislike a person and/or their works for literally any reason you want.

Is there a label for insisting that people put aside their feelings and engage with something because you have deemed their reason for not doing so invalid?

mhurron··on Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
Did you forget dialup was a thing? No one created anything for home users thinking it would be behind some firewall because as said Windows didn't ship with one, and because the dominant way of customers getting online was dialup, giving a public IP to every user.

Software was created with no security because no one demanded it because no one cared. Technologies that came later did not create that situation.

mhurron··on You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting
> Corporations need to say 'no' to governments far more often than they do.

When those corporations need the government to look the other way about things they're doing or want to do, they're going to suck up to it every time as hard as they can.

This is such an easy thing to do to make the little baby happy, of course they did it before he forgets he did it in the first place.

mhurron··on US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
This is because of the US's unwavering support of Israel no matter what they do.

You can not blame all of the worlds ills on Russia, seemingly the most powerful and least capable nation at the same time.

mhurron··on St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
It's a local TV station, the target audience already knows where so the information is superfluous.

And the breadcrumbs at the top of the page give you enough information to find out if you're not in the target audience.

mhurron··on Could a computer scientist build a brain?
None of these definitions are universally accepted.

A taco is a sandwich A hot dog is a sandwich A burger is a sandwich

There is such a thing as an open-faced sandwich, which has one slice of bread.

mhurron··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Why do you think changing PM's is a bad thing?

The PM is selected from the party that has the majority in Parliament (typically the party leader), so if the PM changes without a national vote, it's still a MP from the majority party.

mhurron··on The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses
So there is no such thing as unintended consequences? Everything always works to the master plan?
mhurron··on Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia
> at least to predict that a quake we see is likely to be a precursor to a much larger one or is likely that peak.

That we can basically do. "Observations show that the chance of an earthquake being followed by a larger one nearby and within a week is about 5%."

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-probability-earthquake-a-fore...

It is an incredibly safe bet that any earthquake is not the sign of a larger one.

mhurron··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
And that's your choice. Mars decided that they were going to limit serving sizes to 250 calories or less, and products shrank or were dropped in line with that.

This was a better idea than simply saying a single use package really contains more than one serving in it to look like the company was being responsible.

You choosing to eat more is just that, your choice. It has nothing to do with any company.

mhurron··on The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
> Yes they're just trying to be helpful

Experience says they're not, they're being dismissive.

They don't understand because they don't care to and it's beneath them to learn, because the solution is to 'just' do this simple thing everyone knows to do. It now becomes the sufferers fault they continue to suffer and it's not longer required for anyone else to care.

mhurron··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
My falther-in-law was less that and more, if I can get away with it, it's actually legal. Many know their fake, and do it because they can get away with it.

That was his justification for a satellite descrambler, they're sending me the signals, obviously I'm allowed to.

mhurron··on Humans haven't stopped evolving
Because we became an incredibly successful species doing just that.
mhurron··on Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
The AI companies are desperately trying to market all their products as something they're not, growing intelligence. In line with that they have constantly leaned heavily on stating how dangerous they are, right before they release a new model or product.

It was OpenAI marketing. Hugging Face's response is so 'holy shit AI is awesome' it's hard not to also believe they were in on the stunt. They'd also not have to really worry about fallout since any data obtained or accessed wouldn't actually have been breached.

mhurron··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> These are all answerable questions, but getting those answers is confusing for most people.

It's the same answer when someone asks 'how am I supposed to have a different password for every site' and 'how am I supposed to remember a password of X+ characters.' Use a password manager. Pretty sure every major one supports passkeys by now.

mhurron··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
It wasn't just showing off land. It was showing off you had land that was completely unproductive and could even afford staff to maintain this completely useless plot. It's why they became increasingly large and ornate gardens.

It then took this association with rich and better and was used in the US to denote affluent and therefore segregated housing developments.

mhurron··on 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC
Gaming was always an expensive hobby. But this -

> Budgets for games are skyrocketing, graphics requirements are skyrocketing

Is unrelated. AAA Gaming companies relied so heavily on technical improvements when things were new and genuine leaps in ability that when we hit the graphics are good enough instead of just making great games that are fun, they had to do stupid graphics tricks.

Did every strand of hair need to be individually rendered to act as real as possible so the one guy who is dissecting ever frame would be happy? Did that horses scrotum need to be animated at all, let alone react to the environment? Did that thing that basically no one will ever see need to be created over the course of 9 months?

These stupid, pointless things to try and chase the same technical breakthrough selling points they had 25+ years ago are one of the major things driving the development costs.

Then of course there's the, 'ya whatever, you'll still pay for it, fuck you'[1] that publishers are latching on to.

[1]https://youtu.be/vBG3OYSa3YQ?t=50

mhurron··on FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food
Ya, everything is a conspiracy. It couldn't be that the FDA has been working on PFAS related issues for 6 years now and this petition was more to speed things along in a way that would force progress.

But no, everything is a big conspiracy.

mhurron··on The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads
That sounds horrible. Taking time out of your day to do nothing but be advertised to. Not even considering everyone hosting these things constantly having to invite everyone they come across to participate. Modern ads suck, but changing that to in-person interruptions to your day is not better. Of course, if you want to know what it might be like, there's likely a time-share presentation somewhere near you and you can go experience one. Be sure to set aside enough time.

Honestly the Tupperware parties weren't great for the company either; while it kept an exclusivity to the brand it also severely limited their client base. You had to know someone who hosted them, or knew someone who knew them. Then they had to take time away from things they have or want to do to go be advertised to. They ended up social when they started because you invited your friends and neighbours, but after you exhausted them you're just a door to door salesperson.

mhurron··on How to migrate from Proxmox VE 8 to 9: step-by-step guide (2026)
Is there some reason to not use the official documentation?
mhurron··on Rebuilding the Computer Room
Of course they do, it is one device that is convenient to use and does everything they need it to.

Most people really do not need the dedicated device, whether it's a laptop or desktop, to use the Internet they way they want to.

mhurron··on Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
Well it would seem that the AAAS shouldn't assume that about HN readers.

The previous posted article was posted on science.org, managed by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) not Nature, which is a British publication.

The organization that did the removal was Springer Nature, parent of the publisher of Nature. It was reported in several places, the one linked here was on a site affiliated by a completely different organization.

Also, science.org is open to everyone, their articles are written and titled for any level of knowledge and any background. Ars and HN are very specific in their target audience and write to that. Even then the comments will be filled with complaints if things aren't written in a manner approachable to anyone.

mhurron··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
It's actually a question relating to what some people want to do with their computer. Most people don't run an OS because of some moral objection to other OS's but because it lets them do what they want with their device.
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