pavel_lishin

Is it murder if a rented lawnmower kills a person?

I feel the same way - it's just not fun for me. I like playing poker with my friends, but I like the social aspect of it - putting down $20 on the table is no different than buying a few beers at a bar, and I don't care if I come out of the game with more or less money.

Going to a casino, which I've done a few times, is just wildly disinteresting.

But I know I'm prone to other sorts of addictions, so I guess gambling is somehow different.

Then they can simply not pick up the phone.

> The officer and his relative were not criminally charged.

> The department said it has changed its policy to restrict Flock data and all other law enforcement sensitive systems from being accessed on officers’ personal devices.

So next time, they can wait 'til they get to work to stalk people?

Like CutCo. Or EdgeCom. Or InterSlice.

Well, that definitely seems like something that'll be intuitive in a tense situation. Sure hope that screen isn't damaged in a crash.

I've experienced it once or twice, and mine was the classic "can't move, malevolent presence just barely in the corner of your vision". Once, I think I was actually still half-asleep-ish, and trying to yell and my wife woke me up.

Definitely not pleasant, even when I'm rationally aware of what's going on.

> because with most cars you can't do anything.

With most cars, if they're capable of being driven, you get inside, turn on the engine, and operate it with the steering wheel and pedals.

> Most CEOs want to make real changes. He just let smart people do great work so he could be on (and eventually buy) Twitter.

I'm not sure that's the case:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-17/elon-musk...

> When Musk is hyper-focused on daily operations, it can often lead to extra work — he’s inserted himself in projects and demanded changes for sometimes arbitrary reasons, former employees say.

> For instance, current and former employees describe times that Musk has deemed certain hardware as having too many tubes, connectors, or wires, or just not generally fitting his preferred design aesthetic. He’s demanded that employees rework and simplify systems, leading employees to spend time justifying why certain parts exist or triggering major redesigns and work that can take weeks to accomplish. Sometimes, that work ultimately has to be reversed when components that were discarded ultimately are needed for the final design.

> He (his companies/teams) have also utterly changed the space launch landscape to the point of making the rest of the world irrelevant

For now. Other countries are catching up, same as they are with electric vehicles.

> Ignoring the checkbox is an utterly offensive move, but repeatedly manipulating it contrary to stated consumer intent is a whole other level.

I'm not sure why the second one is worse than the first one.

If you end up enjoying it, give Dichronauts a shot as well.

> On my own it often takes me 5-10 minutes just to figure out how to phrase something simple clearly.

That's part of writing, and it gets faster and easier the more you do it.

It might be better to link to https://jlevy.github.io/squares/ - it's an actual written explanation of what was achieved, and not just the git repo.

Also, specifically, this claims a new lower bound, not a smaller packing than was previously known.

... wrong thread?

It'd be "stolen" only if Muse (the band) didn't agree to this, or were strong-armed into this.

Is this the one that was allegedly based on someone else's actual work & prompts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915

https://bsky.app/profile/quantian.bsky.social/post/3muyhwbcd...

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

How much of it was you, and how much of it was AI?

It seems more like the "middle school penis inspections" joke to me.

This made the rounds on HN a few ... weeks? months? ago, and it's also about Arabic typesetting, and it's a very interesting read: https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

I'm a little surprised that Nasri Khattar wasn't mentioned in it.

Yes, it's easier - but I'm not sure what that has to do with ads or asking for things beyond attention.

What about NYC's current state makes it iffy?

Why would they support a deal with a company doing harm to people?

> No ads. Not asking for anything except your attention, and then delivering an outcome that is fascinating and honestly, far beyond what a person would be incentivized to build before AI tooling.

I don't think I agree. There were plenty of interesting side-projects on the internet before AI.

I'm not sure why AI means that people don't need to support their creations with ads. Sure, it probably took fewer human-hours typing at a keyboard to create this, but for things like this, a labor of love, that's typically not the "expensive" part.

This could be pretty great for a play through of Thousand Year Old Vampire, a pretty terrific journaling game: https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/

And I suppose other RPGs, too, especially ones that are more story-than-dice driven, and/or set in the "real" world.

This is just an ad.

Only an own-goal if it negatively impacts them, right?

How many 1Password users will even know about this, and of those, how many will care?

> The ability to upload photos from your device automatically

I don't think the article actually covers this; they mention installing the immich app on your device and uploading a photo, but it's not at all clear that this will automatically back up all photos taken on your phone.

This comment feels like an ad for SnapClaim.

I've filled out one ad with an email (a one-off), and it's remembered that email and has been prefilling it every time.

(I assume you mean the weird thing where it does a poll, and then pulls up a contact form.)