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pinkcanon ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

VR is still not done is it?

pinkcanon Red flags in the Threads privacy policy

politicians and other shady individuals know how to use this to their advantage

pinkcanon Red flags in the Threads privacy policy

why are you going so far though?

it's right there: "Meta"

pinkcanon More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

Notch of Minecraft fame is arguably richer than any actor has ever been.

pinkcanon Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans

why would your unity gamedev consulting be dead without this?

anything happening in this space?

pinkcanon AI and the Automation of Work

anything before a "but" is bullshit

someone just offered feedback on their development experience for free, and all you can say is, "...are you so dumb you need an AI to help you with Docker?"

pinkcanon After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted

as long as there's any cost and no one else willing to support we'll have these services disappearing

pinkcanon Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

this.

seems a lot of people confound funding and founding, he was one of Tesla's early funders, but he was not part of the team that founded it.

> he sank an initial investment of more than $6 million into Tesla, which was then not much more than a pair of founders and a vision of electric sports cars.

– https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-y...

> So AC Propulsion CEO Gage suggested Musk speak with electric car start-up Tesla Motors, which was also looking to commercialize the tzero. Musk reasoned that by teaming up with another company, he could “have my cake and eat it too,” he said on the podcast – he could still run SpaceX but also pursue his passion for electric cars in his spare time.

> “I didn’t think it would be easy, but I thought maybe I could allocate 20 to 30 hours a week and just work on product engineering, and then other people could do the other stuff. I didn’t like doing the other stuff anyway,” Musk said.

– https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-wan...

pinkcanon Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

okay

pinkcanon Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

had you done this before the API was closed you'd have had access to a bunch of tools that let you find twitter users on mastodon

pinkcanon Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

a lot of smart people fell for Elizabeth Holmes charm and put their money on Theranos

for the purpose of this thread saying “Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy” is a statement of opinion, one that a growing number of people agree with

pinkcanon Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/taxes-arent-the-only-reason-...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/elon-musk-sued-2...

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-258-billion-dogecoin-law...

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/timeline-elon-musks-tumultuo...

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/13/1111239959/twitter-elon-musk-...

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https://chat.openai.com/share/aaef7d7c-1537-48b7-bc49-81cecf...

pinkcanon Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading

yea, let's equip boats that can't handle an orca with guns that shoot projectiles through meters of water

it's like trying to solve school shooting, by giving teachers guns

pinkcanon Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading

not a lot of people knew how to write back then?

pinkcanon Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading

it's HN, second order effects are not important to the product

pinkcanon Get a personal teacher

sorry but this is a throwaway

pinkcanon Get a personal teacher

It would be nice if creators would hide their videos once they start getting outdated, or clearly mark them with version numbers in the titles, but they're not incentivised to do that so I shouldn't blame them.

I sense that youtube is happy with users wasting away looking for the right video tutorial.

pinkcanon Get a personal teacher

I used an online freelance platform, mostly because I'm comfortable using it, but any manner of connecting with people would work.

Just make sure you pay them for their time.

pinkcanon Get a personal teacher

I have done this recently, through upwork for a tech related topic. I am very comfortable with platform but I'm sure I could have used a different one for other topics.

Posted a job description – initially setup by asking gpt4 to help write it down, then grammarly to make it solid; setup interviews with a bunch of people; got on a call with a handful; chose one whit whom I'm working with once or twice a week.

Did it because YT tutorials were not helping, because there are a lot of them(hot topic), from many different people, with quickly outdated material, and un-interesting or annoying people(too many memes, jokes, or segways).

Now I have someone I pay to get on a call a few times per week, we go over the assignments, I ask questions, they tell me what to look out for and how to do it better.

I have accepted to pay per hour a bit above what I make on my fulltime job.

pinkcanon Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?

yea, and the game is half-life 3

pinkcanon Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions

What are you trying to get at with this question, and how does it matter in the context of this thread?

Are you asking about the consequences of breaking laws while using someone else's internet access as an exit point, or are you asking about the dynamics of CSAM production?

_that comment is giving off really nasty vibes_

pinkcanon CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

www is aliassed on my .zshrc for that reason:

www='python -m http.server'

pinkcanon Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions

suggest the use of the term Child Sexual Abuse Media - CSAM as it better describes the content and reflects the harm it causes

pinkcanon H100 GPUs Set Standard for Gen AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark

this is napkin math, for sure there are other components in the system that do not directly contribute to the computation – cooling systems, DC lights

pinkcanon INTERCAL: Practically impossible

they're also trained to convince humans

pinkcanon Tilia – regulation-compliant (but US-only) money transmitter for gaming

they're also paypal only

pinkcanon Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

you're right colors may be confusing if the user is color blind, I guess that's why the close is always the one on the left, the minimize is always the one on the middle, and the expand + extras is always the one on the right, so user can find what they want where their more accustomed to

pinkcanon Ask HN: Is SQLAlchemy the industry standard Python ORM in 2023?

that's a bit short

It is a wrapper on top of SQLAlchemy AND pydantic – which is what makes both FastAPI and SQLModel interesting.

pinkcanon Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

1. that comment is not about you

2. don't tell people their perception of things is wrong, instead consider why they're perceiving things that way, and if you can, do something* that may change their perception

* here, you can't

pinkcanon Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

don't patents expire after 20 years? I'd assume some of those should be older by now, leaving me to think the reason lies somewhere else.