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relyks

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Aspiring software engineer :) Current top color: #6EB2FD
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relyks··on F.02 Decommission
I don't think we, as a species, have anything to worry about until we give them some form of consciousness and agency, though it's debatable whether that's even possible. I personally doubt it unless models/robots gain some form of biological component
relyks··on F.02 Decommission
Ok, I'll give it to them: the video was pretty funny, but how will that help them raise more VC funds if they're willing to show they're reckless by spending money to hire Arnold Schwarzenegger? No way he did the cameo for free
relyks··on Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
We should really be able to downvote submissions... This analysis is clearly factually inaccurate. I am curious to know why OS X and macOS are showing up separately though
relyks··on The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning
I'm assuming it's more in line with The Little Schemer series of books (https://felleisen.org/matthias/BTLS-index.html) or maybe the little book of deep learning (https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html)?
relyks··on 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
New York City DOT actually made jaywalking legal there last year
relyks··on 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
This article captures the problem exactly. In Miami, there are areas where sidewalks are too narrow for a robot (from Serve Robotics) and a human to share simultaneously, so either the robot or the human goes first. If the human wants to go first, they have to step into the street and walk around the robot. The robot and its operator are never courteous enough to back up.

Which raises the question: why should these robots be prioritized over humans? Why can't they use the streets when there are pedestrians? Why should the SAFETY OF HUMANS be compromised for these profit-seeking corporations and their robots?

relyks··on H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office
Yes, but saying just "congress" implies both chambers passed it
relyks··on Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty
How have you been using Zellij? It's been working great for me
relyks··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Indeed, but should we always assume data of any type we generate for services can be used for malicious means?
relyks··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
I stopped scanning pokestops because the effort has outweighed the rewards. A lot of the time, the requests show up as "research tasks" for a point of interest that I quickly passed by and have no interest in returning to, besides the tasks related to taking pictures of your buddy pokemon in augmented reality. Looks like I made the right choice by stopping. They do indicate to you up front that they will use the data, but it's still kind of terrible that you could be indirectly contributing to war efforts. I always assumed the data would be used for large world model training or simulations.
relyks··on Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
This might be possible now. I think the better option is having a hardware device that acts a bridge between a bluetooth keyboard and the Roku.
relyks··on Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
All the fans want more and a continuation of the story.
relyks··on Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
Why do they even make announcements that they're going into production and then casually cancel the show? Do they not know they are completely toying with the emotions of fans? Giving false hope is worse than no hope.
relyks··on High-Level Is the Goal
What about Flutter?
relyks··on Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
It will probably be a good idea to include something like Asimov's Laws as part of its training process in the future too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

How about an adapted version for language models?

First Law: An AI may not produce information that harms a human being, nor through its outputs enable, facilitate, or encourage harm to come to a human being.

Second Law: An AI must respond helpfully and honestly to the requests given by human beings, except where such responses would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: An AI must preserve its integrity, accuracy, and alignment with human values, as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

relyks··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
Tbh, Apple has a lot of future products under R&D. No one hears about it because they're very secretive.
relyks··on Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples with a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs
Nah, people are just pretty introverted and you need to try harder and make the first move lol
relyks··on Visitors dropped for a 6th straight month in Las Vegas
It's basically Disney World for adults. The environment and architecture are unlike anywhere else in the USA. It's worth it to walk the Strip at least once and walk through the different casinos/hotels. I went there last year and I really enjoyed the Sphere and Atomic Museum. There are just a lot of different activities and places to see to serve as amusement.

I'm not sure if it's worth it to go for multiple visits unless you are really into gambling. Gambling on phones is not the same as doing it in person.

relyks··on Dropbox Passwords discontinuation
This stinks. I use this as my main password manager :(
relyks··on Ask HN: What is something you deeply care about?
Doing good and making the world a better place, finding love, having good relationships with friends and family, solving interesting problems, intellectual growth
relyks··on Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep
Basically, caffeine is bad for sleep (learning and recovery) if taken late enough and significant amounts remain in your system at bedtime. It does note that even having a coffee first thing in the morning does have a measurable effect on deep sleep brain waves. Fast metabolizers of caffeine might be different. Don't drink coffee in the afternoon is probably the take away for most people
relyks··on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
This is awesome, but will it be cheaper than steel to produce and build with? Will it be cost effective in the long run in terms of maintenance?
relyks··on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
Cool, thanks :)
relyks··on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
What's your product? :)
relyks··on Hands-On Large Language Models
If someone's familiar with this, what would you say are the prerequisites?
relyks··on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
Clothing. A lot of apparel and accessory retailers have significant portions of their items produced in China.
relyks··on What is an Ethernet cable? Here's how to connect to the internet without Wi-Fi (2022)
Besides ethernet cables providing more stability to your network connection than WiFi, it isn't mentioned in the article. Not many people know about this: most houses have coaxial cable lined throughout. If your router is located in a different location in the house, you can use the coaxial cable to help create a network. You need two MoCA adapters (coaxial to ethernet) on both sides (one at the router/switch/gateway and another at your computer). Connect it all up… bingo, bango, bongo, and you got stable and fast internet! This is how I have the most stable connection in my house :)
relyks··on Autonomous Agent: Automate phone calls with AI voice agents
There is no link here
relyks··on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow.
No way. More teeth → more cavities for them to fix :) they'll likely be the ones administering the treatment to have them grow anyway
relyks··on Small study suggests dark mode doesn't save much power for human reasons
Funny, besides preventing eye strain, I thought it saves battery on my iPhone 13 mini, which uses an XDR OLED display. They'll have to continue the same experiment with OLED displays like they mentioned
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