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robbywashere_··on Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash
The lawyers will innovate long before the tech does
robbywashere_··on Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged
Surprised they aren’t just printing warrants for arrest like the usual.
robbywashere_··on No federal privacy law? After the 23andMe hack, it's time to take action
Good luck out-lobbying Google and Meta for privacy
robbywashere_··on Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging
Can you imagine if all major websites/services all had their own version of http-esque protocols? Imagine if Microsoft had a protocol only you could use on their devices. Sound familiar yet?
robbywashere_··on Elon Musk talks Tesla: "We dug our own grave with the Cybertruck"
I’m curious about how ICE vehicles are culturally embedded in China or if there is a lack there of. People in the states seem to have “feelings” about electric vs ICE. For instance; “rolling coal” do they do that in China?
robbywashere_··on The Twelve-Factor App (2011)
Fun to compare this to with how insane deployments are now featuring kubernetes manifests which only big brains can understand
robbywashere_··on Walkers in the city and everywhere
Why walk when you can cruise around at 5mph in your big ole stupid truck on the road you paid taxes pay for. This is your road. Rev that engine real loud make sure people see you and your big truck.
robbywashere_··on Clearview AI: secretive company that might end privacy as we know it (2020)
If only there was a body of democratically elected leaders who could help enact policies and laws for this sort of thing. In the interest of the majority of the citizen class
robbywashere_··on Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
Happy for them but probably not my thing personally
robbywashere_··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
why was hertz practically issuing arrest warrants? Because they can. Malicious artificial intelligence is here. The boring part is its these faceless bureaucracies they behave (intelligence?) without responsibility or repercussions whatsoever. That AI bogeyman your think of, its just going to be these kinds of companies blaming it on amok algorithms, in place of which is now some sort of 'failed process'
robbywashere_··on Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)
Just wait until 3D life like avatars start taking the zoom interviews and doing the leetcode challenges
robbywashere_··on Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
cmd+F lawsuit 0 results?
robbywashere_··on On Robots Killing People
I’m starting to see the whole “robots killing people” is really just going to be the flagrant deflection of responsibility and blame by the people who deploy them. Just think, smart humanoid “intelligence” will make a wonderful scapegoat.
robbywashere_··on A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how
I see this as more of a way to profit off a monopolies dark patterns.
robbywashere_··on Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
Firefox is better. I had no issues switching recently.
robbywashere_··on Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
My bicycle never spied on me
robbywashere_··on Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
How long before those screens start to play targeted ads and the data is shared across your devices, but you’ll get a discount on the msrp
robbywashere_··on Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
Why is it that front end frameworks have so many fans, teams, logos, lifestyles and haircuts?

Like for instance golang doesn’t give much for abstraction, so it doesn’t create rockstars out of its build system / dsl / etc ?

robbywashere_··on Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night
lawyers and PR will innovate faster than self driving capabilities.
robbywashere_··on Bike Lane Sweepers (2021)
Bike lanes create jobs!
robbywashere_··on How the ‘urban doom loop’ could pose the next economic threat
Well hmm yeah I don’t know maybe if you designed cities for habitation FIRST and not just parking and driving the utility would protect it from this sort of fragility
robbywashere_··on Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll
I can also relate to this. As wonderful as ruby can be, my install (or lack of, then install) always seems to break when I get back to it after some time away.
robbywashere_··on The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook
Since U.S.A. is so good about nailing people for copyright infringement what if… PII could be copy written?
robbywashere_··on The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook
Can we get some privacy laws pretty please?
robbywashere_··on My Books Were Used to Train AI
information wants to be free
robbywashere_··on Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?
The US will get there eventually. We just need to rip each other apart over public bathrooms first
robbywashere_··on New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
incoming backroom payment deals with publishers. "OpenAI now features training data from our partners X, Y, and Z"
robbywashere_··on Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
Leetcode interviews are a zero interest rate phenomenon.
robbywashere_··on What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data
Since chatgpt 'massive explosion on the scene' I have and still do predict; the amount of info-tech jobs will actually GO UP. This has always been the case with any tech innovation. I find it humorous; as pointed out in the article; there is an assumption that once an efficiency is discovered we will just throw our hands up; sit back and relax. This has never happened. The market runs on innovation and competition. New tech means more competitive edge.

If free energy is ever discovered (extremely doubtful), we will not help but boil ourselves from the excess heat it generates.

robbywashere_··on ChatGPT Isn't as Good at Coding as We Thought
Fair. But garbage in garbage out. The prompts are in human language. Of which the models use to derive output. Human language is obviously not a rigid mode of instruction. Therefore; the models behave exactly as you'd guess. The output is not purely predictable nor rigid. This is by design.

Providing a prompt, and/or know how to properly prompt is key.

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