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site-packages1··on AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them
My experience here has been so bad with the topology that I usually use the created mesh as an example and rebuild the whole thing from scratch to reduce the verts. Not even worth the time.
site-packages1··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
I check it once a month or three. Boomer relatives still use it and so it's nice to see their updates once in a while. I've also heard good things about Marketplace, but don't use it myself because I fear my lame would-be for sale posts would end up on friends' feeds and it would be mortifying if people I know in real life thought I used Facebook.
site-packages1··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
The issue isn't prosecution for illegality, among other things it's the anti-Fourth-Amendment methods for constructing the case. So, I'm going to campaign for government entities to follow the Constitution (as amended).
site-packages1··on [dead]
This will get flagged very quickly.
site-packages1··on Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
Excuse me did you just call me a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide? Reported.

edit: I also want to point out that the fanboys conflate documented evidence in wikipedia of things EM has said with vitriol. It's like when people get banned on social media for hate speech for quoting something the POTUS said.

site-packages1··on Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
Hi, Elon! Big fan of the Wiki page about your list of predictions for autonomous driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...
site-packages1··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
Hasn't happened before, suddenly happens now after the cuts. It's not too complicated. People are dying and people have died. The new administration must collect all available evidence and then submit to grand juries for prosecution.
site-packages1··on How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa
I thought the initial scroll thing at the top was kinda cool, but then I scrolled more and it just scrolled up tiny text windows at a time. I had to eject.
site-packages1··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Particularly when there is no plan for all the displaced folks who no longer have jobs. Essentially the brilliant plan seems to be to fire humans working their jobs and getting paid, replace them with "AI", give savings to the CEO or billionaire class, let the jobless people starve or something. Like, you don't need an AI Assistant to tell you that this plan will create backlash.
site-packages1··on Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?
Very weird I cannot flag it. It's definitely a scam. Normally one cannot flag ads. Did HN pay for this advertisement? Is this a YC company? I really doubt they would be funding a company like this.
site-packages1··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
This would have been so disastrous. What a great move.
site-packages1··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
I don't take it. But to the best of my knowledge there are basically only three things with any body of evidence that they work with few/any downsides: protein supplements, fish/algae oil, and creatine. That's it. It's kind of weird that people get so hyped up about it, but at least they're not getting hyped up about some random wellness influencer supplement.
site-packages1··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
I RAN to downvote this dunning kruger of a comment.
site-packages1··on Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
I don't know I really like the definitive indicator that something is AI so I can completely ignore anything else that comes from them.
site-packages1··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
I made another comment above. People contain multitudes. Different contexts, different choices, not everyone is in a box defined by the viewer's world view. You can't really know what's going on with someone else, in their heads, in their context, so give them some grace. Instead, this person's "friends" are "hypocrites" who were "lured" into their choices. It's very condescending. I am suggesting the poster re-examine their own views on other people in light of this.
site-packages1··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
Do you suspect there is any chance they are fully independent adult human beings with full agency, who have looked at the pros and cons, and chosen to make the choices they did with clear eyes? Do you think there's any context that might square their choices with their own internal principles that don't make them hypocrites? I mean these as real questions. For "friends you love" you really seem to take a dim view of their intelligence.
site-packages1··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
I would suggest looking inwards if this is how you really feel.
site-packages1··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
> Any AI researcher who continues to work here is morally compromised.

Arguably it's exactly the opposite. In the same way we ask billionaires to pay their taxes because the regulatory regime is what allowed them the structure to make their billions in the first place, the national security of the country the AI researchers are in is what allows them to make a vast salary to work on interesting, leading edge capabilities like AI. They should feel obligated to help the military.

site-packages1··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
Well I can tell you that I work 40+ hours a week and am very unhappy my neighbor has a more expensive house than me. Someone should do something!
site-packages1··on Decision Fatigue
This is all needed to continue to iterate on software. It’s not as needed for the ossified state Twitter has been in for many years, as the parent pointed out. Acknowledge there is _some_ work needed, maybe refreshing certs (though software systems I have built have always been set up to do that automatically), apply security patches, keep an eye on dashboards. But this is a job for a skeleton team, not 7500 engineers or whatever. It’s honestly kind of sad it took that many people to basically “keep Twitter up” all these years.
site-packages1··on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website
To be fair, I did look at this in the best light possible and took your overly aggressive tone and hanging your hat on a scriveners error like putting a “2” instead of whatever other number when it was clear what the poster was talking about to be an EQ gap on your part and not malice.
site-packages1··on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website
F117 and Have Blue were both developed there, or at least tested. It’s been a while since I read Skunk Works. Maybe they’re not there right this second, but I took the comment to be giving some examples of secret things that have happened there, not necessarily things there right this second, because we really can’t know what’s happening there this second because I assume that’s secret.

Otherwise the comment is unnecessarily aggressive for no reason, and I think I detect a tone of condescension, which is unwarranted.

This is why I downvoted.

site-packages1··on Notion AI – waiting list signup
I was a user of Notion for a while but ended up moving to Obsidian, which solves a similar set of problems without the bugs. I’m seeing in this announcement that rather than focus on making a better product or fixing things that are broken, they’re jumping into the AI hype train. Seems like I made the right decision to switch to Obsidian, and over the last year have really enjoyed it.
site-packages1··on Signal Introduces Stories
I had the same thought process. I still use Instagram, but only post stories. It’s fun and less pressure than posts, and get to share fun and irreverent things with friends.
site-packages1··on Mastodon Explained
From your own site this seems like another crypto scam:

“QBUX is currently an ERC-20 token running on the Ethereum protocol. In the future, versions of QBUX running on other protocols may be developed, exchangeable 1-1 with the current QBUX token.”

Maybe you’re not willing to cop to it being “crypto” but it’s in essence the same.

site-packages1··on Ask HN: “Contact Us” Pricing
I think the comment you’re responding to answers your response. Pricing isn’t opaque because they cannot determine a standard price, but because they don’t want to scare people away.

I’m expecting spacex is different because we already know intuitively that launching something is expensive and we know there are only a small number of vendors with which to do so. So space launch companies probably don’t have the same issue…

site-packages1··on Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading
What’s the enforcement for these anyways, when a company insists on enforcement? “Cease working for your new employer or else”?
site-packages1··on Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app
I just checked my app, it does not. Seems like an account is required to email upload routes maybe? Which would make sense. But seems like no login needed for most functionality.
site-packages1··on Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app
I have, they’re both good. I really do spend many many hours on trails every year, in the mountains, in all seasons. MapOut is a clear winner for me, the interface is the most intuitive for all the basics and I’m always stumbling on new, useful features.

An example of something I stumbled onto: have a route open on your screen, zoom into some portion of the route, tap the screen and it adds markers on the route telling you the distance of the segment on screen, which persist when zoomed out. This seems silly, but highly useful way for me to zoom to where my location is (say) at bottom of screen and next route milestone is at top, and getting the exact distance to go between current location and desired location on the fly.

site-packages1··on Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app
This is cool. My single favorite app I. This category is MapOut. Seems to be pretty similar, 100% offline topo maps with additional things like route planning, detailed trails, GPS, etc. The killer features for me are the detailed offline mode so it works great no matter my reception, and that I can email GPX or any other export format and within 30 secs the route I emailed is showing up on my app. Really makes it easy to route create on a computer and send to MapOut with no fuss.

I have no affiliation, but it’s the only paid app I appreciate as much as I do.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mapout/id477094081

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