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spotplay··on Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
You are a person and they are a company. Please make sure to differentiate the two entity types when drawing parallels.
spotplay··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
I am speculating wildly but I would expect the exact opposite due to different actors trying to destabilize the US to the point of no recovery in such an event.
spotplay··on GPT-5 is behind schedule
"Most" is the key word here. In my experience that's also the case for LLMs.
spotplay··on A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)
On most mobile maps, you can adjust the angle by dragging up or down with two fingers.
spotplay··on You Exist in the Long Context
I'm not sure I agree. I love cheating as long as it doesn't inconvenience others. Both trying to become the narrator in this game and winning unconventionally or using bugs in singleplayer games is what makes things fun for me.
spotplay··on A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
Thanks for the original comment—I picked up something new that I hadn't considered before.

That said, you could spin this by suggesting that the mathematician living in that non-Euclidean space might also have a different perspective on numbers. If we assume pi is still constant for him, then the numbers he's always known could be shifting in value but maybe that's a stretch.

spotplay··on Do quests, not goals
Surprisingly I've learned to think like this (outside of work) thanks to Agile
spotplay··on Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
It's probably just the common US-centric bias that external development teams, particularly those overseas, may deliver subpar software quality. This notion is often veiled under seemingly intellectual critiques to avoid overt xenophobic rhetoric like "They're taking our jobs!".

Alternatively, there might be a general assumption that lower development costs equate to inferior quality, which is a flawed yet prevalent human bias.

spotplay··on EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
I don't usually comment on HN because I don't feel like I can bring much value to the discussion in many cases and I would agree to moderate it even stricter even if my (rare) comments would be removed.

In real life on the other hand I want to be able to say stupid things and even if I might be more sensible to others' "hate speech" I would not want that to be banned.

spotplay··on ShadowFinder: Find possible locations of shadows around the world
Did you remove the metadata before sending it? The bathroom story is far too impressive if you did, and could help identify kidnapping victims' locations
spotplay··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
I don't think that point stands for peanuts. I can get a 500g bag of peanuts right now for 2.7 Euros and most likely the reason for that is the cost of living around here.
spotplay··on Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says
I just ordered a HDMI 2.1 AOC cable yesterday. Isn't it only 4k@60 without DSC?
spotplay··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
You're joking but to be honest the reason I'm most excited at the moment about this discovery is because of desk toys. The way I would calculate excitement is usefulness / time to market and the respective graph of a superconductor application (at least in my monkey brain) peaks at desk toys since they would come first.
spotplay··on Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
Interesting project. Will definitely check it out next time I have to analyze the traffic from my phone.

I was just about to ask how do you differentiate your product from mitmproxy but on a quick google search I found this thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627819

spotplay··on GPT-4
I just asked bing chat this question and it linked me to this very thread while also answering incorrectly in the end:

>This is a common riddle that may seem tricky at first. However, the answer is simple: two pounds of feathers are heavier than one pound of bricks. This is because weight is a measure of how much force gravity exerts on an object, and it does not depend on what the object is made of. A pound is a unit of weight, and it is equal to 16 ounces or 453.6 grams.

>So whether you have a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers, they both still weigh one pound in total. However, the feathers would occupy a larger volume than the bricks because they are less dense. This is why it may seem like the feathers would weigh more, but in reality, they weigh the same as the bricks

spotplay··on The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
After asking him what gpt-4 is and comparing gpt-3.5 to gpt-4 he gave me a straight answer to the question "Is bing chat using gpt-4?" which was yes
spotplay··on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week
Junior here. Joined my current company in june last year straight out of college and I already have great success doing mostly remote work. After less than a year one of my senior colleagues wants to recommend me for a mid position. I do have to note that I try to come to the office once a week and I only have senior colleagues who've been more than helpful in guiding me. It was pretty rough at first being remote and now looking back at it and comparing it to the experience of one of our new senior colleagues the introduction was a lot slower but on the other hand my mentor almost never came to the office so spending hours on a teams call was the usual.
spotplay··on Ubisoft about to take away games you bought
Isn't the eu directive 2019/770 specifically against something like this?