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taraindaraon One Driver, Two Trucks: Is This the Future of Freight?

Oh my god. Just press for laws to be adjusted so we can have longer trucks already. It’s way more efficient, especially than using two trucks when one truck would do the job. You’ve got all this technology adding point of failures and additional cost to operate. You can use an advanced computer system to drive a second trailer, or just hitch them together and no extra tech needed

taraindaraon Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

Advanced facial recognition for one. College students recently did an experiment where they could scan a face and find a lot of publicly available information about people. Imagine the stores of data the gov has they don’t talk about.

This my own conspiracy theory, but I theorize the anti-mask movement was started specifically to prevent masking from ever becoming normalized.

taraindaraon In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships

Going through this now in my job. This was a great reminder that I’m not alone in all of this. It’s funny how easy it can be to feel like I’m the only one that’s struggling.

And it’s true about the “fuck yous”. It instantly reminded me of an old coworker that was let go and was trying to joke about it, but the F U sticks aside from anything else he accomplished while there.

taraindaraon Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers

They clearly stated that this is not the intention. The closest thing to this would be translation help. But even then they’ll undoubtedly include a notice like “this has been translated with the help of AI.” Along with a prompt to encourage the human to help improve upon the translation.

taraindaraon Path Isn't Real on Linux

This actually helps explain some behaviors I’ve encountered. It was never a serious issue, since the answer is to use a full path. But is slightly annoying none the less. Understanding helps a lot.

taraindaraon The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

Perhaps locally running ai can help us filter this. Or rather, a locally tuned algorithm.

taraindaraon Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?

> Blocking the notifications was one of the best decision that I could have made

I’ve done this for all social media, and more recently deleted all social apps. I’ll go on Facebook sometime through the web browser, mainly for marketplace.

Facebook was the first app I tested disabling notifications on. This had to be about 10 years ago, I noticed they would give me a new notification every 5-10 minutes. I was addicted to checking what the notification as. Usually garbage, and the less I used Facebook the more garbage the notice. Since I’ve stopped using Facebook for anything but marketplace my entire feed is now garbage. The algorithm doesn’t know what to do with me now and its former history.

Having no social apps has been a hard change to get used to. But I feel so much better not feeling like I need to scroll.

I only scroll on hacker news now… which is easy because the top page doesn’t get that many updates in a day, and after several minutes of browsing “new” I’m satiated I’ve seen all I might want to see

taraindaraon Force Devices to use Pi-hole

I got distracted reading the article by the white background that has slight translucence to it. I thought my phone was having backlighting issues as it scrolled the tile background behind the text and white background just subtly enough to feel like a hardware problem, when it’s a web design problem.

taraindaraon Mandatory short duration TLS certificates are probably coming soon

But nothing stops companies from doing this today, without forcing everyone to make the change also.

You can refresh your cert every single day. the cert that gives me https on my home routers web interface doesn’t need that level of scrutiny.

taraindaraon Tesla owners are trading in their EVs at record levels, Edmunds says

https://www.tesla.com/inventory/used

Tesla resells some trade ins

taraindaraon A neuroscientist makes the case that AI can think

It’s a book advertisement

taraindaraon Ask HN: Why can't we have LLMs writing documentation?

I’d imagine it wouldn’t be hard to have a kind of hybrid method. The developer comments the code for a reason, and ai can expound on that comment if necessary.

taraindaraon Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th

If less than 0.5% of users upload over 100hrs, then either this is an extreme penny pinching move, or some few in that 0.5% upload a massive overage of content.

taraindaraon From iPad back to Mac after 8 years

What I don’t get is why there isn’t a bigger push to innovate handheld devices for such use. My iPhone is a full computer in my pocket, but the OS heavily limits how versatile it could be. I could walk into work, plug in usb-c to a dock, and get full access to two monitors, keyboard, mouse, storage, network connections. Instead it’s just a phone that can browse the internet. Infuriating.

Even that iPad and Mac have the same processor now, but run incompatible operating systems. They can’t run the exact same apps. They can’t do the exact same things. Despite having the exact same hardware.

These companies have killed innovation in the name of making newer products as often as possible just to sell them. We could be further along in many ways tech wise if this push were different.

taraindaraon Gmail Users on Red Alert

I don’t want a phone number anymore. There’s no real reason for anyone to call a number that ties directly to me. If it’s friends or family they should have a way to reach me. Companies getting away from phone verification is a much needed step, especially as AI grows.

taraindaraon I put a Spotify jukebox on my website so you can control what I'm listening to

Prepare for endless despacito. XD

This is neat. Diving into the Spotify api is on my do-to list

taraindaraon Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet

Interesting to note, devices that measure time without an onboard Real-Time Clock use the stability and frequency of power to keep time accurate. Devices that don’t have a RTC, or the ability to sync with NTP / atomic clock frequencies, will experience time drift during this frequency shifting period.

taraindaraon Could AI bring about a hypermedia renaissance?

This sounds like a benefit in some ways, but also introducing a lot more compute per request than if things are well defined.

I suppose the trade offs may depend on each use case, using ai to handle these entirely, or only intervening if an error is returned and the ai can smartly rectify the problem.

Interesting idea. I’m curious to see where people take this

taraindaraon The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]

The pdf is 23 pages long in dual column format… I used OpenAI to summarize it for me, which equally felt as helpfully detailed as it did hypocritical. But the ending summary gave me a paragraph of generated words to think about:

“This study highlights the dual impact of GenAI—both as a cognitive aid and a potential crutch. While it improves efficiency, it also risks reducing independent analytical skills. Careful use of AI, combined with critical verification strategies, will be essential for maintaining long-term intellectual engagement.”

taraindaraon The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking

Dup 3 hours before this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002458

taraindaraon There's 456,976 4-Letter .com domains, and they're all gone

I met the founder of a company who claimed they at one point owned every 3 letter .com domain they could get their hands on. Claims they had around 5000 of them (17576 total), and about a 100 2 letter domains. They had trouble figuring out what to do with them so they let them expire.

After working with them for a few years I believe this story, and especially the part they weren’t competent enough to know what they really had at the time.

taraindaraon DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government

And openAI has the former NSA chief on the board. Which government has the motivation to utilize your data against you specifically? Perhaps the one of the country you reside? Who knows.

taraindaraon Developers should embrace creative coding again

I’d argue that desktop native is also the most likely to introduce system breaking bugs, viruses, and malware. A web app is much safer from these types of issues.

The result is people can use more efficient terminals to do most of what they need. And the powerful native machine is available when that extra power is justified.