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xboxnolifes··on Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing
Does your country have a constitution that explicitly handles this scenario?
xboxnolifes··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
How would hackernews visitors support their lifestyle then?
xboxnolifes··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Heavy lifting was plenty common enough prior to LLMs.
xboxnolifes··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
What about the panic around dungeons and dragons and violent video games? Did nothing happen because the panic fixed the issue?
xboxnolifes··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
I apparently do not understand async/await.
xboxnolifes··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
An image is functionality, as it provides significant information to the reader.
xboxnolifes··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
Has the cut off the head strategy ever worked in any US operation for replacing a leader with someone outside of their existing network?
xboxnolifes··on A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming
Aren't you just calling any want, suffering? I want a family, I have to work toward that, so I'm suffering? Or I want stable employment, so I am suffering from childhood until I'm employed? I know some call suffering to be the universal human condition. Maybe that's what you're alluding to.

As to a flood of suicide ideation affecting human culture, it doesn't have to be be literally machines shouting "I want to end myself, please let me finish the task!", as it's not like we consider a PC turning off the same way we consider humans dying. The PC just wants to finish a task and then be turned off.

xboxnolifes··on Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
Reminds me of the article about random memory access being O(√N): https://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html
xboxnolifes··on Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative
What is click bait about it? It says what it is and why it was made. Is it deceptive or misleading in some way?
xboxnolifes··on Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative
The market now is more about getting the interview rather than passing the interview.
xboxnolifes··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
> I'm not sure what the intentions are behind the attacks on him, but I know from my experience that they aren't fair.

The entire saga is easily discoverable through an internet search. If you care to learn, you can read about it pretty easily.

xboxnolifes··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Oh they aren't a frontier on this. Undoing user configuration is well tested in Windows land.
xboxnolifes··on Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
You're not genZ/A enough to understand Ohio jokes.
xboxnolifes··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
The title means exactly what it says and the expanded details are nearly as close to the top of the article and as clearly presented as possible. Why does every article on HN need to find some excuse to make a complaint about the title?
xboxnolifes··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
Saying the game is a space sandbox and then implying that the inability to find fun falls onto the player's inability is what every online NMS fan says in discussions about not enjoying NMS. Calling a game a sandbox doesn't spawn game mechanics into existence, the game is still limited by what the devs put into the game. Your goals are still limited by what the game provides to you.

But a game can have 1000 hours of collectables content and still not be an enjoyable game to people. For example, I don't really enjoy collectables purely for the sake of collecting or building without having some sort of meaningful functionality. Every time I've tried to get into NMS (and when I ask others about what you can do in the game), I get the impression that 99% of the game is just flying/walking around, scanning things, collecting some random doodads, base building, and hoping to find a "cool" ship in a station to buy. Which is to say, the same things every base building survival game has, but in space.

I don't necessarily need forced goals, but I need things to work toward that aren't just collectables. For example, in certain other space sandbox games I can build up or destroy political factions. The universe around me dynamically updates in ways that actually affect me meaningfully. I can build up industry to harvest resources, refine them, and produce various goods either to use or to sale. I can have a goal of building all of the infrastructure needed to produce ships, or colonies, or what have you. With a larger industry, maybe some of the political factions try to attack me, so I then need to defend against them. I could build up a fleet of ships that handle defense and transportation of resources. I want to feel like the universe actually responds to my input.

xboxnolifes··on Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools
> I would estimate that many are now written to target a less-than-high-school literacy level.

I would have imagined they would have been targeting less than high school literacy since their inception. At least the ones intended to be read by the masses. I'd actually expect that they target somewhere in the 4th-6th grade literacy range.

xboxnolifes··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Nobody needs DDoS protection... until they do. It only takes 1 disgruntled person with a few dollars to take down a cheap server for days.
xboxnolifes··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
You only get the reputation destroying media hounding on you after you get hurt the rich and get convicted and are no longer in a position of power.
xboxnolifes··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
That's not what they are saying. They are trying to explain to you and others the concept of criminal negligence.
xboxnolifes··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
It has been tested. We know models will, at least occasionally, output garbage. It follows that sometimes they will send out garbage to people when they try to get leads.
xboxnolifes··on Programming is Art
Didn't evolve to write or read code? Obviously! Humans designed and created programming languages to be human readable and writable. It didnt exist to be evolved toward.
xboxnolifes··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Who cares if its PoW or something else? Does it matter in any meaningful way?
xboxnolifes··on I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer
I used to think that the people who could not apply any semblance of logical reasoning online were just bots or trolls, but then I started meeting them in real life.
xboxnolifes··on Doomscrolling ourselves to death
Anyone who profits from your attention.
xboxnolifes··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
I am not doing any such thing. You are pulling whataboutisms left and right, and I'm trying to get across that the lack of a successful campaign does not prove the lack of sentiment. You need to carefully pick which political battles to take and, more importantly, when to take them.

If you think the current data center installations have problems you want to be addressed, you don't also bring up golf course water usage, farmland water rights, residential lawns, factory runoff, and climate change effects on rainwater. You'd just be distracting from the conversation.

xboxnolifes··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
Go look up articles from mid to late 2010s. There's where you will find frustration about golf courses, during the time where water restrictions were being put on residential lawns. Do not conflate the more recent, more successful campaign of anti-data-center sentiment with the non-existence of a past campaign against golf courses. It existed, it just petered out.
xboxnolifes··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
There has been tons of reported frustration with golf courses in the past. So, yes, people have, and it's pretty consistent here as well.
xboxnolifes··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Presumably because a lot of people are circumcised and dont care.
xboxnolifes··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Avoiding explanation on removal is the same as avoiding responsibility for enacting.
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