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4ndrewl··on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
I think that's addressed in the article ( the ladder example)
4ndrewl··on A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
Why wouldn't it occur to OpenAI to run their models to secure their own systems? Seems like a clown show.
4ndrewl··on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads
"after the (9-year old) boy complained about views"...what a time to be alive.
4ndrewl··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
It's 1990s Microsoft Access but with AI
4ndrewl··on JetKVM Mini
TLI
4ndrewl··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
Your bet is wrong sadly.

Experiencing the story through someone else reading the words to you is different to reading though. I'm not sure why people are so weirdly defensive about this.

4ndrewl··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
"Mosseri is not arguing that a chronological feed harms users. He is arguing that it produces less engagement and less time on the platform."

Seems like a great outcome, right?

4ndrewl··on How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
One of the other millennium problems is counting to 7.
4ndrewl··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
It's not snobbery, reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently. Just like reading an interview transcript is different to listening to an interview.
4ndrewl··on Should You Buy a ThinkPad?
Regarding price - pre-owned ex-corporate ThinkPads are sold for very little, usually about 20 percent of the price of a new one. Plugged into an external monitor it might just work for you.
4ndrewl··on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
Worse false equivalence I've read on HN for a while.
4ndrewl··on Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
I mean downvote all you like, but you know there's a team in place already doing their damnedest to define dark UX patterns to enable them to technically meet the restrictions.
4ndrewl··on Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
Table stakes. Just the cost of doing business.

A bit like millionaires who park illegally because "it only cost $100 to park here, and my PA will do the admin"

4ndrewl··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Clickbait title, but it boils down to

"In fact there are only two things universities need to change to be perfect at preparing founders: they need to make students feel that starting a startup is something they can do, and they need to encourage them to work on their own projects."

4ndrewl··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Bloody Sadiq Kahn and his militant sharia ulez improving the health of forriners. /s
4ndrewl··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Rtfa. "Stunned" is the actual word the scientist used.
4ndrewl··on Asus Bike Booster
You could replace your regular fender/mudguard with an "ass-saver" type that sticks out parallel to the ground.

But in any case wet tyres would have a negative impact on the ability of this device to efficiently drive the tyre.

4ndrewl··on Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
It's called a shower.
4ndrewl··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Multiple PMs since Cameron. In fact the last PM to win a GE and see out a whole term was Tony Blair. (Cameron's first term was a coalition - even in the midst of a deeply unpopular PM and a financial crises he failed to win a parliamentary majority).

The instability means paralysis. No-one believes any policy will last the 5 years+ it needs to be implemented, so very little happens.

4ndrewl··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Downvote all you like, if you're just using purely functional cookies, you don't need a banner.
4ndrewl··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
It's not a cookies banner. It's a request to harvest your data and share it with third parties for purposes that are not required for the service you're offering.

No harvest data to 936 partners? No need for a banner!

4ndrewl··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
They know what they're doing. The next administration will give them 1.2bn to start deploying offshore wind. Money for nothing!
4ndrewl··on Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
(b Box[T]) Map[U any](f func(T) U) Box[U] _is_ for the Arts and Humanities.

Unless you're writing assembler in vim you're not STEM.

4ndrewl··on Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals
It's not nerdism, it's just a general infantilism. It suits anyone with power as the plebs now don't have the ability to reason about policy when they're infinitely doom-scrolling 15 second cat videos.
4ndrewl··on Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Isn't this just VHS v Betamax again?
4ndrewl··on The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it
Tell me you weren't around during the dot com boom without etc, etc.

The benefit is neither here nor there - it's whether the borrowed money will ever be repaid on the lenders' terms.

4ndrewl··on Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub
First commit was only one month ago, so it's sure gained some traction...
4ndrewl··on Substack writers, you need a website
It's not really a counterpoint when it's addressed in the article.

"The biggest pushback I hear from writers is: “But my website doesn’t have an audience! Substack does.”

But you don’t have to completely abandon social media or platforms like Substack to protect your autonomy (personally, I prefer the word sovereignty but it does sound a tad dramatic)."

4ndrewl··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Just sociopaths doing sociopath things. Bugger civilization.
4ndrewl··on SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says
Is it too late to pivot to Blockchain? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/long-island-iced-tea-micro-c...
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