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The article is terrible. The museum might be, too?

So they'll pay a fine. They don't plan to stop being an MLM, which means they will continue to drain the wallets of the vast majority of their people, while pushing a lifestyle that's not achievable (nor even socially or ethically desirable).

If you doubt Amway's power, a key family member was the Secretary of Education! I don't suppose we'll start educating children that all MLMs are scams.

Agreed, as long as the laws you're talking about are the ones targeted at humans.

If people are responsible for AI, then AI regulation is pointless, a case I've made many times.

Typewriter regulation is also pointless and would not have prevented the Unabomber. He preferred an Underwood.

We already have laws against bad human behavior. Trying to blame a machine is another form of delusional anthropomorphosis.

People are responsible for what people do. Not machines. And not corporations.

Elon may "live" in Texas but he didn't do his homework.

I'd be willing to bet the geography won't allow such a line underground. Texas is full of caverns, oil, and underground gas.

This small physical constraint sits on top of (underneath?) the rest of the reasons it's ridiculous.

What social controls? Apple and Google get a cut of all the business that runs through their apps, including gambling apps. This has been the subject of numerous lawsuits.

You don't think the Play Store or the App Store are just giving out those apps and not making money from it, do you?

The app platforms are not only complicitous, they're enabling gambling by allowing these apps at all. It would be very simple to take them all away with TOS that banned gambling apps.

What platform has the ethics to do that? None.

And that's how they get collapsed into a single person.

But it's not the justice system; it's TV. And we have lots of psycho male scammers on TV.

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I'm general, familiarity leads to apathy. When we get used to "bad" feelings, it's easy to keep choosing situations that produce those instead of good feelings.

This is how we get people who "prefer" to be sick, tired, angry, hungry, dirty, afraid, etc. -- all things humans generally don't want.

We can train ourselves to "want" to be sick or angry if we're not careful to steer things the other way. It's much easier to control people who are sick and angry (and sell them things), so most messaging in society amplifies these negative emotions.

Calling this a "tool" is a bit of a stretch. A calculator can be used to divide up a bill, and it doesn't require a login, either.

Apps like this are inventing problems in order to offer a solution. Folks can already split a bill, or they can stop being petty and quit worrying about every dollar between friends and family.

Mitigating and monetizing every human activity through an app is anti-human and unhelpful.

I've found this to be the case also. It's so heavily gated that there's almost no point in bringing up a new project or tool because it will be batted down if I'm the one that wrote it.

HN doesn't have that auto-gatekeeping but has taught me to really soft pedal posts about my own stuff. When I've managed to present it as a useful thing and not just my thing, I've gotten significant and sustained lift here.

Amazon uses a warehouse storage "planning" method looks a lot like this. Items are placed on shelves based on proximity and empty space, not on what the items are.

This "disorganized" warehouse is faster for the robots to access as they simply memorize where each item was placed on arrival.

"Psychological warfare" is a bit of hyperbole and nothing in this short handful of paragraphs suggests anything so severe.

While I also dislike the "all white" look, I don't think anyone is pining for an avocado fridge and brown pile shag, 'cause we already had that.

I did read that link. It's very old. The server box (local) does offer the option to create a web stream, but you have to turn it on. It's no longer the default and even turns itself off after a timeout, so perhaps they responded to that story.

I was in the market for one of these for my new RV, but I went with Eufy, an Anker brand, because you run the server locally on an integrated box. They don't need a cloud service or subscription, so there's no need to trust them with your camera feed.

You always could. It's just slower and less efficient because most of what a model query needs to do is matrix multiplication and the GPU is optimized for that.

Inter is the new Helvetica (even though we already had Helvetica Neue).

What makes it insanely great in addition to readability is the variable weights from 100 to 900 in a single file, plus a huge range of glyphs.

Ghandi said you can judge a society by how it treats animals.

And to that we can add "and it's schoolchildren."

And to add insult to literal environmental injury, it's to be located in Texas, which is the country's largest producer of both solar and wind energy.

Instead, the company made a deal with a petroleum business to get their own natural gas pipeline, burn that gas, and emit more carbon than the EPA has ever allowed at any factory in US history.

All this for more AI? Really? How is that helping? Layoffs hurt people. Cutting social services like food and housing combined with unemployment leads to social unrest. A data center won't fix that.

And all of this while Amazon says they want to be "carbon neutral" by some imaginary future date. What a hell of a step backwards.

As an alternative, my TV Explorer has more than 10K free channels with no signups.[0]

It's a demonstration project for my Watson software engine, posted earlier. [1]

[0] https://tvexplorer.live

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325624

This one has been reliable for a while..

https://iranmonitor.org

The real punchline here is saved for the end of the article. It has nothing to do with Temu and everything to do with dumbing-down the population.

If people get used to relying on free or cheap AI-generated content, their overall intellectual capacity and ability to act in the world will be lower.

Ampex was already no longer a known brand when I grew up as a kid in Silicon Valley. I had to wait to become an adult to find out what that giant sign out there had been for!

You've hit on it. Your own needs and experiences as a journalist are quite different from other users. It's very likely that good tooling for that audience is non-existent, and that might be worth writing or writing about.

To paraphrase Ansel Adams (who was speaking of cameras), "There is no one best tool for the job, only the best tool for the kind of thing you're trying to make."

Another way of saying it is that the world of software is so vast, from DIY homegrown to open source libraries to closed commercial apps that there isn't one "best" of any of it, or even 10 best.

I'd say your explorations will take you the furthest if you focus on a problem domain, learn all about it that you can, then find out what software exists in that problem space and whether or not the world would benefit from something new from you in that area.

What's wrong here is that Apple decided devs need their permission to install standard web tech apps on Apple devices.

Apple is anti-dev, pro control of the income stream, and only interested in supporting devs that are all in on the cult.

The fact that the dev made a web version with all the same functionality just proves we don't need an app store nor Apple to gatekeep it.