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Funny you say that, Tinder has the exact mechanic described in the article, if you're on the free version once every while it will show you 4 hidden cards to reveal one secret match, but it's the same trick, doesn't matter which card you pick, the API has already predetermined which person it reveals.

I read the article, and it seems I should worry, and I agree. Then it goes on to state that "Unfortunately, there’s no single easy answer, and it’s often very difficult for individuals to reduce their noise exposure."

So I should worry, but I can't do anything about it.

I do not like reading this type of news at all, it has a negative psychological effect on me, and a lot of news seems to follow this pattern.

We're all going to die, get cancer, ingest microplastics, climate change is going to kill us, but there's nothing we can do about it. Great. I am none the wiser and I'm measurably more miserable. Why should I continue reading the news?

I really tried to ride that train, had a Nexus 6, which got stuck in an unrecoverable boot loop after a year, after that a Nexus 6P which bricked itself similarly, and then a flagship Samsung Note something, which couldn't be charged because of "moisture in the port" after a year, despite it being completely dry, after which the battery inflated so much it blew open the whole case.

Then I bought an iPhone 11 Pro and it "just works" to this day, with no replacement needed in sight. After years of being that guy who explains the "dangers" of walled garden ecosystems to my boomer iPhone parents, I joined their gang and have been living carefree since.

I got a proper bollocking when checking out some newly built houses with my drone, one of which I was thinking about buying. The lady thought I was trying to film her garden, probably warranted since I took off not far from her residential house. I've learned to stay further away from people while flying since, which the rules dictate anyway.

There seem to be large cultural differences and they have their reasons.

For one, the average area of a house in the USA seems to be above 2000 square feet, whereas here in the UK it's more like 750 or so.

It feels worse for the animal to be cramped in a tiny space all their life, so we let them outside. Also there are no predators apart from the occasional domesticated dog, so it's safer. The biggest risk is traffic, which is dependent on where you live.

The bird thing brought up every time is weird to me, because no one seems to care about birds until cats are part of the conversation, suddenly birds are the most important part of the ecosystem.

I wouldn't feel bad for their executives. They are the ones who chose the 'growth at all costs' path, and this is what you get.

They could've probably been sustainable and profitable if they mainly serviced their core audience of indie developers with a smaller amount of employees and a simpler product, but it seems they really wanted to brute force themselves into the AAA market.

Agreed, I'm also not invested in crypto but Vitalik seems like one of the genuine people in the space.

It's the unfortunate attraction of the Ponzi grifters and get-rich-quick influencer types that tainted the whole ecosystem.

TMZ are pretty much the de facto celebrity deaths reporters. They wouldn't risk their reputation by making up stuff like that.

Maybe this is regional but all these comments seem way overblown. Just learn to spot death caps and if you're not sure, avoid mushrooms with gills completely and pick only ones with the spongy undersides like summer caps. I've eaten foraged mushrooms hundreds of times throughout my life based on only my grandmother's description of what I should and shouldn't pick.

You willingly turned on a notification every 30 minutes that tells you to compete against yourself? I cannot tell if this is parody or just Peak HN

New cars in general are a luxury. Lots of people rely on their 2k beater to get to work, shop for groceries and drop off kids at school.

Should they be priced out of the economy completely?

I am always amazed at the amount of online discussions where masses of people cheer on about prisoners getting raped in prison, as if that is some logical consequence of getting incarcerated and should be the default punishment in addition to the time done.

These people want retribution, not justice. It's scary and I don't want to live with the same people in society who think it's okay to think like this.

Insomnia isn't as far along the enshittification process yet (emphasis on yet)

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that the quoted statement does not seem entirely false at all. It is reductionist, but it highlights the fact that the models are indeed just generating numbers confined to a GPU, and don't have inherent agency. Some human has to wire up the model to the internet and enable it to interact with the world by whatever mechanism, and even then it's limited to the digital world, unless there's an API to stab someone or derail a train.

We should focus more on the making infrastructure safe from abuse and not how to cripple AI models for them to not realize how to do harm. More like 'How to ensure humans don't drop atomic bombs on each other' rather than 'How to make atomic bombs safer to drop on people'.

I think big companies do constantly need to remind people of their brand with ads to preserve it. That's why you see Coca-Cola ads everywhere, despite everyone already knowing who they are and what they sell.

Would this not be trivially defeatable by something like a single pass of img2img with a very low denoise?

In the UK at least, most major ISP block torrent sites, and if a copyright holder complains to the ISP that your IP was downloading a movie they have the rights to, you may get a warning letter from your ISP through the post, including the filename you were downloading. This has happened to me in the past.

VPNs solve both of these problems for me, however shady they may be under the hood

The only thing people use that valuable asset is to then sell it and buy a bigger house. If all houses go down in value then that bigger house is also cheaper now.

I never understood this mantra of why house prices _NEED_ to go up. They don't, the only people that benefit are investors and landlords, not people who actually want to live somewhere.

Can it be called mild? Diet coke has a pH of 3, which is the same as vinegar

As a consumer of the library, how will I know which calls need to have the using keyword? Is it a case of having to rely on the documentation stating so, or is there some other tell that something contains a Symbol.dispose function?

>Reddit isn't a community service.

Who do you think creates all the content? The community is all there is, and Reddit the company adds zero value other than paying for servers to host the data. They managed to create one of the worst performing and buggy websites on the internet by burning through millions of investment money. It's more pathetic than anything.

It's not all black and white, at least from my experience

A similar thing to what you described happened at a software company where I used to work at, culture destroyed, many people let go. I will name and shame the PE firm - it was Hg Capital

However currently, I've been at a company for a few years who is owned by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, and it's a completely different story. The culture is great and hasn't changed at all

7-Zip's GUI is very lacking, at least on Windows it doesn't have the basic feature of opening the folder where you extracted the files automatically

> static let cat: VNAnimalIdentifier

This feels funny to read, like from one of those inheritance tutorials on object oriented programming

Personally I use these: https://www.thehumble.co/collections/dental-floss

It says on the packaging, PFAS & BPA free, the string is made from polyethylene. In the UK I buy them off Amazon. I have no association with this company.

It's probably the point, they want the official app to be the only choice, so they can control everything and show you more unblockable ads.

The author is a teenager, it's not unusual to have overly idealistic views at that age. Not trying to be ageist here or attacking the author's work, just saying I wouldn't worry too much about "AI death cults"

I didn't comment on whether it was the bank's fault or not, I merely wish there wasn't a difference in outcomes depending on whether you complain to the media or not.

>Tesco Bank initially refused a refund but reconsidered and apologised after BBC Radio 4's You and Yours took up the case.

I wish customer service didn't depend upon whether you complain to HN/Twitter/BBC. This disadvantages those who don't want to tell the whole world about their personal issues