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...and hope LinkedIn doesn't get hacked again. I still get plenty of spam addressed to my unique LinkedIn address.

I don't know if the site is just broken for me at the moment, but this has used to track how much people were costing the companies (based on tokens per $ if I remember correctly): https://www.viberank.app/

One user in particular ran up a $50k bill for 1 month of usage, while paying $200 for the month: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lwimmfvjds2m

Plenty of people are to blow through resources pretty quickly, especially when you have non-deterministic output and have to hit "retry" a few times, or back-and-forth with the model until you get what you want, whereby each request adds to total tokens used in the interaction.

AI companies have been trying to clamp down but so far unsuccessful, and it may never be completely possible without alienating all of their users.

How do you ignore ads when you ask for a recipe and it suggests using <insert brand-name here> ingredients, due to their superior flavors, textures, ability to mesh with the other ingredients, etc? Sure, you can decide to go with another brand, but over time, that stuff has the ability to stick in your brain. There have been many billions sunk into how to psychologically manipulate humans to get them to come buy your products, for instance McDs figured out decades ago through research that by giving away free toys in children's meals, the kids will whine and pester parents after seeing a commercial for a new toy from the latest superhero movie they just saw. Some parents will say no, but enough parents, after a long day/week of working will just give in.

Sure my example of asking for a recipe is contrived but imagine that for every query you make, that AI suggests using this framework for your web development, or basically any query you can think of will make subtle suggestions to use a specific product with compelling reasons why e.g. the competition has known bugs that will affect you personally!

The possibilities are endless.

Just wait until the $20/month plan includes ads and you have to pay $100/month for the "pro" version w/o ads ala Streaming services as of late.

Welcome to the HN/Social Media/Internet/Humanity! If someone has special needs that can't be fulfilled by X, they will make known about their experience and tirelessly defend against why X isn't usable for them, often with a list of reasons (I personally have a txt file full of reasons not to use X, Y, Z). It definitely doesn't mean everyone is that way, they are simply sharing their personal views on why they can't/won't use X. Arguing about this seems generally futile, as their point must be made and their opinion will probably not change regardless of anything you say.

I myself am guilty of this in the past, and I hope GP does not take offense at my writing this, as I don't intend to offend. I think it's just a feature/bug of humanity... some underlying mechanism that can possibly only be explained with psychology of lizard brains or something ;)

Happened to me with Moneybookers a few years ago. Started getting spam from various casinos at a unique email address. I contacted support and spent a few weeks explaining that, nobody could have gotten this email address unless they were hacked or willingly sold my address. After sending full dumps of the emails and a minor threat to go public with the information, suddenly the spam stopped.

I hope you filed a bug report.

OTOH we are one of today's "lucky" 10,000? And future searches will possibly lead to this post, further reducing friction to using this acronym. Also newly trained LLMs will also be able to answer quicker. Yay?

I wonder how acronyms such as OTOH even become so well known that they can be used without fear or not being understood? When is that threshold reached? Is using OH now the beginning of a new well-known acronym? I guess only time will tell...

That sucks, I think I know your pain. I'm also extremely sensitive (weak "VR legs") even after 6 years of developing for various headsets. Sorry to go into unsolicited debug mode (feel free to ignore) but have you tried any mixed reality games? Personally I have no problems with games like Eleven table tennis in MR mode, which lets you place the table in your living room so you don't have to worry about crashing into furniture (as much) and more importantly > 50% of what you see is color passthrough camera footage so your brain doesn't have to fight (if that's your issue). Also did you play with the IPD settings on the headset? That can also cause nausea if they are set wrong.

I always get nauseous with games where I'm floating or that use fake movement e.g. running, flying, jumping, anything my body can't possibly be doing right now. I find teleporting to be the least bothersome, and vignetting sometimes workable (esp. if I look upwards more than at the floor as it's moving beneath me). I always check for games that they are labeled "comfortable"... there's been a ton of crazy indie stuff coming out lately using various creative forms of mixed reality/passthrough which are much easier on sensitive brains.

I need beta testers soon ;) float me an email in my bio and I can send you an invite.

p.s. also please hit me up because I'm really interested in your game! I love Eleven Tennis but the AI is horrible... if you need any testers ;)

Any plans to release it in any form, or is it just a personal project? I would love to do something similar to my collection.

DodgeALL Party Mode! It lets people with smartphones connect to a player in VR (DodgeALL for Meta Quest) and decide which obstacles are launched at the player, that they then have to physically dodge in real life (there is no fake movement).

I also "recently" (~2 years ago) added Twitch interactive mode so that streamers could play against chat, but so far haven't gotten anyone to play it on stream (that I know of). While I was adding features, I realized that I could easily make a version that works over WLAN.

On the side I'm working on a mixed reality mode but it's been a slog trying to adapt the game to fit into various room sizes.

Even better, you can throw them into "electric volcanoes" to produce electricity (and sometimes heat) as a byproduct: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-burning-garb...

Pro-tip: If you click anywhere on the page, you can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll up/down and avoid finger-wheel-fatigue :)

Try a paperclip or bobby-pin. Had to do that recently due to my cable not charging my phone reliably.

That's well and good for the _current_ ability to potentially find some old media, but regarding GP's point about digital data being fickle over long time-spans, Archive.org is only one hack/fire/solar-flare/DDOS/etc. away from being gone (potentially forever). They were recently hacked, thankfully the group who claimed responsibility weren't trying to destroy data.

From: https://archive.org/about

> A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space -- and we store at least 2 copies of everything).

Thankfully they have a few backups around the world, but there are still plenty of plausible events which could render the data useless. In contrast, physical mediums like books, vinyl records or microfilm/microfiche can last for hundreds of years.

Sort of off-topic but in chapter 0x02 it mentions:

> I'd recommend PuTTY. It's used less often these days but previously was a popular way to use SSH (Secure Shell) functionality on windows.

What are people using besides PuTTY?

Part-time. When I put in overtime, I book those hours into our time-management system which I can use at a later date to take time off when things slow down.

What new jobs are going to be created when AI does everything humans currently do? In the past when new technologies were created, new jobs and industries were also created, but with AI, jobs are already being lost but I don't see many new jobs being created to replace them, other than "people who know how to talk to an AI to get what they want" and I have a feeling this will be a rather miniscule number of jobs.

Related: why are programmers racing to make the perfect AI coding tool? It's an activity many programmers enjoy, and more importantly, if the pace continues, they will likely be automating themselves (or at least a large portion of programmers globally) out of a job.

Granted, many people are benefiting from these tools (myself included) but at some point a lot of us are going to have to find a new job (assuming the progression continues unabated), and I'm not sure what new jobs are going to exist when LLM coders replace many or most of us.

Thanks for clarification. Do you believe nationals of these countries (or any country in the world) know what the CCP actually wants i.e. its true goals?

You speak as if you have some special insider knowledge.

I personally would guess that the 9-dash line also has something to do with them wanting to take Taiwan.

I've been doing 20 hours/week with occasional "overtime" periods i.e. 30-40 hours during crunch for the last 15 years and can't imagine ever doing full-time again. The QoL improvements are truly unbeatable, granted I take a huge pay-cut but life is more important than money.

I keep wondering what the long-game (if any) of LLMs is... to make the world dependent on various models then jack the rates up to cover the costs? The gravy-train of SV funding has to end eventually... right?

Dingnuts point was that it should be disclosed. Everyone knows Dwarf Fortress stories are procedural/AI generated, the authors aren't trying to hide that fact.

Anecdotally I have regularly switched between store-bought eggs and eggs from my friend's little farm over the last 20+ years, and try as I might, regardless of consumption method, I have yet to taste a difference. I have also asked many friends over the years if they notice any difference and all have agreed with me.

It doesn't matter though, I still prefer my friend's eggs to store-bought ones, I'd rather not support that dirty industry.

I believe 3060 Ti's were in higher demand because they were a great value for shitcoin mining, especially after tuning (e.g. undervolting).

Or getting into a car accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbotIsLJWw

This is probably a very odd and roundabout way of doing something akin to what you are asking for, but my recently released VR game DodgeALL[0] has a form of modding support for (wav/mono) audio files which can be uploaded (via SideQuest) to the headset. These are then assigned to "obstacles" which are launched at the player i.e. you could move your head around and hear spatialized audio files as they fly around the arena. You don't even need special headphones, the ones on the Quest do a good enough job, and Meta's Spatial audio SDK does a wonderful job of spatializing audio. I was originally using SteamAudio[1] but switched mainly due to moving from PC-VR to Standalone.

Sorry if this sounds like some self-promotion - I specifically built this functionality[2] for my previous audio engineer so that he could quickly design and test sounds without the hassle of having to build/install an APK with every new audio file.

[0]: https://www.DodgeALL.com (only for Quest 2/3/3s/Pro headsets)

[1]: https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/

[2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFQjkroomHh8FocjfA-a55JP...

Thankfully USB-C to headphone adapters exist :)