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hackerman123469··on A child welfare AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
An AI should never make a decision for child welfare. It simply isn't black and white and can just be tied to logic. Child welfare involves a lot more than just behavior, it involves emotions, something AI currently lack and probably will for a long time. The fact it is already in use is terrible. You can't just be like "Parent has X, so their children needs Y", there are maybe hundreds of factors in play on their children's welfare and a disability doesn't mean a child can't thrive nor does it mean a child's welfare is in danger. People who has no disabilities can be terrible parents too and a disability doesn't necessarily make one a bad parent. There are simply too many factors in a child's upbringing that their welfare isn't solely based on treatment from a parent. While parents play a large role in the welfare of children, then disabilities of the parent can be treated and almost be of no harm to a child's welfare.
hackerman123469··on Twitter is censoring journalist critical of Tesla
I don't think he realistically have any huge impact on BTC, on the rest maybe, but BTC is too big and independent that he has no real impact on how it is valued. At least that is my impression.
hackerman123469··on What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
I wonder if the locations researchers are staying at are located on top of the land or if it's just randomly located and could be either. Like if all (or a majority of) the ice melted how big of an impact would it have on the locations?
hackerman123469··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
"Okay, let me just video call you because I also need to show you something" and then the scammer hung up and was to never be seen again.
hackerman123469··on AI Voice Generator: Text to Speech Software
It's necessary in some things, for example I made an app for myself where I have words/sentences spoken by text to speech, something like 12000 words/sentences, both in a normal speed and a slow speaking speed. That would be very difficult for me to do with natural voices as that would require some human to read these words/sentences, not to mention how expensive it would be, when I was able to do it for free with AI.

There are some things where AI voices absolutely ruin it, but it's not always a requirement for "emotions" to be felt in the speech we're listening to.

hackerman123469··on The State of HTTP in 2022
It's fairly common to have POST requests that have both a body and a query string. Or maybe not "fairly common" but it isn't really rare.
hackerman123469··on Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis
I know this is a little off-topic, but I would like to say that I read "Netflix: 30% birthrate saving" and was very confused at first.
hackerman123469··on Are super-rich people just better at making money?
But tell me, how are you going to tax the super rich? It's incredibly difficult to tax someone who's actually poor on paper. Most super rich people actually don't seem to have much wealth officially declared, all of their wealth is sort of like "pseudo" in that it's all tied up in assets, and sometimes assets that aren't directly owned by them but their companies etc. and they have a lot of shortcuts for tax breaks on the stuff that can be taxed. With the current system in place then it's impossible to actually tax the rich.
hackerman123469··on D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML
It's fine in that case since that's a framework and not a language.
hackerman123469··on UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud
What is not an extensive offence under British law at this point?
hackerman123469··on Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable
I can't tell if you're serious about "Valve as big enough"

Valve isn't some small indie company. They're not massive in terms of employee size, as they're only in the hundreds, but remember they have some of the biggest gaming tech stacks, such as Steam in itself, but also games like CSGO, which is arguably still one of the biggest fps games. No doubt they run those things solely by themselves without contracting some of the work outside of the company.

hackerman123469··on Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why
Pretty much everywhere
hackerman123469··on Tell HN: I am 12 and my GitHub account is flagged for no reason
He's 12 lol
hackerman123469··on The End of Localhost
Localhost isn't going anywhere as long as I am developing, at least not for me.

It's still by far the fastest way to prototype for me and it works out of the box.

hackerman123469··on Ten influential programming languages (2020)
I guess people reinventing the wheel with a new programming language isn't just some newer-age thing, but happened frequently decades ago too.
hackerman123469··on Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access
Going to assume "cloud" is the package/module and "bring" is similar to something like "import" etc. so it's probably because "cloud" in this case is a module/package that you need to import to use, so the language itself isn't actually cloud-oriented, but rather the standard framework (if you can call it that) is cloud-oriented.
hackerman123469··on Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access
Yeah, the example looks like an API demonstration rather than a language demonstration. I would have assumed the API functions were keyword oriented IF it was a programming language.
hackerman123469··on I quiz ChatGPT about math
I caught that too!
hackerman123469··on Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you
Or the job title of ghostwriting for artists
hackerman123469··on Schizophrenia: The new etiological synthesis
Is it safe to live?
hackerman123469··on Schizophrenia: The new etiological synthesis
Most diagnoses for schizophrenia are in the early twenties for men and late twenties for women, so not really in puberty/teenage years. I don't believe anyone can be diagnosed before adulthood if they're not exhibiting exceptionally extreme symptoms either.
hackerman123469··on Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible
It's the same for me. I have it zoomed at 175% and I just zoomed out to 100% and instantly had to go back.
hackerman123469··on Twitter's tweets and blog post banning other social media platforms deleted
Had no idea who he was and googled him and what a rabbithole I've entered.
hackerman123469··on Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal
ASCII ART
hackerman123469··on The multi-millionaire founder of MySpace retired before he was 40 (2017)
He's still my richest friend.
hackerman123469··on Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games
Valve has always done it right IMO. CSGO is the same, you can start a server yourself or you can play on official servers.

Valve has always been community centered and it really shows in how all their development tools are pretty much available such as mapping tools, server tools etc.

With CSGO most of the matchmaking isn't even done in official servers, but with third party organizations like Faceit. If you want to be a professional CSGO player then you can't even rely on official servers. Nobody can go pro by playing official only when it comes to CSGO, you literally have to use third party services and their community servers.

hackerman123469··on Ask HN: How do you use upvote on HN?
Anything that I agree with, finds funny, deserves awareness and/or is factual, BUT only if I feel like upvoting, so naturally I don't upvote everything that falls within those criteria; I also upvote other things once in a while, but those are usually my general guidelines.
hackerman123469··on Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?
There's a lot of disdain for Twitter on Twitter.
hackerman123469··on Hitler offers Britain 'peace or destruction' (1940)
Very optimistic of you to think RU will fall. It has been through similar dictatorships for hundreds of years and it's unlikely to ever change.
hackerman123469··on Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?
Another great one is https://www.youtube.com/@HowtoADHD
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