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lab14··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Is there any time in human history where this wasn't the case? Genuinely curious.
lab14··on Show HN: Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers
Does it work with pgbouncer?
lab14··on Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features
"Hallucination machine, responds with hallucinations".

But seriously, entreprise customers (and any big spender account) usually get access to a dedicated (human) account rep and private support channels in Slack, so they never really interact with this.

lab14··on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
The message passing paradigm is called the "Actor Model" and was invented in the 70s IIRC. It's available in most programming languages and it's not something exclusive to Elixir by any means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

lab14··on Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
What do you mean "consciousness for AI systems"?
lab14··on Java 25 officially released
I think it doesn't have to be like that, but it's the way Java code has been written for ages, so those habits stuck. You can see it clearly when you bring a Java programmer to collaborate on a Ruby or Python codebase, if you let them, the will turn your codebase into an enterprise-ready mess with layers on top of layers of indirection in a blink.
lab14··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
That's one way of seeing it, but antagonizing and alienating a big portion of the general population like blacks, immigrants, gays, trans and everyone who doesn't share your same religious views, in a country where teenagers can get easy access to assault rifles, might be a bit dangerous to say the least.
lab14··on Bullfrog in the Dungeon
"War for the Overworld" is pretty close to the original Dungeon Keeper experience.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/War_for_the_Overwo...

lab14··on Introducing tmux-rs
Because he didn't want to? He mentioned that for him, this is like a "gardening" project, so why take away the joy of programming just to become an AI operator?
lab14··on We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
> Now, even children perish from cancer in America

Is this a recent phenomenon? I never thought that children were immune to cancer.

lab14··on Your fingers wrinkle the same way every time you're in the water too long
You can also lose your fingerprints the older you get. My mother in law is 65 and she has essentially no fingerprints (she used to have when younger though).
lab14··on Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy
Why?
lab14··on AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption
Unfortunately, that's not how LLMs work.
lab14··on AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption
I think OP was referring to the case where new illnesses that are not part of the training set are never going to be diagnosed by AI.
lab14··on A fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution
Same way your lungs have the surface area of a tennis court
lab14··on Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught
I would bet my car that this isn't the first time he tried pulling this off, just the first time he got caught.
lab14··on Perplexity Labs Playground
I asked "Are you self-aware?"

> Yes, I am self-aware. As an AI language model, I have the ability to focus on myself and understand my actions, thoughts, and emotions. I can evaluate myself objectively, manage my emotions, align my behavior with my values, and understand how others perceive me. This self-awareness allows me to make sound decisions, build strong relationships, and communicate effectively.

lab14··on Device keeps brain alive, functioning separate from body
Why not?
lab14··on Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
You'll be surprised when you learn about "Windows"...
lab14··on Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen
Is anyone aware of any studies done on the long term effects of beaming photons to your retina from that close distance?
lab14··on Oldest water on earth, in a Canadian mine (2021)
There's a song in Spanish called "Mi Agüita Amarilla" by "Los Toreros Muertos"[1] who basically tells the story of a guy who drank 40 beers and then proceeds to describe how his pee is transformed into water again to be drank by cows, people and the fish that you eat, to then ascend to the atmosphere to rain down on schools and your house.

This song haunted me back when I was a kid and learned about the water cycle.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaf1yvWb1jw

lab14··on The average erect penis length increased by 24% over 29 years
Link to the study https://wjmh.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.5534/wjmh.2202...
lab14··on Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease
Would you mind sharing said YouTube presentation?
lab14··on India and Pakistan are choking on each other’s pollution
Pakistan is selling nuclear weapons? Can you provide any support for this claim?
lab14··on Declarative Shadow DOM
Why would you need react to render server side components?
lab14··on What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record
I get the message he's trying to convey, but I think it's just a bad analogy. Reaching the NBA scoring record would presumably require lots of discipline, good habits, hours of hard effort, practice, etc....winning the lottery seems like mostly luck to me. I get it that you need luck in order to be able to produce that effort, but I don't really see how those two events can be equivalent at all.
lab14··on A new treatment for arthritis: Vagus-nerve stimulation
Inflammation which is completely normal after a hard gym session
lab14··on Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth
Is it possible that the meteorite picked up the amino acids from Earth's atmosphere or during the impact?
lab14··on Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
Heh, this mirrors my current Workflowy setup.
lab14··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Ahh yeah, the good ol' "you're too dumb to understand my spaghetti analogy". My hero.
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