They're both polarizing, but for different reasons. I'm not a fan of Musk, but his ability to reason and reflect on his mistakes is in a whole different league from Trump IMO. A major factor in the outrage over people supporting Trump is not about him, but about the bar being set too low in general.
This article is interesting but it seems determined to reach its conclusion. I have a hard time believing that everyone seemed so cold and lifeless to those who weren't looking through the author's lens. I'd expect people to be a little awkward at any internet gathering. I feel like this piece seeks to "expose" them for not being as cool as their Twitter personalities, but we already knew that, and there are better things to criticize them for than their posture or red eyes.
In this particular case, we're talking about people being banned sometimes before ever even playing their first multiplayer game because of an anti-cheat system with a kernel-level driver and ML-assisted autobans producing a lot of false positives.
But yes, people who are actually using cheats are manipulating/attacking the service they're using and deserve nothing from the companies who are trying to defend against it.
The frustrating thing about this is that it's still extremely common for people to spam the n-word over voice chat, that's been a problem for years, and I haven't noticed any significant progress in reducing their numbers.
I started the wiki linked in the article (codconsumer.org). Long time HN lurker and was pleasantly surprised to see this here!
I was only banned for a week, but I'm absolutely certain that there was nothing sketchy happening on my side. It's pretty annoying when they're charging money for time-limited events like Battle Passes, then you lose some of that time. Of course, it's a much bigger problem for the many who have been permabanned and don't know why. And it's still happening to others.
I would really like for this to end quietly with some better policies on account reviews, and more transparency on the findings of those reviews. I don't think that's too much to ask after being locked out of a $70 purchase. So far they have been completely silent on the matter. So the wiki stays up and we hope to someday get a word out of them.
In the past I've been told to hire specifically for the personality trait of being willing to push back hard. Though stubborn people might be difficult sometimes, I really appreciate their presence when requirements are unclear or unrealistic.
With that said, code quality, F/OSS license policies, and testing should be something the whole team talks about and comes to an agreement on. There's a big difference between pushing back and failing to meet the team's basic standards, and at a certain point it becomes a performance issue.
I think the role of AI in healthcare is interesting. LAION (nonprofit and creator of huge image datasets) has a Discord with a medical channel, and it's interesting to follow, even if a lot of it is over my head. I think bots could someday be better than humans at MRI analysis and combining huge amounts of knowledge from different disciplines.
I have ADHD. Back when I was working in an office, I’d sometimes use noise generators with headphones to block out the office noise. It reminded me slightly of binaural beats in the way that it could put me into a different, more focused state
I've seen their sports sponsorships all over the place and often thought to myself "that's a risky sponsor - anything could happen" and here we are. Another blow to the trustworthiness of this industry
Agree. The moment you get into "Well, Mastodon is distributed networking software with different nodes, and you've got to ..." you have already lost a large percent of users. People expect to fill out a familiar registration form, and immediately be able to see/write posts.
I think a lot of the complexity of it could be hidden away so that the average user has a similar experience to a Twitter signup, but idk how much friction it would cause to make something like this appear centralized.
I'm probably in the minority here, but this is pretty much why I unsubscribed. I know I could probably find something interesting to watch, but everything interesting will cost me at least 5 hours of my time. I would rather watch 10-30 minute youtube videos and spread my time across a wider variety of topics
I'm just an engineer and I don't do much on the business side, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think the fact that you want to start another company soon is a perfectly good/normal reason on its own. You've found an opportunity you're excited to pursue, and you have full faith in the current leadership's ability to run the ship, etc etc. Wouldn't be anything I haven't seen plenty of times before.
Hard for me to disagree with that. The reason I have an iPhone is that I was having trouble with the family group chat when my mom was in the hospital.
Yikes. I know there are points in an early-stage company where things are very unstructured and you end up in situations that you maybe wouldn't want as a larger company.. but in this case, it sounds like it would have been better for them to allow official and community-based channels of communication to live separately.
This thread is cathartic. I've been feeling uncomfortable with the level of control being sought over the usage of these tools for a while, but didn't want to ruffle the wrong feathers while just getting into AI as a hobby. I think there will be a pretty short window in which all of this hand-waving will be taken seriously. Not because AI won't be used for terrible things (I'm sure it already is) but because consumer hardware can already be used to build a dataset and train a model, and eventually there will come a realization - it doesn't matter how ethicists want "the general public" to use AI. The general public is fully capable of figuring out on their own how to do whatever they feel like doing. It's like a compiler or a hammer or a car, all of which can be used for positive or negative purposes.
I do understand the fear of being sued or targeted in the media over misuse, though. The person misusing technology should (obviously imo) be held responsible for that, but since it's new tech, the tech will be taking the blame for the first really controversial cases of disinfo and/or harassment that utilize it.
Yep, 8GB works fine. The 2070 is where I started. I wouldn't consider it ideal, though. There will be cases where you'll wish you could increase the resolution a little more, or could do just a few more per batch, but you're getting CUDA out-of-memory errors
Yeah. For something like this, you ideally would want a powerful GPU with 12-24gb VRAM. If you have something like an RTX 2070 at the bare minimum, you probably don't need this and could do a lot more steps a lot faster on a GPU, but it's great for those who don't have that option.
My gut feeling is that artists will be the primary users of these tools and there will be a large market for those who are very skilled at producing, curating, tweaking, and post-processing the results. Some jobs will be lost due to clients who do it themselves, but there will be enough people who don't want to learn the tools no matter how simple they are. I also think the tools will become more complex.
Userscripts are alive and well! I use Tampermonkey in conjunction with an Amazon seller extension (which I won't name because I'm not really using it as intended). The extension displays, among other things, a flag icon next to a product listing indicating the seller's country. My script hides the extension's entire UI and replaces it with a country filter. It can be really useful to filter down to US sellers only, and only see brands that are well established here
I really like the basic concept, but it might be a little weird being at a music festival where everyone is licking their wristbands. Are there sanitary concerns? When the main acts go on at a festival, the crowds get packed like sardines and wristbands are certainly rubbing up against people.
I see so much value in convenient alcohol consumption monitoring though.
They played a major part in helping me quit cigarettes when my lungs were really not feeling great, and I quickly started breathing better and am now cutting down on vaping. For that reason, I think I have a slight bias toward e-cigarette manufacturers.
This is probably a good thing though. It sounds like Juul will still be able to operate in this market but will just have to provide better data in future applications. Having high standards for FDA approval is something I'm in favor of, as long as they're not setting such a high bar that there aren't any options for people who are trying to quit cigs.
In my current org, all developers, whether they're F/T or contractors, have a company account created for them and never get permissions on any other account. This is a good reminder on why I should adopt that practice I ever build a company of my own, no matter how small.
I don't view it as just a job. It started as a childhood hobby and will always be a part of who I am, but as I've gotten older I've found it more important to balance it out with physical/outdoor/social activities. I'd just spend way too long not moving.
I would really like to, but I've only had time when it's necessary for my full-time work.
..sort of. I'm sure I could make time if I were determined enough, but it's hard to feel good about spending 8+ hours working in front of a screen, then spending more hours working in front of a screen for free. It's probably more of a mental + physical health concern than anything else.
I think the term "woke" has been hijacked by some people to refer to anything minorities do in a disparaging manner, so I would need more concrete examples of what that means.
First of all, he said they will be downranking sites associated with disinformation. I'm not going to tell anyone how to interpret that, but it's worth mentioning.
Also something worth mentioning that you can take as you will: this guy's other tweets are going on about the biolab theories and seem to have a clear bias
Again I don't want to tell anyone what to conclude, just wanted to surface those things so you can decide for yourself.
It's been going downhill. There's not enough talk about its decline of original content. That's what it was known for in its earlier days. Now it's mostly recycled old memes, reposts of Tiktoks, and reposts of tweets.