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Firm that verifies mugshots for ChatGPT and Roblox feeds US surveillance apparatus with 269 distinct checks

https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-su...

> They weren’t really post scarcity. They never explained how they’re not in a constant state of rioting when a weird government/military decides what everyone can have or do.

Well, post-scarcity really just means that ordinary citizens have free access to replicators (matter-energy converters).

So the closest example (and the only one I can think of where you see civilian Earth, outside of SF Academy / SF HQ or a time travel episode), is probably the double episode in DS9 where the changelings reach earth and there's a false flag event by a corrupt Admiral that causes a momentary power outage and a planetwide lockdown for a few days. I believe it's meant as a 9/11 allegory -- the homeland is attacked and suddenly everyone WANTS a police state, or at least is willing to go along with it, and only the courageous honorable military officers are there to stop the corrupt ones, all the civilians are frightened into compliance.

But post-scarcity? That just means when the security officers aren't around, people can wander into Joseph Sisko's restaurant and eat as much as they want for free, and Joseph Sisko can run his restaurant with as much food supply/ingredients and kitchen equipment as he wants for free, and every gets as much clothing as they want for free, etc. When Earth isn't on lockdown, that's the implication, everyone has as much material goods as they want for free, that's post-scarcity and the implication is they have it.

Post-scarcity doesn't mean infinite resources, or that you can have whatever you want, not everyone gets free land/space on which to build their home, for example. If that's your definition of post-scarcity then I guess at least the Q Continuum has it! :)

You don't have to have an absolute monopoly. Microsoft was punished for anti-competitive actions in the 90s when it bundled its Internet Explorer browser into Windows.

Even though other browsers existed, like Netscape Navigator etc, Microsoft was still found guilty of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and guilty of anti-competitive action, both in the US and elsewhere.

Microsoft was forced to create a version of Windows without IE bundled, and other corrective actions.

safereddit.com also broken

eddrit.com also broken

but r.naa.gg still works! (not for long though, probably, since Reddit admins read HN)

what is SI?

Exactly. As the saying goes, if one side says it's raining and the other side says it's not, it's not the job of the journalist to report both. It's the job of the journalist to look out the fucking window to see if it's really raining or not.

Just stay on Windows 10 and it will be disabled for you!

Thank you!

If you're curious, this is the single prompt used to build the game with Claude Sonnet 5.0 on Medium:

> Create game 197 "Jungle" based on the Chinese board game "dou shou qi". Since it's a board game it can use a regular controller (doesn't need websockets), but please include scoring (backend authoritative/anticheat) and sound effects (ui/lib/sfx.ts)

I did later have a second prompt but it was just to renumber the game to make it ready for publishing, after playtesting and finding no issues. And of course a lot of the infrastructure (including the sound effects library) was built in previous sessions.

If you have any questions, lay 'em on me!

For complex 3d graphics, if you want to make a good game with lots of features, you need to use a real game engine like Unity or at the very least if you want to do it in a browser use a library like three.js (the games I make are far simpler so I don't use many libraries)

Once you have the project setup, with version control setup, then you can start agentic development. Claude is the best in the business right now (imo), that could change rapidly though

A monopoly-style board game vs 3 AI opponents. With common stock symbols/tickers for the properties.

This project started over 2 months ago and I'm still going! Happy to answer questions, would love any feedback, whatever you got I wanna hear it!

SpaceX released its prospectus Wednesday (will be ticket SPCX), OpenAI expected as soon as Friday

I did share the prompt, it's right below the game :) I do the same for most of the games I build (one each day). Some of the games take a lot of prompts to fix/adjust things, but most require only a single prompt -- this one (Tower Defense) required just 1 sentence, a few words, that's it

As for the language, the whole application is set up with c#/.net on the backend and React/vite/js on the frontend so each game is built with that in mind. No gaming engines or physics libraries or anything, Claude handwrites all of it.

First state in the nation to do it (a few others are trying), a few days ago the Hawaii legislature passed, and today the Governor signed, a bill saying that CORPORATIONS DO NOT HAVE THE POWER TO BUY POLITICAL ADS

This takes PAC and SuperPAC money out of politics (at least in Hawaii) and gets around the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United vs FEC.

Same, I absolutely refuse to engage with Persona in any way.

Yes, I really think the data center will consume that much power because that's the design

Yes, I really think that it will get built, because the people building data centers are throwing money/favors at politicians to get them approved

The data center project is by Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary and will consume 9GW, more power than the entire State of Utah currently consumes

Class action lawsuit, settled. Up to $95 per iPhone user.

Darn, fixed (I think)

Yes, in some of the games I post the prompt(s) used, especially the early games. I'm going to go back and see if I can add that info to all the games where it's missing. The only game where I felt I needed to explain the game itself was Backgammon, if you don't know how to play that game it's kind of confusing, but all the others have space for the "patch notes"

They signed a classified Pentagon AI deal but withdrew from the drone swarm program. Pushback from employees sometimes WORKS.

React/vite frontend, .NET API backend. A few of the games are canvas-based, but most of them are just API calls (the turn-based games). This one is live-action so it's using websockets (SignalR)

If you flip through the games, sometimes I share the prompts used (text at the bottom of each page is like a blog entry), especially when I'm able to make a solid game with a single prompt. A few of the games have taken multiple prompts though.

I'm making a new video game every day, with AI - seeking feedback or just people to try it out

Day 11: Breakout Ultra - arkanoid/bricks style game with powerups and scoring

I used to run a flash games website (SWF files) years ago. I've made a few games of my own. I'm also an avid gamer and love to play games of all kinds.

I'm also a software engineer, and a few days ago I decided I wanted to run a games website again. So I bought the domain gamevibe.us and with the help of Claude I've been vibe-coding one video game every day since.

Happy to answer questions, take feedback, etc -- don't hold back, I know it's pretty elementary so far

Most days I create the game itself in a single prompt, or sometimes a second one to add pop/slide animations for the computer moves which the AI doesn't include by default but really adds to the experience imo

So for making the game, 5 to 15 minutes tops

But I spend between 1-4 hours on other supporting features, like the high scores, user authentication flow, fixing minor bugs I notice, marketing tasks, etc

An answer I haven't seen yet in this thread: give people actual sick days instead of PTO.

At most companies I've worked at, including my current employer, sick days and vacation days are combined into PTO - Paid Time Off. Who wants to burn a vacation day if you're sick but capable of working?

That's not true, because the new TOS plainly states that it does not apply to transactions made before the new TOS went into effect.

You forgot Response #4: Ok. I'll take your word for it; here's a raise. (Aside to other managers: this guy is a flight risk. Don't offer him any promotions, and start thinking about how we might replace him.)

It happens. Not infrequently. It's why I never tell my employer when I get an offer. They might just give me the raise because it would hurt to lose me today but they can lose me in a couple months, and then the offer I had at the new company is long gone.

No they don't. My roommate moved out a few months ago, I watched him fill out the mail forwarding form (with his name and my/our address). Not only did no confirmation letter show up in my mailbox -- in fact I stopped getting my own mail for several days and when I confronted the USPS worker, he said, "Oh, I thought your apartment was vacant now." I got pretty mad and he just shrugged, not even an apology.

I had to get my car's title reissued from the DMV (I had just bought it off my roommate as he was leaving), and also had a paycheck disappear (was working 1099 remotely and paid monthly via check) because both things were coming in the mail that week and disappeared never to be seen again. (Luckily the guy I was subcontracting from paid for his own stop payment and reissued the check)