Hacker News Reader

radicalethicson DARPA’s new X-76

I wonder what the motivation behind this is. Tactically, why ever show your latest weapon? What is the strategic purpose of this? It's like if I message my opponent in SC2 and tell them exactly what I'm going to tech to. That's ... insane right? Why would anyone do that?

radicalethicson Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day

What are the chances Russian jets were involved and it needed to be hidden?

radicalethicson The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat

I think we'll see something counterintuitive happen where hiring picks up dramatically. Companies are willing to overspend and over-hire to automate everything away once and for all.

radicalethicson New high of 45% in US identify as political independents

I once had a family member threaten to punch me in the face for mentioning UBI.

lol!

How could someone become so stingy in life?

radicalethicson New high of 45% in US identify as political independents

lmao, That's like being an independent during Nazism. Like, seriously? You can't figure out the right side here? You just can't count on some people to be on the right side of history quite frankly.

radicalethicson Amazon One palm authentication discontinued

No experience with Google yet. Amazon still has more work to do with making their tool-use calls bullet proof, but I've been able to search Youtube naturally and "open the first video" (this is still rudimentary, it's not perfect yet). Pretty good success moving around the Fire TV app with voice (open, exit), reasonably good at switching Live channels. Really fun with Amazon music, "pull up a Taylor Swift album, but acoustic only, from 2010s ...", stuff like that. It's great, and I expect it to become rather ... perfect in time.

Other things:

- Great for todo/reminders with timers

- "Hey Alexa, turn my lights on at 5 everyday, close them at 12"

- Not great at controlling Prime Video yet, can search it, but not great yet at all. Expecting this to be perfect at some point as well.

It's almost like a ... voice operating system.

radicalethicson Amazon One palm authentication discontinued

I think they are going all in on Alexa+ and cutting many other teams (speaking fully as an outsider). The new Echo Dot Max makes controlling your TV/Browsing youtube with natural language really nice (same for exploring Amazon Music - Spotify needs to catch up with this fast). Subscriptions for AI in the living room is what they are first movers of at the moment.

radicalethicson TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin

A drug is a drug is a drug is a drug.

America has never been able to successfully thwart drug proliferation. Porn, Video Games, Social Media, all substance-less drugs. It's up to you to keep your kid off Heroin and it's also up to you to keep them off those other things at addictive levels.

The thing is, keeping your kid away from things like Heroin takes a village (especially if Heroin is pervasive in the environment). The same is true for those other things. Adults have to enter the room at some point.

We've been needing a trillion-dollar class action lawsuit against social media companies. Long overdue.

radicalethicson Amazon cuts 16k jobs

I feel like this is the most natural layoff I've seen in twenty years (that is not the same as saying I feel good about it). Truly, most software companies need to cut their entire roster and re-draft quite frankly. You will need less people and have entirely new goals. This is beyond "economic" reality, AI has made it intuitive to restructure and reorient. Not doing so will just mean you will be blind-sided by any company that leaned down and re-envisioned their entire product.

So many products turned into feature mill factories. If things can get more concentrated and directed, then I think this will be better for all in terms of finding their true purpose in life.

radicalethicson Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

I just have to figure out how to play a few of my games on Steam and I can move over. Unfortunately, a few titles are still PC only so I can't make the switch. I very much would love to, but I basically need a $600 PC at all times to play a few select titles that will never come to Linux due to anti-cheat.

radicalethicson UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'

Four billion people face severe water scarcity for at least one month each year

Does anyone know what this looks like for typical cases? The water just cuts off for a month in some places I guess?

radicalethicson Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials

I feel like the period between 2019 through to today (2019-2026), human death tolls have paralleled prior twentieth century death tolls. Numbers that sound like tens of thousands, and even millions if you count Ukraine/Russia.

radicalethicson XHTML Club

If HTML was never able to be the full solution, then I guess if I had to expand on where I'm going, then what the heck are we even doing with this html thing? Either MAKE IT like PHP, ditch it, or do something, anything.

radicalethicson Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

Still holding out for a full WASM DOM renderer.

radicalethicson XHTML Club

What happens if I simply add an iterator mechanism to HTML (well, I guess we need variables too)? Is it no longer a markup language here (I won't add anything else):

Better question, why don't we upgrade XML to do that?

radicalethicson Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"

I'll explain it even better, trying to find something useful for the AI to do is the same is trying to find something useful for humans to do. Think that one through. You see, in a room that used to be just you and the boss now includes these whole other new entity called AI. Your boss is really interested in this new thing.

That is all.

radicalethicson jQuery 4

Someone should just hook up a virtual dom to jQuery, it's got a whole plugin ecosystem that AI could really re-use. Jquery + Jquery UI + Jquery Plugins + AI is probably a super power we're all overlooking.