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"Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved."

https://www.fakespot.com/product/ntp2xx-series-gps-based-ntp...

twiceadayon Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill

You having a gun is not dangerous because of other people. You having a bicycle is dangerous because of other people.

twiceadayon The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan

If I were to guess, Japan has a huge cultural presence in the west via comics, cartoons, and video-games. It is also "good weird." And historically it had a legendary reputation for electronics. That is a lot of western mindshare, especially amongst nerds. Chinas historic reputation is cheap crap and oppression. It has almost zero cultural presence in the west. I suspect between kpop and Korean dramas, westerners consume more Korean than Chinese media.

twiceadayon Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time

Why isn't the surface smaller then? Probably something inside is pushing out? It's full? Also on the way to a black hole bodies clearly have insides. Do they somehow evaporate the moment a black hole forms?

Edit: My understanding is that all bodies are the size that they are because the inner/outer pressure equalizes, and this has many equilibriums based on the makeup of the body. Black holes are the ultimate degenerate last-stand where the make up is basically raw "information" which cannot be compressed any further while allowing said information to be recovered, which seems to be a fact of our universe. And it just so happens that the amount of information is proportional to the surface area of the black hole rather than its volume, which is probably a statement about how efficiently information can be compressed in our universe. One dimension is redundant?

twiceadayon Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

A routine dental X-ray recently caught my failed root canal and the tooth needs to be extracted asap or I risk pain, huge swelling, and nerve damage.

twiceadayon The Death of the Minivan

If you want grim realize its the same with guns.

twiceadayon Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?

The core issue is that the common metric is a bad proxy for the actual signal. Goodhearts law and all that. Enforcing that the proxy be good is weird. It would be better to enforce publicly sharing the actual signal.

twiceadayon Signal's Meredith Whittaker: 'I see AI as born out of surveillance'

Senses to AI is what senses are to us. Characterizing AI sensing as always surveilling just shows your hand, and hers.

twiceadayon Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race

You lost me at '... that do not take advantage of powerful hardware.' The risks they should be taking are in making new kinds of experiences ... for existing hardware. There is plenty of room to innovate. They are scared to innovate so you propose that they innovate _and_ require costly hardware upgrades?

twiceadayon Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube

I think it's ridiculous to frame what I said like this.

1) Answer the question. Would you ever steal physical goods from an unmanned fruit stand merely asking for money? If not, would you do it if the company owning the fruit stand was rich enough? Did enough bad things? If the fruit stand was _really_ big?

If you answer yes to any of those questions I no longer wish to talk. We truly do have different values.

2) The fruit stand is an analogy for building a business on the open web. You seem to have missed that. Do you think that the internet, that these companies, got to their importance in our lives because everyone is free to modify their packets? That is delusional. It's a quirk most people aren't even aware of, and the internet is as good as you think it is today in large part because they aren't. It's why the fruit stand keeps coming to your town and is the size that it is. It's why you spend so much time stealing from it. Framing your position as exercising inalienable internet rights is ridiculous.

3) Something else you seem to have missed is the parts where I highlight the implications of your philosophy. I'm starting to think that you are arguing in bad faith. What if everyone acted like you? You think that would lead to a better world? Specifically talk about the impact on your favorite YouTube creators. You think it's fine that you don't pay them anything for their effort? That they probably get paid a hair less when you watch their videos because you take the bandwidth without paying for it by watching ads? Why do you only mention the impact on Big Bad Google? Because its easier to launder your conscience that way?

To be clear, my stance is that blocking ads is theft but petty theft; a few cents. Getting all high and mighty about it, and especially getting _anywhere near_ sounding entitled, is ridiculous. Continue to steal a little but be humble about it.

twiceadayon Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube

Would you take fruit from an unmanned fruit stand that just has a sign of how much money to put into the box / venmo? They have no security and no way to "enforce" that you pay! It's not about stealing at all, it's about me doing anything I want and am not physically prevented from doing! If they don't like it they should hire staff!

Not every proper behavior is enforced. You are always free to be a jerk. And it's pretty goofy to tie that to arguments about total personal freedom. Get outa here. You're violating the social contract. You're using a loophole to get much better treatment than "normal" people and in fact you make their experience worse as they have to watch more ads to make up the cost of serving stuff to you.

Also, would the internet be better if everyone acted like you? I think it would be in a significantly worse place if it was never possible to show an ad on the internet, if everyone was as free as you. So you get a massive benefit from others not using their "freedoms?"

"Screw 'em. If they put a fruit stand in my town, I get to take anything I want from it. It's my town. I don't have to follow their "please pay me" signs. I've always been able to take anything I want in my town. Even back when nobody would bring anything over for 'sale.'"

Cringe

twiceadayon What's your favorite RSS feed reader?

The iPhone and Mac apps are also great. I've been using them for years. You can use it to show your feeds from popular rss aggregators or it can aggregate by itself via icloud, and it syncs across your devices.

twiceadayon Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars. The difference between Meta 'smart' sunglasses and an AR headset is an AR headset. How are they 'onto' anything by selling sunglasses with a sneaky phone camera strapped to them? People wear them like sunglasses, because they are?

twiceadayon Tesla Sales Drop 17% in California

I'm no Elon defender but do you think there would be so many good Chinese EVs today if Elon was never born?

twiceadayon Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

Yep. Good for kiestering.

twiceadayon Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs

I was able to do it with no words. I 'saw' the steps as if on a piece of paper. I saw 3x=22-1=21, then x=21/3=7. But I have a degree in applied math. Perhaps not internally vocalizing is just being extremely familiar. It also happened very quickly, perhaps there was no time to vocalize anyways.

twiceadayon California sides with big utilities, trimming incentives for community solar

Yes. But put differently "if you earn less you pay less." It depends one what you call the "normal" price.

twiceadayon Llama3 implemented from scratch

She is from a manga / anime called Spy × Family which has 8.3 on iMDb. The best spy on the planet pretends to be a family man for deep cover by adopting the girl (who can read minds, he doesn't know this) and quickly marries a woman (who is an assassin also looking for cover, he doesn't know this). They do their missions in-between roleplaying a perfect family.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13706018

twiceadayon Fairness is over-rated in games?

This is why I prefer single-player games. Multiplayer games necessarily focus on being fair. Single-player games can be deeply unfair and that's okay because it's against computer opponents who don't mind. Or put another way they are actors whose goal is to make you have fun, unlike real humans who prioritize their own fun.

twiceadayon California's electricity rates will shift to a fixed fee based on income

Me three. And I don't understand how a fixed fee is a new concept because I am paying the $10/month fee. So now its a guaranteed $34/month fee, for using zero kWh?!

twiceadayon California's electricity rates will shift to a fixed fee based on income

Shouldn't you be grandfathered into the previous deal?

twiceadayon IC3PEAK – Marching [video]

Here is a great interview with them. The English subtitles are well done, by humans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ReakCrKX0

twiceadayon Hawaii moves to ban short-term rentals to address housing crisis

Bad take. Do both. Nobody is pretending this will solve all issues. Its a step in the right direction. Both in terms of putting more units towards residents and discouraging people from speculating on the housing market by buying short-term rental properties.

twiceadayon Xr0: C but Safe

You didn't ask him to clarify, you asked him to leave.

twiceadayon Xr0: C but Safe

I understand both perspectives. The premise should be questioned, a correct amount. "Do not question our premise" is a weird take.

twiceadayon Los Alamos Chess

Part of the point of variant sudoku is discovering / inventing brand new interactions you've never seen before. And crowd-sourcing votes on whether that discovery process is fun. You are basically getting introduced to a new set of axioms and have to discover and prove theorems.

twiceadayon Using Framework parts to make a portable all-in-one computer [video]

If only iPad Pro ran MacOS.

twiceadayon One of the most anticipated AI gadgets now has a release date

That's only one factor. I think the thing that is going to trigger a phase shift when it comes to interacting with LLMs is reducing response latency to conversational ranges by running enough of the models offline. You say something and it starts responding immediately, you interrupt it mid-sentence and it adjusts immediately. That is going to be revolutionary.

twiceadayon The bar keeps being lowered and the goal post keeps moving

I think this topic is the ultimate application of Goodheart's law with popularity being the measure. It is clearly too easy to game, and it was just a happy accident that it used to be a meaningful signal for quality, because not enough agents whose interests differ from yours were gaming it.

twiceadayon Researchers observe how energy of single electron is tuned by surrounding atoms

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe

"The phrase refers to the fact that the empirically derived Rayleigh–Jeans law, which accurately predicted experimental results at large wavelengths, failed to do so for short wavelengths. (See the image for further elaboration.) As the theory diverged from empirical observations when these frequencies reached the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum, there was a problem.[3] This problem was later found to be due to a property of quanta as proposed by Max Planck: There could be no fraction of a discrete energy package already carrying minimal energy."