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Re:Cindy Lee Might Be the Future of Music on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:57AM (#40106237)
...i think we found cindy's HN account.
Re:h5ai – modern HTTP web server index on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:53AM (#40106199)
this is really buggy and feels oldweb in a unpleasant way. like newer than visiting a site with no index page and seeing the vanilla apache file directory, but only enough to use old jquery-ish 2003 era web ui/patterns/components.

clicking a file and a big spinner appearing. hitting back button to go back up a few folders, spinner never goes away, etc.

depression existed before smartphones, but now everyone can record viral tiktoks lamenting their depression for views/engagement while other depressed people consume it
Re:My 25-Year Engineering Career Retrospective on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:55PM (#40099269)
it reads more like you're bitter because he exposed the simple formula for success in a modern corporation and you're gatekeeping ICs from seizing this opportunity
Re:My 25-Year Engineering Career Retrospective on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:53PM (#40099243)
the fact that humans need a book to tell them sleep is good shows how broken this society is.... or how stupid the average person is
Re: on Saturday April 20, 2024 @12:11PM (#40098398)
This is the 4D chess kind of move you get when Musk's brain is operating at maximum capacity.
is nothing < dancing dollar sign >acred?
Re:Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011) on Friday April 19, 2024 @02:44PM (#40090557)
"hey bubby, lets washy your widdle wubby tubby! want a snacky?? wanna take doggy for a walky??"

are you seriously asking this question? have you never been around babies before?

Re:Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011) on Friday April 19, 2024 @02:20PM (#40090277)
what is it with Australians and having the cheesiest names for everything? pokies. electricians are sparkies. bikkie. spewie. budgie. brekky.

it's like a bunch of babytalk only it's said by literally everyone.

Re:The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:10PM (#40089361)
i don't get it. we essentially figured this out in the first Matrix by having a bunch of cameras film an actor and then used interpolation to create a 360 shot from it.

why can't this basic idea be applied to simple 2d animation over two decades later?

this will never happen. why? because humans are outrageously self-centeredly narcissistic. so narcissistic that we invented religions where god is just an omnipotent/omnipowerful version of a man, and then we go "god created man in his image" to justify it.

humans can't help but be obsessed with other humans, the same way every species is hardwired in a specific way to relate to their own species.

the idea of any computer system "brain" not being compared and contrasted to our own is against our very narcissistic nature.

Re:Meta Llama 3 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:56PM (#40083299)
wow what a colossal waste given how utter shit the Reels algorithm is. at least they recouped it
Re:Meta Llama 3 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:53PM (#40083284)
HN is teeming with reclusive nerds with absolute corporate billionaire CEO idol worshiping complexes.
hundreds and thousands of little kamikaze drones make your silly bullets shot by meat space operators obsolete.
I never said chickens were smarter than us, I said my chickens are visually processing far more than I possibly can all while engaged in mentally and physically taxing activities.
because America is a massive money-hungry machine and run by for-profit corporatjons, and if your business is treating chronically ill people, where's the money in preventing illness through proper nutrition and awareness?

jason fung and many other modern doctors have proven time and time again, demonstrably, that type two diabetes is absolutely reversible purely through better nutrition and dietary practices.

and it doesn't even have to be low-carb.

Re:Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:24AM (#40076619)
I am not the original poster, so what's your explanation for why his two attempts were both deleted?
my 3 chickens have deep and complex social dynamics all while being able to pinpoint grains of quinoa off the ground faster than a robot while being able to spot the faintest outline of the tiniest potential threatening hawk 2 miles away in the sky, fully discerned from various crows flying around that don't phase them at all. their little brains are processing far more than me.
Re:Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:43AM (#40076160)
this site is run and shadow manipulated by mods to bestow karma/credit points to a chosen few posters. you're not in the club.
Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @10:46PM (#40072457)
Pack it in boys! We've got one layer of abstraction here! Nothing to see here. It's not like the vast majority of "above board" companies don't have multiple layers of foreign shell companies and a dizzying array of abstraction.
i look forward to the optimized version, petite bite.
Re:Feeling duped by Amazon's "magical AI" bullshit on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:43PM (#40070864)
in a sea of endless anecdotal reactions to this thoroughly-discussed situation, why, exactly, is this random blogger's lament of note? and why is the main image of a young woman's ass?

oh right. because this is blogspam.

Re:Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:39PM (#40070836)
boston dynamics is a govt psyop whose sole purpose as a company is to familiarize society with seeing robots before for the military & police industrial complex uses them to control us.

it's quite literally succeeding at it in front of our faces.

this is why their core product is video demos laced with cynical terror disguised as humorous pop culture references.

Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:29PM (#40070745)
because boston dynamics is a govt psyop whose sole purpose as a company is to familiarize society with seeing robots before for the military & police industrial complex uses them to control us
Re:Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @05:59PM (#40070500)
today, far more likely to have a mothership drone that shoots drones out.
Re:Reddit is taking over Google on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:19PM (#40069016)
every single sub no matter how niche is infested with bots or spam/schill accounts.

every single parenting/mom sub is inundated by formula companies.

every fan niche like comicbooks is full of bot accounts in training (building up karma with low effort posts and repeat copy posts from previous days from other posters).

everything, everywhere.

Re:The Boring Phone on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:54PM (#40068718)
if a data scientist thinks that data is even remotely accurate they should not be a data scientist.
Re:The Boring Phone on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:23PM (#40068370)
why in the everloving hell do age gates make you enter an exact birthdate rather than a simple yes/no button.

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