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Re:Grok Outage on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:58AM (#49552165)
And grok was secretly querying ChatGPT? Daisy chain of failures? Like a chain of kids copying the answers of the kid next to them? LOL. Is there an XKCD for that?
I'll perform these songs by AI in concerts if the price is right. And that's how AI starts to leak out into the physical world. AI also hires human workers to do tasks in the real world using Task Rabbit and similar apps.
Re:Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:58AM (#43845356)
For it to be brilliant, AI needs to be a benevolent tool all the time. It would take just a few malignant actors to turn our world upside. I suspect it'll follow the same Internet and social media path. Great at first, grow markets, bring us together and then take a turn.
Re:GibberLink [AI-AI Communication] on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:41PM (#43176340)
That might not be practical/possible for early days but this does seem like a bridge to that natural next step that /u/dweekly is saying which would quickly phase out this Gibberlink protocol.
Sounds like a job for AI.
Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:59AM (#43113668)
Try making nuggets from scratch. It’s so good and easy to do. Chicken tenders from breast meat. Egg seasoned with salt, pepper. Dunk into seasoned breading. Dunk into egg again and back to the breading. Pan fry. Yummy.
Re:Starship Flight 7 on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:00AM (#42738188)
I would consider these launches test launches. Production is when they include commercial payloads and humans.
Re:La Basilica Di San Pietro on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @04:17PM (#42198217)
This might actually be an awesome use case.
Re:La Basilica Di San Pietro on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @04:13PM (#42198170)
Yes! I forgot about this but I knew I've seen something very similar long ago also by Microsoft. I wonder if any Photosynth DNA got into this.
Re:Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @10:10AM (#41057305)
I think most of them are new to this type of nature so you're stuck in "is this normal? Am I in danger? If I run, will I look like a fool?" So you're standing there and looking for other people's reactions before making your own. So it's a bunch of people frozen and looking at each other before 1 person makes a run for it and everyone else does too.
It will forever boggle me but the way I sort of rationalize it is that speed basically borrows energy from time. Something like that. So the faster you go, the slower the time goes. So if you go the speed of light, you're taking so much time away that when you make a roundtrip, you're like 50 years into the future.

That's a totally wrong explanation but it helps me sort out the effects and what to expect. If you fly quickly around the Earth, your watch is a tiny bit different than the stationary clock.

Re:How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @10:23AM (#39679894)
Probably John Coltrane was pissed but then realized, damn, that was really good music happening in there. Screw it, but i'm out as soon as the last note is done.
Re:Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:23AM (#39562026)
For me, it resonated strongly with me because I"m a middle aged Asian American with immigrant parents and I have young kids. It hits me in a lot of levels emotionally. I get why someone who doesn't share my background not get it. Also, you kind of need to be in the mood for that type of humor.
Re:Show HN: Better Seater: Wedding Seating Chart Optimizer on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:24PM (#38846677)
Would you make that open source? I'm interested in this problem. I'm sure there are some OS bin packing algorithms but I not familiar with ones that have separation and linking rules.
Re:Show HN: Better Seater: Wedding Seating Chart Optimizer on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:18PM (#38846598)
This is interesting. What's the algorithm that you use to optimize?
Dark comedic thought: if a prerequisite to suicide is to get your affairs in order and leave behind a clean house, suicide would be very low; ugh, too lazy to clean. I'll just live instead.
Re:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Lee and Me on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:17AM (#36848388)
Near-libelous is fitting. I'm a Bruce fanatic since childhood and there are a lot of personal accounts of Bruce and they never painted him as the guy in Tarantino's movie. I love Tarantino but that was bad. Tarantino likes to play with his characters but in this case Bruce was a real person and a hero to a generation(s). That was unfair to do that to a real person for some comedy.
Re:Money Is the Megaphone of Identity (2020) on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:03PM (#36439736)
Yes, it's good to keep a good perspective by thinking our position relative to the world but relative to our surroundings and cost of living too. Probably living the US, we're near the top for expenditures/costs too.
Re:Money Is the Megaphone of Identity (2020) on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:01PM (#36439707)
I love this essay.
Re:A.I. Imagery May Destroy History as We Know It on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:20AM (#35700874)
How did you forcefully lucid dream?
Re:1Password to Add Telemetry on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:07PM (#35691758)
At risk of sounding dumb: what's in the telemetry data?
Re:A WiFi color eInk picture frame on Monday April 24, 2023 @02:35PM (#35691368)
this won't be a popular suggestion but it works for us: We got the grandparents Nest Home Hub display. It's LCD and there's a switch to disable mic and camera but it works really well for photo sharing.
Re:Banking in Uncertain Times on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:22AM (#35168721)
If I was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, I would've picked "just desserts" as my final answer without hesitation. TIL
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:11PM (#34716147)
This.

Also, once the ChatGPT AI takes off and becomes ubiquitous, then what if there is a lack of credible content for it to train on?

Re:Show HN: Flappy Bird and Wordle on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:27PM (#34685401)
Even with easy mode, this is way impossible. I like the idea but it's way too hard.

Maybe turn it into a typing game where you simply keep the bird from falling into the ground.

Re:Netlify Acquires Gatsby on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:29PM (#34614099)
IP? Patents?

Other companies use those technologies and have to pay for commercial licenses? They can freeze out competitors? I don't know, just spitballing.

If you're interested in it, you still can do it. And coding required many hours STRAIGHT of uninterrupted time to dive deep. Something that you get less and less of as you get older. Plus the distractions (Hello Hackernews).

I have a list of passion project ideas. When there's a new hot technology/language I want to learn, I apply it to one of my passion projects and it becomes more directed and focused on a goal and it goes a lot better than just goofing around aimlessly on a new language.

Re:Nvidia in the Valley on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:37PM (#32985902)
I read that more as CYA than anything.
Re:Nvidia in the Valley on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:36PM (#32985897)
Where's the best place to pick up these cheap cards? eBay?
Re:Figma Alternatives on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:42AM (#32865934)
I've been using Framer.

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