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24 days ago
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on: I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
It is an interesting time to be at the peak of accumulated knowledge of a 50 year career and then see a tool that has the ability to create the code to preform a task I need. But that creation doesn’t feel the same and does take interaction from outside usually to make that code useable. I think that time for required interaction will be short lived and as code bases are slowly supplanted with generated code things will be more homogenized. I pray that will lead the people being allowed to solve more complex issue and I can’t wait to see the advancements to come. I just hope we can look back and say it was worth it, that don’t we end up with a bunch of AI generated crap that degrades technology by obscuring the useful and we end up worse than before.
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4 months ago
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on: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Agreed, Reddit as a source of truth is the issue. Who in the their right mind would look at Reddit as whole and say that is an open, unbiased community focused on true and accurate information. And as the article and comments in this very thread show how moderation and its application within Reddit are "contaminated" which is a very good way to describe the situation.
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6 months ago
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on: Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety
Yes, but there is nothing that says that I have to consent to a random 3rd party monitoring where I go for either of those licenses.
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6 months ago
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on: Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety
Just one more data point for any 3rd party to buy from Flock and use how ever they please. Well you know as long as the check clears.
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6 months ago
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on: Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety
I dont't recall this being anywhere in the documentation or terms of the licensing of a vehicle. Did I miss that part?
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7 months ago
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on: Ask HN: This is not the place for political discourse..so where is?
It is harder to separate technology and political discourse as they seem to becoming more and more intertwined. This is probably the most respectful open forum that I know on the internet. My problem is much like yours if not here where? If we cannot discuss this here, then the people driving these technologies will not be able to reconcile technology's place in our political landscape and how our contributions ultimately are actively shaping the world around us. Unfortunately, Hacker News has the most literate and well thought out responses to extremely technical issues on the internet, seems like this would be the ideal place. You don't have conversations on X and Reddit etc. like you can find here on HN. The whole reason I love it here is getting to sift through all these comments here is for the knowledge people share here and I have seen highly charged ideologies discussed here in detail and it is still standing. But is that because the community has been actively avoided certain divisive topics?
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1 year ago
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on: GM software boss: we have 'high conviction' ditching CarPlay is the right path
I feel like this might be the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.
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1 year ago
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on: Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format
Agreed just because a company thinks my threat model doesn't require anything but letters and should be short enough to memorize, sure does not mean they are correct. Apple is collectively dumbing down complexity for selfish reasons and then not allowing you the user to change default complexity and length. Looks like the only problem they were trying to solve was reuse which might be a plus one for the Apple device population but I am not sure the trade off is really worth it. But hey it's free!
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1 year ago
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on: FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
After seeing how much they are going to charge for it, I am not sure if it will not cause more homelessness.
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2 years ago
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on: Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
WHQL - Gamer Edition! taxing hardware with cost increases passed on to the lucky consumers. Gee thanks Microsoft.
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5 years ago
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on: Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with reading in Siberia
I think that permafrost loss being accelerated and the affect it has had on overall temps is concerning. I wonder what man-made acceleration of permafrost loss like the hydraulic mining has speed up this process that has been taking place since 2013 and I think we are seeing the results. Sad really.
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5 years ago
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on: FF Sandbox Escape
Meh...escape must mean something different at Google
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7 years ago
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on: Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
YES! Totally agree but they can't continue to give the market the weapons that are being used to maintain that repression.
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7 years ago
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on: Facebook is down
for good, finally!
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7 years ago
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on: Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
If you do it knowingly yes...you have the ability to say no. Do you think you are not a victim, or are you just complacent enough that as long as you have X you are fine and I can going knowing I was a good person. You dont have to create victims you do have an obligation to prevent them.
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7 years ago
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on: Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
Not when the market has no moral compass with which to guide. Democracy is controlled by the market, and when you teach a computer to learn to pick the cars out of a picture so you can "prove you are not a bot" watch Real Genius you do have a moral obligation to what you take part in creating. If you say my piece is small and I can't stop them from making a facial recognition system/plate reader/password cracker then you are putting your financial gain above what your work does to others. You are part of the problem.
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7 years ago
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on: GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact
Wait until you will have to wait for your insurance to run a viability test of an experimental cancer drug for your dying loved one, and seeing to denied due to a low probably of success. But by then it will be too late wont it. Given its ties to Google they have the data already anyway...I am sure a search is part of the HR process.
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7 years ago
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on: YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
Too bad they do not possess the moral standing to do better with the audience they have. But hey, Capitalism is great right as long as you have zero character and are vapid enough to believe that any of this fake crap matters. I say it is fine because they are the crabs at the bottom of the bucket...
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7 years ago
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on: Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
If you thought that Nation-State hacking looked bad wait until Private Sector hacking reaches Blackrock levels should only take a few weeks...then it will be who can afford the biggest stick.
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7 years ago
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on: Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
So AWS finally lost enough money to the Russian blockade that they caved. Sad.
