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arky527 | 3 years ago | on: Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

Unless those traditional news outlets use LLMs to write stories for them in order to keep up with the internet/lower salary cost

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: An offshore workforce is training Amazon’s warehouse-monitoring algorithms

At it's height that's still $1.8m for paying ~350 people

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: NeRF: An eventual successor for deepfakes?

Very much agreed. It just results in a terrible UX when 98% of other websites have a standard scrolling mechanism

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell

I find the use of a 'sh' file suffix a useful convention to follow in helping identifying what is an isn't a shell script on my local machine

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces

> Changing the temperature while driving on a good touch interface is trivial and incredibly far from incredibly dangerous

Looking away for even ~3s at motorway speeds is 100m driven without looking at whats in front of you, I'd say that's fairly dangerous

> The great benefit of a touch screen is unlimited update capabilities

It also introduces a single point of failure for any features on it, at least with physical buttons you stand more chance of operating other parts of the car if one breaks.

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces

Modern cars seem to be moving towards all controls on a touch screen somewhere. I suppose this allows for more frequent updates, but in my experience it just leads to more bugs and more painful factory updates.

Not to mention using a touchscreen to adjust the temperature while driving is incredibly dangerous compared to a dial you can feel for without taking your eyes off the road.

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: Statement on 4 Years of GDPR

GDPR also opened the door for the eprivacy directive that brought us cookie law

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: SaaS Communities?

YC's startup school could be a good place if you have an idea already - https://www.startupschool.org/

arky527 | 3 years ago | on: Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious

I find this to be a good motivator to make better interactions with co-workers & friends. Since giving up FB/Instagram I've found conversations with friends to be much more engaging and fulfilling