Hacker News: 908087

New comment by 908087 in "OpenAI Aquires the Domain Chatgpt.com"

908087 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:03:13 +0000

Show me someone who answers "entrepreneur" when asked what they do for a living, and I'll show you a huckster and/or trust fund kid.

New comment by 908087 in "Intracerebral hemorrhage among blood donors and their transfusion recipients"

908087 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:44:19 +0000

Would be a shame if this happened to Peter Thiel or any of the other blood boy enthusiasts.

New comment by 908087 in "TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness"

908087 — Sat, 13 May 2023 21:08:49 +0000

Video games, movies, and music weren't able to hit users with micro-targeted ads/propaganda/"content" meant to modify individual behavior in ways often harmful to them or society as a whole.

Unfortunately even that has changed now that everyone uses streaming services and plays always-online games.

New comment by 908087 in "Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style"

908087 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 01:56:41 +0000

But you'll never be certain those "actual people" aren't just using "AI" to generate that content, either... so it really won't be anything like the early days of the web.

New comment by 908087 in "Welcome Home, Garry Tan"

908087 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:50:24 +0000

The fact that you've got countless people who have never heard of you blocked, would seem to indicate that you have in fact got it wrong.

New comment by 908087 in "Counterfeit KN95 respirators"

908087 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:26:16 +0000

Most of them, I would imagine.

I've ordered KN95 masks from Amazon twice because I couldn't find them elsewhere and needed them for travel. The first time, the masks I received looked nothing like the masks advertised, and felt like they were made of tissue paper. The most recent time, the masks I received had clearly been opened before and poorly re-sealed into plastic bags.

New comment by 908087 in "The Case Against Crypto"

908087 — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:03:29 +0000

Do you have any arguments to make against the points made in the linked post, or just personal attacks on the author?

New comment by 908087 in "Web3? I have my DAOts"

908087 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 04:33:36 +0000

Tether's relationship to Bitcoin is that 80%+ of the trade volume in BTC markets is Tether.

New comment by 908087 in "PyGaze – open-source eye-tracking software and more"

908087 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:02:16 +0000

From what I gather, these mostly just lead us towards an even more dystopian future.

New comment by 908087 in "Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do"

908087 — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 15:10:39 +0000

As a society, we've been sleepwalking into a very dark place technologically for well over a decade now, and those of us who have tried to point that out have been routinely shouted down and called luddites for it.

I fear we're far past the point of no return, and there is no escape from the disaster we've created even for those of us who have avoided participating ourselves.

New comment by 908087 in "The Secure Open Source Pilot Program"

908087 — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 02:44:31 +0000

Given the benefit Google has received from open source software, tossing $1M at this and patting themselves on the back for it seems more like a slap in the face to the open source community than anything.

New comment by 908087 in "Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous"

908087 — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:13:05 +0000

The world's most successful huckster, and being repeatedly proven wrong only seems to increase his success and cult following.

New comment by 908087 in "Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Apple's privacy changes"

908087 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:56:02 +0000

I'm getting a 404 at your link as well, though it looks like someone archived it before it went dead.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210228143057/https://www.inc.c...

New comment by 908087 in "In-car touchscreens are dangerous"

908087 — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:06:51 +0000

> I think they're an awful addition to driver controls.

To make matters worse, they're quickly becoming a full replacement for driver controls rather than an addition in many cars.

New comment by 908087 in "Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them"

908087 — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:18:00 +0000

I agree with you, which is why I don't use platforms like Facebook at all.

New comment by 908087 in "Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook"

908087 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:53:59 +0000

> My company doesn't even hash passwords...

I can't imagine anything even resembling a reasonable excuse for not doing something as basic as hashing passwords, and I don't even want to imagine what else isn't being done by a company which operates in that manner.

New comment by 908087 in "FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing"

908087 — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:55:54 +0000

Am I missing something, or are they really being let off with less than a slap on the wrist, and no fines?

Not really sending a great message here, FTC.

New comment by 908087 in "Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks"

908087 — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:25:21 +0000

Or switch to the ones they've already manufactured for this purpose.

New comment by 908087 in "Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)"

908087 — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:54:05 +0000

Is there such a thing as raping the right woman?

New comment by 908087 in "Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit"

908087 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:04:59 +0000

Of my past 10 orders with Amazon, 4 of the items I've received have been either non-functional, the wrong item entirely (a knock-off of an APC replacement battery), or clearly used.

Amazon has refused to publish every one of my reviews, which, as you said in your situation, clearly met their guidelines.

My experiences indicate to me that they have no interest in improving. They're far more interested in protecting shady sellers from buyers than they are in protecting buyers from shady sellers, counterfeit products, etc.