Hacker News: ColdTakes

New comment by ColdTakes in "WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models"

ColdTakes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:25:25 +0000

GPU smuggling to China has already happened.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

New comment by ColdTakes in "Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'"

ColdTakes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:37:14 +0000

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-elon-musks-lead-trust-safet...

New comment by ColdTakes in "Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts"

ColdTakes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:41:03 +0000

I lived in California for 26 years. If this is true, nobody listens.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers"

ColdTakes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:10:36 +0000

You can not say this without the caveat that it is location dependent. This is an illegal action in some cities and states. Like in California, where that video was taken, yellow means STOP if you can safely do so. Both of these cars had ample time to stop and chose to accelerate to make the light.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results"

ColdTakes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:37:39 +0000

You don't need an account for DDG. I assume the record keeping for which sites you exclude is cookie or session based.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results"

ColdTakes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:14:30 +0000

DuckDuckGo and Kagi allow you to remove entire sites from search results and it is the best feature of these websites.

New comment by ColdTakes in "[dead]"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:39:32 +0000

And so the zombie apocalypse begins.

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:09:29 +0000

> You can't just make any shit up and get away with it.

Trump and Elon Musk literally just make any shit up and get away with it.

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:29:46 +0000

1. The Biden admin is already suing them for a different reason.

2. The Biden admin won't be there to sue them in 7 days.

3. I'm not saying this didn't happen, I'm saying Zuckerberg is a habitual liar and I wouldn't believe him if he said his name was Mark.

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:30:51 +0000

"News"

I'm not saying this didn't happen but I wouldn't trust Mark Zuckerberg if he said the sky was blue. He is trying to curry favor with the new administration and he is not above lying or embellishing what really happened.

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:52:07 +0000

I know why the rule exist. Getting banned for a rule that did not exist at the time is an overreach from a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist.

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:33:33 +0000

The user says they were banned within hours of Elon taking over Twitter. New Parody rules did not come into affect until November 2022.

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:23:53 +0000

The title.

>It's worth noting that the title of this article

New comment by ColdTakes in "The Origins of Wokeness"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:22:33 +0000

This is clearly not an imitation. Parody if nothing else which is protected by fair use.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Let's Quit X"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:22:15 +0000

Please indulge in my conspiracy theory as to why Bluesky will likely end up in the same place as Twitter[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623590

New comment by ColdTakes in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:58:06 +0000

There is a version of Solitaire that is a gambling game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_squares

New comment by ColdTakes in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:45:43 +0000

The lack of consistency is the entire point. The rest of your points don't matter to me in this discussion because whether or not games that have mechanics that look like gambling should be age gated doesn't matter when companies are playing both sides.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:55:18 +0000

This isn't a lack of consistency, it is policy. The biggest games on mobile are gacha games which are all gambling with cutesy characters. You are giving Google the benefit of doubt when they don't deserve it.

Should Luck be a Landlord be banned from the Play Store? I don't care but pick a side. If you're against it then be against all of it and not just the part of it that doesn't make you a ton of money.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

ColdTakes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:39:54 +0000

There is a clone of Luck Be a Landlord named Random Card created by a South Korean developer that included microtransactions and gacha elements and Google gave that game an award.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/07/google-pla...

So in Google's eyes, actual gambling is fine but simulated gambling is not even though both of them look like the exact same type of gambling. The only difference between the two is that in one situation Google gets a larger kickback.

New comment by ColdTakes in "Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]"

ColdTakes — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:04:04 +0000

There isn't going to be a revolution. Americans are all talk no action.