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Enough

SonicSoul — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/enough

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245411

Points: 2

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The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick

SonicSoul — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/wellness-industry-is-making-us-sick/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41936728

Points: 2

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New comment by SonicSoul in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

SonicSoul — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:40:55 +0000

not entirely sure what your point is, but i think you are saying that art is just a commodity we use for cheap entertainment so it's ok for computers to do the same?

in the context of what i was saying the definition of what is art can be summed up as anything made by humans. i have no problem when its used in memes and being open sourced etc.. the issue i have is when a human invests real time into it and then its taken and regurgitated without their permission. do you see that distinction?

New comment by SonicSoul in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

SonicSoul — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:23:46 +0000

great comment!

imagine being a photographer that takes decades to perfect their craft. sure another student can study and mimic your style. but it's still different than some computer model "ingesting" vast amount of photos and vomiting something similar for $5.99 in aws cpu cost so that some prompt jockey can call themselves an AI artist and make money off of other peoples talent.

i get that this is cynical and does not encompass all ai art, but why not let computers develop their own style wihout ingesting human art? that's when it would actually be AI art

New comment by SonicSoul in "James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus"

SonicSoul — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:39:49 +0000

astrology ignorant here.

are those light rings portrayed this way because its debris orbiting at a very long exposure ?

New comment by SonicSoul in "The AI Trust Crisis"

SonicSoul — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:02:42 +0000

heh.. here is the response i got.

  Hi there,
 
  Thanks for taking the time to write in to Dropbox Support. My name is Ross, and I will provide assistance with your case.
 
  From my understanding, you are inquiring about being opted into Dropbox AI by default.
 
  Thank you for alerting us to this problem.
 
  Dropbox engineers are aware of the problem and are working on a solution.
 
  Also, please note that no files were shared in this case.
 
  Sorry for any inconvenience this is causing.
 
  We'll update you shortly on this issue.
 
  Don't hesitate to reach out to me again for further questions!
 
  Best regards,
  Ross

New comment by SonicSoul in "The AI Trust Crisis"

SonicSoul — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 20:07:36 +0000

it blew my mind when i logged into dropbox that sharing my data with third party "vetted" AI companies was enabled by default.

i just wrote a WTF email to their support, but most likely i will be discontinuing my account. can't imagine what they can possibly say that will make this OK

New comment by SonicSoul in "Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost"

SonicSoul — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:35:46 +0000

oh wow.. refactoring is an art form. just because your code "works" doesn't mean you have to leave it alone. your working code will likely be copied into 5 other projects and will not scale well.

ideally you're investing into creating shareable code libraries and into infrastructure that makes the process of maintaining/referencing shared components easy enough for engineers to want to dedicate their precious sprint time to it.

New comment by SonicSoul in "Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)"

SonicSoul — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:55:21 +0000

engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem.

the moral of this story, the engineer being a logical man refused to try reproducing the problem and devoted infinite time to watching the user shop every night. that way he gets paid to hang and eat ice cream

New comment by SonicSoul in "Kevin Mitnick has died"

SonicSoul — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:40:02 +0000

damn i missed this! do you know if its possible to still get one of those???

New comment by SonicSoul in "At Japan’s first winery, the country’s oldest grape lives on"

SonicSoul — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:38:16 +0000

original article has audio read by a human

New comment by SonicSoul in "Seven.zip"

SonicSoul — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:43:06 +0000

https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld...

New comment by SonicSoul in "TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem"

SonicSoul — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 21:14:37 +0000

interesting, what are your use cases?

New comment by SonicSoul in "Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners"

SonicSoul — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:06:21 +0000

looks cool

tried the code playground, but seems there is no intellisense?

i think that would be very useful to learning

New comment by SonicSoul in "Dune: Spice Wars"

SonicSoul — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:29:32 +0000

on your second point, love this! story/mission would be so much more fulfilling and have a positive impact on younger minds

New comment by SonicSoul in "Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday"

SonicSoul — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:35:28 +0000

there are like 10 federal holidays. most of them are not door-buster sales. what's leading you to believe election day would definitely be one?

New comment by SonicSoul in "Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory"

SonicSoul — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:12:37 +0000

You are reducing employee mistreatment to a removed from reality statistic. As if staying close to not breaking the law is some kind of Bible scripture that makes it all ok. Lots of horrible things were legal in history and are legal today. Just because a company wants to “survive” doesn’t mean we can’t point out the things that are wrong and push for change. If you want to be cynical why not go the other way and say who cares if Amazon survives. Let someone else fill in that role that will prioritize their people. It’s easy to talk about statistics when you’re not the one at the bottom of this thing you’re so eloquently dismissing

The American Abyss

SonicSoul — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:32:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716355

Points: 4

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New comment by SonicSoul in "Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression"

SonicSoul — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:13:15 +0000

you're commenting on a study with what sounds like an opinion that feels right to you. maybe it's not just about social media vs "positive" activities. some of it may be related to screen addiction and inability to focus due to externals stimuli. any unhealthy habit could have a configuration where its not as unhealthy to some people, but it doesn't mean the study is "confusing people"

A Man Who Cracked the Lottery

SonicSoul — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:47:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/magazine/money-issue-iowa-lottery-fraud-mystery.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23891442

Points: 5

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