Hacker News: Xirgil

New comment by Xirgil in "Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say"

Xirgil — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:42:50 +0000

But if you own the hardware there's nothing to legally prevent you from severing the power to whatever sensors/hardware onstar is using, no?

New comment by Xirgil in "Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile"

Xirgil — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:26:23 +0000

Enough just to feed them, or enough to actually be considered payment?

New comment by Xirgil in "Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile"

Xirgil — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:12:08 +0000

I thought the consensus was that corvee labor was used, rather than outright slavery.

New comment by Xirgil in "GPT-4o"

Xirgil — Tue, 14 May 2024 13:41:29 +0000

Interesting, I was reading some comments from Japanese users and they said the Japanese voice sounds like a (very good N1 level) foreigner speaking Japanese.

New comment by Xirgil in "Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies"

Xirgil — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:57:13 +0000

And in doing so they mention genetics.

New comment by Xirgil in "Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies"

Xirgil — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:15:41 +0000

You really don't understand why nature/genetics having a large impact on people's personality, thus behavior, and thus life outcomes is taboo?

New comment by Xirgil in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

Xirgil — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:22:00 +0000

London has sky high rents for young professionals while also taxing them exorbitant amounts that ends up subsidize social housing for "economically inactive" people. I would not call that efficient.

New comment by Xirgil in "Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios"

Xirgil — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:03:27 +0000

Microsoft didn't kill Gears of War out of ineptitude or malice. It's just that consumers don't want to play cover shooters anymore. There's no market for the game's core identity. People's tastes have swung hard in the opposite direction, they want movement shooters.

New comment by Xirgil in "Airfoil"

Xirgil — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:32:56 +0000

Do you have any recommended reading on this topic? I'd like to brush up.

New comment by Xirgil in "SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle"

Xirgil — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:30:56 +0000

SpaceX absolutely gets a lot of criticism. There's people shouting to nationalize it for crying out loud.

New comment by Xirgil in "Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff"

Xirgil — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:30:07 +0000

I won't deny that there's nerfs, but do you not see how "Product reviews used to go to higher quality blogs, Reddit, Consumer Reports now are now just all content filler sites." and "People trying to sell you things are spending billions of dollars on SEO to junk up your results" are related

New comment by Xirgil in "Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff"

Xirgil — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:20:08 +0000

Search is going downhill at least in part because they're dealing with an entire industry that's adversarial to them. SEO companies are spending billions of dollars and countless man-hours with the explicit goal of making search worse. The fact that they've gotten even better tools in the form of GenAI for manipulating search hasn't helped.

New comment by Xirgil in "SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle"

Xirgil — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:53:16 +0000

It means that private industry is doing a better job of allocating funding and meeting demand.

New comment by Xirgil in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

Xirgil — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:11:03 +0000

So what would you call the social movement and ideology being described?

New comment by Xirgil in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

Xirgil — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:06:20 +0000

The movie?? Just watch it, it's Ken Watanabe's character Katsumoto. The main character/protagonist of a movie and the titular character are not always the same.

New comment by Xirgil in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

Xirgil — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:05:04 +0000

"Mind Virus" is loaded and inflammatory, but "woke" is the result of people noticing a large and highly influential social movement that refuses to name itself and chafes against any outside attempt to do so. You can't have a movement that important without a name.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211108155321/https://freddiede...

New comment by Xirgil in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

Xirgil — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:45:55 +0000

Tom Cruise isn't the last samurai though

New comment by Xirgil in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

Xirgil — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:20:42 +0000

Do you want AI to follow the blasphemy laws of every country that has them?

New comment by Xirgil in "Sora: Creating video from text"

Xirgil — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:23:29 +0000

Maintaining continuity of appearance, motion, etc does not seem like a "just" to me

New comment by Xirgil in "Sora: Creating video from text"

Xirgil — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:04:46 +0000

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