Hacker News: gameshot911

New comment by gameshot911 in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

gameshot911 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:42:07 +0000

I read that the emergency vehicle may have weighed 60,000 lbs. It can't stop quickly any more than an airplane can.

New comment by gameshot911 in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

gameshot911 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:53:39 +0000

I was a small child at the zoo. I had lost my parents in the crowd, and was scared.

A nice black man (this was important because I grew up in a white neighborhood and hadn't encountered many black people before) knelt down to me and asked me if I was okay, if I was lost. They brought me to the zoo office where they called my parents.

I'll never forget how strange and different they were to the child me, and yet how kind they were in the sea of scary strangers.

New comment by gameshot911 in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

gameshot911 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:48:15 +0000

Your right to buy a DRM-free book?

I put that in the same bucket as my "right" to buy your house for $1.

New comment by gameshot911 in "40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language"

gameshot911 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:30:42 +0000

Really interesting - thanks for taking the time to comment.

New comment by gameshot911 in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

gameshot911 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:02:04 +0000

Are you vegetarian/vegan?

New comment by gameshot911 in "Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain"

gameshot911 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:20:20 +0000

Noob here: could this issue have been worked around if you had a personal list of the IP addresses that the domain resolved to?

New comment by gameshot911 in "How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value"

gameshot911 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:37:57 +0000

Were 10 people in fact staying when the listing max was 8?

New comment by gameshot911 in "Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator"

gameshot911 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:56:32 +0000

> dang” is pronounced “dang” and not “Dan G.”

WAIT WHAT?!?

New comment by gameshot911 in "Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed"

gameshot911 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:41:33 +0000

They offered us the same thing, we signed up through it, they never paid out. Uninstalled.

New comment by gameshot911 in "Even the worst mass extinction had its oases"

gameshot911 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:44:51 +0000

Thanks for the great summary!

New comment by gameshot911 in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

gameshot911 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:27:32 +0000

Your comment is really interesting, but I didn't fully understand.

What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes?

'If powered down, the engine would destroy itself' - from what? Overheating?

The lower power setting on shutdown does what? Spin it at a low RPM so it doesn't decrease in temp too quickly?

New comment by gameshot911 in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

gameshot911 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:57:34 +0000

Critically, by torrenting they also directly distributed the copywritten material itself. That is a standalone infringement separate from any argument about trained LLMs.

New comment by gameshot911 in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

gameshot911 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:02:26 +0000

Beyond illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted content, the article also describes how Meta staff seemingly lied about it in depositions (including, potentially, Mark Zuckerberg himself).

Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

gameshot911 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:26:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971446

Points: 1270

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New comment by gameshot911 in "Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants""

gameshot911 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:04:21 +0000

>There English language skills... declined catastrophically.

Let he who is without sin...

New comment by gameshot911 in "Is stuff online worth saving?"

gameshot911 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:33:21 +0000

How often do you reference your vault?

New comment by gameshot911 in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"

gameshot911 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:13:16 +0000

That quickly becomes tedious when you need to do it multiple times a day - e.g. logging in to different customer environments. Much prefer the one-click approval.

New comment by gameshot911 in "DraftKings fined for online slot incapable of generating a win"

gameshot911 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:44:04 +0000

Revenue, not profit.

New comment by gameshot911 in "Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering"

gameshot911 — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:22:04 +0000

Eh, I think people's motivations for responding on forums like SO are other than whether ChatGPT will incorporate their information or not.

New comment by gameshot911 in "The unstallable plane that stalled"

gameshot911 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 19:57:59 +0000

Gentle reminder that it's good practice to define your acronyms at least once, particularly for audiences they may not be SMES.