Hacker News: hackerman123469

New comment by hackerman123469 in "A child welfare AI tool may flag parents with disabilities"

hackerman123469 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:46:41 +0000

An AI should never make a decision for child welfare. It simply isn't black and white and can just be tied to logic. Child welfare involves a lot more than just behavior, it involves emotions, something AI currently lack and probably will for a long time. The fact it is already in use is terrible. You can't just be like "Parent has X, so their children needs Y", there are maybe hundreds of factors in play on their children's welfare and a disability doesn't mean a child can't thrive nor does it mean a child's welfare is in danger. People who has no disabilities can be terrible parents too and a disability doesn't necessarily make one a bad parent. There are simply too many factors in a child's upbringing that their welfare isn't solely based on treatment from a parent. While parents play a large role in the welfare of children, then disabilities of the parent can be treated and almost be of no harm to a child's welfare.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Twitter is censoring journalist critical of Tesla"

hackerman123469 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:22:55 +0000

I don't think he realistically have any huge impact on BTC, on the rest maybe, but BTC is too big and independent that he has no real impact on how it is valued. At least that is my impression.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?"

hackerman123469 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:42:21 +0000

I wonder if the locations researchers are staying at are located on top of the land or if it's just randomly located and could be either. Like if all (or a majority of) the ice melted how big of an impact would it have on the locations?

New comment by hackerman123469 in "VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:12:54 +0000

"Okay, let me just video call you because I also need to show you something" and then the scammer hung up and was to never be seen again.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "AI Voice Generator: Text to Speech Software"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:24:25 +0000

It's necessary in some things, for example I made an app for myself where I have words/sentences spoken by text to speech, something like 12000 words/sentences, both in a normal speed and a slow speaking speed. That would be very difficult for me to do with natural voices as that would require some human to read these words/sentences, not to mention how expensive it would be, when I was able to do it for free with AI.

There are some things where AI voices absolutely ruin it, but it's not always a requirement for "emotions" to be felt in the speech we're listening to.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "The State of HTTP in 2022"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 08:21:31 +0000

It's fairly common to have POST requests that have both a body and a query string. Or maybe not "fairly common" but it isn't really rare.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis"

hackerman123469 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:09:10 +0000

I know this is a little off-topic, but I would like to say that I read "Netflix: 30% birthrate saving" and was very confused at first.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Are super-rich people just better at making money?"

hackerman123469 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:16:27 +0000

But tell me, how are you going to tax the super rich? It's incredibly difficult to tax someone who's actually poor on paper. Most super rich people actually don't seem to have much wealth officially declared, all of their wealth is sort of like "pseudo" in that it's all tied up in assets, and sometimes assets that aren't directly owned by them but their companies etc. and they have a lot of shortcuts for tax breaks on the stuff that can be taxed. With the current system in place then it's impossible to actually tax the rich.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML"

hackerman123469 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:00:37 +0000

It's fine in that case since that's a framework and not a language.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud"

hackerman123469 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:33:53 +0000

What is not an extensive offence under British law at this point?

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable"

hackerman123469 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:50:46 +0000

I can't tell if you're serious about "Valve as big enough"

Valve isn't some small indie company. They're not massive in terms of employee size, as they're only in the hundreds, but remember they have some of the biggest gaming tech stacks, such as Steam in itself, but also games like CSGO, which is arguably still one of the biggest fps games. No doubt they run those things solely by themselves without contracting some of the work outside of the company.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why"

hackerman123469 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:29:04 +0000

Pretty much everywhere

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Tell HN: I am 12 and my GitHub account is flagged for no reason"

hackerman123469 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:24:19 +0000

He's 12 lol

New comment by hackerman123469 in "The End of Localhost"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:01:36 +0000

Localhost isn't going anywhere as long as I am developing, at least not for me.

It's still by far the fastest way to prototype for me and it works out of the box.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Ten influential programming languages (2020)"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:37:36 +0000

I guess people reinventing the wheel with a new programming language isn't just some newer-age thing, but happened frequently decades ago too.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:11:26 +0000

Going to assume "cloud" is the package/module and "bring" is similar to something like "import" etc. so it's probably because "cloud" in this case is a module/package that you need to import to use, so the language itself isn't actually cloud-oriented, but rather the standard framework (if you can call it that) is cloud-oriented.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language – request alpha access"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:10:12 +0000

Yeah, the example looks like an API demonstration rather than a language demonstration. I would have assumed the API functions were keyword oriented IF it was a programming language.

New comment by hackerman123469 in "I quiz ChatGPT about math"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:54:31 +0000

I caught that too!

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:45:34 +0000

Or the job title of ghostwriting for artists

New comment by hackerman123469 in "Schizophrenia: The new etiological synthesis"

hackerman123469 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:13:39 +0000

Is it safe to live?