Hacker News: kkarakk

New comment by kkarakk in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

kkarakk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:40:20 +0000

Just like that - Smoking just got infinitely more cool among UK youth

New comment by kkarakk in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

kkarakk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:31:17 +0000

big prestige from people who still thing facebook/instagram are positives in the world i guess

New comment by kkarakk in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

kkarakk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:42:48 +0000

Apple software is unusable in india, no one uses it coz it has terrible data and thus the data never gets changed coz no one uses it. i have gotten wrong timings for gyms, wrong routes, it won't detect my home address from my contacts etc etc always find it funny when americans say "it's good now", no brother they fixed all the glitches in states it's still launch apple maps trash in india

New comment by kkarakk in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

kkarakk — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:16:38 +0000

pretty basic - they know they have no chance of hiding from the US. so they go plausibly in reach but outside of being casually bombed by missiles from israel. the moment they go deep US will go after them hard.

New comment by kkarakk in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:22:43 +0000

we can see what happened to opera/theater/hand drawn art as conclusive answer. humans move on to the newer more easier to create/consume thing in general (digital music/tv/digital art) and a small percentage of people treat the older mode of creation as high art coz it's more difficult and expensive to learn / implement.

New comment by kkarakk in "Google AI Ultra"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:12:38 +0000

the point is not that AI services will be affordable "eventually" it's that the advantage is so crazy that people who don't have access to them will NEVER be able to catch up. First AI wrappers disrupt industries ->developing nations can't compete coz the services are priced prohibitively -> AI wrappers take over even more -> automation disrupts the need for anyone -> developing nations never develop further. this seems more and more likely not less. cutting edge GPUs for eg - already are going into the stratosphere pricing wise and are additionally being sanctioned off.

New comment by kkarakk in "Google AI Ultra"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:03:47 +0000

AI has completely eliminated salary adjusted pricing in software. no discounts for 3rd world in anything.

New comment by kkarakk in "AI's energy footprint"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:01:11 +0000

when has ESG not been FUD or a way to bypass sanctions from poorly thought out climate change targets?

New comment by kkarakk in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

kkarakk — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:57:08 +0000

China has already been transshipping saying they assemble in vietnam with the only thing being done is stuff like taking labels that say made in china off the products. Vietnam does not care as long as vietnamese people are getting paid something.

https://redarrowlogistics.com/international/dodging-tariffs-...

New comment by kkarakk in "What's OAuth2, anyway?"

kkarakk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:52:51 +0000

>i want the user to do this very particular thing in an absolutely correct way

good luck

New comment by kkarakk in "Malimite – iOS and macOS Decompiler"

kkarakk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:46:35 +0000

wow, is that a voice filter? or is she really doing a baby voice?

New comment by kkarakk in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

kkarakk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:40:02 +0000

Patreon fundamentally is a way to support your favorite artist.Be a PATRON of the arts. Some(most?) creators use it as an ad-hoc subscription method but it really isn't what Patreon is fundamentally built for.

if you're complaining about subscriptions that go into perpetuity your first target should be app stores that set up 10 year recurring payments in the biggest chunk possible for something you'll probably use for a couple of months before forgetting about.

New comment by kkarakk in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

kkarakk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:35:35 +0000

They do - we call them therapists and they are on the hook. Medical doctors deal with BODY related issues.

New comment by kkarakk in "I do not want AI to "polish" me"

kkarakk — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:23:40 +0000

natural consequence of jobs optimising for productivity but actually abstracting all power to some mythical C suite job.

New comment by kkarakk in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"

kkarakk — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:38:18 +0000

going from 0 to profitable doesn't require that much marketing. people do discuss good products and recommend them for pain points independent of being bombarded with ads for them. you can talk about your product to people who need it.

going from profitable to "we own gigantic yachts that supply our humongous yachts" aka jeff bezos money requires absurdly crafted insidious borderline evil marketing.

New comment by kkarakk in "Call for Developer Projects"

kkarakk — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:02:58 +0000

yeah no regular user is ever gonna bother using alt texts and bluesky will not implement AI auto generated alt texts so i doubt this works at all

New comment by kkarakk in "Call for Developer Projects"

kkarakk — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:01:01 +0000

Projects should just bite the bullet and say "AI friendly" so those conservative anti tech users can pre-emptively be pushed away. Might hurt adoption but better than holding back progress. One of the reasons i don't use bluesky much is coz they came out swinging anti AI

New comment by kkarakk in "Call for Developer Projects"

kkarakk — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 05:57:27 +0000

Not only do bluesky users(skeeters? did that catch on?) not tag posts correctly they do that "anti censorship" thing where they share a screenshot of a post so you are guaranteed to see things you don't care about.

New comment by kkarakk in "The Sphere"

kkarakk — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:06:07 +0000

the website says the geode closed down in 2018 for renovations. the website was last updated in 2022.

wikipedia says the geode is closed til september 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_G%C3%A9ode.

what kinda shenangigans are going on there?

New comment by kkarakk in "The Sphere"

kkarakk — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:59:40 +0000

They basically take you out of the sphere viewing area and put you in a room created for that purpose ie a blacked out soundproofed room with 2 chairs in it.

source: my sis got overwhelmed by the sphere's antics and was escorted out to that room. it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on their website.

sis said it was a very jank experience overall but it did calm her down.