Hacker News: lalopalota

New comment by lalopalota in "Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'"

lalopalota — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:50:29 +0000

The commenter also says nothing about being penalized for not taking shifts. If they sign up for a shift, they are expected to work that shift. It is a completely different model than Uber Eats, which he can sign into or out of at any given time, without penalty.

New comment by lalopalota in "Milk Sad Disclosure"

lalopalota — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:33:59 +0000

Where do you buy a $4 domain?

New comment by lalopalota in "Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)"

lalopalota — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:49:45 +0000

Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this?

New comment by lalopalota in "Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s"

lalopalota — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:47:01 +0000

Were any of you hired when you were in your 40's 50's, etc?

New comment by lalopalota in "Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction"

lalopalota — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 02:50:14 +0000

I agree. Use the LLM to construct a better search query, then return those results and the query to the user. The user can modify the "optimized" query and repeat until a usefull answer is obtained.

New comment by lalopalota in "What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables for decades"

lalopalota — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:43:15 +0000

"not washing their hands" being the key part. it isn't dangerous to handle diver weights or clean up a shooting range. if the traces aren't cleaned off your hands before touching the face/eyes, eating, smoking cigarettes, etc, the lead will get into the body and cause problems.

New comment by lalopalota in "Ohio cryptic lineage update"

lalopalota — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:08:00 +0000

Brother: "Hey, the guy you are looking for is my brother, Ted. Here's a sample of my DNA, my parents' DNA, and Ted's baby teeth. He lives somewhere in Atlanta, probably using a false identity."

New comment by lalopalota in "Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English"

lalopalota — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:56:07 +0000

Typing out the instructions, copying and pasting the data, then analyzing the output for correctness is faster than running `sort -h` ?

New comment by lalopalota in "The Right Way to Run Shell Commands from Python"

lalopalota — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:54:22 +0000

> sh relies on various Unix system calls and only works on Unix-like operating systems - Linux, macOS, BSDs etc. Specifically, Windows is not supported.

from: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/

New comment by lalopalota in "Google no longer automatically indexes websites?"

lalopalota — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:27:40 +0000

You can get an access token from settings which can be provided in the URL. Set your search engine URL to include the token, and your searches just work, even in Private / Incognito.

New comment by lalopalota in "The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated"

lalopalota — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:48:12 +0000

You are free to chase whatever you want. Same goes for those who have chosen FSD.

New comment by lalopalota in "AI camera with no lens"

lalopalota — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:39:55 +0000

make the system output a sketch. boom - problem solved.

New comment by lalopalota in "Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet"

lalopalota — Tue, 16 May 2023 00:12:41 +0000

Yes, this implies that trezor developers know of fake devices claiming to run that version so they skipped that version number to ensure that no one who sees that version number would confuse it with an actual version.

New comment by lalopalota in "Banana Equivalent Dose"

lalopalota — Tue, 02 May 2023 16:00:04 +0000

It rained, watch out for puddles.

It rained, watch out for flooding.

The word used is "rain" in both cases. Degrees of danger is communicated elsewhere. Same with "fallout".

2023 Hackaday Prize: The Assistive Tech Challenge Starts Now

lalopalota — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:24:37 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2023/04/26/2023-hackaday-prize-the-assistive-tech-challenge-starts-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35720229

Points: 3

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New comment by lalopalota in "AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services"

lalopalota — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:04:06 +0000

Lookalikes / impersonators who present as such, probably not an issue. Claiming to actually be the person might be identity theft?

New comment by lalopalota in "Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)"

lalopalota — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:37:24 +0000

> How would would you say "where is the toilet?" more succinctly with the context up front in English?

"Restroom?"

New comment by lalopalota in "Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices"

lalopalota — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:15:17 +0000

> Discharge our own duties and responsibilities regardless of others' conduct;

Looks like they nailed that one.

New comment by lalopalota in "Rolling Stone left out the reason why FBI raided journalist's home"

lalopalota — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:24:14 +0000

The journalist quit after the pedophilla charges were edited out of the article.

New comment by lalopalota in "Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”"

lalopalota — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:01:49 +0000

Creating + lending an audiobook should be fine, the same as creating an ebook. As long as only 1 copy is loaned out per physical item owned (can't loan the ebook if someone has the audiobook), I don't see the difference. What if they create a physical braille version and loan that out to blind people? 1-to-1 lending should be acceptable in any case.