Hacker News: naiveai

New comment by naiveai in "Show HN: Retool Mobile"

naiveai — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:45:43 +0000

My guess is the combination of sort of sped-up audio and video plus lighting that is too even and "perfect", and the random blinks that don't seem to correspond to a regular human's average intervals (seriously, go look at it consciously, it's very weird) combine to land it straight in the uncanny valley.

New comment by naiveai in "Social norms: The downside"

naiveai — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:14:21 +0000

Framing the Gender Recognition Act as making it easier for "teenagers to choose their gender" is a particularly misleading spin. Most of this article is just a very erudite spin on very classical and frankly kind of boring right-wing talking points. It's one thing for someone to post their political views, and another for them to refuse to be honest about what they're doing and bury them in so many layers of philosophy as to make it unclear what actual points they're trying to make. Luckily this slip-up, driven by the modern conservative's Achilles Heel (trans people having agency), makes it particularly easy to unravel the rest of this given it gives you a good understanding of its motivations.

New comment by naiveai in "Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11"

naiveai — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:25:55 +0000

Until and unless Microsoft Office products are on Linux natively and are supported by Microsoft, Linux will never be a mainstream operating system. And that's never going to happen.

New comment by naiveai in "Self-compassion is not self-indulgence"

naiveai — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:47:07 +0000

I mean, only insofar as he literally defines what is inappropriate for this forum. It's a bit of a tautology to say that, I think.

New comment by naiveai in "Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform"

naiveai — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:24:39 +0000

Oh no! The Internet is more easily accessible providing more knowledge and access to millions worldwide! It's not limited to our extremely exclusive clique of 1337 hackers who also all happen to be white, college-educated American men!

New comment by naiveai in "Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes"

naiveai — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:29:29 +0000

So that the ads are more personalized. I know this sounds weird, but if I'm going to get ads anyway, I'd like them to potentially be products I'm going to maybe have a use for and might make my life easier.

I get the privacy implications, but asking "why would anyone agree to this" is kind of narrow-minded.

New comment by naiveai in "Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election"

naiveai — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:30:46 +0000

They challenged the validity of the election, and they failed. Yet they continue to insist on fighting a losing battle and possibly refusing to leave the White House.

That's called a coup attempt. A pathetic one, sure. But a coup attempt nonetheless.

New comment by naiveai in "Google Alternatives"

naiveai — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:46:37 +0000

It isn't really surprising when those foreign powers are actively hostile not only to your country, but to fundamental moral principles you hold dear.

To be clear, it's definitely not at all better in any meaningful sense for Google/the US government to have your data. But sometimes it's about the principle of the thing.

New comment by naiveai in "Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable"

naiveai — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:21:09 +0000

I find it interesting that your example for "benefit of hindsight" is TypeScript. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, so it's literally "just add good stuff to the bad and live with it". Am I misunderstanding something?

New comment by naiveai in "SymPy 1.7"

naiveai — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:24:19 +0000

Hey, a fellow Google Code-In participant! I was really sad when I saw it was getting shut down this year.

New comment by naiveai in "A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)"

naiveai — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 08:30:34 +0000

The condescending tone of this article does not help it whatsoever.

Not to mention the huge gaps in logic that cause it to jump from merely a misguided attempt to rail against well established conventions for interfaces to an active argument for those interfaces still being good.

New comment by naiveai in "YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users"

naiveai — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:14:12 +0000

This article has a catchy title, but is absolutely terrible. Curated human recommendations and/or "YouTube staffers should think like journalists" are both two of the worst ideas for the internet I've heard in quite a long time. They don't reduce bias by any significant amount consistently (and I suspect the authors know this), and thinking of a platform where millions of seperate people upload ungodly amounts of content per second as a platform to be curated just like a news site is just fundamentally misunderstanding the scale and nature of Cyberspace.

New comment by naiveai in "What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?"

naiveai — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 04:29:17 +0000

While this is all somewhat interesting, I'm not sure what the point here is - all of these things seem to be reasonable things to do?

New comment by naiveai in "Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?"

naiveai — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 06:49:09 +0000

I'd never think that the HN crowd would be into all that New Age Eastern Zen-Tao pointless philosophizing, but here we are.

New comment by naiveai in "Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?"

naiveai — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 06:46:59 +0000

My answer is that it isn't anywhere close to a bad thing. Our civilization can only continue to improve through measures and attitudes like this one.

New comment by naiveai in "Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet"

naiveai — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 05:11:15 +0000

Supermarkets and Twitter are exactly the same thing.

New comment by naiveai in "An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance on the Trail"

naiveai — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:02:56 +0000

The incorrect implicit assumption being that everyone who walks/runs outside or is on a trail/hike is doing it for fitness.

New comment by naiveai in "Who Owns Huawei?"

naiveai — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:48:27 +0000

I detect a not-so-subtle racist twinge in this comment...

New comment by naiveai in "Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI"

naiveai — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:29:57 +0000

Frankly, this comment is simply rude and ineffectual. It completely unnecessarily disrespects the good people in the OpenAI team. No one doesn't qualify as "real people".

New comment by naiveai in "Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore"

naiveai — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 06:37:34 +0000

Comparing infants in the early stages of development to mature, adult humans is disingenuous.