Hacker News: qintl55

New comment by qintl55 in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

qintl55 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:09:50 +0000

Classic example of "courts/lawmakers do NOT understand tech". I don't know why this is still as true as it was 10-20 years ago. You get such weird rulings that are maybe well-intentioned but are so off base on actual impact.

New comment by qintl55 in "Apple's new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit"

qintl55 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:38:15 +0000

after years of teach humans to identify and avoid scams, we now have to teach AI to do this. le sigh

New comment by qintl55 in "LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool"

qintl55 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:56:52 +0000

i just hate that they turned it on by default

New comment by qintl55 in "Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says"

qintl55 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:16:42 +0000

Gosh, I'm watching this now... the amount of bullshit from Smith is ...wow!

New comment by qintl55 in "The man who killed Google Search?"

qintl55 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:30:54 +0000

It is really nice to have someone to blame. And since things are going wrong (google results _are_ shitty) there is plenty going around. That said, just like no one person is responsible for the success of a company, no one person is responsible for its failure. This material is great for a movie, but not for critical thinking. It _is_ an entertaining read. My biggest problem with it is that the author seems to be contradicting his own principles. In his about page, he says "Be respectful.". That doesn't apply to him apparently. There is no way he asked this Raghavan dude if he wanted to comment for the article.

New comment by qintl55 in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

qintl55 — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:09:28 +0000

They say that the battery on that is ~2 hours (?) So probably not for work yet.

New comment by qintl55 in "Stanford’s war against its own students"

qintl55 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:24:43 +0000

I love the covid angle thrown in for dramatic effect-- "poor students wanted the parties to get over covid blues and look how the college is punishing them!! Evil College!" My immigrant 0.02$-- if you care about building a life, being a frat president or organizing parties are optional activities. But then again, I also don't get why college football coaches are paid more than CS professors...

New comment by qintl55 in "Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries"

qintl55 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:23:10 +0000

erm, yeah-- In data security they say "safely stored in frankfurt"...?

New comment by qintl55 in "Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season 1 and 2"

qintl55 — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:30:03 +0000

Not all streaming providers do this. For example, if you buy a movie on Apple TV, you can download it. To me, that makes good on the "buy" agreement. Based on my last experience, I was trying to buy a movie that was available both on Amazon and Apple for the same price. The amazon version is bound by the EULA, and they don't let me download or play on non-DRM protected devices/apps. But Apple's was good. So I don't buy movies on amazon anymore.