Hacker News: readyplayernull

New comment by readyplayernull in "[dead]"

readyplayernull — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:40:18 +0000

We humans forget what freedom is, but do we need to be tosed in jails and beaten the shit out of us to remember?

New comment by readyplayernull in "Warren Buffett saw the selloff coming and hoarded cash"

readyplayernull — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:53:25 +0000

So how many Melania coins did he buy?

New comment by readyplayernull in "Three-dimensional flexible thermoelectric fabrics for smart wearables"

readyplayernull — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:42:11 +0000

0.0495 mAh

New comment by readyplayernull in "Canada has far too few soldiers. Here's a radical fix – mandatory service"

readyplayernull — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:02:22 +0000

Enough to contain an invasion.

https://theconversation.com/zombie-water-apocalypse-is-trump...

New comment by readyplayernull in "Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington"

readyplayernull — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:15:22 +0000

They'll get turned off.

New comment by readyplayernull in "Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)"

readyplayernull — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:21:50 +0000

> GPT-4’s text entitled “Why Did I Write GEB?,” if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, me) is adept at fluently stringing together high-flown phrases in an effort to sound profound and yet sweetly self-effacing at the same time. That nonsensical image is wildly off base. The text is a travesty from top to bottom. In sum, I find the machine-generated string of words deeply lamentable for giving this highly misleading impression of who I am (or who I was when I wrote my first book), as well as for totally misrepresenting the story of how that book came to be. I am genuinely sorry to come down so hard on the interesting experiment that you conducted in good faith, but I hope that from my visceral reaction to it, you will see why I am so opposed to the development and widespread use of large language models, and why I find them so antithetical to my way of seeing the world.

New comment by readyplayernull in "Ask HN: Could the U.S. government stop risking shutdown?"

readyplayernull — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:13:07 +0000

It's intended, will give more power to the power hoarders. They'll also use this:

https://www.newsweek.com/insurrection-act-explained-trump-ad...

New comment by readyplayernull in "Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs"

readyplayernull — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 05:18:20 +0000

And pandemics.

New comment by readyplayernull in "Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?"

readyplayernull — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:11:40 +0000

The whole problem is that wisdom is controlled by greed.

But what if, in the future, the brains of current world leaders are examined and they find the cause of their actions is saturation of microplastics? So destroying the planet wasn't their fault, but just like lead and the Romans, they got crazy from pollution itself?

New comment by readyplayernull in "Government shutdown looms as DOGE cuts spending"

readyplayernull — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:35:30 +0000

> Trump will at least temporarily have more power over federal operations. That’s because in shutdowns, presidents enjoy wide discretion on exactly what to close, furloughing employees, and what to keep open, making workers perform their duties without pay.

New comment by readyplayernull in "Government shutdown looms as DOGE cuts spending"

readyplayernull — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:27:50 +0000

https://archive.is/FnClD

New comment by readyplayernull in "Thirty years ago, on March first, 1995, Craig Newmark sent a simple email"

readyplayernull — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:55:23 +0000

Craigslist always seemed to me like the Dark Web, with all kind of people doing shady business, and this case is an amusing example:

> a bank robber successfully used a Craigslist help-wanted ad for construction workers, specifying their uniform, to create unwitting decoys around the bank he robbed in matching uniform. His "getaway car" was an inner tube.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/bank-robber-hires-decoys-on-cra...

New comment by readyplayernull in "[dead]"

readyplayernull — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:54:54 +0000

> experts say there is no evidence that a water shortage caused the California wildfires, CNN reports.

New comment by readyplayernull in "Elon Musk claims 'massive cyberattack' on X originated from the 'Ukraine area'"

readyplayernull — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:39:33 +0000

This guy made more damage to Twitter than a puny DDOS could do. Don't echo unfounded accusations from his bubble.

New comment by readyplayernull in "US unveils new app for 'self-deportations'"

readyplayernull — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:47:25 +0000

So they want to waste resources in courts and keep them in jails to feed them?

New comment by readyplayernull in "Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?"

readyplayernull — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:28:01 +0000

Spotify

New comment by readyplayernull in "Anus: An open-source AI agent framework created by Manus AI itself"

readyplayernull — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:41:30 +0000

Did you detect any code smells?

Anyway, good prompting, I'll check it out. Thanks!

New comment by readyplayernull in "Smallest Hello World in Various Languages and Compilers"

readyplayernull — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:54:35 +0000

I thought writing a Hello World in C++ was easy, until I had to make one that is transmitted by 2 synchronized I2C masters sharing nothing else but a 7 bit I2C slave memory. All I found about multimaster I2C is that it isn't possible or even practical, well.. Hello multimaster-multislave I2C!

New comment by readyplayernull in "Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI"

readyplayernull — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:54:38 +0000

We are talking multitrillion company here, money shouldn't be an issue. Though you prove my point, they lack coordination. Also AI lacks coordination and strategy and won't solve BigTech management problems any time soon. Best they can try is providing tools trying to capture what others, that are actually inventive, can do. That's why they will stay at Azure level.

New comment by readyplayernull in "US 'to cease all future military exercises in Europe'"

readyplayernull — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:48:20 +0000

Maskirovka correctly applied:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception