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Google parent in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B

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4 points·by batguano·2 years ago·1 comments

Ask HN: Tracking Coding Friction Points?

3 points·by batguano·2 years ago·1 comments

Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

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2 points·by batguano·2 years ago·1 comments

An Artist in Residence on A.I.'s Territory

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1 points·by batguano·3 years ago·0 comments

Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars founder, has died

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108 points·by batguano·3 years ago·21 comments

The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought over Radio Waves

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2 points·by batguano·3 years ago·0 comments

The MIT Gender Admissions Controversy

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4 points·by batguano·3 years ago·2 comments

Large Crack Spotted in Roller Coaster Prompts Its Shutdown

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7 points·by batguano·3 years ago·2 comments

Elizabeth Holmes: Inside the Routine at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas

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15 points·by batguano·3 years ago·16 comments

Ask HN: Why is anybody still working for Twitter?

18 points·by batguano·3 years ago·28 comments

Tool Could Protect Artists from A.I.-Generated Art That Steals Their Style

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5 points·by batguano·3 years ago·0 comments

Who Benefits When Salary Info Is Public?

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2 points·by batguano·3 years ago·0 comments

Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere

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5 points·by batguano·4 years ago·0 comments

‘Office Space’ Inspired Engineer’s Theft Scheme, Police Say

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9 points·by batguano·4 years ago·2 comments

‘Avatar’ and the Headache of High Frame Rate Filmmaking

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3 points·by batguano·4 years ago·1 comments

Dominatrix Demands Fort Lauderdale City Commission Fund Sex Dungeon

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10 points·by batguano·4 years ago·1 comments

Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

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5 points·by batguano·4 years ago·1 comments

How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I

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4 points·by batguano·4 years ago·0 comments

My Sad, Lonely, Expensive Adventures in Zuckerberg’s V.R

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9 points·by batguano·4 years ago·2 comments

Carmack: “There’s a bunch that I’m grumpy about” in virtual reality

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42 points·by batguano·4 years ago·25 comments

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batguano
·last year·discuss
And Harold's Fried Chicken shack
batguano
·2 years ago·discuss
Didn’t even work well then, which is why the 12th Amendment passed quickly
batguano
·2 years ago·discuss
In many states (California being one) you don’t vote for a vice president on the primary ballot. I did notice that in Illinois, you do.
batguano
·2 years ago·discuss
I find this very creepy, not necessarily for any _rational_ reasons. It just seems like a bizarre way to use human tissue.
batguano
·2 years ago·discuss
From the title, I honestly thought you were asking, “As a regular, sensible person, how do I put up with all these AI doomsayers?”
batguano
·2 years ago·discuss
As a parent, this kind of sorry breaks my heart.
batguano
·2 years ago·discuss
Never ascribe to malevolence what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
And “Emmanuel Goldstein” was the name of a character in the novel 1984. He was the widely despised “enemy of the state” cooked up by the government to justify their autocracy.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
We’d have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
Amused to see the 10mm socket in an "in case of emergency break glass" box. So true about 10mm, though I'd lean towards the 10mm box wrench. I've disassembled many a motorcycle with not much more than that.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
So disappointed that there wasn't at least a chapter on irrationality. That's the fun part! :-D
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
Agree 100%. First of all, this is much more of an “anecdote” or “dinner theater” than an “experiment.“

But even more so, when you take a bunch of people and _tell them to play these roles_, why are surprised when they _play the stereotype of those roles?_
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
The severed employees likely had accelerated stock vesting the moment Elon took ownership.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
I live in the Bay Area, which is both big city, and heavily tech/maker, and I have never even heard of a Micro Center, much less seen one.

I miss RadioShack, and especially Frys when they were in their prime.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
Many employees stock options plans vest the options on change of control. All the ones I’ve had did.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
Here’s hoping for some Streisand Effect publicity that puts Skiplagged on the map! I for one hadn’t heard about them until this lawsuit
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
> then got caught and settled for an "undisclosed" sum (rumoured to be quite large)

The sum wasn't insubstantial, but it was much less than the pay that would have been received in a free market.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
> . If enough people get another job, the industry they are leaving will adapt or die.

The only way that happens is with a union. The union is what lets the workers organize for the kind of collective action that forces an industry to adapt.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
As someone who received that settlement, it didn’t.

And a no union clause would be just as illegal as their conduct in the first place.
batguano
·3 years ago·discuss
IANAL, but my understanding is that in the United States, a civil defendant who prevails is not usually entitled to have their legal fees paid by the plaintiff.

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