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caseyohara
·mese scorso·discuss
I think you're downplaying it too much. Of course comparing the event to better organized insurrections makes it look more innocent. But don't forget, the rioters erected makeshift gallows and chanted "Hang Mike Pence" because he refused to overturn the election. I don't doubt the mob would have hanged him given the chance.
caseyohara
·mese scorso·discuss
I quite like the James W. Cadle one from 1970.
caseyohara
·2 mesi fa·discuss
RIP Dark Sky
caseyohara
·3 mesi fa·discuss
A better example might be why we build stairs with a standard riser height and tread run. If you've ever accidentally tripped on an unusual or non-standard stair, you already know this.

Users don't need to think about how to use them; they are ubiquitous and familiar, and therefore intuitive and automatic.

If every set of stairs (or, worse, if every stair in a set) was radically different, every time you approached some stairs you would have to think carefully about how to use them so you don't fall.
caseyohara
·3 mesi fa·discuss
It will certainly involve AI somehow.
caseyohara
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I love that Magawa's wikipedia article is structured just like a human: Early Life, Career, Retirement and Death.

A few weeks ago when "Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years" was posted here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189535), I rabbit holed wikipedia about landmine-sniffing animals. It's such a fascinating topic.
caseyohara
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The ironic part is the recent fabrication controversy with Ariely. He’s recently had to retract fraudulent papers (one of them, most ironically, on the topic of honesty) because of falsified data. It makes one question the validity of all of his work.

His relationship with Jeffrey Epstein isn’t a good look either.
caseyohara
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> People spoke in a particular way, say 60 years ago, that left very little room for interpretation of what they meant. The same cannot be said today.

Surely you don’t mean everyone in the 1960s spoke directly, free of metaphor or euphemism or nuance or doublespeak or dog whistle or any other kind or ambiguity? Then why are there people who dedicate their entire life to interpreting religious texts and the Constitution?
caseyohara
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> third-parties who can make all sorts of decisions based on a made up story about who I am, my preferences, my values and whatnot

You're going to be presented with ads and preyed on by marketing no matter what. The "made up story about who you are" is just even more imaginary the less they know about you. You'll simply be presented with less-targeted ads.
caseyohara
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Then, respectfully, what is the point? Does the trillions-of-dollars AI industry exist to support a few hobbyists building niche products to scratch their own itch? I thought the promise here is increased productivity, presumably in the economic sense.

There seems to be a lot of hype, and has been for years, but I’m not seeing it materialize as actual economic output. Surely by now there should be lots of businesses springing up to capture all of this value created by vibecoded software.
caseyohara
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Where are these small businesses and startups? The software economy should be booming, right? I’m not seeing it.
caseyohara
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Fellow New England -> Colorado transplant. It was pleasantly shocking for me too how much chattier and friendlier people are in Colorado. But now I've lived in Colorado long enough that when I go back to visit New England, it's shocking how cold and taciturn people are there. Conversations with strangers rarely get past "How ya doin?" "Fine and you? "Fine, thanks."

I do appreciate how direct people in the northeast tend to be, and sometimes miss that aspect of the culture.
caseyohara
·4 mesi fa·discuss
There are still contemporary watches that use radioactive isotopes like tritium for illumination. I’ve always wanted a watch with always-on lume.

Here is a good example, the Marathon GSAR. You can see the radioactive symbol on the dial.

https://www.marathonwatch.com/products/arctic-edition-large-...
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I imagine capacity/density and reliability/durability are more important factors than read speed when it comes to archival.
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I reckon the developers most excited about AI & agents never got the same thrill or satisfaction that you do. Those developers are plainly motivated by different things, and that’s okay.
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I doubt people would complain this much if they came across a weather app that is only supported in the EU or China or India. No one would say

Yet another China-only app with China-only weather, I guess, like countless others…

"Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Build your own EU weather app if you care so much. No one is obligated to support their software in the part of the world you happen to live.
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
> If it does that, it doesn't matter where it came from.

Personally, it matters to me quite a lot where art comes from, especially music. I have a hard time "separating the art from the artist". If I find out a musician is a creep/abuser/rapist, I can't enjoy their music anymore.

This belief obviously isn't widespread given artists like Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, R. Kelly, and Jimmy Page are still wildly popular. But I assume I'm not alone in this.

As for AI music, it's hard for me to imagine an "AI Musician" ever becoming very popular because I reckon most humans want some human-ness in their music. And I think if an existing artist ever put out AI music as their own, they'd lose some fans pretty quickly.
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
My spidey-sense: the "it isn't X, it's Y" construct and the dreaded em dash.
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Are there cameras that can actually read VINs on moving vehicles?
caseyohara
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I don’t understand. Are they AI PRs (as in the title), or did you write them yourself?