HackerLangs
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

guidedlight

no profile record

Submissions

Desire Paths

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by guidedlight·2 maanden geleden·0 comments

Microsoft Xbox Manufacturing in 2002

youtube.com
2 points·by guidedlight·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

comments

guidedlight
·21 dagen geleden·discuss
Give it a few years, I’m under no illusion that when faced with competition Qantas will ditch the wellness zones and extra legroom.

London-Sydney is only a bit further than London-Perth.
guidedlight
·21 dagen geleden·discuss
It was clearly built with AI.
guidedlight
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.
guidedlight
·vorige maand·discuss
There are competitors to Starlink arriving now.

For example, the Australian government has selected Project Kepler (now called Amazon Leo) to provide broadband services to the Australian Outback.

https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/...

And geopolitical shenanigans in Ukraine with Musk and Starlink means that it may not be a reliable partner.
guidedlight
·vorige maand·discuss
I think you are missing the point.

It’s about software preservation and abiding by the implied expectations at the time of sale.
guidedlight
·vorige maand·discuss
This has been happening with Video Games for a while. There is a major initiative called "Stop Killing Games" which was triggered when Ubisoft bricked "The Crew" when servers were shutdown.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

There has been some success. There is new legislation in California which has passed the Assembly. https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-game...

And there is a citizens initiative in Europe which the the European Commission must respond to: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20...
guidedlight
·vorige maand·discuss
Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/cxZPfj8AlmY
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The US “loses” $1T every ~150 days on delivering basic government services, and every US citizen is on the hook for that, not just investors.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
> The bottleneck in fixing bugs like these is the human capacity to triage, report, and design and deploy patches for them. Finding them in the first place has become vastly more straightforward with Mythos Preview.

This has always been the bottleneck. Automated tools love to flag vulnerabilities, but almost all are false positives. These need to be triaged and evaluated by humans. This is okay. I’d rather close a false positive after a careful review than miss it altogether.

I don’t think it’s appropriate for calling out humans as a bottleneck. They are an essential part of the process, I’m sure Mythos will also become a catalyst in the process.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
> Name, city, state, ZIP, email, phone

Does this work for anyone outside the US as well? e.g. Will it work for an Australian?
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
You know there are 34 countries in America other than the United States.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Security issues aside, they are a nightmare in enterprise environments where internet and OS access is heavily restricted.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
They should probably go back to the original invite only flow they used when Gmail launched.

Every account having the ability to invite an only small finite number of new accounts is one way to thwart scammers.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I remember the form designer was a standout feature. Microsoft added a complete UI framework into VB for DOS based on the standard ASCII character set.

VB for DOS really needed a version 2.0, but it never got it.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I have a lot of fond memories of Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0.

I remember saving up for it at high school with my student discount. From memory it was about $120.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Oh right. Almost everyone in the world has free and easy access to actual doctors.

For that one country that doesn’t maybe universal healthcare can be an Anthropic model.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I agree. I think the issue with LLM’s are not with the correct diagnoses’s but rather the incorrect ones.

Real doctors tend to have a degree of cautiousness. I would rather a real doctor be hesitate and seek more information, than an alarmist LLM suggesting I have cancer.
guidedlight
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
This definitely wasn’t on my bingo card.
guidedlight
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
160 flights isn’t really that many, I suspect they are all on commercially marginal routes to begin with.

In my region, quite a few airlines have cut routes citing the fuel crisis. Including Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Air New Zealand. But again, we aren’t seeing widespread cancellations yet.
guidedlight
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
We had a mass murder in Australia a few years ago involving death cap mushrooms. 3 of the 4 victims died, and the 4th required a liver transplant.

Surprisingly the doctors involved quickly identified mushrooms as the culprit, despite that the 75% died.

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

It was a super interesting court case.