wnevets's comments

On: Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions

[wnevets]

Defund ICE and use that money to stop satellites from crashing into each other

[apwell23 → wnevets]

Icrease H1B fees to 30k and quota to 3 million and use that money to stop satellites from crashing into each other.

[DonHopkins → wnevets]

Crash satellites into ICE!

On: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

[wnevets]

I forgot she even existed but atleast she brought mechahitler to twitter I guess.

[plorg → wnevets]

And immediately got sexually harassed by it.

On: ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral

[wnevets]

ICE is a waste of tax payers money, I rather have satellite data for hurricanes.

On: US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders

[wnevets]

> Why is this on the front page of hacker news? It seems to have very little to do with technology.

Weird that you didn't share this sentiment when commenting about terrible the US educational system is.

[jm20 → wnevets]

Student visas tied into tech hiring, so it's at least tangentially related. But I agree, that should've probably been scrubbed as well.

Not sure why I'm being downvoted. It's literally in the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Trump's court battles are hardly a new interesting phenomenon.

[wnevets → jm20]

> Student visas tied into tech hiring, so it's at least tangentially related.

So is birthright citizenship

On: US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates

[wnevets]

The "bad news is actually good news" post are gonna be wild.

[pupppet → wnevets]

Or it’s Biden‘s economy until there’s a turnaround.

On: US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis

[wnevets]

Do you think the trump admin is faking the footage of the tesla taxis breaking the law?

[exe34 → wnevets]

i think it just means he can't just doge the regulators out of existence this time.

[wnevets → exe34]

> i think it just means he can't just doge the regulators out of existence this time.

I don't believe this "contact" by regulators has shown that to be the case. However ultimately my point is that this "contact" happened because Tesla's taxis are failing at obeying the law and believing the regulators are out to "get" Tesla (or any company for that matter) is partly why America is facing its current challenges.

[delfinom → wnevets]

No, but I do expect Elon to make some nice tweets about Trump and the next thing you know, murder by robotaxis will be legal and any states attempting to regulate them will be prosecuted.

[classified → wnevets]

Maybe not, but if Trump were still a fan of Elon's, that footage would never have surfaced.

On: U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

[wnevets]

I was told trump was the peace president.

[codedokode → wnevets]

He promised to end a war but instead started another one.

[mensetmanusman → codedokode]

We will know shortly whether bombing 700 spinning motors that we’re building death spheres is an act of war…

[jjk166 → mensetmanusman]

Well if someone did it to our enrichment plants, it would be an act of war.

[mensetmanusman → jjk166]

To us it would, to them it is defensive, especially if we keep saying we financially support suicide bombers etc.

On: Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone

[wnevets]

Isn't that also true for tuna?

On: Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh

[wnevets]

Windows Vista never looked so nice

On: Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"

[wnevets]

Are there people who actually believe that a user would enter a text prompt than a human programmer would generate the code?

[DebtDeflation → wnevets]

My assumption when the story broke was that the 700 engineers were using various AI tools (Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) to create code and documentation and then stitching it all together somewhat manually. Sort of like that original Devin demo where AI was being used at each step but there was a ton of manual intervention along the way and the final video was edited to make it seem as if the whole thing ran end to end fully automated all from the initial prompt.

[hluska → wnevets]

Builder.ai had a totally different flow, but yeah, when boring stories and exciting ones compete to tell the same story, a very large percentage will run with the exciting story. It’s like death tax in US political history - the US has never had a death tax but it’s way more exciting to call it a death tax than an estate tax. Only now, instead of media being the primary disseminator of spin, we have people sharing exciting stories on social media instead of boring stories about building internal zoom and accounting issues.

Then social animals kick in, likes pour in and more people share. Social media has created a world where an exciting lie can drown out boring truth for a large percentage of people.

[tomasphan → wnevets]

Yes, 90% of people with no tech background reading the news

[pyman → tomasphan]

They don't know the difference between AI and ChatGPT

[TuringNYC → wnevets]

I worked with an "AI data vendor" at work where you'd put in a query and "the AI gave you back a dataset" but it usually took 24hrs, so it was obvious they had humans pulling the data. The company still purchased a data plan. It happens, in this case, they have a unique dataset, though.

[dd_xplore → wnevets]

Unfortunately a lot of people!!

[apwell23 → wnevets]

that was not the flow

[wnevets → apwell23]

But it was the flow in the examples.

[TiredOfLife → wnevets]

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