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  • After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

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  • In an earlier February city council meeting, Flowers said, “I believe personally that guilty people act defensively. If you don’t have anything to hide, then it shouldn’t be a problem. I also believe when you are in a public space, your privacy kind of goes out the window because you are in essence in a public place.”

    This guy really has a thing for spying on everyone in his town against their wishes, I wonder what he's hiding

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • Companies have no more profit, because people don’t have income, so people can’t spend on their AI produced products

    In this scenario both lose, the company adopting AI and the worker. Am I missing something?

    The worker-consumer is no longer a source of wealth to the company since their labor no longer has value, but that doesn't mean there is nothing a company can do to try to acquire wealth. They just have to exclusively cater to the people who control that wealth. The business model of a media company might be spreading anti-democracy propaganda and collecting surveillance data for the use of the people who worry about what a desperate and starving Joe might do. Once Joe is gone they can spin narratives about why all this was the right moral choice.

  • Miez has gotten quite good at rodent control, and she is neat about it, too. Unfortunately she still prefers chicken cat food over mouse.

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  • Probably depends on the cat, I had a cat that wouldn't always eat what he hunted, but the rest would get dissected and the body parts organized in creepy ways, don't think he was letting any go for lack of hunger

  • Waymo driverless cars become trapped in Atlanta suburb after glitch

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  • Residents put up road signs to fix the problem, but many cars became trapped

    Looks like they're already partway there

  • What do you think about gambling?

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  • Ok that one is pretty good too

  • What do you think about gambling?

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  • Anything where you're putting money in and hoping to get more money out, where it's a zero sum game and any winnings will come from other people doing the same, is gambling imo. A gamble can be a good financial investment if you only do it in situations where you know you have some kind of edge, but doing it for fun is stupid because it fucks with your emotions and you're just going to get screwed out of your money that way. If you are playing against people gambling for fun, rather than playing against "the house", that might be one you can win.

    Morally I think the ideal situation for gambling is one where people in bad financial situations get together so at least some of them can escape those situations. The worst is when people who don't need more money ensure all of the profits will go exclusively to them, and no one else will really win.

  • Japan orders army of robot wolves to tackle bear crisis

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  • Those would count as robots if they could react to your presence and chase you

  • Japan orders army of robot wolves to tackle bear crisis

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  • The machines move their heads from side to side while flashing LED lights from their eyes and tails to create a threatening, predatory appearance.

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    the company has developed upgraded versions mounted on wheels that can patrol routes and actively chase animals away.

    Decoy robots

  • Agree or disagree? A lie by omission is still a lie.

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  • I think it depends on the context. If it's like a close friend and the deception screws you over and was an unexpected betrayal, then it's basically a lie. If there's some reason someone might suck at a job and they don't mention it in the interview and were not asked, that's different because it's an adversarial situation and looking out for yourself means not showing all your cards, and everyone should understand that it's like that.

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • Personally I can't remember basic syntax very well and constantly have to look things up. Although just knowing that a way of doing something exists does help a lot.

  • You can save at least 40% by externalizing the CSS

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  • I assume there's some context for why there is an argument to begin with between whether to prompt for markdown vs html, and what this is actually for

  • Of course they do

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  • The support page both refer to seems to be real though? https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652?hl=en

    Does what it's saying mean that Google Play Services is required to pass their captchas on mobile?

    Edit: Found a comment in the Reddit thread from someone claiming to have seen one of these captchas in the wild, which supposedly does do this check but is easily bypassed:

    Got good news, I just had this captcha. As you can see in the image there is an audio and an eye icon at the bottom. We can protest against this captcha by clicking the eye and doing the original one. As long as a substantial amount of people keep doing that I assume it wont' go away.

  • What's your opinion on automatic updates? Reasonable policy? Or Digital Authoritarianism?

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  • I am really uncomfortable with them, but there isn't a clear alternative given that our computing environments are designed in a way to be inherently insecure, patching exploits as they occur is the only plan other than not using the internet. But it means that the people with the keys to the software can install what they want on your computer and probably take it over. You could check every update yourself and compile it from source yourself if it's open source, but that would be too much work.

  • What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

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  • I don't know, I spend a lot of time on the internet so it would feel hypocritical to limit it to a big extent, but I'm not sure if it would be doing someone a disservice to raise them to be like I am. Maybe I'd keep some desirable stuff blocked just so they'd have an incentive to go over to a friend's house where it isn't blocked.

  • Has the word antisemite lost it's punch?

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  • Might make more sense to just call someone a racist instead at this point

  • Need a AI update

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  • Yeah but then you wouldn't be using technology from Star Wars spinoffs

  • Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

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  • I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource sandbox.

    I agree with the top HN comment

  • Why and how are you an adult NEET (not in education employment or training)

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  • So it's basically just a judgment call of whether someone "deserves" to avoid working, because of having had a job in the past? To me it's basically the same if people are living the same sort of life, because those sorts of judgments are not a good way to consider a person's identity. It's only natural to not want a job and the main question is whether you have the means to avoid being coerced into it, people who have the means are really in the same category.

  • Why and how are you an adult NEET (not in education employment or training)

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  • What's the difference?