The people who install them.
Readit NewsCYR1X commented on What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps? climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/skandergarroum
CYR1X commented on Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools yle.fi/a/74-20158886... · Posted by u/freetonik
Bringing my first android phone to school in high school helped me learn linux when i was into rooting.
I don't think phones are the problem. I think it's more social media. Schools find it less effort to ban phones vs how to work with them.
The nanny state is a troubling trend
Phone bans in schools have been going on for 20 years. Yeah we didn't have smart phones back then, but with tactile buttons kids would text each other without even looking at their phone and keeping it in their pocket. Before phones kids were playing snake on their TI-83 when they weren't in math class. At it's core these devices are just a distraction when they're supposed to be paying attention.
CYR1X commented on We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data levs.fyi/blog/we-found-in... · Posted by u/Ostatnigrosh
I don't see nearly enough complexity in this analysis to justify the claim of having found any insurance fraud.
Firstly, there's no account for correlation between the features identified. The article mentions VINs which have several single-vehicle accidents, for example, but someone who has one single-vehicle accident is probably more likely to have another. Switching coverage is another of those potentially-correlated features; if you claim and it bumps your premium, aren't you likely to shop around as a result?
Secondly, there's no attempt to account for the law of large numbers. It's incredibly unlikely that someone has three single vehicle accidents in a year, but because the probability of that is nonzero, we know that with enough vehicles on the road then someone is going to do it.
The article covers itself by acknowledging this, of course, but if you title your blog post "We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data" then you should actually do that.
Totally agree.
CYR1X commented on US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted reuters.com/world/us/us-a... · Posted by u/rvz
You better be willing to question whether photographs can be copyrightable at all, because they are all result of several mechanical systems not created by the camera operator.
Just limiting yourself to only "digital computation" being magical enough to invalidate copyright is an arbitrary restriction. Unless you clarify why you think the computation performed by the lens system doesn't have that property, further discussion seems pointless because it will just collapse to a circular "digital computation is magical enough", which is your implied premise.
The other aspect here is you can't copyright an observable truth. For instance, sports companies tried to sue other sports companies for scraping their scores feeds but courts ruled you can't copyright the fact Patriots beat the Falcons 35-30, because that's simply what happened. There isn't any proprietary scoring keeping mechanism. Anyone who observed the game also can determine those numbers. It is an observable truth. So maybe that applies to the raw photo. You are simply capturing what happened from that POV at that moment in time. Sure if you do something with that photo, then it may become more than an observable truth.
CYR1X commented on US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted reuters.com/world/us/us-a... · Posted by u/rvz
Who owns your photo of the moon after Samsung uses "SceneOptimizer" to AI fix it? https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...
Oh shit. Who owns your photo if your phone does any amount of software-based manipulation to it? Like making faces look better?? Is this how google claims it can use all of your pixel photos in its AI training?
CYR1X commented on The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m
the Kinect One is better in a bunch of ways (field of view, resolution) but a big one for certain use-cases is that it can fully track 6 skeletons.
The 360 Kinect can only track two skeletons (but differentiate 6).
Source on that tracking 6 skeletons? That's cool.
CYR1X commented on The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m
I wonder why the Kinect is still so popular given the many more recent projects that have come to market, eg Realsense, Zed, Orbec.
I’ve recently been using the Realsense for robotics and they are satisfactory (although they have been drastically increasing in price for unclear reasons). I wouldn’t use Kinect because they are no longer being officially manufactured.
Xbox 360's were The Original Netflix Machine of that 2008-2012 range. Sure maybe Wii's sold more but they only effectively played Wii Sports and didn't support Full HD. Sure PS3's had blu-ray drives in them but people were beginning to stop caring about physical media. The most popular "game" in terms of hours played on the 360 was the Netflix App.
So because of that, I'm not surprised that casual audience also got a Kinect at some point too. Because of the Netflix app, you always had your 360 plugged into your TV.
CYR1X commented on AI killed the tech interview. Now what? kanenarraway.com/posts/ai... · Posted by u/ghuntley
CYR1X commented on America desperately needs more air traffic controllers cnn.com/2025/02/04/busine... · Posted by u/mooreds
The number that I've heard that accepted that offer across the government is in line with normal attrition rates with federal employees - the only people who bit were already planning on quitting. It appears that most or all else was wise to how shady this deal was.
Part all of this BS is sure at twitter if you pull this you might get a decent attrition rate but isn't the federal government known for people never quitting? If they quit, it's quiet quitting coming in every day and doing nothing. Isn't that generally the purpose behind this too? Like...good luck get a real amount of people to quit they are going to hold on for dear life
The first time I traveled outside the western part of the world, I was (naively or not) surprised by the sheer amount of bootleg tapes sold in regular stores. Same with DVD when that time came around.