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amy214 commented on Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Volundr
OutOfHere · a day ago
Just as a thought exercise, the better kill switch is a dead man switch that is disarmed every month or two until its next run, also one that acts as malicious ransomware that deletes everything including itself and all logs.

Obviously don't do this, because you don't want to be more morally bankrupt than your employer, or your whole argument of righteousness falls apart. The morally righteous never would, because they already know that employment in the US is voluntary for both sides. Also, over time, one would absolutely forget to disarm it.

amy214 · 11 hours ago
the best kill switch is to write a slop codebase only you understand. no intentional evil little mechanisms, no intentional breaking, just the slop, slop written in good faith. now that is legal
amy214 commented on The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
mvdtnz · 3 days ago
Can you expand on that?
amy214 · 2 days ago
dude is saying the bubble will burst when people least expect it. if there's people expecting it then that's not the right bursting condition
amy214 commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
simonw · 3 days ago
I'm from the UK, took driving lessons in the UK but then passed my driving test in the USA (in California).

The USA driving test is so much easier than the UK one!

UK: Varied junctions and roundabouts, traffic lights, independent driving (≈20 minutes via sat nav or signs), one reversing manoeuvre (parallel park, bay park, or pull up on the right and reverse), normal stops and move-offs (including from behind a parked car), hill start, emergency stop.

California: Cross three intersections, three right turns, three left turns, lane change, backing up, park in a bay, obey stop signs and traffic lights.

My understanding is that the USA test is so much easier because it's hard to get by in most of the USA without a car, so if the test was harder people would likely just drive without a license instead.

amy214 · 2 days ago
have you taken the maryland test? no road test. an obstacle course
amy214 commented on Time travel is self-suppressing   arxiv.org/abs/2508.09157... · Posted by u/warrenm
do_not_redeem · 10 days ago
Go backwards in time 15 minutes at a time. At this short distance your calculation error will be small, and you can land your hovercraft back on earth to correct for any drift. Then go backwards another 15 minutes, repeat ad infinitum. Even present day aircraft have autopilot, so surely this can be automated too.
amy214 · 9 days ago
to take this one step further - go back one infitesmal back in time and adjust position one infitensmal, thusly, a fixed time machine
amy214 commented on Is air travel getting worse?   maximum-progress.com/p/is... · Posted by u/mhb
borroka · 9 days ago
It might sound funny in a juvenile way, but it just takes the uncontrolled flatulence of one impolite passenger to make the flight experience miserable for all the others. I was recently on a long-ish flight of a few hours and there was a passenger, whom I could not locate, who every 15 minutes or so was freeing themselves of some poison. The misery of the experience is difficult to describe, but I am sure that many will have felt something similar. All it takes is one rude bully to turn what should be a miraculous experience, like flying ought to be, into a depressing one. Many parallels can be drawn.
amy214 · 9 days ago
He's not a bully, hell is other people and the phantom aerial farter speaks for all of us
amy214 commented on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?    · Posted by u/superasn
Skunkleton · 16 days ago
> In sane units: 3.8 kW

5.1 Horsepower

amy214 · 16 days ago
> > In sane units: 3.8 kW

> 5.1 Horsepower

0-60 in 1.8 seconds

amy214 commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial   trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail
rybosworld · 19 days ago
Can you say more about Ibuprofen? I've understood it's fairly dangerous in some contexts. Especially for folks with compromised liver function.
amy214 · 18 days ago
tylenol is the one that's hepatotoxic (spanish for harmful to the liver) - ibuprofen is nephrotoxic (italian for harmful to the kidney) maybe you are mixing up your very similar painkillers. in kiddos it's common to go back and forth between them for pain control, thusly attenuating specific insult to liver or kidney. then there's aspirin, don't give that to kids, that's a whole thing
amy214 commented on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others   drawafish.com... · Posted by u/hallak
dpoloncsak · 24 days ago
https://imgur.com/a/Vtoxc7p

35% for this masterpiece? Rigged

amy214 · 23 days ago
this piece de resistance swan song is only 35% fish but then my fish tank is like 90% various formats of blackface fish, nazi fish, and swimming penises
amy214 commented on Shallow water is dangerous too   jefftk.com/p/shallow-wate... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
qchris · a month ago
I haven't heard anyone mention this rule, which I think is useful:

Cars, dogs, and water.

These are the big three common things that children interact with regularly that can, and will, cause irreparable harm or death with functionally no warning and virtually instantaneously. Kids also don't have the experience or the intuition to figure out if a situation is dangerous; cars move too fast, dogs are too hard to read, and water danger is hard to grasp even for adults (the number of people, including grown adults, I've seen panic and had to get pulled out after gleefully jumping into water where it turns out they can't reliably touch the bottom is fairly high).

The first two require some strictness (i.e. being very clear about rules like never going near a road without an adult, and never hitting a dog or pulling it's ears), but water basically requires regular swimming lessons from qualified instructors. It's something I wish happened earlier, and that more families had easy access to.

amy214 · a month ago
> Cars, dogs, and water.

Just to go off of this, springs as well. Usually it's garage door springs or suspension of a car springs. People will DIY thinking it's a small thing but they can easily decapitate you. Some garage door springs have been known to level the families of entire neighborhoods or small townships. Garage door spring related deaths are far more common that you will ever know. Garage door springs also are known to be the main transmission vector for tetanus so if you survive the unspringing be advised there's a 90% chance it flung a deadly dose of tetatus and botulism (also grows on springs) into your every bodily orifice. You may think "well why is a kid fixing a car's suspension" but of course kids like poke around and explore because they're curious or they could be exploring your shop or your garage door mechanism.

amy214 commented on Donate to the Treasury to help pay down the $36.7T public debt   pay.gov/public/form/start... · Posted by u/jxntb73
RhysU · a month ago
If one thinks that more government is the solution to all problems, a painfully common modern view, then the most utility available from $1 one owns is handing that $1 directly to the government.

In practice, no one donates like this with their own money. They just vote for the government to take incremental money from others via ever more taxation.

amy214 · a month ago
>In practice, no one donates like this with their own money. They just vote for the government to take incremental money from others via ever more taxation.

In practice they throw piles of money at Trump - knowingly that it will lead to them saving an even larger money pile and thusly a net win.

Trump, who then happily drives up debt. Taxing people more is so uncool, so let's go easy on the whole taxes thing, just have the money printer go brrrrr and let inflationary tax serve its purpose

u/amy214

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