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malnourish commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
assimpleaspossi · 3 days ago
Are you saying legal US citizens are having a tough time in Minnesota with ICE? My cousins and their families aren't. They're too busy leading their own normal, daily lives.
malnourish · 3 days ago
Yes; my neighbors had trouble going to the grocery store. From appearances, you might think they're on vacation from Mexico. They have been here for generations, and one of their family is a high enough ranking member of the military that I won't say more to avoid the risk of doxxing them.
malnourish commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
wyclif · 3 days ago
never done anything wrong to begin with

Except illegally migrate to the US without applying or engaging in human traffic and smuggling.

You may not like it, but the USA is still a nation of laws. It's also a modern nation. Third world shitholes have lots of problems caused by illegal immigration because they don't do enough to enforce the law and restore order for their citizens.

I'm rather glad that US culture hasn't yet turned into another Afghanistan or Pakistan.

malnourish · 3 days ago
It's not a crime to be an unauthorized resident of the United States; it's a civil offense. Knowingly hiring an ineligible worker is a crime, however. I'm curious why we aren't going after the employers attracting and hiring undocumented residents.

Besides, people were being deported in significant numbers across multiple presidents in both parties without resorting to the strategy and tactics of the current administration.

malnourish commented on Speed up responses with fast mode   code.claude.com/docs/en/f... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
izmax5 · 4 days ago
That sounds pretty nice. How are you achieving that?
malnourish · 4 days ago
Litellm makes it easy
malnourish commented on Coarse is better   borretti.me/article/coars... · Posted by u/_dain_
jamblewamble · 2 months ago
It is what has underpinned all of human progress towards automation. It isn't a bad thing. Every time we automate something the luddites cry out about the coming mass unemployment. It has never happened.
malnourish · 2 months ago
What other automations have been hyped to automate and replace so many different types of jobs at once?

Whether or not it comes to fruition, it's making large portions of society feel uneasy, and not just programmers, or artists, or teachers.

malnourish commented on Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal   blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro... · Posted by u/alphabetting
criley2 · 2 months ago
While it is true that model makers are increasingly trying to game benchmarks, it's also true that benchmark-chasing is lowering model quality. GPT 5, 5.1 and 5.2 have been nearly universally panned by almost every class of user, despite being a benchmark monster. In fact, the more OpenAI tries to benchmark-max, the worse their models seem to get.
malnourish · 2 months ago
5.2 is a solid model and I'm actually impressed with M365 copilot when using it.
malnourish commented on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system   borretti.me/article/hashc... · Posted by u/thomascountz
wisty · 2 months ago
> A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before trying to fix it badly

Sounds like you're not the only one at fault lol.

Do you get mad at your wife if she offers suggestions before emotionally connecting? And would it still be too late even if she realises how "stupid she was"?

malnourish · 2 months ago
Yes; well, I might not get "mad" at my wife, but I might emotionally disengage or feel like I lack closure were I to explain a situation to my wife and she responded with solutions before I even had the chance to finish.

It took me a long time to realize this. Actually, I've just now realized it clearly. Our emotional expression and the scenario may be a bit different, but it's fundamentally the same concept.

malnourish commented on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class   nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us... · Posted by u/signa11
wavemode · 2 months ago
It's about practicing how to read and write. Skills that you'll benefit from in every form of knowledge work that you'll ever do.

I would cut almost every other class from the curriculum before cutting English.

malnourish · 2 months ago
It's also about how to reason about and understand what you're consuming, how to analyze sources, how media affects you; my wife is an English teacher and the comments here are often completely missing what's truly going on in a school.

Explains a lot, actually.

malnourish commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free   riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan
hcurtiss · 2 months ago
Public transit is a dream turned nightmare consistently for seventy-five years. Autonomy will be less efficient -- but not that much less efficient given closer car spacing, speed, and remote parking -- but it will be spectacularly more convenient and comfortable. I'm all for it. You'll survive the tire pollution.
malnourish · 2 months ago
That's one opinion. My opinion is public transport is phenomenal. It's relatively reliable (very in some places), generally clean and safe, low cost, encourages urban/high efficiency development, protects greenspace, and employees people.
malnourish commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
bgbntty2 · 2 months ago
It's different. You show an ID card to a human if you don't look old enough. They look at it and return it. The ID card doesn't get scanned or tied to all your future recreational drug purchases - you don't have an account or a trail that identifies you.

When uploading ID documents, your account gets tied to your real world identity. That's not a precedent the government should be setting, because private entities having an excuse (the law) to require identification erodes privacy, and because in the future other services could be required to ask for an identification, too. Yes, it's the slippery slope (aka "boiling the frog") argument, but that's how laws that erode privacy evolve - step by step.

Now it's account for social media, then it's porn sites, then it's forums where you might see porn or discussions on suicide, drugs or anything deemed morally hazardous. They might require an ID just to view the site or require the site to not make it public. If (or "when", if we don't oppose such laws) enough countries mandate something like this, most sites will likely require an account for all content, regardless of where the person is located, as otherwise they'll likely have to prove that they've not only geolocated the IP of the visitor, but checked that they weren't using VPNs, Tor or similar services.

As for using zero-knowledge proofs and similar technology to make it less infringing on privacy - I very much doubt the government (any government) to implement this with 100% privacy and security.

malnourish · 2 months ago
They scan IDs at every gas station I've bought a lottery ticket in now for at least a year or two. US.
malnourish commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now   dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
pea · 2 months ago
Didn't they also just shut down Vertex and Gemini APIs to launch a new unified API this week?
malnourish · 2 months ago
I can't find any news about this. That's not wholly unusual given the context. Do you have a link?

u/malnourish

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