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shswkna commented on Claude for Chrome   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/davidbarker
asdff · 5 days ago
It is kind of funny how the systems are set up where there often is dense and queryable information out there already for a lot of these tasks, but these are ignored in favor of the difficult challenge of brute forcing the human consumer facing ui instead of some existing api that is designed to be machine readable already. E.g. booking flights. Travel agents use software that queries all the airlines ticket inventory to return flight information to you the consumer. The issue of booking a flight is theoretically solved already by virtue of these APIs that already exist to do just that. But for AI agents this is now a stumbling block because it would presumably take a little bit of time to craft out a rule to cover this edge case and return far more accurate information and results. Consumers with no alternative don't know what they are missing so there is no incentive to improve this.
shswkna · 4 days ago
To add to this, it is even funnier how travel agents undergo training in order to be able to interface with and operate the “machine readable“ APIs for booking flight tickets.

What a paradoxical situation now emerges, where human travel agents still need to train for the machine interface, while AI agents are now being trained to take over the human jobs by getting them to use the consumer interfaces (aka booking websites) available to us.

shswkna commented on The untold impact of cancellation   pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach
shswkna · a month ago
The world is full of very shitty, manipulative people.

These can be predatory men, or scheming women.

For me, the dichotomy is between people that try to act in good faith, and those that don’t.

shswkna commented on Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors   soatok.blog/2025/07/24/ag... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123
cwillu · a month ago
Companies shouldn't have rights.
shswkna · a month ago
Please elaborate?
shswkna commented on French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution   lemonde.fr/en/environment... · Posted by u/rawgabbit
nayuki · a month ago
Can PFAS be removed by consumer-grade reverse-osmosis (RO) water filters?

Addendum: It turns out that a linked article from Le Monde answers that: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/our-times/article/2025/03/09/can-t... , https://archive.is/RFNe9

shswkna · a month ago
I would believe so. But someone that better understands the PFAS molecules should confirm.
shswkna commented on Let me pay for Firefox   discourse.mozilla.org/t/l... · Posted by u/csmantle
Aeolun · 2 months ago
I think if you are paying 30x engineer salary you are always going to find CEO’s that optimize for money.
shswkna · 2 months ago
This should be the top comment.
shswkna commented on Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague   nytimes.com/2025/06/20/te... · Posted by u/blinding-streak
shswkna · 2 months ago
Get angry at Europe, not Microsoft and USA.

Europeans live in a fairy land dream and need to wake up.

shswkna commented on A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library   neilmadden.blog/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/itsadok
donatj · 3 months ago
My question is kind of in this brave new world, where do the domain experts come from? Whose going to know this stuff?
shswkna · 3 months ago
Most important question on this entire topic.

Fast forward 30 years and modern civilisation is entirely dependent on our AI’s.

Will deep insight and innovation from a human perspective perhaps come to a stop?

shswkna commented on Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?    · Posted by u/june3739
shswkna · 3 months ago
If there is any way to avoid Paypal, and still continue your business viably, this would be my recommendation.

Paypal is not a company that exists for its customers.

shswkna commented on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine   cnn.com/2025/05/30/busine... · Posted by u/lwo32k
autobodie · 3 months ago
Get worse for who? The ruling class will simply never care how bad things get for working people if things are getting better for the ruling class.
shswkna · 3 months ago
The central problem with this statement is that we expect others to care, but we do not expect this from ourselves.

We have agency. Whether we are brainwashed or not. If we cared about ourselves, then we don’t need another class, or race, or whatever other grouping to do this for us.

shswkna commented on Getting Older Isn't What You Think   katycowan.co.uk/blog/gett... · Posted by u/speckx
antirez · 4 months ago
I'm 48 and one thing I universally notice, among my friends, is that they don't understand that GAME OVER is near and they should hurry up and do what the want to do. Instead they still feel like they are young, taking me sometimes for crazy for saying: now we are old, there are, if we are lucky, 20, 30 good years ahead of us. So let's use them at our best.
shswkna · 4 months ago
I would argue that the sentiment

>> GAME OVER is near and they should hurry up

still lacks the maturity that comes with age. Or take it as a compliment - you are not there yet. Taking this too seriously also diminishes the quality of our brief existence

u/shswkna

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