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You're firmly in the build-a-pc bracket. Nothing else will ever make sense.

But a person can't really use their PS5 as a home PC.

Sounds like a nice, charitable thing. Of course it benefits the business too, nothing is free, duh. But it's still good. Cheers.

This Hacker News thread isn't useful at all. It's the same people that comment on every thread stating their opinions overconfidently. It's the same perpetually negative Wired article. These things would be the same no matter what is really going on, and so I can't use it to learn anything.

I couldn't care less about this, it's not in the top 1 million problems. If this is an issue for you, seriously re-evaluate how you spend your time.

Bilt sends your rent payments to Equifax. Equifax used to sell that data through The Work Number.

There seem to be a lot of misleading sentences on this page.

Actually when you put it that way, I mean who can't relate to that.

There's that section about how Meta executives got drunk on an airplane. And the only thing that happens is they sing karaoke. There's nothing inappropriate. They're a bunch of boring nerds.

Congrats, sounds good for everyone.

Why did you write this using AI?

Consumers have had it with clunky, slow automotive technology

No. I don't want it. I want Not to have it.

I don't want a touchscreen. I don't want a computer car. And I definitely don't want an internet-connected car.

Some random thoughts, might be interesting (or not).

Some things that really do fit into tables, where there's no empty fields in the rows:

- Relational databases

- Hardware circuit truth tables

- Assembly language opcodes

- FPGA compiler output

- Matrix multiplication. Or some GPU programs e.g. if you want to have a conditional statement using multiply-add, then 'if (cond) then x1 else x2' would be 'out = (cond * x1) + (cond * x2)'.

Those things have good performance in one way or another. But it's not easy to make all the application logic fit into a table-based schema.

e.g. Why does someone choose a python web server framework which sends and receives JSON. It's really super easy to extend and add something without knowing what you'll need in advance.

But if you try to fit that into a table, you'll have to change the table schema for everything to try to best fit what the program does right at the moment. And then if there's one new extra complex or long-running function, it will never easily fit the same schema as the others. You'll have to break the big function down into some smaller common operations.

Great! I'm a programmer. And I've sure spent too much time on C++isms.

(And I hardly think that analyzing speculating about the motivation for the author's chosen nickname is constructive.)

Nope! Gets right to it. This is really building C++ (but this time how I want). It adds work for every C programmer who has to check off a whole bunch of small tasks to keep a codebase living for many years.

Google is making a huge mistake. They are clearly getting scammed, the price is up to $32B from $23B less than a year ago.

There is no pressure or need to buy Wiz.

Wiz has no brand, no one knows who they are.

Revenue from Wiz's customers will not make back $32 billion dollars even in 30 years.

Wiz's technology is irrelevant. I think Google already scans for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. And can build similar for low millions of dollars.

Yeah, but Instagram and WhatsApp have billions of users. Everybody has heard of them. Advertising on Instagram generates revenue.

Wiz is a SaaS b2b startup. Even on a forum for startups most people haven't heard of them.

Wiz reportedly has a revenue of 750m. It would take Google 30 years or more to break even on this deal. But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquired.

Google is getting completely scammed.

Don't do it!

Great!

It's the most common use by far.

a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

This is super bog-standard nothing-special stuff.

AI voice is an overwhelmingly harmful technology. It's biggest use will be to hurt people.

Good for them.

Hacker News only posts about languages nobody uses. There are more posts about D than there are about Java. Ada is being marketed because it's obsolete and no one uses it.

Can't trust a word out of the New York Times.

Congrats and welcome to the 80s!

The FTC probably won't even exist in a year.

Users don't put it in those terms. They'll complain about spam calls that no longer sound like a male voice with heavy foreign accent.

The logical solution will be, we need a service that scans all calls for phishing, just like we have for email. The service cannot be local for the same reason as for email.

The telephone is becoming like an email inbox without protection from spam. By listening to every telephone call Google can alert users about phishing, voice cloning, etc. in real time.

Voice cloning will get to the point where it's so good that there's no tech-savvy users who can detect it the way they can for email. Users will demand for protection to be added to their calls because you really can't live without it.

The biggest use of voice cloning will be callers from foreign countries taking money from grandparents.

Expect encryption like RCS and WhatsApp to go away by popular demand, because when phishing gets too good, the only solution will be a service like Google recording all telephone calls.