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I loved having spam with kimchi stew too. Growing up, I didn't even realize spam was a brand.


The point I gleamed from the article was not that city driving was an easy problem, but rather that freeway driving has unique issues when it comes to reliability and safety. Simply stopping the car could be an acceptable minimal risk condition for a crowd of cyclists and pedestrians, but that's no longer the case in a freeway. On top of having to deal with sensing range + on-board offline decision making + truck stopping distances, having no safe fallback like "just brake" seems like a pretty difficult problem.

There's also the "interesting events + training" argument in the article, which I'd love to see points for or against.


Humans are more than capable of distrust, but I think manipulating people to erroneously trust something is still a threat as long as scams exist.

I think a significant factor of individual trust is someone's technical knowledge of how their systems or tools work, shown by how some software engineers actively limit their children's exposure to tech versus a lot of mothers letting the internet babysit their kids. Apparently we can't rely on that knowledge being widespread (yet).


There's definitely a bunch of crazy unmoderated stuff going down in those places, but it does seem more underground and out of the way unless you specifically look for it.

Actually, I'd guess that it's probably easier for people to find themselves in such weird spaces today. There's a lot of resources and guides out there, and if you want to, you can most likely find them.


At first, I thought this would be an app that opens a new browser window on another random user's computer somewhere in the world.


I remember an app that had a recycling bin so when you added a file… someone else got it so they could “re-use it”.

Fun and similarly random idea.


That gives me an idea to add several recycling bins to desktop and forcing user to sort their trash.


Lol, I’ll get that malware floppy out


Yeah the app didn't last long. I suspect it was as much a sort of temporary amusement / not expected to last.


I thought something similar, but it said "swap" so I was wondering what we were swapping, and I thought "I give you a commandline window onto my box, and you give me a commandline window onto your box, and we see who can create more mischief/mayhem most quickly"

but then I came up with a cool "network war" game: there's a shared window on our two boxes over the net (one window on your box, one window on my box) but inside the window are bash cmdlines for both of our boxes. Whatever commands you type get executed on both machines; whatever commands I type get executed by both shells too... stdout outputs are intermingled? atomic interspersed? it should be confusing but not impossibly so


Hmm... You can run different CTF environments i to a VM, wouldnt take much to stream input back and forth to both machines. I just saw another item featured on HN for piped keyboard streams between multiple users on the same shell.

Sounds like glorious chaos.


I also thought this. Collectively, asking HN, how would you implement something like "for fun and profit"? (Without making it an RCE machine)


xhost +


It's a socially interesting idea, but what would be the use case (provided it can be achieved securely and without compromising the host)?


I thought the same, and then thought "the most efficient goatse spreader ever".


:-) I also thought the same.


me too, but was pleasantly surprised with some of the window views!


Same!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman

Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and writer. He is an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series.


Using X/Twitter to catch up and interact with the numerous friends, artists, and other communities there doesn't mean you support wage theft and withholding severance. It's hard to break away from such a populated platform, especially if most of the people you care about go to different platforms or don't share the same motivation to move.


I imagine GP is not only using 'support' to mean 'condone'; GP is using 'support' in its more literal sense, i.e. the users of the platform provide the means for the behaviour to continue by funding the company.


yeah, the ceo matches up


I don't think it's as simple as having 100% play vs 100% work. There's got to be some optimum balance here that we're clearly not satisfying, with our flawed notion that 100% work is the best route. It's possible for people to have a satisfying social life while also doing very well in school, and it's also possible for a loner to have a depressing life while failing at school.


Agreed. It's not black and white and the realistic answer is something in between. It's entirely possible to work hard and still play hard, especially in your 20s/30s/40s when your body is still in its prime.


Intense academic competition and lack of unstructured playtime would seem to go hand-in-hand, no?


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