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by Barrin92 2y ago
>it reminds me a lot of the various Trotskyist or other far left sects and personalities I encountered when I was younger. because that is exactly what it is. Rand idolized and worshipped great men and industrialists the way the Soviets
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>still those new players cannot recruit a broader base of folks. to be fair this comment from the thread after the author clarified that non-citizens can apply sums the situation up: "Would you be willing to assist the United State
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by Barrin92 2y ago
What stands out to me about Gates and Allen is the serious technical chops. Writing an emulator for the PDP-10 and then an interpreter, line editor, I/O system all in 4KB of memory. The code is worth reading and in addition to that th
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by Barrin92 2y ago
> “Paris, near Place de la République.” It sounds right. You move on. But a trained eye would notice the signage is Belgian. The license plates are off. The architecture doesn’t match. You trusted the AI and missed the location by a coun
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by Barrin92 2y ago
It just never made any sense to me. If we're talking real production code bases, not a one off hobby script, working with these systems just didn't get me anything. If you're in a codebase of tens or hundreds of thousands of
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by Barrin92 2y ago
the people who are qualified to work on the frontier of AI research are people with PhDs from leading universities who spend 80% of their day on arxiv reading CS papers, they don't learn about AI from Ghibli art on twitter. That's
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by Barrin92 2y ago
> Alas, how would I tackle this issue with a kid? by teaching them that work is good and necessary. There's a book by Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death , the central idea of which is that "form excludes content". Th
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by Barrin92 2y ago
I'm sorry to tell you this but an eight year old isn't reading the bible because they had a philosophical meaning crisis and their journey into secular philosophy was unsatisfying, they read the bible because the minecraft influ
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>I thought this country was founded on the principles of enlightenment. I'm gonna be honest, the actual founding fathers as individuals aside, most of the people coming over where arguably running away from the Enlightenment rathe
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by Barrin92 2y ago
Anyone who writes this down to schools or selection I think is completely missing the authors point. What they are describing, not just the academic but physical and mental change in young people, is everywhere. People from roughly my age,
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by Barrin92 2y ago
"we’ve built systems so complex we no longer fully understand them. We must now use scientific methods - originally designed to understand nature - to comprehend our own engineered creations. " Ted Chiang saw that one coming: ht
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>If we replace human drivers with self-driving cars at random But that's the OPs point, we aren't. Waymo crashing less than human drivers is a tautological result because Waymo is only letting the cars drive on roads where they
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by Barrin92 2y ago
In practical terms, in the first six months of 2024 China added as much additional renewable capacity as the entire UK consumes in total in a year. When I was in Zhengzhou at the end of last year I got the chance to do a tour around the n
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>- Unless you want security updates past a year. That's not been the status quo any more for a while since the EU started to mandate several years of OS and security updates. Samsung and I believe Google as well have stated they&#x2
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>but I bet you this person enjoyed what they were doing on the whole. well given that the man just dropped dead of a heart attack at his daughters wedding at a relatively young age I'd maybe take that bet. I'm currently readin
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>To many people, of course, this is disgusting behavior. Well in my experience when I lived in a neighborhood like this in practice this meant a lot of really bored soccer moms in the local facebook group posting pictures of every new va
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by Barrin92 2y ago
I was surprised to see no mention of Leo Marx's: The Machine in the Garden , because that's probably the most canonical book on exactly what the article talks about, the idealization of pastoral life in America[1]. As the blog po
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by Barrin92 2y ago
globalization is going to continue, even among unlikely partners, see for example[1]. The US putting itself behind an Iron Curtain, is of course not going to change the reality that the rest of the world needs, and benefits from trade just
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>I thought it just allowede easier debugging, sorry When Zen browser was posted here first I saw that the people behind it mostly seemed to be uni students in their early 20s so on their side I'd cut them some slack for inexperience
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by Barrin92 2y ago
It's not about trust, it's about the fact that 10% of something, or even the chance of 10% of something, is better than guaranteed 100% of nothing. You're not being taken advantage of if someone uses a BSD license the way it&
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Twenty years ago, the (illicit) norm was to digitize your own physical media No it wasn't. It was the norm among an ingroup of technically savy young people who, on HN, always confuse themselves with the average user at the time. A
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>The non-independent web which is largely controlled by faceless corporations has never been bigger or more able to hurt the average person I disagree with this one pretty strongly because it's important to consider it in relation t
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>The screenshot from the complainant shows this was not in a search context. Of course it does. The question shown in the screenshot is "who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?". That's something someone would type into Google search,
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>so why can those chemicals only come from things that were living? Because food is a way to consume order. In Schrödinger's terms, the food chain is "life feeding on negative entropy". As you go up the food chain more and
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Either I'm missing something big, I mean, their revenue? They're apparently on track to do a billion this year, growing pretty fast, so 30 billion seems fair enough.
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by Barrin92 2y ago
General intelligence is overstated sometimes, but it is a thing. Someone who is smart enough to work for Jane Street probably could at least be an intelligence analyst or software developer at the NSA contributing to national security. (Jim
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by Barrin92 2y ago
The author is correct on this: "Not so with the web. The web is a set of protocols and languages and file formats[...] Google, by virtue of having Chrome, invests heavily in the web itself " Without a company like Google which fu
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by Barrin92 2y ago
Yup I'm gonna second this one. I grew up in Cologne and Christians here generally don't think the Cologne Cathedral [1] (which holds among other things, according to the Church the bones of the three magi) is "just a building
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>that a lack of unifying identity in America is a weakness, not a strength America's proper and authentic identity always is its pluralism , entailing all the conflict that brings. If America made one unique contribution to the wor
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by Barrin92 2y ago
There's currently a deep crisis of legitimacy in Western democracy so brushing off criticism as hogwash seems to me pretty ignorant. The core of democracy cannot be, in the words of the current American president, to be "good tele

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