FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
As a well intentioned user (with no stake whatsoever in Grok or parties involved) who originally flagged this but then decided to remove my flag, here was my original reasoning... In the HN guidelines there are two category definitions, on-
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I feel pretty silly about all of this. Part of the reason I was so adamant about my stance is that I've had comments flagged in the past, which at the time I felt wasn't appropriate (I really thought fell within the guidelines) an
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I agree completely. That's my point.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Thank you for pointing this out to me. I didn't understand how that worked and it very much changed my perspective on this whole thread.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
> It's revealing that you're repeatedly framing your decision as someone else's Yes it's revealing that I was confused about how HN works. I did flag it, and I don't deny that. I explained in another comment how
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Okay, well my goal here was to communicate a benefit of the doubt most respectful interpretation of the moderators decision, and how it can be justified by the official HN guidelines. While I could have been a lot more clear from the start,
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Are you debating my interpretation of the HN guidelines or the HN guidelines themselves? It seems a bit like you are shifting the goalpost here. I was clarifying how the decision to flag this submission can be explained by the HN guidelines
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Mos
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
> This person It's two different people. If I zoom out and look at the whole thread, I can take a more generous view of your criticism and acknowledge that I could have been more direct rather than leading through questions. I still
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I studied ZKPs. You and I must have very different understandings of the actual scope of the problem. Like I said, everything that exists or is being worked on that makes a dent (including ZKPs) is incomplete or has ugly trade offs. Maybe y
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
No it's not... The GP's accusations of gatekeeping and dishonesty led me to deduce he was making assumptions about political leaning rather than a more respectful interpretation being to protect intellectually curious dialog. Then
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I explored a startup idea that really didn't make sense unless there was a way to ensure users were unique humans in an anonymous and privacy preserving way. Researched it substantially and realized it's an unsolved problem. Anyth
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I've only made one submission in 2024 and yes it's true it was not appropriate for HN. Since then I've read the guidelines multiple times and learned how to follow them better. I don't see how a small mistake I made in 2
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
> without much rancor which you refuse to confront I was responding to the "why is this post flagged?", and you changed scope to "justify all moderator decisions across the platform". Consider that you may have a sens
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Are you implying that because I am pointing out how the HN guidelines state crime and other topics that trample curiosity are off-topic, I share some ideology with some American official that condones child porn?
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Why didn't you also include the off-topic portion of the guidelines and make a case why this post doesn't classify as off-topic? In what way am I gatekeeping? You were asking for an explanation, and I was attempting to show you on
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
It sure seems to me like you haven't read the guidelines, because if you had you would have made a different case for why this post should be on-topic, since the guidelines use "crime" as an example of what is off-topic. The
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
> I know for a fact you and people like you will say No You "know for a fact" what about me exactly? And what do you mean by "people like me"? I think AI deep fakes were an interesting new phenomenon at one point but
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Interesting, I'm surprised you would think that. Given the very first part about what's on-topic and off-topic, how would you categorize this post?
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Maybe start by reviewing the HN guidelines and asking yourself whether or not this is on-topic for HN.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
There is a third option: looking at the diets of your closest ancestors with the best longevity. There may be a misconception that there is one single best diet for everyone, when in reality we people (over generations) evolve with our diet
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
There are two types of right/wrong ways to build: the context specific right/wrong way to build something and an overly generalized engineer specific right/wrong way to build things. I've worked on teams where multiple e
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
That's the least respectful interpretation of what I said.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I didn't read the article because it's paywalled and I am on a phone with no easy way to get around it. That said, those three examples (LLMs, driverless cars, and humanoid robots) are extremely different problems. LLMs are mostly
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
That doesn't sound right to me. A lot of b2b comes with high barrier to entry. Also I know of many successful indie games, some of which were built by one person. I can think of so many exceptions to your point on both sides that I que
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I used to get migraines and sometimes they would be triggered by smells. Thankfully I have thad a migraine in over 10 years.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I've been a windows user my whole life, only interacting with Linux servers remotely via shell. I've become quite familiar with command line Linux, but never used a graphical operating system. My next PC will be Linux.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I'm a long term Veritasium fan, and this video stands out to me as one of the best. I find it interesting how the physics communities were so dismissive of the science in the early years, which seems to have led directly to ASML's
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
What if there is no such thing as a "post scarcity" society in the sense of a clear boundary and categorical difference, just a long, fairly consistent, gradient of increasing productivity and efficiency and increasing abundance?
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I agree with GP here. According to the official HN guidelines this doesn't seem like it belongs on HN.

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