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by bjourne 3mo ago
So don't use coding agents? No one is forcing you, are they?
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by bjourne 3mo ago
In practical terms, the US is more fascist and more authoritarian than most countries. There must be thousands of soldiers who know the war is illegal and that they are committing war crimes. Yet they persist because, the president said so.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
I don't know of any English word counting algorithm or MoS that does not count "12" as a word, do you?
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by bjourne 3mo ago
"Does it have to be 1,000 words? Yes. That’s what a picture is worth, after all. Your entry must be exactly 1,000 words, not including the title (if you choose to write one)."
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by bjourne 3mo ago
I use the bot for lookups: "numpy, one hot, eye", "python, partition sequence, which lib?", "bash, safe test unset variable for equality".
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Correct. The thesis is worth 10 weeks of full-time work by someone on their third study year.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
NP contains P. You're thinking of NP-hard problems.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
That's just a cop-out. If there was no index the egg producers could easily have found other ways to collude to keep prices high. They do the same thing in Europe and there is no egg index to blame.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
What's the alternative? Seems like any community/discussion site always goes down the same fate.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Very clear that was going on in other subreddits too. E.g., moderators in r/worldnews conspiring to promote certain views while suppressing others.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Can it help me organize my music collection? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637538
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by bjourne 4mo ago
This is one of the Price Runner sites: https://www.pricerunner.com/ And this is Google Shopping: https://www.google.com/search?q=laptops&sca_esv=a6fae943e924... Google gave its own price comparison serv
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Not everyone who speaks Russian is a Russian or lives in Russia. It's like show a Palestine flag specifically to users with a Jewish calendar.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
If I understand the research correctly, they have created viral code which runs the moral equivalent of update brain set syn_strength ×= 1.1 where src_region=med_prefront_ctx and dst_region=dorsal_raphae in the brains of mice
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by bjourne 4mo ago
What does your comment have to do with the article?
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Man, there is exactly zero information on your site about how your benchmarks work. Why should one trust your numbers when there is no way to verify them?
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by bjourne 4mo ago
It's only interesting after you've removed all signs of nuance and dumbed the argument down to two keywords: "big" and "pharma". People are rightfully skeptical of pharmaceutical companies due to the enormous a
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by bjourne 4mo ago
I don't think a one-dimensional scale is an oversimplification at all. Option A: better lives for the great majority. Option B: better lives for the small minority of rich. The trick is to get people to voluntarily vote against their b
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Cool! Regardless of whether your code gets merged, it shows that xdisp.c can be tamed. Like Roger Bannister who ran the miracle mile, you showed that it can be done. Hopefully more will chip in and slay the Emacs redisplay code beast.
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Ask HN: How do you make the LLM generate good code?
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by bjourne 4mo ago
You can actually opt out of it. The guards will be a bit miffed but it is your right. In the EU the face scans are mandatory and the data will be retained.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Subsidized capital mostly. When you go to a private bank and want to borrow billions of money the bank will ask you "what for?" You tell it "nuclear, might generate profit in 25 years" and it will quote you an interest r
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by bjourne 4mo ago
As I said, cite your sources. You claim RWE was a public-private partnership "in the same period" but don't even state which period. Your claim about CFDs is a complete non-sequitur as I never claimed that the subsidies wer
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by bjourne 4mo ago
According to Wikipedia, PreussenElektra was a subsidiary of VEBA, a state owned energy company. You have to cite your sources here because I don't want to have to rebut made-up stuff. I do note that you have changed your argument from
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Really? Which private sector built nuclear power plants in East Germany? In West Germany most plants were constructed by state-controlled enterprises and there were no expectation of them to ever reach profitability.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200879 I wonder what happened to the Iranian buddies? So many HN accounts whose Iranian friends were all supposedly celebrating the US-Israeli bombings of their country of origin. Are
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Why not add keyboard shortcuts? Would make a much more polished desktop experience.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Plain false. The "economics" never got bad. They were always bad to begin with, hidden under layers of government subsidies.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Hint, being snarky on HN is not as cool as you think. Nuclear "became expensive" because state subsidies declined, labor costs increased, and environmental regulations across all industries tightened.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Ah, the nuclear Dolchstoßlegende. Since the mid 1980's nuclear construction basically came to a grinding halt, due to cost overruns and delays. It has never recovered and never will. Economics, not a Greenpeace conspiracy, killed new n

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