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by cbeach 1y ago
Raising immigration rates to solve an aging population is a Ponzi solution.
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His posts on AI are often very insightful and, unusually for someone so involved in AI, he's not connected to any of the big AI companies. Therefore he is impartial.
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Datasette (open source project by @simonw, 10K stars on GitHub) excels at this: https://datasette.io/ Plugins like datasette-extract (AI powered data extraction) are amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by cbeach 1y ago
I am a person that cares about EVs and climate change and I wholehearted support Elon's intervention to reduce fraud and waste in government
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Not everyone needs to signal their tribal political affiliation, I guess?
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So did a bunch of Democratic politicians and celebs: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/everyone-is-a-n... But curiously there's no hoopla about those "Nazi salutes" in the mainstream medi
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by cbeach 1y ago
"Harm" is a very subjective, one-sided view of a government efficiency and anti-corruption project. Hundreds of millions of American taxpayers are fully behind DOGE. I'm sure you'll find some supposedly vital science pro
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by cbeach 1y ago
Brutalism was a reactionary movement against ornate Victorian and Georgian architecture, which was seen as elitist and emblematic of the "property owning class" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architec
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by cbeach 1y ago
Even though it serves as expensive housing for private purchase, it still manages to exude Soviet central-planned estate vibes. Walking around this imposing concrete structure, you feel its soullessness and brutalism. They made attempts to
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by cbeach 1y ago
Cleaning out the wordy, "oh so edgy" embellishment (probably authored by AI, ironically), here's a ChatGPT summary: HTML is simpler, faster, and more reliable The author rails against “bloated, over-engineered” JavaScript f
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A fridge is a heat pump, and there’s no getting around the laws of thermodynamics. A fridge cools your food by warming your room. Anything that stands in the way of a fridge expelling heat to its environment will make it less efficient.
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by cbeach 1y ago
It's a shame about the title of this HN post, as the article itself is a really interesting exploration of the use of machine learning in news media. I nearly skipped it as it sounded like the "I'm too good for LLMs" eng
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by cbeach 1y ago
ChatGPT isn't the only online platform that is trained by user feedback (e.g. "likes"). I suspect sycophancy is a problem across all social networks that have a feedback mechanism, and this might be problematic in similar way
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by cbeach 2y ago
> In that the UK does not, in fact, have lower tariffs When tariffs were applied, UK got 10%, EU got 20%. There's currently a temporary reprieve on the EU. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04&#x2F
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by cbeach 2y ago
Brexit literally just resulted in the UK having lower tariffs and a probable free trade deal with the largest economy on the planet. ...unlike our friends on the European continent.
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It does if the cookie contains any uuid that might be linkable to a user's identity (which is obviously necessary if you want to perform rudimentary self-hosted analytics on unique user visits)
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In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics lik
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by cbeach 2y ago
In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics lik
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I'm talking about rudimentary analytics with no harmful consequences for you as an individual
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Yes. For example, if you want to track unique users (for the most rudimentary analytics), you'll need to put a uuid in a cookie on their browser, and you'll need to damage your UX with a stupid cookie consent popup, thanks to EU D
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by cbeach 2y ago
Let's say I want to improve my site by recording basic user analytics like unique user counts, to produce actionable data. I'm not nefariously collecting their social security number. I'm just putting some uuid in a harmless
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You're suggesting that companies ruin their own UX to "undermine a law?" That this is all a big conspiracy by nearly every company on the web against our precious overlords in the European Commission?
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I shut down a couple of my websites that provided a service for free (streetlend.com and cointouch.com) because the GDPR was too ambiguous for me to be 100% sure I complied with - and in the past online I have encountered vexatious people w
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by cbeach 2y ago
The cookie banners don't make companies less "careless" They just introduce a needless bit of friction in the UX. If the EU wanted to prevent digital identity triangulation or cross-domain advertising data gathering, it shoul
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by cbeach 2y ago
Why haven't we questioned the asymmetric high tariffs imposed by the EU on America for decades? The EU imposed a 10% tariff on US cars for decades while the US only imposed 2.5% on the EU. And this happened while the EU exerted a signi
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This article compares two deliberately-different platforms. One is vertically integrated and designed for thermal performance, lightness, thinness and attractiveness. One is modular, and sacrifices thermal performance, lightness, thinness a
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> cultism, uncritical praise, excessive volume, lack of substance All of which are subjective judgements on the content, which will naturally be reflective of a voter's political biases
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by cbeach 2y ago
I'd love to be clearer about my common-sense, scientifically-backed viewpoints, but if I did so it might result in hostile action being taken against me. So I choose not to. Not because I'm insincere about my views, or because I b
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by cbeach 2y ago
That would be very positive IMO. It would expose bad actors. However, the bar for creating new accounts is low, so bad actors could create lots of accounts cheaply and use them for flagging. That's why I think flagging needs to be a pr
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by cbeach 2y ago
If stating certain facts is made illegal (by our democratically-elected representatives) then by all means HN will need to censor those facts for the sake of its own self-preservation. But until then, we should be free to state facts. >

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