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by cbeach 4y ago
The tribal “anti Elon” thing on HN is getting really boring now. This is so petty. Can we move on, please?
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by cbeach 4y ago
Let's be honest, the Azov Brigade should be condemned. But have they killed as many innocent civilians as the Russians over the last couple of years? In a morally consistent world, both the Azovs and aggressive Russian regime should be
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by cbeach 4y ago
It was a joke suggested by @WSBChairman, which Elon followed through on: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1642976364080041984?s=46... The whole point of Doge is that it’s daft and pokes fun at how seriously peo
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by cbeach 4y ago
See the following page for an explanation (in particular the "Native Graph Processing" heading) https://neo4j.com/blog/native-vs-non-native-graph-technology... In native graph databases like Neo4J query times
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by cbeach 4y ago
IR35 killed contracting a few years ago (it did for me and many of my friends, anyway) The phenomenon that presently affects your job prospects is the tens of thousands of good developers being laid off from FAANG companies and suddenly com
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by cbeach 4y ago
This is nice but it misses what's fundamentally special about "real" graph databases - the way they store data. Native graph databases like Neo4J use index-free adjacency. This means query durations are proportional to the am
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by cbeach 4y ago
Banning ChatGPT within your own country will not defend your fellow citizens (in any way) from bad actors in other countries using AI to spam, disinform and manipulate your fellow citizens. The Internet is bigger than Italy
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by cbeach 4y ago
The bureaucrats were sure to add clauses to their privacy laws to grant themselves carte blanche powers during “extraordinary events” All they needed, then, was to have an event appear “extraordinary” and they could legally compromise the
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by cbeach 4y ago
The “author_is_elon” flag may have been assigned to him because Elon’s Twitter account has the most followers on the platform. So, for technical / performance reasons, changes to the algos might want to be benchmarked against this acco
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by cbeach 4y ago
I assume every service worker is constantly polling a server back-end, or, at least, has a long-running connection? There are hundreds of service workers installed for me in Chrome (see: chrome://serviceworker-internals/) I r
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by cbeach 4y ago
This is only a Windows problem. I never need to reboot my Mac unless there's a major OS update.
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by cbeach 4y ago
ChatGPT: Right to repair laws could burden businesses with regulations and compliance requirements, hindering innovation and economic growth. Companies may be forced to disclose sensitive information about their products, leading to intelle
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by cbeach 4y ago
It is basic human nature to want to work for the benefit of your own family, and to expect that if you work harder, you will be rewarded proportionally. Marxism flies in the face of this premise.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Karl Marx’s ideology promoted the violent seizure of assets from the productive class in a revolution to install communism. The ideology absolutely promoted dictatorship and totalitarianism. There’s no alternative system that can sustain co
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by cbeach 4y ago
I don’t know which tweets the account was banned for, but the username “MarxFanAccount” is a red flag IMO If there was a “NaziFanAccount” I’d expect it to be banned. And Nazi ideology killed far fewer people than Marxist ideology in the 20t
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by cbeach 4y ago
I'm probably listed among those "10M users" I checked out Mastodon for an hour or so, saw less engagement than Twitter, more of an echo chamber, and a generally inferior user experience. Now I don't actively use it. It&#
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by cbeach 4y ago
What makes you think he wants to "build a community" or attract outside contributors? Elon spotted the rot and bias within Twitter. From day 1 he's been exposing and expunging it. Same with the recommendation algorithm. This
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by cbeach 4y ago
Twitter used to be controlled by the blue tribe. Now it’s been bought by a (perceived) member of the red tribe. It’s a simple as that. People feel the need to signal their tribal affiliation and attack those from other tribes. Been part of
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by cbeach 4y ago
Ask yourself -why- this always pops up. We're learning a lot more about the side-effects of mRNA vaccines since a court denied Pfizer the 75-year moratorium it requested on releasing its test results to the public, and since studies ha
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by cbeach 4y ago
The UK has an elected Prime Minister who acts as the head of state in all meaningful functions. The monarch has held a merely ceremonial position since 1688 (the Glorious Revolution). Regarding electoral systems, I'd choose PR over FPT
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by cbeach 4y ago
Java: String info = STR."My name is \{name}"; Scala: val info = s"My name is $name" Why does Java ALWAYS use unnecessary verbosity? I don’t get it. They’ve had years to learn from succinct languages.
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’m from the U.K. which is why I care deeply about representative democracy. Our system has stood the test of time. You criticise companies for “refusing to work with others” on messaging. Why should companies be forced into a cartel-like r
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by cbeach 4y ago
We can’t have choice if bodies like the EU (led by appointed, not elected, politicians) decide on technical standards. It’s egregious that the EU will force a lowest-common-denominator implementation of messaging on independent private comp
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by cbeach 4y ago
I wonder what connected vehicle manufacturers will do about encryption being compromised in the U.K.? I’m nervous at the prospect of my Tesla communicating in (to all intents and purposes) plaintext with the mothership. The API for that car
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by cbeach 4y ago
As a counterpoint, I know people first hand who admired what Elon did for freedom of expression on social media, and now they are more familiar with, and willing to buy, a Tesla. Perhaps it’s not obvious to those in the Californian tech bub
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Bing threatens to dox a student in revenge for prompt hacking(twitter.com)
130 points by cbeach 4y ago|116 comments
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by cbeach 4y ago
They are gaslighting a prominent man because he is from a different political tribe to theirs and they believe that by denigrating him they are defending their own tribe from “the other”
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by cbeach 4y ago
They’re still hoping that Twitter is / will be dead, because now it’s run by someone outside their political tribe. Why are we sharing this silly tribal BS on Hacker News?
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by cbeach 4y ago
This article got tweeted by Elon Musk. Congrats, @simonw!
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by cbeach 4y ago
That’s a matter of opinion. The attempts to smear John (by association) seemed desperate to me, and now we know where they originated, it’s pretty obvious that this was a vexatious attack on a decent man.

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