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> "This person was convicted of raping someone. You feel safe interacting with them in person, but others might not." The fact that some people may "feel safe interacting with them in person, but others might not" is
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Being "uncomfortable" with somebody should not be enough to forever lock them out of society. What happened to "diversity and inclusion"? > "That’s the dilemma - only one of these two people will ultimately work
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> "... both keyword and semantic search in a single API. This new API platform is blazing fast, massively scalable, and, importantly, cost effective. No other vendor offers this today." Where's the proof that "no othe
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> "... I’m more confident than ever that the world needs a better economic system for creative people, and Patreon will keep building that system for creators over the decades ahead. However, the pandemic introduced volatility to th
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Politics on the front-page can be divisive and create distance between people (instead of bringing people together). It feels like there's been a lot of politics on the front-page recently. Should this be addressed in some way by HN? I
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I understand that there are (both practical and theoretical) ways to reduce the chances of an AI generating an image that has copyrighted elements in it (such as the "GettyImages" logo). I'm mostly curious about the legal asp
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Putting aside the core question of the legality of training data on licensed material - what about the false advertising/copyright aspect that comes with slapping a "GettyImages" logo on some random nonsense generated by a &q
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But do they really need an entire operating system for what amounts to simply copying around chunks of data? I think they could've gone for some slim RTOS-ish solution instead: no user-mode, no drivers, bare minimum.
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At this point, they should've just gone for an in-house bare-bones operating system that supports the bare minimum: reading chunks from disk, encrypting them, and forwarding them to the NIC. Besides that, it sees like all of the heavy
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It all comes down to the hiring pool. Compare the following two scenarios: 1. You're in a minority group (relative to the hiring pool), and your hiring decisions are skewed towards hiring other members of the same minority group (relat
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> "Don't know your use case, but C++ for a REST api seems extreme overkill" It used to be the other way around: spinning up a VM for handling a simple HTTP request, wasting many megabytes of storage, memory and burning nee
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> "Hulls of boats generally don't just go missing or left behind" But do they release ("leach"?) microplastics into the ocean? Especially when degraded over time?
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What about boats with fiberglass hulls?
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> "To the first problem you can use a classic mod 10 divide by 10 loop to convert into a string digit by digit." But the "physical" size of the number as represented in memory can change across platforms, no?
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> "How do you portably printf() an integer type that you don’t (and can’t) know the size of" "Portably" across what? You need to narrow down the problem space and better define it. If it's portably across a myri
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The bottleneck with Cloud Gaming is physical hardware (GPUs). You need both a dedicated GPU to run the actual game, but also a fast CPU (or expensive FPGAs) to stream the video to your thin clients. GPUs are expensive, power hungry, heat up
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> "Did you read the snail mail letter from someone who does just that?" I did. The author struggled embedding files into their executables with makefiles. We don't know anything else beyond that. So what? People also strug
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C89 is where C should've stayed at. If you need to convert a file to a buffer and stick that somewhere in your translation unit, use a build system. Don't fuck with C.
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What's the difference between this, and something like freelancer.com?
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> "As a user, I am very happy that W3C has overruled the objections. As a developer, it may a bit of a PITA, albeit a necessary one." It's not immediately clear what DIDs are, what problems they're solving (and what v
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> "Our decision wasn’t driven by financial constraints, but by how many things we can do well at once." In other words - "our decision was driven by financial constraints; we can't do many things at once".
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> "We grew like crazy last year (over 400%)" You went from 0 to 4 paying customers?
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It's that easy to raise money these days, at the 10% inflation mark. Spin up a webpage full of nonsense promises and they'll come chasing after you to take their cash.
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> "Most of these AGI doom-scenarios require no self-awareness at all. AGI is just an insanely powerful tool that we currently wouldn't know how to direct, control or stop if we actually had access to it." You're talki
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> "You want to know what's better than having actual MS developers interact with your issue on GH? Being able to submit a MR yourself and actually have that MR be merged in within days of it being good to go." .NET isn&#x2
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> "The ability for JS to run both client/server means we can do things with it that are not possible with PHP or other server-only languages, and frameworks like React are pushing that boundary. Pointing out that JS has these u
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> "Sure, I should setup a complex and huge dependency for just one of the many problems I highlighted. What a great idea" This too, demonstrates the point I raised earlier. Instead of using a mature, widely adopted and battle-t
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> "Most of the logic inside the form has to be written two times: in PHP and in vue" Why? That's just your choice of how to build your app, right? You could've avoided this by rendering templates on the server and sen
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> "Then having one language, no, one _shared code base_ for both client and server, which automatically can only send the minimum necessary over the wire? That's a _huge_ step forward." This is exactly the kind of non-nuan
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I'm not an Uncle Bob fan by any stretch of the imagination, but he wrote a somewhat famous article about this phenomenon: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html With each new wa

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