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by fn-mote 11mo ago
These suggestions seem to me part of an absurd struggle against basic market economics. This isn’t antitrust because the companies aren’t reselling it to you at a much higher price after cornering the market (cough cough Ticketmaster &
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> 2 terms and get back to the real world We are not the first people to come up with this idea. I think it is generally believed that the less time legislators serve the more power accrues to the bureaucracy and other non-elected positio
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
If you lose you elected government job and you still need to work, you become a lobbyist.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
I mean, they said they looked at the source code and thought it was gross, so there’s a justification for their concern, at least.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
Already on the front page with comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107658
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
How is this demonstrating governments are irrelevant? It seems like it is demonstrating their continued power. Steelmanning the argument, perhaps you see this as a demonstration that corporate power has gotten so large the government is bei
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
I wish this story were not framed as a “myth”. Far fewer people would read it if they knew the (presumed) truth - a small deviation from the story.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> The AoC guy loves recursive descent parsers way too much. LOL!! I agreed with a lot of what you wrote, but also a lot of us strive for beautiful solutions regardless of time/memory bounds. In fact, I’m (kind of) tired of leetcode
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> Where does ICE fit into your view that immigration policy is too soft? The post is (clearly to me) referring to left’s much more welcoming stance to immigration. (“No person is illegal.”)
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
Look, I agree with the sibling that the school needs to do something about cheating. Individual instructors should do something about it, even. The fact that there is no feedback loop causing instructors to do this is a real problem. If the
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
I disagree. People have a need to be heard and understood. That’s half of what we are doing here posting. Many (“not disabled”) people don’t fit in with their local peer group / society. The internet gave them a way to connect with oth
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
You should only use the word learning (without scare quotes) if it’s something you believe is learning. One of the first precepts of ML is that “memorization is not learning”. Learning is generalization, application to new circumstances. Sc
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> Which is pretty odd I have always assumed no Signal web client was a choice made to improve security.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
Use case: teaching classes. On HN, it seems trivial to install software, but for most people it is not. Also, tablet and Chromebook users.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> ads might simply not be profitable when integrated in LLM answers. This is wishful thinking. Companies are using LLMs for development. The ads are not for a $50 throw pillow, they are for a $10k monthly business-critical service. Consu
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> the moment AI has ads, I’m out HN users run adblockers. The usual estimate is that people who run adblockers are with $0, so don’t worry about them. Now — normal people did not used to run adblockers, although in my circles (young demo
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
Hatred of AI won’t stop others from steamrolling them and their jobs using AI. At this point, I have stopped hoping that LLMs will become vaporware.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> Sure, but you need to adopt this dependency and this cloud service. THIS. Asked to make an app using AWS? “I can do that, but have you considered the lower lifetime costs of using Azure? I can generate a configuration for AWS, Azure, o
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
I cannot tell if this is /s or not but yikes…
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> "sexy" isn't "sexual". unless any pretty person you pass by is a sexual encounter And “pretty”, even “beautiful”, doesn’t mean “sexy”. I definitely think comments here reflect the large portion of male HN reade
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
I agree with many comments here, but one of the terms seems absurd: > Not use models that determine geographic effects narrower than at a state level They are forbidden from having different models for different cities?? This seems extre
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> The advertiser is buying the right to put an advert in front of you Is this the way YouTube ads work? If I don’t load the ad, is someone paying?
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
Parent should include text not just a link. UBlock Origin Lite pulled from the Firefox extensions after being flagged for policy violation, now only available from GitHub.
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
I thought the whole post was about the benefits, namely that Stripe has too many webhooks and doesn’t handle enough of the tax computation. Did I misunderstand something? Or is this about a different angle?
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> What is it about Rust fanatics [....] The universalization from one developer's post to all Rust "fanatics" is itself an unwelcome attack. I prefer to keep my discussion as civilized as possible. Just criticize the remar
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
The most interesting criticism / idea in the article was that the parts that are intended for Rust-ification should actually be removed from core apt. > it would be better to remove the code that is used to parse the .deb, .ar, and
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> programmed with $X in a hot summer night in the late 90s and he hasn't had a look at $X ever since Oh, I’m all in agreement with this but there’s another side to this: Programmer worked with a product from the company back in ‘00
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> a mountain of tutorials online advising to drop in that file for wifi Cannot emphasize this enough. People with barely enough knowledge (“script kiddies” so to speak) are configuring and using RPi’s. They just want to follow the tutori
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
The author says "Rust crashes all of the time" and then goes on to invoke the Cloudflare unwrap() as an example of that. Uhhhh... but that was clearly a programmer error, right? Ignoring the possibility of a Result being Err inste
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by fn-mote 11mo ago
> You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation So although this is being spun as “trafficking”, that doesn’t seem accurate. This classification sounds like it includes selling “your own services”.

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