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by hitekker 4mo ago
imho, one big reason why Data Science as a big org lost clout in tech companies was a tendency to treat DS as gatekeepers of data. Outsourcing the responsibility of stat thinking gave many DS a weird power trip; when one dude gets to decide
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by hitekker 4mo ago
Almost all the screenshots in this article are “hello world”…
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by hitekker 4mo ago
“No” is a straightforward answer to “areweguiyet” in Rust. Many well intentioned and well-invested projects with no winning GUIs means we’re not there yet. Saying “almost” or “yes” privileges the activity and hype around Rust GUI over actu
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by hitekker 4mo ago
Billing statements disguised as marketing nudges is a cromulent business practice until the SaaS start sending bills to collections. I think the author is being kind, both to themselves and startup practicing dark patterns. He walks through
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by hitekker 4mo ago
At the 0:10s mark of the video, the ex-stabber makes a move on the mayor and gets in the bodyguard's face, trading words. The SFChronicle reporter noted that critical detail you've overlooked. Seeing the threat depends on one&#x27
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by hitekker 4mo ago
It's in the public record. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-mayor-bodyguard... https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-mayor-bodyguard... The reporter's findin
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by hitekker 4mo ago
That wikipage over-focuses on modern rightwing racism to the exclusion of modern leftwing racism against the Chinese. It doesn't account for how 2020's White Progressives treated Chinese-Americans as "white-adjacent" sec
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by hitekker 4mo ago
I'd concur with the sibling commenter; they put their money where their mouth is and they've addressed your arguments, particularly the popularity fallacy. I'll also say Zig got Bun to their big acquisition; not unlike how ot
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by hitekker 5mo ago
The left-right coalition against porn makes relief for Kickstarter or Stripe unlikely. FOSTA-SESTA, the law that increased liability for platforms facilitating porn, passed 388-25 in the House and 97-2 in the Senate back in 2018. Every sena
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by hitekker 5mo ago
I'm unconvinced. https://duskos.org/ doesn't tell a story about fashionable ideologies fused-together for the greater good. Dusk/Collapse OS does what it says on the tin, minus moralizing and metaphors. In an
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted; I think you're close to right. They were successful with one technology and had a great exit. They may also be successful with another technology post-acquisition. Lets see the fruit of their
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Yeah, that tracks according to the numbers. https://ziglang.org/news/300k-from-mitchellh/ https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/#income https://ziglang.org/news/2
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Did you read your citations? Wikipedia, for example, acknowledges the Administration "coerced or significantly encouraged social media platforms to moderate content, which violated the First Amendment." The Reason article is overw
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by hitekker 5mo ago
And Drew Devault, your source, has brazenly deceived HN before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124 To be clear, that source is happy to lie about their own identity and run away from basic questions. I'd t
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Not just performance, the code was littered with unsafe blocks and the benchmarks (IIRC) were gamed heavily by the Rust devs. It was a dishonest effort that actually undermined the memory safety pitch.
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by hitekker 5mo ago
This is the second time in the last month that Hindenburgh's reports appear to be prophetic. Previously, they called out Backblaze before the company began harming its own product.
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Apparently, the noise around the AI policy came from Bun's developers saying that policy blocks upstreaming their performance PR. But the real reason seems to be that PR's code itself isn't in great shape, and introduces unhe
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Seems like a hostile market for Waymo. Many Portlanders despise tech giants and are strongly anti-car & anti-AI, far more than SF. Not to mention Portland's political / governance / people problems already inclines the po
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Yeah, it's a word game. The other side does it? Evil banning. We do it? Morally correct curation. I remember one time some libraries banned non-equity-promoting books and then backtracked and called it "deaccession" https:&#
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by hitekker 5mo ago
As others have intimated: the post's theorizing seems pretentious and distracts from a maybe unoriginal message. It's a problem of form and substance. The words feel like academic cosplay, dressing up loose thinking to inflate wea
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by hitekker 5mo ago
You’ve identified an interesting loop which I reckon is deeply uncomfortable for the Progressive type. Nonetheless, it’s true for most voters in Oakland or SF. Just last month, a judge let a homeless stabber back on the street after he thre
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by hitekker 5mo ago
I didn't dig deep but I think Hindenburg Research saw this coming 1-2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827236
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by hitekker 5mo ago
Well, it respects my time and I respect my time. Youtube wants me (its idea of me) to have a bright, colorful, exciting experience; I want a dreary and focused one. That's not disrespect, it's just different expectations. I'
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by hitekker 6mo ago
The nyc subreddit which I'd say is pretty pro-Mamdani shared your concerns. https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1sjq9v9/mayor_zohran_m...
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by hitekker 6mo ago
I pay for YouTube Premium. No ads; I feel like it respects my time. Algorithm is well tailored too. The “remove video thumbnail” and “remove YouTube shorts” chrome extension is a must install though.
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by hitekker 6mo ago
The post feigns outreach but the "Facebook and Tiktok are Evil" section blatantly panders to EFF supporters. It frontloads identity-group-affirming language to justify using platforms its supporters dislike at while saying nothing
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by hitekker 6mo ago
> signalling the end of focused goal-oriented activism in favor of the dilute, general grievance mire An earlier signal was when the EFF ejected one of their founders from the board for disagreeing with their mission creep https:/
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by hitekker 6mo ago
"Infotainment" is the term I've heard to describe Reddit and other talking websites. People are looking to "win" like they do in sports or other recreational activities. It's a kind of fun that disguises itself
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by hitekker 6mo ago
Surprising no one in the article or the comments has referenced The Amazing Digital Circus. It’s use of backrooms, NPCs and the like dovetail well together.
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by hitekker 6mo ago
lovelydinosaur appears to be undergoing a mental health crisis. Besides the drama and lies, I notice they (I think they?) seemed to misname the maintainer on purpose. They did it in the first thread, which the maintainer tried to correct, a

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