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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
> Why? It's the right tool for the job. No, it's not. Why should disabled users be forced to indirectly interact with a webpage via a non-deterministic agent, rather than directly interact with one that's specifically de
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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
In the US, there are around 40k deaths from motor vehicle crashes per year [1]. Who do you think is behind the wheel for most of those? The point of these cameras is not to "catch" people speeding or running red lights, but to
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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
This would be terrible — as written, the bill would also ban red light and speeding cameras. These are some of our most effective tools for traffic law enforcement; for instance, speeding cameras in NYC resulted in a 94% (!!!) reduction in
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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
In "programmatic" code, declaring two classes with the same name in the same namespace is generally either some sort of syntax error or one will "shadow" the other; it doesn't just silently merge the behavior of bo
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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
The author isn't taking an individual quote and extrapolating to a group/ethos, he's observing a group/ethos and choosing a broadly representative quote therefrom.
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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
Compared to all the new icon images on the page, that request for the new HTML source is probably negligible. With the previous implementation, all users would get the progressive enhancement… except non-JS users :) https://www.k
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by jakelazaroff 5mo ago
You would have needed the round-trip network request anyway to get the new images, no? The lack of Firefox support isn't a big deal because this is a progressive enhancement. Firefox users will still be able to switch icon sizes; they
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by jakelazaroff 6mo ago
I don't think you need to go that deep. This technology is literally dehumanizing: it's replacing individual human aspects of someone's voice with a computer-generated facsimile.
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by jakelazaroff 6mo ago
jujutsu is a different version control system: https://www.jj-vcs.dev/
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by jakelazaroff 6mo ago
> Investigators found software, pornography and articles about making drugs and explosives on the machines. I mean… yes, obviously, if you look on a computer you're gonna find software.
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
Anthropic changing their terms is fine. You taking your money elsewhere is also fine. What's the issue here?
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
Sure, there isn't a silver bullet that magically prevents all possible harm while also imposing no burden or inconvenience. The basis of my view is that the non-existence of such a framework is a terrible reason to have no protective f
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
> An individual's susceptibility to a vice is an individual problem. Maybe if you're Tom Hanks in Castaway. In real life, people contract lung damage from secondhand smoke; homes are mortgaged to fund gambling habits; familie
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
You are describing a staffing shortage.
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
How exactly would someone with no special access, knowledge or power get in on the game? Legalizing it across the board would just make things worse.
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
> Mypy exists. Mypy is optional. Optional means it’s not there. I’ve never seen a Python project where mypy covers 100% of the code with strict mode. I’ve seen hundreds where it covers the 20% someone added last quarter. The other 80% i
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
> Anthropic already enforce usage limits for everyone. If those limits are higher than what they want users to actually consume, that's Anthropic's problem. I mean, OpenCode is the one changing their app here. So it kinda see
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
Sure they are. What developer wouldn't rather rent out ten apartments for $2k/mo than two apartments for $4k/mo?
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
I don't think "regulate all their actions, imprison them, kill all humans" is the logical conclusion of "prediction markets incentivize antisocial behavior".
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
I mean, take your position to its natural conclusion: there are people who understand more than you about basically any given topic, which means your opinions are dumb and useless.
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
> I think it's super cool that Olympia HS has a student run newspaper, but I don't think this is something that should be posted to HN. Why shouldn't it? The thoughts and opinions of high schoolers matter just as much as
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
The section you linked to says the decision was non-binding, and the next section includes multiple quotes disputing the idea that such a legal requirement exists.
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by jakelazaroff 7mo ago
IANAL but no, executives are not actually legally required to increase shareholder value.
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AI Twitter's Favourite Lie: Everyone Wants to Be a Developer(joanwestenberg.com)
2 points by jakelazaroff 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jakelazaroff 8mo ago
What do you mean, "hallucinates and kills people"? Killing people is the thing the military is using them for; it's not some accidental side effect. It's the "moral choice" the same way a cruise missile is —
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by jakelazaroff 9mo ago
I mean, yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying? End mandatory parking minimums, institute a land value tax and then let the market decide whether parking is truly a valuable use of space.
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by jakelazaroff 9mo ago
Not the case as density increases: once roads reach their capacity, space inefficiency quickly becomes time inefficiency. That's why some cities have started introducing congestion pricing.
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by jakelazaroff 9mo ago
> We shouldn't use government to hurt people, and making someone's property too expensive to continue owning is definitely hurting them. But we are using government to hurt people — we are incentivizing (or worse, requiring
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by jakelazaroff 9mo ago
Of course it is — unproductive land use creates negative externalities that affect the entire surrounding community. It's like saying "a factory dumping waste into a river doesn't pollute the commons if the river runs through
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by jakelazaroff 9mo ago
Right, which is why the actual solution is mixed use development and a robust public transit system. Ultimately this is a geometry problem. Cars are by far the least space-efficient method of transporting people; eventually your roads j

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