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by kentm 1y ago
I don’t think they need to for there to be value. Sure, maybe there’s spyware in free software that they haven’t found. But we know that these advertising companies are putting e-stalking code into all their products right now. Trading that
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by kentm 1y ago
As far as I can tell, people are expecting a pivot into AI/robotics being major revenue drivers.
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by kentm 1y ago
Yes, and the fault is on the people using U-3 that way, not the economists. Talking about the problems with U-3 implies that the economists messed up. The issue is that everyone is looking for a quick 5-second way of making conclusions ab
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by kentm 1y ago
> Which of these is supposed to correspond to "aggregate economic health"? There's no single metric for aggregate economic health in the same way that there's no single metric for aggregate server health. There'
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by kentm 1y ago
> Gender affirming care is unsupported by evidence, so it is inaccurate to say "unilaterally". It is supported by evidence -- plenty of research around outcomes and comparisons to the alternative. The right wing does not engag
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by kentm 1y ago
Public universities should not be beholden to the public in what they research. It’s important that institutions are able to make conclusions that are true and expand human knowledge despite certain portions of the population not liking tho
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by kentm 1y ago
They are. Transgenderism has decades of research backing it and the right has just unilaterally decided that it’s wrong. They didn’t do this based on any sort of real research but rather empty appeals to nature and essentialism. Sports bans
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by kentm 1y ago
I would argue there was. You’re using “Accepts conservative thoughts uncritically” as the barometer here. Conservative thought just tends to lose out when examined critically, so the right seeks to compensate by authoritarian measures. See
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by kentm 1y ago
It’s not our responsibility to do so. A company doesn’t have some inherent right to exist such that we must accept unethical behavior.
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by kentm 1y ago
Not all biases are equivalent. "Don't be racist, don't curse, and maybe throw in some diversity" is not morally or ethically equivalent to "ignore existing evidence to push a far-right white supremacist talking poi
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by kentm 1y ago
I think conflating what other companies have been doing with what Grok is doing is disingenuous personally. Most other AI stuff has had banal "brand safety" style guards baked in. I don't think any other company has done so
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by kentm 1y ago
They've also been caught messing with system prompts twice to push a heavily biased viewpoint. Once to censor criticism of the current US administration and again to push the South Africa white genocide theory contrary to evidence. N
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by kentm 1y ago
I’m assuming they mean const function/method parameters. Being able to mark inputs to functions as const to guarantee that they aren’t mutated in C++ which often means you can just pass in the value by reference safely.
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by kentm 1y ago
Based on their comment history it’s sarcasm.
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by kentm 1y ago
Yeah I think something was missed. My wild speculation is that the person thats "causing issues" has a privileged position with the owners. The owners are unwilling to completely cut this person out of the business, and that is
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by kentm 1y ago
A large number of people do not take Zuckerberg or Altman seriously and do bash them, but there is also a contingent that do. This is similar to Trump; about 1/3 of America listens to him and think he’s talking sense. Note that these c
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by kentm 1y ago
Personally, I was eyeing redpanda connect for some use cases and the telemetry was a huge turnoff, even if it’s disabled. This is in addition to the licensing schemes. So my focus has been on Bento instead.
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by kentm 1y ago
Mueller’s findings were not exactly a ringing exoneration despite how the right likes to frame it. A lot of people went to jail and he specifically said that he couldn’t exonerate and only stopped the investigation due to DoJ policy, and no
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by kentm 1y ago
… was not Democrats refusing to accept election results. Thats a talking point by republicans trying to downplay Jan 6 and the false electors plot, not actual fact.
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by kentm 1y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” It’s definitely a factor (perhaps the dominant factor) and the easiest place to see it at play is on HN whenever the adtech indust
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by kentm 1y ago
I’ve been in tech for about 2 decades now, and the general culture has always been to disregard ethics and social impact. How many times have we heard “We’re just building tools. Tools are apolitical and ethically neutral, it’s how you use
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by kentm 1y ago
Driving high levels of the total returns off of a handful of advertisement companies doesn’t seem good or sustainable IMO. But
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by kentm 2y ago
I don’t think it’s economics that got us into that. It’s primarily been incredible fiscal irresponsibility, mainly from Republicans, that has done so. Congress hasn’t really agreed or followed mainstream economics as long as I’ve been alive
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by kentm 2y ago
I’ve found that the number of parsers that don’t handle multiline records is pretty high though.
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by kentm 2y ago
They mean getting the car out of the situation, not them being unable to leave the car. Definitely a concern if the car is stuck and it’s unsafe to leave the car, ie on a busy highway.
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by kentm 2y ago
By cutting taxes. Republicans have been slashing taxes for decades without cutting spending.
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by kentm 2y ago
You only have to look at a high level breakdown of the budget to know that DOGE is not serious. You are not going to get trillions in saving by cutting administrative overhead in various departments.
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by kentm 2y ago
> Code is not law. Law is law. Very few people argue that code is law and it has become an anti-blockchain talking point. I made this exact argument in discussions with "blockchain" proponents, in discussions of why "code
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by kentm 2y ago
Sorry do you really think Musk and Trump are eliciting input from all parties and carefully gathering data before giving recommendations? Because given how frequently they talk about the “radical left” and “marxists” I really don’t think t
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by kentm 2y ago
Frankly I’m done with entertaining the concerns about coastal elites looking down on the common clay. I’ve talked a lot with people with this position. They look down on other people just as much, if not more. They will talk a lot about r

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