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Why is there such a rich history of now-wealthy countries colonizing the Global South? Could their enterprising nature not provide for themselves without stealing? That low-effort Forbes article just talks about correlation. With some groun
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Some people in the wealthy countries of the world use a large portion of their income on rent, have to own a car to commute 1h+ to work because they have to live on the urban periphery—because of rent—and can spend their free time doomscrol
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The propaganda around propaganda is working so well. The idea that propaganda is someone with an agenda to promote Canned Beans just shouts that Canned Beans are the best and tries its best to censor any promotion of any other foodstuff. In
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Every day we demonstrate what a cultural lack of liberal arts does to people.
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I don’t believe that silicon has a soul (loosely speaking). For the same reason I don’t believe that some biomatter in a lab has a soul.
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> Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. T
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News at Y Combinator used to be my preferred reading diversion: reading interesting technical stories, debates on political topics, learning things, my comfort food of the same topics repeating the same arguments over the span of a decade.
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I think you drank the 2016 HN kool aid.
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> It is a wicked problem that composes with other wicked problems to pose a wicked problem of a higher order. Repeat dismissive tone. > Habermas in > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book) &g
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tl;dr: I have concerns. Not because Bun is bad. Bun is great. It is not bad. But Claude was good. And now it is bad. Bun is owned by Anthropic. Transitive property. Maybe. I hope I’m wrong.
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Let’s join hands then.
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Tedious LLM discourse isn’t aimed at AI engineers. It’s doomscrolling fodder for regular programmers.
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I have no stake in Fred Brooks. But No Silver Bullet seemed to be taken as gospel on this board. Sufficiently productivity-enhancing technology? Gimme a break man. Maybe you’ll get a 30% boost. Not a 10X boost. Until recently. dramatic p
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What’s so difficult to understand? The state or lobbying groups want to raise the retirement age which then correlates with studies on how raising the retirement age has “good effects”.[1] The goal isn’t to find out what is good for senior
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> Nevertheless, our group-average findings, if replicated by others, would hold clear policy implications. Federal efforts to promote work at pre-retirement ages would not only reduce reliance on SSDI and enhance retirement security, but
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Yes. But in practice people need their `if any_tasks_failed: throw error` (“CI”) to be in the cloud and have three nines of uptime. Personally (but who am I) I don’t need to check whether my changes work on Windows 7 and SunOS in order to c
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In this Northern European country of mine, I’ve got as much of a neutral third party that I can think of: a friend born and raised to adulthood in the Third World. They’ve got more “extrovertism” in them than 99.9% of the natives. Yet this
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> I really think this is why the past decade+ of American culture, politics, and society has been so off-the-wall insane. The Overton Window - another overused Redditism - of society has shifted towards the opinions of the neurotic and a
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I don’t understand all this thinking when some minor editing would have made confusion much less likely. > > This isn't really a new thought. Dropping this still leaves the whole intended meaning of the comment intact. That it is
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Reasoning is the slave of the passions. That’s the way it is and the only way it can work. Something needs to motivate someone to argue for or against something. Yes, this is I guess called motivated reasoning. And when their argument X is
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This isn’t harsh at all. As I’ve commented before (but this time as well I do no have the receipts/links), it’s been reported that highly paid programmers in the US also brought in a ton of profit; it was not at all the case that their
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So sayeth a Head of Engineering.
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Stoicness is for the lamb and the wolf alike; mindfulness is for the monk and the samurai killing on behalf of their lord alike. We are not so one-dimensional that good mind habits are the one and only thing we do and act on.
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> I used to work for Meta. I quit largely because of intense frustrations with the company. Meta has made a lot of mistakes, overlooked a lot of harms, and made a lot of short-sighted, selfish choices. Many things about the world are wor
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Thanks. I’m by default disposition suspicious of fallacies that are not logical fallacies. And I’m not convinced that this is a solid fallacy. > > Ad hoc fallacy is a fallacious rhetorical strategy in which a person presents a new exp
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What is the ad hoc fallacy? From googling I didn’t find any convincing definitions (definitions that demonstrate that it is a logical fallacy).
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But here’s the realization I had. And it’s a serious thing. At first I was both saying that this intelligence was the most awesome thing put on the table since sliced bread and stoking fear about it being potentially malicious. Quite stra
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So tedious.
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> I think there is alot of baseless fury behind your words, Hardly baseless when people have been gloating about how programming as a job is ending any day now for the last year at least. > Doesnt seem to us to be wheelbarrows of mone
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Looks like you missed this part of the comment, by me, that you replied to. > This is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand. ↑ That thing right there. HN users are much more technical than mos

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