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by keybored 10mo ago
Every day, millions go to work because they have to eat. Every day, thousands (?) go to their computers in their free time and make OSS software. Not because they have to eat but because [?]. Then they or others complain that people take th
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by keybored 10mo ago
> To use an analogy: if the village idiot went to the town square and shouted hate speech, he'd be laughed at or dealt with. Now anyone has a platform to go to the town square, except it's the world, and shout hate speech. And
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by keybored 10mo ago
Russia is a waning superpower with a low GDP but a powerful enough internal economy to wage a conventional invasion of a large European country. The US is a much richer country, the leading superpower, and an IT powerhouse. But for some rea
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by keybored 10mo ago
> The account, which describes itself as “a proud Scottish lass” and “passionate about Scotland's independence & our right to self-determination”, is based in Europe (according to X’s location data). I get suspect everytime an o
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by keybored 10mo ago
> Yes, there are security risks and all but honestly this is the future. That’s it? There are security risks but The Future? On the one hand I am giving it access to my computer. On the other hand I have routine computer tasks for it to
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by keybored 10mo ago
HN is now where I get my daily does[1] of apathetic indifference/go with the flow attitude. [1] * dose
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by keybored 10mo ago
This is what has been repeated again, again, again, again, and again since the election. Those other commoners did it. They wanted it. So much effort spent talking about how democracy was so powerful—all the wrong commoners got what they wa
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by keybored 10mo ago
> That belief isn't the consequence of the situation, but the cause. There is ample ability to change events, but people must believe they can act and act together, as they have for centuries of democracy and for all human history.
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by keybored 10mo ago
That’s fine. But it’s fun nonetheless to look at the alternatives, or non-alternatives for a lot of us who aren’t willing to do something else on the side that won’t hit the mainstream anytime soon. IMO the Zeitgeist here leans a bit too mu
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by keybored 10mo ago
I wish influencer programmers[1] cared a quarter as much about social revolution as they cared about tech revolutions. Will it disrupt all people in tech? Will the benefits go to the top? Then what about an appropriate social response? No.
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by keybored 10mo ago
Is there a Jeapordy for guessing prompts? Give an executive summary of GenAI trends where GenAI is the destiny and everything reacts to it. Touch on all “problems”. Don’t be divisive by making hard proclamations. Summarize in a safe way by
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by keybored 10mo ago
Everything is now not-niche but on the cusp of hitting the mainstream. Like Formal Methods.[1] But they were nice enough to put it in the title. Then tptacek replied that he “called it a little bit” because of: Did Semgrep Just Get A Lot Mo
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by keybored 10mo ago
Now with LLMs this is a pressing issue The solution seems obvious? I don’t understand why MarkDown/CommonMark particulars are what causes roadbumps for the tools/the operators, of all things.
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by keybored 10mo ago
The management is dead. Welcome the new leadership (same as the old management^W leadership).
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by keybored 10mo ago
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by keybored 10mo ago
Or they’re arguing with like four FUD contrarians on a website. No no no shut up, don’t speak up. No one thinks like you.
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by keybored 10mo ago
(I did not read TFA) Or maybe underdeveloped is better? No, that’s not a loaded word hear me out: the syntax is very unobtrusive and minimal if you ignore the whole HTML superset thing. So people can just start using it. Everyone wants to w
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by keybored 10mo ago
The fundamental reason why terms are confused is because malicious actors ( bad faith ) intentionally set up to at best muddy the waters and at worst associate things they fight against with the worst adjectives. That doesn’t reflect on any
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by keybored 10mo ago
And social democracy forked from the socialist tradition over half a century ago (GGP[1] said socialism/communism). So both you and GP are wrong. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551378
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by keybored 10mo ago
This is as usual confused. People keep discussing communism as if they were (via analogy) talking about capitalism being about men in suites with fake smiles, green paper, bank vaults, and powerpoint presentations. Every time people have to
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by keybored 10mo ago
> From a strategy perspective, probably the last thing Israel/USA want to do is give the Iranian regime a common enemy to rally around in the midst of a protest that might plausibly over throw the Iranian regime. They attacked Iran
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by keybored 10mo ago
Counter-intuitive? The primary motivation for fretting about Brain Drain (whether it is true or not is secondary) is because the people who fret about it are educated professionals, precisely the people who are prone to build their identity
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by keybored 10mo ago
All correct. But something needs to be frontloaded. 1. Even if removing <bad government> would be good for that country, that doesn’t give some other state the right to do it. We let these entities get away with murder because they
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by keybored 10mo ago
Guy happens to be the lead of Google AI right now.
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by keybored 10mo ago
> As news unfolds surrounding the U.S. capture and arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, ... It is also noteworthy that these leak events begin over twelve hours prior to the U.S. military strikes in Venezuela. ... This is how I im
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by keybored 10mo ago
Like, be more weirdly defensive?
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by keybored 10mo ago
No other top-level comments have since mentioned Rust[1] and TFA mentions neither Rust nor topics like memory safety. It’s just plain bugs. The Rust phantom zealotry is unfortunately real. [1] Aha, but the chilling effect of dismissing RIR
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by keybored 10mo ago
It’s a class war where one side is publicly, openly, without reservation stating their intent to make people’s skillset built up through decades unemployable (those exact skillsets; may get some other work). The other side, meanwhile, are d
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by keybored 10mo ago
> (used voice to text then had claude reword, I am lazy and not gonna hand write it all for yall sorry!) Reword? But why not just voice to text alone... Oh but we all read the partially synthetic ad by this point. Psyche.
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by keybored 10mo ago
Nobody is immune to propaganda.

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