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by krapp 6mo ago
The current social panic always feels very different. But people literally believe social media is the sole cause of all of modern society's problems, that it's a mind-control platform and a cancer on society. I've seen peo
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by krapp 6mo ago
So just specify a single, sane specification of Markdown as the spec.
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by krapp 6mo ago
It succeeds in being so simple that it's useless to 99% of people, which limits its growth and eventual co-opting by capitalism and mainstream culture, and Eternal September. Not everything has to be for everyone. Gemini is only for a
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by krapp 6mo ago
There's nothing bad about vanilla. People use TS because that's what startups and businesses prefer, and CS students expect compilers and toolchains and strict typing. Modern JS culture is entirely influenced by Silicon Valley and
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by krapp 6mo ago
One of the unqualified good aspects of the web is that its text based format made it simple for anyone to view source to learn how the structure of webpages worked, so they could apply that knowledge themselves to their own websites. It als
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by krapp 6mo ago
Nikola https://getnikola.com
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by krapp 6mo ago
>This term was how 'true leftists' would separate themselves from the Soviet Union and 'old communism'. Soviet communism is different from Maoist communism, which is different from Juche. Every political model has v
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by krapp 6mo ago
Having web documents not render in case of errors is already bad. But we already have "auto-correction" for that case - it's how HTML rendering already works in browsers. Having an LLM hallucinate a new page in case of errors
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by krapp 6mo ago
I think it's more that we see copyright as a necessary evil that can be used to defend our rights, but will be abused by the powerful, regardless. To me, the biggest sin of cyberlibertarianism is the assumption that "cyberspac
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by krapp 6mo ago
And your constant hostility isn't doing you any favors. Grow up.
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by krapp 6mo ago
Terry Davis actually did the work. OP had Claude (or some LLM, I assume Claude) write a programming language, then had the LLM write a game in it, then took the credit for it. Like someone else said in this thread, it's cool that AI ca
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by krapp 6mo ago
>It has been funny to watch people’s attitudes on copyright change ever since ChatGPT blew up. All I used to hear and experience was copyright used by corporations to shut down open source projects threatening their business models, but
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by krapp 6mo ago
>Then we torched it at just about the same time as the Chinese came along with a new form of government that I'm not sure the world has as yet even given a proper name. (I guess we can call it Communism? But everyone kind of knows t
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by krapp 6mo ago
The Black Vault has entered the chat: https://www.theblackvault.com
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by krapp 6mo ago
The vast majority of people using AI to code, even in production, are brainless idiots. Not knowing anything about the process and not needing to care is the entire draw of AI for most people regardless of the medium, and particularly for
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by krapp 6mo ago
HTML isn't difficult to read or edit by hand, non-technical people did it for years before the web became commoditized and generating everything with javascript became the standard. It's more awkward than Markdown, yes, but basica
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by krapp 6mo ago
Every modern alternative web protocol is about accommodating the author's concerns and pet peeves about the modern web (and usually gatekeeping it from capitalists and normies.) Protocols used to be limited by technology, now they&#x27
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by krapp 6mo ago
>Remember pizza gate? Many of those same coded messages were found in the Epstein files. No, they weren't. There were mentions of "pizza" in the Epstein files, but no evidence corroborating any of the "codes" nor
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by krapp 6mo ago
To play Devil's advocate here, since I don't believe for a second that any of this is actually aliens - even knowing that alien life exists, much less intelligent life that's aware of us, fundamentally transforms the way we
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by krapp 6mo ago
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy was well known for being a liar and a charlatan and yet he was apparently the only politician Americans took implicitly at their word. Like you'd think Americans would have l
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by krapp 6mo ago
The thing that rates how unhinged a comment is is the downvote button, or flag button in extreme cases. LLM detection is basically witchcraft, though, for all but the most obvious cases.
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by krapp 6mo ago
No, because my definition of "quality" for comments implicitly includes human intent, which LLMs lack. But I suspect a lot of people on HN only view these threads as data and that for them "quality" only exists within th
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by krapp 6mo ago
If "quality" is all that matters and maximizing quality is the goal, and if LLMs can generate higher quality comments more consistently than humans, we should close all user accounts. Don't even have this be a forum anymore.
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by krapp 6mo ago
I'm only aware of Avi Loeb, who AFAIK is generally considered a crackpot and a grifter within academia, and his claims about Oumuamua and aliens aren't taken seriously by the mainstream. Who are the others?
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by krapp 6mo ago
That's how you can tell there's something in the Epstein files worth hiding and nothing in this worth revealing.
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by krapp 6mo ago
At least they're flooding the zone with something moderately entertaining shit.
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by krapp 6mo ago
> Trump was installed because republicans were upset about gay marriage and trans people. And Obama. Trumpism was in part a reactionary movement against mainstream conservatism from the alt-right/Tea Party set that the Republicans t
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by krapp 6mo ago
The general public isn't alienated from the fediverse because of its distinctive political and social shibboleths, the general public simply doesn't know that it exists. As far as the "tech idealists," a lot of them seem
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by krapp 6mo ago
What do you think will happen? How does supply and demand work? Practically every business and government in existence is existentially dependent on AI, speculation on it is the only thing keeping the world from global financial collapse. I
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by krapp 6mo ago
An irascible human being with "wrong" opinions is still better than a polite and factually correct bot because there's no fucking point in having a conversation with a bot. We're here to have conversations with people, n

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