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by latexr 5mo ago
The question is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. Technical skills, by definition, are specific to a profession/task/situation, thus they won’t benefit the vast majority of people. If you are “optimising for positive impact
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by latexr 5mo ago
> Are the numbers wrong? That's the only relevant thing here. Data without interpretation is irrelevant, and correct numbers can be interpreted wrongly, either on purpose or by mistake. I’m not saying any of that happened here, only
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by latexr 5mo ago
It was right at the beginning. Before most non-tech people had even heard the name ChatGPT, HN was already flooding the homepage with LLM posts and it became clear to me they were going to be big. The consequences were even clearer, and I p
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by latexr 5mo ago
As I told you at the start, I’m not American, I don’t vote in your elections. I’m merely trying to understand the people who do vote as you do, especially seeing the apparent contradictions and conflicts of interest. And I thank you for eng
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I'm a citizen of the country, they are not. May I ask how you became a citizen? Was it by birth or are you first generation? For those without family who are already citizens, how are they supposed to become citizens without enter
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by latexr 5mo ago
I’m not American, so forgive my confusion, but are you really saying that you think DEI policies are not only racist, but more harmful and racist than profiling people based on the colour of the their skin or country of origin, then beati
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by latexr 5mo ago
I think you’re reading too much into it. The commenter you’re replying to used the word “debased” because it was the word the comment before them used. Either way, “debase” means “reduce in quality or value”, in this context it could simply
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by latexr 5mo ago
> If we define a god as having magical powers, and there would be scientific, testable proofs for this. If you can scientifically test and prove the magic, then it stops being magic and starts being science.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I'm feeling a bit of cognitive decline having AI doing some/most of the thinking for me > The solution? I'm not sure This initially felt like you were setting up a joke. If you feel like something is harmful to you, s
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I need to stop wasting fucking money on doing stupid shit. I could’ve done so many other things with the money. I could’ve launched one of my own real apps. Or fed, clothed, housed disadvantaged people in your community (or neighbourin
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Nordic Media Giant Schibsted Switches to "Pay Or(noyb.eu)
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by latexr 5mo ago
> new controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time" as well as request exemptions from the initiative altogether. If they deny your exemption, make a tool that every 30 minutes fake
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by latexr 5mo ago
If you’re getting so much email you can’t type five words, a button with wrong suggestions isn’t the solution either. Create your own text snippets with text expansion software and use those. They’ll always be correct and will truly save yo
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by latexr 5mo ago
Fastmail. It’s covered at the bottom of the post.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I’m interested in what other people in a similar position have done. I have left Gmail (everything Google, really, that was the last one) years ago when they went back on their word of grandfathered lifetime access to a free email inbo
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by latexr 5mo ago
> Comments are an even shorter form, so they’re closer to AP than to Chicago. I’m not sure I agree with using length as the metric to decide which style guide is more appropriate for comments. I’d rather follow one consistent style in ge
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by latexr 5mo ago
I’m very curious about who wants to pay a subscription to help them get dressed. It doesn’t seem like a problem/solution combo anyone would have.
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by latexr 5mo ago
I don’t understand how that follows. The poster in this thread is looking for a job. How are they supposed to give someone a job if they’re searching for one themselves?
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by latexr 5mo ago
I used to use em dashes with spaces. I started using them without when I was more into reading style guides and it was—if I recall correctly—the Chicago Manual of Style which doesn’t use spaces. This was way before LLMs came onto the scene
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I mean if someone wants to try something in this direction, but without the misery, I'd suggest things like making the screen monochromatic, which will make the content seem less appealing to the brain, but without that being a nu
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by latexr 5mo ago
Someone who is unemployed, especially if they’re poor, doesn’t suddenly have a lot of free time and headspace. On the contrary, they just got more stressed and pay even less attention since now they have yet another urgent issue weighting
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by latexr 5mo ago
> In all the cases I've seen, the user seemed highly motivated to kill themselves and spent a lot of time trying to push past guardrails, ignoring repeated messages to seek help. I don’t think I have ever seen a case like you descri
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by latexr 5mo ago
Doesn’t work for Safari on macOS, as it does not respect /etc/hosts nor your DNS settings, it uses its own.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I think more people should set up their iPhone using Apple Configurator I tried that app briefly to organise my pages, and not only was it stiff and awkward to use, it decided to screw everything up and reset positions.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> It's frequently repeated here just cause of the average bias against Node. It’s frequently repeated here because NPM is where it keeps happening over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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by latexr 5mo ago
There’s actually a blog post with that exact title. https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690
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by latexr 5mo ago
All of them are available as YouTube videos. If you only watch one, I recommend the fourth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ielZBraKsw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sabeq-FtfGw https://www.you
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by latexr 5mo ago
One whose author saw the direction of society towards numbing entertainment very clearly. There’s a book written by David Lipsky where he followed and interviewed David Foster Wallace (author of Infinite Jest) upon the release of Infinite J
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I think the inability to see the freedom AI gives people is one of the saddest things I've seen. No one’s failing to see the good things, hypothetical or not. Most of us are aware just fine, we just don’t all agree that the negati
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by latexr 5mo ago
> Nothing short of sandboxing everything or just never using AI agents or proprietary software will prevent this. Using open-source (non-proprietary) software won’t necessarily save you either. XZ is open-source and it was basically dumb

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