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by muglug 2y ago
NYC tap water has spoiled all other tap water for me
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by muglug 2y ago
Not Daniel, but I've ported a typechecker from PHP to Rust (with some functional changes) and also tried working with the official Hack OCaml-based typechecker (a precursor to Flow). Rust and OCaml are _maybe_ prettier to look at, but
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Salute to 18F(matthenry.fyi)
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by muglug 2y ago
This is exactly what the people who shut down 18F want: a shrunken government reliant on private contractors for basic service needs. There’s a famous Reagan quote that the nine most terrifying words are “I’m from the government and I’m her
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by muglug 2y ago
I'd much rather type questions than ask them. Being able to review what I've written before I hit send gives me a sense of control lacking in voice interfaces.
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by muglug 2y ago
> P.S. Don’t use <frameset>. It’s deprecated in HTML5 Tell that to the enterprise email scanning software my Fortune 500 company uses
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by muglug 2y ago
Not in my experience. I've helped hire/onboard a couple of really great former Meta engineers, and currently collaborate with a bunch of great engineers at Meta.
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This is a lesson from the past 20 years of tech products: execs used to releasing single-player features really suck at anticipating the knock-on effects of social and/or machine-learning-based features. It’s one of the reasons why Pin
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by muglug 2y ago
It’s pretty simple — better human rights in other countries means fewer refugees emigrating from those countries. If your aim is to decrease the number of refugees coming here, USAID is a big lever you can pull.
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by muglug 2y ago
The one thing I've discovered as I’ve got older is that most people don’t have some insidious vested interest. Complex political issues sometimes just come down to "I want my side to look good and I want the other side to look bad
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by muglug 2y ago
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by muglug 2y ago
Much easier to get them on a standard technicality than to do anything to arouse the attention of the far-right.
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I’ve been using O1 for some question/answering stuff around CMake and symbol resolution — stuff I know little about, yet stuff the internet knows a ton about. O1 has been really useful, but just the practice of putting my convoluted qu
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by muglug 2y ago
What are you talking about? The BBC doesn’t get any USAID funding. The BBC News website is supported by UK television license payers, and for non-UK folks it has banner ads which help pay for hosting and other costs. There's a separate
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by muglug 2y ago
[Company nobody's talked about in over a decade] "WE'RE GOING ALL IN ON AI"
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I just think “elite” has no meaning if you’re just using it as a synonym for “people I don’t like”. “Elite” is traditionally a synonym for rich white men educated at Ivy League universities working comfortable, high-earning jobs. Those peop
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by muglug 2y ago
> For decades, academia has been part of an ongoing anti-democratic, elitist movement to effectively take control away from common people When you declare that "studying things" is elitist, that's when you know your argume
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by muglug 2y ago
Trump says things like "there's no greater friend to Israel than me" and "I'm the best president for black people". One of his most viscerally anti-immigrant lackeys (Stephen Miller) is Jewish. Trump’s choice o
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by muglug 2y ago
Yeah, but it breaks down because Trump also knows that history, and knows that people want to compare him to Hitler, so he does a bunch of things that make the comparison harder.
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I don’t feel like the comparisons to Hitler are useful, at least when talking about the current US administration. There are lots more recent examples — Russia in the early 2000s under Putin, Hungary under Orban, South Africa under Aparthei
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by muglug 2y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that there are many fans of Rationalism on HN.
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People frequently accuse science they don't like of being like an "ideology". "(Climate Change|Evolution|The concept of a flat earth) is like an ideology to some people — they get angry the minute you start to question i
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by muglug 2y ago
> Microsoft’s security researchers in the fall observed individuals they believe may be linked to DeepSeek exfiltrating a large amount of data using the OpenAI application programming interface, or API, said the people, who asked not to
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by muglug 2y ago
Right, Congress was shown some pretty convincing evidence that execs in China pull the strings, and those execs are vulnerable to Chinese government interference. As we’ve seen in the past couple of weeks, social media companies based in th
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by muglug 2y ago
> Of course, it only took a couple more years to get photorealistic image outputs. "Photorealistic" is a pretty subjective judgement, whereas "does this code produce the correct outputs" is an objective judgement. A b
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by muglug 2y ago
Direct link to file: https://repo.aalto.fi/download/file/IO_926740c7-5165-439a-a0...
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No support for AI? The Switch 2 is DOA /s
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I hope Matt Levine is well-capitalised because he’s pretty-much the only reason I subscribe to Bloomberg
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That has not been my experience working for a big US tech company.
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The even harder truth not mentioned here is that existing tools have a hard time understanding large codebases with well-establishd internal patterns and libraries. The article mostly talks about how AI tools can help with new things, but a

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