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by muglug 2y ago
This is good advice for people whose livelihood depends on the attention of anonymous strangers. For everyone else, it’s probably ok to ignore.
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by muglug 2y ago
Sometimes projects get stars just because people like the personality or company behind the project. Case in point: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/ . It got 15,000 stars in its first few years, but roughly 10 non
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by muglug 2y ago
Instagram just asked if I wanted to chat with a Hawk Tuah AI bot. To me that’s the clearest possible evidence that the product people over there have basically given up. It reminds me of when Facebook went all-in on Live Video in 2016 — a p
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by muglug 2y ago
There’s a big difference between LLMs and this application of CNNs and RNNs. Very few people on HN are claiming there’s no value to neural networks — CNNs have been heralded here for well over a decade.
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by muglug 2y ago
I could write a similar article "lose perfect pitch in 15 years". My sense of pitch was cast-iron in college and in the years after. It started to get a bit messed up after singing a bunch of stuff at 415 Hz and (worse) 430 Hz ins
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by muglug 2y ago
These tools make it very easy to scam vulnerable people, and have pretty limited use otherwise.
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by muglug 2y ago
"They'll train an AI on my deeply-valuable thoughts" is the absolute least of my worries about having an account on Twitter. It's more just about me not wanting to stay in the place I grew up after all my friends moved a
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by muglug 2y ago
I joined Mastodon in the big post-Elon user exodus. It’s great for geeky stuff, but Bluesky is much better for entertainment and news (i.e. what I mostly used Twitter for, pre-Elon). If geeky stuff is what you’re interested in, you can buil
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by muglug 2y ago
Without this article and HN discussion I’d never have known about MOND, which is (at the very least) a fun theory.
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by muglug 2y ago
Appears as $14.83 to me...
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by muglug 2y ago
Same guy has been running a $14.88 promotion for a month (14/88 is a recognised US far-right symbol: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488 )
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by muglug 2y ago
Article is clearly one-sided — it mentions a “widely-panned ad” encouraging women to vote their conscience, where pretty much all the panning has come from Republicans.
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by muglug 2y ago
Better source article: https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earni...
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"More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI"(blog.google)
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by muglug 2y ago
Assuming there are 20 million software engineers in the world writing code professionally, 1 million Flutter developers seems massively optimistic.
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by muglug 2y ago
The article feels like it's grasping at tenuous historical straws trying to explain a mental health crisis in SF that's only really gotten out of hand in the past 5-10 years. The anti-puritan strain isn't necessarily Scots-Ir
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by muglug 2y ago
"Everyone does it" is a copout when one group of people is doing it 10x more than the other.
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by muglug 2y ago
You’re free to concoct a conspiracy that he’s just a puppet for Meta’s supposed business interests*, but that doesn’t change the validity of his claims. * pretty sure any revenue from commercial Llama licenses are a rounding error at best
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by muglug 2y ago
haha fair — but, another metric could be "publicly-available web content stored in WordPress" which would also be dwarfed by content stored elsewhere"
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by muglug 2y ago
> Half the damn internet runs on WordPress! I see this mentioned all the time, but what it's really saying is 50% of all WWW domain names have an associate WordPress install. The stat doesn't factor in where internet users ac
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by muglug 2y ago
He talks about the tyranny of parking lots, but this is a solved problem! The whole presentation is an exercise in steadfastly not talking about public transportation.
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by muglug 2y ago
I wish the right wing in America hadn't spent 90 years demonising socialism, leading to the hollowing-out of unions in America. The US has one of the lowest union membership rates in the OECD, at 10%.
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by muglug 2y ago
The political angle here is obvious: elections in a month, and this could make a lot of people feel like the economy needs a strong leader. The union leader, Harold Daggett, is on record saying that Trump supports the union's aims: ht
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by muglug 2y ago
There's a fun moment in this interview where Matt says that WP Engine was warned that access to wordpress.org would be cut off. Theo, the podcast host, asks when they were warned and Matt says they were sent a term sheet a week before
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by muglug 2y ago
It’s Sam’s Club now.
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by muglug 2y ago
Sad to see Matt M behaving in such a childish manner. The initial wordpress.org blogpost looked pretty bad, but the quoted text messages are so much worse.
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by muglug 2y ago
Yeah the Rust build time tradeoff for non-trivial programmes is acceptable iff the programme is going to be run at least 100x more than the compiler (or if the programme would be useless without the speed increase).
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by muglug 2y ago
This is a decently-thorough study, using PRs as a productivity metric while also tracking build failures (which remained constant at MSFT but increased at Accenture). Would love to see it replicated by researchers at a company that does not
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by muglug 2y ago
Looks great! The video felt a little sped up. Not sure whether that's your natural talking cadence, or the video was 1.5x, but slightly slower would be great. Also, at first the video focusses on the nerdy interesting things like fas
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by muglug 2y ago
There's no evidence it's purely political. In France the citizens want tech companies to cooperate with authorities to prevent the spread of CSAM. Durov is a French citizen. His tech company does not cooperate with authorities. Th

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