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by pclowes 3mo ago
Interesting, I am thinking/expecting we will see a massive decrease in new languages. Or people might make new languages but the will not get any adoption. A new language now has to clear the ever growing hurdle of not being in the LLM
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by pclowes 3mo ago
Australia is also going bankrupt just slightly faster than the United States. Looks like deficit spending and debt levels are only trending the wrong direction there as well. I am all for flight for life as we call it here, but that is diff
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by pclowes 3mo ago
I think what I’m saying is being misinterpreted. I should have been more clear. Everybody’s definition of “taken care of” is different. The government needs to balance the interest of the public with the interest of the individual. It is no
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by pclowes 3mo ago
We give our farmers absolutely insane subsidies already. It is not the government’s job to “take care of” anybody. Everything has a cost, staying has a cost, leaving has a cost. The question is how much should the public be taxed to pay for
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by pclowes 3mo ago
Directionally, I am also fine with postal deserts or at least different delivery expectations for very rural areas. But also because Postal Service is much cheaper than an ambulance service?
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by pclowes 3mo ago
I don’t think it is reasonable to expect to have ambulance coverage across the entire United States. There is a lot of land with very few people. Choosing to live far away from others is also choosing to live far away from help. If a servic
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by pclowes 3mo ago
Small world! We were one of the clients at labs he tested that concept with while developing the book. Chatted with him about his newer book using packwerk a couple years back. Looks like we’re all on the front range! Agree on the engines,
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by pclowes 3mo ago
Thank you for the thorough reply! A long time ago I had a "Component Based Rails Application (CBRA)" using engines as the domain boundary. It was unpleasant because it just moved pain points into unfamiliar places. The slices appr
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by pclowes 3mo ago
I have loosely followed Hanami for years but never used it or heard of it used in a large codebase. I still don't quite understand what it does all that differently from Rails? There are plenty of comments that are along the lines of
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by pclowes 4mo ago
I disagree because the people who have the most important things to say have the most to lose by saying it. Also anonymity can actually improve social media polarization (see Chris Bail’s research)
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by pclowes 4mo ago
I really appreciate Gabe's approach of treat the user as THE USER not the thing we are trying to use. Very tired of every interaction with every tech company and subscription service making me feel used rather than served.
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by pclowes 4mo ago
You want to campaign on improving election security and transparency (hopefully without being misleading about all of the systems already in place and the security, statistical analysis, and auditing already done)? Go for it. That is very d
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Faith in elections and election integrity is incredibly important. Unsubstantiated claims of election fraud should be punished severely. Politicians who baselessly erode confidence in elections without providing timely evidence should be in
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by pclowes 4mo ago
This is not comparable. A couple groups on the far left is not the same as the leader of the party. I don’t see any major figure on the left: Bernie, Obama, AOC, Biden, Hillary, Pelosi etc claiming fraud.
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Big claims require big evidence.
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by pclowes 4mo ago
What?! Real median household income is the highest its ever been and risen steadily for 50 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N Unemployment rate is 4.3% Also, I go to Detroit about once a year. Ever
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by pclowes 4mo ago
I don’t like it because it’s Elon (I literally have been an active litigation with him for years lol) I like it because it’s useful. Life is objectively much better today for the average person than it has been for 99% of humans in 99% of h
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by pclowes 4mo ago
I wonder if you can just use fable/mythos to basically re-create core Anthropic research. They seem to be very touchy about using their models for LLM R&D given the guard rails they built into the product. None of the large languag
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Is the general public happy? Who cares, it is not the job of the government to ensure happiness but rights. Regardless: 1. Starlink is amazing (literally never want to fly on an airplane without it ever again, wish I could search for flight
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Strongly agree from a purely economic perspective! However, founding engineer is a good way to watch the ups and downs of a startup before doing it yourself. Additionally, since most startups fail, the founding engineer is typically better
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Thank you, I never thought debating economics on hacker news of all places would be the equivalent of discussing orbital mechanics with flat earthers.
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Do you feel like the cafeteria workers at SpaceX who were paid standard cafeteria wages when they started plus some equity that everybody considered worthless at the time and now makes them multimillionaires feel like they were treated unfa
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by pclowes 4mo ago
People are generally happier when they are not starving to death and capitalism is really good at helping people not starve to death. Every global economic statistic backs this up
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by pclowes 4mo ago
On what? You force the company to break up and liquidate so they can pay taxes? You force the founder to give up their private property just because it is valuable? Remember these are not dollar bills in the founders bank account. It is jus
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by pclowes 4mo ago
False, you just make something very valuable. To get people to help you make it you offer to pay them and they willingly exchange their time for that money (or equity if they also think it will be very valuable someday or you have a record
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by pclowes 4mo ago
It is not like the money is in his bank account. And it’s not like he took the money from somebody else. He spent a ton of time to create something that he owned the majority of and to make that thing more valuable. He paid other people to
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by pclowes 4mo ago
You can also shave off some IQ points by hitting yourself in the head… not sure _why_ you would do that though.
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Nothing crazy just more highly biased opinion pieces masquerading as journalism just on the far left instead of the right. They have a narrative and they pick stories and “facts” to fit it. Just expect better on hacker news.
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Honestly we are doing articles from Jacobin on the front page now? Whats next Newsmax and OANN? Some flat-earther blog?
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by pclowes 4mo ago
Standardized testing so far is the worst solution, except for all the others. Sure, wealthy people can pay for standardized testing prep. However, test prep is a much lower barrier than having to pay for exotic experiences abroad to pad adm

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