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by petcat 10mo ago
That's great. He should keep doing it. Also study what the constitutional requirements and limitations of "free speech" are.
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by petcat 10mo ago
> how fast free speech has been destroyed This doesn't really have anything to do with constitutional "free speech". This is a government agency, not the personal research blog of a private citizen. Government agencies do
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by petcat 10mo ago
Yes I agree that it is addictive, and will be subject to this NY state law. When I think of "forum" I think of pre-Web 2.0/social media like PHP BB. I don't think they would be categorized the same way.
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by petcat 10mo ago
But that only demonstrates that it is addictive and everyone knows it. It's the exact kind of website that this New York state law is targeting. It just seems like hn is very open about acknowledging that. They'll still very muc
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by petcat 10mo ago
Since when did forums finely tuned their addictive homepage feed based on votes, comments, and overall "engagement". This is a social media news feed-style website. Like Reddit, or old Digg.
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by petcat 10mo ago
These kinds of comments (accusing OC of being ai gen) seem like they're showing up in every thread and they're always useless and insulting. HN needs a rule to ban these
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by petcat 10mo ago
Pretty obvious and vague overview. Obviously the weights are the important part that is missing. I don't know why you're trying to argue that this isn't an algorithmically driven social news feed website with an addictive ho
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by petcat 10mo ago
We don't know what the algorithm is. But it's clearly more sophisticated than just vote counts. It's an algorithmic feed.
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by petcat 10mo ago
It's hard to see it as anything but algorithmic considering that an algorithm is deciding what you see. It doesn't matter if everyone is also seeing the same thing.
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by petcat 10mo ago
I'm aware of what open source software is. And there are 3 things that you can do when in this situation: 1) Pay the fee, if that is what is required for it to continue to be easy for you to re-sell the software. 2) Fork the project, r
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by petcat 10mo ago
Startup options are worthless. The only value most people will ever extract from a startup is the experience they had working there, and the salary that was put in their bank account. I understand that a lot of inexperienced people (like in
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by petcat 10mo ago
Am I understanding this right that the main complainant in that issue thread is an IT company that wants to resell the (free) version of Mattermost software and is now complaining that they have to pay? At first they tried to say that &quot
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by petcat 10mo ago
do they make a salary
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by petcat 10mo ago
It's why I've always eschewed stuff like flask even when I felt like Django was going to be overkill. The problem is that, especially for web apps, everybody needs the same stuff. You need to handle cookies and forms and auth. You
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by petcat 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's only OpenResty's distribution of LuaJIT. I think the real LuaJIT is strictly 5.1
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by petcat 10mo ago
so did they reinvent mjpeg
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by petcat 10mo ago
I respect Armin's opinions on the state-of-the-art in programming a lot. I'm wondering if he finds that "vibe coding" (or vibe engineering ) is particularly pleasant and effective in Rust compared to, say, Python.
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by petcat 10mo ago
I've loved and used Django ORM and SQLAlchemy for many years. It got me a long way in my career. But at this point I've sworn-off using query-builders and ORMs. I just write real, hand-crafted SQL now. These "any db" abs
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by petcat 11mo ago
I think people would sympathize more if it was something like "Apple makes choosing a different default browser or email client unnecessarily cumbersome" -- instead of "Apple makes you double-opt-in to sharing your private da
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by petcat 11mo ago
EU privacy regulations and the GDPR are a complete farce. You'll notice that the EU's own government websites are littered with cookie banners. They want the data just as bad as everybody else. The goal was not in any way to prote
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by petcat 11mo ago
> at this point a Windows machine only belongs to you in name. Microsoft can run arbitrary code on it. I get what the author is trying to say, but...like... obviously?
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by petcat 11mo ago
> It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it. Doesn't Europe actually have a lot of Chinese
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by petcat 11mo ago
It seems like Mistral is just chasing around sort of "the fringes" of what could be useful AI features. Are they just getting out-classed by OAI, Google, Anthropic? It seems like EU in general should be heavily invested in Mistra
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by petcat 11mo ago
Did you check that link before you posted it?
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by petcat 11mo ago
From a China/Asia-centric newspaper? I would expect them to say that.
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by petcat 11mo ago
> And then the rest of the world won’t even have older chips. This basically just means Europe wont have older chips. TSMC is already producing a significant percentage of their chips in Arizona. And they've even slated ~30% of the
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by petcat 11mo ago
I'm guessing it will be wildly successful. Companies don't really care about middlemen between them and their users. They just want to reach them wherever, however they can.
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by petcat 11mo ago
Yes it is tongue-in-cheek. I know it's a good proposition for the poor people of that country. But it is pretty widely viewed as exploitative through a wider world lens.
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by petcat 11mo ago
> I have seen many people around me come out of poverty due to globalization. This is definitely true and Phil Knight of Nike fame even said that without the opportunity to join his slave workforce in Vietnam, those people would be worse
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by petcat 11mo ago
> rather than allowing an aging population to hoard their wealth and shirk their responsibilities. Middle-class Baby Boomers hoarding their wealth is exactly what we've been teaching them to do for decades . Save save save. I&#x2

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