taurath

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by taurath 8mo ago
Let’s be clear though - it’s not that Americans are clinging to some deep stability that brings them comfort or relaxation, it’s that they’re on the edge already. The vast vast majority of people are barely able to afford the basics of life
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by taurath 8mo ago
> don't perpetuate the myth that the 1970s and earlier would have been heaven I understand where you're coming from, and hope you've not been given the idea that I'm idealizing the past - I'm only alive today bec
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by taurath 8mo ago
> most HNers grew up in middle and upper-middle class households in the 1980s-90s that in most cases weren't representative of the lives the median American would have lived then, and a lot of the rose tinted glasses appear to betra
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by taurath 8mo ago
To me the Simpsons and a lot of older shows have been a bellweather for how things used to be and how they’ve changed. As a late millennial who was once Lisa’s age but now more like Marge and Homer, I often think about how much of a given i
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by taurath 8mo ago
Yet people are en-mass switching from discord. Anonymity on the internet is important for a lot of reasons and is part of why it’s good. If hacker news required an ID to access who’s hiring and ask HN threads, people would move off. Communi
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by taurath 8mo ago
Just not search. The search product has pretty much become useless over the past 3 years and the AI answers often will get just to the level of 5 years ago. This creates a sense that that things are better - but really it’s just become impo
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by taurath 8mo ago
> FWIW I think LLMs are a dead end for software development, and that the people who think otherwise are exceptionally gullible. I think this takes away from the main thrust of your argument which is the marketing campaign and to me make
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by taurath 8mo ago
The space shuttle was a symbol of hope for a future while I was growing up, and now it’s a symbol of our political and societal cowardice. That we had to give up societal control over our space program to billionaires is deeply shameful. We
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by taurath 8mo ago
Right you are Ken, but the format pretty much is his schtick. It’s not that entertaining at all anymore, but it’s also decent to know that a review will probably exist for most cars I’m ever considering. For me his value remains mainly that
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by taurath 8mo ago
> the state is usually a much more sloppy investor I don’t find this to be true The state invests in important things that have 2nd and 3rd order positive benefit but aren’t immediately profitable. Money in a food bank is a “lost” invest
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by taurath 8mo ago
Help someone with rent. Bring some food to a neighbor. Donate to food banks and shelters. IMO you’re thinking too small to try to “impact” as many people as possible - impact just 1 person and the world gets better. If you spread it out suc
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by taurath 8mo ago
It’s funny so many companies making people RTO and spending all this money on offices to get “hallway” moments of innovation, while emptying those offices of the people most likely to have a new perspective.
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by taurath 9mo ago
Please understand that his companies succeeding in some things doesn’t make the things that are exaggerated, overpromised, or just plain naked hype with no backing somehow practical. It’s an interesting effect of our age that for some figur
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by taurath 9mo ago
You can pay for a lot of people when you have a billion dollars. When you have a trillion, you can move countries. When someone lives in opulence while the rest of the world burns, the rest of the world doesn’t sit idly.
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by taurath 9mo ago
That’s right, it’s an allocation of resources problem, and some people seem to control almost all the resources.
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by taurath 9mo ago
What does stock price have to do with anything? That someone could put a data center in space for the price of 100 years of eliminating world hunger doesn’t mean shit.
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by taurath 9mo ago
Good point. Still a long, long way from data centers.
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by taurath 9mo ago
I find HN and the tech circles to be one of the main community pillars holding up X. None of my social friends use it anymore, but links absolutely abound here, and it seems like the standard line is to pretend Elon, Grok, all the one butto
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by taurath 9mo ago
We don’t even have a habitable structure in space when the ISS falls, there is no world in which space datacenters are a thing in the next 10, I’d argue even 30 years. People really need to ground themselves in reality. Edit: okay Tiangong
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by taurath 9mo ago
Most 2FA can be done without a phone, and you can also use offline 2FA keys, not necessarily a text message. You can also set up a phone number to accept texts from a laptop. I can do whatever on my bank by just calling. It would be a bit w
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by taurath 9mo ago
Runs 2 tech companies - the basic promise of the US is when you're rich you can do whatever the hell you want because you can pay people to handle stuff for you. But also, one doesn't always need a phone - phones can die, signal i
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by taurath 9mo ago
I haven’t run into that problem but I do also hold agents on a tight leash!
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by taurath 9mo ago
Not very often, and most of the time it shouldn't be generating those but rather formatting code to test that. If you accept the non-determinism and use some of the more recent models, you'll find it can do 99% of it very fast, an
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by taurath 9mo ago
Just as with an LLM, a detailed style and format guide helps an incredible amount both for the LLMs and juniors. If you have standards and they’re not written down, you either require everyone to go teach them to anyone new, or you don’t ha
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by taurath 9mo ago
Sure thing just sent
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by taurath 9mo ago
Meanwhile the core public use products and platforms are pretty poor. Tried shopping for clothes or anything on Amazon? 9/10ths of any page is ads, you can’t find anything you’re looking for. It’s getting real close to “we’re customer
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by taurath 9mo ago
> I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in truth. Do you think that it isn't used for this? The satire part is to expand that usecase to say it exists purely for that purpose.
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by taurath 9mo ago
Which means it’s actually: legal and widespread
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by taurath 9mo ago
It would be nice if we lived in a world where civil lawsuits were not the only way to gain any recompense from companies greed, as well. The law protects companies but rarely binds them, and the law binds citizens but rarely protects them.
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by taurath 9mo ago
FWIW I agree with you and recognize that to be one of the reasons it frequently isn’t allowed. I also think there’s very few places with the power to meaningfully dialog with and among people who build stuff in Silicon Valley. I have dozens

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