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by tivert 2y ago
> You and the GGP author joined in 2018, so maybe you haven't noticed yet, but the black bar has always very much been an "at the whims of the site operator" thing. I'm not questioning that at all . I'm just try
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by tivert 2y ago
>> I'm sort of afraid to ask since everyone seems to know, but... what is he known for? > Jake joined HN in 2008, and has (had?) 80000 karma and change. Is that all though? I kind of find it hard to believe he'd be gettin
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> Technically, how the narrative is established? What is the procedure? > When several news organizations follow the same narrative in a coordinated manner, is it because their editors just advertently sense "the party line"
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> I started my career as a reporter a decade ago. I can't tell you how many stories I filed that an editor twisted into something different to fit their narrative. I think it's important to read news with that in mind, but almo
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by tivert 2y ago
> Safari? Touche, but it's only available one one platform and aren't the both descended from WebKit?
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by tivert 2y ago
> Good - Mozilla is only propped up in this position by Google, it's time to kick the crutch away. I'd rather see Mozilla reformed rather than sink. It's the only non Chromium browser that still exists, isn't such a m
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by tivert 2y ago
> Extremely fluffy piece. 20% in and not one valuable piece of information What? Your mind wasn't totally blown by the advice "Instead, the lesson should be this: to test your payment systems in sandbox for an amount of time
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by tivert 2y ago
> Redistribute the (potential) DOJ judgement to Firefox with no preconditions. If the money is distributed to Firefox, the precondition that it be spent on browser development is an absolute must . It's pretty scandalous that they
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by tivert 2y ago
I want to know who had the stupid idea to start the UI trend of making error messages tell you absolutely nothing (e.g. "There was an error. Enjoy being helpless.").
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by tivert 2y ago
> this AI safety stuff is just a rabbit hole of distraction, IMO. > OpenAI will be better off without this crowd and just focus on building good products. Ah yes, "focus on building good products" without safety. Except a &q
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by tivert 2y ago
> but we can and do drop tanks via parachutes today I don't think that's actually true. Some quick Googling shows the US M-1 Abrams tank is not air-droppable, and maybe the best they can do is air drop light armored vehicles
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by tivert 2y ago
> Backup however many copies you can. When the Foundation collapses in on itself, it'll be because the parasites have drained it of all of its resources, and they'll scurry off to their next host to begin the cycle anew. I th
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by tivert 2y ago
> Wikipedia is an interesting one because I suspect the culture that drives Wikipedia is a mystery to ousiders. It is to me. It didn't seem to be partisan... IMHO, a big part if it is actually ideological battle, at least nowadays
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by tivert 2y ago
> What do you find mind-blowing about this pic? Not the OP, but the massive concentration of naval ships (literally to the horizon), beach landing, and the (to modern eyes) surreal presence of barrage balloons all together in one picture
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by tivert 2y ago
>> I'm certain each flight has its own completely unique ID buried somewhere in a database > There is. It's called the Globally Unique Flight Identifier (GUFI), and it's essentially a UUIDv4[1]. Great, step one clear
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by tivert 2y ago
> It's probably worse in tech, due to the rampant age discrimination that's been normalized in this industry. I haven't worked many places, but I have a feeling that working for a company that has tech but doesn't
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by tivert 2y ago
> Disagree. It's enough for the average voter to trust that some other people - independent experts - are able to verify the vote. It's interesting how attitudes about digital voting seemed to flip overnight once Trump challeng
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by tivert 2y ago
> the problem is your parenthetical - it's not possible, so attempting to do so isn't actually really possible. what's worse than a watermark? one that doesn't actually work. If it's not possible to watermark, th
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by tivert 2y ago
> There's such a volume of lost plays. Athens held annual festivals where you'd have perhaps 20 tragedies and 5 comedies over 5 days[1]. That's just one city state. Only 32 full plays survive. There's such a volume of
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by tivert 2y ago
> Delta had a 6 day recovery time, why were other airlines able to recovery faster? > Perhaps Delta had a shittier recovery plan. Or Delta has shittier software. News articles kept mentioning Delta's crew scheduling system couldn
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by tivert 2y ago
> But he maintains the only way to solve rich countries’ labor problem is to let in immigrants to work, particularly from countries where population growth is increasing, such as Nigeria or Tanzania, rather than decreasing. Aren't b
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by tivert 2y ago
> Would it be a conspiracy theory to suggest that this is the real driving force behind the push for 401k plans? I don't know if it was intentional, but the 401k has turned out to be a masterstroke of propaganda for pro-business set
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by tivert 2y ago
> This article reads like it was AI generated rambling. Honestly, it didn't seem that bad to me. And it has one bad keyboarding typo "visual oerception," which is evidence to me against it being all AI generated. > it
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by tivert 2y ago
> ...while hopefully China's politics become more like Taiwan's. That's an utter fantasy, especially by the mechanism you propose. To be absolutely blunt: your proposal strikes me as the kind of thing a no-nothing outsider
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by tivert 2y ago
> An EU-style arrangement seems ideal in the medium term. It lets Taiwan have a positive long-term influence on Chinese politics, while preventing HK-style crackdowns in the other direction. That's a total nonstarter though. The CCP
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by tivert 2y ago
> But I don't see how "AI writes a deeply personal letter for you" could possibly appeal to anyone. Writing is hard, and the ideology of efficiency says it's always good automate hard things to make them easier. Also,
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by tivert 2y ago
Thanks, fixed it. The weird thing is when I open your fixed link, it gets rewritten in the URL bar to the incorrect one I had previously posted. Guessing some javscript is going wrong.
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by tivert 2y ago
> I just don't see any discussion of worth coming from this thread I can see that as a justified reason. There are just some topics HN can't do well because they tap into prejudices that are common and strongly held here.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Conservatives are constantly pissed. And how do you know that? I imagine someone could come to that conclusion by doing something like generalizing from 10 minutes of AM talk radio or direct mail flyers, but kind of thing won't sh
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by tivert 2y ago
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