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by yen223 10mo ago
There's a Tom Scott video that points out that if you've already got a brain chip that filters out bad stuff, including the memory of you getting that brain chip, how would that be different from what you're experiencing righ
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by yen223 10mo ago
The act passed federal parliament late 2024. It already existed in the state of South Australia before that.
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by yen223 10mo ago
This argument can be used to shut down anything that makes coding faster or easier. It's not a convincing argument to me.
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by yen223 10mo ago
The trick to gaming the algorithm here is to post interesting original content that software-focused people like to read Don't tell the mods!
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by yen223 10mo ago
I live in Australia and have been using Firefox for all my myGov needs without even thinking about it Which service do you have issues with?
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by yen223 10mo ago
Read the 2025 prediction thread for some perspective. (Hope you didn't stake your retirement on bitcoin hitting $200,000!)
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by yen223 11mo ago
The unique thing about estimates in software engineering is that if you do it right, projects should be impossible to estimate! Tasks that are easiest to estimate are tasks that are predictable, and repetitive. If I ask you how long it&#x27
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by yen223 11mo ago
Arguably, base-10 counting vs base-12 counting is one such example
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by yen223 11mo ago
I can believe that this is a case of the Software Engineering team being effective in a way that the AI/ML team wasn't. Apple's internal culture is notoriously closed and secretive, not the best way to approach cutting-edge A
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by yen223 11mo ago
If this video is to believed, this is the result of internal Apple politics between the software engineering folks, and the AI folks, with the software engineering folks "winning" https://youtu.be/50XKNKGPWs8?si=nz
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by yen223 11mo ago
Over here in Australia, the most expensive part of my kid's birth were the AUD$200 antenatal classes. The prenatal checkups, hospital stay, and postnatal midwife home visits were all covered by Medicare. The flip side is that I lose ~3
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by yen223 11mo ago
I assume there doesn't need to be a purpose. Spam, even AI spam, is so cheap to do that you might as well just do it (if you were that kind of person)
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by yen223 11mo ago
You should see the kind of people we've given up our decision-making to
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by yen223 11mo ago
I was hoping to talk more about (Mainland) China being uniquely bad at exporting pop culture, especially when compared to the success of Hong Kong, and to a lesser extent, Taiwanese pop culture. The fact that nearly all celebs you mentioned
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by yen223 11mo ago
Japan and Korea, yes. China, not really. Unless you want to include Hong Kong, but even then
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by yen223 11mo ago
Not sure if I'm being whooshed here, but a large chunk of those people are not from China. Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian Bruce Lee is American, baby A lot of the others are Hong Kong celebrities, from before Hong Kong was returned to Chin
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by yen223 11mo ago
I feel the same way about China tbh Like how many of you can name a Chinese movie or pop star or TV show?
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by yen223 11mo ago
This looks like the classic VC model: 1. Most AI ventures will fail 2. The ones that succeed will be incredibly large. Larger than anything we've seen before 3. No investor wants to be the schmuck who didn't bet on the winners, so
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by yen223 11mo ago
Reminder that you can see last week's (or any day's) HN front page using the `past` link https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-11-16
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by yen223 11mo ago
Is it information asymmetry if I only read half the article?
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by yen223 11mo ago
This is a restating of an older idea that fancy restaurants aren't competing against other restaurants, they are competing against movie theatres. Because they are in the date entertainment market
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by yen223 11mo ago
I'm curious about how their internal policies work such that they are allowed to publish a post mortem this quickly, and with this much transparency. Any other large-ish company, there would be layers of "stakeholders" that w
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by yen223 11mo ago
Coincidence? Yes
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by yen223 11mo ago
It's down here in Sydney as well. The status page hasn't been updated to reflect that
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by yen223 11mo ago
There's definitely a sense that most NLP use-cases have been made obsolete by LLMs
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by yen223 11mo ago
Maybe I'm cynical, but what I'm wondering is which country's regulation led to Apple being forced to do this
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by yen223 11mo ago
I travelled from Sydney to Cape Town a while back. Both cities are roughly on the same latitude, and it shows. The climate was similar, temperatures were similar, even the type of vegetation that showed up were similar. Trekking through Sou
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by yen223 1y ago
Those comments are probably AI as well
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by yen223 1y ago
People thought video games would turn people violent, turns out it was social media that did it
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by yen223 1y ago
This comment is spot on. One minor thing I would quibble about are fans being sufficient. The problem is less about the heat and more about the constant high humidity, and fans don't solve that problem. Air-conditioning does. This is a

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