zahlman

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by zahlman 2mo ago
Yes, because most of them were annoying "look how awful my political outgroup is" ragebait without substantive argument or insight. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they&#x27
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Yes; the group of people who have an interest in the submission guidelines being upheld.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
And yet submissions don't get flagged nearly as much as ought to happen.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> The first example was flagged by users. It fits the pattern of other political clickbait stories. The top comment is calling out problems with it. This type of story pops up and gets flagged all the time on different topics. If anythin
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> That said, there is also a vocal anti-AI crowd here, or at least there used to be. Most of those people seemed to have left for greener pastures seeing how half the HN front page is "someone made XYZ but now with AI" these da
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Concerns of this sort are best emailed to hn@ycombinator.com .
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> decline is partly (significantly?) due to exporting CO2 emissions from manufacturing to China They didn't have to agree to it, you know. But you can look at consumption-based carbon accounting and still get a picture that the US i
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by zahlman 2mo ago
So, what exactly does "getting one's shit together" mean, if not a reduction in per-capita usage over time?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
The headline claim is trivially refuted. Obviously nobody wants any bugs. They're just deemed acceptable, because as the text acknowledges, > Of course the bugs are not free to fix. There are still many tradeoffs to consider The t
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by zahlman 2mo ago
It's interesting how the contrast is sometimes exactly what you'd expect, and sometimes the opposite.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Of course, the hackers will try to make their push notifications appear to come from Apple, so.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull Everyone is legally entitled to this protection.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
How come when you use extreme, beyond-the-pale rhetoric, that stays up; but when I politely point out that your rhetoric is extreme and beyond the pale, that gets flagged?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> But it's even more useful for people who want to use the actual character to be able to use it! ... And they can , since a code point was assigned for it; so what's the problem?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> I don't think I've had a truly original idea in my life. Combine A + B, when it's rare for people to know A and B at the same time. There is also something to be said about recognizing that A + B can be combined. And als
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Why didn't they simly replace the original bad one? Starting with version 2.1 they made it so that code points can't ever be unassigned. People were getting really upset with the removals, since they can result in old data be
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by zahlman 2mo ago
(2018) I've seen YouTube videos on this topic before. > The original character (𡚴) was not added to JIS or Unicode until much later and doesn't display on most sites for me. It's from Unicode version 3.1 (published 2001) s
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> if you'd tell us which local or global culture does not have basic decency towards each other as a value Look around the thread at how people are treating each other, and then keep in mind that HN is probably like 99th percentile
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Per capita CO2 emissions in the US are down about 36% from their 1973 peak ( https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions ).
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Just to be clear, by "Nazi" you mean a CBP officer? And you consider this to be definitionally true; or do you have specific evidence of Greg Lairmore doing something that merits comparison to that regime? Or do you actually belie
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Other responses are an interesting juxtaposition. I would think "you can cheat in multiplayer games" is in a completely different category from "you can hack your opponent's computer in multiplayer games".
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Download error in Milwaukee delayed final results in Wisconsin primary election(jsonline.com)
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Last I checked, Java was still more popular than C# (for reasons I can't comprehend).
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> It's better than saying invisibility as that always leads to someone being creepy. I'm sure plenty of people would choose invisibility simply out of extreme introversion.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
It's been submitted many times before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=books+don%27t+work
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> And all the people here who are saying that "it works" have no idea as to the amount of technical debt they're creating. To be fair, they likely would have been just as clueless pre-LLM, and just as willing to build an e
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by zahlman 2mo ago
"new"? The reason for all the old bottlenecks is that you had to understand as you went along.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Very obvious Claude-isms in the writing, and way too many words for the point being made.
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> an interesting side effect of this is that expressions like x.True raise a SyntaxError. i'm curious as to what the rationale was for this decision (if there was one). None was already a keyword; True and False were made keywords s
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Sean Goedecke's blog generally is pretty intellectually stimulating, though.

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