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Are you sure there was absolutely no attempt at doing a proper investigation? I wasn’t super fixed on the news at the time, but I do remember a number of reports, fact finding trips, etc by international and governmental bodies trying to in
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Of course an online community can be moderated by volunteers. Many are. But this one isn’t. Many people learn that HN runs on a single dedicated server and figure it costs ~$1000/month in operational costs. But my point was just that t
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Pretty good. I wouldn’t buy clothes from there by choice regularly but it’s definitely not disposable level quality. Maybe about on par with Uniqlo for basics?
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There are two full time moderators, who, as I understand it, have professional backgrounds and are paid accordingly. And I’d say HN was exceedingly lucky find these excellent moderators. Not sure you could replicate that success no matter h
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I mean, the US federal government doesn’t have an internally consistent stance on cryptocurrency regulation, with different agencies in conflict as to whether a securities or commodities regulatory framework applies. And no consistent clear
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The iPad has fully evolved into a laptop replacement, just not for everyone. This will probably be the same.
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The Macintosh was $7000 in 2022 dollars.
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I’m sure a laptop manufacturing expert would notice all the corners cut. But if I, as someone who uses these computers for ~8 hours a day everyday for more than 5 years per machine, don’t notice them, then does do those cut corners really m
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If you think this you weren’t a middle school boy when Tomb Raider came out :)
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Is that what the author is implying? That certainly wasn’t my takeaway. If that was the author’s intended message, I’d certainly agree it’s not a good one. But I doubt that was the intended message, to be honest. One population being more s
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The article says there “certain categories of internet users who may be more significantly impacted by this”. I think that’s probably true. And regardless of whether or not everyone is impacted at some level, I think it’s reasonable to poin
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I don’t understand. This seems pretty innocuous to me. >“If you’re an average internet user, you may not think too much about your privacy when you visit a random website” Surely you don’t dispute that? Like, maybe the average user shou
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I think the notion page for the engineering position isn’t public?
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What? OP was replying to an assertion that 150k is not “liveable” in NYC. Of course the median household income in the city is relevant to that.
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I also live in Japan. I disagree with your take. I think the Chinese influence on Japan has been massive and enduring. I am not Chinese. Being long term residents of Japan doesn’t make either of us experts on this matter. We’re just two peo
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Too many core features are relegated to plugins (eg: custom fields, custom post types, email signups, basic analytics, basic SEO features, caching, etc). These plugins introduce security holes, hijack your dashboard to beg you to upgrade to
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I think it was just your comment maybe felt like it was implying they were doing something weird or unusual. I also listen to a lot of video game music when coding. Why? One night, years ago, I got talking to an Uber driver about music and
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Ah, I think we might be talking about different things when we talk about capitalism. I’m using the word to describe an economic system where the means of production are controlled by private capital (ie: capitalists). In such a system, cap
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Or more precisely: the truth or falsity of ChatGPT’s statements is incidental to the process by which it determines which statements to make. Because unless you are using some personal definition of “tell the truth” then you must accept tha
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Technically correct, but capitalist and capital were both in use before Marx. In any case it’s certainly more correct that Marxism is a response to capitalism, rather than the inverse.
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There are many wealthy/high income people in India, Brazil and South Africa. Proportionally fewer, but still many.
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I don’t think anyone is suggesting k8s for running an ai model as a side project on a single machine.
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I’m genuinely interested, what is the false promise of knowledge offered by this site?
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I graduated in the early 2010s and mostly studying philosophy and gender studies. In my experience of that time period, these too were difficult courses requiring research and informed writing. Certainly, doing well at school required knowi
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Government is a thing that forces everyone to follow their rules. You can’t opt in or opt out. On face value that’s extremely coercive and bad. I think of democracy as a “good idea” being not necessarily about being the system that delivers
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This is a bit off topic but I think it’s now clear that of the (many) open source Slack-alternative products Zulip emerged as the best of the bunch. They had a great differentiator with the focus on threading and they executed really well.
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I think it’s clear that “lifetime” means the lifetime of the service. There are some services where the economics work out. And some where it doesn’t. But I agree that “free forever” is a much more aspirational statement than “lifetime acce
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I agree, it is definitely colder in Helsinki. But heavy snowfall and -12C (the NYC mean minimum coldest day temperature in January) is still extremely uncomfortable to sleep rough in. Yet many homeless people stay in New York year round.
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Helsinki winter isn’t much colder than DC or New York, both of which have large year-round homeless populations.
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I once volunteered with a older woman. She’d been a computer programmer in the 70s, using punch cards and, later, Pascal. Then she had kids and stopped working for a while and the technology moved on without her. Now she’s like any other ol

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