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"mental clickbait of the classic aphorisms" is one way to phrase 'attribution"

Literally (explicitly) a holocaust denier. https://youtu.be/o2Nq--qU9Kc?si=DDs_73ZrEPs5UGK9&t=3684 No credentials whatsoever - IIRC a Bachelor's degree in English, but definitely n…

Out of curiosity, what is the most difficult thing about building a browser?

Are these not the 'friction can be ignored' assumptions of economics? They are, of course, blatantly false. But that doesn't stop such models from effectively modelling real-world …

I'm always surprised when people suggest using a different language if you want typing in Python. Python's (second?) largest appeal is probably its extensive ecosystem. Whenever pe…

> Why not use them? Because you can now use typing WITH the entire Python ecosystem.

That's terrible. Best of luck to you both.

Thanks for linking that thread. Really puts things in perspective.

I personally don't see downloadability as a significant factor in the morality of breaching security. If it's bad to hack a login screen to gain access to private information, why …

A considerable group of people think AGI or even ASI is right around the corner

Similar story here. Goes to show how effective brainwashing kids as an advertisement technique is.

There are movie critics that go on a rollercoaster ride and then complain about a lack of subtext

Googling "Cantillon Effect" gives suprisingly few results. Out of the top five results, two are Bitcoin-related, one is Reddit, and one is the Wikipedia page of Richard Cantillon h…

There needs to be a path to redemption, yes, but this very clearly isn't it.

This video by CJP Grey explains this dynamic very well, for anyone interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

The corruption of the tech/'hacker' subculture has been so disheartening to watch. Is this the subculture that was obsessed with cyberpunk? It took so little, too: good (but not gr…

Exactly. Linux is great but never actually 'low maintenance'. I personally felt like my OS needed frequent attention.

I think you've read too much early Wittgenstein. That is simply not how people communicate.

And you don't think that this won't improve with better bots?

This illustrates to me how amazing LLMs are at 'remembering' _extremely_ obscure information. Somehow LLMs can repeat mistakes made a couple times looooooong ago.

I'll give a somewhat simpler answer than Filligree has. The problem with renewable energy sources is that they are typically both highly variable and not dispatchable (i.e., contro…

Indeed. For instance, power grids ideally operate with N-1/N+1 redundancy, i.e., the disablement of any single power line should not cause a cascading failure.

Since so many commenters here have bad experiences, I'll provide a counterweight. I've made numerous edits and have run into little to no resistance. I'm sure asking people on a fo…

You're absolutely correct and it's ridiculous that HN can't fathom that a hallucination, in both the traditional and LLM sense, is not characterized by its form or content per se b…

The sentence as a whole is meaningful, which you can see by excluding 'to a combination of tariff and non-tariff': > This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due…