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...or convincing operators that jobs sent to their machines are legal, legitimate, and non-nefarious. I could not find disclosure on their site about the guard-railing or safety-sy…

I still contend that the worst volume control UX is asking your teenager to turn it down…

Amazing how analogous this is to the early Internet when people started running web servers out of their basement and then eventually graduated up to being their own dial-in ISP…

Admirable idea and execution…but it does apply opposing evolutionary/economic pressure for AI-slop to become less detectable over time. AI will learn and adapt. Metaphorically spea…

The basic search one gets out of the box is closer to regex matching than search. IMHO something like omnisearch should be sherlocked next.

It’s a truly remarkable app you and team have built. I’m going to use the term _simple_ but please understand that that’s high praise. To me, obsidian is a thought-taking app, not …

Just for context, Steph Ango is the CEO of Obsidian. His approach to notetaking in his own app made the rounds in the PKM (personal knowledge management) community for how _counter…

On the same week that an AI's PR was rejected and it turned around and published a hit-piece in order to pressure an open-source community to accept it's change [1]...on the same w…

This is roughly my defense against anxieties about “missing the boat” on this stuff. If my life was complex enough to justify quote-simplifying-unquote it with a tool like this, I’…

It’s admirable to have standard morals and pursue objective truth. However, the real world is a messy confusing place riddled in fog which limits one foresight of the consequences …

It’s more like the definition of “alien” broadened. It started out in the 1960’s meaning “humans with pointy ears and no emotions”, then in the 1980’s it was “squat humanoids with …

We do not have a freedom to movement _by motor vehicle_ in the US. It is a privilege licensed by the State and regularly revoked through due process or expiry. While your concern a…

I live in one of the areas they are actively testing/training in. Their cars consistently behave better and more safely than most human drivers that I’m forced to share the road wi…

Nah, dude. It’s exactly the right amount of subtle that I found it a delight to discover. Making the joke too obvious undercuts it!

…I read the whole article at OP’s link, many comments off this thread…I even clicked into the college course material in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468452 …and not once…

I don’t think they missed a mark exactly. Perhaps they hesitated to shoot when others took the shot. Marksmanship is about hitting the target, not firing first. I would not want a …

Can confirm. It’s a bit stealth but, by volume, it’s still a cracking business. It doesn’t get the headlines because it’s so so democratized.

Internally, product leadership at the time had a quandary when it came to IPv6: there was lots of expressed demand for it due to IPv4 depletion looming and “World IPv6 Day/Launch” …

I would call markdown an “85% solution”. Not disparaging it at all by calling it that either. The ease of use it brings is incredibly valuable and, if it gets you rapidly through 8…

Honestly way more meaningful to the rest of us than major.minor.build ever could be

Flooding the zone with both reasonable sh* and unreasonable sh* is still flooding the zone with sh*. Notice the timing of his statement. Right in the middle of the largest sporting…

I see an implementation of Hopcroft-Karp is disclosed in capablanca documentation. To help us understand your post further, could you explain its involvement? How are you able to a…

Something can be highly anticipated and utterly inconsequential at the same time. (See Star Wars Episode 1 as a primary example) These assassinations were tragic and criminal and s…

This is likely inconsequential and a blatant attempt to steer our attention rather than let it drive itself.