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> I feel like everyone in this thread is assuming this is a good faith move by Australia to help kids in school and with socialization. I mean... you can say that about most of thi…

Probably because AI appears to work, more or less, and now it's just a race to make it better and to monetize it. Before ChatGPT, I'd guess that the amounts of money poured in both…

I've known quite a few people who went to therapy and I'm not sure that's even the right question to ask. I don't think they were paying to get helped as much as they were just pay…

This wouldn't ban the behavior, just the disclosure of it.

The best part is that this article is almost certainly AI-generated or heavily AI-assisted too. Before people get angry with me... there's plenty of small tells, starting with sect…

I think the author is speaking authoritatively about things they may be less familiar with, or where they really want to push a particular doomsday / degrowth agenda (the only pres…

This is not necessarily a fundamental limitation. It's a consequence of a fine-tuning process where human raters decide how "good" an answer is. They're not rating the flow of the …

It's really getting in the way of all the daily AI opinion pieces I come here to read. More seriously, there are tens of thousands of people who come to HN. If Fourier stuff gets u…

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I think that's common in most places. What's different in the US is that the IRS forces you to proactively provide a lot more information about it, though. I have a rental property…

> I think the biggest mistake people make when thinking about mathematics is that it is fundamentally about numbers. It’s not. Mathematics is fundamentally about relations. Eh, but…

I think that sort of goes hand-in-hand. "Normal", well-rounded people don't decide that software licensing is the most important thing in the world and don't devote their entire li…

> The number of people you want to follow is much smaller than that 0.1%. We're talking about bloggers reaching their audience. The audience they can reach via Mastodon is much sma…

> Sadly, I have realised fewer people actually give an F than you realise; for some, it's just a paycheck. I found that most of the "people problems disguised as technical problems…

I think this ignores the codebase churn in Big Tech. The code you write today probably won't be there in ten years. It will be heavily refactored, obsolete, or the product will be …

> Mastodon, you'll see all of them. Alone... look, I want Mastodon to be successful, but revealed preferences don't lie. Mastodon MAU is about 0.1% that of Twitter, down more than …

The main thing is that no one wants the hassle of keeping up with 50 mildly-interesting blogs by visiting them regularly. You really need a "push" mechanism of some sort. Social me…

> I'm surprised these newsletter gatekeepers haven't implemented a tip jar where you put in $/year and it gets divided based on readership. I've seen a bunch of publication with a …

Better yet, many of the graduates will become politicians, journalists, or prominent tech figures who will be pontificating about morality and regulating it for others.

I think your attempt to rebuke the proof is flawed too. The problem in your reasoning is mixing up "arbitrarily many" and "infinitely many". There's no convergence after a finite n…

> My favourite part of climbing the corporate ladder is finally having enough clout to just say "no". But the thing is, in big companies, you can keep climbing all your life and ne…

Most importantly, Clippy happened before computers were permanently online. For it to harvest any data, I guess you'd need to mail in a floppy disk.

> In a lot of ways, I'm thankful that LLMs are letting us hear the thoughts of people who usually wouldn't share them. I could agree with you in theory, but do you see the technolo…