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Couldn’t disagree more. AI is a button that you press and magically get results. The ability to judge the quality of those results is “taste”. Anyone can push the button, but not e…

I’ve started requiring that unless absolutely necessary, all comments and docstrings be one-liners in our code 10k+ codebase(s). LLM-generated code has a tendency to “over-justify”…

> Also the game was on a timer, and maybe there are some very abusive workplaces where you feel that kind of pressure, but I think most of us actually take the time to understand w…

> But in a very different sense of the word "Conservative", aerial bombing is often extremely Conservative. That sense is minimizing political commitment to a conflict. A leader (w…

I agree mostly with the other commenter that it’s like nutritionist vs health influencer. But I’d also say that there’s an inherent bias to the word “eugenics” fundamentally: the i…

I'd personally label the factions within the military that view aerial bombing as an effective strategy as "conservative", especially the ones that follow in the footsteps of Henry…

> I mean, if we wanted every human on Earth to be over 6' tall, we could just cull the short ones (or stop them from reproducing), and this is scientifically valid, but, of course,…

> Eugenics can be understood as a subset of the ideas of plant and animal breeding that have been practiced for centuries. That's called "artificial selection", and people who beli…

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> You can't win a war purely through air superiority and bombs. That's not a new lesson but it's one the administration failed to learn through history and is apparently now failin…

Sounds like OP’s friend was looking for a website, and your girlfriend was looking for a hobby.

Not entirely following the question, but there are an infinite number of conjectures, the blinding majority of which serve nearly no purpose to humanity. Consider that for every ex…

I’ll buy that, good take.

You don’t mean that the people behind $MELANIA coin may have ill intentions, do you? /s The credulousness that this administration is granted by devil’s advocates and “rationalists…

Is $1m a lot of AI? I’m finding that there’s significant diminishing returns in terms of what can be accomplished. The first dollar always seems to be the most impressive. By $10 I…

Weak response imo. Shame is a powerful tool and lots of people on this forum should feel more shame for what they do. In fact, I see quite a bit of shaming that occurs here on HN w…

I also am a believer in many of MLK’s more “radical” messages, and find the modern whitewashing of his messaging to be deeply representative of much of America’s core moral failing…

> More often they likely sleep deeply on sheets of insanely high thread count, shame only goes so far to effect change. Do you have alternative suggestions, or will you stick to si…

We can argue about whether the OP should have found a more elegant way to call out the commenter he was responding to, of course. But I stand my ground firm that this industry need…

> It exists for when compromising the device could get people the owner cares about killed or disappeared and the owner considers their own liability, disappearance, or death a pre…

> Such things are still not reason to dis other HN commentators - there's always reddit for that. Mmm, this I disagree with particularly. I view HN as a forum dedicated to the tech…

It’s a fair perspective that you’re bringing, but what comes to mind for me in response is that I have a mental model of two types of machine learning inferences that provide value…

> My counter argument is that you only need 1% of the population to be bad apples in order to destroy a high trust society. Counter-counter argument, it doesn’t actually matter wha…