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Indeed. You can remedy your uncertainty by looking for evidence. Some is provided on the website. Some on Mastodon, on the community's reception of this: https://mastodon.social/@d…

I agree with the logic of your comment, and to the extent that you're writing advice to Shirt Pocket and to other developers, I have no dispute. > In this case, all I have to go of…

The critic I see most frequently on the unprofitability of AI is Ed Zitron. I am sincerely curious if he shorted Facebook's, Amazon's, or Google's stocks. Or if he's in index funds…

The difference between say a think tank and an advocacy organization like "reclaimthenet.org" is a think tank hopefully feels obligated to think about, and pitch, a solution to the…

I'd be curious why user NaOH chose to submit this. I'll offer a justification: it is notable that a car company lists all (I assume?) its past products, giving equal visual weight …

I point to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. >Comments should get mor…

Those are all situationally-valid criticisms, but I've long thought the ability to have smartphones' cameras cryptographically sign photos is good when available. The use case is d…

The cynical take is: the AI doesn't know you-the-blog-post-author made TimescaleDB unless you tell it!

In terms of that example: they should link to how they got those numbers, and it should state the benchmark used, the machines used, what they controlled for etc.

Apart from the style of the prose, which is my subjective evaluation: This blog post is "a view from nowhere." Tiger Data is a company that sells postgres in some way (don't know, …

The font color implies this comment is downvoted, but I earnestly encourage readers to take very seriously the difference in SLOs and SLAs between high-cost vendors like AWS and GC…

Alternative introduction: https://pbc.gov/mousercise/ Palm Beach County Library's Web 1.0 introduction to using the mouse. I enjoyed clicking.

Posting a quick TL;DW. A minute into the video Chuck Moore says that Windows updates (on 11 and 10) have caused colorForth to crash, with Chuck thinking it's a graphical problem. I…

Related: Oxide's podcast, "Whither CockroachDB," which reflects on experience with postgres at Joyent, then the choice to use cockroach in response to prior experiences with postgr…

As the complaint says on page 4: https://rippling2.imgix.net/Complaint.pdf Deel was founded in 2019 and, in Rippling's opinion, began competing with Rippling in 2022.

We need a different word than "hallucinate" or "bullshit" because the LLM is executing the same functionality when it _gets_ the correct answer or incorrect. It doesn't _know_ the …

It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase. I haven't paid attention to these kinds of optional disclosures. Never thought about it but were I asked I wou…

>I don't want to fill out your contact form Yes -- and companies or governments don't want to be _contacted_ by you. It's a cost to them. The median "contact us for a sales quote" …

Thank you! Will look!

I pay for Youtube Premium, which uses third-party cookies to not show ads on embedded videos. https://privacysandbox.com talks about advertising, but not "logged in elsewhere" func…

Transfer fees and title fees equally affect any buyer and any seller in the long run, don't they? >Further contemplate how those implications are different for different potential …

I'll try to invoke Cunningham's Law by saying: Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market. I think the above is true, but I'd welcome counterexamples. So, the way to depres…

This is not the answer to your question, but it is what HN has to say about submitting paywalled links: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html >Are paywalls ok? >It's ok to post…