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I think I must be an AI. I’ve written those types of phrases a lot long before the advent of LLMs and I love em dashes. LLMs were trained on human text. Where do you think they got…

As someone who has been debugging their own chronic illnesses for the past ten years (and doing better than my doctors), I wouldn’t consider the medical diagnostic process to be “d…

> It's self-evidently a terrible idea Maybe you’re comparing it to some idealized view of what human therapy is like? There’s no benchmark for it, but humans struggle in real menta…

I've actually gone in the other direction. A year ago, I had that feeling, but since then I've gotten more certain that LLMs are never going to be able to handle complexity. And co…

That's a misunderstanding. I argue elsewhere in this thread that these categories aren't real, yet I identify as neurodivergent. One problem is that the language we've been given i…

That tend to hold "on average" for a population but often don't hold for the individual within a population. This is the ecological fallacy [0], just one of the fallacies underlyin…

> Autism exists, to the extent that any psychiatric disorder exists. Which is to say, not really. I say this as someone who has been diagnosed as autistic, and identifies as autist…

Perfect is the enemy of good. HTML is good enough. Let’s get this done. And as another commenter has pointed out, HTML does exactly what you ask for. If it’s done correctly, it doe…

I went through the same pain with React Router. I would never consider using Remix or anything else from this team. It doesn't matter how great it might be or how much I might agre…

> I had to read this over a few times to believe that I was seeing it. If it didn’t include the word “literally” I’d assume some poetic license on the part of whoever, or whatever,…

Hmm. This was on the front page, generating lots of discussion. Now it’s hidden. What’s up HN? How is this not a relevant article here?

We have a culture where we’ve been told for decades that market forces and the profit motive are sufficient for running a society. That the market will find a way to give everyone …

Were they a coop when they went bankrupt? According to the article, they only became a coop recently, so having a CEO capable of firing everyone didn’t work out for them. They took…

Why? Most large corporations I’ve dealt with are highly bureaucratic and resistant to change. Good ideas get lost in silos or bogged down in bureaucracy. Whether it works or not se…

> He views revision of beliefs as the hallmark of rationality, a perspective that’s consistent with our best knowledge in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. Hmm. By thi…

Most people here are reading the headline and thinking that they’re pushing to make the census voluntary. The article actually says that they’re pushing to make the American Commun…

> every time I see news about it is because its developers are trying to push something that users dislike Don't blame developers for management decisions.

Ok, I'll bite. Off the top of my head: Fire 80% of the C-level employees (make them justify their positions, DOGE-style); investigate and publicize the internal decision-making pro…

Betrayal has that effect. They're supposed to be the good side. They abandoned that, and now they're just like any other unsuccessful tech company, desperately clinging to relevanc…

Crashed Safari on my iPad multiple times. For what should be a static text page. Pretty bad look for a software development tool.

“Move fast and break things” is taking on a very literal meaning.

I don’t think this is new. I haven’t upgraded and I’ve regularly gotten similarly incomprehensible typos for a while. What the hell is going on inside Apple right now? They are pri…

We don’t need a full rewrite. Despite the divisions in this country, there are a couple things that most people agree on: - Corporate money should be out of politics - Gerrymanderi…

I dislike all gambling except poker. Anything that is purely chance and not within my control at all (roulette, sports betting) is dull and stressful. The odds are always against y…