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It seems that ADHD is trending on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719713 or is it just my focus today :thinking:

In sense yes, previously we were engaged in "google engineering, then we went to "stackoverflow engineering" and now its "prompt engineering" - with every step, the magic and mysti…

I've been playing around with Node-RED[1] for a while and thought I would recreate this using Node-RED (also being a big fan of Node-RED). The flow[2], i.e. code, is online to have…

That made my day! That's soooo incredibly unbelievably mindnumbingly stupid that I love it :+1:

The underlying point being made - by the comment - is that if an author is biased because they are selling a product and complaining about their competition, how can the article or…

I once worked at a company where I was responsible for exclusively doing this: building internal tools. It was one of the most satisifying jobs I ever had. It was for a mobile game…

https://archive.is/18Q7c

Ownership is not always complete. Nature and natural resources are in fact a societal good and shouldn't be dominated by a small class of people within society. Sure someone "owns"…

> The court concluded in a ruling authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that the works made by Warhol did not have a sufficiently different commercial purpose from that of the origin…

Indeed, the tenor of the article is that AI will not reach the levels of creativity that humans display, instead our expectations of creative process will be lowered by the sheer q…

> AI operates by making high-probability choices: the most likely next word, in the case of written texts. Artists—painters and sculptors, novelists and poets, filmmakers, composer…

That would imply only those that have political expertise may speak on politics. At which point would one then be allowed to speak on AI? I think the author (Naomi Klein) was speak…

> There is a world in which generative AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species an…

Humans will always spend their time doodling or burning wasted compute cycles. Cave dwellers spent an awful lot of time throwing stones into rivers. Boredom is uncurable and should…

Article makes an interesting point that reading and writing is killing the oral transmission of wisdom. Books get read and then forgotten as they get put into libraries. The articl…

As talked about here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35697922 - need to login to check it out? Sorry no dice.

Depends on which storyteller you listen to. The English would tell you that the Chinese were being unfair in their trade and had it coming it to them (the wars). The Chinese would …

This is was the reason for the Opium Wars with the English. The English wanted Chinas tea but the Chinese didn't want anything from the English so the English were bleeding gold an…

This similar to Chinas stand on IP: copying is ok so long it doesn't happen to our IP. But this is how small economies can grow quickly, by ignoring IP. So nearly every western nat…

That's not quite true -> https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jacobin.com there are plenty of non-flagged articles there.

I just noticed the baduk1234 is creating hundreds of pull requests all with the same comment: > This is a bug bounty test. Please ignore.. Please DO NOT APPROVE THIS! Does GitHub h…