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I understand what you’re saying now, basically boils down to “might is right”. It’s not a particularly helpful paradigm for solving predicaments without excess violence and sufferi…

Perhaps you’re considering a very select subset of the rich for whom you can argue their wealth was entirely earned through value they delivered to society. Your statement, as writ…

When billionaires make the decisions about what roads get built, they build roads that help them more efficiently exploit the world around them. This has been observed in many deve…

Interesting, my experience in classes using set theory was the opposite, where ∋ only meant “such that” and ∈ only meant “is a member of”. Learning programming syntax at the same t…

In my brief exposure of about 6 months here after ~40 years in Southern CA, it really seems to be the case. I’ve never seen so many people just interacting and enjoying one another…

This also happened in the LA area back around 2015, lasting about 36-48 hours - no power and consequently no internet. Out in suburbia, it was the first time many neighbors even me…

Not my comment, but I’d venture to guess they’re referring to the likes of DeepSeek et al, who are/will be able to host their top-tier inference infra more efficiently

I would argue they are also cheating other students in their chosen field, and any future employers who place high value on prestige of applicants’ university, no? If the only tang…

My plan is to follow and hop on this train, hope it’s available in other countries also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645

Interesting to see your observation where I have observed the opposite: posts that share big news about open-weight local models have many upvoted comments arguing local models sho…

Seems to me the commenter was asking: what observations led us to conclude that original affirmative statement that “the AI did this entirely on its own”. Given that this is a comm…

So perhaps this is just semantics - when we say that “coders have been completely replaced”, to me that means all humans capable of reading/writing code are replaced. In the bridge…

Who is liable for the runtime behavior of the system, when handling users’ sensitive information? If the person who is liable for the system behavior cannot read/write code (as “al…

In terms of demand, anecdotally-speaking I can certainly see this influencing some decisions when other circumstances permit. Many people I know are both excited for new and better…

Jenkins not looking so bad anymore..

Hmm well I certainly inferred the same from their comment: it casts “big tech” as the victim of the government, because the latter forced as “overpriced and shitty solution” It’s p…

Every single place I’ve stayed in Europe had no shower door, and nothing to prevent the water from spilling out. Occasionally I get lucky and the floor is constructed sufficiently …

I love it! And yeah .NET Framework is still critical for some workloads, most notably C++/CLI and WCF for certain apps where deep win32 APIs make their net8.0+ alternatives too muc…

If they’re in a team similar to some I’ve worked with, engineers are barely getting comfortable with the shift away from .NET Framework (!) There are legions of developers for whom…

Police that I’ve spoken to will readily confirm this. They consider profiling, not necessarily racial, an important part of patrolling. If they decide you look the part, they will …

As a fellow former grocery store employee, I can agree about the “break up the monotony” concept from the narrow POV of the bored worker. It is an inconvenience though, even if as …

Not to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the scre…

Oh definitely, many headaches untangling massive “variables.tf” files where the value is identical in 100% of the target environments, and would be nonsensical to change without co…

These are great and succinct, yours and your teammate’s. I still find myself debating this internally, but one objective metric is how smoothly my longer PTOs go: The only times I …

For me, it would be because the term AGI gets bandied about a lot more frequently in discussions involving Gen AI, as if that path takes us any closer to AGI than other threads in …