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It was fixed.

Duplicate, which also got on the front page without a working link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881510 What's your secret for getting 1 upvote per minute even when the l…

Same. Interesting that a broken link can get so many upvotes so quickly.

The lede is that 2 orders of magnitude more of injury exists than previously detected. 1 in 35 showed signs of heart damage.

Why be secretive about abusing a loophole with a company you might have a relationship with?

To go back to my original post, my main beef is with turning an imperative language into a declarative one. If you've seen enough of these types of languages degrade, you start to …

I don't really know what you're saying, can you say it another way? "Most realistic evolution"... why is that needed? If the problem is different database engines implementing the …

This is the closest example I could find https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/how-pulumi-works/ Pulumi serves as the strongest contender to Terraform when doing IaC (infrastructure…

>declarative An admirable ideal, but declarative languages always seem to devolve towards some frankenstein imperative/declarative hybrid. We need to stop going down this path and …

Here's EPIC's statement on why Worldcoin is a "potential privacy nightmare": >Worldcoin is a potential privacy nightmare that offers a biometrics-dependent vision of digital identi…

>And yet we know perfectly well that there were many people who were vaccinated who did get breakthrough infections and some of those have gone on to get long Covid, but we know th…

How do you do science on LLMs? I would imagine that is super important, given their broad impact on the social fabric. But they're non-deterministic, very expensive to train, and s…

"I don't think about you at all."

This is what affirmative action should be... helping people out based on their individual situation, not because their skin color or gender.

"Inflation’s silver lining: higher salaries" [1] But you're making a bigger number, so it's fine! Don't mind those that own everything unofficially taxing those that own nothing wi…

I was going to post about "use a UUID", but I was surprised to learn that no UUID uses both timestamp + a random component. You can either get fully random with UUID4, or have a ti…

I was talking with a small startup founder about a project I had licensed under AGPL. He asked, "How do you know if someone uses your project against your licence though?" with a s…

Reminds me of a Tolkien quote: Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.

>maybe someone will solve this It's solved by you going to the new page, reading every submission, and upvoting the interesting ones. Incentivize that.

I haven't felt the need to write my thoughts as much, but not because I have any concerns about it being used as part of some training data. Mostly it's because I don't know if I'm…

The basilisk will remember this.

Yeah, I would much rather live in a world where some disconnected busybody goes around assigning salaries to everyone based on $CURRENT_SOCIAL_TREND, than to have wealthy people wh…

Random thought, but if we extrapolate the path we're on in terms of biodegradability and sustainability, it's not ridiculous to assume that a very advanced version of us would have…