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"In 1839 [...] the United States had already defeated Britain’s navy in two wars" This statement is wrong and trivially falsifiable. Perhaps the author meant that the U.S. had by t…

Backup snapshots of what though? The defects aren’t being introduced through code changes, they are inherent in the model and its tooling. If you’re using general models, there’s v…

Non-deterministic behaviour doesn’t help when trying to reason about the system. But you could in theory eliminate the non-determinism for a given input, and yet still be stuck wit…

The fatal problem with LLM-as-runtime-club isn’t performance. It’s ops (especially security). When the god rectangle fails, there is literally nobody on earth who can even diagnose…

I use em dashes—chiefly to express parenthetical thoughts—all the time. Sadly, there’s no foolproof system for identifying machine-generated text. Happily, it means one less thing …

Is the video captured using the dev kit?

It’s a reasonable hypothesis, but you’d need to experiment to validate it. It’s easy to imagine how prolonged exposure to bed rest or microgravity may trigger heart muscle remodell…

Leader/follower is only inclusive language if you’ve never heard of anarchism.

The really great thing about electric cars is that people are actually adopting them, in part because they are better than the machines they are replacing; therefore their environm…

You’re probably already aware, but there are medical formulations of CA that are in theory less likely to irritate tissues than general purpose ones.

Yeah exactly, I’m saying it’s dangerous to use “who benefits?” as a heuristic, because it will be wrong far more often than it will be right.

I would caution against using “Qui bono” as a heuristic; you will end up believing in a lot of BS using that as a tool. It can only ever be a piece of evidence alongside others. I …

Sorry dang. I appreciate the work you do keeping HN on point, so you have my personal thanks for that. I suspect the job is getting harder and I don’t want to contribute to the pro…

Cool premise, catchy headline, doesn’t fit the known facts.

I don’t really see this as a controversial statement. All countries are likely to face the issue of shrinking population this century, and they’re going to have to try all sorts of…

Won’t be long before three children are mandatory.

Buying an ejector seat for your living room is quite eccentric, but I wouldn’t really consider it overkill . It doesn’t even have arms.

No it can’t.

Who is buying Amazon hardware at this point?

Yeah but we got a lot more stuff and experiences than single breadwinner households of the past. We’re not optimising for free time spent in material poverty.

Why is every paid for service called “Something Plus” these days? Who started this trend?

Wow.

Exactly, we should all have the freedom to choose how we work. Never really understood people managers who don’t get this. You hired the best, right? Listen to them! They are exper…

No it won’t. Can anyone think about why this mass extinction event is unlike the last one? Anyone? Yes, that’s right: Homo Sapiens. If we want biodiversity, we’re not going to sit …

I don’t understand the amount of hate that Clean Code gets these days…it’s a relatively straightforward set of principles that can help you create a software system maintainable by…