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A significant % of the population in rich countries, probably close to > 100%, benefits from transport infrastructure and sewage treatment and many other vital services. I don't se…

Same experience. RSS is by far the most requested resource in the server logs. Sometimes up to 70% of the total traffic is coming from RSS. That said though, I wonder how much of t…

Same here. RSS is by far the most requested resource in the server logs. That said though, I wonder how much of that traffic is biological and how much is bots. Because I also wond…

Closest thing I can think of is this one: https://feedland.org Or you create a blog for yourself and you make a blogroll. As for discovering new blogs, couple of options but there …

> If AI does increase people’s productivity then people should use it. Productivity is not the only metric worth caring about. If it increases productivity without negative side ef…

Interesting how different perspectives work. It’s less than 400 per square mile in my corner of the country. It’s less than 80 in my area and this feels right for how I want to liv…

> you can't meaningfully modify a layout with css alone. https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/ That statement wasn't true ages ago, and it's even less true now.

> ‘caring’ (what does that mean exactly?) caring: (adjective) displaying kindness and concern for others. If you look at this definition of caring and find a way to turn it into a …

> Everything is politics. Everything you want to be politics is politics. Caring for other people shouldn't be politics. Being a decent human being shouldn't be politics. There are…

Webrings are very much still a thing and Ray has an awesome page on his site all about them https://brisray.com/utils/webrings.htm

If what you're missing is the big list of RSS I have something for you: https://blogroll.org/all.opml This will automatically download the OPML file for all the blogs that have an …

It was awesome back then and it's even more awesome now: https://getkirby.com And there's a V6 in the making that should come out soon.

> You’d have to have a very poorly RLHF’d model (or a very weird system prompt) for it to draw you a Terminator, pastoral scene, or pelican riding a bicycle as its self image :) Ho…

> Is it? They're all generalizing from a pretty similar pool of text, and especially for the idea of a "helpful, harmless, knowledgeable virtual assistant", I think you'd end up in…

> Companies should be free to do whatever they want, as long as they pay for all their negative externalities. No they shouldn't. Sometimes it's not a matter of paying for the exte…

> The vast majority of people want what's best for their societies, and have different views as to how best achieve that goal, that arise from diverse life experiences. I'd persona…

Asked gemini the same question and it produced a similar-ish image: https://manuelmoreale.dev/hn/gemini_1.svg When I removed the plot part and simply asked to generate an SVG it ba…

He wrote "learn your CSS conventions" which implies that every team and every project will have a different set of conventions. Hidden inside that statement is the fact that he jus…

Yeah exactly, right? Europe is the dystopian nightmare, sure.

> But why are so many Europeans trying to move to the US? All I see in my circle is people refusing to even go on vacation in the US, let alone move there.

Where are you suggest we move to escape this dystopian nightmare?

And based on some of the replies in this thread we better act fast before it's too late.

You could say that about literally every single type of addictive behavior present on the face of the planet. You could just stop smoking and/or not buying cigarettes. You could ju…

I mean, clearly the companies at the top can't be trusted to do what's in the best interests of the users. So at some point someone has to do something. If this is the correct some…

> I often zone out as soon as I expect I'm reading slop and that's the reason try to ensure my own writing isn't slop adjacent. And how is this a problem someone else has to addres…