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I think its disingenuous at best that the projects from recent years are all LLM based. Those were all significantly worse on release! All the negative comments were true! Compare …

You mean "first time" right? The last time this was posted was 3 months ago, posted 19 times total since 2013 if I counted correctly

Fun game! My personal answer to the Fermi paradox is that multi solar system civilization is very very hard, and multi galaxy civilization is functionally impossible. Speed of ligh…

I'm honestly not sure how this was missed, the influence is obvious and the author's bio makes it explicit. By the way, if anyone reading this comment has not read the work in ques…

The developers providing everyone with free tools are or course welcome to write those tools in whatever languages they want. But to me, the comment definitions are longer to type …

Religious or not, I think one of the best philosophies on giving is Rambam's 8 levels of tzedakah. The highest is doing something to materially improve someone's condition, the abs…

This is the key bit of information that is always missed in discussions of "10x engineers". 10x better than the absolute worst, but probably 2x better than average. This lines up w…

I'm only really interested in learning a language if it excites me, or if I'm getting paid to do it. I don't hate Go, and would be fine to learn it on company time for company proj…

I've seen the charm suite on HN before, and everytime I see them I wish they had bindings to other languages. I'm just not interested in Go, but I'm really interested in learning t…

I think there is a lot of potential for creativity in the terminal space, and warp has some cool ideas. I'd honestly even be willing to pay directly for a terminal if it went above…

It's a shame that the comments here are laser focused on the tipping parts of the article, and not the bigger picture items. The author outlines the struggles of getting service jo…

I agree with the analogy, but for me (and I think most people) processing time far exceeds IO. Once you get to a good enough IO speed, it doesnt make sense to optimize further, as …

Having children with multiple partners has always been and will always be the quickest way to spread genetic material. That is true regardless if women are having 2 kids or 5. Spec…

I agree with you, and view my comment as complementing yours by refuting the parent, rather than making a value judgement on Lisa Frank's work. Apologies if I missed the mark there…

I'm almost positive most kids would pick a Lisa Frank piece over the Mona Lisa. Are you trying to make the point that bright colors, rainbows, and unicorns are the highest form of …

> How did they "steal" it? Like they came and stole your gold 200 years ago and now they're rich forever? lol. Unironically, yes this is how capitalism works. If you have resources…

There's a fantastic video essay from an economist that breaks down the issues that are frequently hand waved by saying "X doesnt work, that's just basic economics" https://youtu.be…

Interesting drama associated with this article. The story documented here was used in a video essay about Homestuck in general, and the inclusion of this article lead to (empty, fr…

The plight of the Uyghurs does not relate to the political oppression of trans people. Political oppression of trans people is inextricable from the discussion of anti trans ideolo…

It is actually incorrect, I just responded to that comment. See below: If you read the article you linked, you will find that is not true. From the article: "between 2016 and 2020,…

If you read the article you linked, you will find that is not true. From the article: "between 2016 and 2020, there were seven sexual assaults against females in women's prisons by…

> It places cis-women in a very uncomfortable position of having to birth and raise a child created from sexual assault or have an abortion. I want to be very clear: I do not want …

One thing I find very troubling about articles like this is the tendency to frame hot political topics as essentially academic, while they are in fact very practical. Across the US…

There is no evidence that trans women are more a threat to cis women than cis women are to each other. If a cis women is afraid of being assaulted by a trans women, that is a fear …

Whatever exists inside the map lambda would have to exist inside the for loop as well. So if you're dealing with a confusing transformation, a loop doesnt offer you any extra tools…