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Seconding this comment. I would love to read a write-up about your experience and how you’ve been trying to work on solutions for yourself. Stories like these are valuable to the f…

CRISPR is an extremely overhyped approach which found a marketing engine via popular science. There is 1 FDA approved CRISPR therapy as compared to 7 for AAV and 7 for Lentivirus. …

> Placing a landmine anywhere is essentially the same as firing a bullet blindly through time. Beautifully said and truly clarifies how evil of a weapon they are. With that said, a…

Describing the pope’s proposals as progressive and anti-money laundering laws as the antichrist… this is like a parody of the most blinders-on kind of libertarianism. For those of …

I think they will literally do anything to prevent the embarrassment / incarceration of the wealthy.

It feels like the market is full Wiley Coyote on frontier model makers, and I like Anthropic's B2B business model. But all progress points to a commodification of foundation models…

You're saying it was a turning point for you to get more embedded with them? Way to be killer robot positive, I guess...

Christian orthodoxy begins with the assertion you cannot ever work hard enough to be made right with God but that your value is imputed by Christ’s death and never once earned. See…

> Robin Hanson, the economist who’s commonly known as the godfather of modern prediction markets, thinks that using inside information to place bets like this is actually necessary…

This comment may or may not be wrong but it is quintessentially low effort. The point of HN is to discuss, not to tweet about your political enemies.

This is going to be remembered as a comical fumble, in my view. I was fully locked-in to the ecosystem, the phone, the services, the TV, and I am looking for the exits. I’m startin…

The problem with prediction markets is not purely insiders but that they interface with the real world, so they encourage bettors not just to predict an outcome but to bring it int…

An all-powerful uniparty can do things like this: - deport or jail you without due process - ignore the law in service of its own ends - punish its enemies, pardon its allies - ign…

Corruption is not merely something someone in power enacts in their choices; it is a rot that eats out the society from the inside. As individuals realize that nakedly appeasing th…

Agree. If you find yourself sympathetic to Flock, you should ask yourself: do we have a right to any kind of privacy in a public space or is public space by definition a denial of …

Of course it is in their interest. The problem is that Russia only knows how to bully, oppress, or violently interfere with their neighbors. You cannot get along with a tiger who o…

This comment is clever but adds literally nothing to the discussion. It had no spirit of curiosity, just contempt.

I think this has somewhat strawmanned “servant leadership,” which is more about humility in posture than purely intercepting annoyances and blockers, but nevertheless the conclusio…

Where can I read about this?

AGI is the new Marxism—a utopian dream unmoored from reality, which does not account for the nature of people, economics, states, or even nature itself. A fantasy society that will…

I think this kind of low-effort, “religion bad haha” take is not really worthy of HN. I’d rather read a meaningful comment about the value of an institution trying to sway people’s…

I think you’re thinking of TigerBeetle, not Clickhouse, which is a quite performant db with a fascinating simulation-tested story and proof of performance / safety.

I think you’re right on Kimmel while being wrong about TFA. The president does not get to dictate broadcasting licenses on the basis of whether or not they criticize him but ABC is…

Their speech was never in jeopardy, they just didn’t like its consequences. And now that they have the upper hand they will try to actively impose the same restrictions which they …

Built a single file config with this after watching Sylvan Franklin and TJ DeVries a bit on YouTube and it has been great. Config junkies may need something more, but for a minimal…