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> Given what we have already seen of AI, we can be confident that its widespread adoption will create a less free society, a less virtuous people, and a degraded culture. I think t…

I thought this was the weakest argument in the article. Yes, non-determinism is inherent to LLMs. It's also inherent to human brains, yet somehow we still manage to call (some) peo…

By and large we do. Unfortunately, the losers don't care unless you identify them personally. For them, the thrill of cheating and griefing others easily overcomes some generalized…

That certainly used to be the case in Canada 20 years ago, don't know if they've standardized since.

> I prefer to call them Low Information High Satisfaction theories If you called them Low Information Excessive Satisfaction theories instead you'd end up with a much more satisfyi…

> brand that emphasizes safety or enjoyment of experience (like Hondas and Toyotas) This is plausible on its face, and yet the Honda CR-V Hybrid ended up higher on the list than th…

What in the world is the Honda CR-V Hybrid doing so high on this list?! That doesn't seem to fit any of the theories I've seen spun up so far.

We do three things: First, we use Missive to integrate email and chat. This way everything's in one place, properly threaded, and we can easily discuss emails internally in context…

The "cute dogs" in the title is obviously clickbait but at least one cute dog does show up in the article: > Vermeulen produces a popular YouTube series starring his dog, Sir Willi…

I'm building an open source implementation of the Firebase RTDB server, that will be wire-compatible with Google's. This means that all the (already open sourced) SDKs will work pr…

What I get out of this is that even for teams that prioritize trust and velocity and eschew the use of pre-commit code reviews, there's a strong argument to be made for putting all…

Yep, Git's semantics are seriously lacking (see also renames). In Reviewable, we work around this with heuristics: we use Change-Id if it happens to be available, and otherwise do …

Agreed that their API is the most important thing, but IMHO they're not doing a particularly great job of it. You've got two separate API systems (REST and GraphQL) that overlap bu…

To be fair, they did improve several things in the PR flow over the last decade but there's definitely a lot more that could be done. I just hope they keep their API team well-reso…

> Sports stadiums add culture to cities in the same way that aquariums, museums, music venues and art galleries do. Citation required.

Discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39324491

One simple trick helped us a lot: we have a rules transpiler (fireplan) that adds a default "$other": {".read": false, ".write": false} rule to _every_ property. This makes it so t…

Our experience has been very different. Our Firebase security rules are locked down tight, so any new properties or collections need to be added explicitly for a new feature to wor…

I'm no billionaire, but if there's a legal way for me to avoid paying a tax, of course I'm going to do it. Why should billionaires be held to a different standard? Tighten up the l…

> if you want to reverse the car, you have to use on-screen controls! So? If you're switching to reverse then by definition you're stopped (or nearly so) and can afford to take you…

If they intend to go straight through Earth at relativistic speeds (to establish a hyperspace bypass, perhaps?), then there's really not much we can do about it anyway. :p

That would actually make them easier to spot, as they'd need to flip around for a breaking burn roughly equal to their acceleration burn, pointing their engines straight at us. (As…

Heartily seconded. Also don't forget the docs: Google Cloud docs are generally fairly sane and often even useful, whereas my stomach churns whenever I have to dive into AWS's labyr…