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I don't think I've ever been so viscerally revolted by the vision of a company.

Yes, because they’re so bleeding edge and powerful. Whether you believe that is another thing. But that’s the signal. It’s amazing marketing for them, even if a pain in the ass for…

Large volume of text for a fellow who apparently lacks familiarity with the study of consciousness in the first place.

This is how a lot of regular people are engaging with AI, whether you consider it silly or not.

to be clear, the work you’re doing is only relevant to the extent it produces product nobody cares if you use your brain or not. they do care if you’re efficiently delivering relia…

Fully agree and am pretty disappointed reading replies on here. Anyone familiar with the demographics of this forum? What % male is it? If you have women in your life, ask their th…

podcast science is a bit low-brow for hn brother

agree here vehicle safety improvements are one of the primary motivators (for me) to drive new cars. driving is dangerous and i want the best odds when the inevitable occurs

It criticized the potus, and threat of his ire is enough to scare corporations in 2025. A fairly concerning development

i guess it will depend a lot on where you bought some parts of california have been affected by insurers more than others, but in those more minimally affected? prop tax is suppres…

yep my life cannot be uprooted based on the whims of a crummy landlord or because my obligation has crept out of my budget i bought conservatively and now have a tiny payment relat…

it’s wild seeing this forum both-sides-same itself into overlooking the hate this dude put into the world

This is semantic nitting and wastes time when for all practical intents and purposes humans understand the assertion being made and find it agreeable.

Plan for the evisceration of public services in the interest of privatizing them to enrich a select group of capital owners.

This stood out to me as well. A pitfall for experts in one field to assume their skills are transferable.

that’s fairly on brand for hackernews doubly so if it’s from a person with no expertise in the relevant field

The entire point is that experts are doing this triage for you, and building upon fruitful lanes of research. To think that as an outsider to a field you are qualified to discover …

I suspect it’s 2. Local organizational optimizations to garner promotions for middle-managers and without regard for systemic impact.

I don’t think it reads that way either. Inclined to think they didn’t read it.

How on earth have you not found it empowering? Have you used it for answering questions? It’s resolved countless questions of jr devs at work, helped me migrate a C++ project to Py…

Job market seems healthy for anyone with sufficient experience. My company is hiring, my inbox is slammed with companies hiring. And this is for product engineering and leadership.…