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In the UK, most people simply get Bupa dental insurance. A basic plan costs like 25 pounds per month. Affordable I'd say. Many people spend more than that on beer and public transp…

> I am able to see my PCP and dentist within a week if I want. I read a statistic that in Europe and Canada you have to make those kinds of routine appointments months in advance. …

Never underestimate the power of hubris.

Related petition to be debated in parliament: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757233

All fair points. Sorry, I spend a lot of time on regional forums, and I had a brain malfunction and forgot that when I write on HN, I am writing on a worldwide forum. Sorry for the…

> It’s like calling surgeons extortionists for having the gall to charge for treating you. Yes, ideally that should be free and available to all What do you mean by "should be"? Su…

I don't know if there is another industry that behaves this childishly. There might be. But good grief, how much more juvenile can ours possibly get? AI-generated images with obvio…

I am sure I am not alone in observing that starting around 2020... may be even a few years earlier... Google seemed to hire a lot of middle managers. I personally knew several mana…

I mean no disrespect. This is more of a rant at how things are today. It is telling that over-complicated solutions have become so common that, for the current generation of devs, …

Way to find something negative in everything. Congratulations on derailing what was otherwise such a nice thread. Well done. Not everyone in this world is always on edge like you. …

You should read the original article by Dawkins that this piece is critiquing: https://archive.is/Rq5bw I don't know if the original article casts him in a better light. I think it…

> What can "own" possibly mean in this context? This sounds unnecessarily reductive. By "own" I would mean that I can re-read the book again and again and again as many times as I …

I really had fun with this one. You know what would make it even cosier? Being able to choose a small avatar for ourselves. The mouse pointer as your icon feels a very impersonal a…

> Lots of negativity in the comments and while I'm as distrusting of VC funding as the next guy I think competition in this space is something we should encourage, and bootstrappin…

> Please don't give your users a nickname like "tanglers", groups come up with their own nicknames. What prompted this? I can't see "tanglers" in the OP. Did you see them calling t…

> There's a growing demand for single user or smaller scoped apps where giving LLM agents direct access means velocity. The failure/rollback model is much easier with these as long…

> Nobody seems to care or notice. I'm watching in disbelief how nobody is pointing out the article is full of inaccuracies. I don't know. I finished my graduate studies in math a f…

> That is simply not the theorem. > The article is plain wrong. > This does not excuse the article from reversing the meaning of the theorem. What's with this hyperbole? Even the b…

> The main SDL maintainer is paid by a US for-profit company, Valve. They don't necessarily share your EU = automatically good attitude. I'm not sure how one follows from the other…

Why are these projects still on Github? Isn't it better to move away from Github than go through all this shenanigans? This AI slopam nonsense isn't going to stop. Github is no lon…

Yes, how dare someone take an idea, develop it, and publish it outside the algorithm-driven rage pit. Truly terrible behavior! /s Expanding a thought beyond 280 characters and publ…

> This article is describing a problem that is still two steps removed from where AI code becomes actually useful. But it does a good job of countering the narrative you often see …

Does any one of this help me if Claude runs `git reset --hard`? If I am working in a sandbox, I have uncommitted changes in a sandbox and if Claude runs `git reset --hard` on those…

This! The safeguards need to be outside LLM and they need to be deterministic. Now I wish I could reject `git reset --hard` on my local system somehow.

Yes, if something is reproducible and undesirable, it is a bug and RLHF can reduce it. I'm not disupting that. "reduce" is the keyword here. You can't eliminate them entirely. My p…