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I'd also consider that this will become increasingly important in the age of LLMs. Want Cursor to one-shot a change? Dollars to donuts the agents of the future will perform a lot b…

https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/ maybe?

It seems to me that if, e.g., mandatory arbitration clauses can be binding, then so could a precondition clause allowing particular types of torts (or disallowing particular types …

Would this be fixable by adjusting, somewhat, the terms of the GPL? If the issue is that this is a contractual violation, would it be possible to put preconditions before granting …

Expanding on a sibling comment's reference to Simpson's paradox is the following analysis of the data: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-... Basically, Is…

It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram Not as a vaccine, but as a drug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing Wikipedia disagrees with you in the opening paragraph about strong and weak typing: it's contentious. For all practical purpose…

I've seen this take so many times an I simply don't get it. The notion that TypeScript can't be (some form of) strongly-typed because Javascript is (some form of) weakly-typed is j…

You should almost always be running Bash in `-e` (exit-on-error) mode. This necessitates precisely the construct mentioned in this article. For example: set -e var="$( false )" if …

You're right on your first estimation: P(getting infected per touch) = 1/10000 = .0001 P(not getting infected per touch) = 1 - P(getting infected per touch) = .9999 P(not getting i…

Was that comment spam, or just snark? But I guess bigotry is okay. Free speech platform so long as it doesn't step on any in-group toes.

A bigger danger still would be: const userPromise = fetchUser(id) const itemPromise = fetchItem(itemId) // Do stuff, maybe even more async stuff const item = await itemPromise cons…

This is really cool. Yet, somehow, as cool as it is, I find it terribly depressing. In comparison to other "look what I can do" projects -- such code golf, or demo programming, or …

Sadly they have to operate cooperatively. :/ I've taken great pains to prefix all of my builds with "${CI_JOB_ID}" and add a `clean` step at the end to tear down all created images…

Gitlab gets a lot of love around here on Hacker News. I'm sure there's a lot of people setting up their own servers and maybe running into some questions/problems around setting up…

I believe this is because vim manages drawing the entire screen, rather than depending on its terminal emulator to wrap lines, etc. This may be dependent upon configuration, and th…

They did? There's expert analysis on the linked page. More in depth than a newspaper article, but more accessible than legalese.