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by bookaway 7mo ago
It is truly odd in a way. You had posts here about Google managers or execs saying AI coded something solid in a few days what their own team were working on for months or years, or something along those lines. But people seem to ignore tha
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Ask HN: Google Maps directions blocked on latest Android Firefox?
4 points by bookaway 1y ago|1 comments
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by bookaway 1y ago
>Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things. Yeah, I watch all films I consider worth seeing in the theater frankly. I rarely have nightmarishly disruptive movie going experiences. Any disruptions are minuscule compared
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by bookaway 2y ago
>Work should be based on results The people who play politics also have their work judged by results. Getting yourself promoted to head a project that prints money for the company with little cost doesn't necessarily cause the proje
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by bookaway 2y ago
>it's amusing how brown is used here. Brown here is being used here to mean Brown University. In what way do you find it amusing.
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by bookaway 2y ago
Yes, and unfortunately the “desire” for scientific research of everyday life is hard to maintain because frankly in our current times it has dawned on many that scientific research is unable, by itself, to prevent or limit actions taken tha
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by bookaway 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation dang. >Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page. >[let us] know about them at hn@ycombinator.com so we can fix it You’re right to
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by bookaway 2y ago
>it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft. I'm not sure I understand or maybe I'm missing something, sharing the guessed city is not "technically" sharing your IP address? (I unde
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by bookaway 2y ago
>Then again, you did assume that this was done automatically. If you see multiple [dead] stories that are minutes old by different users that have non-clickbait tech titles it is not unreasonable to think auto-moderation is a more likely
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by bookaway 2y ago
Your impatience has betrayed you. Some examples from the next pages, that caused me to write this post: [dead] Show HN: Try QwQ-32B for Free: Advanced AI Reasoning Model (qwq-32b.net) [dead] Show HN: I made an AI platform that combines GPT
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by bookaway 2y ago
If you go to the "lists" page there is literally a "noobstories" page, because someone deemed that that would be an interesting filter for some people to explore. What's the point of posting if you're a noob if
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Tell HN: new and non-neg low karma users, your posts appear to be auto-killed
3 points by bookaway 2y ago|16 comments
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Five Canadian whisky alternatives for bourbon lovers(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by bookaway 2y ago|0 comments
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by bookaway 2y ago
I have no idea how random the librewolf maintainers are but the next iteration raising the bar for high-impact open source projects should definitely have a checkbox for "has a key maintainer with a active public profile/streetcre
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by bookaway 2y ago
It's called a "shadow government" in European (?) parlance[0], though not to be confused with the term "deep state". That is, the opposition basically prepares a shadow government to signal to the public that, despi
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by bookaway 2y ago
>when the Country needed Americans to call out the corruption Just for the record, Trump tried to get the attorney general of the Southern District of New York to drop the case against the mayor of New York, a Democrat, in exchange for t
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by bookaway 2y ago
>US involvement forced Israel to withdraw unilaterally from Gaza in 2005 Ah yes, history started in 2005. Let's talk post-2005 then. This was when Netanyahu, an elected leader of Israel, openly bragged about aiding and building up
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by bookaway 2y ago
The parent post is by and large correct, except for the right-hand man of Donald Trump stuff. Musk was indeed trying to buy influence, which is definitely not a "5D chess move" but simply common sense for extremely wealthy people
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by bookaway 2y ago
This is the correct answer. Trump won because of the current economy. Biden's margin over Trump in 2020 was double Trump's margin over Kamala. Democrats did better than expected in 2022 despite Republicans running with the same DE
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by bookaway 2y ago
>We grew up on hopeful sci-fi and will stick to it until our bitter end. American optimism and hope did not derive itself from "hopeful sci-fi" or tech. The sci-fi and tech came in its superpower phase, post-WWII. American opti
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by bookaway 2y ago
Thanks for the info. Doesn't "revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order" entail that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will be affected? [0] EDIT: Trump also fired the EEOC chair it seems. Can the co
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by bookaway 2y ago
Here's a take that I came across which I'd like your views on if possible: When the Civil Right Act and Americans with Disabilities Act were created, people asked the government to enforces these acts. Whatever you think of merits
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by bookaway 2y ago
You said in your comment above that he's "out there ranting about wokeism like a lot of them now, he's losing the plot", as if his stance is a new thing. I was just pointing out that his stance is not new. I'm not a
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by bookaway 2y ago
> He also doesn't even list a specific example of something he wants to say but "can't." That's because he's making the general point that in every era there is always something "that can't be said
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by bookaway 2y ago
Rightwing snowflakes are a thing, yeah. Bill Burr for one loves to roast them, as he did recently using the LA fires. Elon threw that salute because his man-child ego took a massive beating with the H1B rightwing in-fighting, when the white
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by bookaway 2y ago
The double whammy may come when people realize, if they haven't already, that the "do no evil" guy (Paul Buchheit) and--at the individual level--many of the "enlightened" angel investor old guard have one by one dec
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by bookaway 2y ago
And as a happy coinless worlder I'd much rather use my free will to prevent you from enabling systems being built that could endanger my free will and that of my progenies' in the future, and will exercise said free will to encour
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by bookaway 2y ago
(can't edit the downvoted comment) for the curious, from Merriam Webster dictionary: rational 1 a - having reason or understanding b: relating to, based on, or agreeable to reason : reasonable From American Heritage dictionary: rationa
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by bookaway 2y ago
Let's not change the meaning of existing words needlessly please. It is not rational nor reasonable to insist on ignoring reality.
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by bookaway 2y ago
> Which is interesting now that I think of it, nobody EVER calls New York just "York". I don't know, kind of makes sense to me why that would be the case. Something tells me there are more places that start with "York

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