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by ceres 2mo ago
I don’t care about HN the same way I care about my development platform. If I want to show someone my life’s work I don’t send then to HackerNews.
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by ceres 4mo ago
Just an fyi, when I try to sign in with google for your app I get the message: "The app is requesting access to sensitive info in your Google Account. Until the developer (*reka*kc*@gmail.com) verifies this app with Google, you shouldn
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by ceres 1y ago
Okay this is kinda random and maybe off topic but can someone please explain? When I tell an LLM to count to 10 with a 2 second pause between each count all it does is generate Python code with a sleep function. Why is that? A 3 year old ca
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by ceres 2y ago
This thread reads like sour grapes to me. When people can’t compete but instead start throwing unfounded allegations is not a good look. Even OpenAI itself hasn’t resorted to these wild conspiracy theories. Unless you’re an insider in these
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by ceres 4y ago
Does anyone know what CMS this website uses?
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by ceres 4y ago
> week, they would be artists, parents, lovers, researchers And who would 1. Pave your roads 2. Keep you safe 3. Care for you when you’re old 4. Keep the electric grid running 5. Etc Modern society works because there’s a bunch of peopl
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by ceres 4y ago
> That’s more than what French government pays its rocket scientists. I was about to call bullshit but then looked up the average salary for an aeronautical engineer in France and it was… bleak.
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by ceres 4y ago
There are two reasons I can think of: 1. The most popular front-end frameworks (e.g. React and Angular) are created by large orgs which naturally leads to extensive codebases as they’ll need to have many use cases. 2. Every new and shiny fr
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by ceres 4y ago
Tangential: check out FreshRSS ( https://www.freshrss.org/ ), a self-hosted RSS reader.
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by ceres 4y ago
Well, many open source developers are quite content with making their software freely accessible without expectation of monetary gain. In fact some are strongly opposed to it (see uBlock Origin maintainer). And that’s ok too!
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by ceres 4y ago
Honest question: how valuable is the current mode of testing (based rote memorization) if much of that can be done by AI anyway? Maybe it’s time for new testing methodologies?
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by ceres 4y ago
All great points. To add: As someone who's worked blue collar jobs, it is all too common for unions to protect assholes from getting fired. This leads to a hostile work environment created by the "high seniority" workers. Som
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by ceres 4y ago
> eventually we'll land on something similar to medicine or other engineering areas where accreditation is prerequisite You are saying people will need to be certified to be programmers? This is just gate keeping and considering how
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by ceres 4y ago
At what percentage of knowledge are you ready to use the language professionally?
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by ceres 4y ago
I'd like to think that the "killer app" for the fediverse isn't going to be Mastodon or the other current alternatives but the ActivityPub protocol or something akin to it. Whereas decentralized online communities have e
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by ceres 4y ago
And yet WhatsApp had 55 employees at acquisition. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whatsapp-bought-for-19-b...
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by ceres 4y ago
I’m willing to bet a pretty penny that the next big social media will be built on the fediverse. > Glad Mastadon is doing its thing being like the IRC of twitter or whatever, but there's absolutely no way it ever truly competes A go
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by ceres 4y ago
> The world you propose means that i'd need to belong to dozens of such sites. With ActivityPub, this shouldn’t be much of an issue.
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by ceres 4y ago
> It consumes a lot of time/effort if you do any sort of active moderation And yet some Reddit mods manage subs with 10s of thousands for… free.
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by ceres 4y ago
Not everyone is a wanna be influencer who wants to reach a billion people. If that’s the case private Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups and Telegram groups wouldn’t be as popular as they are.
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by ceres 4y ago
HN is not a powerful walled garden. It’s a site mostly used to share links and comments. Places like it abound on the internet. In case of any shenanigans, they’re liable to lose users to an alternative faster than you can say digg. Even th
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by ceres 4y ago
I’m fed up with “platforms”. Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb and I think more people are starting to get it. Why feed someone’s enterprise for free who will then turn it into a powerful walled garden, make billions in profit
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by ceres 4y ago
Why is this article hiding its hyperlinks? On my iOS all the links are black and indistinguishable from the rest of the text.
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by ceres 4y ago
I think kasmweb (kasmweb.com) has this. They claim it’s open source but I think it’s more “source available”
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by ceres 4y ago
But isn’t that antithetical to decentralization? Would you consider mastodon decentralized if you had to rely on AWS?
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by ceres 4y ago
Good for you if you're not affected, I guess. For many people, Internet trolls can cause psychological harm. This is not some obscure thing. Teens have been committing suicide due to bullying on the Internet for decades.
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by ceres 4y ago
Believe it or not “just ignore them“ doesn’t work for many people. There’s a reason 4chan is only popular with a certain demographic.
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by ceres 4y ago
> this (trying to get rid of echo chambers and highlighting posts from people with different viewpoints recognized by the algorithm) would be a better But people _want_ echo chambers. No one wants to be in a group where people share opin
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by ceres 4y ago
Yes, and? Businesses take risks and make mistakes all the time. Why should it be any different when it comes to hiring?
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by ceres 4y ago
> They could afford to dip into cash and keep everyone on board but their investors are more concerned about propping up the valuation This an example of how bullshit jobs are created. Why keep people on a payroll if you have no use for

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