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by newsbinator 1y ago
A native English-speaking HNer doesn't know their MBTI letters? Well if that's not a typical young Korean, then who is?
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by newsbinator 1y ago
Younger generations are now heavily into MBTI. And I mean heavily: you won't find a person under 35 or so who doesn't know their MBTI letters.
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by newsbinator 1y ago
> Elon is not a generous guy Why would he be?
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by newsbinator 1y ago
I wouldn't dare say that to a colleague or friend, because although they might appear to take it well, I don't think I'd be doing our relationship any favors. I'd step out with an excuse instead. But given my lifestyle,
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by newsbinator 2y ago
A lot of them are autistic and they enjoy applying their version of "order" to a chaotic system. The overlap between subreddit moderators and Dungeons & Dragons moderators is probably quite high.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
According to this chart, X is the most politically balanced social media platform: https://x.com/stat_sherpa/status/1867627066826400096
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by newsbinator 2y ago
Also Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon and Trump are 2 weeks away from running the primary government to which I'm more or less answerable... better batten down the hatches"
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by newsbinator 2y ago
Unfalsifiable does not mean pseudoscientific. Plenty of things might be unfalsifiable for humans (e.g. humans lack the cognitive capacity to conceive of ways to falsify them), but then easily falsifiable for whatever comes after humans.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> Public confidence in scientists fell from 87 percent in April 2000 to a low of 73 percent in October 2023 It's incredible public confidence in scientists is still that high. When the public turned to scientists with valid question
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> They just gave patients a seemingly random score that nobody understood, on a scale of one to infinity. I mean obviously it's broken UX and/or poor architecture overall. That's not an AI-creep problem.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
Takeaway: Bad AI is bad. Good AI is good. We're perhaps middling at diagnosing neurology issues and we're terrible at treating them. Absolutely useless. If we haven't moved the needle in the last 50 years, then let's try
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by newsbinator 2y ago
No, not at all like incels or MGTOW. When women do it it's stunning and brave. It's a protest for what's right. When men do it it's cowardly and needy, a result of being so unworthy that no reasonable person would want t
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by newsbinator 2y ago
And this regularly happens with humans too
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> On nine of the occasions that Bryde’s whales turned up, the researchers also heard the biotwang. “Once, it’s a coincidence,” Allen says. “Twice is happenstance. Nine times, it’s definitely a Bryde’s whale.”
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by newsbinator 2y ago
I'm not even a graphic designer and Pixelmator Pro has paid for itself many times over. I can't believe Mac users (outside professional graphic-design) would willingly pay Adobe.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
2 hours of battery power
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> AI doesn’t buy your service, but humans do. Only specific humans do, not typically fellow SaaS makers. It would be better if the reviewers were also the target audience.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
But you don't understand: what "your government" is doing is really bad. And a big part of Namecheap's team is the recipient of what "your government" is doing. And you paying taxes to "your government&quo
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by newsbinator 2y ago
Same here- I used to have all my domains on Namecheap until their CEO came on HN to announce that anybody who forced their parents to give birth to them in Russia has exactly 1 week to transfer all their domains away somewhere else. I don&#
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by newsbinator 2y ago
Seconding the keyboard mapping. Up/Down or Left/Right would be helpful. I love this OP. Well done!
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by newsbinator 2y ago
AM = Additive Manufacturing https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/additive-manuf... > Technically, additive manufacturing can refer to any process where a product is created by building something up, such as
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> What’s a decision you’re trying to make right now? Do you want to walk me through your thinking? Whoa, why don't you take 2 steps back, new friend
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by newsbinator 2y ago
BoJ interest rates went from <0 to >0. With a sentiment shift like that, the decimal numbers themselves almost don't matter. It was guaranteed to result in a shakeup.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
I stupidly upgraded my Kindle 4 to the latest firmware, and apparently there's no jailbreak for that and no way to downgrade.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
I wonder if, given enough time, these nodules would be the engine of the industrialized Octopus civilization.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> and the first thing people want to do is mine them for profit The reason we have the technology to discover non-obvious things is thanks to thousands of years of profit-seeking.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
I accept the removal of my comment. Perhaps it is highly repetitive, and worthy of removal even on those grounds alone.
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by newsbinator 2y ago
> Using the Spotify API you can find random music, then find random instrumental music from that random music. For this, I made a Spotify playlist with 41 hours of instrumental soundtrack music that helps me focus. It's not random l
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by newsbinator 4y ago
Soundtracks are designed to be thrilling, uplifting, suspenseful, etc and they're an underrated source of programming focus. My muscle memory is to press they keyboard play button the moment I open VS Code. I don't even realize I&
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by newsbinator 4y ago
My parent's generation all forward "articles" to each other's inboxes with full text in the message body. None of them, as far as I'm aware, have yet questioned who wrote the article, where it was published, what ot

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