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by pas 10d ago
they connect ideas all day. xenophobia is that, making fast and loose connections. unfortunately we are deep into the TikTok times, and simple, but catchy ideas dominate. it's flat Earth, QAnon, anti-vax, anti-economics but now in 4K.
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by pas 10d ago
yes, but also there's a real obvious unserved/underserved voting bloc https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-boring-theory-of-the-populist... without convincing the people (winning their hearts and minds, and so on)
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by pas 13d ago
yes, just as age verification can be fooled by an older friend who gets the check mark.
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by pas 13d ago
it's entirely possible that that specific communication from that Amazon exec/rep (?) was just one of many "messages of concern" (and the one that eventually the WH picked)
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by pas 15d ago
> Is this actually measuring "underemployment" Sort of. It's "all of the above". So basically low demand for labor. * Looking for a job. * People who don't work full time but want to. * Poverty wages. (b
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by pas 17d ago
The set of symptoms is roughly recognizable and treatment protocols are established. There's some data and bad theories, and informed consent based on all this. (Imagine how informed the patient can be downstream of this!) So yes, just
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by pas 17d ago
warm cache case is only imperceptibly slower, no?
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by pas 18d ago
there are members with veto power (for things that require unanimity) https://michalovadek.github.io/eu-veto-tracker/
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by pas 19d ago
They are already de facto inside. Hence the argument to have a vote at least. They are already paying the price for not being de jure members. (Currency exchange costs, rate hedging is also costly, and they don't benefit from EU unifie
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by pas 20d ago
people whose life is amazing don't go through the process of getting stimulants (or even SSRIs) prescribed to them. psychiatrists know about this. the plan is usually to cycle the meds. is this great and works every time? no. is this b
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by pas 20d ago
for anyone who's curious about the sexual side-effects, this subreddit has stories from the unlucky few https://reddit.com/r/PSSD/top/
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by pas 20d ago
it's completely ridiculous that some comments are demonizing OP (who actually cares about the outcome that management told them) when anybody who ever sat in a lame corporate meeting knows exactly what bullshit OP does not want to put
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by pas 21d ago
just FYI for anyone who doesn't know about this amazing tool yet: https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep
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by pas 22d ago
there's no need to "optimize" it already has the basic loop. stochastic reward (interesting news, interesting comments/replies), gamification (points go up!), and no real social interaction. (no connection, some performa
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by pas 22d ago
Still, even current AI/LLMs can do debugging. For example after an hour of process of elimination it finds the bug, reproduces it, then it recommends a ~1 line fix. Then that's where one should spend their attention budget, and th
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by pas 22d ago
HN is also social media :) but let's say friends sending links to group chats (or through direct messages) and you open it, and uh you see you got messages from other people on Instagram, or on Facebook you see that someone had a baby&
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by pas 27d ago
designers, team leads, tech leads, architects, senior devs are all doing this kind of formal or informal management work just because someone doesn't have the "manager" in their job title they might still do a lot of supervis
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by pas 28d ago
GitHub commits, PRs and issues are public. even their recent buildkite CI logs are public. apparently there's some kind of automated differential fuzzer to discover Node.js incompatibilities, but probably that's behind the curtain
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by pas 28d ago
that's not how regulatory capture works. they get some exemption, cross-licencing, or pay a fine, and nothing changes for the better
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by pas 28d ago
though this is exactly the thing that can be handled during RL deep learning the problem is that introduction of any new technology usually happens with so much emotional baggage, that when there's an error (human or otherwise) some hu
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by pas 29d ago
what does the license say? provide source when asked or publish source? OSI is not clear on this either. ("Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source
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by pas 29d ago
static link everything? ship a docker image? ship your own userspace (like Oracle DB used (?) to)?
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by pas 1mo ago
are they dealing with more or less memory safety bugs? for me it was already "don't run in prod" quality before. (at least after this I'm considering adding it to the CI to see how it fares.) segfaults. I don't know
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by pas 1mo ago
the neat part is that you don't have to, millions will do it for you! the point is that it's a quite obvious opportunity that was just some pipedream years ago. by the time v8.0 comes around we'll have more data on the bun re
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by pas 1mo ago
> at which point, why not just do that from zig. because for the same effort you get a better result if you can and do use a better tool?
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by pas 1mo ago
> I don't believe the LLM port makes the full transition any easier than doing things the old fashioned way: a dual lang code base like Linux ... how so? let's say Linus opens a branch, rust-temp, and in 2 weeks pushes ~15 mill
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by pas 1mo ago
this seems exactly the usual anti-consumer bullshit that is regulated state-by-state (or sometimes by (lack of) FCC/FTC effort, or by the CFPB that is now a zombie) however, AI doesn't really influence this. already there's a
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by pas 1mo ago
LLM-assisted software engineering seems to be very efficient if you have a deterministic target. (bun rewrite from zig to Rust, 100% Node.js compatibility, pnpm compatibility -- https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull&
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by pas 1mo ago
Arguably the question is whether it's economically feasible to self-host something similar. Are you self-hosting Google or Bing? No, but we have quite a huge ecosystem of full-text search tools with PageRank, with options to scale to a
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by pas 1mo ago
let's say a non-profit hosts it somewhere can people use it to file their taxes for free?

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