Now verification is meant to, you know, verify humans.
(Yes, you can still pay $8 and have a llama post on your behalf, but there will be less spam/scams this way)
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(Yes, you can still pay $8 and have a llama post on your behalf, but there will be less spam/scams this way)
Edit: Funny how threads that screech Elon bad are not flagged and are plentiful and yet this one is flagged for some mysterious reason. Keep jumping the shark HN.
That is great, I love slogans on posters. But if they were serious Uber would invite Spike Lee to their HQ to ward off the evil spirits.
Unblocking Trump/Shitty-right-winger-apps - Bad Elon!
Exposing covert US Government manipulation of public Discourse - Bad Elon!
Allowing Taliban/Aytollahs on twitter pre-Elon - ?
Are we pro blocking things or against guys? What should the criteria be? Personally, I am chaotic neutral. Don't know the answer.
I've always made the point when the canceling and blocking craze started that eventually the shoe will be on the other foot and history strongly suggests that regardless of your politics and end goals you will inevitably regret setting such precedents. If blocking Substack is bad it must mean blocking anything is bad regardless if it is left/right. Please convince me otherwise without resorting to kindergarten insults and shade throwing.
The conclusion is that neither 3.5 nor 4 are good enough because for anything none trivial they generate code that is often subtly wrong. Might still speed up somebody new to the language/project/learning or I would say: with additional tooling/plugins/"prompt engineering"/tinkering the author might get useful results.
By all means somebody else can post it and take the fake internet points. A discussion worth having in my opinion..
Ask HN: Asahi Linux think HN is exhausting, blocks traffic - introspection opportunity?
Hacker News is just exhausting... 227 comments on our newest blog, and every single main comment thread is derailed into misinformation or nonsense, half of which could be answered if they'd actually read the article.
Every single comment actually about the article either gets no replies, or gets immediately derailed into something ridiculous. I really need to just block that domain on all my devices, there is just no value in the content left whatsoever.
I agree completely. I think the tone and quality of discussion here has taken a steep downturn.
Without paying for the checkmark the spammy bots/humans will have limited reach. Hopefully there will be less vile content in the future as a result. If not I'm sure they'll try something else.
The point of the verification badges was like swag at the oscars. It was perks for VIPs and that is what induced the celebrities to get on the platform originally.
If you just want Twitter to be a space for famous people, hack politicians and hack journalists, influencers, to hang out like a red carpet party with everybody else gawking at them... well yeah, you'd want to keep the old way.
That also means a citizen journalist with accurate information gets to shout into the void whereas a hack who called in a favor from a friend who works at Twitter gets a megaphone.
Do you like the system where normies get locked out of their Google accounts and have to come here or beg on Twitter for a googler to do them a solid? Not to mention that the checkmarked got to use the app with exclusive features and a better experience?
Why support a caste system? This way a NYT journalist is still marked as affiliated with the NYT, just with a different icon or exclusive perks.
I'd imagine the next Theranos/FTX types are in there already acting empowered and speaking out about altruism, cutting deals with some publicly traded companies.
"We are running a pilot MVNO in SF distributing P2P WiFi via HOBOS. Hobspots we call 'em. Or hopespots. Still workshopping. They get a free phone with 1GB of data, you get better 5G coverage." => Short T-Mobile.
"And coming this winter Ad Coats, because nobody deserves to not look festive during the holidays" => Short Patagonia.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 have collectively raised $5.3B in funding.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 have also been arrested for frauds and scams worth over $18.5B.
Incredible track record. I'm seriously contemplating just starting an inverse-cramer ETF tracking companies associated with these alumni. Anybody interested? (Not kidding)
And either ban "this is offensive" comments or politics altogether.
There is as a matter of fact some of that explicitly going on in the GitHub issue, which derailed the conversation.
Such are the woes of being an internet micro celebrity I guess. Truly we live in the stupidest timeline.
The claim that it uses half the memory was probably a honest mistake. The ensuing disappointment that it did not in fact halve memory usage and drama attracted trolls and white knights and is icky. The discussion around nmap I suppose is subtle and when emotion abounds can no longer be had. :/
So the discussions end up gravitating towards weird drama. I wish you wouldn't have linked this thread. Theres going to be a bunch of stupid comments here as well about how great/awful jart is.
It sounds like you are under the impression that people are being inconvenienced simply out of spite or due to the discretion of some unfriendly TSA-type airport employee - nope. Understandable why you would perceive things as such but the reality is very different, there is quite a lot going on, before you even board the plane, that you don't see. Places where it really matters, like Israel, cannot afford to engage in security theatre, it is all derived by logic.
How it works as is explained in great detail in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1kJpHBn50
Appeals to emotion mean nothing to me. I get that it feels bad and don't particularly care as being blown up feels worse, promise. If after watching that you have pragmatic improvements to suggest I am all ears. It completely addresses your point, in fact it even explains how this approach probably doesn't scale to larger airports/other-countries.
Emotional screeching about nontechnical subjects I can get any old place on the internet. These here be where we screech about technical subjects dagnabit.
Besides, this way I can type 'man bat' and scowl.
For example, one of the questions asked is "did you pack your own suitcase?"
They aren't going to search your suitcase because of your race. That would be bad. It is bad not because of touchy feely reasons but rather because it isn't optimally effective.
They search based on a far more sophisticated probabilistic threat model based on real world data. All the questions and the way they are asked have logic behind them. It works.
Does that answer your indignation noises?
I understand how someone who has been inconvienced might perceive it differently but that in and of itself is by design and "priced in" as the goal is not to make 100% of travelers feel good but rather keep 100% of travelers safe.