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ftxbroon Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?

I still try to use + but I guess that hasn't worked since before Google Plus. I never thought I'd want altavista back.

ftxbroon Problems with homemade billing systems

This is an ad by a company that sells billing systems. This is what ads look like now.

ftxbroon How much garden you would need to survive on

probably they just read the title and thought it was an interesting question so they upvoted

ftxbroon Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

i just thought it was funny that their opinion was in their facts section

ftxbroon A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare

> I think developing AI for diplomacy would be a better net use of resources for humanity

they did it! https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/

ftxbroon Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

    > 4.3. Facts §
    >  - NixOS / Guix are doing it right in my opinion

ftxbroon CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification

this is peak hacker news 'solve human conflict by using technology'

ftxbroon Ask HN: What haven't war video games replaced actual wars?

it's like asking why farm simulator hasn't replaced real farm

ftxbroon Bernie Sanders: workers should reap AI benefits in form of ‘lowering workweek'

bernie: "workers should reap ..."

capitalism: let me stop you right there boss

ftxbroon Why Are So Many Men Obsessed with the Roman Empire?

roman empire is interesting because it almost seems like they could have done the industrial revolution more than a thousand years earlier than it happened irl

Edit: other interesting ones like this are Song dynasty in China, and Islamic golden age in Baghdad. probably women are interested in all these ones too so idk about the sexist part

ftxbroon Abandoned Apollo 17 lunar lander module is causing tremors on the moon

we got so much garbage on the moon it look like mount everest up there smh

ftxbroon Is Mordor Based on the Himalayas?

when you see the taklamakan desert on the map for the first time, and you are a tolkien nerd so you think it looks like mordor

ftxbroon How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”

> General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin considered much of the data and equipment on the LCS proprietary — a problem that the GAO has identified throughout the military. As a result, only their employees were allowed to do certain repairs, former officers said.

they don't even have 'right to repair' in the usa military, there is no chance that civilian farmers or hackers will be allowed to get it

ftxbroon Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

i wonder does the mother get any phenotype if she has a lot of dna in her bloodstream that has too many chromosomes

ftxbroon ‘Holy Cow, We Found an X-Wing.’ Bidding Starts at $400k.

it's only a model

ftxbroon Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

tfw a connotation is more powerful than a definition

ftxbroon AI Will Not Be Taking Away Code Jobs Anytime Soon (2018)

Yes those are good analogies, but I don't know the name for the general idea. Probably it's the same phenomenon that makes some people refuse on principle to discuss anything involving a hypothetical or counterfactual premise.

ftxbroon AI Will Not Be Taking Away Code Jobs Anytime Soon (2018)

Some people will keep saying it even after the jobs have been 'taken away'. Also it's hard to objectively say that a job was taken away by AI except in some edge cases. If one person in an apartment can be a whole tech company by themselves with ai and never has to hire anyone then would that be an example of 'taking away code jobs'? It would be hard to prove they would have hired more 'code jobs' if ai didn't exist, maybe they just wouldn't have made their company.

ftxbroon Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

In the near or medium future they will screen/crispr the germline so no one will ever have it. Yes it's eugenics but it will happen.

Edit: the ones downvoting me is it because you don't think it will happen, or because you don't think it's eugenics, or you think it's rude to talk about it?

ftxbroon With few conservatives, academia won't develop a theory of progressivism

> Readers of this Substack will know I am not exactly a conservative.

His substack:

    Why is the leader of the UK Labour party so untrustworthy?
    Proportional representation just isn’t worth the hassle.
    Universities should disaffiliate from LGBTQ+ rights charity Stonewall.
    The Conservatives may be becoming a party of the middle.
    Decolonization of the curriculum is the revenge of administrators.
    Why liberals cannot escape intolerance.
    How conservatism became more reasonable.
    Does liberal bias affect academia?
    The conservative case against Marine Le Pen.
    How bad has the left got?
    Why don’t liberals support free speech anymore?
    Why don't the left support the family?
    Why liberals cannot acknowledge Twitter discrimination against conservatives.

ftxbroon Why algorithms cannot replace intuition in medicine

the new algorithms are llms, and llms have intuition

ftxbroon You're the Best at Something

This is wrong because skills are correlated. People who are good at things are usually good at a lot of things. Also 'correlation' is a term of art in statistics that doesn't mean 'exactly equal 100% of the time'.

ftxbroon Bear rescued from theme park 'didn't understand trees,' relocated to sanctuary

me after thirty years in school

ftxbroon “Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers

yikes we got some pitchforks in this comment section

ftxbroon I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

> I would have done it the other way around - connected Excel to the data output by the model so the "city teams" could continue to use real excel.

Yeah except:

“When you click in the cells of the spreadsheet you can see the formulas. You shouldn’t be able to do that.”

“You said to make it just like Excel.”

“People working for Didi apply for intern jobs at Uber China and then exfiltrate our data. We can’t let them see the formulas or they’ll just copy what we do!”

ftxbroon You're a Dream of the Universe (According to Science) [video]

This kind of title is one that causes normal people to have contempt for science as an institution.

ftxbroon Why ChatGPT isn't conscious–but future AI systems might be

Most people will never agree that an AI system is conscious, as a matter of principle.

ftxbroon Don’t start a company unless you’re ready to experience pain

this is just a brag

ftxbroon Googlers told to avoid words like ‘share’ and ‘bundle,’ US says

I heard this is also why people started saying 'space' instead of 'market'

ftxbroon Can I take ducks home from the park?

Misaligned!