Political searches I assume would be very very minor percentage of real learning. Even in such cases, I would rather rely on a good LLMs response than scrounging websites of mainstream media or blogs etc. For an objective response, reading through opinionated articles and forming my opinion is an absolute waste of time. I'd want the truth as accurately as possible. Plus people don't generally change political opinions based what they read. They read stuff aligning with their side.
Palo Alto networks provides security product "AI access security" which claims to solve the problem you mentioned - access control, data protection etc. I don't personally use it neither does my org. Giving here just in case it is useful for someone.
I understand anything that comes on NYT is with a level of research and resources. But casually slipping very obvious innuendos to convey a strong opinion does not give confidence to me. I already feel like an idiot for getting too invested in this saga and now more of this. I just wish the truth comes out, that's all. Objectively.
Oh my sweet HN! What is happening to you?
Article with such hateful tone and clearly loaded is being posted, discussed and on the front page. I guess this what scale does to any community.
"......parlayed the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot into personal stardom ....."
"....Mr. Altman’s $27 million mansion in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood...."
Works for channels looking to only promote something else. But majority of content on YT is to make money to the creator. Ads is the sole source of any revenue there, comsidering the ad revenue share model. Or the premium subscription revenue share. Either way it hard to do away with ads in still booming creator economy.
I couldn't relate to any one of those fully. Boy is there a difference in culture!
For us friends are not for helping when needed, networking, getting jobs for us or what not. In most cases of 'friends', its a non-transactional relationship. You just like talking to them, spending time with them. Yes, there are other 'acquaintances' for other things.
Not sure if we need to make it so complicated.
Would you like to use an aggregator service which gives you credits? You can use those credits to 'buy' an article from any paid news sites. Maybe a browser addon which activates articles you want to read.
Lower middle class kid to now a slightly upper middle class person here. Migrated from small towns to cities. I think this falls into majority category.
Wow! I don't experience even one of those points the author mentions. In fact quite the opposite. It is unsettling to feel even mildly rich or show the world that I am doing well. Maybe I am not in the majority after all. Or the article is so very rooted in western demography.
Code does not make money by itself. Business does. Code has to work for business. And if programmers can manage business, nothing like it. But someone has to. You can rarely have it both ways, code for fun and make money for the business too. And make no mistake, running a business is as difficult as building software if not more. If we assume that 'non-tech' people do not understand code, we can assume that 'tech' folks do not understand business too. Both of which are not true.
Also, such a flaming rant on any other topic would be flagged out to oblivion. HN's predisposition with tech vs nontech is quite apparent.
I should have mentioned, our appearance had to do something with the situation. Majority of the crowd is Indian in such restaurants, but with clean and 'westernized' attire. Our experience was not unsurprising becasue we had seen/read several such instances all across the country. In fact, there is a law passed in Tamil Nadu mandating all public places to allow folks with Dhotis or face license termination. This is to peotect the interests of natives. Quite a bit of what is mentioned in your comment is loaded. I wouldn't want to get into details and am happy to let your opinions be. Only thing, I am well aware that I am writing on HN, a place which inherently forces you to be reasonable and grounded. Writing here takes 10x more time than usual. So yeah, my intellectual arrival can never really arrive.
A bit off-topic, but something unique to India is reverse-racism, if I can call it that. Many a times, me and friends (mostly all male) try to enter a decent restaurant/pub only to be shown away saying its all booked for the evening. We could clearly see that was not the case. Even if stag entry is generally allowed at those places. But they happily welcome foreigners (of all kinds) right after they deny us. We Indians are an amusing bunch!
How they are made is not something I really want to get into. It was more about how some of us look at fault in everything and call it design thinking. I understand that it is frustrating when a product is an outright abomination in terms of design. But not everything needs to be 'designed' to the T. Be it mass production or craftsmanship. Not to mention, there is always added cost involved in the superior 'design' that people talk about.
Absolutely not. Atleast not with everything all the time. I love how the front camera on my phone is not concentric to the notch. How my table has uneven legs (I place a wooden piece to adjust). How the edge of my door is not aligned with the frame. How some of my t-shirts have slightly uneven sleeves.
For me, imperfections make them personal.
I am repelled by people ('designers' ;)) looking at everything to find faults and point them out with pride. Tells me they never made a thing with bare hands all their life.
This exactly is the problem I was trying to point out. This comment does the same thing.
When I articulated my observation with a decent level of clarity, it means I know to an extent what I was talking about. I don't know how to put this exactly, but there is some intuition which tells us from the comment/question how much the OP knows. The X and Y comparison is to say that "I want to do precisely what I asked for and I was not able to figure out a way." While there are beginner questions on the forum, there is high sense of entitlement with "high karma" members. Its frustrating after a while to be treated like infants when seriously searching for a solution.
A very effective substitute for us in India is "Lets go have tea". "Chai points", as we call them, are ubiquitous with friendships flourishing. Sure there are people smoking along with tea, but you can make do with just the tea all the same. To give an example, the chai point near our work place 'hosts' our CEO with his group. And the janitor and his gang. Sometimes at the same time.
I would love to know tech stack and architecture of HN. And how it evolved (if it did). And what resources they spend (money, manhours etc) to maintain it.
As much as arduino helped me in understanding electronics and building products, the forum has more or less been very discouraging. Stackoverflow and Instructables were far more helpful to learn and implement. Very often you see arrogance in people commenting against an honest query. For a post like "How do I use x to do y....?" , many would start with "Why do you need to do x?" Or even worse "Why do you need to do y?"
It would easily put off enthusiasts. Many I know just left Arduino and started using NodeMCU platform.
"In economics a prediction itself can alter the object of the prediction. Hence, for certain kinds of ecomomic phenomenon, forecasting can be a logical impossibility." - Kaushik Basu.
I think recession definitely falls under this category. And calling out a recession while we are already in it is not really a prediction.
Here is when I feel really stupid.
There is a highly upvoted post on HN. Read the article and feel like you have learnt something really impactful. Largely agree with the content. Only to get to the comments section to see the article getting torn apart left right and centre. Thank you HN. You make me look and feel very very stupid. :)
I landed on HN after more or less knowing/using almost all existing social media at that time. So would be the case with many other avid HN users if I have to take an educated guess. I admit that the transition to this culture took a while. Many 'flamebait' comments and several accounts later, I'd like to think I improved. Not just on HN but overall - real and virtual lives.
This does not mean that my intent earlier was to create toxicity on all the other platforms I had been on. Atleast as far as I know. It was mostly about letting the anger out while being mostly ignorant about the bigger picture and consequences. I am still the same person with similar values. I would still be enraged by the things I was back then. Only the way I react and communicate changed and is still changing.
All I mean here is, HN is a growing community where most new comers would have experienced culture on other platforms before they discover HN. While that is no excuse to tolerate flamebaitedness, there is a good chance that the person is still learning HN culture.
But honestly and gratefully, dang and other 'caretakers' make HN what it is. I sometimes think there is too much control on how communication happens here. With every passing day, I can clearly see why it should be that way.
Make this happen and I am going to do my best to publicize this.
On the other hand, chrome is making it increasingly tough to use any other browser by sheer intuitive and useful features. Grouping tabs for eg. I know other would do it one day. But there is a lag. I wonder why other browsers (OSS) do not straight up copy any good features and release. Assuming there is good enough dev resources.
Or is it really that hard to do it?
Work force from India here. There are a lot of companies where whatsapp works as a communication medium. Apart from email, slack etc.
It is taken for granted that team is available on personal communication channels and can be bombarded with messages anytime of the day. Right now I am on about 6 work related whatsapp groups. And this is pretty pretty common that we don't even realize that it is a problem. For all the moaning about 'westernization of culture' I seriously wish they pick this one leaf to realize how the world outside is and how it would help personal lives.