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Another one is nemesis, which now refers to a long standing enemy, as well as the older meaning of a Greek goddess of vengeance.

Don't imply or wink and nudge. Say what you mean to say. Your example is either a non sequiter like mine, or it's implying something while avoiding saying the actual thing you are trying to convey.

prododevon Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral

Anyone who would fund or build this is, in my mind, taxonomically evil. Maybe not irretrievably so, but YC would need to do a lot of work in my mind to not be "that form that believes the panopticon and dehumanization is good."

This isn't just run of the mill capitalism bad, this is truly exceptionally vile and staining.

prododevon Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral

There's a very common and often discussed concept called wage slavery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

Which is different from chattel slavery, of course. But it's still an extant theory that gets discussed widely. It would seem an AI company to be a labor panopticon would align with the critiques raised by the concept of wage slavery.

prododevon Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral

What do you think the purpose of VC vetting is? It's right there in the name: Capital. You know the thing they optimize for is capital, right?

prododevon Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down

#1 reasonably high? We turn down plenty of Stanford grads. What's their GitHub like?

#2 degree basically never comes up, except if someone is saying they had an atypical degree path. And institution? Never, unless it's a part of someone's identity and they are a big "I am a college team guy"

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Sure you do. The poster was polite, got an extremely rude response, and has no obligation to be polite afterwards.

Airing their shit out is a disclosure of a vulnerability, and it's important to do. Typically you reach out to say, "how would you prefer I do this?" And work through a common understanding. The company flipped the bird, so it got aired very publicly.

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This assumes the genocide has ended, which it very much has not. In what year did Native American parents receive the right to choose not to send their kids to a boarding school?

1978.

Until 1978, Native American families were being separated against their will.

To say that no one currently alive screwed then over is absurd. This month, the President made motions to try and remove birthright citizenship for indigenous people.

No, there are absolutely people still alive who screwed them over.

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I don't think it was lack of experts. I suspect the UI people are professionals.

I much more strongly suspect it was "we're going to hire one person to do the work of three" and the result was "get it working as quick as I can".

prododevon BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells

I agree, sold my car awhile back. It's not really needed.

prododevon Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down

Not in my industry (software engineering). Hiring managers barely care about what school you went to. It might afford you more career fair opportunities, but that's about it.

Now, some schools will give you more educational opportunities and better education, but honestly? The margins aren't that huge.

prododevon Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down

Bragging about where your kid goes to school is extremely common. It signals not only what can you afford (like a car), but also lets you buy and display a bunch of gear. (University name) Dad is like a super common apparel and bumper sticker item. And having, e.g., Stanford Dad is more prestigious than eg New Mexico State Dad apparel.

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I mean, put some live shrimp on a plate and I'm sure people will not feel great about it either.

People have eaten bugs around the world forever, from prehistory to modern times.

Scorpions, snails, ants, silkworms, grasshoppers, bees, and yes, mealworms, all have long long long histories of being a part of human diets. See also Carmine and shellac.

You live a sheltered life that hasn't been exposed to this extremely normal phenomena.

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Good luck to the people being held prisoner in these hubs. Hopefully they can escape the abuse and violence, and not just be trafficked to another hub.

prododevon Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down

Where your kid goes to school is a status symbol. And like most status symbols, it is a foolish and conspicuous waste.

Americans love to root for teams and build their identities around what teams they are on. In sports, in politics, in college selection, even which state or city they are from. College selection is just an easy way to buy yourself into a team.

prododevon BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells

Better batteries require less frequent charging, reducing pressure on networks. But also, better batteries enable electrification of other modes of transport much more easily. Cars are bad, electric cars are at best "less bad".

prododevon Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased

It's wild that people buy these, let alone feel comfortable wearing them. I'm already pretty strongly anti Meta, I can't imagine buying a mic and camera they control and bringing it with me everywhere.

prododevon 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision

I mean, it is kinda quacky to treat someone with that until it's demonstrated by science. I'm open to the idea that light is an important regulator, but that effect should be easily observable if it's truly effective.

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Bigotry causes cover for this shit. If trans people were just accepted for humans who just want to live their lives, then the pattern matching defense wouldn't need to exist. There'd be no need to assume "well, first and foremost, this is probably just some bigot claiming trans people are evil again".

But no, some people have to punch down, which means others have to develop defenses that assume all punches are punching down.

If nothing else, it would seem bigotry is highly inefficient.

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AI doomerism I've seen largely boils down to pretty standard critiques of capitalism -- who controls the means of production (the capital class), who will benefit most from increases in productivity (capital class), who is going to end up poorer (working class).

Unless you mean the folks who believe AI will become AGI and start hurting people directly. Those folks are pretty fringe.

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They're obvious hyperbole complaining about how you can't immediately have access to high res, high frame rate footage of a disaster with casualties.

Maybe people think you are kind of creepy for being so insistent (and hyperbolically so)?

prododevon Biases in Apple's Image Playground

Yes. The term of art for this is "demographic bias" and it's exactly what you describe -- the population set has itself a skew for or against some demographic.

An ML image generator designed to repaint someone as a lumberjack should work equally well for all users, no matter the actual real world demographics. So the training dataset needs to account for this demographic bias if it wants to not overfit.

This isn't some recent "woke" phenomena, this has been known about large ML projects for at least a decade, if not longer.

If you are training a model to respond on automated test failures, you don't want to sample real world test data in proportion to automated test results, because most automated tests pass. This is also demographic bias and needs to be handled depending on what you want the model to learn.

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Who, it should be noted, is not a leftist. Let alone a radical leftist.

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> It's a statistical model, and of course there are more black rappers and white investment bankers

Yes, this is what the author is pointing out - there's a statistical bias in the dataset that is showing in the results.

prododevon Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds

Can you share them? Because physics says that damage to roads scales quadratically with weight. Not sure why tires would not experience a similar increase.

At the very least, these tires are subject to higher forces due to the heavier weights of EVs. Intuitively, consistently applying higher friction forces to an object would cause higher wear.

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Discord has ads, though they are relatively rare and not embedded in chat. They are called "Quests" and you can disable them in the settings.

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Many of us made peace with this road a couple decades back and have been focused on building communities locally to survive it. Obama, Trump, Biden, GW ... they were all building the road to this moment together.

It's like watching one of those hydraulic press videos - the slow build up of the squeeze has been happening for awhile, we've finally arrived at the point where the pressure is really deforming stuff. But it was predictable for a long time.

prododevon Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

I think saagarjhas comment is probably a transcription error on my part, copying the wrong link out of a thread that had questionable stuff in it.

I'll dig up some more. They tend to be a bit stochastic, and on various topics. (There was an article that made the front page awhile back written about pg that was written by a trans woman that was an absolute lightning rod for this, iirc.)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42780835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708579

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959625

My methodology: Search for any of the following terms: woman, biological, Black, Latino, gay, trans, woke, dei, or virtue signal

Set to "Comments" and "30 days". You'll find plenty of people saying things that are pretty awful. Yes, they are not the majority of posts, this place isn't a cesspool, it's just a place that permits "just asking questions" or "it's up for debate" as a defense for behavior

I could find many, MANY more examples.

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HN is pretty low moderation across the axis of personal attacks. If you politely say a ad hominem or racist or *-phobic thing here, it's unlikely you'll be moderated for it, for instance.

I can dig up many such examples, but I suspect the response would be, "of course that's not moderated" because this community has a different set of values than some others.

Moderation is always an editorial action, and as such we tend to view it as strong when it aligns with our own values and weak when it doesn't.

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This is every successful product, small, medium, large. I've never ever worked on a big corporate or small personal project and not experienced this.

The secret is to have a healthy system for taking in those requests, queueing them by priority, and saying, "you are 117 in the queue, you can make it faster by contributing or by explaining why its higher priority".

You can't let feature requests get to you, the moment you do your users become your opponent. None of those requests are entitled, the author has clearly already reached a point where they are antagonistic towards requests.