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whitepaint··on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
Like what?
whitepaint··on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos
I've tried it and it is really cool. Well done and good luck.
whitepaint··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
This is factually wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
whitepaint··on Show HN: Al Hugging Video Generator
This is great. What do you use? Can you reveal technical details if I wanted to build something like that myself?
whitepaint··on Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
What about software?
whitepaint··on Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
This is really cool. Nice job. How did you do it?
whitepaint··on Open source AI is the path forward
Everyone is aware of that. No one thinks Facebook or Mark are some saint entities. But while the spider is doing some good deeds why not just go "yeah! go spider!". Once it becomes an asshole, we will kill it. People are not dumb.
whitepaint··on Equinox.space
I never play games but this was actually fun. Are there PC games that have a similar concept that can run on not a very powerful laptop?
whitepaint··on Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond
What should they begin with?
whitepaint··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Yet, in this case, aurareturn's comment seems way more plausible than yours.
whitepaint··on I need to grow away from these roots
This is really cool, would be nice to get detailed instructions how to build something like that.
whitepaint··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
> I refuse to live my life as if these things aren't important to me. I refuse to average my entire life style down to my median day. My median day is boring.

Maybe that's the biggest problem and your current solutions are inadequate?

whitepaint··on Make Apps for Linux
Agreed.
whitepaint··on Make Apps for Linux
Stop listening to people who say to stop listening to people trying to tell you what you should do or not. It is not all relative, there are good and bad choices.
whitepaint··on He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
And I couldn't trust someone who couldn't trust a whistleblower. Like what the hell did you do that you really don't want others to find out..?
whitepaint··on What do I think about Community Notes?
> If “crypto values” literally just means “decentralisation” then just say decentralisation.

It's not. I should have added more examples. Another one - how do you arrive at a single truth?

whitepaint··on What do I think about Community Notes?
It is not about moderation. It is about arriving to ONE truth. That's how it's similar to crypto and different from HN scores.
whitepaint··on What do I think about Community Notes?
What is not understandable here? Crypto is all about decentralization, Community Notes embodies that value (obviously not ideally, because Twitter still can decide to do whatever).
whitepaint··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
This is a good point. You might become a confident asshole who wants to compensate for all the suffering that you experienced because of social anxiety.
whitepaint··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
Just keep doing what you're doing. Like with everything, expose yourself to your fear and it'll get better.

> I still play the fun game in my head of “haha did we all have a good time today or did I actually say something terrible and now everyone hates me or thinks I’m a fool?”

Appearing as a fool, saying controversial things, getting rejected over and over again - that is how you get over social anxiety.

- Someone who had a great deal of social anxiety and now has no problem at all meeting random strangers at random events.

whitepaint··on Libertarian Socialists Manifesto
The problems of Capitalism and Vanguardism are well described here. However, it completely lacks a detailed plan how Libertarian Socialism would and should work. It just shouts the slogans we all have heard millions of times before. That is why this will not get anywhere at all. You need a plan. And a very detailed one. Something like what the founding fathers of US did.
whitepaint··on CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft
Google is a $1.6T company. For a guy that runs it to earn $200 M a year is basically nothing. Can he do good enough of job? Great, he's then definitely worth it (and, actually, he's worth much more).
whitepaint··on No one wants to talk to your chatbot
What if they were more helpful?
whitepaint··on No one wants to talk to your chatbot
Many have written them off because they kinda suck a lot now. But they will be much much better, won't they? 5 years lets say? What kind of LLMs will we have then? If it's reliable, why not just have one interface?
whitepaint··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
The moderation became absolutely abhorrent.
whitepaint··on Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours
When Android?
whitepaint··on Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
I just absolutely love how he makes his haters' brains break.
whitepaint··on In praise of blowing up your life
You try to measure the levels of suffering based on sex, race and sexual orientation. That is why you will not be taken seriously by people who think.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gay+pride - that looks like there is no community for feminists, gay and trans?

You mentioning you being an atheist is just a cherry on top.

whitepaint··on In praise of blowing up your life
We should not compare the magnitude of suffering based on race, sex or sexual orientation. That is how you divide people. That is how you alienate them. Telling those depressed white middle aged men that by default they have it easier because of history or because people at the top are usually white male might be one of main reasons they commit suicide the most.
whitepaint··on In praise of blowing up your life
> "Always be surrounded by love..." unless you are gay. Gay, trans, atheist, feminist, brown, an opioid addict, a questioner of authority, or otherwise different.

Or a middle-aged white man. https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/

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