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Comment on Zohran Mamdani reverses campaign promise to expand rental assistance in New York City in ~society
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Comment on Zohran Mamdani reverses campaign promise to expand rental assistance in New York City in ~society
Minori Link ParentFrance has insane height limits, and Paris will remain strangled till they accept that the city needs to grow up, not just out.France has insane height limits, and Paris will remain strangled till they accept that the city needs to grow up, not just out.
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Comment on Zohran Mamdani reverses campaign promise to expand rental assistance in New York City in ~society
Minori Link ParentKilling demand is how cities die. Many of those "old retirees" are people that made the city great in their younger days, and they're likely essential community members. Why squabble over the...Killing demand is how cities die. Many of those "old retirees" are people that made the city great in their younger days, and they're likely essential community members.
Why squabble over the limited housing supply when we could focus on abundance for everyone?
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Comment on Zohran Mamdani reverses campaign promise to expand rental assistance in New York City in ~society
Minori Link ParentNYC hasn't built enough housing for decades, so it's not surprising rents keep growing. Too many people focus on "empty apartments" and "rent control" when those are tiny bandaids on a bleeding...NYC hasn't built enough housing for decades, so it's not surprising rents keep growing. Too many people focus on "empty apartments" and "rent control" when those are tiny bandaids on a bleeding artery.
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Comment on SciFi and cosmic horror storytelling in games in ~games
Minori LinkLook Outside is another excellent cosmic horror game. It's one of the few that really captures the full experience and minutiae of eldritch entities.Look Outside is another excellent cosmic horror game. It's one of the few that really captures the full experience and minutiae of eldritch entities.
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Comment on new Date("wtf"); How well do you know JavaScript's Date class? in ~comp
Minori Link ParentEven Rust has unsafe in some core libraries!Even Rust has
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Comment on The right in the US is coming for same-sex marriage with an insidious new campaign in ~society
Minori Link ParentWe reached out to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thomas for comment and did not receive a reply by publishing time.We reached out to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thomas for comment and did not receive a reply by publishing time.
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Comment on AI doesn’t reduce work—it intensifies it in ~tech
Minori Link ParentOr they speed up a bad process and create more future work as the article discusses. We've all seen a well-intended process that made everything worse.Or they speed up a bad process and create more future work as the article discusses. We've all seen a well-intended process that made everything worse.
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Comment on Spotify will soon sell hardcover and paperback books through its app, in partnership with Bookshop.org in ~books
Minori Link ParentWeirdly, YouTube Music works since it was carved off to focus on music. Amazon Music is also focused on music afaik. I can't wait for the launch of Spotify Music!Weirdly, YouTube Music works since it was carved off to focus on music. Amazon Music is also focused on music afaik. I can't wait for the launch of Spotify Music!
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Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month in ~tech
Minori Link ParentIf a human can't tell a difference, I'm not sure how any model would be able to either. We run into the same situation with LLM text.If a human can't tell a difference, I'm not sure how any model would be able to either. We run into the same situation with LLM text.
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Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month in ~tech
Minori Link ParentAre you saying that LLMs are grooming children? Billionaires are bad, but there are only 3,279 billionaires globally which is not nearly enough people to explain the tens of thousands of minors...Are you saying that LLMs are grooming children? Billionaires are bad, but there are only 3,279 billionaires globally which is not nearly enough people to explain the tens of thousands of minors abused every year.
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Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month in ~tech
Minori Link ParentCan you explain what this looks like? Any sufficiently detailed description sounds like a compressed photo to me, and they're explicitly not sending those. Fully collecting everyone's personal...This leaves room for them to create data points about your face from the video, send those data points, and then reconstruct your face from those data points.
Can you explain what this looks like? Any sufficiently detailed description sounds like a compressed photo to me, and they're explicitly not sending those.
Fully collecting everyone's personal data isn't something every company does. Discord isn't Facebook. What are the incentives to lie and deal with storing this data?
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Comment on Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? in ~comp
Minori Link ParentThere was a Google engineer that worked on Google search that wrote against using machine-learning approaches because they're inherently less predictable. It's easy to add a few train and test...There was a Google engineer that worked on Google search that wrote against using machine-learning approaches because they're inherently less predictable. It's easy to add a few train and test cases which the model is optimized against, but models have always struggled in the real world.
Here's a Hacker News discussion about the slow death of rules-based rankings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136741
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Comment on Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? in ~comp
Minori Link ParentThis is one of the best use-cases in my experience. It's not perfect because if it takes a wrong turn at the start then it might lead you astray, but it works pretty well as an "advanced fuzzy...I just started a new job, and it's a fast-moving team with a big codebase. I have been able to get up to speed a lot faster than I expected because instead of spending days grubbing through the code or begging time off people who don't have it, I can ask Claude to "find me the place where X happens in the code" or even "trace the dated from this component all the way to the database and give me a summary".
This is one of the best use-cases in my experience. It's not perfect because if it takes a wrong turn at the start then it might lead you astray, but it works pretty well as an "advanced fuzzy search" that can run some nested queries.
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Comment on Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? in ~comp
Minori Link Parent...yeah? I can't get it to replicate any complex spreadsheets or data analysis. They don't understand the business context nor what makes for rigorous, engaging presentation. Unsurprising...we now have a repeatable method of automating most work that is done by a human in front of a computer.
...yeah? I can't get it to replicate any complex spreadsheets or data analysis. They don't understand the business context nor what makes for rigorous, engaging presentation. Unsurprising considering they're not sentient.
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Comment on Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? in ~comp
Minori (edited )Link ParentI've seen this an extremely frustrating amount. Even a senior engineer's live demo had fake tests!I've seen this an extremely frustrating amount. Even a senior engineer's live demo had fake tests!
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Comment on Xikipedia in ~tech
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Comment on Xikipedia in ~tech
Minori Link ParentDon't want to further inflate the ego of editors with impression metrics...Don't want to further inflate the ego of editors with impression metrics...
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Comment on I'm back in ~talk
Minori Link ParentLinks for both platforms: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes https://apps.apple.com/us/app/three-cheers-for-tildes/id6470950557 -
Comment on I'm back in ~talk
Minori Link ParentThat's basically every small Discord server, no?That's basically every small Discord server, no?
Housing works like hermit crab shells. Developers always want to market their new buildings as "luxury" even when they're not. Over time, those "luxury" buildings become the workforce housing of the masses, and the cycle continues.
This same pattern even plays out in socialist countries which use lottery methods to distribute housing. Even when the new development is subsidized, it's likely to have higher demand. It takes time.