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definitely time we started charging this person rent in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They’re up to their armpits in a pit of self-loathing of their own making & unable to take any of the proffered help because their self-imposed ethical system doesn’t permit it.

Profoundly sad is exactly what it is.

“just open sourced someone else’s code ama” - a case study in fucking around and finding out in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yup. Discoverability in Discord servers is dire. The privacy issues are the bonus shit topping.

“How dare you not read through six months of discussion threads in order to find the last time your question was answered” is such a great way to welcome newbies to a project.

Discord is actually pretty good at the thing it was designed for: realtime comms between friends, both text & voice. It’s terrible at everything else & I wish people would stop using it, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen any time soon.

“just open sourced someone else’s code ama” - a case study in fucking around and finding out in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Discord is terrible. But it’s also easy to set up & easy wins out over good but annoying every time.

computer science is dead now that LLMs can do what people can’t: write trivial crossword apps in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wat indeed.

Twenty minutes, in a language you hadn’t seen before? Sure.

now that's *effective* altruism in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Molly White has been doing fine work.

So, having effectively run off with $billions of real people’s money, what next for the effective altruism crew? A pivot to AI doom-mongering?

YC/SV rumor that that Michael O. Church died in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

When the SV techbro culture goes mask off & you realise you’re surrounding yourself with the worst possible people.

Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's only one joke about libertarians, but it keeps turning up as true in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Scratch a libertarian, find a ...

Researchers find the nitrogen in the air makes you dumber, HN brainstorms pressure suits so they can eliminate it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The seed oil / sunburn thing is something I saw going around online just this week. Is there /anything/ behind it at all or is it just another chunk of LessWrong science by anecdata?

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

High-end stats is kind of Taleb’s thing, so he gets to be as insufferable as he likes dunking on IQiots imo.

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he needs an editor. But the relentless dunking on IQiots is worth the verbiage imo.

HN refuses to believe reputable research institute disproves superconductivity of LK99, mostly based on tone and the fact that prediction markets haven't crashed to zero in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This Twitter post from the guy who was synthesising the stuff in the US seems convincing: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1689476909208600576

Not a superconductor - the hints of superconductor-like properties were due to a combination of iron contamination in the Pb forming iron fragments which (surprise!) show ferromagnetism & Copper Sulphide which shows a very similarly anomalous temp/resistivity profile (but is not a superconductor).

The most likely outcome (i.e., not a superconductor, lab error due to honest scientists being fooled by their own experiments) seems to be probably the true one.