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UmbertoNoEco··on Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
you may well be correct but society would be a lot less advanced if not for the works of 'unbalanced' individuals
UmbertoNoEco··on CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox
they are not; this is classic hn posturing

at the veryleast this would belong to a second or third class of algorithms for ug( after the usual meat and potatoes: big,small o notation, searching and sorting, dp, greedy algorithms and so on) depending on the difficulty of the assignments this could be easily a graduate course

remember that no matter how difficult, obscure or new a technical field is you will have people here claiming they took a class about it as a freshman 10 years ago and they wrote some papers about it. sometimes it may be true, but most of the time it isnt

UmbertoNoEco··on All poverty is energy poverty
but we dont have the intelligence

even this site filled with supposedly smart educated individuals is filled to the brim with prejudices; jingoism; hate; intolerance; short-term thinking and huge cognitive blind spots

UmbertoNoEco··on Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground
with literally hundreds of competitors popping up daily you cannot afford to have an overly sensitive nsfw filter; right now this tool is almost useless
UmbertoNoEco··on Blocking Kiwifarms
the modern western liberal view is to protect all basic freedoms (of speech;of privacy; of representation; of free trade; of presumption of innocence) as long as they belong to the 'correct people'; as for the ideological enemies no right is needed and no tactic used to curtail those same rights is deemed too low or too hypocritical
UmbertoNoEco··on Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions
lucky

well connected

belonging to the 'right' race;gender;social class; nationality

UmbertoNoEco··on Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions
all those polls where people systematically support their national health services probably used tons of americans to influence the answers; i think you are up to something here
UmbertoNoEco··on Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions
you are not the average us employee; it seems you are completely isolated from the working reality of most americans; including swe
UmbertoNoEco··on Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you
developers are not industrial designers; i would even argue the skillset is at the 'opposite side' of the spectrum
UmbertoNoEco··on The dictatorship of the articulate
'It’s a funny coincidence that the field where we’re seeing the most innovation happens to be the one we regulated least, and that the fields that got worse are the most regulated ones.'

because the causation is the other way around mostly

UmbertoNoEco··on The dictatorship of the articulate
and later the atlantic slave trade and americas colonization several genocides packed in 2
UmbertoNoEco··on TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
like guantanamo ?
UmbertoNoEco··on TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
none of which are exclusive to 'western' countries and even less demonstrated by the actions of the big corporations and governments

zuckerberg pelosi liz truss elon musk et al are not paragons of virtue and they are the people being defended here

UmbertoNoEco··on TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
who is 'you'? white people in the 10% of so of nato;anzac countries? maybe

the rest of he world is not interested on keep perpetuating the status quo

UmbertoNoEco··on Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company
hhahahahahaha i honestly take mark z opinions more seriously ; the best you can say about jack and still be within the norms here is that he is very disingenuous
UmbertoNoEco··on The Best Books on the Great Divergence
'but the ‘West’ was moving ahead of the ‘rest’ at least by the beginning of the 18th century, and the gulf between them has continued to widen ever since.'

this is not true

UmbertoNoEco··on We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
agree but be aware carroll swings way way way way to the other extreme especially about the pet theories he happens to like: multiverses ; the everett interpretation of qm ;boltzmann's brains and so on
UmbertoNoEco··on What to read to understand how economists think
krugman and mankiw are adversaries in the sense one prefers the current world neoliberal order designed for the benefit of the us to be led by democrats and the other prefers it to be led by republicans

to the average citizen of the world they are indistinguishable

UmbertoNoEco··on The culture of rejection in computer science publications
'(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)'

that's not a carte blanche to stereotype a whole nation and it makes as much sense as a mailander chinese person badmouthing singapore taiwan or the abcs and using that excuse

UmbertoNoEco··on Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
the demand for females must be at least 100:1 . even higher if you consider people who are willing to actually pay for nudes it's not even more skewed because of gay guys
UmbertoNoEco··on Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
myriad?
UmbertoNoEco··on Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
All those India/Malasya/Guatemala kids stealing a 200 USD PDE book from Pearson should go to jail... in America... Assange style
UmbertoNoEco··on How to build a chess engine
Did you double check the math?
UmbertoNoEco··on The new wave of React state management
As God has always intended
UmbertoNoEco··on Even when you do succeed, sometimes it pays to try again
All that can easily be bullshitted a hundred times easier than any leetcode-style question. I am not saying "just use technical questions" but you are extremely naive as a interviewer if you dont think candidates will MASSIVELY overstate the importance and magnitude of their accomplishments. Hell, politicians do it all the time, we can notice that they are lying and they still do it. My experience indicates the better you are at this (there is a grayzone between outright lying and exaggerating) the better you will do, specially in big organizations when you can "hide" behind lawyers of bureaucracy and other employees.
UmbertoNoEco··on The new wave of React state management
Or you just manage state in the server. With https://inertiajs.com/ you can even afford to not to declare an API and still manage the state back there.
UmbertoNoEco··on Reimagining front-end web development with htmx and hyperscript
What? Dont you like to learn 3/4 almost-useless DSLs, have to modify 3 config files for the smallest change and plumb more breaking things than Mario?
UmbertoNoEco··on YouTube banned my debunking video but leaves deadly how-to vids online, 34 dead
> It's becoming pretty common even for good (YOUTUBE) content

Fortunately there is still a niche(but not-zero) zone of the good internet which does not resort to this.

UmbertoNoEco··on Former Apple exec who enforced insider trading rules admits to insider trading
"Blue" about SOME social issues, extremely right-wing libertarian regarding other topics like economics, foreign policy and the environment. It is pretty much aligned with mainstream Democrats so at the end you are correct.
UmbertoNoEco··on Project Ideas
So your point is totally moot. But HN is HN
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