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abledon

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Just a NR talking with other naive realists: naive realism as a defining cultural trait of HN:

It operates as the manifestation of two ingrained beliefs:

1. When considering any question I must be rational and logical to the point of dismissing any unverifiable data as preposterous. (The idea that "I'm a logical person, all the subjective ideas you have, all the speculation you have... I don't care. I only go by the facts, I make my decisions based on those facts.")

Yet at the same time, the person holding this idea also holds this in their mind as well:

2. When considering any question, I'm going to assume that the information we currently have is all the information that will ever be available.

The problem: We use logic, but on the basis that everything we know currently is all there is to know about this thing. - Chuck Klosterman

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abledon··on Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
esoteric programming language? Java seems to have lots of positions
abledon··on Bard and new AI features in Search
seems like no english noun is going to left safe from being duplicated into having the meaning of some type of software item
abledon··on The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
not everyone comes home and grinds LC mediums on a weekly basis?
abledon··on Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later
And today we're getting headlines like this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone...

abledon··on Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later
who are the biggest IVF players in the space right now?
abledon··on Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
Was scrolling thinking they'd be all tech related, and then scrolled into a big bunch of 'massage therapist'
abledon··on Nature photographer John Fielder donates life’s work to public domain
The Diffusion Algorithms Roar in Hungry Anticipation!
abledon··on Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
> But should they screw up lives? Why should we put up with authorities that can't take a joke.

They key concept here is 'trickery', and how 'tricked' someone is on a spectrum. Society trusts our authorities to give their best efforts to keep our daily actions within the realm of 'the law'.

There is a spectrum of what one considers a 'joke'. If you tell an authority a dad joke, when they ask you a serious question, that is a fine place on the spectrum to joke with authorities. If you are giving them fake IDs to _trick_ them (and thus, trick society at large, who have delegated power to the authorities by vote etc...), that is not a good thing, to trick others you are living with, at the far end of the 'joke/trickery' spectrum.

abledon··on What is Google doing with its open source teams?
heres a sankey diagram of q3 FY 2022 for Amazon...https://imgur.com/a/OupE8ES. (from https://www.appeconomyinsights.com/p/amazon-day-1)

Ads + Twitch = 9.5B, AWS = 20.5B

abledon··on US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box
will there come a time when computers are strong enough to read in the images, then re-create a virtual game world from them, and then reverse-engineer from seeing feet poking out of the box, that a human must be inside. Right now Tesla cars can take in the images and decide turn left, turn right etc... but they don't reconstruct, say, a Unity-3D game world on the fly.
abledon··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
I bet that this upcoming century will have advances in this field that will validate some of what the ancient monks had going with their concepts of "Chi" in China and "Prana" in India. Their "Energetic Life Force Residing in each cell"
abledon··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
This is related to the electricity guiding embryo formation of a frog, discovered back in 2011? https://now.tufts.edu/2011/07/18/face-frog-time-lapse-video-...
abledon··on Capital One axes 1k tech roles
grug happy shaman ritual loosing power in org
abledon··on Capital One axes 1k tech roles
scrum master is one of the greatest grifts of 2010s-2020s tech. Esp when org chart pencils them in as 'mgmt' level so they are payed more than intermediate engineers, and on par with senior engineers
abledon··on Amazon job cuts: Read the memos
'doomed' really?
abledon··on ‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon
If it was 2022, Link is cancelled on Twitter after 2 weeks haha
abledon··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (2022)
Can't someone 3d-print a 'mold' that you put over your Tesla's screen to give you limited functionality, but provide a rubber/membrane physical interface
abledon··on Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm
> For example the Kia EV6 specs list a max fast charging rate of 350 kW but what that actually means is that you need a 350 kW charging station to reach the car's actual max charging speed of 240 kW (or 180 kW, depending on the battery options).

Wow that is the scummiest thing

abledon··on Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away
oh yeah, i was saying he was advocating _for_ more children to replace population
abledon··on Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away
Elon's twitter feed is 5% about this issue lol
abledon··on A new treatment for arthritis: Vagus-nerve stimulation
another win for introducing bio-electricity into our modern arsenal of western medical solutions.
abledon··on Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
isn't the mother just providing the nourishment for the fetus to grow inside her? and the fetus itself, takes the nourishment, and actually producing the eggs inside itself?

So technically I don't think we can say the grandma is making the eggs directly, but has assisted in the fetus' creation, and then provided the nutrients/environment for the egg creation that the fetus itself makes (which yes, can influence things w/ the generational trauma science coming out...).

abledon··on General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
> If you need to build an architecture which involves microservices, I am sure that your cloud provider has a solution that fits better than Kubernetes. E.g: ECS for AWS.

Thank you! So many people running unnecessary things on Kubernetes

abledon··on Genes down-regulated in spaceflight are involved in longevity in C. elegans
I like to pay an extra 50 Million, for the "Deluxe" package where there are 10 extra boosters on my ship and I go 20x Faster, and age _even slower_ while travelling faster than my colleagues.
abledon··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
yes, its all extra individual items you have to keep in your working memory
abledon··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
This is groundbreaking! All other attempts at AI generated music have IMO, fallen flat... These results are actually listenable, and enjoyable! This is almost frightening how powerful this can be
abledon··on Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity
did you watch Chappelle's segment on how trump walks out of the house, says what hes doing, then walks right back in?
abledon··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
do you like Agile sprints and changing priorities?
abledon··on Just use Postgres for everything
> they live in source control

so that probably excludes 95% of legacy codebases out there from the 90s,00s

abledon··on Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive
I can't wait till Munro and co take a look into this stuff. The amount of people already crapping on this is astounding.
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