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erellsworth··on Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered
They don't look a day over 900,000 years.
erellsworth··on Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
Move fast and break the law.
erellsworth··on 368 Chickens
You really shouldn't create games like this. Don't you know I have work to do?!
erellsworth··on Framework Desktop is a big computer made mini
Mine says the estimated wait time is an hour and 11 minutes!
erellsworth··on Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents
> imo if the website doesn't want us there the long term value is anyway not great

Wat? You're saying if a website doesn't want your scraping their data then that data has low long-term value? Or are you saying something else because that makes no fucking sense.

erellsworth··on Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents
>Websites that really don't want us will come up with audio captchas and new creative methods.

Which you or other AIs will then figure a way around. You literally mention "extract data behind login walls" as one of your use cases so it sounds like you just don't give a shit about the websites you are impacting.

It's like saying, "If you really don't want me to break into your house and rifle through your stuff, you should just buy a more expensive security system."

erellsworth··on Ente: Self Host the Google Photos Alternative and Own Your Privacy
+1 for Immich. It was easy to setup and they aren't pushing any kind of subscription bullshit.
erellsworth··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
This seems like a category error. We don't typically assign moral agency to animals the same way we do to humans. No one is saying "one biological creature eating another biological animal is unethical." Some people are saying it is unethical for humans, who we typically do believe have moral agency, to eat other animals. Just as no one would say it is unethical for a snake to kill someone with its venom, but we would say it is unethical for a human inject someone with snake venom in order to kill them.
erellsworth··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
I mean, it can be both.

Factory farming has been around for more than 100 years. Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906.

The meat industry has done a pretty good job keeping the horrors of slaughter houses out of the public eye, especially in the days before almost everyone was walking around with a video recorder in their pocket.

I'm sure exposure to what's really involved in modern meat production has increased the popularity of veganism, but veganism has been around for at least a thousand years.

erellsworth··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
I'm certain it's both.
erellsworth··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
It makes sense to me. If you grow up seeing animals slaughtered on the regular you probably won't think much of it, especially when the adults around you treat it as completely normal. You grow up in an environment where you might think meat comes from the magic meat factory, when you see an animal slaughtered for the first time it's likely to be shocking enough to turn a lot of people away.
erellsworth··on 75K federal workers accepted 'deferred resignation' offer
>The number of federal employees who are reported to have taken the offer amounts to less than 5% of the federal workforce.

>In fiscal year 2023, the attrition rate of the federal workforce was 5.9%, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that promotes government service.

Sounds like most of this is people who were already thinking of leaving.

erellsworth··on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA
Capitalism?
erellsworth··on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA
"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on"

- Larry Ellison

https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1835140086549324017?mx=2

erellsworth··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
> It was difficult to process what was happening. Just ten months earlier, the company had gone through another round of layoffs. And at the beginning of the year, during the company’s kick-off event, the president assured us there wouldn’t be any more layoffs.

In my experience, whenever a company assures you there will be no more layoffs, there will 100% be more layoffs. Never make the mistake of believing your employer has any real loyalty to you.

erellsworth··on Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn't get more awful? They've gone villain mode
I doubt this played out the way you describe. For one thing, she wasn't the only surgeon in the room, so it's not like she just left the person on the table unattended.

> According to Potter, her patient was under anesthesia when she got an urgent phone call from UnitedHealthcare while in the operating room.

You think a surgeon is answering her cellphone in the middle of an operation? No, to me this says someone else who works for the hospital had to interrupt the procedure to get the surgeon on the phone. I would guess she felt she had to take the call or lose her job.

erellsworth··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
I can't remember the last time I read something this tone deaf and obnoxious. It reads like a 13 year old's journal. And a selfish 13 year old at that. Guy is so devoted to capitalism that he can't conceive of any way to do good in the world if it doesn't involve starting a business (or trying to make the government run like one).

Maybe try helping people without expecting or even wanting any financial return.

erellsworth··on Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
That's not far off from what Medicaid does. It doesn't pay poor people to buy private insurance, but it does it for them. Medicaid is private insurance paid for with government dollars.
erellsworth··on Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season
Not any more, apparently. Now all they get is a pat on the back.

"As of December 10, 2024, we have received more than 2 million "thank yous,” concluding the promotion offering $5 per "thank you" to eligible drivers. You can continue to thank your drivers and we will share your appreciation with them."

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=18271648011&pd_rd_w=v1...

erellsworth··on Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
Yes, I'm one of those radicals that think water is a human right.

Also under the "Medical care should be pay for yourself or purchase private insurance" policy Medicaid would not exist because it is neither of those.

erellsworth··on Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
If you can afford it. If you can't, you are left with your cancer diagnosis and nothing you can do about it but wait around to die.
erellsworth··on Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
So, it should be free to get a cancer diagnosis so at least you know what's killing you even though you can't afford to do anything about it. Sounds great.
erellsworth··on Mozilla: Proposals in US vs. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers
> We urge the court to consider remedies that achieve its goals without harming independent browsers, browser engines and ultimately without harming the web.

Such as? I have no idea what the solution to this issue is and, it seems, neither does Mozilla.

erellsworth··on Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war
It does. You can still get commercial displays. They just tend to cost a lot more than a consumer grade TV.
erellsworth··on Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war
That may be a great solution for you. But if you want anything larger than 24 inches or so the cost is going to be astronomical compared to a TV.
erellsworth··on What I heard from Trump supporters (2017)
Something I've noticed over the past 8 years is that there is never a shortage of think pieces like this published by liberals or leftists trying to humanize Trump supporters, to investigate and understand their point of view, etc.

Maybe it's a result of my own personal media bubble, but I've never, ever seen anything remotely similar in the other direction.

erellsworth··on ImageOasis
It looks nice and it's a cool little project for a developer portfolio. However, there are some issues.

I wanted to read some info about the site, like where the photos come from, but the limited info that is provided is in the footer, which instantly gets pushed off the screen when you try to scroll down to it I had to disable javascript so I could read the info in the footer.

The footer has almost no info but it does says this: "We provide a curated collection of stunning images from various sources."

What sources? My first guess was this is just a wrapper around Unsplash. I looked at the source and I was close, it's just a wrapper around a similar free stock photo site called Pexels.

The Pexels license does say attribution is not required but I think you should offer it anyway. The bigger issue is that the license specifically says you can't use the photos for a site like this:

"Don't redistribute or sell the photos and videos on other stock photo or wallpaper platforms." https://www.pexels.com/license/

erellsworth··on Ask HN: How can a JavaScript developer convince you they can work in TypeScript?
I think you're imagining this will be a bigger deal that it really is. If you're a senior JS developer you should be able to pickup TypeScript in a weekend. Spend a few days, maybe a week building a small project using TypeScript. Boom, you've got TypeScript experience.
erellsworth··on Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post's end to election endorsements
Oligarchs gonna oligarch.
erellsworth··on Buttercup: The Password Manager You Deserve
I think you can use DNS challenge to get a cert without exposed ports, if your DNS has an api that supports it.
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