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nkjnlknlkon Someone built an LLM-powered Slay the Spire bot

LLMs would have to first be natural conversational experience.

nkjnlknlkon Citizenship Privilege Harms Science

The alternative is the Global North (i.e., Western hegemony) admits that China is doing well or at least competitively.

It's misleading and poor advice to children. You see this issue a lot in certain immigrant communities where the equivalent "talk" might be: "How to become a Doctor [and be rich and successful]". Becoming a doctor is orders of magnitudes more in an individual's control but even _then_ we observe the plethora of issues that occur.

nkjnlknlkon Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing

There being one significant factor does not mean there are no other significant factors. The same goes for solutions.

nkjnlknlkon Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death

> I like Jordan Peterson's evolutionary take on these philosophical questions

Why when actual evolutionary biologists disagree with Peterson on most of his "takes"?

nkjnlknlkon GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 per user per month

> If I need to traverse a tree or list or something, I'm letting AI write that code. Could I write it myself faster? No, and it's going to have an off-by-one error some non-zero portion of the time if I write it.

Many languages/companies have existing well understood solutions that _won't_ have errors. Maybe that is the disconnect? I can't remember the last non-interview time I had to write a non-trivial traversal.

nkjnlknlkon The Housing Crisis: We Must Tackle Property Wealth Inequality

Supply and demand does _not_ work everywhere else. That is a highschool-level interpretation of the astrology we call economics. Complex systems in reality are not defined by two simple lines on a graph.

If you use Google there is plenty of research disproving you from Canadian sources that pander to both Liberal and Conservative readership.

nkjnlknlkon NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles

Enforcing peace (where peace is not defined solely by white landowners) has _never_ been the role of the police officer in America.

nkjnlknlkon NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles

https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Police-Case-Abolition/dp/1620...

If you're actually interested and not just asking someone to elaborate on a complex problem over a HackerNews comment. An equally uncharitable opponent could ask you to prove that heavy policing (or at least the NYPD) has played a significant role in reducing crime.

nkjnlknlkon NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles

No. That would be abolishing the police.

Perhaps defunding eventually reveals that we should abolish the police. Perhaps not.

nkjnlknlkon The Housing Crisis: We Must Tackle Property Wealth Inequality

Immigration is not a significant (or at least not top three in significance) factor in the housing crisis. If you believe it is then please cite the data.

nkjnlknlkon Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats

Laziness is poor framing. Can the masses be "lazy" or is it pointless moralizing in the face of unfettered propaganda and behaviour manipulation?

nkjnlknlkon We will all be dead soon

Money does buy time? With money you don't have to sell your labour at exploitative rates.

nkjnlknlkon We will all be dead soon

A charitable reading of the text would be that the argument isn't to exclusively do these things. Just that one should make more time for them. If that call does not apply to you it does not apply to you. It's not a particularly deep or novel thought any way.

nkjnlknlkon Nvidia on the Mountaintop

The self driving cars of our era, even.

nkjnlknlkon Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?

I agree. I've had the unfortunate experience of moving from more expressive languages and interesting problems to less expressive languages and boring problems as the size of my TC and company go up. :')

But you can only do what your tools allow you to do.

nkjnlknlkon Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?

> Don't copy and paste the same implementation x times because that way there's only one place to fix it.

But also sometimes it makes more sense to copy and paste over trying to fit an abstraction where it shouldn't be. :)

I think the purpose of questions like the ones by OP is not to figure out "rules" (which are useful only for beginners) but to figure out where and why rules were broken. Sometimes (often) the answer is time, but that in and of itself is a useful example.

Good intermediate (I suppose Sr. in our industry) level code is notoriously difficult to find examples of and mentor toward.

nkjnlknlkon Back to the terminal: the new era of CLI and TUI software

I don't think they're much more performant than a GUI created with performance in mind. I think they're almost by default more performant with the lowest effort/lazy approach?

TUIs can be composable as well but you are 100% correct that I overstated the case.

nkjnlknlkon Fear of AI just killed a useful tool

> And personally, I think book recommendations are an absolutely underserved market

I haven't read about the industry in years but isn't it the case that the job of "book recommendations" is essentially the publishers job? They unironically try to sell you more than a book. An algorithm would threaten their worth.

(There are, of course, other useful functions like publishing and the irreplaceable editors, but neither require the capital strength of marketing.)

nkjnlknlkon Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

Players have not been subordinate to managers (in most sports) for decades.

nkjnlknlkon Back to the terminal: the new era of CLI and TUI software

Performance (though not always) and composability are huge reasons. Can really tell the HN crowd has changed a lot.

nkjnlknlkon Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm

Your last statement invalidates the point you try to make?

nkjnlknlkon Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?

Is there a strategy in apple notes to better organize/reference other notes? I'm pretty new to the Apple ecosystem and don't really grok it.

Agreed on Google Docs (at least for design documents).

nkjnlknlkon Elixir for cynical curmudgeons

is the claim Ash is not battle tested?

nkjnlknlkon Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

How well does your integration handle stacked PRs (if at all)? I find that the majority of my interaction with git is super basic that I get no value add replacing `git add -p` (esp. since I'm always in my terminal with Vim/tmux).

What _is_ annoying and something I could probably automate if I thought about it for more than a few minutes is when:

a) I have stacked PRs for isolation/workflow purposes in the form of: A <- B <- C

b) we use squash and merge

c) now when A gets merged I need to fix B and C because while the change set is the same the history is not (because of the squash & merge)

d) when B gets merged I have to fix C for the same reasons

nkjnlknlkon Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?

Out of curiosity have you ever looked into Obsidian? Not that I think it's a replacement or superior but I feel that it's in the same space.

nkjnlknlkon My Beautiful Friend

Is it that good looking people are boring or most people are boring and you do not have enough of a sample size?

nkjnlknlkon Diablo

Transferable skills. I don't die frequently to Souls or Monster Hunter bosses. I beat many of the Bloodborne bosses on the first try. Not because I'm a god gamer but because I played a LOT of Dark Souls and Monster Hunter as a kid.

Every new ARPG (or ARPG league) requires many hours of grinding regardless of skill.

nkjnlknlkon Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt

> If it's the case that affirmative action was being used to mask other unfair practices that will be utterly ghastly.

That has actually been the case and stance many leftists took on AA. I think it was, at one point, recognized as a bandaid on a deep, bleeding wound. Neither a correct nor sufficient solution but it was the only one that could get through the door.

nkjnlknlkon The office is a theatre for work (2019)

Sounds like you have some combination of:

a) good luck

b) privilege (gender; ethnicity; wealth)

c) a personality that performs the "theater" authentically

d) good people around you

e) alignment on your perceived value between others and yourself

That is an envious position and one I'd love to hear more about especially since it is at a big company. How did you go about finding this opportunity? What were your interview strategies for identifying bullshit companies?