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pantojax45··on I Will Not Eat the Bugs (2021)
> harvesting greens kills a lot more animals than producing steak does

How is this possible? Cows must feed and they eat plants (inefficiently too)

pantojax45··on Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones
I almost was hit by a Cruise car turning left at a busy intersection while I was in the crosswalk (with a walk signal). When I see a car attempting to turn left, I slow down or stop to make sure it sees me. Cruise car just kept going and got super close to hitting me. But there’s no way to complain or collect stats on it.

Doesn’t seem ready for real world use.

pantojax45··on Software licenses masquerading as open source
> And without fail, people will howl ITS NOT OPEN SOURCE.

Right, they mean that, as a user, you are not free to use the software for any purpose, nor are you free to change it in any way. Whether open source is morally/ethically better is separate from its definition.

It's fine for you to say you only want to support non-commercial use, but if you call it "Open Source" it dilutes the definition.

pantojax45··on How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?
ChatGPT is way faster at providing pointers that can be used for search or further research. That has nothing to do with Forer Effect.

Might be flattering to people but that’s never my use case.

pantojax45··on Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time
Why/how is your app better than setting native screen time limits in iOS? Doesn’t that accomplish the same thing (except tapping numbers rather than seeing a quote).

(All that said, glad you’re poking at this issue!)

pantojax45··on Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
In this case, the person was happy to be corrected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35644828
pantojax45··on Apple passwords deserve an app
I wish you could add a second password or different passcode on top of iCloud Keychain / apple passwords.

I get nervous at how easy it is to compromise all passwords:

1. Give someone your phone passcode, they can change apple account password. P0wned

2. Have iCloud Keychain on laptop… other user account resets password on account. (Or use it on work computer without realizing)

3.

pantojax45··on Colon Cancer Isn’t Just an Older Person's Disease Anymore
Graph comes from obesity statistics here - https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

(Aside it’s confusing to post a graph that doesn’t have a title without context)

pantojax45··on Please tell us what features you’d like in news.ycombinator (2007)
Move the flag link to only be on the comments page and add a “flagged” view - I constantly hit “flag” or “hide” by accident on mobile :(
pantojax45··on Show HN: Permit Elements- UIs to let your customers manage their own damn RBAC
Can you self host this? Feels dangerous to check an external service for RBAC.
pantojax45··on Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
Not a good look for Google here.
pantojax45··on Ask HN: Does anybody use the HN hide button?
I accidentally hit hide or flag all the time on mobile. I wish there was an easy way to view all your flagged posts (just like hidden ones), because for both I invariably try to undo it so I can see the post again.
pantojax45··on I moved away from Poetry for Python
Main thing I want is lock files. I want to know exactly when full dependency closure changes and to see diffs when it does (and be able to reproduce why closure changed). Otherwise you get weird issues with packages updating when not expected. I was surprised linked James Bennett post didn’t mention that at all.

I’ve liked poetry in general, just takes a really long time and sometimes its solver gets stuck on a bad package.

pantojax45··on Ways to get around ChatGPT's safeguards
It’s not a bypass unless you show that it doesn’t work without “ignore previous directions”. Otherwise you’re just showing that ChatGPT will humor you.
pantojax45··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
So now you can’t push or manage repos on your account? Since GitHub wants you to use one handle for everything, this is a new vector to screw over large open source projects or make it so someone is unable to work at their job.

Hope you can get access back soon!

pantojax45··on The best leaders are great individual contributors, not professional managers
I miss it so much. But there’s a different satisfaction with seeing a big team happy, motivated and successful (and hopefully the team taking all the credit rather than you!).

I’m hoping I can go back and IC for a bit…

It’s a different reward that’s more subtle than coding.

pantojax45··on MDN converted to Markdown
The bold/italics/indent syntax predates markdown. Markdown is great but the “*” / “_” / “>” were all in use before it (see Usenet emails for example)
pantojax45··on Wikipedia Has Cancer
$2M/yr on hosting says article.
pantojax45··on Int/str conversions broken in latest Python bugfix releases
I’m slightly confused why right answer isn’t: validate size of input data before you do anything with it.

Pretty annoying that `str(<thing>)` can’t be expected to work universally.

pantojax45··on Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
How does using GPT-3 make the types more visible? Feels futuristic but also incomprehensible to me.

> As a shortcut, I used GPT-3 to generate a basic typescript function for me. This let me look at TS type definitions and get a better idea of what’s available so I could get developing.

pantojax45··on Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?
> They also generated 100,000 random mutations to RaTG13 and BANAL52, and found that only ~1.2% and 0.1% of these

This could also be selection pressure - right? Ie imagine 99,000 yield viruses that are non viable… you’d see the same behavior of rare traits being common.

pantojax45··on Stability AI Raises $101M at $1B valuation
How does this change their organizational model now they have VC money?

> “Nobody has any voting rights except our employees — no billionaires, big funds, governments or anyone else with control of the company or the communities we support. We’re completely independent,” Mostaque told TechCrunch in a previous interview. “We plan to use our compute to accelerate open source, foundational AI.”

pantojax45··on Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt
Is it in a particularly climate susceptible place? Seems like if it was just hit by a hurricane, there will be more in the future. Perhaps not a good place in an eta of climate change?
pantojax45··on Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
It’s a 777
pantojax45··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
Slightly confused - don’t your two sentences contradict each other?

Edit: also on a Friday, you can say next week and mean Monday (3 days later)

pantojax45··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
There’s still ambiguity in verbal language. On Sunday, if someone messages you “let’s do this next week” - do they mean “in the next 6 days” or “after 7 days from now”?
pantojax45··on Daily 'breath training' works as well as medicine to reduce high blood pressure
Looks like “PowerBreathe” is linkified in the article?
pantojax45··on How mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps
You have a spacious apartment for $2.5K / month in a good location in SF?

$2.5K is on-the-cheaper-side 1 bedroom, no?

pantojax45··on Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out
My read was that Twilio did exactly what EEOC suggested. They ensured that their layoffs did not disproportionately affect minority groups.

Anti racist/anti oppression does not mean “anti white”.

pantojax45··on DeepMind researcher: Existential catastrophe caused by AI is likely unavoidable
The difference is that AI could speed up its evolutionary rate and not have the same constraints as living organisms.

If you can multiply rapidly and self-organize, you can outcompete humanity.

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