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samsin··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
The laws you want enforced to prevent kids from gambling were the subject of debate too.
samsin··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
There's an ongoing debate in Australia to ban gambling advertisements. One of the arguments that is supportive of a ban says that children shouldn't be exposed to gambling advertisements during sports broadcasts, as they should be family friendly.

Should that argument be ignored too?

samsin··on Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen
Just 2 minutes and a $99USD/year Apple Developer account.
samsin··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
My understanding was that n-shot prompting just referred to the number of examples included in a prompt, not the number of prompts to achieve the desired result.

"Build a 3D platformer game from scratch, in raw WebGL, with no game engine or 3D library" would be a zero-shot prompt.

samsin··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
Given the timing, seems more related to domestic politics.
samsin··on Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s
The Snowden files that implicated US agencies and social media companies?
samsin··on GitHub Stacked PRs
'Large pull requests are hard to review' is a good reason to keep PRs small, but small PRs also encourage continuous integration/delivery/deployment. Stacked PRs sound like they encourage long-lived feature branches instead.
samsin··on Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming
It wouldn't be a first for CodeCrafters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236285

samsin··on Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
This thread [1] on Zuckerberg from 7+ years ago doesn't look too different. Top comments saying it's "pretty cringe-y", another posting an image from Reddit and some "Twitter bingo cards". The nature of the situation doesn't really offer much for deep analysis, but the discussion yesterday [2] on the product itself seems fine to me. You might disagree since people are more skeptical rather than being glad Meta is pushing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803775

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283306

samsin··on Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo
Yes, considering it was ~2 years from freezing withdrawals to the approved bankruptcy plan to repay customers.

FTX was only able to repay customers because the value of BTC increased during that time. But customers were only repaid the value of their portfolio at the time of the collapse.

If I steal your money, invest it, then return the principal amount after 2 years, would you consider it financial harm?

samsin··on “Vibe Coding” vs. Reality
Can you share the code it produced?
samsin··on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally
The countries with the highest inflation rates [1] aren't necessarily the same with high rates of poverty [2]. For example Lebanon has the highest inflation rate in the world, but has poverty rates lower than Mexico (which itself has relatively low inflation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-r...

samsin··on Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe
Claiming that Meta distributed pirated works is still a copyright claim, but you're correct that it's seemingly irrelevant to the fair use argument (which the article acknowledges).
samsin··on Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released
The same argument could be made for physical cash
samsin··on Nuclear war between US and Russia could kill 5B people
>Incredibly difficult to estimate this, in large part because the probabilities are so small.

The UN chief has been stating that the risk of nuclear warfare is at the highest point in decades. Not because of the risk of a 'fuckup', but due to geopolitical tensions. Historically the risk has been highest during periods of geopolitical tension.

samsin··on Nuclear war between US and Russia could kill 5B people
Nuclear war between US and Russia is less likely with Trump
samsin··on Australia to Impose National Age Limits on Social Media Websites
>high support of these measures from the public

The public support is for an age limit of social media (which already exists), not necessarily the measures to achieve it which are yet to be determined. There's not 68% support of using measures like digital ID.

samsin··on Canada says online streaming services must hand over 5% of their revenues
and tech companies avoid paying tax in many countries through dirty accounting tricks, such as redirecting their profits to tax havens like Ireland.
samsin··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
>Honestly, we should look to fix the issues that lead to people depending on weed, alcohol, and other drugs instead.

It doesn't have to be exclusive or. People are looking to fix these issues. In the mean time, we don't have to ruin people's lives by convicting them as felons.

samsin··on A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter
In React, 'rendering' means creating the DOM nodes and 'painting' refers to browser rendering [1]. So with server-side rendering the DOM nodes are 'rendered' by the server and the browser 'paints' it.

[1] https://react.dev/learn/render-and-commit

samsin··on Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
One of those threads may have been a blog post by Martin Kleppmann [1], who also describes double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph.

[1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu...

samsin··on SBF asks for 5-year prison sentence, calls 100-year recommendation "grotesque"
Loss causation is described here [1] as the major factor influencing the sentencing range, so if all investors are made whole then a modest sentencing could be possible. It was also discussed in a recent Matt Levine newsletter.

[1] https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...

samsin··on Losing two jobs in one year
Slight correction, you have to pay a levy if you earn over ~90k/year and don’t have private hospital cover.
samsin··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Uploading music seems to work fine for Apple Music. It’s been a while since I’ve done it, but all the songs I’ve uploaded in the past are still available on all my devices.
samsin··on Ask HN: Easiest way to create a CRUD web app in 2024?
Have you looked at .NET MVC with Blazor? It might be overkill for your needs, but the templates give you a good starting point to avoid the usual boilerplate.
samsin··on Bitcoin Breaks $50K for First Time Since Hitting All-Time High in 2021
Participate by force? Legitimate!

Participate voluntarily? Imaginary!

samsin··on Spotify's layoffs put an end to Every Noise at Once
More likely free users with their own accounts. Subscribed users are a subset of all users and I wouldn’t be surprised if unsubscribed users were the larger group.
samsin··on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
>No one can simply state "I am not interested in Bitcoin" in a discussion without triggering some "response". Regardless of the merits of Bitcoin, or absence of them, that is fscked up. Red flag.

If the topic is some positive news about a technology (Bitcoin or otherwise), and your only contribution is "I am not interested in this" then you'll probably trigger a response. Might also be time to revisit the commenting guidelines.

samsin··on YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI
The decision is out of sensitivity for the victim’s family, and the examples are videos recreating the events of their murder. I think you’ll be fine recreating Shirley Temple…
samsin··on SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]
I believe the argument is that it makes it easier for institutions like fund managers and businesses because they don't need to be concerned with custodianship.
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