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This is a very interesting video. Is this a leaked private conversation?

It’s fascinating how servile and delicate the speakers are (George Hotz?) while challenging Elon. No wonder Musk has made so many bad decisions surrounded by yes men like these.

Archive: https://archive.vn/s7vDp

Isn’t big part of what makes something humane that it comes from a human being, who means what they’re saying?

There’s something uncomfortable about trying to simulate ‘the human touch’ to improve conversion rates. When the mask slips, and people discover your emails for what they are, I’d say it’s more alienating than any traditional mass email

Well, the really tragic thing was that I started working in nonprofit web design specifically because I wanted to work for ethical, value-driven clients. And this was true much of the time.

But the agency I was working for was so busy, and we were cranking out code at such a rate, that after a while I stopped thinking about exactly who the clients were. We did a lot of work for religious and political organisations, gambling industry lobbying groups etc. "Charities" in the loosest sense.

Before long it became clear that I'd used my talents to help organisations whose values were directly against mine (I'm a strong supporter of LGBT rights for example, on which the Catholic church has a poor record.)

The main things I learned as a junior dev were:

* Non-profit clients aren't necessarily more ethical than business clients, it's naive to assume this is the case

* Be careful when taking on a high volume of client projects. It's hard to track exactly what their values are, and you might accidentally end up enriching an organisation which hates your guts

* Track your personal values carefully and regularly check if you're living up to them at work

A WooCommerce shop I built in a couple of days ended up making millions of dollars for the catholic church... I learned to research who I'm working for

The Hero browser is designed for this kind of sneaky scraping, it’s very interesting: https://github.com/ulixee/hero

I'm curious about the HN algorithm and why this post hasn't been closer to the top of the front page? It seems like there are so many comments and votes, it should be higher

Could you elaborate a little about these solutions to the NHS’s problems which are politically incorrect? Not trying to trap you here, I’m genuinely curious

I wonder if this is an area actively being researched, using models like these for video compression?

Learning to separate the writer from the editor is the single best piece of writing advice I ever got.

For me, if I edit while I'm writing, self doubt gets in the way and I can't get a draft finished.

But sheet music is copyrightable, and it's a set of instructions isn't it?

I've served millions of visitors using WordPress without any issues - as long as you set up caching properly

I might have missed something obvious, but I had trouble getting this installed on Ubuntu 20.04 - maybe the installation instructions need updated.

The instructions[0] say it's included in Ubuntu 17.04 and later, but I couldn't see any way of enabling it.

I tried installing with apt using the command they listed:

  . /etc/os-release
  sudo apt install -t ${VERSION_CODENAME}-backports cockpit

But this didn't work. Eventually I read on another website that this is the correct way to install it:

  sudo apt install cockpit -y

This probably would be obvious for most people - but since this software is all about improving server UX, I thought it was worth mentioning!

[0]: https://cockpit-project.org/running.html#ubuntu

I could be wrong, but I think it was a task the teacher set during detention

This is a good point - all of the DALL-E images are interpretations of human prompts.

Human insight and imagination will always be needed to create meaningful, useful prompts

The quality of these is astonishingly good. I suspect we will reach a point soon where the internet is flooded with brilliant AI-generated art.

Will this diminish the value of human-made art? Actually, if anything, I think people will crave art made by humans and celebrate it even more. It might force us to up our games

Nice work, I had no idea about this.

I haven’t seen She-Ra, is it only gay relationships? I’m curious if you think a show with only straight relationships is propagandistic too (ie most TV ever made)

There are absolutely cases where carousels are useful — like for showing lists of secondary content that users want to explore.

They’re not so good for text heavy or ‘critical’ content that you want people to definitely read.

It helps if the content is visual and users can see the next slide peeking through, it hints that there’s more to see. Autoplay is always bad imo

Dental notations! Wow. I’m fascinated by little glimpses into other fields like this.

There is so much beyond the little patch of the world I’ve explored. Cheers for sharing

I think I’d only consider it dark if my card was going to be charged. If the app admitted it was just to verify that I’m a real person, for security reasons, I’d be fine with it.

This is encouraging. Thank you

I believe there is a risk that they could be vulnerable to other diseases, like influenza. And maybe more unknown side effects

Also - He forged ethics documents (he did not have his University’s approval) and had a coercive clause in the consent form which meant the patient would be liable for costs if they backed out

Steely Dan

What do you mean by interference?

I had to look up POLA - it's the principle of least astonishment for anyone else wondering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...)

It’s not just you. Under capitalism every business’ chief interest is to make profit - anything more meaningful than that is a useful side effect.

I would suggest you spend time doing other things, find work that is truly meaningful to you.

In this world people will look at you strange if you pursue meaning over money, but I think that’s better than a life of burnout and economic exploitation

I love playful software, I could see myself using this in some casual projects

This is completely true for me too - I work in the Charity/non profit sector building websites. Nobody is getting rich, and for the most part people enjoy what they do and find it meaningful, it’s a good atmosphere

Thank you