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Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:44AM (#48145700)
> i.e. not looking at the actual code

You must be kidding me.

Re:What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:22PM (#48017709)
The most important lesson from Gen AI is that it does not matter how much money you have, make, lose, or spend because in the long run everyone is…

So the logical next step is to focus on Biological Immortality and short of that Digital Immortality. God speed everyone.

Re:More Mac malware from Google search on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:46PM (#46941021)
Meanwhile, homebrew install instructions:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/inst...)"

Then it prompts user for admin previledges. Also, it does not support installing as a local non-admin user.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:28PM (#46578988)
Is anyone still working on functional immortality? Are we going to get SAGI before it? How is the head/body freezing scene nowadays?
This is a very condescending toward Vietnamese tech people. According to Twitter/X, Vietnam’s GDP just surpassed Thailand and it’s on its way to joining the Great East Asian prosperity zone by becoming the last country to become fully industrialized and very rich. Many tech jobs in the US will move to Vietnam in the coming few years. You will be surprised where your future Tech conferences will be located.
Re:A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:02PM (#46063770)
The complainer is a self-proclaimed policy wonk. I am sure he knows all the corrext policies to enforce include NSFW content policies. Heck, looking at his comment history, I get the impression that he might be a policy wonk in everything.
Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:03AM (#45779381)
Good riddance. The web needs to shed all the old baggages like this to move forward. Looking forward to MCP becoming part of the browser.
The most interesting question is how many management positions got axed as part of this.
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Re:YouTube seems to be down on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:04PM (#45599929)
In other news, global productivity measures have mysteriously increased significantly in the last 25 minutes.
Thank you for the feedback. I got carried away. I will follow the guidelines.
Replying to JumpCrisscross response below:

>> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism

>It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist.

>If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.

This is a distinction without a difference. A negative stereotype about the people of a country is a stereotype about that country's dominant ethnic group. Their geographic location is irrelevant.

By this logic, saying "All Japanese people are [X]" is not a racial stereotype as long as you're only talking about the ones in Japan. It only magically becomes a racial stereotype when they are "Japanese Americans." This doesn't make sense.

There's a fundamental difference between:

Criticizing a state: "Cambodia's economy is struggling and its government is corrupt." Stereotyping a people: "The people of Cambodia are inherently sad and desperate." The original comment did the latter. That is, by definition, a negative ethnic stereotype.

> Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country

This logical fallacy is a False Dichotomy (also known as a False Dilemma or Black-and-White Fallacy).

This fallacy occurs when an argument incorrectly presents two opposing options as the only possibilities, when in fact a wide range of other options exist.

How it applies to the statement: The statement "Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country" creates a false choice between:

Option A: Engaging in negative stereotypes. Option B: Only having positive opinions. This completely ignores the vast and reasonable middle ground, which is legitimate, specific criticism.

Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism. There is nothing postmodern about it.
How and where in the Merriam-Webster are these supposed to be measures of “desperation”? Where is the citation for Cambodians going to work in Vietnam and not the other way around?

Also, cherry picking PPP GDP instead of commonly used nominal GDP to avoid conceding a point is quite desperate. Cambodia has a higher GDP per capita than Bangladesh but you won’t admit that. Can you buy a barrel of crude oil with PPP dollar? Also, you haven’t admitted that you are clueless about the current Bangladesh political and economic mess. https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/stock/foreign-investors-f...

If you want to play the comparison game, the average Vietnamese can also be said to be much poorer and much more desperate than the average Malaysian based on your flawed reasoning.

Here are some really desperate Vietnamese trying to run away from Vietnam into the UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8y3l7e2vjo.amp

Yes, I agree the US is an a great country. The US culture is still the most influential in the world. Everyone loves American foods, movies, and consumer products.

Cambodians love American culture. Young Cambodians are desperate to see new American movies, try American foods, and get their hands on new Apple products. They love Facebook. The majority of Cambodians favor the US over China: https://www.statista.com/chart/32058/preference-for-us-china...

Interestingly, the majority of Thais favor China over the US. The most likely reason I guess would that a very large percentage of Thais claim some form of Chinese ancestry.

Citations needed for almost everything you just wrote.

On the other hand, South Korea has the right to do whatever it wants within its rights. I strongly support South Korea in its geo-strategic calculus to isolate Cambodia government. They must have very good reason to believe this is the right course of actions.

Cambodian government should learn from this experience and improve its law enforcement and its own geo-strategic planning.

> There is no reason why Cambodia can't pull off a similar developmental story like Vietnam or Bangladesh

Again with the Bangladesh comparison. Can you google Bangladesh and read news about it in the last year before commenting?

You are using a straw man argument to bait the other person to debate the merit of free speech or the honor of the USA. You failed.

Positive stereotype of positive beliefs is not racism because it does not promote discrimination or hatred toward that group. Have you tried reading a book lately?

From the Desperate Housewives of Orange County, I present to you the distinction between desperate and poor. Your lack of grasp of the difference or willful disregard of it conveys a careless attitude toward a serious debate. No amount logical reasoning will convince the likes of you otherwise. But, I will try.

A glass is 3% full of wine is a valid statement but a strange and deceptive one to make. It is a semantic game. The parent comment and your statement is negative stereotyping of a whole country based purely on anonymous internet users’ opinions. Negative stereotyping a whole group of people is racism because it promotes discrimination or hatred toward that group. Prove the preceding statement wrong. Try. You are suggesting that desperate and poor are always the same. Also, the racist implication is that desperate people will do “bad” things since the original article is about crime. The common Thai nationalist’s racist attack on Cambodia and its people is to call the whole country poor and full of beggars.

For your information, people can be relatively poor and contently hopeful. No, the whole country of Cambodia is not full of poor or desperate people. Also, poor people maybe desperate sometimes but not always. Cambodia has come along way in bringing many of its people out of poverty. Go ahead prove me wrong with logic and reasoning. Or you can just hold on to your racist believes.

The Cambodian civil war only ended in 1991. To call a country full of any type of people is the definition of racism. YC news moderation standards is quite something these days. For actual foreigners’ opinions of Cambodia after having lived there long term, watch this YouTuber’s videos: Austin Tukwa @austintukwa https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhN9L6mXjPI

Vietnam’s repeat-visitor share is around 5%. The desperation I see is the large amount Vietnam tourism astroturfing. https://www.duongbusinessconsulting.com/international-busine...

Re:Disk Prices on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @11:41PM (#45587866)
Disk drives are under the monopolistic control of Thailand. Don’t piss off Thailand or your disk drive supply will be cut off. Thailand is glorious. Bask in the shadow of Thailand.
I believe this site is actually Thai. Look at the intricate carvings. The only people capable of such a feat that far back in time were Thai people.
Re:Time travel is self-suppressing on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:38PM (#44907396)
We would assume that the time-space traveler would have to tell the machine both the time and space directions from their current position in time and space. Assuming the time-space traveler cannot stop to observe his or her “location” in time-space coordinate along the way in small increments, he would have to calculate the entire travel trajectory beforehand.

I am saying this trajectory calculation relative to current coordinates is impossible. Even modern satellites with super precise instruments still need regular ongoing “adjustments.” Time travel requires many order of magnitude more precision than satellite orbital maintenance.

Re:Time travel is self-suppressing on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:00PM (#44907147)
Most time travel theories ignore the fact that the earth is not fixed in space. It is moving relative to the sun in the solar system and the solar system is moving relative to the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy is… etc. A motion in each of these system is not 100% accurately predictable forward or backward in time.

This fact alone means that any time traveler is most likely to arrive in the middle of empty space.

Re:AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:56PM (#44748887)
Imagine how useful it would be we could just add a button show our approval or disapproval of a piece of content without having to type true or false in the comment section. Let’s call it upvote or downvote button.

/s

LLM’s source of “knowledge” is almost purely statistical. The prompt injections create statistical noise that make the token search a crapshoot. My guess is there are certain words and phrases that generate and amplifies the statistical noise.
>digital foundry

global* foundry

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @11:32PM (#44666597)
How do you fix a weird bug in a black box? Return null.
The problem is that the rabbit-hole dwellers use the word “deception” to try to invoke some spooky ghost-in-the-machine or AGI or ASI or self-awareness or self-preservation-seeking vibes based on the observed behaviors.

My point is the observation is not support for such vibes referenced in og-parent post. You can’t just rearrange bits and hope for a spark of life. It is not gonna “come live.” The rabbit-hole dwellers keep trying to make everyone believe that. It is both amusing and tiring how persistent they are at this. It is understandable considering the money they stand to gain from gullible people rushing to invest.

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