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I know, it's so bizarre. It's like the US suffered a major terrorist attack by people from Islamic countries or something.
Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:29PM (#43365664)
How many kids walking to or from school have been shot by rural landowners? What you're describing is illegal.
Re:The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:56PM (#43365249)
Wtf
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:24PM (#43345545)
So how much GOOG have you bought?
Re:Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager? on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:22AM (#43340202)
English uses quotation marks "like this"
Re:A 10x Faster TypeScript on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @11:38AM (#43333544)
Sure you can run Typescript. It's a programming language, someone could always write an interpreter for it.
Re:Posthog/.cursorrules on Sunday March 09, 2025 @06:41AM (#43307872)
AI code review tool
Wut
Re:Mistral OCR on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:24PM (#43286044)
Who called it that?
Not sure why people would think Teslas (excluding Cyber Truck) are ugly or pompous
Re:GPT-4.5 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:12PM (#43200911)
Why don't you have Grok?
Re:Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:21AM (#43183822)
I'm confused, what's so bad about measuring worker productivity?
Can't Wolfram Alpha do this?
The US graduates too many PHDs, not too few
> it would be catastrophic for day-to-day operations

false

> university admins, whose salaries come from tuition, donations, and endowments

and the "indirect costs" portion of federal grants

> ignorance of some HN commentators

oh there's plenty of that alright

Re:The Generative AI Con on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:54PM (#43086193)
Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it true
Re:Ask HN: Anyone still prefer o1 than o3-mini? on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:55AM (#43080904)
Yes
But how much did the o3 runs cost?
Re:Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:07PM (#42979345)
Fallacious
low bar
If distillation gives you a cheaper model with similar accuracy, why doesn't OpenAI distill its own models?
Re:Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring? on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:20PM (#42858188)
Not as far as I can tell
Re:100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:33PM (#42718783)
What's yield?
Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:41PM (#42692401)
I don't really know what you're saying but Graham is speaking against the religious zeal of woke people, especially in regards to censorship. I'm not sure what that has to do with the civil rights movement.
Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:49PM (#42690612)
Are you sure? He says 'And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.'
Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:46PM (#42690569)
Hollywood, mainstream media, academia, most big tech, ...
Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:44PM (#42690538)
> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left.

Even if true, so what? People are still pushing it.

Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:42PM (#42690521)
It's not a straw man, it means "midwit", i.e. the middle level of meta-contrarianism.
Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:40PM (#42690502)
He says 'And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.'. What's wrong with sneering at performativeness?
You mean uninterested?

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