pessimizer

All good pinball players tilt. Owners can make the machine "loose" or "tight" (at least that what we used to call it.) A loose machine allows a lot of tilting, and a tight one only…

If Claude looks at the code when it does it, then you can still sue them. I don't think there's a "Claude Clean Room" product that trains on everything except the code you might be…

OSS licensing. Free Software was designed to avoid this, and has become stricter as the technology changed. Open Source was deliberately designed to thwart this. The entire intention of it was to al…

I don't mind criminals being punished. This person wasn't convicted of anything, yet was still punished. This isn't criminal punishment, this is just injustice. It's also the norm,…

> In the US, it's seen as a God-given truth that no innocent person should ever be punished. In the US, just as in Japan, as soon as you are arrested they begin punishing you. If there were a …

> They dismiss the case because it's not worth the time. I don't know what this means in the context of the US justice system. They're not paid on commission. They're being paid…

> Mass surveillance, of course, isn’t what the delegation is proposing. The fear isn’t that a French investigator will read every WhatsApp message. French investigators won't care about every …

I don't think this makes any sense. I can see that long delays in public reporting might not be good for the near future, but a year from now all of the easily found stuff will have been found. A…

> foobar.com/ducks?pdf This isn't relevant when talking about links to his site. This is relevant when talking about links to your site. > Besides, what does it mean to "ban"…

> Democracy is by far the most common style of governance "Democracy" is a meaningless buzzword that is usually thrown around when a Western country wants to kill people and steal things.…

> I’m always reminded of the poll where 80% of Americans say that the country would benefit from a bigger manufacturing base but only 25% are interested in actually working in manufacturing. This i…

That's silly. The fact that it is toxic makes it a concern, and the fact that it is a concern means that if you're selling it you should find out yourself about the specifics. It's li…

No, I'm saying that both things could have them same effect, so the existence of that effect isn't a proof that the solution makes sense. If I tell you that covering something in red paint a…

> We've decided that putting the mentally ill in a facility and arresting people for public drug use is not something we're comfortable with at the expense of those other things. We'…

I knew somebody who turned his life around after surviving an attempted murder. I still don't think that means that trying to murder people whose lives are going awry is a rational solution.

Drug addicts and the mentally ill don't have the problem of being "antisocial." They have drug addiction and mental illness. "Antisocial" is the problem that you have when you…

I strip/forge it with a old, probably outdated firefox extension (Referer Control.) But you still got news.ycombinator.com. How? I thought the extension was broken, but it's not. That was ac…

> Yeah, same. It is hard; we start to need a collective boycott. Feelgood slactivism. They don't care about your boycott. They finance their own alternatives because they know what makes you s…

> duplicating a human post and its comments is a good way to appear human Also just repeating something from the linked article, but often with different wording and in a tone that makes it seem li…

I've been more disturbed by comments that were flagkilled just for being wrongthink, not because they were rude or not well argued. I've also seen a lot less of those flagkills over the last…

> Trump killed Radio Free America as well Not sure how this relates to the subject in a direct way. Radio Free America was a outlet explicitly created and utilized to spread US propaganda, but kind…

Or, humor me, bubbly cold sugar water tastes good when you're hot and tired.

If you farm a fleet of good accounts, you control the discourse. On HN, you could boost whatever you're trying to push, and downvote or flagkill whoever objects. There are obvious benefits to con…

> I think however that all that is needed to bridge the gap is some very simple feedback from an expert at the right time. This could be a viable business idea. LLMs have allowed people to code who…

From the linked article: > Linking the accounts between the bank and the streaming provider is a synchronous process, for both technical and user experience reasons. For example, it makes sense to …

> Some. In some cases they've "stolen" tens of thousands in content. That's not revenue.

I don't understand how the fact that 80 people were prosecuted for copyright violation in one year is an argument that one person shouldn't be prosecuted for copyright violation.

Shouldn't this stuff trigger RICO? Why do torrent site operators get led off in cuffs for running operations that usually lose money, but Zuck doesn't? RICO specifically cites "crimin…

It is sad that this terrible comment inspired so many responses. It is 4GB of traffic for one person, and I am not aware of any single person who is moving petabytes of traffic. Comparing a single per…

> When Firefox does it, it sparks outrage across the internet i.e. when firefox does it, people wonder why they aren't using chrome. That's the entire point. The only thing that makes fir…