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Except if an employee knows they provide more value to their employer than they receive, then an employee has every reason to stop working hard and start coasting off the social-capital / past-ac…

What happens (if you aren’t on old.reddit.com) is if you have too few subreddits it recommends stuff from other subreddits, and a lot of it is viral/outrageous stuff

I appreciate the anecdote. The distinction I’d draw is that email was a push model, but today it’s platforms that decide what we see. If platforms wanted, I think it’d be trivial for them to make a se…

Eh, seems kinda linkbaity. I'm not convinced there's a crisis, perhaps lowered college enrollment is a good thing for everyone. If a student doesn't enjoy it they don't have to go,…

Looks like google says prius gets anywhere from 45 to 78 MPG, which feels like too wide a window. Sounds promising but would love to see an exact apples-to-apples comparison before I get too excited.…

I've seen this shared a few times... and I'm not sure I get why. I think driving range is an important metric for fully-electric vehicles since recharging isn't easy everywhere in the c…

I mean I'm not gonna pretend I read that whole paper (and I'd be surprised if any commenter did), a thousand papers like this get posted on HN every year and completely forgotten (by HN and …

I'm not sure how they jump from correlation to causation. Like maybe having classmates who have a disorder means, just for a wild example, there's some contaminant in your local water (sever…

> Others believe -- mainly on the political -- that Brilliant Pebbles is a classic fallacy that attracts those who believe there is a technological solution to everything without understanding the …

If everybody only did what was in there self-interest it's not clear society would even function. Holding a company to account in a small way is a moral stand, and like all morality, it's in…

Yeah there needs to be a better solution to this. Either some sort of expedient arbitration by a 3rd party, or ability to get reimbursed for your time.

It looks like you can remove the cell chip for certain toyotas at least (DCM). But I agree with you, I'd rather have a no-track-me camry than a porchse 911. I wonder if part of the reason that th…

I think the article is exactly right about this point. A lot of these sayings are not how things work, but a fairy-tale that sounds nice and we wish were true (this is true of most zen stuff). Basical…

I wouldn't draw a parallel between google's AI being bad and all LLMs.

I'm not saying they'll necessarily win in court, all I'm saying is I'd wager my life savings that they intentionally created a voice that sounded like Scarlet's character from…

I don't really get what you're getting at here. It sounds like you're trying to draw some equivalence between multiple spoken languages (largely seen as something brag-worthy-ish) and m…

You have no idea what they did, unless you work there. All you know is that somebody being sued for multi-millions of dollars (and who's trustworthiness is pretty much shot) is claiming what they…

When I first used ChatGPT's voice assistant's I was like "Wow, this one is clearly Scarlett Johansson from Her, they even copy her mannerisms." No amount of unverifiable "reco…

I'm not sure if you meant this as evidence for or against my point, but this is exactly what I mean. Every year dozens of people think they're going to make some holy-grail language and it&#…

I'm with you. I'll even go a step further, since I haven't heard anybody else say this: My hot take -- There are already too many programming languages in use and every engineers life w…

Ultimately, I see this as a good thing. It's a waste of resources to have vehicles that don't last 12 years. And ultimately I think vehicles as a status-symbol is really wasteful. At least i…

I mean tbh, a list structure with logN indexed access, insert, and removal seems like a really useful structure. I just wish it was built into languages as one implementation of the list type

Also known as an order-statistic tree. Good for obscure leetcode problems, though I've never needed to implement one in my whole career. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ord…

Just having the scientific method doesn't mean we know what's true. We just know what's easy to observe. The vast majority of what there is to know about human health hardly have a clue…

The roman science on lead was far from conclusive to them as well...

In my opinion the actionable thing here is to just get word out enough that a large two-party majority says "Hmm, that's probably not good, if a candidate calls this out as a problem that we…

So I like the question it's asking, but disagree that the point of conversation is to "solve problems." I think vibes are self-propagating. If every time I turn on the radio all I hear …

I'm just not convinced it really is a problem that 1% of topics are taboo. I think taboos exist for a reason, and it's mostly good for us as a species to collectively wall-off certain catego…

Is self-censorship a bad thing? Suppose you had a finding that infidelity leads to "better" genes for the kids. I imagine most scientists wouldn't want to publish that paper because it&…