Of course, neither is the answer to anything but "we must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it."

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If you cannot afford lawyers, you cannot afford even minimal moderation.

You are simply going to be outgunned and insufficiently motivated relative to the expected adversaries who do what they do all day everyday with years of experience and more time and more money.

That is why so many businesses that seem naively obvious don’t exist.

Good luck.

And Seattle is a long way from most of the US…another 3300km from Chicago.

Recruiting teachers to remote villages with extreme weather is hard and if you are at US university training to be a teacher you will probably have other options that are more attractive as a young person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-06-08

There are three articles about Steve Jobs. To me LLM's are a more intellectually interesting cargo-cult than that cult of personality cargo-cult, but YMMV.

Because Ticketmaster has been a force in the market for decades (at least since the 1980’s), the simplest market based explanation is that using Ticketmaster is often obviously the economically rational choice.

For example, many people who dislike Ticketmaster choose to buy tickets through Ticketmaster rather than exercise their alternatives. The same is true for performers and venues.

Because that is how markets work.

Any potential competitor has to do some, many. or all the things Ticketmaster does…not the least of which is staying in business…and that’s non-trivial.

Or at least that is what ordinary market economic theory strongly suggests.

And you won’t get much more from the world cup because the only ceded European side favored to play at Azteca is England in the round of 8.

Like Baseball, a Sunday afternoon game has a low risk of an injury that prevents work on Monday.

Add in daytime heat, night cold, humidity and smog and you get a very different practical reality that shapes the pace and tactics of the Primeria and soccer culture in general. In turn that shapes who succeeds as a soccer playing athlete.

In practical design, GUI applications inevitably deprecate keyboard abstractions in favor of graphical abstractions and graphical abstractions require parsing visual representations and are less conducive to "muscle memory" whenever pointer control is relative rather than absolute (which these days is approximately always [1]).

Keyboard oriented applications feel more like a language and human brains tend to map well to language and touch typing while GUI's rely on something akin (or identical) to hand-eye coordination. Hand-eye coordination is harder than touch typing and every GUI application requires developing a unique mental model.

[1] in the ancient days of digitizing tablets with absolute coordinates, it was possible to "touch mouse." But that's not how we do things today (and it would not work well with infinite scrolling, etc.)

I was interested in memes because I had read Daniel Dennitt's Consciousness Explained back in the mid 1990's and was on the internet looking at them because the meme meme had become more mainstream.

Or to put it another way, I found HN through intellectual curiosity as a distraction from my practice collapsing in the sub-prime meltdown...it was long ago in a galaxy far far away.

https://youtu.be/-Evrm03Y5hI?si=CvadZlyzR-PfwFh5

[Bonuses: narrated by Werner Hertzog and starring Ed Ruche]

Some content on the subject of AI is deeply technical, just as is some content on the subject of blockchain, lisp, retro-computing, etc.

But most of what is written about most things (including C, reverse engineering, systems programming, etc.) is not deeply technical.

One problem unique to AI is that “AI” doesn’t mean anything specific…I mean even your question doesn’t distinguish between articles about specific AI technologies, articles generated using LLM’s, “AI” as a marketing feature, AI as an industry, AI as an ideology etc.

Wayland’s “betterness” all requires technical arguments and none of Wayland’s “betterness” is apparent on the screen. Even worse Wayland’s “betterness” is only better if breaking user systems is ok.

It’s developer’s are assholes for creating all the problems you have.

Yep. I just spent a couple of hours trying to get image thumbnails back in Ubuntu. Because you know, I use that Ubuntu machine for ordinary desktop tasks that involve images.

The solution: disabling some unknown slice of security via Apparmor to get ordinary functionality. The same reason I use X11...because security experts break things that they don't have to fix.

Is Wayland more secure? I suspect so. But I want to get shit done without trying to read Arch Wiki.