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This would be great for Reddit - the king of rage politics.

The problem with Reddit is different. Poor quality human moderation is the problem there. Basically who has 10 hours a day to read Reddit? Answer, terminally online bubble people who have no business moderating other's posts. Maybe if the LLM could completely bypass the moderators then it could work though.

When I tried Reddit a while back, that problem showed up even with no moderation action being taken. I guess cause an obsessed person will use the site like 1000x more than a regular person, they end up being the "majority." The voting system also encourages bad behavior.

Any social site inclusive of this one ought to have such a feature.

Agreed. I am getting tired of half the HN posts being about politics. I come here to get away from that stuff, but it is becoming a greater portion of the content.

Look at the number of responses on each article to see why that happens. Also, most articles aren't about politics. But the ones with lots of responses and discussion usually are. Network effect sucks sometimes...

HN posts are mostly not about politics, at least not on the top page. Sometimes a non-politics post ends up getting politics comments though.

I would mind far less if the political comments were only the political posts. I just avoid clicking into those.

It's when I click into an interesting topic, and it's steered into being an offtopic retread of every other thread about US politics. The upvote/downvote system simply no longer works to squelch it as it once did, because there are enough people here who believe "everything is political" and therefore it's always "on-topic".

That is their prerogative, but it has dramatically lessened my enjoyment and engagement on this platform in the last 5 years. And it's gone into overdrive in the last 6 months.


It says US-Israel Bloc military deaths - 74. Iran military deaths - 10,500 It has no information what is the source of information. Seems like made up numbers.

WinForms still exist, still supported, still getting new features. And it's open sourced. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms

On Windows, I would chose WinForms. Even today, even over WPF. It's as stable as QT and GTK, still supported, and has a large community of contributors and 3rd party vendors.

> America is at near full employment

Then why does it take months and months for even experienced devs to land a job?


> why does it take months and months for even experienced devs to land a job?

Software is undergoing a secular downsizing. It increasingly looks like we have too many SWEs, and that we need to support them retraining. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a labor shortage in other industries.


I'm not disputing what you're saying in your comment necessarily, and supposing it's true for a moment ... why are we granting any visas at all here?

The presupposition behind that question is that immigration is a necessary evil to be limited as much as possible. I am not American, but that strikes me as an ironic position for Americans to take.

Why? Seems in line with prior oscillations on sentiment toward immigration.

Sure, but it was ironic then too.

How so? I really don't follow.

What do you think is going to happen when DDG or Fastmail gets a FISA warrant? You think they will stand their ground and go to prison to protect your info?

History (like the PRISM project) says no.


>What do you think is going to happen when DDG or Fastmail gets a FISA warrant? You think they will stand their ground and go to prison to protect your info?

I don't know about Fastmail, but according to DuckDuckGo[0]:

   Does DuckDuckGo share my search and browsing history with governments?

   No. Per our strict Privacy Policy[1]:

   "Critically, it's not possible for us to provide search or browsing histories 
   linked to you in response to legal requests because we don't have them."

   "We don’t save or share your search or browsing history when you search on 
   DuckDuckGo or use our apps and extensions."
[0] https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/misconceptions/...

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/privacy


The article indicates even Meta pushed back on some of these:

> Unlike Thomas-Johnson, users in that case were given the chance to fight the subpoena because they were made aware of it before Meta complied.


I think those are two different orders: one with a gag order and one without.

In cases without gag orders, Google has pushed back or requested users fight the subpoena.

In this instance, Google got a gag order while Meta doesn't appear to have gotten one. I'm not sure how gag orders like this can be legal. I'm sure there's like Nat Sec defenses but it sure seems dangerous to say the target cannot be notified of such requests.


Fastmail is Australian, though?


That's exactly it. In every large corp I ever worked at, the bonuses for managers always depended on whatever company initiative was happening at the time.

Incentives almost always drive the outcome.


It's almost as if that's what incentives are for. Whether the outcome is the intended one is of course another question entirely.


I think part of the issue in California at least is that you must have insurance. You gonna get a giant fine if you don't.


You are talking about US.

UK doesn't fund Israel, yet they've had most demonstrations there - still do. Clearly it isn't about the violence (whether in Iran or Israel). It's about Israel.


The RAF does a lot of flights over Gaza so the UK is actually involved, and the big focus in the UK is on Elbit systems who makes parts for the planes that bomb Gaza. The UK government isn't materially supporting the Iranian regime as far as I can tell


We've had FSD trial for 4 months in the middle of last year. I work from home so I can't really justify $100 a month. However, we did take a few trips (about 60 miles in each direction) to see family through downtown LA.

I was honestly stunned by how far the tech has come. It basically drove us door to door without a single intervention.


I talked to about 3 people about this that have personal experience with Tesla autopilot and that's been the feedback. So where's the gap? What's the problem?


I don't think there is a problem per se. There are probably still edge cases out there that I didn't experience. But overall, I think the tech is ready to roll.


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