Recent submissions

Comment · 2 years ago
The scale at which LLMs can do this and how convincing they can be means it can potentially be a much bigger problem.

We won't keep the bottle corked forever though. It's like we're just buying ourselves time to figure out how we're going to deal with the deluge of questionable generated content that's about to hit us.

Comment · 3 years ago
Capitalism doesn't have desires outside of those of the people who participate in it that hold the most power. The desire of those people is more power. Not resource allocation as an ends, but as a means to more profit.

It has been shown time and time again that the majority of the powerful players in a Capitalist economy inherited their wealth or opportunities.

Capitalism can only function in an economy if a government allows it by setting up the necessary structures and allowing private property ownership.

Society can certainly be Capitalist by extension of the economy being Capitalist due to policies and strucutes set up by goverments.

Comment · 3 years ago
This claim is baffling to me. Are you saying without state intervention Amazon wouldn't just buy out every potential competitor or drive them out of business using currently regulated tactics?
Comment · 3 years ago
They do mention monetary policy. Is there something specific about monetary policy that you believe contributed to rising inflation?

I don't know if they're suggesting that corporations became greedy but rather that they unilaterally increased prices during the pandemic which is the main cause of inflation.

Comment · 3 years ago
Just need to mention that Echidnas and Platypuses are also mammals and they lay eggs.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Companies want to grow and compete, and that's good, since it's resulted in literally all human progress

I'm sorry to go in a tangeant here, but, what? That's an incredibly strange statement to make.

Comment · 4 years ago
Could someone explain how this "breaking" works?
Comment · 4 years ago
I mean the line needs to be drawn somewhere, right? It's not that a band isn't "metal enough", it's just that they have a bunch of rules interpreted by mods and if it doesn't fit those rules they make the editorial decision to exclude it. It's impossible to have some kind of perfect description anyway.

Rush were added probably in the first year or two of the site's existence, so they probably kept them on their for nostalgia.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
If there is anything like the Metal Archives for electronic music or rock music (actually any genre) out there, I'd like to know about it. It's simply the greatest music encyclopedia I've come across, albeit entirely focused on metal.

As much as I appreciate Discogs and RateYourMusic, they tackle different things and don't really function as encyclopedias, the former functioning more as a catalogue and the latter as a way to track and list your favourite albums.

Edit: Looks like this post resulted in a hug of death over on metal-archives.com!

Comment · 4 years ago
I'm sorry but your answer to Q1 is extremely naive. There is no way that activity from renters will even remotely approach the power of those who own property in politics. The latter group can lobby and make campaign donations, the former can't exactly...

The best thing you'll get is a campaign promise to do something about it, but not much action. The only way something will actually be done about it is if the effects of it become economically catastrophic or people start rioting en masse.

Comment · 4 years ago
It seems to me that the first two are statements, and the final one is a conclusion, which is the only one that's productive to focus on.
Comment · 4 years ago
> see a stabilized crypto that could act as an amazing tool for people in poor countries to lift themselves out of poverty

Would you mind explaining to me, or linking to some resource you find convincing, how crypto would succeed in this goal? (or even which organisation or coin has this as a goal)

Comment · 4 years ago
London != Europe

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton