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HKH2 commented on We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s   chris.pagecord.com/we-as-... · Posted by u/stog
ghusto · 11 days ago
What can we do about it? Genuinely want to know your thoughts.

I'm in agreement with everything he says, but I've struggled to see eye to eye with anyone not in my age group. How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward?

HKH2 · 11 days ago
> How can we have a constructive conversation about this, come to a consensus that things are not okay now, and move forward?

How can it be a constructive conversation if you have presupposed the outcome?

HKH2 commented on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE   nbcnews.com/tech/internet... · Posted by u/duxup
kergonath · 16 days ago
You have an occupation force killing bystanders in your streets. Resistance is exactly what is needed.
HKH2 · 16 days ago
"bystanders"
HKH2 commented on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers   gptzero.me/news/neurips/... · Posted by u/segmenta
dasyud · 21 days ago
I disagree here. A good researcher has to be a good communicator. I am not saying that it is necessarily the case that you don't understand the topic if you cannot explain it well enough to someone new, but it is essential to communicate to have a good exchange of ideas with others, and consequently, become a better researcher. This is one of the skills you learn in a PhD program.
HKH2 · 21 days ago
That is how it should be, yes. Do PhDs always meet that standard though? No.
HKH2 commented on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers   gptzero.me/news/neurips/... · Posted by u/segmenta
neilv · 21 days ago
Annoying dismissal.

In an academic paper, you condense a lot of thinking and work, into a writeup.

Why would you blow off the writeup part, and impose AI slop upon the reviewers and the research community?

HKH2 · 21 days ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but researchers are not required to be good communicators. An academic can lead their field and be a terrible lecturer. A specialist can let a generalist help explain concepts for them.

They should still review the final result though. There is no excuse for not doing that.

HKH2 commented on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday    · Posted by u/Daemon404
fsckboy · 22 days ago
what you are actually saying is that a certain class of people "know better" than what another class thinks they want.

If you look at financial markets and finance theory, there is no validity to the idea that people are long term blind and short term mistaken. markets discount the future, they are the best estimates of the future rather than somebody with no skin in the game magically "knowing better"

HKH2 · 22 days ago
What about externalities? What about policy makers going after short-term gains?
HKH2 commented on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday    · Posted by u/Daemon404
fsckboy · 22 days ago
>some people look at business as making money for the sake of making money. However other people look at making money as a means to better society.

if the two sides you describe agree on those definitions as mutually exclusive but in union describing the universal set of people, then they are both wrong.

as long as people engaged in a market make their own choices, then money is a direct measure of happiness on the margin. you give somebody your money in exchange for something you want and would rather have: this creates happiness out of thin air.

if you think a better society is a happier society, then going into business to make money is the same as going into business to make society better.

HKH2 · 22 days ago
Society depends on long-term 'happiness'. Short-term 'happiness' often makes society worse.
HKH2 commented on Linux is good now   pcgamer.com/software/linu... · Posted by u/Vinnl
Biganon · a month ago
I'm tired of people saying Steam on Linux just works. It doesn't.

Tried running Worms: instant crash, no error message.

Tried running Among Us: instant crash, had to add cryptic arguments to the command line to get it to run.

Tried running Parkitect: crashes after 5 minutes.

These three games are extremely simple, graphically speaking. They don't use any complicated anti-cheat measure. This shouldn't be complicated, yet it is.

Oh and I'm using Arch (BTW), the exact distro SteamOS is based on.

And of course, as always, those for which it works will tell you you're doing-it-wrong™ .

HKH2 · a month ago
Ironically, quite a few Linux-compatible games only work for me in compatibility mode.
HKH2 commented on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/vinni2
eviks · 2 months ago
So following that strange logic if a dumb person knows he's dumb, he's suddenly become intelligent? Or is that impossible by your peculiar definition of intelligence?
HKH2 · 2 months ago
Yeah that sounds like wisdom, not intelligence.
HKH2 commented on Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order   torrentfreak.com/google-r... · Posted by u/t-3
politelemon · 2 months ago
Why does it show all red for all zlibs?
HKH2 · 2 months ago
There is a big green box at the top of the page explaining that.
HKH2 commented on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost   nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/jnord
user____name · 2 months ago
High fertility countries are doing great, obviously. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
HKH2 · 2 months ago
Of course there are only two options, low and high.

u/HKH2

KarmaCake day1002March 8, 2021View Original