Is code not a form of communication?
I think the OP is differentiating between direct human-to-human communication and building software.
Readit Newsdeweller commented on Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts · Posted by u/dzonga
I am having a blast with this: https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker
I dropped into /new so that I can "foe" all the barf.
While I applaud this effort for flagging AI slop generators, I would caution users to not always ignore your "foes".
Reading opposing viewpoints is so important and is becoming a lost art in our society. I encourage you to understand and empathize with people you don't agree with. It will help all of us in the long run.
> If you asked me six months ago what I thought of generative AI, I would have said
It’s always this tired argument. “But it’s so much better than six months ago, if you aren’t using it today you are just missing out.”
I’m tired of the hype boss.
The second half of that argument was not in this article. The author was just relating his experience.
For what it is worth, I have also gone from a "this looks interesting" to "this is a regular part of my daily workflow" in the same 6 month time period.
AWS Amplify was supposed to solve this. It is built on the AWS CDK. But I found it too clunky and slow and gave up on it.
These days I use SST (https://sst.dev) which is built on top of Pulumi. I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.
deweller commented on Show HN: Decentralized Bitcoin Incentives via QR Codes github.com/DT7QR/Bitcoin-... · Posted by u/Yodan2025
Sybil attacks are very difficult to mitigate while maintaining privacy and decentralization. I see a nod to anti-gaming in this proposal, but it does fully address this.
Why did you choose Bitcoin for this? Other blockchains can have significantly lower fees and allow the distribution of application-specific reward or governance tokens.
deweller commented on Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money? paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Qem
Hello..? SEPA? IBAN-to-IBAN? iDEAL and many other integrated payment systems in Europe allowing instant C2B/B2C/B2B payments?
We do not need crypto, the technology is here and implemented, and bank transfer fees are archaic rent-seeking structures.
Well done Brazil, wake up America.
An important feature of (some) crypto stablecoins is that they function like cash.
Cash is fungible. And cash in my wallet is not subject to being frozen like a bank account.
One can argue the merits of a digital cash for society. But a crypto-based digital cash is fundamentally different from a digital bank-based payment system.
deweller commented on Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms psypost.org/secret-change... · Posted by u/DocFeind
The title implies that the data was manipulated. What happened was column headers were renamed without an official entry in the changelog.
Most of these changes were the column heading “Gender” renamed to “Sex.”
deweller commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh
This is an interesting example of an AI system effecting a change in the physical world.
Some people express concerns about AGI creating swarms of robots to conquer the earth and make humans do its bidding. I think market forces are a much more straightforward tool that AI systems will use to shape the world.
> I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead
Like the US dollar and Postgres?
For like $200 anyone can start a business entity in the US with a tax ID and a bank, I’m still yet to understand how crypto is better other than for circumventing regulators
Cryptocurrency transfers are irreversible, publicly verifiable and pseudonymous. For a privacy focused application, these attributes make crypto a better choice than USD and the traditional banking system.