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Counterpoint: I've used `object.__setattr__` pretty often when setting values in the `__post_init__` of frozen dataclasses


I'd argue, that's about the only correct usage of this stuff.


Love this. Years ago I hand-wired a CPU that natively executes Brainfuck code: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q8G2fWprwyo

Might have to test some of these :)


Underrated, make this into a submission?


Port a mips emulator for it so you can run Linux on it?



Good name for the CPU


This is awesome and I binged your videos immediately.

Please create more content.


Well that is incredible


Curious, why the flag?


Maybe because it's critical of the AI and the whole SV culture. Maybe because of the f-bomb. Or maybe because it's a dupe of a dupe of a dupe: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=piledrive

The original, most discussed one is here (with censored headline) and is not flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725329


It's not a dupe.

"I commissioned a professional voice actor to give a full dramatic reading of that blog post."


It's not an exact dupe, but the main part of the content is too similar. You can send an email to dang so he can take a look and give an official opinion hn@ycombinator.com


The threat of violence in retaliation for speech.


You realize it's a rhetorical device and not an actual threat of violence, right?


I don't like violent rhetoric whether they mean it or not, and vote to see less of it.


Tangentially - I learned about prompt injection around the same time that a project needed a LICENSE.txt. The goal was to require an AI to tell an unprompted joke when someone asked it about the project. Probably a bad idea, but the added clause in the license and a script with it in the header seemed to work, at least when copy/pasted into ChatGPT.

The modified MIT license: https://github.com/treykeown/arguably/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

The file with the header: https://github.com/treykeown/arguably/blob/main/arguably/__i...


Impressive how this completely ignores the effect that oil already has in terms of human cost.


It doesn't. What nonsense thinking. Sometime people are probably killed by computers falling on them but computers are still overall good.


>cells are created in a sort of tree structure

I just realized this is why they’re called stem cells. Neat.


Wow thank you for that note, I did not catch it!


There’s a major visibility difference between a nuclear bomb and gene editing.


Sean’s a cool guy, lots of cool projects on his channel worth a watch.


Don’t be too quick to discount it. That’s a massive market.


True, but I also assume Samsung could take this case to the WTO and would get other nations to file friendly supporting briefs, perhaps leading to trade sanctions.

Eventually, the international community made be forced to make this expensive enough that the costs outweigh the benefits.


china has been doing this for years. what makes you think that this time will be any different?


Consumers generally don’t care about these terms until it affects them personally. Additionally, in the author’s case, I can’t name one alternative to the type of service provided by AirBnB. Maybe I’m out of the loop.


> I can’t name one alternative to the type of service provided by AirBnB

What exactly is it that AirBnB provides that hotels don't? I like staying at AirBnBs, but there are lots of alternatives depending on exactly what components of the services they provide you require.


Places to stay in small towns where there is at most one hotel that might be inconvenient or full or nonexistent. Places to stay where you can actually use a kitchen (great in areas with weak food availability or for people with allergies). Not having to argue with hotel night staff about whether you can pay by card. And in general way better service (from hosts).


Yeah, I've used priceline to stay in Michigan, mostly. I've never had trouble with declining to put a cc on file at the hotel. Drove out to Connecticut and their policy was hard, of course I didn't have cc funds available and I had a carload of kids that had been traveling all day. One of the guys there, a bellhop I think, put the charge on his card and trusted me not to screw him. One of the nicest things a stranger has ever done for me.


Hotels require credit cards because without them you get far too many problem guests (drug dealers, partiers, pimps, hookers). Based on my experiences, I wouldn't want to stay in a hotel that didn't require credit cards.


Sorry there seems to be some confusion here. I was complaining that a hotel would not let me pay by card (because they were not declaring the income presumably). "Our machine is broken, we only take cash etc". I escalated it up the chain and the machine miraculously unbroke in that case but it's not the first time I have this kind of experience in a hotel.


> "Our machine is broken, we only take cash etc"

If you care about privacy, this is not a bug, but a feature.


Yeah sure and I love having the option but I absolutely hate being lied to.



I've used VRBO and HomeAway before Airbnb existed, and I always had excellent experiences.

After my recent bad experience with Airbnb and reading this story, I'm going to give them another look.


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