zwaps's comments

On: Turkish Coffee? Since the 16th Century, It's in the Water

[zwaps]

Monarchic customs are always a great source for optimized procedures and best practices, because in these places marginal costs don't matter, people get assigned to particular knowledge areas and the assumption is that quality does matter.

On: We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical

[zwaps]

This site also has no identifiable contact information whatsoever, making it likely illegal in many places

On: Books of the Century by Le Monde

[zwaps]

Honestly, American lists are the same. Every decent English speaking author, plus some selections of other languages.

Any national worlds book list, and this explicitly includes US and UK lists, are heavily skewed and I mean ridiculously so

[lo_zamoyski → zwaps]

This is one of the criticisms[0] of at least some Great Books curricula. The skew tends too strongly towards the Anglo-American and the “canon” is too rigidly held.

[0] https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/05/great-books-e...

[throwforfeds → zwaps]

Oh for sure, agreed. These lists do well to drive traffic and sell things, but I never put much weight in them.

On: The happiest I've ever been

[zwaps]

Not to contradict your conclusion but many countries definitely have an extreme shortage of new humans

[komali2 → zwaps]

Lines on a map are just that. Globally we're doing fine. And anyway, constant growth can't continue forever, it's probably a good thing if we stabilize or even shrink a bit.

On: Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code)

[zwaps]

He said why, he wanted to open source it with the mentioned exception.

I think there are also licenses that do that, and revert to full MIT after some time, but the author decided to roll their own.

What’s the problem with that? He can license it however he wants and the reason he mentions is perfectly valid tbh

[hungryhobbit → zwaps]

Legal writing is like code: it's a specific domain, that requires special expertise to write properly.

If you see a problem with a non-programmer writing code, then you should see a problem with a non-lawyer writing licenses.

[selridge → hungryhobbit]

Do you see a problem with a non-programmer writing code?

On: Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software dev (GOAL.md → working code)

[zwaps]

Depends on the language no? Works in German

On: Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

[zwaps]

it's wild to me that Americand accept a private company plastering their town with surveillance cameras, given you know, everything

Additionally, that you draw the line at sharing that juicy data with law enforcement. I mean sure, yeah, but even before that, sharing essentially all your movement data with some company because...?

[doomslayer999 → zwaps]

We don't accept that? Our civil liberties have been infringed upon by neoliberals and oligarchs for the last 100+ years, starting with Lincoln with income tax and FDR with social security into the mess we have today.

On: The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

[zwaps]

I got 16.000 tokens per second ahaha

On: Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market

[zwaps]

The average non cyclical component of longterm unemployment has been rising steadily since the 50s tho

On: Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market

[zwaps]

The level seems to be increasing, clearly, despite the cyclical components