The articles are unreadable fluff

Dang why was this article flagged?

Users flagged it and there were several reports that it seems likely to be LLM-generated.

Please email us (hn@ycombinator.com) to communicate with the mods. We don't get alerted to mentions of usernames and we don't get even close to seeing every comment, especially after a thread has gone from the front page.

It feels like this article was flagged by users who sell AI stuff, because they dont like its content - so they tried to censorship it with some excuse.

This article shows flaws with AI driven development.

Do you think it is LLM-generated or not? And how are you making that assessment?

The point is that the topic doesn’t matter, and whether you or I like the content doesn’t matter. The HN community and moderation team have come to a consensus that only original human-authored writing has a place here.

There are only 30 places on the front page, and thousands of submissions each day trying to take one of them. It’s reasonable for the audience to expect that a post that has made it to the front page has had sufficient effort invested in it to be deserving of that place.

Something else I’ve noticed (just today, in part due to this subthread): people are far less inclined to feel negatively towards an LLM-generated article or comment if they agree with it. We need to consciously resist being influenced in this way.

I actually agree with you that the independant commission can lead to partisanship with extra steps.

Possibility to beat this deadlock: one party picking few candidates from the commission and OTHER party (parties) accepting one of them. Still can lead to "choose the lowest evil" and I can imagine Repiblicans not accepting anyone of Democrata were ruling.

Does this contain MOTAS (mystery of time and space) point and click game?

That game was fun and had some really nice music

Yes it does: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/sear...

They dont have any negotiating power -> it is a race to the bottom

On other websitrs those are not real users, but bots. Bots that track each mention of a keyword (nowadays can analyse posts too).

I wonder if Dang has any tools to deal with that.

> In herd, everything is immutable unless declared with var

So basucally everything is var?

I'm not sure if I understand the question?

There are two ways to define a variable binding:

    x = 1; // declares x as immutable
    var y = 2; // declares y as mutable

The "default" behaviour (if no keyword is used) is to define a new immutable variable.

I'm asking if the reality wouldn't be that "everything" is set as mutable by default and the non mutable part is ignored.

In the programs I write probably about 80-90% of variables are immutable, and I think this probably corresponds to most other code. Except in certain domains and programming styles, not that much stuff tends to need mutability.

This is why the syntax "encourages" immutability by making it the easiest option (similar to e.g. Rust, F#). On the other hand, if it was an extra keyword nobody would use it (e.g. like Java).

And we cant own our phones due to that?

Of course you can have that.

The governments can ban this feature and ban companies from selling devices with that.

People who are reaponsible for Android all use Google phones. They dont care about android. They dont use it. They dont understand their use cases.

If you are hired by a manufacturer of say cola, you cannot drink the competition cola.

Those in google laugh when asked to show their phones - and then show iphones. In any other business they would be terminated.

I don't know how it works at Google, but unless they're giving away Pixel phones for free to their employees (or at a very, very strong discount), they have no business forcing their employees to use their products.

Here is how a job works: worker works, company gives money. Workers do whatever the fuck they want with the money they earn.

I think an edit is in order, as your post, in the current form, doesn't make any sense.

He's saying people at Google use iPhones.

I don't know if that's true, but the times I've visited silicon valley I didnt see many android phones.

You're typically issued a corporate phone, it's the only phone that can open work email. You have a choice between an Android (something like a Pixel and a Samsung) and an iPhone, with some companies incentivising Androids with things like a faster upgrade cycle or more premium trims. The culture is split between having just the one free corporate phone and having two phones - one personal, one corporate.

There are lots of examples of Android team employees who are proud of using only Apple phones.

Check the "socially inept tech roast show" - where people from those teams demonstrate their ignorance and hatered towards own products and users.

Since they dont use them, they dont see nor care about bugs.

Meanwhile if you work for a cola company and they catch you drinking competing product you will get fired (your contract bans you fron that). Same for many other products.

I understand using an Apple phone to learn what it does / its featurs, but those Android employees dont use Android at all. And it shows