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i too would rather slam my hand in the car door than slam my dick in a fire door
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Internet Janitor posted:hn thread: millions of americans love predatory businesses
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mystes posted:Money for an emergency is like the one legit reason but the post just got weird after that corporations are people too and he enjoys being findommed by them
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andrewclunn 3 days ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Who Would Choose Socialism? Is Reason low key admitting that socialism can work, but only if there is ethnic homogeneity and ideological / religious unity? Somewhere between the "Socialism never works!" and the "Real Communism has never been tried!" flame war, the "What about national socialism?" question invariably emerges. Then everyone flees because the right wing doesn't want to be associated with Nazis, and the left wing doesn't want to admit what functioning socialism actually entails. Is my post bashing Reason and the selective memory of the right, conflating all socialists (and modern Israel) with the Nazis, or advocacy / apologism for national socialism? Well that all depends on your own bias as you read it.
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quote:Neither you nor the government are my loving nanny! The only thing I can think of is that he loving needs one
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fritz posted:andrewclunn 3 days ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Who Would Choose Socialism?
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qdot76367 17 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Vore: A new RSS feed reader On the contrary, I am absolutely for this naming and it is wonderful and should be cherished and lauded. Sincerely, the furry developer that named their project buttplug.io reply
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Mr.Radar posted:qdot76367 17 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Vore: A new RSS feed reader
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hn thread: Sincerely, buttplug.io
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i am buttplugio, i need flared base for my bunghole
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I thought Shame Boy was the buttplug.io guy
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4lokos basilisk posted:i am buttplugio, i need flared base for are you threatening me?!
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antisthenes 43 minutes ago | undown | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Growing Up Alyssa > Please don't use "realistically" to privilege your own opinion beyond its merit. My opinion is just as reality-based as yours. Just to make a note about this separately. I will privilege my opinion in discussions, because I generally tend to give concepts a lot more thought than the average person. It is also my prerogative to defend what I believe in and I try to do that with evidence and astute observation. To ask someone not to do this is absolutely ridiculous.
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tracecomplete posted:antisthenes 43 minutes ago | undown | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Growing Up Alyssa HN posters write like dweebs.
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look, I rather highly value my own farts and will huff them as much as I want to the exclusion of others'
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It gets better. Same guy. antisthenes 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: A rant on bus stops Some points in the article are hit and miss, but mostly correct. For example, Istanbul is flourishing because it's the Turkish capital, so it necessarily is the most dense and rich city in the country. The high trust is a positive factor, but plenty of more rural cities and towns in Turkey look quite dumpy (perhaps not as bad a Philly, though) The pictures don't really support that either. They depict a fairly average state of urban infrastructure, nothing particularly inviting or welcoming. The people look friendly though, as the culture actively discourages drug use and vice. reply koreth1 1 day ago | parent | next [–] > Istanbul is flourishing because it's the Turkish capital The capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul.
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I don't think that dude has been to any of those places. I live in Philly and have been to Istanbul and some other coastal black sea towns and cities, and it's been maybe a couple of summers ago since I've seen a dumpster on fire in Philly, or had to help my cab driver fix his car e: where's the coolzone gif when I need it 
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ComplexSystems 6 hours ago | prev [–] I don't really get why people think P≠NP anymore. I mean, isn't everyone expecting some kind of superintelligent AGI that can recursively improve itself to turn the planet into goo? Don't people think that this kind of AGI will get so good at nonlinear optimization that it will turn all humans into paperclips as a way to maximize the output of a paperclip factory? Why do we think that this insane next-level intelligence will somehow be able to do things like that, but not be able to figure out what pattern of bits gets a bunch of AND and OR gates to output a "1"? 10-15 years ago, the basic idea was "P≠NP because otherwise computers could do crazy poo poo." Well, looks like they can do crazy poo poo! reply
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fritz posted:ComplexSystems 6 hours ago | prev [–] I often think about how people like this believe they're very good at and knowledgeable about computers
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they do the important job of sitting next to the computer and believing real hard
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Mr.Radar posted:qdot76367 17 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Vore: A new RSS feed reader lmao rules
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Blade Runner posted:I often think about how people like this believe they're very good at and knowledgeable about computers it’s such an easy mistake to make; because human reasoning is conducted using language, a machine that can appears to have language proficiency feels much more capable of reasoning than a machine which can, e.g. drive a car. and it’s not just college kids who are full of themselves who think like this; a lot of AI people make this mistake too. my neural nets professor in grad school told us all explicitly that if we studied neural nets enough we would never need any domain knowledge ever again, because they can find the deep patterns in any dataset without the need for it. lol.
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NoImmatureAdHom 14 minutes ago | prev | next [–] It seems obviously wrong to incarcerate citizens on the basis of ethnicity. That said, an important part of the discussion that usually isn't discussed at all is the Ni'ihau incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident TLDR: The first thing that happened in WWII for the United States was the attack on Pearl Harbor. The second thing is a Japanese pilot crash-landed on Ni'ihau on his way home from bombing Pearl, and a Japanese immigrant and a couple Japanese-Americans decided to take his side and help him (treason, of course). In the end a couple people were shot. reply
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SolTerrasa posted:it’s such an easy mistake to make; because human reasoning is conducted using language, a machine that can appears to have language proficiency feels much more capable of reasoning than a machine which can, e.g. drive a car. In the abstract, I think "A LLM response system like ChatGPT can fool even otherwise intelligent people into believing it's sapient" isn't unfair, but for the HN poster in specific, the question of "Doesn't having strong computers mean we can solve P=NP" is sort of like asking "If we toss a lot of compute power at it, can we prove that 1 = 2?" and seems buck wild for most anyone to have.
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Blade Runner posted:I often think about how people like this believe they're very good at and knowledgeable about computers Reminder that Yud is on record saying no human has ever solved any NP hard problem in the history of the world.
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Tunicate posted:Reminder that Yud is on record saying no human has ever solved any NP hard problem in the history of the world. No salesman has ever traveled
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fritz posted:NoImmatureAdHom 14 minutes ago | prev | next [–] drat this dude sure is a piece of poo poo
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Obviously it's wrong to round up everyone of a certain ethnicity just because someone of that ethnicity did something bad once because that would be racial stereotyping. But have you considered that someone of [ethnicity] did [something bad] once?
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SolTerrasa posted:my neural nets professor in grad school told us all explicitly that if we studied neural nets enough we would never need any domain knowledge ever again, because they can find the deep patterns in any dataset without the need for it. lol. i read a post once where a DL-doer described the DFT as a NN with no activation and no bias. i guess that you can technically think of it that way, but: - if we're just calling matrix multiplication or linear operators a neural network with no activation or bias, Deep Learning has gone absolutely insane with jargon - the FFT exists for a reason: it's faster than matrix multiplication
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mystes posted:Obviously it's wrong to round up everyone of a certain ethnicity just because someone of that ethnicity did something bad once because that would be racial stereotyping. But have you considered that someone of [ethnicity] did [something bad] once? ugh please, READ THE QUOTE. people of [certain ethnicity] did [something bad] and THEN people of that very same ethnicity, did [a related bad thing]. That's TWO bad things, from people of the SAME ethnicity! Clearly it's not a one-off, better commit crimes against humanity Ok that's a far as I can take this joke. I do not support incarceration of people of [ethnicity], regardless of how many times people of [ethnicity] have done [something bad]
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hn thread: It seems obviously wrong to incarcerate citizens on the basis of ethnicity. That said,
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hn thread: Clearly it's not a one-off, better commit crimes against humanity
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i'm often surprised at how many cs grads do not understand the uncomputability of the halting problem like, not in the "aha, but all real-world computers are finite state machines, therefore," kinda way, like they straight up do not believe that it isn't simply a matter of a real good compiler or something
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Internet Janitor posted:i'm often surprised at how many cs grads do not understand the uncomputability of the halting problem Turing: here's a rigorous mathematical proof that the halting problem us undecidable. HN: skill issue
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Internet Janitor posted:i'm often surprised at how many cs grads do not understand the uncomputability of the halting problem I got in an argument with the CEO about the halting problem at my last job and I honestly don’t think I convinced him that we couldn’t just “analyze the program harder” but he stopped insisting that we add the feature that depended on it.
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it’s like a lot of math proofs where intuitively you might know something is likely 99.9999% true but actually proving it is a whole other story
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idlewords 9 minutes ago | prev | next [–] Sadly at this point geology is the last, best hope for West Coast urbanism. Something like BART could not be built today unless the Bay Area was a pile of rubble. Reconstruction is the only way to get Japan-like high density housing and transit infrastructure. reply
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