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Neon Noodle posted:isn’t rabite weev that sucks if true, but it isn't surprising that weev can still find a home among the posters on hn
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in the midst of an actually p good thread about how "knowledge economy" and outsourcing is both neocolonialism and going to eventually gut the western economy and innovationquote:"People that reach for this kind of decisions occasionally seem to still have a colonialism point of view, like 'they will do as told and we still stay in control', " qed the backwards japanese were elevated by western superiority based on the uncontested and definitely not """"colonial"""" advancement metric of "doing a big battle". the so called colonialism was actually just industrial and scientific advancement that unlocked their full 10x human potential as killbots
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salisbury shake posted:rabite 5 months ago | parent [–] | on: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000) lol wtf is it with coders elevating random nix ecosystem people as being some sort of supermen who must be allowed to build their socket daemon or whatever and not just random people who happened to build thing any one of ten thousand other people are also capable of doing equally well
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Breakfast All Day posted:lol wtf is it with coders elevating random nix ecosystem people as being some sort of supermen who must be allowed to build their socket daemon or whatever and not just random people who happened to build thing any one of ten thousand other people are also capable of doing equally well It's because they don't know how. Remember, most of the people on hacker news are Javascript coders. Javascript coders who make a distinction between "library developers" and "normal developers", for some intangible reason I still can't get my head around. So these skills become something special, something prophetic, because they don't understand them. And after all, They Are Pretty Smart so if they don't understand them then it must be special if you do, right? And it's likely they have tried in the past to understand them, but because many programmers, myself included, were "gifted children" or whatever (bear in mind that hacker news posters always seek to regard themselves as some higher class of people or whatever the gently caress they have going on that makes them try to soind superior to each other constantly), they never learned how to study. So because they don't understand the material immediately, they give up. Then to protect their ego and do away with that nasty nasty cognitive dissonance, they figure that these people are in a "better class". The 10x programmer, that mythical being that never really exists except in a handful of cases. Used to excuse their own flaws instead of working on them, introspecting, and becoming a better human being.
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Also the only people more boring than ufo deniers are evopsych deniers. Denying the basic economics that mathematically play out in gene pools. In brains that are indifferently assembled by gene pools. Really, it goes back to nearly everyone having poor intuition about the power of exponents, such as after n generations. Or pretending that gender is not an important variable in gene pools, under the delusional view that the act of reproduction requires that both genders pay a remotely comparable investment cost. Not just people who hate chud evopsych evangelicals, but who flatly rule out the whole inquiry because of that association. Boring.
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Oh wait, that wasn't from HN.
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mystes posted:Oh wait, that wasn't from HN. this way lies helldump fwiw
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fritz posted:this way lies helldump fwiw plus it kind of is right here on the forums, so i am already doing my best avoiding the weird little conspiracy subcommunity that is springing up. those that find that entertaining can head over and read all they want.
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fritz posted:this way lies helldump fwiw yeah keep this thread to bad hn opinions
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macspoofing 7 hours ago [–] >In Germany, the vast majority of homeless people are addicts or people with major mental health problems. That's true in Canada and United States. The problem is that there are major legal barriers pushed through by activists to prevent forced institutionalization. Apparently it is a fundamental human right to live in a tent city off the freeway without basic sanitation. reply jakearmitage 5 hours ago [–] Wait, so are you in favor of rounding up people in buses and sending them, against their will, in "institutions" for "their own good"? reply macspoofing 3 hours ago [–] Yes. 1000x times YES. We're not talking about institutionalizing just anybody who is on the street. We're talking about institutionalizing people with severe mental illness who cannot make those decisions and are living on the street. Are you not for that? reply
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in every major american city, and in general in america, the vast majority of homeless people are without a home because of economic issues like the loss of income, relationship issues like divorce and abuse, and the lack of affordable housing. hn painting everyone priced out of housing as drug addicted or mentally ill is one of my pet peeves.
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i support rounding up the homeless people and putting them in institutions as long as i get to pick the institution. i propose a nice clean safe apartment of their own, or failing that, jeff bezos' house
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Our real estate firm says opportunity's arousing To make some condos out of low-income housing Immediately, we need some media heat To say that gangs run the street and then we bring in the police fleet! Harass and beat everybody till they look inebriated When we buy the land, motherfuckas will appreciate it
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alexander1100 1 hour ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twi... I personally lost $6000 dollars, is there any way I could prove that I was a victim and get my crypto back?
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Suspicious Dish posted:alexander1100 1 hour ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twi... poo poo like this is so fuckin precious
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i attached my wealth to the foot of a passing eagle, is there any way the government can resolve this for me?
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check out the philistines in the thread about the Spotify CEO saying musicians should just release music more often if they want to make moneyquote:shakezula 8 hours ago [–] it is a rich vein
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DaTroof posted:poo poo like this is so fuckin precious it really is on the same level as calling the cops because your drug dealer ripped you off
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salisbury shake posted:hn painting everyone priced out of housing as drug addicted or mentally ill is one of my pet peeves. wait until you discover Nextdoor Nextdoor makes Hacker News look woke
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Sagebrush posted:i support rounding up the homeless people and putting them in institutions as long as i get to pick the institution. but then they’d be getting something for nothing! we can’t have that better to spend tens of thousands of dollars per year per homeless person administering programs intended to help them, so that money can go to people who work for it right?
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eschaton posted:but then they’d be getting something for nothing! we can’t have that
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Suspicious Dish posted:alexander1100 1 hour ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twi... imagine being dumb enough to fall for this and then dumb enough to admit it on hn
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cw: hacker opinions re: child sexual abuse imagery lilboiluvr69 12 hours ago [–] He said: “If they are caught actively searching for this, they will have no more of a defence than someone that’s doing it because they want to find it for their own gratification. It is not a defence in court going looking for this.” I wonder, with the rise of deep fakes and CGI, why a company hasn't come up with a business model offering professional rendered synthetic child pornography. It seems to me that there would be demand for it, and if an ethically un-encumbered product is indistinguishable from the real thing, much of the demand of child sexual abuse imagery would evaporate. reply thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24025442
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how the gently caress is that not greyed out lmbo
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holy gently caress that threadquote:I wouldn't be surprised if you knew a lot of pedophiles personally, you just don't know they are pedophiles because they never told you, don't engage in illegal activity, and are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of society. my "you probably know a lot of pedophiles" shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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uncurable mlady posted:holy gently caress that thread maybe hes english?
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fritz posted:cw: hacker opinions re: child sexual abuse imagery Isn't this just anime?
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INTPenis 4 hours ago [–] > The third-best approach is to join an instance that is (a) neutral in its content and (b) not overbearing in its moderation policies. Most of those listed on joinmastodon fail this test. I don't advertise my instance, it also blocks registrations from anyone outside of EU, but I have the same policy. I'm as left as left gets, my family and friends are made up of several activists. But I also am annoyed with how hate speech and right wing people are moderated. My opinion is that they should first of all be reasoned with. And if you can't reason with them then each user may block them on their own. But to just block their entire instance, or "Gab", is to sweep a bunch of HUMANS under the carpet and not even attempt to communicate with them. That goes against my core principles. reply
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Mr.Radar posted:INTPenis 4 hours ago [–] powerful username imo
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quote:SomeoneFromCA 1 hour ago [–] normal person: cancel culture is making people scared to be racists  this guy: cancel culture is making people scared to be racists *trying to hand you a copy of the bell curve*
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My GPT-3 Blog Got 26 Thousand Visitors in 2 Weeksquote:In this post, not only did people not realize they were reading generated text, but they enjoyed the writing so much that they voted it above dozens of other human-written articles. 
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i guess if stuff made with gpt-3 is indistinguishable enough from "magic" for a big enough number of people then we have our AI panacea, case closed
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quote:let's say for the kind of content on this website, GPT-3 can only increase efficiency by 50% (keep in mind for self-help style writing, speedup was over 5x for me, but I’ve also never worked in media, so I’m being conservative). Remaining even more conservative, let's say that only half of the writers at Buzzfeed can benefit from these efficiency gains. can't imagine why media folks are super suspicious of tech lately!
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https://twitter.com/ex_aItiora/status/1290668180000706562?s=19
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i went and read the blog in question and it read more like someone who was ESL rather than GPT-3 but i guess if he was doing minor edits to it then that makes sense.
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graycat 5 hours ago | parent [–] | on: Frances Allen has died Fran and I were on the same floor at IBM's Watson lab. I was in an AI project doing applied math, e.g., some optimization, and mathematical statistics (for the AI work we were doing, system monitoring, i.e., anomaly detection, better than our AI work!). She was regarded as a major expert in compiling and numerical codes for scientific computing. I heard that she was working on a software product that among many other things would do fast matrix multiplication using some parallelism. So, just for the heck of it, I wrote and ran a little routine in PL/I that used PL/I's feature of multi-tasking to get some parallelism and showed my code to her. She was a little surprised I'd written the code, had a smile, and explained why her work closer to some hardware features (I don't recall the details) would be faster! I wasn't surprised or disappointed that my little PL/I tasking code would be slower than what she was doing, but at least I got her to explain the hardware she was using and how she was exploiting it! As I recall, she was married to Jack Schwartz at Courant Institute of NYU and as in Nelson Dunford and Jacob T. Schwartz, Linear Operators. reply
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Oh poo poo, I read her article the day before she died. Any of you pay me 1 BTC and I'll read your enemy's article.
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