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Since they use VoIP SMS and "first name" it's pretty hard to resort to the old fashioned doxxing despite living in the golden age of data leaks.

I would suggest simply wasting their time as much as possible (I've lead on such people pretending to be naive and caused great frustration). But ideally, not to waste your own time.

I think in the near future android-local chatbots will be further along, or iphone-local, and ideally one can run the chatbot. and you can just set the chatbot to "waste this person's time" as we will have chatbots for "flirt with this potential date and schedule drinks". Of course the endpoint of such a world is chatbots all around and no humans.

To say the network guru should automatically know the cause of a packet drop is like to say the postal worker automatically knows why the letter never arrived, or a doctor automatically knows the cause of that cough.

If you look for a torrent on google of course you are safe because good guy big brother google filters out all wrongthink so we can have rightthink like google knows best

If you look for a dinky little search engine called presearch, which isn't anything special, but is still superior to google because it hasn't gone through censorship/marketing armageddon, what you SHOULD NOT DO is presearch- radio shack catalogs "torrent" - and DO NOT click on links to 1337x.to or else you might accidentally download the catalog torrent.

YC filters for companies for gorillion dollar missions / solve gorillion dollar problems.

A mission that is, "I have an AI, input is business plan, output is entire IT infrastructure" is what YC sees here. i.e. programming as a field (quite a cost center) is no longer needed, ironically. Because of that the bar is low. Honestly if anyone is reading this, if you find a very clever novel way to go after this, surely you would be funded

Huh? All the files are local and models are gonna be made to have a lot of or ultimately all of them in the "context window". You can't really have an AI for your local documents on the cloud because the cloud doesn't have access. Same logic for businesses. The use case follows from data availability and barriers.

We've observed the same on web pages where more and more functionality gets pushed to the frontend. One could push the last (x) layers of the neural net for example, to the frontend, for lower expense and if rightly engineered, better speed and scalability.

AIs will be local, super-AIs still in the cloud. Local AIs will be proprietary and they will have strings to the mothership The strings will have business value both related to the consumer and for further AI training.

You should take their deal or lawyer up, those are your choices really. I like the idea of the internet swooping in at the injustice of it. I've been in the same boat for things much worse. But save for a few inspiration examples the internet never swoops in, in a PR context, about the same odds as becoming a Hollywood superstar when you set out to be an actor.

Take the deal or lawyer up. Online PR / notoriety won't save you. The government won't save you either. "Don't screw the consumer" type organizations typically don't save the little guy, they work in aggregate.

If you want to be ethical and meta you need to advocate to change the rules of the game which is a years long process If you want vengeance and revenge, there are ways to do that but I leave that to you, unethical in one sense but the intent is to forcefully punish the behavior so it never happens again

To be fair, with certain types of wonderful music even WIRED earbudes may eggsplode in your ear or eye. I specifically am referring to the famous metal band -- DISASTER AREA --

I take an approach a lot like this - brief straightforward lowercase names e.g.

books/

periodicals/

films/

television/

That's the root directory.

Now for subfolders I keep a numerical scheme e.g. films/000_action films/000_docudrama books/000_science/000_biology

So the 000_ prefix indicates a major class - fits well with a "grep" or to sort by name in a file browser gui both.

Then from that I can add suffixes such as 001_90s_cartoons_megaset to signify this is a massive multi-terabyte wallop of interest

The upside of this approach is structure. The downside is that if one is building a good characterization of these things you soon realize a tag-based system might be better - the filesystem forces a tree structure. If these were managed by a database/indexing system, then presumably the tags would live there (not the filesystem) and the filesystem could merely be some sort of balanced tree that maximizes performance, filenames may as well be random 64 character IDs. This approach then requires some effort to organize into the tree (much effort over decades) for some structure to "bleed through" to the filesystem. But at this scale to really manage it, it's scripts and automation and indexes all the way.

The other hard part of it is maintenance and adding new data since data tends to grow exponentially. Still manual, could be automated if I was hardcore about it. One can also build search indexes but I personally tend to do every few months a simple "find | gzip -9 > listing.txt.gz" and then grep that for fast search in the future. There are faster ways to do this algorithmically surely, but this is perhaps the fastest way as far as minimizing the amount of time & effort I put in with a good payoff ratio for "just working"

Like spider man they hope a random office blob from sector 7G will get a papercut from the radioactive office supply, only for the radiation to transform him into... .. RED TAPE MAN! He swings from office building to office building shooting duct tape from his wrists, fighting tax cheats and completing tax returns along the way

The idea that it's an abstraction is 100% accurate. That physics is a discrete set of fields with field rules and interaction rules, and what we observe is a scaffold on top of that. It's like okay, let's say the math is right and we have a set of fields, what are they and where are they from, how do we manipulate them. Then the physicists, often driven by ego, is want for an explanation and points to vibrating strings and such, and finally they knock on the door of the empiric physicist and say "can you do an experiment to show that I'm right" "sure, build a machine the size of the universe and I could test that" and that's the state of physics the last gorillion years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYJ1dbyDcrI

Of course a person can write a book on all the unfairness of this system many ways.

The long and short of all of this is we are giving person A an advantage over person B because person C did something bad to person D, and it just so happens persons B & C have some matching demographic factor.

Putting it that way, I think the racism / sexism of diversity is laid clear. I don't call it reverse racism because racism can go in any direction it's not a unidirectional graph pointed away from white people. An innocent person is catching the short end of the stick as a dark twisted way to right some wrong that this innocent person had nothing to do with, other than skin color. The sick joke of it is that the ameliorative steps to fix racism are also racist.

For me a great example is Reed college. Smartest person I ever met, went there. Had a 4.0 GPA. This is an onery school with regards to the bell curve, C average, so a 4.0+ GPA at Reed is a huge deal. Anyway, Reed simply tells US News to fuck off. Thus they are ranked lowly but much higher in reality. Similar to that weirdo Cali desert school with like 8 students that's student run - very smart people, very poorly known to the public. Anyway, Reed is otherwise notable for having a nucular reactor and its hyperliberal political spirit, for example, instead of man and woman bafrooms they have cisgender and transgender bafrooms.

So the snak character build is +5 for narrow entries but is nerfed when the exit is a hole in the ceiling of a larger cavern, an area where the ballon is +8. Ultimately what we need is a hybrid build between ballon and snak, an inflatable snak ballon if you will, should be +3 on both. The second win is that snak motility can be driven by controlled focal inflation/deflation cycles.

idk what the ground truth is but what we are talking about here is called "fruit from the poisoned tree" in the field of ethics. This means you get a fruit "good thing" but it was pick from the poison tree "bad thing". And the ethical principle is that's not ethical, because bad thing

Never worked at a FAGMAN company but from what I've heard this is all true, no disagreement. I personally avoid such companies for the reasons you've described.

That being said, given the not so great, let us say, cutthroat culture that naturally will present itself in such places, the two big wins are salary, and arguably, CV padding. If I had "worked at Google" on my CV that would likely count for a lot, and I'm sure that can be framed as a dollar value on some level. This is something to consider even if intending to stay for only a couple years.

Well that's the thing, there is a tiny market for your art historian or english Phd or whatever humanities specialty. And to get english professors you need english Phds and english students, who need an english professor. there is a need albeit a small one.

the universities also fairly say "choose your major we can't choose it for you"

so if too many people go for that english degree, at best you can make them aware the job market is tiny. But it is their choice to take their shot at their passion, a hypercompetitive field, not far different than being a hollywood actor.

the issue isn't any of that, that's all fine, the issue is why does it cost a gorillion dollars to get that english BA degree.

the spirit of it all is "pure learning is purely good, let us have you learn", and so we have english majors, that's all fine spirited, the issue is somewhere along the line someone at this so-called non-profit decided it costs 9999 gorillion dollars to reimburse the educator for this degree

The "aging design" arguments holds water like a sieve. Electricity and engines are 1800s vintage designs The wheel is a prehistorical aging design american government is an aging design

The quality of an idea is independent of the time of its conception.

The utility of an idea is dependent on the time and place where it may be used however.

It's not about the small time military money it's about the big ticket government bailout. If they have some hooks into the military then they have, what's the term, a "moral hazard" card to freely take risk, military dependency puts them at the top of the bailout list (which they kinda were already, now even moreso)

Exactly. I have had dinner with "The Zuck" personally and he's quite charismatic and pleasant. This whole Howard Hughes tier eccentricities and spreading of rumors that he's some sort of lizard or robot (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aHQ1yQPwRo) and weird haircut are all part of his enormous ruse to hold and maintain maximum wealth.

"I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger." - Mark Salamander Zuckerberg, inventor of the psyop superweapon facebooks that successfully destroyed social cohesion in over 200 nations and 4 billion people, under the flag of social cohesion no less.

It's a brilliant idea, but LLMs are predicated upon the massive data of the internet.

That being said, you could take a pre-2018 dataset and test it for discoveries/insights circa 2019 or 2020 and see how well it performs.

arcade games worked on the same idea (mechanical) and had some pretty next level setups in the arcade- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedSuvlFElo

As an ex-military man, one would think DRS or HFRO (using standard aggressive HN style acronymiziation, or AHNAN) would be his seminal role.

But, no, his best role (BR) is as GENERAL JAMES SOLOMON in the best video series ever, command and conquer!

As an American who hungers for punishment, it's in fact a hunger driven by not punishing people (see SF, Chicago), allowing crime to persist, slaps on the wrist.

I've had my vehicle stolen, come time with the PROSECUTOR called me they tried to convince me to let them off the hook - like, is this the prosecutor speaking or the defense? That was DC. Never heard anything from that case, no justice provided.

And so that generates a certain hunger.

As far as our punishments, we are very lax. Look at illegal immigration in Singapore. The punishment is a literal beating with a stick. Not a soft beating, a leaves-lifelong-scars beating. Then, deportation. Imagine if the US did that. Singapore also has beatings for many other crimes. They are a "scrappy" country that probably couldn't afford room & board for prisoners, so beat and release it is, more economical. Not to mention anything to do with drugs is a death sentence. If the US believed in punishment like that there'd be a lot less problems. And that punishment system is very humane compared to Sharia law i.e. if you steal, you get your hands cut off. So I personally would support some extreme punishments by way of our punishments being too weak presently.

It's completely insane. "We have been blessed by the Lord above to have the superhuman ability to predict what will cause harm, please take our blessings onto you, we shall altruistically protect you from harm".

The whole precedent of the language is also insane. Imagine if words COULD in reality cause harm. Monty Python satirized the concept here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qklvh5Cp_Bs The "online words cause harm" is as absurd as that skit. Really the damage is in people claiming to have been harmed, emotionally, by a word, them wielding that as victim-power aka crybullying - that can translate into school/career/legal problems that are more of a quantifiable harm. Further, if words were so damaging, as Monty Python shown us, they would immediately be weaponized, the sensitivity to this topic is extreme hyperbole.

Since the premise of works causing harm is nonsense, the definition of harm is equally superfluous. Talk to any student council president or HOA president who only did it for the power, about some initiative they alone are driving against the wishes of the group, and you will find hand waves and sugarcoats everywhere, their selfish intent somewhat easy to see behind the well-sounding good-intending reasons. Politics at the national scale is the same exact game, just that the power hungry people waving hands are much skilled and experienced.

It's by choice. They're flowering up (pun intended) something quite mundane. Marketers by another name these people.

It's the same game as youtubers. The first thing they say in a 30 minute video is "wait until the end to discovered this amazing secret". And so these authors say "what amazing beauty" and wax poetic, but we never even get the satisfaction of a picture. Thusly, as far as the article, TLDR.

Welp it was a peak, the Apollo program. Actually we'd want it to not be a peak, but a stepping stone to something greater. Alas.

they's already sscraped bro

they's on the archive dot org

that site has everything but their search is shite

so to find scraped things that they scraped, you need to scrape their site and build a non-broken search engine for yourself

but you'll find your post-scraped social media sites

and many other interdasting things

Just to serve as a translator for this guy who aren't acronym enthusiasts throwing around high-falutin' words such as "bipartite graph" ICE = "Internal Combustion Engine" RF = "radiofrequency"

Dude said: (1) engines are more complex than battries. So that means battrie cars will do really well on the long term, being simpler and all. The complexity makes engines (also known as "frozen water") more expensive to make, less reliable, and more tedious in general. (2) stringing a bunch of wires is complicated, and you ain't got to mess with that noise with a cell phone because it don't need no wire and is therefore simpler

It's an ugly business and there's little to do to make it not ugly, at best all you can be is as human and compassionate as possible. In an ideal world us peons would like to think the C-suite saw it all coming and didn't hire whatever people in the first place. Depending on the work culture it can be devastating to culture and morale - at goldman it's harmless (they do it every year) but in collaborative environments it can drive the collaborative kind souls to seek safer harbor and embolden the narcissists by way of demonstrably outperforming that other guy, which taken together can completely annihilate a previously halcyon culture.

If it's a teachable moment, fine, but teachable moments at the expense of livelihoods sucks.

The layoffs will continue until morale improves.

(1) chatGTP is not a calculator. A calculator resolutely computes the exact numerical answer (modulo finite bits and rational numbers etc). ChatGTP is more stochastic. sometimes it's right, maybe a lot of the time, but no promises! (2) said student is taking an exam to find answers without the benefit of ChatGTP. Thusly doing exercises in a ChatGTP will not benefit the exam in the same way someone who only uses the calculator will suck at mental math. similar to what some of us may have seen "no calculators allowed on math exam"

but the big hangup is that "stochastically correct/incorrect" part. Can't count on it, still need skillz. Maybe when straberry/q* drops things will change in this regard