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That was the fastest downvote in history. Common guys, you have to but a delay on your bots. Fixed seconds + some random.

Astroturfing still paying good?

How much does astroturfing pay these days?

I do the same. Not out of pride but basic morals.

Slightly different though if it comes from a manager, since his ass is on the line if the project isn't going well. Well, it should be on the line although they usually manage to make a random dev responsible for their mess even they had no say in it.

Is politics allowed now when people feel shit's hitting home.

Desparation. Desparation to get more clicks to get more ad revenue. Those who lived to see the rise and fall of Excite and AltaVista search engines know it's exactly the same thing happening.

Even Google search is spewing out hot garbage a lot of the time. Prabhakar Raghavan's internal sabotage of the engine that started 2019 never seemed to have stopped, it just got worse.

I know eBPF is safe and all that. Personally I think that a kernel level Tor gateway is bound to have my workstation's cunt roasted off should there be an eBPF exploit.

They're just protecting the kids, at least to start with.

It's the unknown unknowns:

"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."

An excellent quote from Donald Rumsfeld, despite being an absolute cunt.

I made this comment 31 days ago: Absolutely everything can be taken away. The simplest way to remove open models is probably to declare them a tool that terrorists could use. Crazy? Yes, the world is totally crazy these days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692660

And now, here we are:

  > Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.
  > ... preventing AI biological weapons ...

Are we conscious at hardware/cell level?

Keeps getting more bizarre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfCmnO0aW0

A good reminder that the current administration is covering up the largest CSA ring in human history.

Yeah, and they regularly use USB cables to do that too.

Agree. 3Blue1Brown is a personal favorite and an astonishing teacher. May his pillow forever be fresh and cold on on both sides.

Few months.

Was that 30 second bluetooth beacon ever switched off again?

The pot calling the kettle black.

Meta hasn't corrected it and there's absolutely no way I give Meta the benefit of a doubt.

tat n.

  anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in bad condition:
  * Like most souvenir shops, it sells a lot of old tat.
  * I'm not spending fifty quid on a piece of tat.

People buy it all the time when they practice retail therapy.

Meta has spent $2B on verification lobbying. Very successfully it seems.

In 1-2 years, you won't be able to browse the internet without scanning a body part and providing a ID for your ass.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-beh...

> That headline was a lie.

Kinda agree but let's call it "misinformed" or something, instead of a lie.

If you need 8 MI300X's for a month to do ROT13, then you're doing it wrong.

Chrome (which I don't use) provides a really good profiler that can give you answers down to the milliseconds on what's happening during page load and also actions. Web tech provides so much functionality but web dev often don't bother optimizing their sites. I'm not saying browsers are blameless, but at least you get good tools that'll give you hints.

That's not a fair comparison. The first one gives you space to stretch your legs, the other once stretches your legs on a medieval rack.

We've seen before how companies fall in line:

Of the 4,700 newspapers published in Germany when the Nazis took power in 1933, no more that 1,100 remained. Approximately half were still in the hands of private or institutional owners, but these newspapers operated in strict compliance with government press laws and published material only in accordance with directives issued by the Ministry of Propaganda.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-...

I have a dirty mind, but I don't agree that all of them look like that. Claude is definitely looks like an external rectal sphincter. Grok is a ring that men have used for erectile dysfunction.

> A monitor cannot install software on your computer by the way.

I think everyone in the HN crowd knows that.

> the blame should be on Microsoft

No, they blame should ALSO be on Microsoft, they are the enablers.