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lannisterstark··on Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
This is such a naive point of view. Imagine seeing somebody getting assaulted, genocided, murdered in front of your eyes and then closing your eyes for the sake of 'peace,' or the idea of it that you have in mind anyway.

You should tell the Polish people in 1940s that they should only treat wounds and not fight back.

lannisterstark··on Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
This reads like a propaganda piece for anti-encryption mouthpieces.

"But think of the children" that ends with "oh noes the encryption."

lannisterstark··on Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
London and its surveillance is a dystopian extreme no one should try to emulate.
lannisterstark··on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
>But it's a key though. It goes on the keychain. Unless you don't carry around keys either, in which case yes, that would be very inconvenient indeed.

Half the time I choose for TOTP authentication over Yubikey because "Oh god it's in the living room I don't want to go get it."

I do have a backup key mind, but that's USB-C instead of A. Maybe I should make another USB A backup.

lannisterstark··on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
>TOTP backups from phones is a major issue, from what I can tell you simply can't do it.

I've done it in Aegis multiple times. They even allow you to export the 'database' (which iirc is just an encrypted json file)

lannisterstark··on Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
> Licensing of data will be huge bottleneck

Will it? At some point it'll be equally (or close to) cheaper as me just building my own *arr stack instead of subscribing to 5 different $20 streaming sites.

>Uncensored results will be used against opensource models questions hovering in dark or grey area

Will they care though? You can use whatever you want against me for pirating x, I'm still doing it.

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>Limited compute

THAT. That is the point we want to make. For FOSS projects, compute is the single biggest hurdle. Everything else we can make do.

lannisterstark··on Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
>struggle to host code/models publicly or access other parts of internet infrastructure.

To be fair, IPFS/Torrents/Usenet exists.

lannisterstark··on Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
>Can we agree that people should not be able to unilaterally take existential risks with the future of humanity without the consent of humanity, based solely on their unilateral assessment of those risks?

No, we cannot, because that isn't practical. any of the nuclear armed countries can launch a nuclear strike tomorrow (hypothetically - but then again, isn't all "omg ai will kill us all" hypothetical, anyway?) - and they absolutely do not need consent of humanity, much less their own citizenry.

This is honestly, not a great argument.

lannisterstark··on Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
>But nobody should be developing AGI

Pass. People should be developing whatever the hell they want unless given a good, concrete reason to not do so. So far everything I've seen is vague handwaving. "Oh no it's gonna kill us all like in ze movies" isn't good enough.

lannisterstark··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Yes. They already got the answer, thanks. Pointing out links after the fact is laughable.

Some of you are set in this idea that an LLM can possibly not be even slightly helpful that you have to trudge through pages of documentation just to look for one slight thing that it'd have told you right away _if_ you wanted it to.

lannisterstark··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Javelins have an easier time finding people if there are a lot of them on a hill.

So someone will.

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
There are people who actually enjoy doing those things. eg: I have a friend who hates this post covid trend of walmarts closing at 11 now, because he used to genuinely enjoy overnight stocking shifts while working on school during the daytime.
lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
The issue here is "voluntary" vs "told to."

If people (or a team) wants to be in office 2-3 days a week, fine, good for them. If you don't, _you should_ be allowed that choice.

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
New hires won't have an instant friend group with water-cooler talks either. They habitually make 'friend groups' with people they work with regularly, remote or otherwise.

It's easier to just go "hey want to grab lunch?" in office, I'll grant you that, but it by no means is an 'absolute stop' for new hires from socializing with coworkers.

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
>several top managers

well yes, that's what managers do - make life miserable for others lol. (mostly /s but not really)

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
>basic income is the only answer

Ironically, I think ensuring that people don't starve and become homeless during durations they are unemployed (which unemployment insurance/payments doesn't really do in many locations), is actually a good idea.

It'll be nice to move away from "work because if I miss it we'll be homeless" to "work because I enjoy what I do, and can contribute positively in the field."

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
>there's still absolute value in returning to office

>because it promotes a sense of community and networking.

Value is often measured non-arbitrarily. _community_ and _networking_ are both arbitrary.

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
>water-cooler social stuff.

I keep hearing this while at the same time seeing very little evidence for this.

Most 'water cooler social stuff' is absolutely pointless small talk at best that you have to often engage in to remain polite. I'd rather not if I could avoid it except for certain circumstances with people I am already 'friends' with.

Guess what I do with those coworkers I am friends with? we have a separate channel/group from official channels where we do that already. Nothing's missing there.

lannisterstark··on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
> I believe that management is about 300% more efficient in an in-person environment.

I'm going to be a bit blunt but most of management in reality is useless, if not actively harming people under them. 300% of 0 in those cases still remains 0.

lannisterstark··on Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
> If not, why not?

Burnt out, trying to get into this. Why do you think lol

lannisterstark··on Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower
I once read a quote that "most of UK is a -third world country- desperately clinging to London to prove otherwise."

This doesn't help.

lannisterstark··on Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
Libgen exists purely for this reason. $50? Sure. $100? Eh sure why not?

$700? lol.

lannisterstark··on Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
Paid Custom Instructions :P
lannisterstark··on Fixing Macs door to door
>They were kind, more humanizing than middle class housewives

Honestly most "rich rich" people I've come across are like that. Most "snobby" rich people are not honestly that rich at all, comparatively, or are very new money etc. (think of "dude who sold their startup for 20 million").

lannisterstark··on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)
>(this section is just a joke I do not commit crimes)

It's not a crime if you both consent.

lannisterstark··on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
I mean, it's still stupid. It just works.
lannisterstark··on A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males
"what a random thing to research" more like.
lannisterstark··on Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
They should. A Prodesk or RPi is cheap :)
lannisterstark··on A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males
What an absolutely random thing....
lannisterstark··on High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs
I mean, does it need to? Not every comment has to be plethora of hidden information. Sometimes people are just excited.
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