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lsmeducationon The Apple $2T Economy

They work very hard to make sure all their product lines form a cohesive experience. It’s very different than GE simply (once? Still? Someone fact check me) owning NBC. Or Blackrock just owning a ton of real estate. The latter just owns shit to own shit.

lsmeducationon The Apple $2T Economy

A spiritual one.

lsmeducationon How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago?

So what’s everyone thinking? Move to Vermont to close out our dying years in 70 degree weather?

lsmeducationon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

You can spot the deliberateness when we go from the variable N to the other side saying !N, followed by !!N, and so on.

I’d argue we’re well past the days of distinct alternative narratives around events.

lsmeducationon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

Oh, I meant subjective in terms of your own perspective (informed by world view and life experiences). However you can fit the square pegs into your own round holes.

Regardless, I suppose the bigger point I want to make is the truth for non clear cut things is only as true as the number of people that co-sign it. If there’s simply more people on one side, welp, that’s that. That’s the truth, as far as we know.

Right or wrong or true or false are almost not even in the equation (enter the conspiracy theorist).

I don’t know, based on what I just said, what do you believe?

You see?

lsmeducationon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

It feels like you just described war propaganda. Americans lie one way, the Russians the other. The better question is why are we in a war over current events (to your point over the news). Left propaganda and Right propaganda, for some invisible war.

The low hanging fruit to me appears to be the fact that propaganda is profitable, ::shrugs::

Just one more war machine that got repurposed for civilian use.

Edit: this actually got downvoted, yikes

lsmeducationon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

I’ll do you you one better, replace everything with “bullshit”.

History is susceptible to narratives because anything that isn’t clear cut (slavery, holocaust, etc) is open to subjective interpretation.

It’s the conspiracy theorists that are the real wildcard in all of this. They will take the clear cut (slavery, holocaust) and make that open to subjective interpretation.

Funny stuff.

lsmeducationon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

I just hate everybody if you need an anecdote that HNers don’t hate historians in particular.

lsmeducationon X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

You most likely consented to future changes to the ToS. It's kind of like their version of asking a Genie for infinite wishes as one of their three wishes.

lsmeducationon X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

The problem with TOS changes is they never provide a diff. They provide the entire TOS again, one that most people already skipped. I don’t think it’s fair to even provide a legal TOS that does not match your demographic.

These things need to be shorter and written at a 8th grade writing level, and I don’t mean that in any pejorative way. It needs to be clear to the average person (and I’m not even sure if I’m being generous there by suggesting 8th grade writing/reading level).

lsmeducationon X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

We need legislation that forces companies to prompt users with a ToS that’s no longer than 400 characters.

The prompt should read “So, you cool with that brah?”, and the word “Accept” needs to be replaced with “Yeah sure why not”, and “No” with “Nah, no thank you”.

Current TOS’s don’t provide enough clarity.

That way any semantic issues down the line can be boiled down to “brah, users said they were cool with it” (to the judge).

lsmeducationon Ask HN: With FAANG turnover-why don't we know about actual recommendation algos?

So you’re telling me that behind the curtain it’s probably just Oz deciding that those who like dog videos probably want to see more dog videos?

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

I think you're assuming magic where in fact there is considerable evidence of effort.

I'm going to get a little reductionist here. What you said is no different than arguing for creationism (not ironic, we are discussing creating ultimately). Just because Earth is a perfect planet, and we get to drive around in self driving cars, doesn't mean there is any evidence for a grand plan (or any effort of it).

Talent and intuition is kind of like discussing recursion. To first understand recursion ...

Tarantino is just a lucky talented shit, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. Any explanation he gives you after the fact, is just that, after the fact. And the rest of us trying to explain it is no different than trading derivatives.

Tell me the study and rigor that went into the Big Kahuna Burger.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

I personally don't believe a lot of remarkable art came out of any real healthy routines. I think these people were nutty when they made a lot of the stuff. I don't think they had a good sleep schedule or diet, I don't think they controlled their impulses or anything in the realm of don't obsess, don't overthink, don't neglect, and I don't think there was any eat right, sleep right, think right ... at all.

I think they were fucking nuts when the sky hit them.

The advice they give you is for the life they managed afterwards, which you can get from any reasonable person on earth.

But hey, I never wrote anything worth a shit. So, I have no credibility.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

spent decades learning about cinema the hard way -- watching it, studying it, absorbing the logic/form of cinema. It is (and Pulp Fiction is) not a work of pure intuition; it's clearly a work of homage.

So you think he took an academic approach? Dude dropped out of high school and worked in a video rental store. You are only applying the pastel of studious (the puns are just flying today) because he didn't make absolute shit. If he did make absolute shit, we'd say "gee my god, that's what happens when you drop out of high school and think watching movies is enough to write a good movie".

Right? No seriously, right?

Me and you disagreeing is proof enough we have no idea where this stuff comes from.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

I guess it's all perspective. I've always looked at exceptions as a base case.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

The rules are given in the context of writing. I read it, most of it is generic. It’s almost as if the person knows there’s no real rules to the game, and humble enough to just give basic life advice.

But I’ll concede, I don’t understand the purpose of offering general life rules under the guise of writing well. I really don’t. Is it an exercise in authority, or flexing a mandate, or what exactly is it? It sure as hell ain’t any real insight into writing.

But to get your ass to sit on the chair and bang those keys, that does not come from the sky, anyone who has actually tried will tell you that.

Writers block, right? Or, when the sky stops talking to you. Now that’s a phenomenon that’s worth describing.

But alas, pace yourself, got it. I’ll try not finish the entire burger, and save the rest for later. Shocked they didn’t mention a small walk, or coffee with an old friend.

What’s up my ass today I guess.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

“Pace yourself” is a general rule that can be applied to anything in life.

claim that you could work in blocks of multiple hours and never socialise with other writers and see the same results?

Yep. There were some writers that were straight up bed-ridden. They would laugh at your little ruleset.

Lastly, I wasn’t downvoted. A reasonable amount of people seem to agree.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

Not “inspiration”, I am literally talking about pure intuition. I’m sure it’s one of the few things that’s provable with just anecdotes.

You can have whatever ruleset you want, your ass ain’t making Reservoir Dogs or writing Old Man and the Sea. Now imagine either of those two writers gave you a list of rules to follow. You’d throw that piece of paper in the garbage.

It’s a like a hot girl giving you work-out and diet advice. Thanks, I’m sure that’s what really got you your beauty.

It’s from the SKY.

lsmeducationon Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

I feel like most artists make their rules after the fact. The stuff comes from the sky, and it’s only afterward that you convince yourself you had something to do with it.

lsmeducationon Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

I think AWS ui would be better served using this. It would make sense.

lsmeducationon Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

I’ll go with the 30 year mark. Countries like Russia or China don’t get humbled in a loss (like Germany didn’t in WW1). Russia will negotiate some terms for Ukraine (or maintain perpetual war), but I believe it will become a military state that will funnel all money into the defense sector. The same with Iran, and the same with China.

Iran supplies Russia with drones. I can promise you Russia will help Iran enrich their uranium. They are both pariah states, what do they have to lose? Nuclear Iran, here enters Israel.

Everyone’s arming up, there’s a gun fight coming.

lsmeducationon Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia

Lol, I’m sorry what? Has anyone heard of BitTorrent or piracy in general? You’re telling me AI models/data are too big?

Someone utilize p2p for the love of god. Pretty sure there’s gigabytes of porn moving (freely) through the internet millions of times per day.

lsmeducationon Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

Continuing your aside…

Humans don’t become obsolete, we become bored. This tech will make us bored. When humans get too bored and need shit to stir up, we’ll start a war. Take US and China, global prosperity is not enough right? We need to stoke the flames of war over Taiwan.

In the next 300 years we’ll wipe out most of each other in some ridiculous war, and then rebuild.

lsmeducationon Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

It’s less of a concern if you are in mid career. But someone should warn all these college kids that are going into comp sci. I don’t think this will be the kind of lucrative field they think it’s going to be over the course of a 40 year career.

The days of getting paid well for making crud are numbered (which most of us do, even in the most interesting problem spaces).

# need a front end boilerplate that hits a backend with the following end points. REST api for movies catalogue, and a corresponding ui. Oh, unit tests please. Go with a responsive design and also make a React Native version (matter of fact provision it to my iPhone). Decide between Heroku or AWS, set up deploy with git hooks.

# scrape IMDb for initial population of the db

# I think a Reddit like comment system would be good to add, so add it. No upvote/downvote though

# handle user login with google/fb/email

# also make an admin page to manage all this

I guess the technical product designer will be the new unicorn.

lsmeducationon Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

Okay, think about it this way. This thing helps generate tons and tons of code. The more code people (or this thing) writes, the more shit there is to debug. More and more code, each calling each other means more and more insane bugs.

We’re going to move from debugging some crap the last developer wrote to debugging an order of magnitude more code the last developer generated.

It’s going to be wonderful for job prospects really.

lsmeducationon Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

Linux is wasn’t a business strategy either.

lsmeducationon Students foot the bill for flagship state universities

System failed a long time ago. No point in having this discussion. Adjust the prices, and stop marketing it as a future.

At scale this has been a failure through and through.

Shoutout out the ultimate technical school of all, MIT.

How? Who knows. Guess they know the right people.

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From my own experience, I will add that educational requirements are almost financial. You need it to be free, educationally. The same way you need money to be free.

But back on point, don’t add swindlers collecting a check on that trek, certainly not on loan, certainly not beyond affordability.

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You make this money and you are free to spend how you spend. You learn this, and you are free to learn how you learn.

Psychosocial.

lsmeducationon Students foot the bill for flagship state universities

Okay, that’s a great point. So we’ll have to change the definition of “success” from whatever the definition these institutions have been using this whole time. Our government nearly tried to pass a $500 billion dollar refund for these universities idea of what it means to market itself as “an investment for your future”.

Again, this is a consumer affairs issue. These universities are doing false advertising, period.

lsmeducationon Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

I’ll wait for the “Svelte kind of sucks, and plain old React is fine” article next year before making any decisions (well really I’m waiting for the ‘jquery can do what React and Svelte do believe it or not’ article still).

Where are my AI JS blog post generators at?

Unless … No can’t be … There’s no way these articles have been AI generated this whole time … right? RIGHT?