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mach5··on Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
can you tell me more
mach5··on DeepSeek-v3.1
who cares
mach5··on Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
theres no need to do any of this, its fake, its a forgery
mach5··on HyperShell X Outdoor PowerSuit Exoskeleton
i like how its made for rich people with loads of hype consumerism hiking gear so they can go LARP in the woods away from their email job for 3 hours, and not helping people with paralysis or the elderly. that's cool and good.
mach5··on Details on Xiaomi EV
no it isn't, they reversed the decision thankfully (we own a 2017 bolt, it's great)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/general-motors-chevrolet-bol...

mach5··on First female active-duty soldier graduates from sniper schools
too bad she's not doing anything useful with her life, only causing death and destruction
mach5··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
no and also i just noticed you have “realist” in your username, i didn’t even do that on purpose, lmao bozo
mach5··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
its rougher because of america, not in spite of it. its a self-reinforcing feedback loop. implying you are the grown up in the room because you are 'realist' about this or whatever is a classic dimwit take.
mach5··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
they are freaks poisoned by money and we should take it from them for the common good
mach5··on The Rimac Nevera Just Shattered Pretty Much Every Acceleration Record
you must think like a child
mach5··on The Rimac Nevera Just Shattered Pretty Much Every Acceleration Record
dangerously fast, this shouldn't be legal. if you were to build a drag racing car to those speeds you'd need a cage certified to 7.50s, something like this https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0362/8420/3141/products/25...
mach5··on Blowing holes in Seymour Hersh’s pipe dream
he did do fact checking, with people he had previously worked with at New Yorker

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/seymour...

mach5··on South Korea: the corruption that built its economy (2017)
that's a good thing
mach5··on Operation Gladio
gladio never stopped, it just came home
mach5··on Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31
its not free like darksky was for small personal apps
mach5··on Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
to be fair it's really funny
mach5··on American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)
no, of course not, i'm saying that the political will to fix this isn't there, and to a point was never there, and we are now past the point of no return, thus this doomsaying like in the original post is bluntly and sadly correct.
mach5··on American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)
the latter is completely caused by the former, we are, in fact, doomed. the effective course was already ignored by those in power, months ago. now the outbreak is big enough in the south to be uncontrollable, contact tracing is worthless, testing is near worthless (7 day test turnaround!), anything other than a full extreme lockdown will not stop this, and that isn't happening.
mach5··on American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)
no one reading this is gonna 'swing to his side', the people aren't already trying to control the pandemic are already too hard-headed to even consider swinging, at least until them or their family members start dropping dead.

the implication that america is unable to respond to the pandemic because A Guy Was Mean in a Medium Post is ridiculous

mach5··on McKinsey and Company: Capital’s Willing Executioners
highly recommend the book: https://libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%...
mach5··on China's super camera can pinpoint specific targets among of thousands of people
* "Security Check" https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/546564142.jpg?...

* Cartoons - https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91dnIHIQXfL...

* The Red Armbands - https://www.patriotguard.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/pgr_...

* Passport check - https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...

* Police everywhere. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8G7XsjSzRo

* I saw a a mosque surrounded by security cameras. https://www.aclu.org/other/factsheet-nypd-muslim-surveillanc...

* I was watched everywhere - i could go on and on... PRISM, security cameras everywhere, Ring doorbell cams being given to cops, stingray, etc etc etc etc etc

* Signs in the Hotel warn you that you DO NOT have a right to privacy, and you must register your passport or state ID - Same in the US

at least China is open about it, and has tons of socialist policies so people don't die from poverty.

mach5··on Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
yes, we all know what hanlons razor is, thanks. that indication does not matter in the least, nor is it in any way provable. the rich completely ignoring their domination over the poor does not make them less culpable. it's almost worse, in a way.
mach5··on Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
> That's not eugenics, that's not mean, that's not classism, that's not racism, that's common sense.

it is the material conditions of classism, racism, and hate that causes the poverty in the first place, with the intentional outcome of making the lower class suffer, so the rich can have more. this IS eugenics. you say it isn't, but in the preceeding paragraph, straight up say that poor people have no business having kids. unbelievable.

mach5··on Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
complete conjecture, there is a giant cohort of people older than 30, crushed by debt and medical bills, stuck in menial jobs because their parents couldn't afford college. you're telling me that the janitor that cleans your office isn't hard working? or the factory-worker that makes your clothes? are they all just lazy morons that don't deserve to reproduce?

please, just go mask-off, be true to yourself, and admit you just want eugenics. you're already A-OK with the death and suffering of children.

mach5··on Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
so only the rich should reproduce? absolutely disgusting mindset. nobody chooses a life of poverty, and the overwhelming inequality of our current society both perpetuates and exacerbates it.
mach5··on VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car
not sure what your problem was, i had two TDI's and did buybacks for both and, though it took a while, the experience was pleasant and the offer was generous.
mach5··on San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
the whole notion of 'electability' is a ruse created by democrats to push voters towards politicians that agree more with the corporate wing of the party than any issues people care about. if electability was actually a thing, trump would not have won.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-67-the-gate-keepi...

mach5··on I Now Have a Cardiologist
the watch measures from two locations actually, through the wrist and through a finger on the crown. you're still right that 3 (and more) is better.
mach5··on Are There Problems with the Boeing 737Max? 2nd Deadly Crash Raises New Questions
0.6% of 737 MAX aircraft delivered have been lost in unsurvivable accidents... similar numbers to orbital rockets. yikes.
mach5··on Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
keybase does! https://keybase.io/
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