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matt-attackon U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

Except you’ve been tricked if you think the ruler of police is to protect you. Despite the little sticker on their car, the Supreme Court has repeatedly decided that the police HAVE NO LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY to protect you out anyone. That’s just not their role nor responsibility. To think otherwise is to linger in a fantasy world.

matt-attackon Men, where have you gone? Please come back

Paywalled. Anyone have a link?

matt-attackon PWM flicker: Invisible light that's harming our health?

I find it really bothers some, when I see it on new car, brake lights and nighttime running lights. As I dart my eyes back-and-forth, I can just plainly see the flicker. It’s such a shame that engineers don’t know how to select the right parts for these used cases. It makes the car look really cheap, and I’ve seen this on very expensive vehicles.

matt-attackon I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)

And this is the problem with homelessness. There are two drastically different “classes” of homeless people. There’s the working single mother waitress or nurse who fell behind on bills due to medical debt, maybe rent went up and is just bad at managing spending, saving, etc. Now she’s living in a car.

Then there’s the batshit crazy dude who’s living under the bridge who’s staring off into the trees and can’t hold a coherent conversation. This poor soul is not homeless because his landlord raised his rent from $2000 to $2200 and he just can’t eke by.

However the mother in case 1, could absolutely benefit from:

1. Better health insurance 2. Better financial education 3. A credit on housing or whatever.

This is why no one can agree on homelessness because half the population imagines the “noble” woman scenario and the other half imagines the bat shit dude with his pants around his ankle.

The solutions to each are drastically different. So you sound like an idiot when you say “we just need more homes” when you’re picturing scenario 2. But equally people sound like idiots when you say “we just need more mental institutions” but the listener is picturing scenario 1.

We’re talking in circles and English needs more words to describe these two drastically different types of people.

matt-attackon GPT-4o shows humanlike patterns of cognitive dissonance moderated by free choice

Correctness and sentience are perfectly orthogonal.

matt-attackon How to Build Conscious Machines

I believe that consciousness has to be closed tied to our senses. I’ve always assumed that if you had none of the five senses (plus some of the other less talked about ones) you really wouldn’t be conscious. All thoughts are tied to some image or sound or sensory impact. A human who never had a single sensory input, due to let’s say a nerve damage or something, I don’t think it could ever actually have internal thoughts.

matt-attackon How to Build Conscious Machines

One of the most insightful things I learned about myself. Sam Harris has a fascinating 2hr podcast on the subject of free will. The idea that we don’t choose what we think is fascinating and so obvious after it’s explained. But I don’t know that I’d ever have realized.

matt-attackon How to Build Conscious Machines

The way I’ve always figured the only entity in the entire universe that I can be absolutely sure as conscious is me. I have absolutely no proof that anyone else is conscious. People argue whether ChatGPT is conscious, but they failed to recognize that they have absolutely no proof That anyone other themselves is conscious.

matt-attackon Debunking HDR [video]

He’s also inaccurate when he states that digital cinema is encoded in the P3 color space. It’s actually encoded in the.XYZ colorspace but in most cases, the code values delivered are limited to those that fall within the P3 color gamut. But the XYZ colorspace that’s delivered can encode any color the human eye can see plus many others.

matt-attackon Why do Bedouins wear black robes in hot deserts? (1980)

Yeah, I don’t think I follow, just because the university is in Tel Aviv means they have to conflict mythology with science? Seems very condescending.

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

Why try to minimize it or be defensive about the figure? The Biden administration is proud the number is high. Do you want the number high or low?

From ChatGPT:

> So, while 10–11 million CBP encounters is the most solid official figure, when you add gotaways, overstays, and parole entries, the total number of people likely entering without full authorization could reasonably be around 15–17 million during the Biden presidency.

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

The Biden administration proudly reversed course from Obama's stance on immigration. I never said anything about democrats vs republicans. Each administration seems to take immigration differently with no connection to party lines (best I can tell).

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-migrants-shelter-time-li...

https://nhjournal.com/as-illegal-immigrants-swamp-mas-emerge...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-arrested-broad-daylight-r...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/migrant-custody-person-interest-ra...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/salvadoran-illegal-immig...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/haitian-migrant-accused...

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

I guess you didn't see what happened in NYC? Do articles like this sound like, "No one noticed they were here"?

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-migrants-shelter-time-li...

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

Or maybe they just got tired of millions of immigrants flaunting the law and overburdening the system? We had unprecedented levels of illegal immigration over the last four years. Do you think it went unnoticed and didn’t adversely affect anyone?

Why jump to these conspiracy notions about division and blatantly ignore the simplest and most obvious explanation.

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

So all counties with strong border policies are racist? That’s preposterous. Australia has some of the strictest border policies (drastically more strict than us). Do you believe they’re just racist policies too?

matt-attackon Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

Perceived enemy? Even the most liberal of cities touting themselves as “sanctuary cities” had to pivot and declare they simply cannot handle the influx.

12million immigrants came into the country during the Biden administration. This type of load on the system does not go unnoticed. NYC for example was drastically transformed.

Why do you think it’s just a “perceived” problem?

matt-attackon From OpenAPI spec to MCP: How we built Xata's MCP server

Why? Does the a sense of quotes and commas really make a difference in context size?

matt-attackon Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor

I agree would love to see a typescript version.

matt-attackon 'Crypto king' turned NYC townhouse into torture chamber to gain partner Bitcoin

I’ve never heard anyone claim any of those things to be true.

matt-attackon [dead]

It appears it reported the user to the FDA not FBI. Not sure why the author misread the composed email.

matt-attackon Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

This should be a first class feature in iOS. Hey Siri teach me what elide means.

matt-attackon The Emacs Widget Toolkit

I agree and only use emacs in the console and love it. With the advent of lsp modes and real time typescript and linting it’s fantastic. But one thing I don’t like about the console is when LSP mode is giving you an in-line error on the right side of the terminal it’s wrapped and beautifully interspersed amongst your code, but it’s impossible to select multi line errors in order to paste into tools like ChatGPT. Since selecting the error, also selects your code on the left side.

Anyone have a good solution to this ?

matt-attackon Show HN: I created snapDOM to capture DOM nodes as images with exceptional speed

Can you explain what the use case is for this tool?

matt-attackon Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule

How is it corruption? Any automaker could have chosen to build their factories here. Tesla did. Others chose not to. Shouldn’t they be lauded for that?

Apple builds phones in China, but Teslas are built in Oakland. I just find it pretty cool.

matt-attackon I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]

Yep. The whole time I kept thinking, “oh so that’s why I have to that to the curta” or “oh so now I get what’s happening in my curta!”

matt-attackon Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]

Well, our brain is comprised only of a finite number of neurons. How could it possibly not be finite?

matt-attackon Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Yeah, but he didn’t post the answer.

matt-attackon DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/02/x-in-2024-doubled-high...

matt-attackon Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

Um it is. And it was started by Obama. He