panny

Isn't it interesting? Now that power generation is seen as the deciding factor between who wins/loses AI, nuclear is back on the table again.

>may have

You're splitting hairs because clearly you cheered on the surveillance state. That didn't stop with contact tracing. Contact tracing was just the most egregious example. I watched you people scan QR codes to let big government know where you were when going to the toilet.

I know where I'm at. I know you just want more reasons to flag my posts for covid wrongthink. Knock yourselves out if it makes you feel better about injecting that stuff. The Director of National Intelligence just posted proof that Fauci funded gain of function research in Wuhan and that submission was flagged immediately. That's the guy you trusted before injecting your covid vax. Try to square that circle all you want with censorship however. The truth is out. I knew I was correct to avoid the mRNA. All the proof exists and supports my position.

Edit:

Well billyoyo, since HN tells me "You're posting too fast. Slow down." I'll just have to answer you in an edit.

>With that in mind, why are you against vaccination?

Let's go back to before we knew how it kills people via myocarditis, blood clots, and whatnot. We can map out the options on a very simple chart. On one axis: Get it, Don't get it. On the other axis: You're fine, injury/death.

If I don't get it, but I'm injured, the vaccinated will openly mock me. The unvaccinated will care and try to help me if they can. At least someone will try to support me.

If I get it but I'm injured, the unvaccinated will blame me for volunteering to get it while the vaccinated will say I'm faking the injury to smear the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. Social media like HN will [flagged][dead] me for talking about my injuries. I'm all alone, no one supports me at all.

Don't get it and I'm fine, the vaccinated seethe and talk about seizing my children and making me unemployable until I comply.

Get it and I'm fine, I get a krispy kreme donut made with GMO flour + corn syrup and become associated with the bad behavior of the vaccinated.

As you can see from this chart, I really don't want to be associated with a lot of self righteous assholes and the only possible benefit is donut slop.

No, I think there are parents who would find a long enough webcam cable to point the cam at themselves while Jeff Epstein is grooming their kids in roblox.

The core point is that it isn't my responsiblity to take care of your children. When less than half of millennials (40% men, 55% women) have children, the "think of the children" catchphrase really starts to fall flat. Why should I think of the children? I don't even have children. It's the parents' problem, not mine. Stop making it my problem.

The problem with that is, parents be like:

>Here kid, take my key, go get me some beer.

Everyone everywhere gets forced to deal with bullshit, then the people it is supposed to be protecting circumvent it directly.

>What does getting the COVID vaccine have to do with surveillance

Google and Apple built contact tracing directly into iOS and Android during Covid. And it's still there. And all they'd need to do to make it opt-out or required is to flash an update with some small print in an EULA.

It is WAY more invasive and you probably already gave your phone your face with features like face unlock too. But hey, we can stop this discussion, because the covid vaccinated have flagged this point down for wrongthink. You see, when you want to fight the surveillance sleepwalkers, they fight back. They really really really want to stay asleep.

Maintenance affordability largely depends on if you're paying someone to do the work vs doing it yourself. Until you own a fixer-upper yourself, you don't really realize how bad the regulatory capture on home repairs has become.

You can't convince me there's a housing crisis when houses like this exist,

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-...

Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.

>HN, for all its many flaws, is one of the few places where important evidence such as the diamond princess dataset and the cochrane review of evidence of mask (in)efficacy received robust discussion and, seemingly, resulted in changed minds.

I get the feeling we're not discussing this submission on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605139

I get the feeling it's going to be flagged/dead in short order.

edit: Subarashi! How elegant. HN has flagged it less than 30 minutes after I made this comment. So much for the bastion of enlightenment and free speech known as HN, right?

I have never had a linkedin. Some people probably thought I was being rude when I told them this after they asked to connect to me on linkedin. LinkedIn in my earliest memories of it was famous for spamming your contacts. That seemed like trojan horse behavior to me, and I avoided that site like the plague. I even blocked it at my DNS.

Now I read they are spamming jobs that don't exist. Imagine my complete lack of surprise.

The revolving door of corruption between the FDA and Pharma industry is pretty well documented. But it looks like my speech freedom is going to cost me some more karma. Darned consequences of speech freedom are at it again.

>The bill would replace the aging PACER and CM/ECF systems with a modern, unified platform designed to improve public access, strengthen cybersecurity, and reduce long-term costs.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

But everyone here loves jawboning and agrees the government should suppress speech. Well, at least when their team is in office. Whether it's ICE Block or IVM Block, you can probably find a reason why you too think speech freedom is just a little too free for your tastes.

>If you’re using an RDBMS, bite the bullet and learn SQL.

Why is the assumption that I don't know SQL if I'm using an ORM? It's as if authors of these ORM-bad articles believe the only reason anyone would use one is because of that.

Western trademark law really isn't compatible with the Japanese culture of noren-wake. The Japanese solution seems more beautiful and cooperative, while the western style seems intent on conflict and formenting division. Something like Tokyo Fugetsudo and Kobe Fugetsudo, where the new branch operates with the master's blessings, recipes, supply routes, teachings simply cannot exist under western rules. You must defend your trademark or lose it after all. What is sad is the Japanese are starting to adopt the western way instead of the other way around. You can look at JR and see ONE system where people work together in harmony. Even though it's really a half dozen different companies working to do their best job together. The American way would be to fight amongst each other until the greediest least moral company has defeated the others and become a monopoly to everyone's detriment.

It's not virtue signaling as I don't consider it a virtue. It's over politicized. I'm just pointing out that I do way more than any of you do without any alarmist screeching. I take the train because I like trains. Nice seethe and cope however.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485177

HTML5 made me sad when it took away,

<a href="/home"> <button>Home</button> </a>

That's validating under HTML4 strict. There was a valid way to use buttons without a form element or javascript, but now there is not. It was also neat from the standpoint that anchor doesn't allow nested block content (like a div), but button does. And since anchor doesn't require an href, you could use the same thing inside a form and let the button do the submit. That way you could uniformly style all your buttons/anchors on your entire site, whether they were really links or butttons.

It's the same order of magnitude as all cars on the road. Not such a big deal huh?

Let me ask you this. Do you own a car? I don't. I take the train.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1185535/transport-carbon...

Look at that, I'm the 1%. What are you doing personally about the climate? I bet you own an air conditioner too. I bet you don't carry 20-30 pounds of groceries a mile every two to three days, do you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543350

I bet you don't have a four year degree on the subject either, do you? When was the last time you purchased gasoline? For me it was over a year ago when I had to rent a car for one day.

Go ahead, call me a science denier. I know you want to. You can just absolve yourself of all your carbon footprint by being self righteous about it, can't you?

>I think climate scientists can enumerate major carbon sources and sinks

Science has no idea where 2-3 gigatons of carbon go every year. That's a BIG number. And it is a big deal. And it has been missing for decades now. All the time you were calling someone a science denier, you've been completely unaware that you can't even account for all the major carbon sources/sinks.

https://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio326/class/ecosyst/whrcmissc.ht...

https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/new-global-carbon-da...

>Pretty sure if there was a simple alternative, people would hate it.

>Everyone initially wants thing A. But then they want to customize it to do all permutations and combinations n of A, B, C.

Oh, I wouldn't be so sure of that. Think about Eclipse vs IntelliJ. 10 years ago Eclipse had all the features, and IntelliJ didn't so it was fast. Most developers don't use all the features, so most developers were very happy to move to IntelliJ, even if it was not free. Then IntelliJ spent the next decade building lots of features it didn't have. Now everyone wants off of IntelliJ, because it's no longer fast. Now it's got a lot of "useless" features like Eclipse too.

There's many things you can do to be worth a billion dollars. It's just the people that do them rarely receive the billion dollars. The standard example is Dennis Ritchie vs Steve Jobs. Ritchie created C. Ritchie created Unix. They both died in the same month, but Jobs was the billionaire and everyone wrote a story about his passing. Ritchie was not a billionaire, he simply did the work that changed the course of human history. It's not an isolated event either. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor, but none became billionaires.

The problem isn't that you can't do something deserving of a billion dollars. Clearly it is possible. It's just that if you do it, you rarely get the billion dollars.

Allow me to write my rebuttal. Remote work is good for you.

I started remote working just before the covid hysteria began. I used to view it with suspicion. If I work from home, then I will always be at work I reasoned. But by the time I had accepted to work from home, this was already the case. If the server went down at 2am, I had to get up and fix it, no matter what.

Working remote wasn't a big change, I was still sitting at a desk with my laptop. My office interruptions went from colleagues to spouse interrupting my train of thought. But being untethered from the office opened up the whole world as a potential location. In fact, that is the reason I started remote working.

I purchased a modest home outside the country at a very low price and intended to live there for a few years. The cost of living was so much lower, I was living a great life there too. It allowed me to save enough cash to buy another home here in the US. Of course, since I work remote, that means I could live anywhere in the US. Anywhere at all.

Where would you choose to live if you could live anywhere? I didn't want to live in the city that I left. I left there because I could never afford a home there. I had no reason to go back to it. I didn't arrive at my answer quickly. I spent more than two years shopping around, weighing pros and cons, deciding what location fit my lifestyle the best.

I tried to find a place that replicated my home outside the US as much as possible. Low cost of living, low cost housing, adequate passenger rail, walkable with no need for a car, low crime. A small town that is a short train ride away from the big city. Now that I've found it, the major expenses of my life are gone. I don't own a car, I have a bicycle. I don't have any debt. I owe no one a rent/mortgage check at the end of the month. Carrying everything I eat and drink home from the grocery store is a great way to stay in shape and avoid over-eating as well.

Since my expenses are so low, I now enjoy a three day work week. We live on one income. I'm no longer responsible for server uptime. I can work whichever days I choose. I split my four days off. Two days of the week are for my side project ideas. The weekends are spent enjoying eating out, hopping on the train to explore a new station stop or revisit a favorite one. If we stay home, I do the cooking on Sunday for my spouse who cooked all week for me. I'm very stress free now.

Despite living modestly, I consider myself richer than the billionaires of the world, because I have the one thing they'll never have: Enough.

That was funny, I'm not even mad. Upvote for you.

LOL, there's a sucker born every minute!

>Is it actually possible to determine how much the weights were influenced by each work?

It will be very possible once they become the owners of the intellectual property being infringed. Think about how it was "impossible" to implement DRM on music and movies in the early days of youtube. Now, Google owns the content and platform, and suddenly their "rolling cypher" which involves no encryption at all is supposedly enforcable DRM.

The Silicon Valley tech bros play the same game every time. They violate the law, say it's just too darn difficult to obey the law without stifling progress, and then they get away with it until they kill all the competition. At which point, the law is once again applicable to anyone that might try to challenge them.

Remember how Amazon destroyed all the other retailers when they had a decade of no sales tax while brick & mortar had to obey it. "Calculating sales tax for 50 different states?! That's impossible!!!" What a load of shit...

Now, knowing that they're going to do this playbook again, how do you think it's going to play out? We've already seen it. Anthropic steals your copyrighted code, puts together their claude code project, the code for that project leaks, but now THEY own it! They sent DMCA takedowns on that AI generated code. AI generated code enjoys no copyright protection, it cannot be DMCAed under the law, there's no copyright on it. But Anthropic claims there is, and Github will obey the takedown, and nobody has the money to step up and stop them.

See where this is going? Once they achieve market dominance, they will claim that all the code generated by claude belongs to Anthropic, your prompts belong to you, but THEIR machine generated THEIR code and you only purchase a license to it with your tokens. A limited license. It might be revokable, it might expire, maybe you need to pay an annual fee to keep using THEIR code Claude generated for you. And if you actually just write code on your own, without Claude? Well, prepare to be sued like a network printer is sued by the RIAA because that's going to happen too. They will have their robot scour your code for "fair use" training and discover that it's just too similar to something their machine generated a year earlier. Sorry open source programmer, here's your legalese nasty gram. It appears you owe Anthropic some money.

I usually agree with the EFF on things, but after reading their linked https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/us-copyright-offices-d... I couldn't disagree more. An LLM is a predict the next word algorithm. If the model is overfitting, it's basically copy paste. There have been several documented instances where that happened and full GPL code, including headers and attribution were copy/pasted by the "AI."

AI is essentially copy paste with more steps. The part that AI companies use to defend this is ?how are we supposed to decide how much each author deserves? They try to wave this away, but their own model can tell them. Their models work off of weights. They can determine how much each work contributed based on those weights, so it's dishonest for them to argue it isn't possible. The way the models are engineered now don't make this possible, but that's intentional and we can all recognize that. They throw up their hands and claim it's not possible because they simply don't want to pay.

The most infurating thing however is how AI companies sidestep the IP rights of authors, but then claim to own those IP rights when their own generated output leaks. Anthropic filed DMCA takedowns on the leaked claude code repos, claiming ownership over something they explicitly have stated is almost entirely AI generated as part of their marketing. They take code, mix it up just enough to scrub away the GPL or whatever license belongs on it, then try to claim ownership of the result, in spite of the Copyright Office repeatedly stating that AI generated works have no copyright protection at all.

I'm pretty sure it's the people paying for it that decide who profits off it.

>everyone using this technology loses

As someone not using the technology, I'm fine with that :) Intellectual property laundering was never a good thing. Glad we can begone with it.

I show dead and never see a dead fanboy. Just the critics.

It's safe to assume you've been infected by the latest NPM supply chain attack I guess. No issue reading archive.is here.

>maybe by chance.

Big sky theory says otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_sky_theory