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He was indeed sentenced to life, but was inexplicably allowed to go in and out of prison during his sentence - on one occasion he was paroled for thirty days under dubious circumstances. He was eventually released on parole 4 years ago for "good behavior", and is now trying to rehabilitate his public image (along with his extremely corrupt father).

Rumble's entire market cap is $1.6B - seems like they would have to take on an onerous debt burden to cover the (Bloomberg estimated) $15B - $20B valuation of Chrome.

They won't. The companies that operate these scam centers are diversified criminal enterprises run by ultra-wealthy and politically connected individuals. These people own the police, they own the politicians, and until fairly recently, they owned the voters through massive vote-buying schemes.

You can get away with murder in India if you're wealthy enough (e.g. the case of Jessica Lal, murdered by a politician's son in front of at least a dozen witnesses). The egregious corruption of the INC or "Congress party" (which is ideologically progressive) over many decades has created a massive voter exodus to the conservative BJP party, the majority party in India since 2014. However, the corruption and inefficiency at all levels of civil society has remained endemic.

The net effect of these "syntactic sugar" diatribes has been many lifetimes of wasted developer effort in migrating between programming languages and frameworks, and countless products/investment dollars fizzling into oblivion because the developers couldn't stop worrying about how pretty the code looks.

I built a rudimentary brick sorting machine with the Lego color sensor many years ago, and I've seen some awesome brick sorting machines pop up over the years [1]. I started planning a sorting machine with a larger array of buckets in CAD but never got around to building it, hopefully the intrepid Lego fans over time will keep advancing the state of the art.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JkdHEX3Yk

It is not very Buddhist to characterize other methods as inferior [1]. Perhaps the words of the Buddha himself would be the best guidance for you on this.

1. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/bl014.ht...

One of ProPublica's greatest recent victories (in my opinion) was the FOIA lawsuit to secure public release of PPP loan information, along with other COVID relief loans like EIDL. Aside from the sheer scale ($1 trillion) and the rampant fraud [1], there were politicians from both sides of the aisle who took these forgivable business loans while delaying other forms of government relief.

1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3906395

While I am sure we would agree on the dangers posed by certain wealthy donors on both sides, the ruling of Citizen's United allows for something far more insidious - effectively a nullification of regulations set forth in a bipartisan campaign finance reform act eight years earlier (BCRA).

Essentially what we have today is a free-for-all. Any corporation can spend unlimited amounts of money (commonly referred to as "dark money") to influence politics, with virtually no oversight (i.e. FEC reporting requirements). As an individual, my ability to fund political campaigns is limited to thresholds set at the local and federal level, but a billion dollar company like FTX can give millions of dollars to politicians who put forward favorable regulations. Billion dollar AI companies will control potential future regulation in a similar manner. I'm oversimplifying here, and added some helpful links for anyone interested:

- Two Challenges for Campaign Finance Disclosure After Citizens United and Doe v. Reed - https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol19/iss4/8/

- The Death of Non-Resident Contribution Limit Bans and the Birth of the New Small, Swing State - https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol28/iss4/4/

- Why Contribution Limits on a Hybrid PAC’s Independent-Expenditure Arm are Impermissible - https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol25/iss1/10/

Political advertising emerged within a decade of the birth of the republic. Abraham Lincoln famously had his face plastered everywhere, and his campaign monikers like "Honest Abe" are still in use today.

The real push toward oligarchy, in my opinion, is the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs FEC. The only available remedy at this point is for the American electorate to stop relying on political ads and make a decision on policy alignment alone (like the Founding Fathers did) - this is a totally unrealistic goal in today's polarized environment.

If you feel comfortable sharing, what is the meditation technique you practice? I am a Vipassana practitioner and found your observation to be anecdotally true - the commonly stated reasoning for the prescribed diet in a Vipassana course is that it minimizes the amount of blood diverted from other organs (i.e. the brain) to aid in digestion.

In any case, I found your statement "nothing to lose and could always return to my previous, though less-than-optimal, lifestyle" quite inspiring - thank you!

I think you are correct as I recall there is a set of middle game chess puzzles where Stockfish outperformed the other chess engines by a wide margin - I can't find the link as it was years ago. Not sure how the state-of-the-art has progressed since then. But I do believe the "horizon effect" plays a role in whether an engine decides to forcibly draw a game, which afforded Stockfish + NNUE a distinct advantage (at least at the time).

Thank you for the explanation! I completely understand the rough edges, I have some rough ideas out there myself. Would it be alright if I add a link to your site to our chess club's list of online resources?

I can also make a note of it privately and check back in with you in the future. I found it pretty remarkable that it played a human-like response to some niche openings - I actually ended up checking against Stockfish and it played different moves, which is pretty neat.

Really nice work! The tabs other than "play" don't seem to be working, but I was able to try some novelty openings and it certainly felt like it was responding with human moves. It would be great to have the ability to go back/forth moves to try out different variations.

I'm curious how you combined Stockfish with your own model - but no worries if you're keeping the secret sauce a secret. All the best to you in building out this app!

You're right that there are limits (just as there are limits on free speech), and I don't think any sensible person is advocating for freedom of association on the basis of religion/race/gender. The original comment was proposing that merely holding an ideological position should afford some sort of legal protection - this is akin to firing someone for political affiliations, which is allowable in most cases for private enterprise, with greater latitude for political activity afforded to government employees.

This is accurate for endgames only. In complicated positions, there is still room for improvement - the recent game of lc0 vs stockfish where lc0 forced a draw against an impending checkmate is a good example. There is currently no way for a chess engine searching a massive game tree can see how an innocuous pawn move enables a forced stalemate 40 moves down the line.

It's called freedom of association, a foundational principle of capitalism and free markets.

I landed my first software job when I was 18 years old. I didn't have a degree or any professional experience in their tech stack, and the recruiter told me later that I was hired because of "my passion for Legos and foreign languages" (I was learning Swahili at the time, and one of my interviewers happened to be a former volunteer in the Peace Corps, who conducted most of the interview in Swahili).

I had a great experience at that company while I was in college, which also launched me into an exciting professional career. All of it wouldn't have happened without people like you.

This is already quite common with deepfakes of a politician's voice. While I agree on the potentially dystopian implications of this, it seems like it would be a huge improvement for a politician to put campaign funds into burning a little GPU time on answering specific questions from constituents (i.e. the LLM is reading their stated policy positions and simply delivering a tailored response), rather than wastefully plastering their name all over town.

I really hope this technology becomes the future of political campaigning. The signage industry which prints billions of posters, plastic lawn signs, and banners for the post-election landfill needs to be disrupted.

These days I get a daily dose of amazement at what a small engineering team is able to accomplish.

This is a great idea. I have even hit this pain point when developing a healthcare app for hospitals that was primarily used in the United States. There are certain communities, even just within California, where it is common to have patients who only understand Spanish, Mandarin, or Japanese.

Any plans to extend this to iOS/Android development in the future? I assume it would already be easy to integrate this into React Native.

Also, is there a way for me to provide explicit additional context to the `t` function for the translation? Essentially a string that is appended to the LLM input for translation. For example, in Japanese there is often a significant difference between formal and informal language, and it is common to add post-positional particles such as や, が, and の to make titles and labels sound more natural. I see you have addressed many other special cases around numbers/dates/etc, so certain flags like formal/informal, regional dialect, etc may be valuable future additions.

Overall looks really nice and I look forward to trying this the next time the need arises.

I'm not sure if the analogy still works if you're trying to compare fossil fuels to LLM. A few decades ago, virtually all gasoline was full of lead, and the CFCs from refrigerators created a hole in the ozone layer. In that case it turned out that you actually do need a few guardrails as technology advances, to prevent an existential threat.

Although I do agree with you that in this particular situation, the LLM safety features have often felt unnecessary, especially because my primary use case for ChatGPT is asking critical questions about history. When it comes to history, every LLM seems to have an increasingly robust guardrail against making any sort of definitive statement, even after it presents a wealth of supporting evidence.

HN is a place for intellectual curiosity. For over a decade I have seen great minds respectfully debate their point of view on this forum. In this particular case, I would have been genuinely interested to learn why exactly the original comment is advocating for a "race to the bottom" - in fact, there is a sibling comment to yours which makes a cogent argument without personally attacking the original commenter.

Instead, you devoted 2/3 of your comment toward berating the OP as being responsible for your perception of HN's decline.

The alarming trend should be how even a slightly contrarian point of view is downvoted to oblivion, and that newer members of the community expect it to work that way.

This is incredible. I uploaded a CSV with ~6000 rows containing campaign finance data for a particularly corrupt local politician and asked "what was the total contributed amount in [year]". Not only did it produce the correct answer (in around the same amount of time it took me to calculate it on my end) but it also seemed to understand that the spreadsheet was related to campaign finance in the "summary" portion of the response.

The most useful aspect was that I could ask "what was the total contributed amount between January and June of 2020" and get an accurate answer for that as well. Since the date column is provided as an "MM/DD/YYYY" string, I would normally have to do some boilerplate work to sanitize this.

For my particular use case, the charting aspect left a few things to be desired - once I grouped campaign donations by contributor, I could only see the first 10 rows in the AI response, with no option to expand the output. But overall I was truly blown away that something like this is even possible for a small team to build.

This is a great idea, especially when you consider the untold millions that companies like Twilio and Stripe already spend on educating developers. Perhaps along with "language tracks" there could be "API tracks".

I burned out around 3 years ago and couldn't fix it with a year of traveling the world and working on side projects - thankfully I discovered Vipassana meditation which helped me bounce back stronger than ever. Hopefully someone else in a similar situation might find this potential solution useful.

Incredible to see this posted today, as I was just in a long discussion yesterday about the future of AI in education. It's a neat concept but I think you're spreading yourself too thin on content, especially given the number of courses on the site. It might be better to focus on building out a core set of lessons for a targeted group of learners first. At the end of the day, even if you're using AI to generate the content, a human being needs to do the proofreading and quality assurance.

The design also has ample room for improvement - it's a bit hard to navigate the site and stay engaged with the content at the moment.

I skipped to the "why build a database" section and then skipped another two minutes of his tangential thoughts - seems like the answer is "because Moore's law"?

Genuinely curious here and not trying to start a debate or sound rhetorical (I just don't keep up with the news that much) - what did Elon do that was racist?

There's no practical way to live in the modern world without indirectly benefiting from forced labor. Some of the cobalt required for EV batteries is mined by forced labor in the Congo, and there was a recent controversy around BMW and VW importing vehicles to the USA with parts made from forced labor of Uyghur prisoners in China. Even in the US, virtually all license plates are created by prisoners who earn 8-16 cents an hour.

My original point was to the "Elon schadenfreude" crowd cheering for BMW and swearing off Tesla because they don't agree with the founder's actions. Seems like selective outrage to me.