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readyplayernull··on [dead]
We humans forget what freedom is, but do we need to be tosed in jails and beaten the shit out of us to remember?
readyplayernull··on Warren Buffett saw the selloff coming and hoarded cash
So how many Melania coins did he buy?
readyplayernull··on Three-dimensional flexible thermoelectric fabrics for smart wearables
0.0495 mAh
readyplayernull··on Canada has far too few soldiers. Here's a radical fix – mandatory service
Enough to contain an invasion.

https://theconversation.com/zombie-water-apocalypse-is-trump...

readyplayernull··on Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington
They'll get turned off.
readyplayernull··on Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)
> GPT-4’s text entitled “Why Did I Write GEB?,” if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, me) is adept at fluently stringing together high-flown phrases in an effort to sound profound and yet sweetly self-effacing at the same time. That nonsensical image is wildly off base. The text is a travesty from top to bottom. In sum, I find the machine-generated string of words deeply lamentable for giving this highly misleading impression of who I am (or who I was when I wrote my first book), as well as for totally misrepresenting the story of how that book came to be. I am genuinely sorry to come down so hard on the interesting experiment that you conducted in good faith, but I hope that from my visceral reaction to it, you will see why I am so opposed to the development and widespread use of large language models, and why I find them so antithetical to my way of seeing the world.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: Could the U.S. government stop risking shutdown?
It's intended, will give more power to the power hoarders. They'll also use this:

https://www.newsweek.com/insurrection-act-explained-trump-ad...

readyplayernull··on Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs
And pandemics.
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?
The whole problem is that wisdom is controlled by greed.

But what if, in the future, the brains of current world leaders are examined and they find the cause of their actions is saturation of microplastics? So destroying the planet wasn't their fault, but just like lead and the Romans, they got crazy from pollution itself?

readyplayernull··on Government shutdown looms as DOGE cuts spending
> Trump will at least temporarily have more power over federal operations. That’s because in shutdowns, presidents enjoy wide discretion on exactly what to close, furloughing employees, and what to keep open, making workers perform their duties without pay.
readyplayernull··on Government shutdown looms as DOGE cuts spending
https://archive.is/FnClD
readyplayernull··on Thirty years ago, on March first, 1995, Craig Newmark sent a simple email
Craigslist always seemed to me like the Dark Web, with all kind of people doing shady business, and this case is an amusing example:

> a bank robber successfully used a Craigslist help-wanted ad for construction workers, specifying their uniform, to create unwitting decoys around the bank he robbed in matching uniform. His "getaway car" was an inner tube.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/bank-robber-hires-decoys-on-cra...

readyplayernull··on [dead]
> experts say there is no evidence that a water shortage caused the California wildfires, CNN reports.
readyplayernull··on Elon Musk claims 'massive cyberattack' on X originated from the 'Ukraine area'
This guy made more damage to Twitter than a puny DDOS could do. Don't echo unfounded accusations from his bubble.
readyplayernull··on US unveils new app for 'self-deportations'
So they want to waste resources in courts and keep them in jails to feed them?
readyplayernull··on Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
Spotify
readyplayernull··on Anus: An open-source AI agent framework created by Manus AI itself
Did you detect any code smells?

Anyway, good prompting, I'll check it out. Thanks!

readyplayernull··on Smallest Hello World in Various Languages and Compilers
I thought writing a Hello World in C++ was easy, until I had to make one that is transmitted by 2 synchronized I2C masters sharing nothing else but a 7 bit I2C slave memory. All I found about multimaster I2C is that it isn't possible or even practical, well.. Hello multimaster-multislave I2C!
readyplayernull··on Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
We are talking multitrillion company here, money shouldn't be an issue. Though you prove my point, they lack coordination. Also AI lacks coordination and strategy and won't solve BigTech management problems any time soon. Best they can try is providing tools trying to capture what others, that are actually inventive, can do. That's why they will stay at Azure level.
readyplayernull··on US 'to cease all future military exercises in Europe'
Maskirovka correctly applied:

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

readyplayernull··on Trump Pulled $400M from Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next
> What is an "illegal protest"? Do we have a 1st amendment or not?

They are living in the future, more specifically in April 20:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurr...

readyplayernull··on Trump Pulled $400M from Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next
And the people dismantling the government are philantrophists /s
readyplayernull··on Feds arrest man for sharing DVD rip of Spider-Man movie with millions online
Meanwhile encryption itself will become illegal, unless it can be backdoored.
readyplayernull··on Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship
Related warning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290002

readyplayernull··on Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
Anyway, why does Microsoft bottleneck itself when it could have 10 different AI teams. That's why 10 new AI startups can achieve what these behemoths can't.
readyplayernull··on Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules
The new burning of books.

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

readyplayernull··on What Went Wrong with Skype?
Teams
readyplayernull··on China and US rapidly developing quantum computers, yet Bitcoin is still $90k
Knowledge is power, networked computers are rockets of the mind.
readyplayernull··on US Army soldiers accused of selling military secrets to buyers in China
Meanwhile DOGE is amassing a fortune in information for.. whom?
readyplayernull··on Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48M years ago
Kingdoms in the poles, wasteland in the middle. No wonder why Canada and Greenland became targets.
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