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In my understanding, one reason Sabine gets readily attacked (as user `cardanome` does here) is because of her criticism of orthodox physics theories. She has famously exclaimed that all cosmological theories supposing a “beginning” of the universe are essentially “a creation myth written in the language of mathematics”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618719

That's a great advantage in theory. In practice, I've never found X integration to work great in practice. For eg., when I asked it to source X posts on Nix related complaints it was only able to find a single niche user,

https://x.com/i/grok/share/Qw5NDq5BINGSBqNg9wrqBjf1y

I have no idea why that page says "Grok’s output has been customized by this user"; I don't see anything related to custom prompts in my Grok settings page. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

Hmm, I'm only too happy to rephrase my question, then.

What concrete danger do you imagine will happen as a result of xAI being controlled by Elon? Try to be as concrete as possible.

Interesting. In that table, I see $40 for US users. Yet the price remains $30 for Canadian users, despite their low dollar value.

For some ouroborus fun, I attached this whole HN discussion and asked Grok 3 to summarize (with specific focus on the members attitude towards Elon Musk). Here's what it came up with:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/CTDC0WOi7RCbEDrm11AJ3PtLM

Where do you see that Premium+ is $40 per month?

The official source says "Starts at $22/month or $229/year on web", https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium

This is pretty much what I paid a couple of months ago, as a Canadian.

I do not share your fear & anxiety. What concrete danger do you imagine will happen as a result of xAI? Try to be as concrete as possible.

Also, dang, is there anything we can do to keep the comments on this submission tech-focused? Perhaps the Elon-bashing political digression can be split into its own thread?

> There are plenty of other places to discuss things considered "off-topic" for HN.

Once such place is the "Culture War" threads in https://www.themotte.org/ - but they do demand more level-headedness than what we typically see here on political submissions on HN (especially involving Trump or Musk).

I use https://github.com/cachix/git-hooks.nix which provides all of it:

- Pre-commit hook setup

- Run locally anytime (`pre-commit run -a`)

- Check in CI (as Nix flake check)

Example repo: https://github.com/srid/haskell-template

The pre-commit configuration: https://github.com/srid/haskell-template/blob/master/nix/mod...

Could you cite some references for actix and serde?

You can tell a lot about someone from their level of hatred for Musk (and Trump). In 50 years or so, future humans will look back at this phenomenon as one of insanity of our era.

This is what I see in that link (from Canada):

> Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

i.e., it shows both the names.

As someone who has always enjoyed the likes of Age of Empires / Age of Mythology, is there a reason to play Civilization style games?

These kinds of controversial submissions do end up appearing in https://hckrnews.com/

n=1 anecdote. Outside of childhood, I've never been vaccinated (never took the COVID-19 vaccine either), and have never had the flu (at least not anything requiring rest) in the last two decades (in Canada) except when I got COVID-19 which lasted about 5 days in bed.

It'd be cool if someone could package this to be runnable with Nix, similar to https://community.flake.parts/services-flake/llm

If it is any consolation, I don't think there's anything more you can do as a moderator to solve the problem, as it will require the underlying human nature to change. In this context, the problem is with what is called 'peasant mentality'[^1], specifically defending a bureaucracy that is being dismantled by DOGE.

[^1]: https://x.com/sridca/status/1846935493100888262

This was brewing from last year.

From their "Mission First" post on Apr 18, 2024 https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/buil...

> “ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.”

Paul Graham had predicted it back in 2020: https://x.com/paulg/status/1781329523155357914

https://www.piratewires.com/p/mission-accomplished

And this was happening elsewhere too, for e.g.,

Microsoft: https://archive.is/p5Ewk

and

Meta: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134 ... even as early as 2022: https://world.hey.com/dhh/meta-goes-no-politics-at-work-and-...

For larger context, see https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/chief-diversity-officer...

The X post in that last link is in response to a suspended account. Screenshot for those wondering is here:

https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1886479301081522599

(The names it includes are already in the Wired article)

I had to scroll a lot to get to the first positive comment! And it is heavily downvoted.

Reminds me of this submission here (ironically) asking advice on dealing with negative comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445820

> you read it totally differently than me

Yes, I read it beyond the abstract. And if you did too, you'd know about the theory that "the requirement for thiamin is reduced due to a reduction in thiamin-requiring glycolytic metabolism" or that "the large quantities of carnitine available in an animal-based diet may provide Vitamin C sparing effect".

> As I understand it it only confirms my view

As even the abstract, that you limited yourself to read, goes on to confirm that these nutrient requirements are reduced in a carnivore diet -- cf. "facilitates a lower requirement of certain nutrients" -- then your understanding is a doozie, let alone it support your unsubstantiated view that "meat is indeed not "nutritionally" complete".

That page <https://justmeat.co/peoples/> actually says "have eaten meat-heavy, if not exclusive diets" and even follows up with "Not all are necessarily fully carnivorous". If this is all the supposed fault you can find, it does easily expose your "a lot of false claims" motte-and-bailey furphy for what it actually is. In regards to "I don't think there's scientific evidence to support it", 'tis just as well I didn't have you advicing me all those years ago, else this conversation wouldn't even be happening (and I be free of my chronic condition), eh?

Finally, in regards to your "some quack" put-down, it actually behoves on you to provide evidence that an exclusively animal-based diet (especially with offal) is necessarily "deficient". It would seem that you lack sufficient understanding of nutrient bioavailability (generally high in animal foods), as well as the fact that RDA is not absolute (note for instance the reduced requirement speculations for Thiamin & Vitamin C in <https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/1/140>)?

> I did that too. [..]

If you are saying that you too were on a carnivore diet long term (5+ years) and very possibly experienced "the worst possible outcome" related to cholesterol levels, you would be the first person to report as such. Perhaps you would like to publish the anecdote in detail somewhere (including just exactly what you ate, as "a high cholesterol diet" is imprecise enough to mean many things)?

> I don't know if this is a troll

This is a rather odd dig towards a non-anonymous user (using his real name) and is ironically coming from a pseudoanonymous account (with no real name associated with it).

Mostly beef, but occasionally eggs & fish as well. Chicken wings on an odd occasion.

I've written about my diet here: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet

I have been on carnivore diet for 5+ years now. Did a blood test and the doctor prescribed me statins due to high cholestrol readings. I declined to take them, of course.

That works if you have healthy gut flora, but not for others.

Including yours truly: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet

Important caveat:

> ChatGPT has a limit on 10 active tasks at any time. If you reach this limit, ChatGPT will not be able to create a new task unless you pause or delete an existing active task or it completes per its scheduled time.

So this is pretty much useless for most real-world uses cases.

Yes. What do you think Grok AI's real-time information being sourced on posts of individual users (similar to early internet) as opposed to established media (like AP)?