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Cheer2171··on Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses
Oh, so we can't address any specific problems with any technology, because we should actually be fixing all of society at the root of all those problems. So while you wait for our broken political system to solve those root causes, enjoy feeling smug about not having implemented any imperfect, temporary bandaids to stop some bleeding.

Are you working on fixing those root problems? Or after dismissing short term policy bandaids, are you going to go back to working in an industry where you will probably make more money in the short run if governments don't do any tech regulation in the short run?

Your commitment to the long run will lead to paralysis and do nothing in the long run.

Cheer2171··on I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
> said usage is actually getting monitored and performance appraisals have now started depending on the AI usage instead of (or at least in addition to) traditional metrics like number of priority bugs raised, code reviews, Function Points Analysis, etc.

Really? This sounds absurd. "Instead of" means it doesn't matter how shit your work is as long as you're burning tokens? Or it doesn't matter how good your work is if you're not burning tokens? Name and shame

Cheer2171··on I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
I am a programmer, not a rubber stamp that copy pastes StackOverflow answers I don't understand

Or clones a template repo and only tweaks a few files

Or imports libraries with code I've never read

Cheer2171··on State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments
Tell me where in the first amendment it says these rights only apply to citizens.
Cheer2171··on GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me
The author wasn't doing "AI research" before and neither was GPT5. This is not at the frontier of anything, it is just an already solved problem in training that GPT5 found. Had the author been willing to actually do a Google and GitHub search, or just twiddle the training knob parameters enough on their own, they would have found a better solution than working alone.

Also this footnote:

> Alone” here is relative - I did use ChatGPT and a bit of Copilot to generate some of the training code in my last attempt. I just didn’t use any agentic tool

I have no words. I wonder if this "AI researcher" can make it through the original Attention Is All You Need paper without an LLM.

Cheer2171··on Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
> their expectations are NOT reasonable. They expect ChatGPT to do their entire job for $20/month and hire, plan, budget accordingly.

This is entirely on the AI companies and their boosters. Sam Altman literally says gpt 5 is "like having a team of PhD-level experts in your pocket." All the commercials sell this fantasy.

Cheer2171··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
~$1.25-1.75/hr at Runpod or vast.ai for an A100

Edit: https://getdeploying.com/reference/cloud-gpu/nvidia-a100

Cheer2171··on Tactility: An ESP32 OS
The Apollo Guidance Computer only had 4kb of RAM and got to the moon and back.
Cheer2171··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
The Snapdragon X Elite has tons of laptop models and a few mini PCs like:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-Mini-x-debut...

The Elite X2 is near release and supposedly on par with these M5 numbers:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M5-9-Cores-Processor-Ben...

Cheer2171··on California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
You'd have an argument if 'inference' hadn't become the standard term for "output from a weighted model" for a generation.
Cheer2171··on EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies
And Trump said this would be "the most transparent administration in history" [1]. What a disgrace.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/the-most-transparent-admin...

Cheer2171··on Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism
Cool, if I wanted a shitty LLM generated essay on this topic I would have just queried the model myself. You think you are bringing anything of value to the work? Have a nice life as a copy paste machine.
Cheer2171··on Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism
Deepseek was trained on ChatGPT outputs, so yes, their writing style is running throughout the post you claim to be the author of (I almost said your writing style, which it is not)

Share the original in Italian and your prompt. Because my suspicion is that you had a half baked idea and the LLMs did all the rest.

Cheer2171··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
https://deflock.me/map

Check your assumptions, the Bay Area and LA are littered with them. They're in Berkeley for fucks sake.

Cheer2171··on Ollama Web Search
If people are using ollama for on prem deployment, for anything more than single user hobby use or backend for a UI proof of concept, then run as far away as you can from those people. Major red flag, immediately disqualifying.
Cheer2171··on Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism
This article is ChatGPT generated, it has all the obvious tells, with a little editing and personal flair in spurts.

Ironic for an anti ChatGPT post.

Cheer2171··on Raspberry Pi 500+
Those capabilities have been in a much smaller slab you have been able to carry around in your pocket for the last 5 years minimum, and that slab was a fully functional computer with full touchscreen display input, microphone/speaker, and cellular.

The Samsung S20 Ultra (2020) has 16gb RAM 256GB of good fast storage, and with Dex you can connect it to a monitor and keyboard+mouse via a USB C dock and get a desktop window environment.

Of course the RPi costs less, but marvel over that, not the form or compactness. RPi innovated on cost, but this capacity in this form is everywhere. They don't even use most of the space inside the keyboard, the compute module is all the size of a smartphone.

Cheer2171··on Ollama Web Search
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Cheer2171··on Ollama Web Search
Your regular reminder that you don't need ollama to get a quick chat engine on the command line, you can just do this with pretty much any major model on huggingface:

pip install transformers

transformers chat Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

Cheer2171··on Ollama Web Search
Have ollama server support auth / API keys (closed as out of scope) and monetize the way everyone else does around SSO.
Cheer2171··on Ollama Web Search
What reputation? People who actually know how to develop software or work with LLMs know ollama is a child's tricycle and to run the hell away from what is just a buggy shell around other people's inference engines.

Ollama is beloved by people who know how to write 5 lines of python and bash to do API calls, but can't possibly improve the actual app.

Cheer2171··on Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin
Tailscale requires superuser/admin
Cheer2171··on Show HN: Vibe Linking
> Now that computers can think, precision is optional.

And I'm triggered. Good troll.

Cheer2171··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
Beware he who would tell you that any effort at trying to clean up the post apocalyptic wasteland that is social media is automatically tyranny, for in his heart he is a pedophile murderer fraudster, and you can call him that without proof, and when the moderators say your unfounded claim shouldn't be on the platform you just say CENSORSHIP.
Cheer2171··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
You're not wrong about the conditions. But what you describe is a property of many forms of employment, not a property of slavery.

What is your point? Do you want to continue to debate the wisdom of diluting the meaning of the word 'slavery'?

Cheer2171··on Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
The only money to be made is in compute, not open weights themselves. What point is a market when a commons like huggingface or modelscope? Alibaba made modelscope to compete with HF, and that's a commons not a market either, if that tells you anything.

By analogy, you can legally charge for copies of your custom Linux distribution, but what's the point when all the others are free?

Cheer2171··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
Nope, sorry but words have actual meanings and definitions. Slavery is when a person is owned as property. Slavery still exists in the U.S. for prisoners, for example, where the U.S. Constitution explicitly carves out an exception. Now, I don't disagree with your assessment that people on H1Bs have less agency, autonomy, and rights than natives.

But you dilute the meaning of the term 'slavery' when you apply it to someone who has a 100% legally protected right to leave their place of employment and country at any time, without having to pay anything but the cost of a ticket. If an H1B employer holds a worker's passport and makes them work in slavery-like conditions, then that's illegal. If an employer treats an H1B like an indentured servant and makes them pay off the cost of their hiring and immigration, then that's illegal. It does happen in the US, which is bad. It happens far more often to immigrants in places like Dubai, whose conditions often are slavery.

Slavery is really fucking terrible. There is a reason we react so strongly against it. By saying H1B === slavery, you're being intellectually dishonest or using black-and-white thinking.

Cheer2171··on $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
This is just an ESP32 with a display
Cheer2171··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
The large language model spit out science fiction prose in response to your science fiction prose inputs ("unconventional and highly skilled methods"). You're a fool if you take it to be evidence of it's own training and historical performance in other cases, rather than scifi.

Stop treating it like a god.

Cheer2171··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
Even assuming that is true, is that unfair? Yes. Unjust? Yes. Exploitative? Yes. Racist? Usually. But slavery? Absolutely not.

Or give me your definition of slavery.

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