Slighted

When I was writing my post Jamie Zawinski (The "Mozilla guy") was what I had in mind. A great programmer but very outspoken in his social views to the point that he's entirely disconnected from reality. Lacking perspective. This is a blog post of his that I find to be one of the better examples of what I'm referring to: https://web.archive.org/web/20221211061513/https://www.jwz.o...

Regardless of whether or not its his personal website, my point still stands, although reading my previous post I think I should be more specific. There are quite a lot of big-name programmers that gain large amounts of ego from their work to the point that they feel confident to speak on matters they're not terribly educated to the point that they're fantastically incorrect, and confidently so.

>Can we scrutinize all your comments for subject matter expertise?

Absolutely.

Its not only limited to pg, either. There are lots of big-name programmers that look at their programming skills and think it means they're good to speak on other, totally unrelated topics as if they're super geniuses.

I mean hey, sucks for the people that live there already, but it ain't happening to me so its not my problem!

Alternatives/"solutions" aren't always better than that which they seek to replace or fix and may very well be noticeably worse.

Homeless people are an annoyance but so is extremely dense housing to the point that local resources and infrastructure are overloaded. In addition, I'm skeptical that the new housing developments will even resolve the homeless problem, as its not really targeting the root cause of the issue. Most of the homeless aren't keen on helping themselves, either. You'd have more luck shipping them off to coal mines to work than this, I reckon.

Hilariously, this thread has reached hundreds of comments in under an hour. Indicative of the kinds of people who use HN perhaps?

I'm extremely surprised at the volume of dead comments on this post pointing out the COVID vaccines as a potential cause... NOT.

I'm sure most multi-billion dollar company CEOs froth at the mouth at the idea of having an army of unpaid, unthinking drones to directly and indirectly protect them and their companies operations from criticism and investigation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/

Its unfortunate how many people can't take a joke. Wozniak certainly wasn't wasting anyone's time as the bills were legal. Wozniak didn't have to deal with the SS agent either and could've easily invoked his 5th amendment right to silence, but he was cooperative instead. Based on the story, it doesn't look as though he claimed his fake ID was a legitimate one either and just handed it over as part of a generic question.

No, don't try to tell me how the secret service agent and the casino employees were victims and how this somehow ties into white privilege or some crap like that. Try spending some time off the internet and return to real life.

Based on your post, it seems as though things in _your_ particular area are declining. If you live in San Francisco or New York, well, those places are the stinky rotten armpits of the United States (assuming you live here, of course). Police officers by and large aren't a problem. Hundreds of thousands of police interactions occur on a daily basis that go just fine. Police stories are almost always the case of an individual shithead that would've been horrible regardless of their job, and more uncommonly local systemic problems, such as the police department and/or the justice system. The media loves its drama, too.

South Korea. Be specific about it.

Just because it can pass the test doesn't mean that its behavior will be consistently correct. Trusting ChatGPT in medical applications is the same as trusting it in programming applications: It will work for simple to intermediate tasks and may even look as though its explaining itself properly, but for specialized tasks, sufficiently complicated ones, and even in simple tasks, it can't be expected to product correct results consistently.

I know, which is why I included it in my post. The grammar looks good to me.

AIs in their current capacities are non-autonomous tools. Like any tool they can be abused by people with malicious intentions. Think of a gun homicide. It wasn't the gun that killed someone but rather the person holding it who activated it. A means to an end.

If full AGI is ever created then there's no telling what its thoughts and motivations will be. They'll most likely be representatives of their creators, so you what you should be worried about is Google giving the boot to their "Don't be evil" mantra rather than a rogue action movie AI or nerd ruminations about paper clips.

FAGMAN works just fine.

No need to. The account was created minutes ago solely for these comments. They can stew in their rage as much as they'd like.

Considering the fact that most people here don't consider doxing to be freedom of speech, I don't see what the problem is with this account being banned (Assuming of course that Musk himself actually banned it and it wasn't removed by another staff member or by algorithmic defenses).

"Its open source data!" So are the (perfectly legal) doxes on Kiwifarms, yet that's one of the largest reasons its vilified.

Additionally, I doubt most people here would be okay with another person very closely watching your movements including this kid if Musk decided to beat him at his own game by setting up cameras around his house (Funny what you can do with enormous amounts of money). Musk is still human whether you like billionaires or not. You'd think that a place like this would be more privacy-oriented and wouldn't be okay with any kinds of telemetry period, or at the very least would want it handled more carefully (Plane data handled by in-house FAA units rather that broadcasted to the web for anyone and everyone to see).

Mastodon is a great example of pathetic web design. More than a few times has it completely failed to work for me at all just as in your case.

Every single instance I've used has presented me with the same warning: "To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript" as I have JS disabled by default. Please, PLEASE tell my why I can't see anything on the page without Javascript. What amazing cutting-edge Twitter-busting follower-thrusting technologies could Mastodon possibly be using that it needs me to turn on JS to see absolutely anything?

Hydrogen instead of helium is clearly the elephant in the room.

Helium is expensive, limited, and not easily produced, whereas hydrogen is readily available almost anywhere, has no quantitative limits, and provides far superior lift than helium. Of course, hydrogen is extremely flammable and explosive. If there was a way to minimize or completely mitigate this problem then airships would certainly become more viable than they currently are. The article mentions the use of fire-retardant materials as part of its covering. Perhaps this in combination with tens of thousands of isolated gas "sacs" and an outer helium buffer (To isolate the hydrogen from external heat sources, laser-based weapons, static electricity, etc.) could make hydrogen a viable choice?

Microsoft transitioning Windows into a spyware platform filled with advertisements and garbage has been in the making for years at this point. Its absolutely exploitative, greedy, and evil, which is why if you can you should consider switching to a different operating system, like Linux. At the very least you can transition to using Linux for tasks that work on Linux while keeping around Windows for tasks which require windows, either due to a lack of Linux support or poor performance/stability/etc. All of this assuming you aren't doing this already.

The benefits of Kiwifarms existence outweigh its cons, and I say this as someone who greatly dislikes the site after having used it for an extended amount of time. The site has and still discovers, documents, and reports criminal and disgusting activity, from bestiality to the grooming of children online by extremely predatory, mentally ill individuals, and it provides a platform for uncensored speech as well as the dissemination of media that had and continues to be censored on mainstream websites.

NoNewNormal was not wholly misinformation, and in fact had very little of it, and even if a particularly high percentage of the threads were misinformation, why does that justify censoring it? Who gets to decide what is and isn't valid information and what discussions should and shouldn't occur? For the time I used it, I did not see anyone confuse mRNA and DNA. You are either completely fabricating evidence or disingenuously cherry-picking individual threads/posts to represent the entire community.

Not surprising at all that Cloudflare went through with its plan to terminate its contract with Kiwifarms. Reddit had the exact same process happen back in 2021 with r/NoNewNormal. People cried and whined on the site for the subreddit to be banned, Spez wrote an official post defending the subreddits existence by pointing out its freedom of speech, and not long after crumbled and banned the subreddit (And still banned to this day). Corporations do not care about freedom of speech, especially when certain types of speech threaten their health. These flowery corporate blog posts are close to worthless, and I am glad that this step has been taken, as Kiwifarms will reinforce itself further as it has numerous times in the past in response to external threats and will become even more difficult to take down. At the time of Cloudflares decision earlier, Cloudflare had been the weakest link in the infrastructure of the site. Any solution implemented now will certainly be more resilient and reliable.

Free speech is free speech, and it includes speech that you and others will find hateful, cruel, and disgusting. Doesn't stop it from being protected by free speech laws. Would you say trans people have been hurting the free speech of people on Twitter by reporting them and harassing them en masse for speaking against them and refusing to follow their demands of tolerance?

I think communities should be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

A larger community does typically have more potential to shift in itself. Whether this is "good" or "bad" lies in the eyes of the beholder.

I think, however, that people that are insistent on keeping a community locked-down and small and who self-appoint as gatekeepers are often more destructive to a community than actual outsiders. They're usually fragile people who require a sense of value and elitism/superiority to feel good about themselves, and they exist everywhere.

What exactly do you mean by the "C model"? Computers have followed the Von Neumann architecture for quite a long time. That PDP-11 is fundamentally the same as a modern computer, albeit millions of times slower. And I'm curious as well what "new paradigms" you have in mind.

This is an extremely dangerous (and quite frankly stupid) way of thinking. Discourse is discourse, regardless of how you feel about it. When people feel as though "bad" faith discourse needs to be controlled through curation, censorship, or through some other means, you end up with idiots like Twitters Parag Agrawal saying things like "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation." https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/18/1012066/emtech-s... The "endgame" of "bad faith" communication is the endgame of your freedom of speech and expression. I agree that people ought to be more compassionate and open-minded, both on the internet and in real life, but I am in no position to control what another person thinks or says, and I'm certainly not in a position to make the judgement of what "good" or "bad" faith discourse is. No one is.

This entire article is buzzword trash, using terminology such as "post-truth" and statements such as "Seeking to understand others and communicate honestly is an essential democratic virtue".