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binbashthefash··on Tell HN: I'm Putting Together Some Censored Language Models and Training Sets
Yeah, appealing to hero-worship and faith in Facebook that creating a fascist AI is good actually isn't a convincing argument.
binbashthefash··on The fight against drought in California has a new tool: The restrictor
Source needed on lawns making people happier than having access to water and food.
binbashthefash··on The fight against drought in California has a new tool: The restrictor
That food is exported for profit, not used to feed hungry people in precarious situations.
binbashthefash··on Ask HN: Docker in WSL vs. Docker on MacBook M1?
They're both bad.
binbashthefash··on Ask HN: Docker in WSL vs. Docker on MacBook M1?
Docker on M1 is a pain in the ass if you have to focus on x86 instead of ARM. Non arm docker builds take much much longer to the point that my 2016 Mac is faster than my M1. But if you live in arm land it's fine. Unfortunately, that's not me so I spend most of my time Ssh'd into an x86 Linux machine.
binbashthefash··on Germans are looking to firewood for energy as natural gas prices soar
Wild how we can openly bash conservation efforts but not the nationalists and neoliberals who got us into this mess.
binbashthefash··on Tell HN: I'm Putting Together Some Censored Language Models and Training Sets
Why would I want a model obsessed with race-war and anti-semitism?
binbashthefash··on France Prepares $100 a Month Electric-Car Leasing Plan
Yeah we totally need more heatwave causing emissions right now guy
binbashthefash··on The Billion Dollar Network No One Uses (Helium Network)
Good, I hope they keep not using it
binbashthefash··on Ask HN: Are most software engineering decisions subjective?
Yes, because each decision is based on a previous decision, often made by someone else. Sometimes, someone 5 steps back made an awful decision which necessitates making another decision that may also be wrong, but wrong in a way that could leave the next person able to make a correct one.

If I walk into a room and someone asks "how do I deploy this app to the edge" there's 1000 answers that will either be right or wrong depending on decisions about that apps design that were made long ago but will still impact how I have to deploy it.

binbashthefash··on It's now illegal for anyone under 21 to buy canned whipped cream in New York
No the strategy is associate drugs with minorities to make being a minority illegal.

Ehrlichman told Baum. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

binbashthefash··on Police robot told woman go away after she tried to report crime then sang a song (2019)
The robots haven't murdered anyone with a choke hold or started a drug running gang yet at least
binbashthefash··on New Yorkers with pot convictions will now be the first to get to sell it
It's actually very straightforward

Ehrlichman told Baum. "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

binbashthefash··on Next, the Supreme Court Decides How to Punish US Expats
So what was "if you don't love it, leave it" all about then lmao
binbashthefash··on Height discrimination: How 'heightism' affects careers
How does remote work protect you from it if it's not real tho
binbashthefash··on New Yorkers with pot convictions will now be the first to get to sell it
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying?" Ehrlichman told Baum.

"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

binbashthefash··on New Yorkers with pot convictions will now be the first to get to sell it
It's bizarre that we let Nixon start a ware against a plant as a facade for destroying Jewish and Black activist communities. The government discriminated against them first with something that shouldn't have been illegal to begin with. This is an acknowledgement of that reality.
binbashthefash··on Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby
You have a whole little human who will need your help to understand what the world is and how to survive it. You'll get to see them grow, learn, fuck up, laugh and become their own fully realized person. Love them, teach them, give them the agency and respect you would want them to give others. Congratulations, you're gonna do great
binbashthefash··on A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?
Well we can't hold manufacturers accountable when a 12 year old is killed by AR-15s so i don't see why we care about a bike.
binbashthefash··on America’s Affordable Housing Problem
You've reviewed ALL regulations? Must have taken a while
binbashthefash··on People are demanding that Cloudflare drop Kiwi Farms
So it should replatform others to be fair I guess, otherwise it would seem to be favorable treatment for kiwi farms
binbashthefash··on A new vertical farm will grow 3M pounds of mycelium a year for fungi-based bacon
It's the exact opposite where I'm at in the EU. I picked up 400 grams of king oysters from the market for 2 euros yesterday.
binbashthefash··on A new vertical farm will grow 3M pounds of mycelium a year for fungi-based bacon
Oyster mushrooms grow on wood chips and old coffee grounds. Not exactly expensive.
binbashthefash··on The gathering crisis in the UK
Profit of corporations is the stole surplus value of the workers. And there's been plenty of it
binbashthefash··on Intel’s Arc GPU issues run much deeper than performance
Government subsidized larrabee 2.0 paperweights for everyone
binbashthefash··on Tech interviews are a big mess, but you can fix them
I've interviewed maybe 20 times in the last year and the best have always just started as a conversation about what a place is doing now, what they want to do in the future and how the candidates skills and experience can help them get there.

All the take-homes and whiteboards seemed like the interviewers special gotcha idea they'd been working on for maybe 10 seconds before asking me to do it and ended up full of holes, bad processes and generally showing more about them than anything.

One place that had no idea what devops was actually got upset I finished too quickly by making use of some FOSS tools and asked for a week to design a harder test. Huge red flag lol.

If you and your teams cant sit down and have one or two hour-long conversations with an engineer and get a good idea of if their skills and experience will help you - you're dysfunctional have bigger issues that you need to look inward about.

binbashthefash··on Ask HN: Why disable SSH root login with key only?
If your key leaks you have bigger problems. Passwords are just as vulnerable to those same problems. Both should be encrypted.

If you leave password enabled you need to harden the env as you be getting git by every script kiddy the second your public IP is ready.

You shouldn't be logging into these systems manually either - you should be provisioning them with the OS's default config tools like Ubiquiti or Cloud-init, storing the configs and creds in encrypted formats and the feeding them to chef/puppet/Ansible or any other configuration management tool.

Humans shouldn't be fucking with production systems, they should be making commits to git that are applied by automated systems.

binbashthefash··on A plan to fix the internet: Put the government in charge
10 dial-up only providers, a dish that caps out at 10mbps vs one a broadband provider who is the only one with anything considered actual high-speed isn't competition.

This was the case is multiple places I've lived in the Midwest.

binbashthefash··on Remote Work Is Hurting Productivity, New York-Area Firms Say
Guys I bought a huge vanity building noone is using anymore plz help me avoid the consequences of my own actions
binbashthefash··on To unlock housing, Tahoe program pays $24,000 to homeowners who rent to locals
America will never ever do that sadly
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