gooseus

Seems way more obvious to me that Thiel/Vance/Musk would have Trump whacked... probably in the 2nd or 3rd year so that Vance can take power during a Reichstag fire with enough time left till elections in order for them to consolidate power.

Trump is primarily an actor pretending to be a gangster/president on TV to serve as a front for the real gangsters pilfering our government, at some point he will better serve those people by becoming a martyr in a way which transfers his power to someone else they control.

The original Chronotrigger soundtrack is one of my go-to coding soundtracks.

And so long as you have some decent-to-solid understanding of coding and testing (this is non-trivial, I've been coding for professionally for ~20 years) then you can direct the machine to put up decent guardrails first, and then you can kinda go nuts and let shit grow, prune it back, repeat.

Basically, if you know what code/tests ought to look and act like, then you can significantly reduce the negative externalities of having LLMs do your coding for you.

In the last two weeks I've been to 3 protests in the NYC area:

- Stand with Ukraine

- Stand for Science

- Tesla Takedown

In the same time there have been protest for Khalil and a protest against the entitlement cuts, as well as protests in support of Veterans.

However, this (wrongful and illegal arrest/detention/deportation) _should_ be the biggest protest, because if Trump backed off all of the other things and was able to get away with normalizing this use of DoJ and federal law enforcement to disappear people into the legal system, then nobody will protest anything out of legitimate fear of being disappeared.

My observation of most Americans protesting is that they are doing it for the social/emotional aspects and aren't doing it with the intent of putting themselves in any real risk... and I think what you'll see is that when things get REALLY serious, those people will say things like "I was out there from 2017 - 2024 and protests didn't do anything, I'm not going to risk my career/family/well-being/life anymore for nothing".

Btw, for those very interested it looks like they have a yearly convention in VT, with registration opening May 1 — https://stellafane.org/convention/2025/index.html

Wonderful documentary.

They want a kind of feudalism where everyone is "free" to choose whichever Lord to serve, exchanging their life for whatever liberty and resources the Lord deems them worthy of.

Don't like Lord Musk's policy of prima nocta? You are free to pack up all your shit and travel (with proper papers, of course) to the court of Lord Bezos... assuming they are not currently in conflict, otherwise you could be turned away as a traitor or otherwise made an example of.

Imo this should be bought, shared, and placed in the National Archives so it is not erased from history.

If they want to delete these, then they will need to physically burn them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/claireberlinski/p/impeach-him

Ironically, I'd say what characterizes a "man" vs an "ape" is their capacity for self reflection... which is your moniker.

A narcissist, as described in the article, has no capacity for self reflection because it requires them to enter a reality outside of their ego from which to observe themselves objectively.

What amazes me is that this is a conversation about Elon Musk and Donald Trump and their sycophants... people who are even more caught up in echo chambers and more insulting to our fellow humans, all while being far more insulting in their online speech.

And what is rich is you trying to cast me as the one who thinks they're special because I'm insulting the people who blindly follow Musk and Trump in their naive belief that they're helping to "save humanity" or "America" or whatever.

I live in the real world, not echo-chambers, this is the place I post most frequently and it's still like once every other week/month (and declining). My comment was directed at a group of people in general, while yours makes all kinds (very incorrect) assumptions about me personally.

You actually sound very much like the person who is "too online" and "in an echo chamber" since you seem to respond to the least charitable interpretation of what is said in order to score internet points.

It's certainly a lot easier to respond to my comment as if I was dehumanizing entire swaths of the public based on their voting choices or political beliefs... much more difficult to consider that I'm speaking about a very narrow segment of the population defined by their specific belief that Musk and Trump are special and can do nothing wrong and will not countenance any evidence to the contrary.

The narcissist is incapable of being incorrect and will always find a scapegoat to explain the consequences of their poor decision-making.

The world is now run by these people, and because most people are more ape than man, they will emulate and elevate these people until some other stronger ape comes around to convince them to emulate and elevate them instead.

People can say whatever they want about rules and procedures and precedents and whatever else, but this was absolutely a signal to Trump that they are in line.

Just wait until Google effectively re-draws the border of Ukraine to Putin's liking and labels Taiwan as another province of China.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili...

I'm sure people would make an argument to the effect that writing that has existed for X years or decades would have already been tapped if it was of any value, and I would respond by saying many publications make little impact on their contemporaries only to be discovered later to have been ahead of their time.

If we start using "engagement" as a metric for the retention of writing, then knowledge will suffer under the tyranny of the majority. Instead I think the most unread books in a library should be celebrated and promoted by the librarians for the sake of having been unread, even if it ends up being kind of funny how bad they are.

"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to provide me a formulaic plot to provide my algorithm another hook to drive up my streaming market share!"

Though maybe the real plot is to irradiate the world's limited supply of James Bond properties, driving up the value of the only ones that remain?

Donella Meadows died of cerebral meningitis at the age of 59 in 2001[2], I truly wish she was someone we could be hearing from today.

[1] https://wtf.tw/ref/meadows.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows

So maybe the Earth could supply 1 trillion people with food if it was turned into a farm planet devoid of any other biodiversity but those required to support human life, assuming those 1 trillion people were living and doing all their non-agricultural industry somewhere else.

Which means it looks like I lost my wager: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394537

If you're trying to avoid any detection then you would also want to mask the sound, or else people will be hearing things in the sky and not seeing anything... until they start pointing low-light and infrared cameras at the sky. When that happens the vantablack drones are going to pop against the background and leave no doubt that there is something strange in the sky, since they def won't be looking/moving like bats.

By disguising as planes you blend in with the air traffic for most people, and create confusion and debate with anyone who does notice they are out of the ordinary (exactly what we're seeing now).

Another point is that lights on flying objects in the dark serve a purpose, and if these drones are coordinating with each other, they may be using the lights to maintain formations or avoid running into each other without relying on other communication channels that could give away more information.

I also have a couple friends who work at Picatinny as well, and have heard that their civilian security have spotted some (which is strange since their airspace is always restricted), but there haven't been any internal memos regarding them.

Some things I've observed/heard/thought during arguments and searching for evidence in either direction:

1. People need video evidence and assume it's easy to get because everyone carries a video camera with them.

2. Most people have never tried to capture a fast-moving object with lights in the night's sky with a cellphone.

3. People assume everyone else is a complete fucking idiot, including police, the media, politicians, and most every authority on the subject. This is also in both directions, but with my friends they seem to assume that people have coincidentally forgotten what a plane looks/sounds like in the nights sky and decided to report them as "not planes" to the authorities.

4. The skeptical position on this is firmly in the minority across all social media I've seen.

5. Lots of videos are completely indistinguishable from planes, and any that seem "weird" can be easily explained by tricks of perspective.

6. If there ARE drones being operated in a way where they would prefer not be recognized, then it doesn't seem crazy they would put lights on and move in ways that would disguise them as planes.

7. Flight trackers are not reliable because not all planes that fly need to have flight plans and transponders.

I have taken the position that _something_ weird is happening, and that not all of the reports can be explained by commercial/private planes, but I don't mind being wrong so long as a definitive answer is going to present itself.

Anyways, glad to see the discussion has made it to HN so I can crowdsource some more arguments, would love it if you all could help resolve this wager.

https://github.com/Gooseus/natsrun

Gotta shout out to the author of HemeraJS who shared their project here 8 years ago and provided a starting point for me:

- https://github.com/hemerajs/hemera

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704694

Really just started and very much a work in progress, but figured I'd share while we're sharing. If anyone has any feedback I'm all ears.

It wasn't even a criticism, just an observation for anyone else who was thinking the same or was interested in another popular project with a similar name (and seemingly similar functions? didn't look too hard).

Naming things is hard and we all kinda share one global tech namespace, so this is gonna inevitably happen.

https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream

Apparently they had setup their Exchange server poorly and I'd had access to any number of mailboxes (including the CEOs) and other folders that I wasn't supposed to have access to. I was completely unaware of this access, but was being directly accused of having access confidential information.

I insisted, truly, that I wasn't aware of the access and hadn't looked at anything confidential, but they tried to tell me they had proof that I had accessed email I shouldn't have. At this I got upset and demanded they show me this proof, which they couldn't do because they didn't have any, but I'm guessing they thought I had seen some stuff and they could get me to cave it if they pretended they had proof.

Anyways, I didn't get in any real trouble because I wasn't intimidated, but it damaged the relationship and I ended up quitting a few months later. Now I feel the same way as OP, I don't want to be in a position where someone can make a plausible accusation of misconduct, you could be totally honest and still end up railroaded just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. CYA.

Free Luna!

https://archive.org/details/StrangerInAStrangeLandRobertAHei... (pg 183)

I approve this troll.