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well_ackshually··on Lobbying is corruption
Ah, yes, transparency. "I received 250000€ from Renault-Nissan. No particular reason no. They just really like me. We talked. Also please don't pay attention to my upcoming votes and law proposals".

Lobbying is corruption, and it's also pay to play. Noone gets anything good out of it.

well_ackshually··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
>People wishing for the death of the mega corps, are directly wishing for the obliteration of millions of great jobs.

Yeah, I'll take the obliteration of a few million overpaid American jobs over the destruction of hundreds of millions worldwide, the social upheaval that goes with it, the destroyed families and the direct and indirect deaths. Fuck your promo packet and fuck your cozy desk job.

well_ackshually··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
It's "access" to "source code" as long as you can pay Anthropic/OpenAI and they don't raise their prices or lock you out.
well_ackshually··on The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI
The US's shit head in chief has unilaterally decided that it's no longer artificial intelligence but super intelligence. Now it's a game of waiting to see which of the lapdogs is the fastest one to obey.
well_ackshually··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Golly gee if only that was a sign that the market is being highly distorted by the high six figure salaries, therefore demonstrating that there's no wage suppression...

> I know families making low six figures who are struggling financially because the cost of living is so high now, especially food, gasoline, healthcare, and housing.

Let's be very honest here: the only two in there that have massively increased are housing (due to the aforementioned non existent wage suppression) and healthcare (because america can't into healthcare). Families making 50k do more than fine when it comes to food and gasoline, merely because they don't have 4k of rent to pay.

well_ackshually··on Cleo (Mathematician)
How does it feel to be stalking someone who has attempted to remain anonymous and was actively doing good ?
well_ackshually··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
> fully abused to suppress wages

Anyone looking at the salaries in big tech will laugh you out of the room. You think the six figure salaries for writing shitty ass Go services is _wage suppression_ ?

well_ackshually··on Berthd
The compiler's output is reproducible and trustable in the extreme majority of the cases, as opposed to the piles of dogshit trained on the worst javascript practices that LLMs put out nondeterministically.
well_ackshually··on Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
>Your downstream should be precious

Is my downstream paying me for the maintenance ?

If not, downstream may maintain mold2 themselves forever because their _extremely specific_ use case is neither a promise nor a valuable thing for mold to maintain. Debian understood this a while ago and isn't whining when they have to maintain their own fork. Maintainers maintain.

If enough downstreamers are unhappy about choices, they are also welcome to fork, until the base project is abandoned. Or they realize their usecases are extremely narrow.

(In addition, it's an extremely hypocritical and purist demand, because I am pretty certain that their distribution has, at some point, an arbitrary executable to make a compiler from. So they're probably okay with blobs, just not that one in particular.)

well_ackshually··on Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
No, they were never one of mold's goals. You don't get to assign solutions to people _and then blame them_. Hyrum's Law being a load bearing part of your infrastructure isn't Mold's problem.
well_ackshually··on Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
>Rust is not actually the right tool for all problems.

"my problems (that are not mold's) are not solved by mold. How dare mold make those decisions?"

Maybe you should rewrite more of your linux distribution in rust so it's available earlier in the build process and get back to it being the default linker.

well_ackshually··on Apple Pass Designer
Human beings are checking those tickets, and movement is proof of liveness (and not a screenshot you and 25 friends are sharing). Many ticket checking systems are not connected to the internet and cannot/will not check if it's already been used. Many of the motion enabled codes are also basically working in the same way as 2FA codes: your ticket is given with a public key, usually unique to your device, and rotates every minute. Allows them to ensure that the ticket is up to date, not forged and signed properly.
well_ackshually··on Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude
"50 year old tenured teacher that slaps his name on literally everything his students put out believes he's uniquely qualified to criticize hegelian dialectics" is a headline you can read approximately every year in academia. He's out of his zone, with absolutely zero ability to review his "research" nor credibility to push it out.

May someone grant me an ounce of his hubris and I'll become president of the united states. And I'm not even a citizen.

well_ackshually··on Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
If you don't specify any amount of complexity, or whether or not it's slop that collapses under pressure, sure, but in the case even a first year CS student passes that test.
well_ackshually··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
That's a fun set of words to say instead of "just be born rich lmao" and yet they mean the exact same thing.
well_ackshually··on Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
>We are all Capitalists

1/ speak for yourself

2/ where is your capital and your means of production? Your machines? Your factories? Your raw materials, your tools? How long do you survive tomorrow when you quit your job and you have no other income?

You're not a capitalist. You're just a consumer for them to suck dry. The faster you learn it, the better off you will be.

well_ackshually··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
You know what, it's been a while since I took the piss out of the hasbara, let's have fun.

> the well below average ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in complex urban warfare

Ah, yes, the very urban warfare art of bombing hospitals and refugee camps. Very urban. Much warfare. And you also get to claim that the civilians didn't die from the fighting, merely from the starvation!

>the war being in response to an atrocious attack on civilians

Yep. Nothing happened before October 7. 1947 ? Doesn't exist. Nakba? Probably some arab term that means nothing. Close to a century of warfare, torture, humiliation and putting Gazawis into concentration camps ? Naaaah. Hamas is responsible. Bad Hamas.

> population numbers remaining stable

There has been no accurate population counts for three years. But thank you for being so generous and letting palestinians reproduce while you park them in camps. Very kosher <3

>Hamas's initial charter

No shit, the armed resistance group that was formed to resist with arms against an attacker wants the attacker gone ? Silly Hamas. They should have done like Bibi and kept the actual plan quiet in cabinet meetings.

Hint: armed resistance against an occupier is legal and encouraged under international law.

>the rockets fired over the years

Yep. Israel did nothing. Didn't shoot children in the head, didn't regularly murder palestinians in prisons, didn't conduct raids on Palestinian territories or encourage settlers to colonize more. Poor little Israel.

>the IRCG commanders statements about a co-ordinated attack from Gaza, southern Lebanon and the West Bank

You regularly bomb another country, and you think that the other country is in the wrong for finding literally any way to make you eat shit ?

> the abhorrent attack of October 7th

A regrettable event and a needless loss of life. I'm not fully sure it justifies a retaliation that causes fifty times more death, destruction and horror, nor will the tribunal that will judge you for your crimes against humanity.

well_ackshually··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
>A genocide, completed, is an extermination or annihilation.

Which is why zero armenians remain after the armenian genocide

oh wait no nevermind, your definition is just bullshit. Only one set of people define what is or isn't a genocide: historians. The ICC only covers crimes against humanity. Historians are also in wide agreement (except for the Israel aligned ones) that it is a genocide in Gaza.

well_ackshually··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
.. any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    (a) Killing members of the group; (check)
    (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (check)
    (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (check)
    (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (check)
    (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.[8] (check)
Israel is a genocidal, apartheid state and the biggest threat to the stability of the middle east. Whataboutism will not change facts.
well_ackshually··on Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web
>Secure. Simple. Stoic.

You're writing a markdown editor, stop jerking yourself off, you're not Marc Aurelius.

well_ackshually··on Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
Congratulations on having to implement your checks at runtime, but stupid, repetitive, boring work is kind of why we invented compilers.
well_ackshually··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
FALGSC doesn't happen without a fight for power. FALGSC as presented in Star Trek or literally any fiction _still_ has power struggles and people getting fucked. The only way you enforce a lack of influence and power is with a higher force ensuring you do, which is then the sole holder of influence and power.

Also, you're describing a fantasy. Something that isn't happening in your lifetime. Maybe now would be time to wake up before Zaibatsu builds a gigafactory in your backyard.

well_ackshually··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Wish granted! You no longer have any influence or power! Zaibatsu Heavy Industries has now built a gigafactory that's taking over half of your backyard, is piping their fumes directly into your house. Your mayor's office is not responding to your calls, and their private security forces are preventing you from even going outside because it is now a high risk area.
well_ackshually··on OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
No, it's the only logical conclusion when the only thing you do is "end human labor" without going through the necessary steps of "dismantle capitalism", "guillotine every billionaire", "rework every method of redistribution we have", "completely rethink our methods of how power is distributed" and "provide meaningful occupations to every person on the planet".

Human labor disappears tomorrow, Peter Thiel's first dream is to see if you can still be useful when made into a paste.

well_ackshually··on The Test
No, neuroscience agrees that there is a slowdown, as well as specific points at which different parts of the brain stop improving at the rate it used to. 35+ years old is widely agreed upon to be a point at which it is extremely difficult to form new neural connections at the rate it used to when you were 16.

No, you are not on track to become a vegetable the day you turn 25. Yes, it requires more and more investment, and literally noone in neuroscience disagrees with that.

well_ackshually··on The Test
You are not a child whose basic brain biology is being formed and improved by learning how to do these. Neuroplasticity is gone for you and it's all downhill from there. Children _need_ to learn because it builds the basis of every single thing they're going to improve on later. They're already being given a world in a catastrophic state, if the only answer they have to things is "i input it in the funny chatgpt box", you might as well condemn them to die.

Jensen saying huehuehue i don't know how to do math in my head in indicative that 1/ He never has normal, day to day interactions where simple calculation needs to be made on the spot 2/ He also doesn't give a shit about making the world worse.

well_ackshually··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
>gaslight them into thinking it never changed or that it's just a harness problem

Your benchmark didn't get 100 ? It's normal, it's not deterministic, and also your harness is wrong, and also you didn't do it when US users were offline, and also you got it wrong, and also we don't care about your results, the hivemind is speaking louder than you (also our bots are spamming more than you and drowning you out).

This very website has, at all times, a group of people saying "<Previous model> was never good enough for coding, but <current model> is the best thing and a game changer!" while the other goes "<current model> bad, <previous model> was better!". It's all vibes.

well_ackshually··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
* Release new model that scores an arbitrary 100 on a benchmark

* Get everyone to talk about you as the first model to ever score 100 on the 100benchmark.

* Tune it down over time so that you end up only scoring 75 on the benchmark and people get used to it, gaslight them into thinking it never changed or that it's just a harness problem, they can't run the old version locally anyways to verify. This also cuts your costs in half. Your gross margin on API calls goes from 70% to 150%.

* Release new model that scores 120 on the benchmark and advertise it as 50% better than the current model, while it's only in practice a minor increment. Everyone praises it as the second coming of Jesus Christ.

* Get everyone to talk about you as the first model to ever score 120 on the 100benchmark.

Bis repetitae.

well_ackshually··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
Unlike a 256GB M5 Ultra that is $10k+.
well_ackshually··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
Always being five years behind everyone and doing its own boneheaded decisions that they inevitably have to walk back does tend to make Apple the Aztec in this case.

Mockery aside: it's all the same. They're all good enough for portraits where all you want is some depth of field & contrast, they're all good enough for landscapes where they capture colors pretty well, and they're all catastrophic past 5x zoom. You can take the top 10 of DXOMark (hell, the top 20) and you won't realistically find a difference unless you're pixel peeping. Which, we all know your phone pictures are just being sent compressed over Whatsapp, it doesn't matter. If you want camera quality pictures, get a camera. Even a 15 year old shitty Canon will take better pictures than the 18 Pro.

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