Because they're non-libertarian capitalists who like a police state and found a good market in the US/Donald Trump and other other authoritarian regimes?
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Still cool, but I would definitely ease back the first claim.
I was going to say it does make me wonder how much a pain a direct processor like this would be in terms of having to constantly update it to adapt to the new syntax/semantics everytime there's a new release.
Also - are there any processors made to mimic ASTs directly? I figure a Lisp machine does something like that, but not quite... Though I've never even thought to look at how that worked on the hardware side.
EDIT: I'm not sure AST is the correct concept, exactly, but something akin to that... Like building a physical structure of the tree and process it like an interpreter would. I think something like that would require like a real-time self-programming FPGA?
So yeah, you don't even have to be an expert. What's weird is that there IS a lot of edits by ideologues of many kind. And it doesn't have to be "foreign agents" and this Trump attack reeks so hard of yet another attempt at authoritarian control and NewSpeak. Biden gave in with the TikTok to Trumps initial games, and now it just feeds the game. We have to resist this sort of thing from below.
I wish people had a good "sniffer" for bullshit. I'm not saying I'm perfect (we all have our blind spots) but after a while you can tell when certain things are trying to put a spin on something... It's especially odious when it comes to national identities trying to put a spin or tie either themselves or their enemies to a particular view point. The worst part is it's not necessarily obvious, to a lot of people if you don't have the knowledge, or the ability to critique and ask questions.
So we need people to keep asking questions for sure, and sniffing out this sort of thing. But it has to not be "IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY" but rather "IN THE NAME OF OPEN KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL". Otherwise you just become a front or spokesthing for a given state, and that's no better than fucking Pravda.
I get the idea that an "always on" monitoring system would be problematic (even if you discarded the data itself and only retained/filtered relevant bits for a short period of time). But ... I have no other way to explain events like this.
I suppose some weird correlation of user has x,y,z and they searched for a,b,c in the past, and other users search for D, then we show D at exactly the 12 hour time they searched for it.
Yes I am aware of recency bias, and how perhaps it was shown other times without recognizing it. But it's... hard to shake that feeling, and I am (well less so now) a skeptic...
If it's anything it's like AI that's eerily creepy like "intelligence" but not it, just like this is "like listening" but isn't. Both use statistical models to do creepy ass shit.
1. Maybe read some Pessimist philosophers. I find solace in cosmic entropy. I don't believe in a literal God, but Mainlander's idea of pandeism where god killed itself and the cosmos is his "rotting body" helps me gain a cosmic spin on things.
2. The older I get the more I realize humans are really dumb people. Capable of some amazing things, and yes, "wisdom of the crowd" can be right at times, but it can be very very very wrong. And "really smart people" who lead the charge can really fuck shit up. Technologically. Socially. And more.
3. If it helps, I literally just added a filter to ublock for hacker news to strip out Startup and AI keywords, it's not the best filter (I could probably remove some non-capitalized words)
But here: # top (title / url) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(AI|ai|GPT|gpt|ChatGPT|MCP|OpenAI|grok|copilot|ollama|claude|gemini|bard|deepseek|blockchain|siri|anthropic|deepmind|Claude|DeepSeek|BitNet|LLM|Llama|ML|AlphaGo|Startup|StartUp|YCombinator|Cursor)/):upward(tr)
# bottom (stats / comments) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(AI|ai|GPT|gpt|ChatGPT|MCP|OpenAI|grok|copilot|ollama|claude|gemini|bard|deepseek|blockchain|siri|anthropic|deepmind|Claude|DeepSeek|BitNet|LLM|Llama|ML|AlphaGo|Startup|StartUp|YCombinator|Cursor)/):upward(tr) + *
this might help reduce at least having to see it, and get back to what you WANT to see.
I want to see actual coding and language theory and os stuff. But 1/3 of the content here is AI now, and it's a huge turn off. It's noise to me, so having a filter to get what I WANT out of this site, is better than me turning it off completely.
I wish I had an answer for you in terms of mental state, I don't think there's a way out of this rut, and I think it's only going to get worse from here, and the pollyannas wanting you to pretend like nothings wrong... Well. IMO that's why we're here. Ignorant of history (actual history not the pop history everyone gets in school) and I don't mean this from one perspective or another. I've read Fascist literature, Capitalist Literature and Communist Literature. I've seen scenes play out on all sides that I despair from.
I don't mean to bring you down, but the best I've got is the above (and maybe microdosing psilocybin which helped me yesterday. I was stuck in a mental pit, and 666 mg psilocybin chocolate bars helped lift me just enough so I was able to see with clarity, give me the serotonin boost I needed and step back and observe the "snakes"/selves all writhing - negative aspects of myself, why they exist, how I anchor myself to angst, because it is a grounding. If I have no angst, I have nothing in this world but chaos.
Angst ist meine heimat. But being able to step outside and see what it is and why and how... I don't say you should do that, psychedelics are not for everyone, and they can fuck some people up, and some people get the wrong ideas from them (looks at the hippie->fascist pipeline).
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Speaking of coding, and finding reasons to do it - I'm continually fighting my own ADHD tendencies to make some really dumb stupid little projects that don't matter to anyone, but to me, to say "I COULD DO THIS". I will never get rich off it. I will never even make money off it, but to know I was creative. That is about the best I got.
One little ember flickering before it dies off with the rest of the charred husk of this planet.
Sorry so long.
I half wonder if Spotify US is one of those harbingers of doom for the old web in the same way I think of Twitter and iPhone/SPAs/The Stream UI.
I see a planetary suicide right now and I don't even need to look into space.
Also - RIP Teddy K. (I'm a bastard that way)
"...Settings.WebAnalyticsEnabled = 'False';"
is set - thank goodness my medical provider's doing it right. (at least on this portion, I'm not digging through all the code or whatever)
Driving is a captive audience, I don't have the option to "close my eyes/plug my ears" to avoid your "free speech" but with free speech comes the right to avoid hearing your bullshit. I can avoid buying a book, I can turn the channel on the radio, but a billboard doesn't offer that "right" to be free FROM your bullshit speech. There's more obligation on billboards in that regards, and it's kinda horseshit that you're allowed to hold me captive because you have enough money to spend on a campaign (whether it's commercial, political, religious IDGAF)
Wish "freespeechers" could understand this. I'm not saying we should just ban everything, and I'm not even sure I agree with a billboard ban (I would have signed up 25 years ago on that, adbusters reading chud that I was). I'm just saying it's really pathetic that people cry "free speech" when there are two things at play and the SCOTUS did a disservice on differentation between amplitude of property vs signal of speech.
I used to do a lot more socially and my computer was in the living room with the roomie, but I'm just in my room most of the time, and this is making me think - maybe I should go back to the living room with my computer (since she's out there too most days), maybe that will help me be more productive in programming/projects, etc...
saint_yossarian 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] It's blocked by "EasyList – Newsletter Notices", the annoyances lists are often a bit too aggressive.
It's blocked by "EasyList – Newsletter Notices", the annoyances lists are often a bit too aggressive."
"Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, MNT Reform, and QEMU. For PC, burn an .iso file to CD, or dd it directly to USB media. For Raspberry Pi or MNT Reform, dd an .img file directly to sdcard.
The pi.img file can be used for Raspberry Pi 1, 2, and 3. The pi3.img file can be used for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4.
QEMU images are provided in QCOW2 format."
Not sure that would be feasible (e.g. if those languages would even be capable of doing such a thing), or how much computing power you'd need to churn through however many thousands of pages of something like the US Code and process that all.
Man it reads SO much like Soviet days when the bureaucrats would say one thing, but the people would know it's bullshit, as did the leaders and everyone had to pretend it's "real".
The US does allow for "off-label" prescriptions. The question then is : will your insurance pay for it. In my case, even though I am diabetic, they wouldn't cover Ozempic, or, apparently even Trulicity, which is just absurd (or Rybelsus which is the oral form of Semaglutide which they DID cover for a full year before putting me on Ozempic for like 2 months, and then denying (after the "new formularies" are approved and I get to be forced and switch to a med they still claimed to cover but not, apparently - I'm assuming they want me to appeal and give a whole run around on that.
But yeah... Technically it's for Diabetes only, but if you have good insurance, they'll probably hand out for any reason (see: "Hottest Celebrity Weight Loss Drug" for example; maybe that's changed now that Wegovy is released/authorized for weight loss)
"Almost all European countries have healthcare available for all citizens. '''Most European countries have systems of competing private health insurance companies''', along with government regulation and subsidies for citizens who cannot afford health insurance premiums."
They are probably more expensive than the government plans, but same is true in reverse in the US. One helps the poor more, and makes sure those who can afford still have an option, the other makes those with good jobs, and get paid well having good care, and costing the poor who can least afford it, far more in terms of their capacity to pay. You're just wrong on this, and trying to be cute with boolean logic is ... "cute".
If this makes it better and easier for companies to actually pay out for this I am 100% for it, there should not be a constant jerking about for what is or isn't paid. Also - this wasn't for weightloss (which I assume would have been Wegovy approved), this was for diabetes, and it was under control with Rybelsus, and I assume Ozempic, though we were still in the process of building up to it (I was on max dose of Rybelsus and I'm pretty sure I needed the max Ozempic as well). If they had given a reason for the denial it'd be one thing but it was just a blanket denial.
I just hope this makes it easier for folks who need it to be able to obtain it.