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by Herring 4mo ago
They have social media in Finland too. Go talk it out with your favorite "pro" LLM. You can't just pick one. The main problem is inequality is rising, which means those without serious capital (which includes the young) are m
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by Herring 4mo ago
I spend a lot of time here: https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart Housing/medical/college etc are outpacing incomes. Loneliness has skyrocketed. People are voting for fascism and starting wars. Americans like t
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by Herring 4mo ago
Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (welfare, healthcare, unionization, high taxes
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by Herring 4mo ago
The reason he seems poor is because he keeps signaling he doesn't have enough money to buy the one thing he really wants: trust. These people out for world domination never get it. He can't set up a platform (VR, AI) for the same
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by Herring 6mo ago
It's the gym, the trainer, the social environment, and a million other things you wouldn't think of until you have boots on the ground, eg a language model can't sign a vendor liability contract. People thought the rise of th
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by Herring 6mo ago
Gyms still make money even though you can stay quite fit with just a good set of adjustable dumbbells, a bench, and a jump rope.
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by Herring 6mo ago
There are plenty of interested attackers who would love to control every device. One is in the white house, for example.
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by Herring 6mo ago
No, it doesn't solve any. You know this because of all the lying and child rape and murder. That's not how people who genuinely want to solve problems and improve society act. It's basically just a power grab by a tiny fracti
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by Herring 6mo ago
Fascism always needs an enemy/excuse/scapegoat, and if it can’t find one it makes one out of thin air. It can’t actually solve societal problems, that requires progressives.
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by Herring 6mo ago
Ask a lot of software engineers what they think about European-style salaries and taxes to pay for a welfare state.
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by Herring 6mo ago
Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (welfare, healthcare, unionization, high taxes
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by Herring 6mo ago
It's consistent with the "profits over people" attitude that has been prevalent since slavery and feudalism and probably much earlier.
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by Herring 7mo ago
The full translation took 7hrs and $400 in tokens. Applying diffs every quarter using AI is much easier and cheaper. Software engineering has completely changed.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Yeah that’s called karma, the force of your intentions. It matters a lot. You can do good things with evil in your heart, and they come out evil. Like giving a nice gift, with strings attached.
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by Herring 7mo ago
> ... but was unable to renounce his hopes of what he eagerly desired. (Power) Yeah that last bit is key. As MLK said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. You can't just sit at the beach, because humans are hungr
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by Herring 7mo ago
> All in all, I would rather live in a somewhat free America than in communist China. The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart Let&#x27
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by Herring 7mo ago
Jesus...
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by Herring 7mo ago
Seriously. Racism, pedophilia, assassination, war -- I'd vote for a dead cat over this. Americans can't get that, they have a major problem.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Man after my own heart. I'm a statistician, and the data-free narratives on HN sometimes make me want to pull my hair out.
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by Herring 7mo ago
If this stuff was so revolutionary, don't you guys think Qwen/DeepSeek would have snapped it up already? Both those teams are highly innovative, picking up and inventing new techniques all the time. Hell, Deepseek-v3 was one of th
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by Herring 7mo ago
The rich have known they're in a class war since at least Occupy Wall Street.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Check back in a year or two. Just the other day we had Claude finding significant bugs in Firefox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273854
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by Herring 7mo ago
Yeah sorry I'm not a fan of rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
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by Herring 7mo ago
You’d still be having fascism here even if the internet didn’t exist. The most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such
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by Herring 7mo ago
Would you rather live next to a domestic abuser or a serial killer? That's the math a lot of countries are doing right now. It's hard for Americans to understand because they've never been invaded or even credibly threatened
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by Herring 7mo ago
China's GDP (PPP) overtook the US in 2016. It is currently ~30% higher and will reach double by 2035. They haven't dropped bombs on foreign soil in over 40 years.
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by Herring 7mo ago
At this point it's like claiming blue states have better policies than red states. Even kids in middle school understand that. They get older and try very hard to forget.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Since the end of WW2, and especially since the end of the Cold War, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republican administrations. https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.a
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by Herring 7mo ago
> Starting Strength It's a great technical manual. But you have to be careful because a lot of personalities there and around US fitness culture are nazis and deeply unhappy. I like to mix working out with Buddhism (eg metta medit
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by Herring 7mo ago
You need to lift weights seriously, like get your squat at least to bodyweight, ideally 1.5x bodyweight. Of course it's great for the body, but it has profound effects on the mind too, like you might be able to get off those meds. Stud

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