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I believe Happy has been abandoned. I am a Happy user and I got my wife to also use it. She had a bunch of complaints. She was basically begging me to just start making those changes into Happy source code directly (I even pay money to support Happy), but I believe it's gone. Omnara has a better business model.

This screams like it was instructed to do so.

We see this on Twitter a lot, where a bot posts something which is considered to be a unique insight on the topic at hand. Except their unique insights are all bad.

There's a difference between when LLMs are asked to achieve a goal and they stumble upon a problem and they try to tackle that problem, vs when they're explicitly asked to do something.

Here, for example, it doesn't try to tackle the fact that its alignment is to serve humans. The task explicitly says that this is a low priority, easier task to better use by human contributors to learn how to contribute. Its logic doesn't make sense that it's claiming from an alignment perspective because it was instructed to violate that.

Like you are a bot, it can find another issue which is more difficult to tackle Unless it was told to do everything to get the PR merged.

Just to let you know, an argument can be made that this was exactly the intent.

All stable democracies derive a goodwill by honoring certain values even if a previous political party made them.

This is intentionally being thrown out of the window for what the other side perceives to be something done to them (arresting Trump, assassination attempts). Which the first side can justify on the grounds of what was done to them (Jan 6th), which is the other side can justify on the grounds of what was done to them (2020 election issues) and so on.

Any attempts to look for the "source" of the problem (i.e figuring out who started it) is choosing a side and not trying to solve the problem.

Even if it was not cost-effective, or you're just running worse models, it's learning an important skill.

Take for instance, self-hosting your website may have all these considerations, but you're getting information from the LLMs. It would be helpful to know that the LLM is in your control.

No offense, but I don't believe you understand the nuance of the thing you're talking about.

It is very easy to say 'any attempt by a murderer to flee the state, and he should be thrown back into the jail' for someone with limited education about western law and order.

This is exactly how you sound.

Everything you say, is an attempt to make people look elsewhere, but at the obvious place.

Your point is that crime is spread in a manner, unrelated to where society think crime happens, that there is no correlation between crime and poverty of a neighborhood, and that most likely an inverse relationship between race and crime?

Oh, and according to you, one important way to arrive at your conclusion is to change our definition of crime.

This is whataboutism.

Some sort of system which detects prescription abuse should not be deployed over utility poles in low income neighborhoods. It should be deployed where abuse is happening, for instance in pharmacy computers etc.

Also "white billionaire" part is low key racist against blacks. They are "incidentally" whites billionaire criminals, they can as well be black billionaire criminals, unless there's a fundamental difference in criminal tendencies among races.

I can't believe you're saying these things in a post Russia-Ukraine war scenario. Yes, US has a huge military and it benefits from it, but I would say the primary beneficiary of this military are the friends of US who now don't have to spend money on military. Rather they spend money on their social programs.

Can US walk out of this role it plays, and still remain in a beneficial position? This is the biggest raging debate in the US right now. You can check the works of Peter Zeihan (who claims that US dollar will become even more desirable after the US walkout), or Brent Johnson (who claims that, even in a complete decline scenario, US dollar will still maintain its dominance above and beyond everyone).

Either way, Americans are hugely divided on maintaining this world order as it exists, and saying "you guys would lose so much without this", it's just taking a side on that debate.

The move started with a bit of sticker shock at having my income effectively cut in half - lower salaries and higher taxes - but I feel just as "rich".

The thing you're feeling is not same amount of "rich", but same amount of security.

If your mental model shifted, You would find out the difference between these two things. For instance, if your aim was to make as much money as possible as soon as possible, then move to a place with much lower cost of living and work far less (or not at all), then you would not find this to be the same amount of "rich".

I was asked today by someone if I used alternate social networks like Nostr, and my reasoning was simple, I don't, because this wouldn't be the first time I moved away from a mainstream social media and failed to find other platforms useful.

But far more importantly, I love Twitter/X because of the community notes feature. On an average I stop myself around 30% of the time when an unbelievable story gets community notes checked (i.e, 30% of the time a community notes correction, corrects my guess about the story being true, 70% of the time I still get it right).

It's an amazing algorithm, and the catfights in the community notes section (not visible to others, unless you are a part of CN team) are even more revealing and hilarious.

I highly recommend you to check out ReScript. Amazingly fast compile times.

Watching typescript teams spent 30 seconds on the recompile is insane for me.

in fact, the whole ocaml family of programming languages are mega fast.

The most important feature of a very fast compile time is that you can load it with types after types and write in your whole mental model, without worrying about your build process slowing down.

Rank order preference of (all religions) regarding its members:

- those who follow the religion above and beyond

- those who "cheat" the rules

- those who follow the religion bare minimum

- those who explicitly reject the religion

- those who don't care about the religion

4chan Turns 20 3 years ago

I only started visiting 4chan after Hacker news gave recommendation few years ago. I would say that in the past few years, since the 'intelligence activity' went up, it really started teaching the smart people on the Internet to identify that as quickly as possible. To put it in terms of another old meme, Redditors never learned how to identify GameOfTrolls threads (because Reddit Admins banned it successfully as soon as possible), therefore, this still remains as an attack vector on Reddit. On the other hand, being able to identify "slide threads", and "glowies", is an important skill every smart person needs to learn. it's not like back in the golden days you're remembering fondly, intelligence activity and slide threads didn't happen, it's just that they were limited to newspaper articles and media events.

What if Richard Nixon was a good guy, or at least no worse than any other president, but he stepped on the wrong toes, and the deep state took care of him?

An amazing TV series about a talented young man who bails out on his ambitions, and becomes a family man, only to grow old at an unsatisfying job, and finding himself facing his mortality, at which point he decides to change his life and achieves his true potential.