Hacker News: ofslidingfeet

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

ofslidingfeet — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:42:34 +0000

Yeah well, OpenAI compressed the whole internet into proprietary weights and is now providing access via paid subscription while the original internet gets deleted from our culture.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

ofslidingfeet — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:47:40 +0000

Par for the course in the prissiest, most Karen city culture in the entire country. Seriously, living in King County is like living in a giant HOA neighborhood.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:59:40 +0000

How many closed session hearings did the U.S. congress have over windshield pitting again?

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Large language models in national security applications"

ofslidingfeet — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:12:33 +0000

Alternative title: "Obviously Irresponsible, Intellectually Lazy Things that We Definitely Haven't Been Doing for Fifteen Years."

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Reddit banned me for developing Geddit"

ofslidingfeet — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:41:32 +0000

I think this contextualizes how hard they tried to make their site unusable on web browsers. "Front page of the internet." Thanks glowies.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition"

ofslidingfeet — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:18:47 +0000

I am so embarrassed of my fascist government that it is becoming intolerable.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Ask HN: What bothers you most about Scrum and how could it be fixed?"

ofslidingfeet — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:57:23 +0000

It gives manager types a way to pretend talking is working while inverting accountability which is prerequisite for any process they're willing to adopt.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]"

ofslidingfeet — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:20:09 +0000

Basically a blogpost tbh, and it begs the question by defining language as verbal communication.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "[dead]"

ofslidingfeet — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:33:50 +0000

In other news: OpenAI volunteers to integrate itself into all of Apple's products for free.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

ofslidingfeet — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:40:28 +0000

Maybe the powers that be will have to come to terms with how they have *completely fucking obliterated all public trust in any large institution*.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "[dead]"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:32:02 +0000

We're supposed to have free speech in the west. Shut the fuck up about Russia, the gestapo.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing"

ofslidingfeet — Thu, 02 May 2024 16:29:46 +0000

But don't forget that these are prestigious institutions and we should trust what their "experts" say without question or be shadowbanned from social media.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Ask HN: 4chan Archives Pre-2008?"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:26:08 +0000

Soon to be a question asked about the entire internet pre-2019.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

ofslidingfeet — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:23:37 +0000

You forgot to quote the part where I said the FBI won't stop blatantly interfering with elections.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Google lays off its Python team"

ofslidingfeet — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:05:30 +0000

t. Jerome Powell and Julie Su

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:06:28 +0000

I have to say, I'm just struck with astonishment to encounter a truism about "flexible government" as a defense of autocratic despotism.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:04:00 +0000

Laws are tautologically in the domain of government.

edit: If the torture is unlawful, then the government is illegitimate. I'm not saying life doesn't suck; I'm just saying no actually citizens should not tolerate unjust laws just because making just laws is ~too hard~.

(I had to add this reply in an edit because this garbage ass gestapo run website is throttling my reply rate.)

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:32:27 +0000

Wow who ever knew that all we ever had to do was hand philosophy off to programmers, and they would have definitive answers to centuries old questions that we weren't even sure are answerable.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:06:53 +0000

I'm sure their attempt to ban music with a given nominal feature will be a total success with no complications then.

If the government can't make coherent laws, that is the government's problem.

New comment by ofslidingfeet in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

ofslidingfeet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:42:15 +0000

If a formal system isn't consistent, then it shouldn't work.