Any one got a good MUD to recommend?

BatMUD is the one I played a long time ago, and has been around for 35 years now. I honestly don't know how active it is these days.

https://www.bat.org

I just checked and ancient.anguish.org is still online. Port 2222.

That's interesting. Is there any kind of mapping to these respective models somewhere?

Yes, I included a 'Model Selection Cheat Sheet' in the README (scroll down a bit).

I map them by task type:

Tiny (<3B): Gemma 3 1B (could try 4B as well), Phi-4-mini (Good for classification). Small (8B-17B): Qwen 3 8B, Llama 4 Scout (Good for RAG/Extraction). Frontier: GPT-5, Llama 4 Maverick, GLM, Kimi

Is that what you meant?

at the sake of being obvious, do you have a tiny llm gating this decision and classifying and directing the task to its appropriate solution?

Not mentioned here is the risk of importing polio from another country. The need for the vaccine can certainly be discussed, but I'm not going to pretend that the country exists in a vacuum

Just require if for travel, as we do with Yellow Fever and other vaccines.

Nah, politics is a cancer that's infected everything. Let the addicts get their fix someplace else

Hand-waving everything as "politics" is not healthy. It's necessary for us to be able to make collective decisions on societal questions which is what "politics" are.

I remembered when politics used to be called “current events”.

HN is the wrong forum for this.

So I, as a software engineer, have to deal with the impacts of this administration both making my employment harder as well as terrorizing the city I live in. Where do you suggest I would go to share these issues other than the site that is specifically for hackers and tech workers?

I get that people want to make the place 'non-political', but a lot of us in the US live in major metropolitan areas and are very directly impacted by all of the shit going on.

"non-political" == pro status quo

No. It means "sick to death of hearing about politics everywhere I go and I am desperate for the occasional respite from that madness". Your interpretation is extremely bad faith.

It may not be your intent, but it has the effect of supporting the status quo.

The idea that hackers are non political is very silly and very unbacked up by evidence.

"Let the addicts get their fix someplace else"

Open to suggestions from anyone.

Seeing the kind of discourse you get here, how about Reddit?

Everything is political. Including ignoring politics.

Only if you make it political.

This is coming across to me as "things I don't like are 'politics'" if I'm being honest.

This is such a weird idea. Everything is political because there are no universally agreed upon values. Humans literally do not always agree on what the purpose of society is, what is good and what is bad, how much power we should have over one another and nature. And, as far as I can tell, neither god nor philosophy seems willing to descend from heaven in order to resolve our differences. Thus, we are stuck discussing things amongst ourselves and deciding how to move forward, a process called politics.

No, just because there are no universally agreed upon values does not make everything political. People can, and frequently do, agree to live and let live when they have differences of opinion rather than wage bitter wars over those differences. We can, and must, have spaces where we can enjoy things in life rather than having division fostered between us 24/7. There is no idea more toxic to the well being of society than the idea of "everything is political".

"Live and let live" is a political philosophy. I don't see what is so hard about this concept: human beings typically don't agree on everything. They have to decide what to do. That process is called politics, whether it happens to result in a live and let live attitude towards many things or the oppressive politics of the Soviet Union. When you tell me that in many contexts people should not feel pressure to adhere to a specific political line you are, in fact, expressing a (non-universal) political ideal, one which you don't need to search much to find counter-ideologies to.

I happen to agree with you: my preference is one in which dogmatic and performative adherence to a specific ideology is discouraged but that doesn't make me non-political, especially if I happen to live in a society where (for example) religious fundamentalism is the main cultural artifact.

At a deeper level, assertions that we should "remain apolitical" are, in the end, simply assertions that the status quo is "sufficient" or even good and that people who have some difference of opinion about how human affairs are managed are "bothersome" for bringing it up. Sometimes this is motivated by a misapprehension or genuine (if incorrect, in my opinion) belief that the status quo reflects some obviously "correct" view of things and thus questioning it is pointless, bothersome, or even dangerous.

I think political differences should (for the most part) be tolerated, resolved through discussion and democratic processes, and that a healthy society is one in which people are (to the extent possible given other goals) allowed to live as they please, but I do not think of this as a non-political goal. I mean, just look around, plenty of people want to take that sort of society away from you.

Its a tired trope, but you are wrong. The haves and the have nots define everything about our society and Not Addressing The Situation is a very active choice, thus politics.

Yeah because it's the size of a small child

Seconding this. Dumbest, most obviously useful thing, yet we never think to buy one. My wife and I have our own now.

Amen

One of the best feelings is letting things go.

"It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did"

It's an act of rebellion towards a world browbeating you into performance for invisible strangers

> "It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did"

Sometimes it's just for you. While walking with a friend last night I passed a home I've probably passed a hundred million times. Though this time, I noticed something, the second floor had a Christmas tree peaking out of a window. At that moment I realized that someone in the folds of Queens NYC took their time to put up this tree leaving the curtains drawn so someone on the street below might look up will and see their tree. It was such a weird little thought that I had to snap a picture even though my first thought was "nah." Will I ever share it? No. There's no reason to. But I have that little snapshot of that scene and the thoughts that came with it.

No, they didn't. They talked about their process and their mindset. They didn't share the photo.

Your response feels spiteful and needlessly mean. When someone is talking to you, listen to their words - such as their words talking about creating art even without an audience - before jumping immediately to attacks.

Here me out here:

We make wfh a right for all appropriate jobs

We improve fiber optic connectivity in rural communities

We incentivize young families to move to rural communities

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The main thing here is we break the unnecessary chains of offices and commuting and allow families to build where they have the space and want for them.

Cities are inherently isolating - space is at a premium - which means there is constant pressure to not expand in many different ways.

You need schools, pediatricians, daycare, other kids, etc. Cities (and suburbs) have those, not sure about every rural area. Certainly not the village in the article.

An unfortunate reality is that you're never going to have such services until there are children for them to service.

Decline like this is difficult to reverse, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

I doubt it would make much of a difference. Children growing up in rural communities typically move to a bigger city as soon as they can, which is where they then find mates and start their own families. I suspect not many young people are going to give up the social opportunities to stay in a small town or move back there.

But when they want the family, they have the option to go someplace to build it. That's the point. Right now the people meet in the city and stay in the city because they're tethered there.

Normally there should be higher taxes for companies that force work from office when there is no need for that. That is if we really want to be green and also care about the people.

I didn't read fuck all. I mean I read all of 2 books, which was fine, but I'm offended at my low book count this year. I intend of changing that asap.