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Cursory google search says 35.3 million flights in 2025. So $580m/35.3m flights ≈ $16/flight.

I wonder how much my $16 pre-flight drink at the airport compares to that $16 of savings from decreased weight, too lazy to do the napkin math right now

Trump referred to Somalis as "garbage". If that's not publicly antagonistic or racist then what is?

"Nobody wants to work anymore"[0] is a trope as old as industrialization itself.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/w3si8l/nobody_wan...


A trope is a trope because it is commonly true for long periods of time. This proves nothing.

Cycles exist, and there can be periods of time where there is true passion in an industry followed by lack thereof.

A boom and bust economic system guarantees that there will always be times where a ton of "normies" enter tech who just want a paycheck during booms.


We've done this with our kid(s). Saying "you're being bad" or "you are bad" is very different from "You're choosing to do bad things."

Care to elaborate on what flavors of bigotry have been lauded and socially rewarded/what valid viewpoints and statements have been mislabeled as bigotry? I feel like you're being intentionally vague to avoid taking a stance here.

No, I think my stance is pretty clear.

If you don't recognize the patterns of incuriosity, groupthink and misguided confidence that have permeated western society in the last ten years, nothing I say here is going to enlighten you.


Your stance isn't clear at all. Do you have any specifics?

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I'm sure I disagree with Willard on just about everything but we can disagree without being rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Ah, so you're socially conservative, support Trump but probably consider yourself a libertarian, secretly a big fan of the moves ICE has been making? I'm assuming you've used the term "liberal media" unironically in the last year. You didn't storm the capitol, but you consider the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 to be worse than January 6. Antifa is more of a danger than far-right agitators. Charlie Kirk's death hit hard. No social identity group is more persecuted than white, heterosexual, cisgender Christian men.

Any of those resonate? You're welcome to correct me.

EDIT: in light of another reply to this same thread I recognize that much of this comment was written sneeringly. I apologize for the snark and am leaving it as is in the interest of transparency.


Out of respect for your effort to keep it civil, I'll answer some of that:

I'm a liberal as defined up until 2012 or so.

Never been socially conservative at all. I'm not a libertarian, as I do support some social safety nets. That being the case, I am strongly against open borders and unchecked fraud.

You're actually right about a lot of the rest (minus the snark.)


Hell yeah I love being right. Thank you for being civil in response.

Also I was not implying that you are a libertarian, I don’t think that there are many true libertarians. I have just met so many fiscal conservatives who consider themselves to be libertarians and use it as an identifier because they feel libertarians are more intellectually respected than conservatives (which is very funny imo)


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First of all, OP declined to elaborate and resorted to seizing the apparent moral high ground instead of defending their claims. I felt that was an invitation for conjecture.

Secondly, I noted that my comment was made in less than good faith in the edit I left. I stand by the underlying concepts though. It is my impression that OP is a conservative who is afraid to come out as such in a public forum. This bias (I do not use the word pejoratively here) influences their opinion they shared.

Third, I invited OP to illustrate where I am wrong. When someone makes strong statements about the morality of a group and refuses to share their own beliefs on the subject, I believe it’s appropriate to assume they are biased in some way. If I say “all devs are brain dead keyboard monkeys” and I’m a dev, that context is important to understand my statement. Based on Capt’s comment, I made the above assumptions and shared them as I was feeling snarky and felt that they (if true) would be relevant to the larger discussion.

Finally, I'm sure I disagree with you on many things but we can disagree without being rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


you could have just said 'yes'.

You made an accusation so I responded.

I am this person. I love the convenience of a car. I hate car ownership.

And when the whole world is covered in datacenters, how will we continue to scale?

Just try to focus on all the good it will bring.

But that "good" will harm the most, like today it's a energy bottleneck.

It will pass, it will pass


If I make up a riddle and ask an LLM to solve it, it will perform worse than a riddle that is well known and whose solution will be found in the dataset. That's just a foundational component of how they work.


Yes you can trick it.

But it’s almost trivial for an LLM to generate every question and answer combo you could every come up with based on new documentation and new source code for a new framework. It doesn’t need StackOverflow anymore. It’s already miles ahead.


The issue here is borrowing from the future to pay for the present. The bicycle analogy (unless I'm missing something huge here) does not seem relevant at all.


Why do you think source code and documentation are not enough for an LLM to train on?


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