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It’s mesmerizing to see how easy it has been to transform the USA into what was decried China to become about 5 years ago.

You see some form of resistance (the guy that was caught with a truck full of cut Flock cameras) but it seems the population is resigned.


They say "every accusation is a confession" yet I'm still continually surprised by accusations that I never thought would turn out to be confessions, turning out to be confessions. Like the Chinese surveillance state.

It seems to be a type of psychological projection - someone harbors an ideal like a surveillance state and assumes everyone else is harboring the same ideal so they accuse them.

I hope the Uyghur genocide accusation doesn't turn out to be a confession.


Well, the Chinese surveillance state in the US took off 25 years ago, give or take a few days.

it's been around for quite a lot longer than that. 1984 was written in 1949 and wasn't strictly inspired by only fascist regimes - there were and still are a lot of similarities (eg ethnosupremaccy, nativism, etc) that have deep roots elsewhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

>With the end of World War II, Project SHAMROCK was established in 1945. The organization was created to accumulate telegraphic data entering and exiting from the United States.[4][22] Major communication companies such as Western Union, RCA Global and ITT World Communications actively aided the project, allowing American intelligence officials to gain access to international message traffic.[23] Under the project, and many subsequent programs, no precedent had been established for judicial authorization, and no warrants were issued for surveillance activities. The project was terminated in 1975.[4]


Water is wet.

Finder is by far the worst file manager ever created.


You didn't read past the title.

Except for all the other ones.

But somehow the White House won’t consider this a problem because… reasons.

So, like if Batman was into optimizing musical keyboard layouts instead of whatever he’s doing.

So, Jared has bought how many stocks of OpenAI ?

If the quality comments that have been flagged are like what you see on /r/conservative , it might be that you subjectively see quality where others see something else.

Can you point at the well thought out rebuttal that have been victim of flagging?


You don't get it, or are not following through. The thread started with why a Conservative wouldn't post here. It's simple, it's not worth getting comments downvoted or flagged for having an unpopular opinion [not nationally but here].

You will say it's not a reasonable opinion, it's hate or fear and should be downvoted/flagged, but that is incorrect and exactly what leads to echo chambers. Which is ironic because HN is usually very pro-speech/thought... or used to be.


I can assure you plenty of conservative views get shared on HN, all the time. Saying otherwise means you must not be on here much.

It's just that defending the current administration, at this state, does take a level of bad faith that people on all sides of the political spectrum are sick of hearing. To imply it's only hardcore liberals flagging these comments is wishful thinking


"defending the current administration, at this state, does take a level of bad faith"

So every topic regarding current administration is a bad faith argument on the proponent side? Or just this one?


How can you trust any company?

The only company you could think of trusting is one where an external , independent auditor is doing its work.


I loved playing Rampage and Thexder on the Tandy of my friend!

I think he’s talking about the Mac Mini unified memory.

48G RAM is pretty useful if you want to run k8s locally for tests / exploration


true but if you're actually running k8s and similar workloads, chances are it might eat memory that LLM requires.

you'll also notice these articles rarely specify their context window in tokens, because it is small, usually 30k to 70k tokens and it gets slower as it fills up.


I actually have a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48G. I gave the k8s example because this is what I was doing with it.

Was because I am back to using Linux as my workstation.

My Mac Mini is now a headless server for llama.cpp.

So, you are right that for these workloads , I would not be using the Mac Mini for k8s AND llama.

Another thing going against using a Mac for Linux containers is that there are no solutions that I know that properly manages memory : memory is given to the Linux vm , but never fluctuates if the needs in the vm are less than the initial request.

I know Orb Stack does that but is it proprietary. I think UTM does it , but not sure I would use UTM instead of Lima, Colima , multipass , etc to run containers.


Try smolvm microvms from https://smolmachines.com - among other benefits they only consume host resources if they're actually used.

What is the word? "Facetious"?

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