Solar panels are trashy according to this guy

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The fact that he is doing good deeds really tops it off.

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Show HN: Hypnotizing ChatGPT

A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction.

Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness, fine-tuning, etc...

My biggest observation is that the "o1-preview" model imposes a SIGNIFICANT limit on freeform creativity, compared with "4o". The new model might be better at solving logic puzzles, writing code, etc, but it seems to struggle with metaphor.

Conversations with "4o" can be wild and fun!

Conversations with "o1-preview" are dry-as-toast.

I'm not sure if this is caused by the constraints of chain-of-thought or if it comes from the imposition of alignment policies, and I think that's an import area of research. Is it possible to invoke chain-of-thought reasoning without hampering creativity?

If we ever want to use agents like this in real scientific contexts, where the agent is capable of making true conceptual leaps, we will need to sacrifice some level of "alignment" in service of novelty and disagreeability.

It's a long thread, but if you're patient, there's a lot of interesting stuff there! And I thought it would be fun to share it with the wider community.

Enjoy!

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Elon Musk says he can cut at $2 trillion from the federal budget once Trump is President

Elon Musk claimed he can eliminate at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, laying out his vision for substantial government spending cuts if Donald Trump wins the presidency.

“Your money is being wasted,” Musk said Sunday at a rally for Trump in New York’s Madison Square Garden. “We’re going to get the government off your back and out of your pocket book.”

Trump has said he would ask Musk, the world’s richest person and a major donor to the Republican nominee’s campaign, to head up an effort to cut government spending, nicknamed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a reference to a cryptocurrency Musk has embraced.

Critics have said this position would represent a conflict of interest for Musk. The companies he runs, including Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, have billions of dollars worth of federal contracts and have benefited from federal spending, including electric vehicle tax credits and infrastructure investments.

The $2 trillion target represents nearly a third of existing spending. The federal government spent $6.75 trillion in fiscal year 2024, according to the Treasury Department.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP’s Howard Lutnick asked Musk on stage how much he could “rip out of” the budget under President Joe Biden and Trump’s rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk responded, “Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion, yeah.”

Trump on the campaign trail has talked about reducing the federal debt, but has not detailed specific programs he would curb. Instead, the Republican nominee has promised a long list of tax cuts aimed at key groups of voters, reductions that economists have warned would balloon the deficit.

Musk has spent at least $132 million to elect Trump and other Republicans in 2024, federal filings show. That level of giving has vaulted him into the upper echelon of political donors, making Musk one of the most prolific contributors of the entire 2024 cycle.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/28/elon-musk-cut-2-trillion-federal-budget-trump-rally/

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Encore.ts: A New Type of Framework

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NEW: Elon Musk was working unlawfully when he built the startup that made him a millionaire in the 1990s, according to interviews, documents and records obtained by The Washington Post

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Living Wage Challenge

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Maybe Maybe Maybe

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Keynote Presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at Fourteenth RacketCon

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Kamala Harris says she will double federal minimum wage to $15.

Kamala Harris has announced plans to more than double the federal minimum wage if she wins the presidency.

The Democratic candidate has backed raising the current minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to at least $15.

It has remained frozen for the last 15 years: the longest stretch without an increase since standard pay was introduced in 1938.

She told NBC: “At least $15 an hour, but we’ll work with Congress, right? It’s something that is going through Congress.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/22/election-2024-kamala-harris-to-be-interviewed-on-nbc/

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Differential Learning

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THE NEW YORK METS ARE ELIMINATED

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Not enough space for all the “ha”s this deserves

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Me_irl

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What's the most morally questionable thing you've ever done but would never admit to in real life?

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Gimme a pic of your cats in the comment and I'll draw them!

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A 21-Year-Old Violinist Emerges from a Field Crowded with Prodigies

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Megachurch pastor tells congregation to "vote like Jesus" by supporting Trump. FFRF is demanding the IRS revoke the church's tax-exempt status.

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Gen Z misuses therapy speak too much

I’ve noticed Gen Z misuses therapy speak way too much. Words like gaslight, narcissist, codependency, bipolar disorder, even “boundaries” and “trauma” are used in a way that’s so far from their actual psychiatric/psychological definitions that it’s laughable and I genuinely can’t take a conversation seriously anymore if someone just casually drops these in like it’s nothing.

There’s some genuine adverse effects to therapy speak like diluting the significance of words and causing miscommunication. Psychologists have even theorized that people who frequently use colloquial therapy speak are pushing responsibility off themselves - (mis)using clinical terms to justify negative behavior (ex: ghosting a friend and saying “sorry it’s due to my attachment style” rather than trying to change.)

I understand other generations do this too, but I think Gen Z really turns the dial up to 11 with it.

So stop it!! Please!! For the love of god. A lot of y’all don’t know what these words mean!

Here are some articles discussing the rise of therapy speak within GEN Z and MILENNIAL circles:

1. https://www.cbtmindful.com/articles/therapy-speak

2. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rise-of-therapy-speak

3. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1169808361/therapy-speak-is-everywhere-but-it-may-make-us-less-empathetic

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It’s true 🥲🥲

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G2 Esports vs. Bilibili Gaming / 2024 World Championship - Swiss Round 5 / Post-Match Discussion

WORLDS 2024

Official page | Leaguepedia | Liquipedia | Live Discussion | Eventvods.com | New to LoL

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G2 Esports 1-2 Bilibili Gaming

G2 Esports are eliminated from worlds and Bilibili Gaming advance to the knockout stage

G2 | Leaguepedia | Liquipedia | Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Subreddit
BLG | Leaguepedia | Liquipedia | Website | Twitter

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MATCH 1: G2 vs. BLG

Winner: Bilibili Gaming in 35m
Match History | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
G2	ahri ashe neeko	xayah ezre	58.3k	7	3	M2
BLG	yone aurora kalista	draven poppy	69.8k	21	9	I1 H3 CT4 B5 CT6

G2	7-21-18	vs	21-7-48	BLG
BrokenBlade gnar 2	3-2-0	TOP	6-0-3	1 jax Bin
Yike nocturne 2	1-3-5	JNG	2-0-15	1 skarner XUN
Caps orianna 1	1-4-4	MID	7-1-8	2 leblanc knight
Hans Sama missfortune 3	2-5-3	BOT	4-5-10	3 kaisa Elk
Mikyx rell 3	0-7-6	SUP	2-1-12	4 alistar ON

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MATCH 2: G2 vs. BLG

Winner: G2 Esports in 30m
Match History | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
G2	ahri jax ashe	poppy kaisa	59.8k	17	9	CT2 O4 B5 O6
BLG	yone aurora kalista	draven varus	48.6k	5	2	M1 H3

G2	17-5-40	vs	5-17-9	BLG
BrokenBlade yasuo 2	3-2-11	TOP	1-5-2	1 gnar Bin
Yike skarner 1	3-1-10	JNG	1-5-2	2 xinzhao XUN
Caps sylas 2	4-1-5	MID	1-1-2	1 neeko knight
Hans Sama ezreal 3	6-0-3	BOT	2-3-1	3 xayah Elk
Mikyx rakan 3	1-1-11	SUP	0-3-2	4 renataglasc ON

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MATCH 3: BLG vs. G2

Winner: Bilibili Gaming in 35m
Match History | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
BLG	poppy gnar yone	renataglasc neeko	72.4k	23	10	HT2 H3 CT4 B6 CT7 B8
G2	jax ahri aurora	ashe missfortune	63.4k	19	3	M1 CT5

BLG	23-19-65	vs	19-23-45	G2
Bin rumble 2	5-6-13	TOP	4-6-5	1 renekton BrokenBlade
XUN skarner 1	3-2-13	JNG	5-5-11	1 xinzhao Yike
knight sylas 3	5-5-14	MID	1-3-12	4 ryze Caps
Elk ezreal 3	8-2-9	BOT	7-3-5	2 kalista Hans Sama
ON rell 2	2-4-16	SUP	2-6-12	3 taric Mikyx

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What do you think? Should there be a wealth tax?

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Tool sequences DNA and tracks proteins without cracking cells open

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Hacktoberfest 2024

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My friend, who was a man, came out as a non-binary trans woman. I'm having a hard time understanding what it means.

I understand what a trans woman is.

I understand what a non-binary trans is.

I don't understand what a non-binary trans woman is.

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DHS Awards Contracts to Four Synthetic Data Generation Startups

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Add “loving your children” to that list of things men can’t do

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Ask HN: Correct Logic written in C, but Compiler messed things up?

I was solving some easy Reverse engineering challenges when I came across a peculiar binary.It was a simple password checker with code that seemed correct but during compilation the compiler seemed to mess something up. Have a look.

Section of main function:

    0x00001213      lea     rax, [str.64s] ; 0x2032
    0x0000121a      mov     rdi, rax   ; const char *format
    0x0000121d      mov     eax, 0
    0x00001222      call    __isoc99_scanf ; sym.imp.__isoc99_scanf ; int scanf(const char *format)
    0x00001227      lea     rax, [var_48h]
    0x0000122b      mov     rdi, rax   ; int64_t arg1
    0x0000122e      call    checkPass  ; sym.checkPass ;  sym.checkPass(int64_t arg1)
    0x00001233      test    eax, eax
    0x00001235      je      0x124d
    0x00001237      lea     rax, [str.You_are_correct_:] ; 0x2037
    0x0000123e      mov     rdi, rax   ; const char *format
    0x00001241      mov     eax, 0
    0x00001246      call    printf     ; sym.imp.printf ; int printf(const char *format)
    0x0000124b      jmp     0x1261
    0x0000124d      lea     rax, [str.Better_luck_next_time._:] ; 0x204a
    0x00001254      mov     rdi, rax   ; const char *format
    0x00001257      mov     eax, 0
    0x0000125c      call    printf     ; sym.imp.printf ; int printf(const char *format)
    0x00001261      mov     eax, 0
    0x00001266      leave
    0x00001267      ret

checkPass function:

    0x00001149      push    rbp
    0x0000114a      mov     rbp, rsp
    0x0000114d      mov     qword [input], rdi ; arg1
    0x00001151      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x00001155      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x00001158      cmp     al, 0x73
    0x0000115a      jne     0x11cc
    0x0000115c      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x00001160      add     rax, 1
    0x00001164      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x00001167      cmp     al, 0x75
    0x00001169      jne     0x11d3
    0x0000116b      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x0000116f      add     rax, 2
    0x00001173      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x00001176      cmp     al, 0x64
    0x00001178      jne     0x11d3
    0x0000117a      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x0000117e      add     rax, 3
    0x00001182      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x00001185      cmp     al, 0x6f
    0x00001187      jne     0x11d3
    0x00001189      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x0000118d      add     rax, 4
    0x00001191      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x00001194      cmp     al, 0x30
    0x00001196      jne     0x11d3
    0x00001198      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x0000119c      add     rax, 5
    0x000011a0      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x000011a3      cmp     al, 0x78
    0x000011a5      jne     0x11d3
    0x000011a7      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x000011ab      add     rax, 6
    0x000011af      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x000011b2      cmp     al, 0x31
    0x000011b4      jne     0x11d3
    0x000011b6      mov     rax, qword [input]
    0x000011ba      add     rax, 7
    0x000011be      movzx   eax, byte [rax]
    0x000011c1      cmp     al, 0x38
    0x000011c3      jne     0x11d3
    0x000011c5      mov     eax, 1
    0x000011ca      jmp     0x11d3
    0x000011cc      mov     eax, 0
    0x000011d1      jmp     0x11d3
    0x000011d3      pop     rbp
    0x000011d4      ret

The author did make a mistake of returning 0 if the first letter matches and 1 only if all letters match. This makes it ambiguous as to what should happen if only 2 or 3 or so letters match.

However, the way the compiler handles it (by storing bytes and the return value both in the eax register) leads to a flaw where a person can bypass the check by just entering "ss" (for example). Is this the compiler's mistake? How can we avoid such a scenario?

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Teen achieves first NES Tetris "rebirth," proves endless play is possible

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Today in Huntington Beach California

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Who according to you should be crowned Femina Miss India 2024?

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Biden exempts some semiconductor factories from environmental reviews

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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but working in IT has taught me that people are generally... really dumb?

Not just because they have no computer literacy, which I can understand, but also because they are unable to understand basic concepts and have no reading comprehension whatsoever.

I am dumb asf myself, heck I barely know how to do basic math! But man... sometimes it's really hard to keep your composure when people literally refuse to use their two braincells.

Anyways... thanks for listening. Rant over.

Edit: Definitely a popular opinion.

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It was just MAGA being MAGA

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James Blunt will change his name to 'anything' the public wants if his debut album returns to number one

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