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typs commented on Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

Tripping5292 · 3 hours ago

What was the motive? The targets seemed unique. One the VP of the Republican student club and the other a prominent Jewish physicist.

typs · 3 hours ago

It’s unlikely the students at Brown killed were targeted. He opened fire on a room of students at a review session, shooting 11 people. It seems very possible that this was an act of violence out of resentment towards Brown, where he dropped out a graduate program over 20 years ago. He would’ve had most of his classes and spent most of his time in the building where he carried out the shooting.

He appears to have attended the same undergraduate program in Portugal as the MIT professor.

Therefor it seems possible that these shootings were carried out of personal resentment, though only he knew for certain.

typs commented on The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems yaschamounk.substack.com/... · Posted by u/thatoneengineer

screye · 3 days ago

There are no material conditions that would convince me to live in a cold, dark and culturally introverted place. Anecdotally, my tropical peers agree with this opinion. Seasonal affective disorder plays an outsized role in my ability to like a place. On the flip side, I've heard many people describe living in warm & humid weather as torture.

My point is, aggregating factors for happiness to find the best country is like aggregating people's favorite colors to find the best color. Each individual's needs and circumstances are unique, and what will make them happy will vary widely as those needs and circumstances vary.

Some interesting (suspect?) findings from the quoted 2023 paper: (2008 - 2017 data)

* Somaliland had the 4th least worries

* Russians were the 7th least angry

* Chinese were the 8th best rested

* Icelanders did great on every metric, but felt very tired (rank 190)

* Venezuelans smiled the 12th most (Panama, Paraguay, Costa Rica did even better)

* Laotians smile the 3rd most, but are also among the angriest (202) !!?

typs · 3 days ago

I grew up in a very warm place, then moved to a very cold place and was miserable. I’d never done a winter and every year I was deeply unhappy for huge spans of the year.

But then I moved to Denmark from that cold place and found myself very happy! Of course circumstances change and a single account means little but I definitely believe some societies lend themselves to greater happiness than others, even in the very developed world.

typs commented on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter openrouter.ai/state-of-ai... · Posted by u/anjneymidha

reeeli · 15 days ago

I'm out of time but "reasoning input tokens" from fortune 5000 engineers sounds like a lobotomized LSD dream, would you care on elaborating how you distinguish between reasoning and non-reasoning? vs "question on duty"?

typs · 15 days ago

I believe they’re just classifying all models into “reasoning models” eg o3 vs “non reasoning models” eg 4o and just doing a comparison of total tokens (input tokens + hidden reasoning output tokens + shown output tokens)

typs commented on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter openrouter.ai/state-of-ai... · Posted by u/anjneymidha

typs · 15 days ago

This is really amazing data. Super interesting read

typs commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar

akomtu · 17 days ago

Good for them. It turns out, the common folk have more wisdom than tech bros with regard to AI.

typs · 17 days ago

Ah yes. The big tech employees of Amazon and Microsoft, the common folk.

typs commented on Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry stohl.substack.com/p/excl... · Posted by u/FreeQueso

bluGill · 22 days ago

If the llc declares bankruptcy does meta have to pay the bank for it - or can they buy the assets at fire sale prices?

typs · 22 days ago

Meta doesn't actually owe the bank anything in this setup. That would be Blackrock and the other private creditors.

typs commented on Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry stohl.substack.com/p/excl... · Posted by u/FreeQueso

typs · 22 days ago

The Matt Levine article on this financing is more readable: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-...

typs commented on The Bay Area is cursed sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/eatitraw

jcalvinowens · a month ago

> Someone recently said to me: “I’m tired of drinking in living rooms with overly smart people.”

So stop doing that.

"Tech people" are not even a plurality in the greater bay area, let alone a majority. If all you see is tech people everywhere you go, that's your fault. Maybe take some responsibility for your outcomes, and go more interesting places, instead of deciding a metropolis of millions of people is somehow beneath you...

typs · a month ago

I agree with this. It's a critique you'll hear often from intellectual elites who prefer NYC. But most people, even in the bay area, are people with many interests who don't talk about intellectual things all the time!

"Mid-tier cities" are great too and have rich social fabrics if you look for them as well!

typs commented on This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/canucker2016

georgemcbay · 2 months ago

> I suppose the notion that you could just distribute untested software onto an unlimited amount of other peoples computers without consent wasn't yet considered unethical

As someone who is old enough to have been a teenage hacker back in this timeframe and who spent his time on old Diversi Dial dialup systems which lead to early internet systems via gnu/fsf's open access policy, which lead to bitnet relay, and who was around during the initial development of irc right around this very year (1988) I can say that it was absolutely considered a bad act to do this sort of thing back then even as just a prank or demonstration (which made it kind of cool to back-then me, as a teenager, but which made it certainly unethical in a professional sense even for the time).

... however when you oopsied and the shit hit the fan, you could get away with it if your dad worked for the NSA.

The vast majority of people who weren't RTM would have had a far more severely negative outcome in his situation.

typs · 2 months ago

I mean, he did get convicted of a felony.

typs commented on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors nytimes.com/2025/09/05/te... · Posted by u/acomjean

unaut · 3 months ago

This settlement I guess could be a landmark moment. $1.5 billion is a staggering figure and I hope it sends a clear signal that AI companies can’t just treat creative work as free training data.

typs · 3 months ago

I mean the ruling does in fact find that treating this particular kind of creative work qualifies as fair use.