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Re: Social Animus

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Post by MisterTea »

troosevelt wrote: post #2

I feel like it is a very great privilege to be able to post this to Hacker News, soliciting donations. I was out of work for the longest time (thankfully, I finally found some). I too have disadvantages, I have a few mental disorders which make living not the easiest and the world is not made for people who are different in any way. I've contributed to HN in the past, have plenty of stuff on Github but I do not have…

> I've noticed in past threads these are brought up but she does not address them, which strikes me as lacking the courage that she usually has.

The reason is a massive ego problem they refuse to address. Reading this difficult to follow rant also reveals they no clue what it means to be humble.

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Post by skware »

There appear to be some inaccuracies, or at least motivated misinterpretations in this article. In the second paragraph she claims that her invitation to speak at the Internet Archive was cancelled because of the llama.cpp incident, but reading the actual text of the email it seems the bigger issue is the content of the neoreactionary statements she made in 2014-2015? In fact, nowhere in the text of the article itself does she address them, which seems to me to be the elephant in the room.

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Post by Avicebron »

@Jart have you considered setting up a twitch account? I feel like people would donate if you were teaching them how to code like you do

It's very interesting to see a post asking for donation do this well on HN. I really doubt I would be able to do the same, and my systems work isn't too shabby either..

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Post by pushcx »

> when I saw someone complain about what he thought the title should be, I just used his idea instead of my own. This upset the moderator so much when he saw that I was optimizing my writing style based on feedback from his site

I was unaware the blog copied my title change until seeing this on HN and I have no emotional reaction to it. I've replaced over a hundred clickbait titles and it's not an emotionally evocative chore. Anyone can read my contemporaneous explanation at https://lobste.rs/c/hjlmw1 to see my reasoning and judge for themself how upset I sound.

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Post by dreambuffer »

This post resonates with my situation very much, although I have not made even a tiny fraction of the contributions this person has. I think if a person like this is struggling to find work, but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed, it suggests the software industry is in very big trouble.

That being said, and speaking from my own experience, one can develop ego problems if they've been undervalued by society. You can start viewing other people as lesser than you for not understanding your situation. I managed to escape those toxic thought patterns by practising empathy as a deliberate activity, and forcing myself to give love and grace to others until it felt natural.

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Post by AirMax98 »

usernametaken29 wrote: post #5
micromacrofoot wrote: post #3

This seems like a social justice position conflated with a call to donations to remedy some personal mistakes? Is the accusation here that two separate state tax authorities are conspiring against this person?

Overall I also thought the post is mostly confusing?

Similarly blessed that I am too stupid to comprehend this post. This person compares themselves to Prometheus and is begging for cash? What? Why is this not flagged?

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Post by [deleted] »

armchairhacker wrote: post #6

I have to ask the other side: why is this person so controversial? The only thing I'm aware of: she posted a very weird petition to appoint Eric Shmidt as "CEO of America" ( https://9to5google.com/2014/03/20/occupy-wall-street-co-foun... ) and told people to read Curtis Yarvin, in 2014. EDIT: lobste.rs context: https://lobste.rs/c/hjlmw1

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Post by minimaltom »

badc0ffee wrote: post #4

Reading this feels like stepping into two different conversations already in progress.

If you know whats going on, could you link to em?

Somewhat similar to you, I also got the sense that this was a pointed response/positioning to some controversy. Not because I have any clue whats going on (I dont), but just cuz it pattern-matched with the style/tone of a PR statement.

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Post by andai »

armchairhacker wrote: post #6

I have to ask the other side: why is this person so controversial? The only thing I'm aware of: she posted a very weird petition to appoint Eric Shmidt as "CEO of America" ( https://9to5google.com/2014/03/20/occupy-wall-street-co-foun... ) and told people to read Curtis Yarvin, in 2014. EDIT: lobste.rs context: https://lobste.rs/c/hjlmw1

It comes down to a rare combination of skillz and lulz. Each ingredient is tolerable in isolation, but when combined, the resulting mixture is deadly to the weak of heart.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by andai »

>Wiz also makes security tools, except they don't just prevent unwanted software from running, but they use their visibility to quantify the impact of open source projects, and then publish aggregate reports. The State of AI in the Cloud 2025 said that llamafile was being used by a third of organizations, which made it more productionized than ollama, llama.cpp, TensorFlow, and even the Anthropic SDK. It'd be great if people used empirical analysis of whose software is being used when distributing resources.
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