skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably already know/have done this but just in case (or if someone else reading along isn't aware): if you click the timestamp "<x> ago" text for a comment it forces the "vouch" button to appear.

I've also vouched as it doesn't seem like a comment deserving to be dead at all. For at least this instant it looks like that was enough vouches to restore the comment.
What to Do When Management Won't Take Your Side–Or Even When It Does
I recently put Linux on an Asus G14 and I can't stop thinking about how it's the same size and similar finish and build quality as my 13" MacBook Pro from 2015 but has a GPU and is running Linux and all the hardware worked out of the box (except maybe the built-in mic which I haven't tested)

hell I even bought it in store! eat your heart out Tim Apple, the year of the Linux desktop has arrived

anyway my point in this comment is DO IT you won't regret it! modern Linux has gotten so good
Article about audio codec with no mention of compression rates and "speech results" audio samples are presented as animated gifs.
True. But equally, Mahomes wouldn't last a single top-level soccer game. The running is much more continuous, and far longer than NFL players run in a game. NFL players have tuned their bodies for a different activity profile, one that fits the NFL but doesn't fit professional soccer.
> He’s the most successful player in the most competitive position in the most competitive league in one of the most competitive sports on Earth

Isn't it exactly the point of the article though that this doesn't necessarily mean elite across-the-board athleticism?

Your statement would also have described Tom Brady for most of his career, and I don't think anyone would seriously claim he was a 99%ile athlete (certainly not for sprinting, agility, etc.)
It's odd. I really like the Moloch post. It's a super interesting story that clearly exemplifies a problem in the real world.

Well-intended people often end up acting against what's best because they only invest in the self, and don't act as a whole.

It's cool philosophy!

But um..

Taking it seriously as a sort of religious demon? You can characterize it for that purpose in the settings of stories, myths, theology etc, but in real-life? Nahh..

What the heck man

Go join a labor union or something instead, what the heck
They tried the “hack” on one person and they apparently had a breakdown and killed themselves. Just a reminder not to take tips from “vegan Sith” who ended up rationalizing stabbing people as “double good” or some whacky shit like that.
A college roommate of mine had a joke: “what’s the difference between Ayn Rand and the tooth fairy? No one believes in the tooth fairy when they grow up.” I feel like it could be updated for Yudkowsky easily enough. I don’t want to waste my time reading all this; as a mid-40s parent living on the East coast, I feel like the appropriate response to any discussion of rationalism is “grow up.”
> He’s the most successful player in the most competitive position ...

That is likely to wind up true when it's all said & done but Tom Brady still holds that title.
What does that even mean? Shame these newer account post such low intelligence reaction replies.

For most use cases, you can consider a GCP/AWS/Azure secure.
Related:
String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'death cult'

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-z...
Analyzing DeepSeek's System Prompt
Before 2010s software didn't feel like it was different features competing for attention. Is product owner a new invention or what else happened?
Even 4o mini gets that
It's really pathetic. Reminds me of when phone manufacturers make a hardware button stop doing what people are used to and make it do Feature-Of-The-Month. Sorry, your power button now turns on FeatureX instead of toggling power. All so a fraction of a percent of users accidentally and unintentionally invoke unwanted features.
I do actually appreciate the pedantic comment. However you make an implicit and false dichotomy between communist and authoritarian states. These two are much more similar, in some cases identical, than to a liberal democracy.
and it is for this reason that I love baseball: my dude bartolo can be playing at a a world class level looking like a rec-league softball guy smuggling a beer out to the mound in his waistband:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfvCKA9RdH4
> You'd think a group of people devoted to being rational would be a group of monk-like beings, cerebral, disconnected from the concerns of the flesh.

Human beings are fundamentally irrational, and it's a really great way to deceive oneself to believe otherwise.

If you can convince yourself that you're unbiased, objective and "rational", then whatever you happen to believe must be correct! You can rationalize practically anything, so it's no surprise rationalists start getting weird when left to their own devices.

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.” -Robert A. Heinlein
Luckily, we live in a society of specialists, and while you are laying bricks, public health orgs are generating reports and taking interviews and making these data accessible and meaningful to you.

So, yes, your grandma relies on a data "supply chain" but, nevertheless, it benefits her.
LLMs are actually the new computers. Compilation is only one program they can run.
Kim Jong Trum
Wow. My grandfather is turning over in his grave. He suffered not only starvation and homelessness while striking against the coral companies of Pennsylvania, he was also beaten.

If they have instilled this much cowardliness in you they have won. Imagine you’re kid looking at what you wrote twenty years from now and think of how he/she would think of you. Courageous or coward?
usually the top comment these days is a diversion to push an agenda.
https://archive.ph/MMaH2
The allegations were not true and the accuser retracted them. See MIRI's statement here: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1q0uv-sPpmvmm_5YH6zSB...
to only downside, If you support everything, everything will be used. Deprecating aggressive hurts shortterm but pays off long term.
I’m not religious and open minded about new stuff but ultimately decided the ancient Stoics system of morals works perfectly for me- and is more time tested than even Christianity. I think the rationalists decision to use consequentialist morality in regular life is a huge mistake, and impossible to get right in practice. Humans cannot predict the future outcomes of our actions very well, but we can easily remember and follow a simple set of core values.
I would rather associate athleticism with very fine motion control than raw power.

Otherwise we would look at kick boxing.
Sure I am certain there is a possibility but unless you have airgapped your local instance and locked down your local network securely it does not really matter.

It’s cool to run things locally and it will get better as time goes on but for most use cases I don’t find it worth it. Everyone is different and folks that enjoy the idea of local network secure can run it locally.
Right so for maximum benefit you need to remove your clothes whenever possible.
There are different subgroups within the rationalist movement, just as there are different subgroups within many organized religions. It’s totally normal to have a movement with plenty of generally normal people, and also to have a committed and very opinionated subgroup within that movement that has access to resources and power. You might think of Scientology or the Catholic Church as examples of organizations where this is made very explicit, but it can happen organically as well. The main thing that makes the rationalist/EA groups worrying, in my opinion, is the massive access to money and resources that also tends to be concentrated in the hands of the people with the strongest beliefs (see TFA or, more importantly, the AI “doomer” folks.) We’re talking about groups of smart people who genuinely fear the world is going to end, have convinced themselves that stopping it is critical to saving future humanity, in some cases have access to capable scientists, and most critically: have resources ranging into the 10s and 100s of million dollars. This is potentially a very dangerous situation if the folks in charge make bad decisions.
They’re really invested in the study of philosophy, epistemology, and ethics and how it applies to their lives, and frequently reference philosophers and ethicists.
A general strike. Boycotts, etc.

Protests get the word out and create comrades.
Remember Nikola Jokic?

The current best basketball player in the world who looks like this: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/645d93...
Probably the other way around...
This summary doc, "The Zizian Facts", is another collection of relevant information from various sources (including recent events):

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1RpAvd5TO5eMhJrdr2kz4...
I think that utopias implemented in reality became dystopias because, unlike bold ideas, reality is pretty nuanced.
Yeah since 2016
Lots of animals are known to do this. Animals researchers wondered how marine mammals were able to sleep. Wouldn't you drown? Turns out dolphins sleep with half their brain awake, so they can surface and breathe. The brain hemispheres then take turns.

Certain species of ducks also sleep with half the brain. They get in a circle, with the awake eye facing out, and the sleeping eye in. (I guess if they have cross visual cortex nerves like we do, it means the brain hemisphere facing out is sleeping).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep

So I guess if there's prior art, it's not a leap to think...maybe humans could try to do it too.
How long will they have a home?

Starting a trade war has consequences. That mortgage of yours is pegged to 10 year treasury rates. Bend the demand curve for foreign investors seeking safety in US government debt and stuff happens, like real estate bubbles deflating. What happens when foreign investors start dumping loans for vacant NYC buildings on the market because of their governments restrictions?

Look at the the classic Bogglehead investment - VTI. 30% of that portfolio is 10 companies, half of which are extremely vulnerable to foreign action. What happens to Apple stock when there’s a 30% tariff on iPhones?

You have reckless idiots turning knobs and people are going to get hurt. Then they get angry. LARPing right wing morons love to talk revolutions on their podcasts, they may get their wish.
Unfortunately, the writers won't see any of that for this particular implementation.

It would be far more interesting as a project which tried to make all legitimately available downloadable texts accessible, say as an interface to:

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Mitochondria as you've never seen them
Why Chinese tech keeps surprising the West
> applied to almost every EV that wasn't a Tesla

And Tesla?

https://www.tesla.com/IRA
I’m not being sarcastic. There is a changing norm within the field of journalism itself, and researchers are openly advocating abandoning objectivity as a creed. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/objectivity-in-journalism-...

“To find out, we read every article mentioning the word from 2020 to 2022 in three publications where journalists talk to each other: Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Poynter. We coded each of these 195 articles on a five-point scale from ‘very negative’ to ‘very positive,’ and found that when American journalists speak about objectivity, they are three times more likely to speak negatively of it than positively (our count is 111 to 38).”
I wonder why that post got flagged.
Honestly it kinda feels like they just reimplemented CouchDB/PouchDB....

Not that it would be a bad thing to do that, but really, for small scale stuff Couch works pretty okay. My first impressions of Earthstar do not lead me to believe they have a particular emphasis on performance at scale.
NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch – it can do what the JWST can't
Stretchy, self-healing 'jelly batteries' could revolutionize medical implants
The Linux Foundation events are actually probably more relevant to the topics I covered at Red Hat and again as an analyst. But I wouldn't pay for passes out of my own pocket. I was at the Kubecon in Amsterdam but skipped Valencia. Been to quite a few over the years starting fairly early-on (maybe 2nd or 3rd) when they were still quite small.
I cannot possibly comprehend how someone could think that NFL football and NBA basketball are ‘not physically difficult’ sports.
Building a Food Inventory App for My Dorm with Palantir Foundry
The allegations were not true, and this moral philosophy is now responsible for a handful of killings and suicides.
He acts well and reasons about incorrectly, as you’d expect from someone who knows nothing about it. Wind turbines are carbon ahead in 7mo on average, including transpiration for all materials, concrete, etc. And they can make a lot of money.
Large Language Models for Mathematicians (2023)
Privacy is a relatively new concept, and the idea that individuals are entitled to complete privacy is a very new and radical concept.

I am as pro-privacy as they come, but let’s not pretend that government and corporate surveillance is some wild new thing that just appeared. Read Horace’s Satires for insight into how non-private private correspondence often was in Ancient Rome.
This so much. We have 7 repos and like 5 different coding styles/structures. Each developer writes C# different and uses different libraries, which creates a big maintainance overhead.

For individual developers this may be great: "I learn new things" "I found a faster way" "this abstraction allows me to do X"

But for a company with more than X developers this becomes a risk.
Prompt engineer still chooses to type in prompt describing something specific and presses enter.

And after photographer generates 10 photos he obviously goes "that one".

Photographer makes no effort contributing to determining the color of each of millions of pixels. He just turns few knobs, points the thing and presses a button. Many, many times. Then he picks. The bulk of the art is in picking afterwards. That's when you see the product, evaluate its artistic value and claim it as your art. Another part of art is having interesting idea up front.

I don't really know about AI art but I know how photography is done. The kind that is displayed later in galleries.

And all the objections hurled against AI art would hit photography in the face if it stood in the way.
These people?

https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/killing-of-border-patr...

Is the appellation in the headline, "radical vegan trans cult," a true description?

> Authorities now say the guns used by Youngblut and Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender “geniuses” who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.”

Is all this murder stuff broadly correct?
It often isn’t for other people. Kinda like when I drive a certain car I like or wear certain clothes that I like. I am signaling to some degree, but more than anything it’s because /I/ like it. Same reason I lift, stay lean, etc. it’s for me. Often the group it does signal to is maybe not immediately obvious as well.
"DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future."
How does C# compare to Clojure, at which I am looking lately a lot with a wish to use it for distributed applications productivity-wise, concurrency-wise and productivity-wise, including deployments in production?
If you’ve talked to OpenAI about this riddle before it’s certain that conversation is now in the training set.
It's not just "product owners." When you're one of 100 teams in BigCorp, your team might own Feature X, and another team owns Feature Y. If teams with more "successful" features grow faster, get more funding, get more compute time, get bigger, fatter org charts, then your whole team is incentivized to fight to make Feature X more prominent and elbow out Feature Y.

As an end user, when you start your device or application or web page, know that the features that are exposed in the first screen, and "above the fold" as they say, that premium placement was likely fought bitterly over, through epic corporate political battles and backstabbing. They're not there because research showed that users want them conveniently located.
Everything About Trump's Spending Freeze Order You Were Too Afraid to Ask
The MIT "platform studies" series is quite close to that, http://platformstudies.com/
We've done the protest thing. In the past decade, millions of people have protested, repeatedly, trying to change parts of this trajectory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstra...

A bunch of Americans have been taught that protests only "count" if they don't inconvenience anyone. Laws have been changed to make effective protest impossible. It's legal to ram protesters with your car in Florida, for instance. The cops use force to suppress protests and the media tells everyone your protest was invalid because it broke the law.

If we press the point more aggressively, we'll probably start another civil war. The right holds Rittenhouse up as a hero, and that's not an isolated thing. For decades, average, rank-and-file GOP voters have made jokes and jabs about shooting liberals. It used to be a few tasteless blowhards, but it's commonplace now. See also comments from Kevin Roberts about how the "second American Revolution" will be "bloodless if the left allows it."

There are resistance movements extant and forming, but it's a wicked problem. The size and population of the US requires more resources and participants to make an impact. The speed at which the situation is changing makes it hard to find purchase to do so.
I laughed when those people self-identified as accelerationists... but holly shit! they knew what it means and were honest.

Historically, they are just a bunch of rich morons that got lucky, got power, and decided to stage a coup. This is not some enlightened movement trying to replace the social norms. It's just your run of the mill personal power switch, and the only notable things about it are it's on a country that has been extremely stable before, and those people are stupid enough to willfully destroy it.
Rationalism doesn't involve doing math, but _role-playing_ like you're doing math. There's lots of talk about updating priors and bayes; but in practice a lot of stuff isn't that quantifiable without running scientific studies, so this comes down to #yolo-ing it.

Of course thinking about stuff without always using formal statistics is fine and how people work, but if you trick yourself into thinking that you do use statistics for everything it may become harder to evaluate or second guess your own thinking.
This is not a signed Mac App, even though it looks like one.
That’s explicitly not how it works in the US. The entire theory behind monopoly enforcement in the US is “consumer harm”. It has been for over half century.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you#:~:text=T...
Exactly, Ratatui can bring terminal
aesthetics to web but it also works the other way around. A lot of the modern terminal aesthetics is inspired by the web. It is not real
80s, more faux 80s.

Ratatui's creator had an excellent talk about this at FOSEM which basically was structured into these two chapters.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5496-brin...
In my friend’s case, they monitored a compromised email account for months.

They then set up filters to hide a certain large incoming invoice via filters, and replaced it with the same thing but with a different routing number for the transaction.

A month later that vendor starts sending dunning notices, to everyone’s confusion. $90k gone.
It’s obviously more likely to find a C# codebase riddled with obsolete OO patterns than a Rust one.

But I think the strongest signal for that would rather be e.g the code being related to web/service backends of some kind. I much more rarely see that kind of thing in any other context (games, mobile, scientific, desktop, …).

I stay as far as possible from web stack stuff more than specific languages, but probably for the same reason.
Slightly offtopic but, Lesswrong and the Rationality community more broadly have had AI-safety as their main focus for nearly as long as they exist. Now that AI is actually making advancements, very little of that work seems to have had much effect. Theres the famous Vonnegut qoute about the combined effort of all preeminent artists protesting the Vietnam war having the effect of a pie dropped from a step-ladder. Id argue that the vietnam war protests were vastly more effective at achieving anything than the AI-safety research.
So isn't all of the above an essentially complete indictment of the rationality movement, seeing as it has effectiveness and pragmatism as its main pillars?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42896619

"... I have 16 GB of ram, I can't upgrade it..."
In large enough groups of people there'll always be some crazies. Are there really more of them to come out of LW circles than a comparably large other group?
Maths models have very probably significant differences. For instance, they are strapped to a formal solver. Not to mention, they should be in "continuous" ML learning mode.

I wonder if from the observation data of particle physics we have, a "physics" model could "infer" a hard mathemical theory using those previous maths models (and probably other tools) which would fit this very observation data.

ScyFy: if those mathemical theories are beyond us, we would need other models in order to try to extract some predictions which could be interesting for us to verify with some "real-life"/reasonable experiments.
> I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir.

If our most immediate means of understanding the world are by relating it to fiction rather than history then it's likely we have a poor understanding of the world and reality.
The NY Post tried to frame them as "radical leftist", but that's a big stretch. I don't think most rationalists would consider themselves leftist. The article also seems to be leaning into the current "trans panic" - pretty typical for the NYP.
Dungeons & Dragons did it better.
Recently I heard about an approach where they train a model to behave as a Lidar, using only camera inputs. Sounds like a cool, modular approach, but not sure about safety.
I don't see how "attaching" functions to types is easier than attaching them directly to namespaces. I don't see either why I would need to use reflection to iterate over all the functions and methods in a namespace, but I agree that if I would need that, then yes it would require adjusting the way it works today. The problem comes from the CLR where all code and data must be part of a class. C# simply mirrors that design choice. That's why C# does not offer free-floating functions. F#, which is also relying on the CLR, solved the problem by introducing the concept of "modules", in addition to the concept of namespaces. Namespaces in F# are like namespaces in C#. All code and data must be part of a module, which is part of a namespace. Under the hood, at the CLR level, modules are implemented as static classes.
It's impossible to explain everything from the beginning. You might not be the target audience and the software/blog post was unwittingly posted. And sometimes, people just put things on the web for shits and giggles with no audience in mind. With no audience in mind, you don't feel the need to explain anything.

Anyway, HN fulfills that need. HN is widely-read that it's likely SOMEONE knows what the hell something is, and if often willing to give a summary. So if you're befuddled, just read the comments.