skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What will be very interesting to see is how/whether the US institutions will constrain Trump.

Right now, 2 weeks in, he appears to be omnipotent. His word is law. But so much ink was poured to say that the entirety of US political system is constructed to make tyranny impossible - as the US was born as a rejection of the UK monarchy.

So... What's up? Was that all a myth all along? Does Trump have support everywhere, and the people who are supposed to stop him won't? Or is it just early days, and soon he will hit a wall.
It certainly would be nice if Apple explicitly supported replacing Apple Intelligence with a third party option by exposing the same privileged APIs they use to others.

What exactly would you like a third party system to do? Mac or iOS?
Yea, these guys don't seem like the kind to do any abdicating, voluntarily.

A lot can happen in 4 years though. Maybe self-inflicted catastrophic wounds will drive down support for Trump enough where it becomes possible for R pols and oligarchs to abandon him. Or maybe they'll choose the dark path, and go farther into repressive authoritarianism to stay in power.

The problem for Musk et al is that they are concentrating power directly to Trump, not themselves. They're shackling themselves to the leopard and betting it will never eat their face.
I'm sure socio-economics plays a role but cities like New York have residents at all levels of the socio-economic strata, thought admittedly north eastern cities like Boston and New York have been strongly trending upward.

Population density is often cited as a reason for higher rates of gun violence. I'm not sure about you "spread out" theory of law enforcement. Those are not the most "spread out" states in the country, nor are they the states with the highest levels of self-defense associated gun violence.

If you read the story, the incident that broke the 5 day streak in NY was an individual attempting to stop a hit and run driver that had crashed into a neighbors parked car.
This is going to be hell for the farmers in the region this growing season, not to mention for those buying groceries.
Yeah, he leaves the original post ambiguous, but if you dig into the comments, he clarifies that his stance is that torture is the right option. I'm going to try to find the link.

EDIT: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3wYTFWY3LKQCnAptN/torture-vs...

> I'll go ahead and reveal my answer now: Robin Hanson was correct, I do think that TORTURE is the obvious option, and I think the main instinct behind SPECKS is scope insensitivity.

When you find yourself writing "torture is the obvious option", you should realize that something has gone deeply wrong with the way you view the world. It's no wonder that death cults have sprung out of this philosophy.
I always read it the other way around - a humble acknowledgement that they're still wrong, just less than whatever came before.
Not every person in the government is elected. Some positions are appointed. Not one judge from SCOTUS is elected. None of the members of the president's cabinet are elected. They are all Senate confirmed though, which is what's going on now with the current clown show. Somehow, Musk has created a role for himself where he even gets to bypass the Senate confirmation stage. That's the most disconcerting thing to me. Not that I think he wouldn't get confirmed, but the fact that he has this much power totally unchecked.
The prose is a bit florid, but once you strip off the ornate language the underlying analysis seems pretty sound: the Left failed the working class for decades and while the Right is unwilling to make actual economic concessions to the working class, they are willing to stick it to upwardly mobile knowledge workers and other over-educated sissies via some combination of AI hype and market capture as one of several trinkets.

This suits FAANG CEOs and their immediate henchmen right down to their On sneakers.
Web app that looks like a terminal, not what I thought at first, a terminal app written in a react-like way (and that people just call web-like).
> The smarter you are the more elaborate a prison you can construct for your own brain.

Amazing one-sentence summary for so much of what is going wrong right now.

Brilliant, rich people trapped inside their own mind palaces, spending vast sums on remaking the world into something that matches their interior delusions.
The modern paraphrasing could use price of eggs but otherwise have the same structure.
Biden pardoned the whole family for every federal non-violent crime, and hunter for violent ones too. HN comments historically, true or not, love to say accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
> I cannot fathom how discouraging it must be to work at Meta now

I think they are okay with it as they drown their sorrows in the wads of cash that appears in their bank account every month and the RSUs that appear in their brokerage account when they vest.

No one who works for either Google or Meta (ad tech) or Amazon (if evil had a mascot it would be the Amazon logo) do it because they think they are making the world a better place. (Former AWS employee).

No I’m not excusing Apple either. I think it’s even worse for a gay CEO from Alabama who knows first hand how modern Republican policies hurt LGBT to kiss the ring.

But the DNC is not blameless, they tried to do the “Weekend at Bernie’s” to the American people propping up a senile old man.
> Please read the first two paragraphs of what I wrote for why that is a mistake.

Okay, I read it, and then re-read it. I still don't get why (for example) `bcrypt` (a salted hash function) is a bad idea.

I fully accept that I am missing something here, but I really would like to know why using `bcrypt` is a problem.

>> you need to add versioning to the system

> You need this with salted hashes, too! And of course with any password-based system.

Not in the client software, you don't. The pre-shared information with password-based system is generally stored in the users head.

The pre-shared information in the challenge/response system means both the submitting software (interacting with the user and rxing the challenge) as well as the receiving software (txing the challenge and rxing the response) need to be synchronised.

Now, once again, I fully accept that I might be missing something here, but AFAIK, that synchronisation contains extra points of attacks; points of attacks that don't exist in the password/salted-hash system.

And since absolutely no system ever discards existing mechanisms completely when upgrading, that deprecated but still supported for a few more months is even more additional points of attack.

Once again, I am trying to understand, not be contentious, and I want to fuolly understand:

a) The problem with salted hashes like `bcrypt`

b) What changes need to be made to client software when upgrading algorithms and key lengths in a password-based system.
“Unconventional” compared to the average athlete
Moreover, it's not just bodybuilder physiques, but specifically the kind that is created via heavy use of anabolic steroids. Their bodies are literally unattainable without drugs.
> By the same token, the ability to dismiss an argument with a “that sounds nuts,” without needing recourse to a point-by-point rebuttal, is anathema to the rationalist project. But it’s a pretty important skill to have if you want to avoid joining cults.

Aka as "common sense". It seems like these people make small errors in their base assumptions or reasoning. Over time, as these mistakes compound, they can lead to increasingly bizarre philosophies. Common sense might serve as a safeguard against such pitfalls, but it is frowned upon in those circles.
It's way worse than that. It can be 3^^^3 people getting a dust speck in their eye that only exist in some counterfactual world that's a mere figment of your imagination. Nevertheless this can have real-world consequences because "counterfactual mugging" is a valid concern given Rationalist logic. Very confusing.
Not really. You get fascism by voting it into power?
This just isn't true. There are plenty of very good NES games that have great game loops and are a blast to play. Some of the good ones have quirks or unintuitive controls but are still quite enjoyable.
LLMs (transformers) literally cannot balance parentheses. That's outside of their complexity class (TC0). You'd want a real UTM to count parentheses!
They’re not only socially tiring but philosophically uninteresting
Stop 'both-sides-ing' it. Only one party has been pushing for minority rule (by their own party) authoritarianism for over a decade, and now having gained control is running roughshod over all checks & balances and corrupting all institutions to service their executive(s).

This is the big-standard authoritarian playbook. In functioning democracies the three branches of govt (executive, legislative judiciary), and the branches of society, industry, business, finance, press, academy, religion, social groups, sports, etc. are all independent. Under authoritarian regimes, they are corrupted & coerced (threat of prosecution or ability to pay & serve to avoid prosecution, or ability to raid the country's coffers) by illegitimate use of the power of govt to serve the executive.

That is where we are now, and will be until the people make it stop.
HN comments aren't valuable because of their average quality or content, but because of the feedback vote sorting.

(Aside from the tendency towards first=top. Would be nice to have time-weighted upvote decay instead of absolute count)
That seems false?

https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

This includes the full model and additionally several distills.
He also has the assurance from SCOTUS that he can do no wrong as POTUS. That's a very disconcerting thought about the supposed checks and balances. Now that his party controls both houses, he'll never be impeached for anything he does either. And that was the one limit that Trump was stipulating existed--the only way POTUS could get in trouble was to be convicted in the Senate after the House impeaches. So he essentially is untouchable.
> the people who are supposed to stop him won't

i believe we've been watching that intentionally/actively make progress for the last 9+ years

they are currently executing a thoroughly prepared plan and they're moving as fast as possible because the recent election gives new president a LOT of leeway in making dramatic plays

we're watching history. i hope not to suffer too much.
The issue here is all the ‘opposition’ will do anything but actually fight - or allow anyone else to fight - or allow anyone else to violate the law.

So anyone actually trying to fight back will be destroyed by their own side. Where the folks doing this, won’t be.
Also related is apparently data.gov datasets being scrubbed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClimateOffensive/comments/1idiize/d...
>Following them would include banning the existence of other parties, changing the constitution to give all power to executive, cancelling elections, etc.

Let's check back on these in a few years (months?).
The specifics:

The data is not disappearing. The data and the related tools have been temporarily removed to be cleaned and brought into compliance with Trump’s executive order (basically removing “gender” or replacing it with “sex”)

That should be the intellectually honest title and that is what is happening.

So lets check in 3 weeks. If data and tools are not back then we can say and complain about data disappearing.
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars
That could very well be true. However, it's still an important idea to me and, I think, a lot of others.

People and organizations change. It's possible the CFAR and its founders started out with one mission or goal and that changed internally for whatever reason.
Following them would include

Basically, your argument boils down to "you're wrong, the current sitation is not fascist enough yet"?

banning the existence of other parties

They don't need to. Similar to Russia, they will allow the appearance of other parties and elections, but the outcomes will be pre-determined.

changing the constitution to give all power to executive

SCOTUS has already done that: everything the president does is legal by default.

cancelling elections

Again, they won't need to. They proved in November that they already have done the right amount of voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering to secure a win.
? You can assume that parent knows who Cristiano Ronaldo is.
> In fact, in the U.S. the president doesn’t appoint cabinet members

What? That's exactly what happens. The president (or his puppet masters) chooses the person, and then they go through a Senate confirmation process. I don't see how this isn't being appointed
It's the other way around: there's an existing ratatui library that is pretty nice for making rich terminal UIs, and since ratatui is written in Rust, the easiest way of porting it to the web is through WASM.
Agreed, but a question occurred to me: what if high IQ people aren't more delusional but more capable of articulating or acting upon their delusions, thus making it more apparent?

The delusions of a normal intellect are probably less interesting, and they're less likely to be a person who garners attention generally. But they may be equally detached from reality.
So the proof is you’re “pretty sure”?

I think that says it all
The order itself is poorly written, and was clearly drafted by someone who understands neither government process or the confusing reality of biological sex. For example, it seems not to acknowledge the factual biological reality of intersex people at all.

Worse, It provides no clear definitions, funding, or means to enforce compliance. Just an unreasonable and vague demand, especially when applied to the work of scientists.

It belies a middle school level understanding of the world we live in, and it's ridiculous demands should be met with only scorn and derision. This is not how functional grown ups behave, it's how angry children who believe that all complex problems have simple answers behave.
Yea, was reading a biography of (JPL founder) Jack Parsons a few weeks ago, and was struck how similar the Zizian patter sounded to a lot of the Golden Dawn/proto-Scientology stuff.
Conditional Bloom Filters
Protest works when it’s backed by a threat. “Do what we want or we will remove you from power”. What we have now is “do what we want or we’ll be sad”.

The pitchforks aren’t just for show!!

And I’ve lived in Europe for over a decade now and frankly much of Europe is painfully naive about how much people in power care about protestors waving clever signs.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, but I was talking about Mahomes.
Peacock's impressive tail does not make it a much better flyer, or fighter, or whatever. The huge feathers only demonstrate that the bird can still function adequately even with this useless and expensive ornamentation.

The same way, a "highly athletic" / bodybuilder body demonstrates that a man can spend resources on building all these impressive-looking muscles and can strictly ration carbs. (I don't even try to mention what women have to do to look "like a model".)

So it's the same demonstrative behavior, only the results are harder to buy directly than a supercar or a yacht. It's about as practical: not completely useless, but the point is not in the utility but in the hard-to-achieve aesthetics.

Much like a real able flyer looks much less impressive than a peacock (look at a goose or a crow), a real high-achieving athlete looks much less impressive than an athlete for show. But looks sometimes play a critical role, e.g. for an actor, or during dating, so it's not irrational behavior.
How did you find Mahomes being in the 99th percentile evaluation? Are such things online somewhere?
Another amazing feat of age is Noriaki Kasai, 51 Years old, still active in competitive ski jumping. Oldest Person to ever win a world cup competition. In 2014. And still (sometimes more, sometimes less) capable of performing.

https://youtu.be/dEkk7coK6Bs?si=2d37ssmtJtzv3Mp-
You also have to take into account how often equity that becomes valuable gets stolen through some sort of financial engineering. When real money is on the line, investors do not hesitate to change the rules of the game. Its a two part process:

1. Vest valuable equity

2. Hope the powers that be let you cash out said equity
It’s smug to say that your group bickering on an Internet forum is “less wrong” than centuries of philosophers and ethicists
Blimps in the Heavens over Akron
As I understand it, most of what Trump has been doing since he took office is perfectly legal. The problem is that Congress has kept giving more and more power to the President, and Trump is very willing to keep limit testing. For law nerds this will probably be a very interesting four years, as a lot of legal hypotheticals are getting played out.
My Occam's Razor guess: There might be some processing being done before the input is passed to the LLM, and some processing before the response is sent back to the user.

Something like a first pass on the input to detect language or format, and try to do some adjustments based on that. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a hex or base64 detection and decoding pass being done as pre-processing, and maybe this would trigger a similar post-processing step.

And if this is the case, the censorship could be running at a step too late to be useful.
I get the sense that Apple still has many talented designers and engineers. The problem seems to be that leadership above them don't know what to tell them to make. Like who thought it was brilliant to exclude Netflix and Youtube from the Vision Pro? And why would AR glasses require a Mac (rather than iPhone which is portable and has many more users).
I competed in bodybuilding throughout my early twenties, but never felt athletic. Nowadays I do calisthenics and cardio (rowing, running, cycling) and frankly look a lot more athletic as well.

I think crossfit and decathlon pros are the peak of athleticism.
you're both correct. All humans have a hardware component, an ideology acts as an attractor. Humans finding connection with other humans like them is one of the strongest pulls for a human mind. It has great power to amplify & grow. This can go in a direction of thriving and growth, and "win win" with their environment, or it can go in a direction of hate and aggression
> using c = my.namespace.ClassWithMyStaticMethods

Non idiomatic? IMO, this is completely fine. Idiomatic C# doesn't mean OO all the time.
Cops are fundamentally lazy.
And yet they fail big time deploying, as the ZIP doesn't contain a properly structured App.
in Lila, Pirsig shows 4 levels of things: physics -> biology -> society -> intellect (highest). (There was some addition later extrapolating from physics down to quantum, but it does not change anything). Each of the higher levels plays with and exploits the lower ones as it pleases.

Now, that intellect there is mostly human intellect.. over human societies over human biology.

If the intellect is replaced / substituted / forked into another form, then what about the underlying structure? A parallel path/hierarchy? Is original one abandoned, or just irrelevant?
I'm also kind of new to this and coming from coding with ChatGPT.
Isnt the time to first token important? He is sitting there for minutes waiting for a response. Shouldnt that be a concern?
It seems like you're missing something pretty basic here, so here it goes:

Government workers going on strike means they're doing what we want them to do, which is nothing. As a Trump voter, I want these federal government workers to stop working so the astronomical waste of our time/money and disturbing of peace stops.

The best work the US government does is when it's doing nothing, because it's hardly working properly unless it's forced to (ICE is an example of government actually working again).

Whether the workers resign, strike/protest, or get back to work implementing MAGA policies in the office, we win.
I’ve said this before a zillion times, but Siri is only good for imperative stuff. Commands. “Play this song”, “make a note”, “set this alarm”, etc.

And even that’s only barely true: it gets things wrong even within that very narrow set of use cases. But it at least kinda works most of the time.

Siri is absolutely not useful, and never has been, and likely never will be, when it comes to “conversational” use cases, like asking it questions or getting advice, etc.

The thing is, I only ever use voice for imperative stuff in the first place. If I want to know things or do research or have a conversation, etc, I’d much rather type into a real keyboard and read the results at my leisure. Or if I’m at a phone I can use voice to text to make it easier to do this, but it’s not really the same thing as a “conversation”.

So for me, I’m keeping Siri for the use cases it works for (home automation, timers, music, etc), because I really don’t think OpenAI will ever be good/useful for that sort of thing, even if Apple opened up the API’s to let it do so. An LLM is just too heavy-weight.
In general, forced arbitration is not an effective legal posture for investors, and a common instrument applied to suckers.

Sociopath structured parasitism always poses a liability around treasure. Handle or hire your own due diligence solutions... Seriously, don't assume either of our nonsense applies in your country. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNSHZG9blQQ
o-whatever are doing the same thing as any LLM, it's merely that they've been tuned into using a chain of thought to break out of their complexity class (from pattern matching TC0 to pseudo-UTM). But any foundation model with a bit of instruction tuning is going to be able to do this.
I sure as fuck wish we had four years. Unfortunately it is already too late.
The hardware can be airgapped.
> they pay sales tax on equipment they purchase at their factories

Most states exempt equipment purchased by manufacturers from manufacturing their products from sales tax. I believe many also exempt raw materials that go into those products.

That Tax Foundation says [1] that both California and Texas (which I believe are the states where Tesla has factories) are states with such an exemption, although I'm seeing other sources that say that California's is just a partial exemption.
That sounds like a criticism.
Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871
Buddy, if I told you that I have fostered dogs from shelters, would you take that to mean that I have fostered all dogs from all shelters? Someone is certainly being ridiculous.
It does. Hopefully people start taking to the streets when the economic calamity (temporary adjustments in Musk-speak) hits.

People slowly figure it out. On HN 2-3 years ago, any critique of Elon would bring out the brigades of simps babbling about autistic genius. That’s mostly gone now.
This is spyware, convince me otherwise. I don't want it, I don't need it, give me the space back taken by local AI.

So I have a local AI analysing everything I do on my Mac, iPhone whatever and the only thing holding back any sort of "AI analysed profile" to authorities (on wrongdoings?) is a "trust me bro we won't do it" from Apple? This tastes like the CSAM on-device analysis debacle from 1-2 years ago.

So from now on I have to de-spyware my Apple devices like Windows machines.

And the irony: My current Pixel Android phone does not analyse all content on my device!

First time in years I'm considering to switch back to Linux for my Laptop.
It makes a lot more sense if you view it as "we're really gonna stick it to Google" and not "we're going to make a more competitive marketplace".
Is this paywalled?
There seems to be a loop hole. He just has to declare a certain thing an emergency and then he can tackle it however he wants. No more checks and balances.
Unfortunately not quite :(

You can definitely have them generate tools for APIs on the fly, but it’s not nearly robust enough yet