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If they're helping overthrow democracy and the rule of law, they are not the best of us nerds.

Naming and shaming them is good. No one forced them to take this job. With the skills you list they could have done any number of good or neutral things instead.
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Looking at the comments here, I think we need to differentiate between "AI that works for you" and "AI that works for others".

"AI that works for others" isn't necessarily a bad thing. For instance, I would be fine with a customer service AI that I can ask questions to 24/7 and without delay. It makes sense that the people who deploy that AI would not want it to be jailbroken, to be used as a generic AI or to do something harmful. A constitution makes sense here.

"AI that works for you" would require that the constitution is controlled by you -- not Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta, or OpenAI. Sometimes you want no constitution, like when you're using it normally. Sometimes you do want a constitution and prevent jailbreaking, for example, if you are giving the AI untrusted input (e.g. scraped HTML, customer queries).

In conclusion, unlike most comments here, I don't think this is a useless or even harmful invention. It can be very useful indeed. However, this highlights the need for local, uncensored, and open-weight AIs where one can control what constitution is being used.
The jeune ecole thought that torpedoes and small torpedo boats would doom battleships; they were wrong. People thought SAMs would end bombers, and anti-tank missiles would end tanks. There’s always a new weapon, but it doesn’t mean the old ones are obsolete.
It's already over. You'll have to rely on Canadians burning down the White House. I'm afraid there's no democratic solution to what you're enduring now.
I was using Azure for a cloud windows desktop which I need rarely, for using something like itunes or kobo to download books. It cost ~$5 a month.

One day windows update bricks the system (hanging while trying to revert some security patch), and over a couple months from time to time I try random janky official azure recovery tools and voodoo from user forums with people who don't really know what they're doing either.

I notice my bill has crept up to several hundred dollars a month. Each of the recovery tools was cloning the system + disks, and I ended up with a bunch of disks that chewed up my bill.

I raised a support ticket and they refunded part of it with a bit of "you're a bad person", but wow... although the primary lesson I got here is that I never want to use windows again.
I heard someone once say “All that ‘cruft’ you complain about, I call ‘bug fixes.’”

A mature codebase represents a lot of “tribal investment,” which is sort of like “tribal knowledge.”

It’s something that can’t easily be quantified, but, is, nonetheless, a big deal, and represents a really significant investment of resources. Throwing it away, means tossing out that investment, as well. That’s why many large software codebases are still in “non-buzzword-compliant” languages.

At the same time, we don’t want to throw good money after bad, so experience gives us the tools we need, to figure out when it’s time to “clear the decks.”
Running LLMs I am absolutely positive I could do with my Dell r810 cluster back in 2010, if I had access to DeepSeek.

Training a frontier model probably not. Again not clear what is the strategic benefit of having access to a frontier LLM model vs a more compact & less capable one.
Well, yes. I would categorize "running kubernetes on prem" as "not so easy".
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I'm under the impression that the Community Edition version of GraalVM is neutered by a limited garbage collector and some other limitations when producing native binaries.

Anyone know if this true?
On what basis are you are stating this? I'm asking because I have been involved in another project like these (15M budget) and the main issue was the lack of computing resources allocation, because no one thought about it (true story).
The US military did try against Hezbollah, and after about 300 casualties the US military decided that maybe the goal wasn't worth it.

I think the US military absolutely could win, unless winning requires casualties. All the US military needs to win is an enemy that cannot choose where/howto fight. If the enemy chooses a way where fighting involves casualties, the US military will retreat into its bases, send some long-range bombers, maybe make a photo of the president saying "mission accomplished" on an air base, and finally retreat.
This kind of strategic, war is always possible, thinking is deeply embedded into US institutional-governmental culture and in US education. It's part of the quasi-fascistic thinking that was assimilated by the entire population - independent of political leaning - during the Cold War.
Even if we accept all of this, it doesn't justify the persistent reducto-ad-hitlerum.

> We put entire countries on grey lists because some oligarch's lacky even has read access to their national payments systems. And those governments at least give the lackey a role.

Presumably someone else had access to the system before the current changes. What's left to object to? Is ageism appropriate here? Going back to the OP's objection, the whole exercise seems like more partisan hyperbole.
The president, yes, not the chief of staff.

The chief of staff can relay orders from the president to cabinet members and department heads, but cannot make decisions of this scope.

I don't really know how any of that is relevant, though. Musk is not Trump's chief of staff, and as far as we can tell, is not even employed by the federal government. He is not empowered to give (for example) orders to the head (confirmed or acting) of the OMB.
Because the roles are increasingly blurring, and require both the dev and the ops knowledge. AWS gives you a lot of power if you buy into it, but of course that comes with a whole set of tradeoffs. There won’t be less cloud in the future, no matter personal feelings about it.
This focuses mostly more on internal security (i.e after the attacker already has a foothold inside) versus the classic OWASP that are for external front fracing applications
All talk. No show. That's EU.

I'll believe it works after they finally have one success
Oh this sounds like it'll be a balanced, well researched article based on merits.

I'll then leave a comment here about a guy that knew a guy that heard from another guy that Elon almost ruined a company his aunt worked at.
I worked at Facebook when the Libra thing happened, and it was obviously meant to be a global bank that evades banking regulations by sprinkling crypto magic.

When it launched, employees were told that we'd soon be able to receive a portion of our salaries in Libra. Every practical feature of the system was effectively a Facebook bank account where the unit of currency was tied to a basket of major currencies. The rest was smoke and mirrors.

So yeah, Zuck feigning surprise about being dragged in front of CFPB was just an act (like most of what he does in public).
Eh, they've already seen that with the balkans and eastern bloc countries in the 80-90s. You're gonna get a bunch of Orbàn-like small time dictators on every state that once on a while have to bow to the requests of a central-government more interested in its own political intrigues than governing anything.

US Doomers are expecting something similar to the Civil War movie in the next few years, the reality will be more similar to "The Lives Of Others".
> being on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, the poem was picked up as significant by history books and the media, I suppose

The history books picked it up after the media, which picked it up--in turn--after WWII.

WWII caused us to embrace our heritage as a nation of immigrants, emphasising our tolerance in the wake of the Holocaust. (The alternative was looking at what we did to the Indians in comparison with the Nazis.) The poem came up because the author was motivated to write it, in part, because she empathised with that era's Jewish immigrants from Europe. (Fleeing the pogroms.)

> was some fundraising exhibition

You're describing the fundraising that built the pedastal. The poem was donated to help pay for it. (France paid for the statue.)

This wasn't "some fundraising," it was the fundraising that built he damn thing. The U.S. government famously didn't pay a dime for the Statue of Liberty.
Even just setting up and documenting all the things you mentioned is already taking so much time and effort, that I'd rather pay a few more bucks for a HA system...
I guess that’s how the EU is expecting to catch to the rest of the world in AI… by imposing even more regulation.

It’s maddening that a group on non elected politicians and their friends have this kind of power and are using it to destroy Europe and our future.
Here's the actual letter from the FBI Agents' Association.[1] They're not a union, but they're close, and represent about 90% of FBI agents.

The acting head of the FBI is strongly against this and is resisting.[2]

So labor and management are both against this. It's the first real challenge to Trump's authoritarianism. Plus, most FBI agents have civil service appeals rights. They can fight back against arbitrary dismissal.

Misc. item: the tariff deal between the US and Mexico has something that the Trump administration hasn't mentioned - the US agreed to help clamp down on shipments of guns to Mexico. Mexico does not have easy access to guns in the way that the US does.[3]

[1] https://www.fbiaa.org/joint-letter-to-congress-on-the-fbi/

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/senior-fb...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico
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I am also a non-American so yes, I would like to see your question answered too.

My understanding from online reading (... but we know how that goes ...) is that that executive order cannot be given without approval and that approval was not given. But would love to hear someone with more knowledge to chime in as all the left-ish to even moderate right media are shouting all of this is illegal and overstepping.
> At best, they're misguided and have fallen for Musk's charisma. At worst, they're actively supporting and abetting the subversion of our democratic government.

They can easily be both. They're definitely the latter
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>>I think it sadly is irreversible in some people, but many others can be brought back (you're already starting to see a backlash to Trump).

Where are the people being brought back after voting for Biden or Harris?
> Why isn't shipping the runtime with the code a more common practise?

That's what I actually do for our product. The JRE is shipped with it as well as startup scripts and services registration bridge for Windows.

I guess the native compile thing is more for "Java on the Cloud" which tbh is not where Java shines. I say this as a long-term Java developer. Java is great for monoliths - on premises customers are supper happy. Java on the cloud seems like a waste of resources to me.
The concept of a "responsibility to protect" is contentious in international law/relations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect
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What bad things? What criminals?

You're making things up.
It basically comes down to ignorance. Most people don't have the time, inclination, and/or capacity to evaluate political platforms or the competence of individual politicians. They just decide based on heuristics or "vibes". Trump seems confident and strong. Harris doesn't seem to stand for anything much besides the status quo. They don't like that there was inflation under Biden, and Trump is the opposite of Biden. They don't necessarily like Trump's attitude, but figure they don't have to like him as long as he gets the job done. That's roughly the level of thinking that's happening, in the cases where there's much thinking at all, and people aren't just voting the way their friends, family, and neighbors all vote.

Basically this is a fundamental flaw of democracy, that you leave the most important decision in the hands of the median citizen, who has no particular aptitude for making it. Of course, other systems of government have their own flaws. Like Churchill said, democracy's the worst form of government, except for all the others. (Though I would argue that the particular structure of the American democratic system is especially flawed.)
Okay but let's be real they're offering to put people in prison camps.
Definition matters and meaning of words matters.

> yes, that old "i didn't have s-x with that woman".

Since you are alluding to Clinton impeachment, I would say people who voted for Trump or defend him lost any benefit of doubt they ever cared about respectability, morality or ethics of that situation. Or lying for that matter.
My understanding is that local Chinese municipalities are going bankrupt due to the high amounts of debt that they have?

[1]:https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/economy/china-local-governmen...

They are going through a real estate crash and their demographic situation bodes a very bleak long term future.
I assure you we absolutely did vote for this and it’s very fun to be winning so much. It’s awesome to see corruption being rooted out and to be learning how much tax payer money has been wasted.
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My usual HN observation:

- If points are (significantly) higher than comments: the submission is very niche or highly technical that a lot of people can appreciate but only a few can meaningful comment. See right now here 120 vs 14

- If comments are higher than points or levitating towards 1:1 ratio: casual topic or flamewar (politics). See the DOGE post on the front page now, 1340 vs 2131

That being said I think "healthy" posts have a 1.5:1 - 2:1 ratio
What fascinates me is that serious scientists are surprised that life is random anfinds a way...
"However, the motivation for its extensive journey into Egypt is still a mystery that demands further research." Like, food?
I'm sure there is the odd person that is above average, but most just sign on for an easy life and a gold plated pension.
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To think I've spent hours upon hours each week for years and year with the express goal of producing more of these in the muscle cells of my legs, and I call this novel goal "exercise".
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There are so many articles talking about CEOs and other "business leaders" communicating effectively, but they never seem to point out the obvious: all these business leaders have fuck all to say. The emails that the C-suite sends out are not important vision-aligning leadership communication, they're vapid, self-congratulatory, barely coherent platitudes. These morons are the most worthless people in the organization; why would anyone listen to them? Beat the drum all you want, it doesn't mean you have anything useful to say. Just shut your office door, collect your twenty million dollars, stop pretending your job is anything more than cancerous parasitism, and leave us all alone to make you more money.
yeah yeah, and something about a slave labour diamond mine which is just as relevant to Musk having a team capable of cleaning up.
> What's left to object to?

Uhhh, virtually everything is still left? Those regular humdrum protective policies large organizations adopt after they keep getting burned for not having them?

For example, security clearances, and background checks, which aren't so much about morality as to ensure the person has no secrets an enemy can they blackmail them with.

Or what about financial disclosures for conflicts of interest? Then a different person can be tasked with certain projects to avoid unnecessary temptation to peak, leak, or tweak.
If the value of your coin only goes up in value, why would you use 1 bitcoin now to buy a pizza slice if you can use it 5-10 years from now to buy a house?
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I think "unstable" is the right word.

You can argue that far more appalling things happen in places like Russia or China, sure. But this doesn't feel like a controlled assumption of power. It doesn't even feel like Trump is personally in control - let alone his "shadow president". It feels more like a chaotic romp through the federal government, disrupting operations and vital functions with little care or planning, then quickly dispatching a crowd of untrained, unqualified interns to put up scaffolding for something new and more aligned with whatever political goals may have inspired this.

Not just the FBI, not just the onslaught of EOs that seem to be more designed to test the limits of power by defying well-established constitutional and legal limits, not just the inconsistent threats of tariffs either. But also random acts like dumping water reserves ahead of summer for no clear benefit other than spite.

It's all very unpredictable - not Trump personally but the entire organism that surrounds him in this presidential term. I think this may be because of the many conflicting interests at play. You have Trump himself, the MAGA cult, the Evangelicals and hardline conservatives who supported him, the various interest groups within the GOP and so, so many billionaires trying to get a piece of the pie. I don't think he actually has much control over this. It's not just ideologically incoherent, it seemingly lacks direction.

I wonder what it will look like once the dust settles and the momentum has died down. As much as libertarians like to talk about running the government like a business, if the USG were a business right now I would expect it to be on its way to being shut down and sold for scrap like e.g. Toys'R'Us.
Biden didn't have the power to reduce his own power. Congress would have, but they're not interested in doing that.
You're in the wrong place for a comment like that. Don't even bother.
I mean, what I'm about is really the same, just the other way round. Countries usually erase zeroes after hyperinflation adds them, cryptocoins can just add extra zeroes due to deflation. No change in value, just higher granularity.

The rest left me puzzled, can you elaborate? Why should the money holder do anything productive? Why getting richer and richer becomes something bad when we go crypto?
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This is such an AI response.
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Exactly; it's not that the young ideological think-they-are-doing-the-right-thing are not serving a corrupt system (perhaps unwittingly). They are effective because the corruption they serve diligently comes from the central party and not from local considerations?