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>They have, in the past, responded to criticism with statements to the effect of "anyone who would criticize us for any reason is a bad person who is lying to cause us harm".

Which leader said anything like that? Certainly not Eliezer or the leader of the Center for Applied Rationality (Anna Salamon) or the project lead of the web site lesswrong.com (Oliver Habryka)!
Dont hate me, but I would like to have the opposite functionality

Just for mobile, where it is very annoying on long pages (Laravel Docs for example) to scroll up just to get the menue button.
Be gone troll.

The article mentioned nothing about stack security. I commented on it. I gave a pretty CLEAR and EXACT example on the type of exploits that the .NET runtime allows.

I didn't mention C# one time in my post except for what was quoted in the article. It was about the .NET runtime. That's hardly "hostile" to C# when it's a technical fact and has been demonstrated and used out in the wild.

And then the same people that spend all of their time in a religious war about C# posted something irrelevant to what was stated, and strangely didn't post ANYTHING on the article before I did. Only after I commented they show up, responding directly to me.

And here you are again, being a weirdo on the internet. Seriously go do something else. C# doesn't love you, it's a tool. Not a religion.

EDIT: The reddit history really tells it all. Constant downvotes, following people across subreddits, and constant yapping about Go vs C# going back years. https://old.reddit.com/user/_neonsunset/comments/ -- The intense religiosity and dishonesty with which you/you all discuss this topic is legitimately insane. Close the browser. Go do something else.
Scientific papers are available on web pages so they're publicly available for free too right? I can download an ISO or installer of almost anything if I go to the right website, so all software is already free?

If you're going to ignore the existence of copyright and licenses we should extend it to everything that's ever been posted on the internet, not just "web pages". Why shouldn't all books and films count as free too?

I'm actually open to the idea of just abolishing copyright but it's kind of silly to act like it's only about Elsevier. Lots of creatives depend on copyright in order to earn a living, similarly to how patents fund a lot of important research despite how noxious the patent system has become.

If we fixate on examples like Elsevier or Martin Shkreli in order to argue for completely abolishing the copyright or patent systems we risk destroying the framework that enables valuable creative works or new technologies to be developed in the first place. This is part of why people are so upset by AI companies arguing that they should just be able to ignore the whole framework in order to enrich themselves; once you allow the for-profit AI companies to do it, other groups are going to line up to also demand a free ride.
I know something else that is over-represented in killings. Soldiers. And soldiers are mostly male. So male is the natural killing machine, right?

But male humans are mostly selected to be soldiers by design. In some countries the only possible gender for soldiers.

So mabe it could be that there is some other agenda at play here? Mabe it is not related to trans but to grooming a target group into becoming cult members? Why is it that we always have to think there is a /Big Conspiracy/ somewhere? Don't spread around fud that you have no clue about with words like "omitting something I consider relevant" without making damn sure it realy is relevant. You just feed the trolls if you keep doing this.
Someone that you introduce to free group actions and the Cox-Zucker machine, hairy ball theorems, stuff like that
Hmm, a proper capability-based design would, of course, give each user a separate share address, which could be disabled at any time.

Share addresses should be handled much like ssh keys.
Most of the time I have seen fiber set up as a dedicate bridge device GPON to ethernet, the Optical Network Terminator(ONT). And honestly, I am fine with this. copper ethernet is much easer to deal. This makes a nice clear demarcation point, the copper past the ONT is yours, everything upstream of that is theirs.

Having said that It would be nice to have control over the ONT as well. there are PON sfp optics, that may be the easiest way to set up your own fiber capable router. I have heard it is tricky to to talk the isp into allowing your modules, you probably need to know a guy that works there.
Thank you.

We are developing in React for Frontend and Python (Flask) for the backend.

Used wix to just create the Landing Page.

thank you
They tried this with me once. I told him to get a modem from the truck and try it. The issue remained, so the excuse was busted.

That said, I have run into issues where the ISP will upgrade the speeds and it will be beyond what the modem or router can handle, and as a result the speeds dropped dramatically. In those cases, I did need to hardware, but was still able to get my own.
Get ready for the rest of 2025, as this is the least we'll be talking about LLM's (or genAI for that matter) for the rest of the year and likely this tech epoch
> So what am I to do when I see something from this same source that I don't know about?

Well there's always <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect>. Sounds like your not as vulnerable though.
I think it is a prerequisite to lesswrongism to be a psychopath.
These kind of complaints led me to try my hand at creating a new package manager for macOS[^1]. I really respect what the engineers at Chainguard have done with WolfiOS[^2] and tried to replicate the same - declarative package manifests which minimize the amount of dependencies. The project fizzled out after talking with some friends and realizing the futility when considering the global dominance of Homebrew.

[1]: https://github.com/willswire/cosmic

[2]: https://github.com/wolfi-dev
Thanks for the feedback! Since the game is still in the early version, my initial idea was to keep it simple, to see if people will play it at all, but I’m definitely planning to add features like showing the total number of questions/statistics. Appreciate you playing!
As I recently wrote on Cowen's blog, a lot of the electorate doesn't know how tariffs work.

Say I manufacture a widget in [country]. At present, there is no manufacturer of that widget in the USA. We export to the USA, and now the US importer or distributor pays a ~25% tariff on the declared value to Fedgov. Then that US importer or distributor receives the widgets and sells them. Because its margin is down, it raises its price. Who paid first? The US business that imported the widgets. Who pays in the end? The US customer.

Now say I manufacture some specialty aluminum rods in [country]. We export to a heatsink manufacturer in the US. As they need our rods, they pay the tariffs. Their product is now considerably more expensive and there's more friction in their supply chain.

The only way this ends is with Americans paying more for goods. It could be a lot worse than routine inflation.

The right way to go about things would be to shore up US manufacturing capabilities first, and then utilize tariffs selectively. Right now, there's really no way around foreign inputs in manufacturing and/or wholly foreign-made goods, so there's going to be a lot of pain.
How to Run DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning Models on RyzenAI and Radeon GPUs
I am not sure if profits are easy to gather if all professional users can rent hardware instead of renting the service. In the end the users would actually profit from the model, not the provider (who competes with other providers of the same open source model). And here I am not sure if we can see AI as some kind of cybernetic enhancement that allows to execute ideas on the shoulders of humanity instead of just a scammy way to resell already present content.
They could start a joint nuclear program with Ukraine. Canada has the Canadian shield which is rich in Uranium.

Both Canada and Ukraine get nukes (Ukraine has a bridge that needs blowing up), Ukraine gets safety, Canada gets huge reputation gains in trade with Ukraine.

NB: Ukraine will be the fastest growing western economy post war for at least a decade or two.
> we're unlikely to redefine society in the name of making less than 1% of the population feel better

Believe it or not, there are actually many popular, far-reaching political ideologies centered around helping "the least of us." It's not such a foreign concept.

Furthermore, the particular ways in which the transgender population is oppressed happen to coincide with many of the ways in which cis women are infamously burdened. It's not "special treatment" that will make this <1% population feel better but a dissolution of the bonds which torment us all. "Nothing to lose but our chains" type shit, yadada?
Those are good ones. I've fiddled with similar systems before, do you have a rough success rate? I know they can be finicky, especially as you execute through a chain-of-thought action plan, or however you're doing it.
If Congress does whatever he says because he says it, let's him control the purse, and never does anything he doesn't directly approve of, then wtf is the point of having congress? That's a dictatorship with lipstick on.

Also, think we can get there without him genociding the adult trans community, putting trans minors in correction camps, and invalidating the human rights of all homosexual Americans? Can we get there without him turning every ally against us?

I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about that.

Can we do it while still having
Well, that sounds good - what are we waiting for?
ISP's thanks to a bill cannot charge rental fees anymore:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/isps-cant-charge-you-for-using-yo...

Unless they come up with a BS security excuse, like cert based auth to their network, which means they claim they cannot offer people to BYOE. I bought an old DSL modem off eBay some years back and tried to get AT&T to waive the rental fee (honestly thinking I was in the clear).

They were not having it. I filed an FCC complaint and in a few days got a call from the office of the CEO saying the equipment was still technically theirs and "gray market" and they could sue me if they wanted. I did get that rental fee waived.

I got off AT&T as soon as humanly possible after that. I used to think they were less shady than Comcast, but now I know otherwise. Comcast, for all their egregious nonsense, at least lets you BYOE.
https://pon.wiki/
Yeah, it’s unclear who specifically is doing what. Is OPM accessing employee records?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro...
I follow the thread and can agree in large parts. But given multiple news anchors, news programs, both traditional and online, in combination with social media, content creators and late night TV, I am wholly exhausted by Trump somehow being a magical monster responsible for (just as you’ve demonstrated) in some way every ill in modern society.

If he is a narcissist and we are aware narcissists feed on attention and drama and starve in the absence of those things, shouldn’t the best version of activism against him be to deny him mention or attribution? Regardless of how cathartic it might be to openly complain? Imagine getting to the end of this next 4 years and despite what he does, nothing of note can be said about the man. Despite all the EOs, nothing interesting could be discussed. His presidency could be a footnote in history, except for the “activists” going emotionally boneless and apoplectic at every word he says.

TBF, it’s not Trump that exhausts me, it’s this. The maniacal blaming for every problem. The incessant injection of Trump and secondarily politics into every conversation and every facet of life. This…neo-activism is as caustic of a solution as the disease it attempts to inoculate. It’s as if everyone has forgetten how to problem solve in the face of adversity. A social fragility whose only method of communication is abject outrage.

Ugh.
Yudkowsky texts represent my mental image of a vector continuously scanning a latent space in some general direction. Changes just pile on and on until you come from concept A to concept B without ever making a logical step, but there’s nothing to criticise cause every step was a seemingly random nuance. Start at some rare values in most dimensions, crank up the temperature and you get yourself Yudkowsky.

> our coherent extrapolated volition is "our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted (…) The appeal to an objective through contingent human nature (perhaps expressed, for mathematical purposes, in the form of a utility function or other decision-theoretic formalism), as providing the ultimate criterion of "Friendliness", is an answer to the meta-ethical problem of defining an objective morality; extrapolated volition is intended to be what humanity objectively would want, all things considered, but it can only be defined relative to the psychological and cognitive qualities of present-day, unextrapolated humanity.

I doubt that a guy who seriously produces this can say something meaningful at all.
While it's kind of nuts, the US public did just elect this lot so I guess now they have them.

See this from before the election https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830829538118381574
It's a big claim that "immigrants are eating the cats and dogs in specific town in Ohio" (note the plural).

What was readily checked is the source of such a claim (where did Trump get that from?) and what evidence was provided?

The trace back on that stupidity was unsubstantiated rumours triggered from a walked back local area posting and a slew of images that didn't come from the place in question, etc.
>I don't exactly see how it's different from a group of habitual alcoholics discussing politics and having a fatal disagreement

Intent, premeditation, possibly being designated a terrorist group depending on other factors. Big differences.
There are stores like fs.com where you can buy affordable tranceivers for use in anything that'll take SFP+. The biggest hurdle is extracting the specifications you need from your ISP and configuring your own router for their weird quirks, and probably probably convince them to accept your serial number (or spoof a device of theirs if you can find the S/N).

There are also ONT/media converter boxes that'll spit out ethernet if you plug in a fiber and set the appropriate DIP switches. I found one hanging in my apartment when I moved in. I've also seen people sell them on second hand marketplaces (probably not realizing that they're technically property of the ISP). Buying newer ones that spit out more than 1gbps as a consumer can be a challenge, though.

There's a nice variety of small Linux router boxes available online that are relatively low power but still offer good connectivity through SFP(+) ports. Getting Linux running on those is easy, the challenge is in figuring out how to active the connection.
> Furthermore, the particular ways in which the transgender population is oppressed happen to coincide with many of the ways in which cis women are infamously burdened. It's not "special treatment" that will make this <1% population feel better

It's worth noting that a number of cis women who associate with the feminist movement would strongly disagree with your assessment.
maintaining the status-quo was at least predictable. change was needed, and was inevitable, but will the result be akin to the replacement of the articles of confederation with the constitution, or the replacement of the french republic with the first french empire?
> 3) Its leadership - or some of it, anyway - is extremely egotistical and borderline cult-like to begin with

I'm always surprised at how common this is in rationalist and EA organizations. The revelations about the cult-like behavior at MIRI / CFAR / Leverage are eye-opening: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experie...

The issues with sexual misconduct and drug-assisted assault in these communities even made the mainstream news: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-07/effective...

It's equally fascinating to see how effectively these issues are rapidly retconned out of the rationalist discourse. Many of these leaders and organizations who get outed were respected and frequently discussed prior to the revelations, but afterward they're discussed as an inconsequential sideshow.

> TLDR: isolation, very strong in-group defenses, logical "doctrine" that is formally valid and leaks in hard-to-notice ways, apocalyptic utility-scale, and being a very appealing environment for the kind of person who goes super nuts -> pretty much perfect conditions for a cult.

I still think cults are a rare outcome. More often, I've seen people become "rationalist" because it gives them tools to amplify their pre-existing beliefs (#4 in your list). They link up with other like-minded people in similar rationalist communities which further strengthens their belief that they are not only correct, but they are systematically more correct than anyone who disagrees with them.
Like air traffic controllers are fungible indeed.

Chaos chaos, so the oligarchs and christian nationalists can decapitate the modern state. The stealing and the plundering has begun.

1890 returns while the rest is asleep.
They’re also all software developers, right?
“Safety test” sounds like things a self-appointed group of experts has decided people shouldn’t talk about.
If one of these services was able to catalog commits with the FF, that's be worth gold (wink wink Launch Darkly).
Suck eggs?! Not all of us are making silicon valley wages and can afford such a decadent activity!
Those ideologies certainly exist, but I can't say that I've ever heard of one staying in power for very long, at least not while genuinely pursuing that ideology. Far more often "for the least of us" is the pitch that gets you in the door, but no real attempt to deliver is ever made.

So again, I'm not debating the value of pursuing these rights, I'm pointing out that this is view opposed by billions. You can't just declare the rightness of your cause and hope it catches on.
A cryogenic pressure vessel that's not affected by hydrogen embrittlement is hardly portable, cheap, or energy dense. Maybe if you're using a vehicle that's otherwise going to use bunker fuel, sure, you've got space for a reasonable hydrogen tank.

If we're speaking from a practical perspective not green-washing, using a methane fueled engine in an electric motor / generator setup is going to be way more efficient and flexible than some insane setup where you've got cryogenic hydrogen tanks hanging out a rock quarry.

[edited to add this:]

Let's distinguish between "pull more carbon from the ground and put it in the air" and "pull carbon from the air and make methane with it". Any H2 system today is going to use a hydrocarbon feedstock. Any "we'll crack water and save the H2" story is a pure fiction. Any process that relies on some theoretical "we've got spare energy so we're going to use that to crack water, then compress the everloving hell out of those H2s and then chill the crap out of that" could just as easily be "make methane using spare energy and spare CO2" likely with substantially less "spare" energy.
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i mean this seems like just basic expected value math
On the other hand you can take 100 photographs of whatever without knowing any words in any language at all and without sitting in front of any computer. I don't think what's art and what's creativity shpuld be decided on the basis of doing some specific "leg work".

No effort, no reward is a good rule but I apply it to copies as well as originals.
Bizarre. I also saw this. The thread went from nothing to [flagged][dead] over the course of about a minute without going through an intermediary [flagged] phase. Fortunately, it's vouched back to life for the time being.

Yesterday, I posted an "Ask HN" on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892245

I wonder if there's some sort of coordinated flagging of Musk-related topics going on, especially given Musk's ongoing (and possibly illegal) government interference. The fact that the flags seem to come so rapidly (enough to mark [dead] within ~30s) is suspicious to me. Can dang comment on this?
I have trouble believing this argument is in good faith.

1) (minor nitpick) I don't see how HN is in the same category as GitHub or Stack Overflow.

2) "sometimes by license" or "free by license" imply you don't understand how copyright works. Code that is not accompanied by a license is proprietary. Period. [0] And if it has a license, then you have to follow it. If the license says that derivative works have to give credit and use the same license, then LLMs using that code for training and anything generated by those models is derivative and has to respect the license.

3) Arguably i didn't say this in the OP but the idea that the publisher owns copyright is absolutely nuts and only possible through extensive lobbying and basically extortion. It should be illegal. Copyright should always belong to the person doing the actual work. Fuck rent-seekers.

4) If western ML companies thought they can produce models of the same quality without for example stealing and laundering the entirety of Github, they would have. They don't so clearly GH is a very important input and its builders should either be compensated or the models and ML companies should only use the subset that they can without breaking the license.

Please don't get offended but I've seen this argument multiple times by proponents of A"I" and their entire argument hinged on the idea that the current ML models are so large that nobody can understand them and therefore a form of "intelligence" which they are clearly not (unless proven otherwise, at which point, they should get their own personhood but the fact no big ML company is arguing for that makes it obvious nobody really considers them intelligent).

[0]: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1720/what-can...
> omitting what some might consider a relevant detail

This sounds weaselly enough to detract from the rest of the comment, even though you later say why it might be relevant.
Oracle probably has the best sales team in the industry. No developer ever suggests an oracle product as the tool of choice, yet here they are.

We learned when we switched away from Oracle DB due to performance issues. We were told that we needed to get back on it immediately. Our contract required all tools to use Oracle DB and we had to consult with their rep when making upgrades.

So yeah, it's entirely your fault. You didn't read the contract! /s
This article on AgWeb (found via searching) has more news and impacts: https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/trump-officially-...

From that article: "...levy on imports of Canadian energy to 10%" "25% on Canadian and Mexican goods" and "10% on Chinese products" "to address issues such as border security, drug trafficking, and migration." Also "Trump also hinted at additional tariffs on EU products"

Nothing yet on the text of the order signed on Whitehouse.gov yet. There was an earlier Jan 30th proclamation there "America First Trade Policy" directing offices to study trade issues: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/amer...
Because we can :)

This is Hacker news - building this sort of thing is fun!
Politics aren't the mind killer, fear is. Politics just use fear to achieve their ends