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> the President shall communicate in writing the substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons for any such removal or transfer to both Houses of Congress (including the appropriate congressional committees), not later than 30 days before the removal or transfer

So worst case, they’re legally fired a month from a few days ago and are owed back pay. This seems much ado about nothing.
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I have heard a version saying that Vassar changed (after he started experimenting with drugs). And at some moment later, he also got banned from the community.
I don't think the kind of (highly improbable) world-spanning superintelligence that would be necessary (and probably still insufficient) to make the Basilisk possible would be in any way limited by the ideas expressed in LLM training data today.
She was born in Philadelphia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Fong
"Anyways" is not a typo. It's a well used term in informal contexts.
I tried to figure out what this library does, but was unable to. Would someone be able to explain? Thanks!
Everyone who decided not to vote literally relinquished their voice in the matter. They simply don't count. They were "OK" with whatever others decided. Their opinion has as much weight as my dog's (and I don't even have a dog!).
> The product why belongs in a linked issue that describes the bug or use case in full detail.

That's nice until you switch git hosts or project management systems and the context is lost. Commits live forever, use them.

At least a small summary of "why" would've been so helpful many times in the legacy codebase I maintain instead of "fix tests", "format", "FOO-123"
> he has to notify Congress with a good reason

He just has to notify. The law doesn’t give the Congress nor judges discretion over whether the reasons are good. Just detailed.
Isn't PayPal where he got the startup capital for Tesla and SpaceX?
Please please please don’t move to electron and just build something native. Electron desktop software bloat is killing our machines.
What does that have to do with zstd?
I bet America will be basically the same as it was in 2012, with respect to having two houses of congress, and democratically run elections, by 2028.
this attitude is what makes the problem: it encourages developers to treat a single implementation as the standard.
>Fix the world and these problems don't exist.

Hard disagree. Plenty of antisocial (or worse) behaviour has been promulgated by those indisputably at the top of the social food chain -- almost every war of conquest, for example. Did the British Empire expand throughout the world because the British felt marginalised? No, the rest of the world considered them to be a great power and many other cultures voluntarily adopted their styles of dress and other customs as a mark of "modernity".

A sense of marginalisation (real or imagined) can certainly be a force that acts to reduce empathy and encourage violence, but it's by no means necessary.
These people...Are his SpaceX employees...

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications."

"...The new team at OPM includes software engineers and Brian Bjelde, who joined Musk’s SpaceX venture in 2003 as an avionics engineer before rising to become the company’s vice president of human resources. Bjelde’s role at OPM is that of a senior adviser......Among the group that now runs OPM is Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who is now OPM’s chief of staff...

...Another senior adviser is Riccardo Biasini, a former engineer at Tesla and most recently a director at The Boring Company, Musk’s tunnel-building operation in Las Vegas..."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-musk-aides-lock-governm...

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:th64qrg...
You can check the code. It’s not obfuscated at all, it even has comments.
> resist unlawful or abusive orders

These firings don’t appear to be unlawful or abusive. They’re sloppy. But he has the power to fire them.
The CLI tools have a great record.

curl and invoke-restmethod and hurl etc.

It's the GUI tools that keep getting monetised.
I think they mean Musk
There's lots of them, but I respectfully submit that doing something about it in the present - whatever you determine that to be, given your skills and inclinations - is a far higher priority than the educational byproduct for future generations.

Using your Weimar example, I would not argue that Germany or humanity is/are better off for having gone through the cataclysm of WW2. In terms of building context, you might find it helpful to read this dry but very detailed examination of the nazi administrative state, and how it delivered economic resources to its political clients through a combination of reorganization, financial engineering, and striaght-up theft:

https://archive.org/details/hitlersbeneficia00alyg

On a more abstract level, try 'The logic of political survival' by Smith & Bueno de Mesquita. both books will give you a useful framework within which to assess the contextual significance of ongoing news events.
Somebody doesn't understand the concept of dependencies.
this is not windows where every dependency has to be bundled. It is a dependency tree.
Printing something onto paper should not be a blanket opt-out of the 4th amendment.

As far as I understand it, the yellow dots thing comes from the US government stepping on the toes of Xerox and getting them to jump. Same thing with Biden getting COVID misinformation removed or Trump getting the entire tech industry to lurch to the far-right overnight. Both of those imperil the 1st Amendment[0], and the yellow dots imperil the 4th.

Now, let's look at the two other examples you provided. Automatic engine shut-offs[1] and water flow restrictors may be annoying, but they do not imperil constitutional rights like the watermarking dots do. If we were talking about the US government mandating tracking chips in every car, then it would be like the watermarking dots.

Of course "government mandated tracking chips" is old news. The stuff of conspiracy theories. You might even be able to sue the government to stop it.

The current meta regarding getting around the 4th amendment is using industry to violate people's privacy for you. Industry will happily violate people's privacy on their own, because there's money in spying on people, so all the US government has to do is buy from private spies[2]. And because this is 'private' action, 4A stays untripped, because our constitution is a joke.

[0] Not nearly to the same extent, of course. Biden bruised 1A's arm, Trump wants to dump gasoline on it and light it on fire.

[1] My mom's Tuscon has this 'feature' and it's genuinely annoying. First thing you do when you use the car is shut it off so that it doesn't get you T-boned trying to save gas.

[2] This knowledge has been public domain since at least 2011: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-c...
> It actually goes 2x faster than the native WIN32 port that the Emacs authors wrote on their own. Cosmo Emacs loads my dotfiles in 1.2 seconds whereas GNU Emacs on Windows loads them in 2.3 seconds.

That's very cool. Well done! Still amazing that this whole cross OS binary thing even works.
> What am I allowed to use as primitives to compose systems that require cryptographic functionality?

The problem isn't the primitives, it's the act of a custom composition.

The problem isn't whether AES is used. The problem is whether you're writing code that interfaces at the level of 128-bit blocks.

Want a canned solution for generic problems?

https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/

Want a specific solution for your specific use case? Talk to an expert to guide you through the design and/or implementation of a tool for solving your specific problem. But don't expect everyone writing for a general audience (read: Hacker News comments) to roll out a bespoke solution for your specific use case.
You could possibly add a lot of weight on both sides of the spinning wheel, so the lost weight of the payload would not matter as much.

Or maybe put a weight at the opposite end that moves towards the center as you release the payload, compensating for the lost weight at the other end? (* in terms of angular momentum)
Understanding why increasing predictability helps with compression is not the hard part though. What's hard to grasp is why the transform is reversible.
Elon Musk, however, was not.
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What were they fitting for?
Nice truncating the title and removing context.

If you got fired from literally any private sector company and refused to leave your office, security would escort you out immediately.
I agree, you can disagree with this action without throwing around “foreigner”.
This is not just "bad methodology in service of dubious goal". It's blatantly illegal, and not just by weak "disparate impact" standard. According to disparate impact standard, procedures that result in disparate outcomes between protected classes are illegal, even if causing these outcomes was not the intent of the policy. Here, the disparate impact was not just unintended side effect, it was the deliberate goal. They deliberately constructed the test to discriminate based on race. This is even ignoring the alleged cases of insiders leaking answer key to some applicants.
Why buy a conference space. Most pubs will give you a seperate room if you promise to spend some money at the bar. There are probably free spaces had they researched.

If I am donating money and you are buying a conference space on day 1 I'd want it to be filled with experienced ex-UN field type of people and Nobel peace prize winners.

Otherwise it looks like a grift.
I would argue nearly 100% of those couples would have found someone off the apps and would have had a much happier dating experience if they didn't exist.

Just because they work that doesn't make them a good experience. Show me one dating app with good reviews.
I wonder about the purpose of many of these actions. Since they’re done via EOs they can easily be reversed.
I don't particularly think the government needs to mention gay on its website. I also don't think they need to mention straight, bi or any other sexual orientation.

That doesn't change the fact that Trump was the first president to come into office supporting gay marriage. It also doesn't change the fact that Trump had the first openly gay person on his cabinet (Richard Grenell). Grenell spent some of time trying to get gay marriage legalized in countries where it was illegal and Trump knew that.

Trump's issue with LGBT is the T part, not the gay part.
Lots of parallels here with Luigi Mangione who also referenced a lot of LessWrong ideas
Why is this in my browser's History?
Thanks for clarification.
I have not been aware of thread fuzzing and chaos mode before.
Thank you, vitus!
> I want to roll my own variant of AES (I know, I know!) CTR mode for appendable (append-only) files that does not require a key change or reencrypting any full AES block.

https://xyproblem.info

Why, exactly, do you want to do that at all?
Someone could code for the same reasons a person might make art.

Professional artists don’t always ignore the commercial aspect of their work. But often those projects allow making work that is not driven by commercial concern.

That doesn’t make an artist’s paying work any less art when an artist considers making art the important outcome rather than the made artifacts.
Have you seen the research about "ablation"?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGuXSZgv6qfdhMCuJ/refusal-in...
The bash 4 thing is due to the GPL 3, not some inherent slowness in updating software. It has nothing to do with zstd, which is permissively licensed.
Full on musk junta coup huh? Didnt have that on my bingo card exactly. Guess we'll really get to see if theres any rule of law in the US anymore or if its all completely as hollow as its looked for a long time.
I think it's going to be more useful once they get pass the first two courses when they go for more advanced courses. I'd argue 6502 or 8086 is still more useful than LC-3 which is frequently used in CompArch classes.

The thing about advanced courses are: all production material more or less went through 30-40 years of evolution so it's impossible to get students to jump into it directly. Few people can hack modern gcc or Linux kernals nowadays. We can only go back some 30 years and work on the machines then to get some ideas.

Yeah it takes a lot of time though, plus it's just a concept, not real courses -- I myself is a very mediocre programmer.
If you were at a private company there would probably not be a rule that the board (qua Congress) had to be given 30 days notice of your termination, with documentation of cause.
> the EU has been using US tech companies as a piggy bank for many years now,

Ouch ouch... I have to tell you that you got this backwards. Those tech companies are very happy to hoard billions of dollars from EU citizens. The problem is more that they don't like competition and have utmost disrespect for human rights like privacy. There were lawsuits for the very basic thing of ANTI-COMPETITIVE behavior.

The real tragedy US people do not even know anymore what a healthy, competitive economy does entail. US companies do not like to compete, they like to kill competition.

I did not even mention they facilitate illegal stuff, poison society with disinformation and function as a springboard for adversary states. Those slaps on the wrist were a shame. Google, Apple and MS should have had received a ban for 20 years, but the EU has been to late to decouple, and now they find themselves in the grip of tech oligarchs.

(Luckily, some of them are also openly nazi-supporters, otherwise the Afd would miss some keynote speakers).
It started... "NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X" - https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-upd...
Same problem on Firefox Nightly on Android
If only sticky headers didn’t convert so well!
Thanks for your write-up, this is very helpful for understanding.
Suicidal ideation, for example, is common in the lesswrong community, even with people pledging to end their own lives before the machine overlord is able to scan their brains and simulate an infinitude of copies of them in a state of perpetual torture.

Essentially the community in discussion is already selected for and generates mental illness, so the ordinary comorbidities of transgendered persons are likely less relevant.
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It’s hilarious to me that Roko’s Basilisk maps perfectly to Pascal’s Wager, but they just can’t see it. It’s like any other exclusive religion: your god is made up, ours is real.
What are your other 2?

Severance could well get into my top 3, but currently I think mine would be: Mr. Robot, Breaking Bad and Wednesday.
People will think that this is ridiculous, but I can tell you from experience that this is exactly what happens.

You are often relying on the altruism of the C-levels to care about people more than the “vibes” that sales people can give off, which just happens to be helped by expensive lunches, trips, invitations to shows with VIP seats, and being welcomed with beaming smiles and open arms like a celebrity at their HQ.

Obviously its not just Oracle that does this, all the large companies do it- even the ones you think have crappy support like Google.

These are hard things to turn down, and if you think you can you’re probably wrong.
> They avoided collision because they were over 1000' and the TCAS was still active

No. The RPA4514 had the helicopter insight. Pilots are required to follow TCAS RA regardless of ATC instructions or if insight.

What makes you think they would have collided if TCAS hadn't alerted?
Ouch, and yuk. I stand corrected!
The Trumpian opposition to fact checkers is not based on some principled disagreement of substance. Trump, and by extension Republicans, oppose fact checking because the facts are in contradiction to their goals. Trump himself exists in some post-modern environment where "facts" aren't real and all that matters is spin. He wants what he says to go unquestioned. That's why instead of having a debate about facts, supported by evidence, he simply seeks to remove facts from the discussion entirely.
Meh, i believe Tesla will be wrong on this one. Yes, they will achieve good autonomous cars without lidar and radar, but someone else will build a slightly safer autonomous driving experience with those added modalities. The costs will plummet as the sensors become ubiquitous and eventually they will be required by legislation.
Alcohol is poison, but over thousands of years humanity has learned to coexist with it. Sure there are exceptions but in general we have an idea of what a healthy relationship with booze looks like.

Tech and social media are so new, we haven't figured out what a healthy dynamic looks like yet. Hard to talk about an antidote until you know what healthy looks like.
If you're interested in going down a rabbit hole, other thermo tech that always seems to be right around the corner of practicality: thermoacoustic chillers, magnetocaloric fridges.
Because why would you want to judge someone by the quality of their ideas?
most likely a browser plugin then, assuming you've checked the console for errors?
Just to clarify, they also have strict quotas for their own dairy producers.

If imports weren't restricted, we (the US) would completely shut down their dairy industry, since our dairy doesn't have quotas.
Seconding the other commenter, I’d love a more detailed version of how you do this. I looked into doing something similar with voice memos and couldn’t figure it out.
I want the contents to be unreadable to an attacker who is able to steal a disk. I want to be able to append to files but not overwrite them in place, and do partial reads without decrypting the entire file.

(Google's AES-XCTR / HCTR2 seems somewhat similar.)
I would prefer something between this and current HN, simply because the number of mis-taps on HN is still annoyingly high with everything being so close on a mobile, but I agree the design here is a touch OTT for space
Except that the rules about firing public officials and inspector generals in particular are different, by law. Accusing the headline writers of omitting context while ignoring that key difference makes your comment reek of hypocrisy.
I use KaTex (https://katex.org/) as part of static site generation, and I get LaTeX quality output (because it duplicates LaTeX's algorithm) using only CSS.

Using the eqn and troff suite in 2025 ... I'll just say there's a better way. LaTeX is arcane enough, but at least it is a universal standard in mathematical publication that it pays off to learn a little.
> because they break the assumption that once you check the top level repository out everything is in the state you checked out.

This assumption, at first, is still valid as the parent repository stores the hash of the submodule. The checkout in this case will change the commit of the submodule just like it changes the blob of a file (using --recurse-submodules you also update the submodule directory).

But, yeah, it still depends on the existence of the commits on the submodule repo, which may not exist after performing a git push -f or a squash merge (that last case I discussed here: https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-06-27-squash-sub...)

> but I feel this could be solved better

Of course! I mean, I think submodules should be one of the last options to be considered. I wrote this article because I didn't understand entirely them and the information that I found on the internet were too shallow...
Being on AWS, using EKS feels like overkill when you're talking $75/month just for having it managed by AWS. This doesn't work with ECS, unfortunately, or if you're just running docker on EC2.
Feels like you're being pretty negative to some kind folks showing off a cool thing they built.

HN is a place for people to show and tell with positive intention and constructive feedback. I don't think OP is scoffing at all :)
Making a rationalist community seem right-wing would

- make right-wingers feel vindication as if they were rational all along,

- cause suspicion and division within the left/liberal rationalist community, and

- make the community, its people and their ideas less palatable to the general public.
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The submitter of this story inserted 'rationalist' into the title; it's not in the headline and IMO it's calumny. Would you take it back out?
The only plugins I use (as you can see in that screenshot) are Bitwarden and uBlock Origin. Disabling uBlock had no effect. I'd be shocked it Bitwarden were causing it.

I checked the console for errors. There were two warning about deprecated API usage and nothing else.
Tangential: this seem to be an extremely minor opinion of mine, but does messaging from O'Brien to Winston not boil down to:

- "for god's sake please play by the rules, get into the power, and only then and only by doing so join us the Miniluv equals IRA; do not try to walk through the front door and topple the building by hand"
- "I thought you were smart enough to understand the intricacy of this game, spared precious resources for you, and giving you multiple chances. Your undecided and uncultured reactions to my efforts are irritating"

Or am I absolutely hallucinating? Is O'Brien as a sad, captured, ex-revolutionist government torturer all there is to it?
Its the browser that does this on the client, not YouTube on the server.
> Their business decisions have driven most developers away from the App Store.

> They don't have an easy way to run untrusted software in a containerized way (compare Fedora toolbox).

The App Store is the way to run untrusted apps in a containerized way.
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The controller was specific about the location of the CRJ during initial communication with the Blackhawk.

> Traffic just south of the Woodrow Bridge, a CRJ, it's 1,200 feet setting up for Runway 33.

Subsequent communications in the following minute from both parties were not specific.
They are either hired following civil service rules, are federal contractors with formal government contracts, or - in rare instances — are vetted and approved by the senate. Musk and his gang of thugs are not federal employees and should not have this level of access.
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