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It’s a pity macOS’s launchd couldn’t be adapted to Linux. It was an inspiration for systemd, so we might have had a single modern init for all common unix machines.
The political and ideological divide speaks for itself, but on behalf of the common folk universities have been failing their core mission - to provide the people with a quality education. The inversion and disconnect between the cost of tuition and economic outcomes is stunning. Too many kids who don't know better are pressured into pursuing higher education and taking on massive debt, only to graduate without any job prospects or reasonable hopes of paying off their loans. The salt in the wounds is that universities are flush with cash, yet its spent on anything and everything except for the welfare of the students.
But then, whom are you dissing? Whom is GP dissing? Because it's really unclear. On the one hand, "rational people" keep their views even as they drift apart from a wider "rationalist movement". On the other hand, it's the rationalist communities - the movement - that's much more likely to actually know something "about the foundations of economics or political science". On the grasping hand, such communities can and do get stuck missing forest for the trees.

But then on the slapping hand, approximately all criticism of rationalism (particularly LessWrong-associated) I've seen on HN and elsewhere, involves either heresay and lies, or just a legion of strawmen like "zomg Roko's basilisk" or GP's own "arguments" like:

> Nobody likes a technocrat, because a technocrat would let a kid who fell down a well die there, since the cost of rescuing them could technically save the lives of 3 others someplace else

It's hard to even address something that's just plain bullshit, so in the end, I'm still leaning towards giving rationalists the benefit of doubt. Strange as some conclusions of some people may sometimes be, they at least try to argue it with reason, and not strawmen and ideological rally cries.

EDIT: and then there's:

> They often re-hash arguments which have been had and settled like 200 years ago

Well, somebody has to. It's important for the same reason reproducibility in science is important.

I'd be wary of assuming any complex argument has been "settled like 200 years ago". When people say this, they just mean "shut up and accept the uninformed, simplistic opinion". In a sense, this is even worse than blindly following religious dogma, as with organized religions, the core dogmas are actually designed by smart people to achieve some purpose (ill-minded or not); cutting people off with "settled like 200 years ago" is just telling them to accept whatever's the cheapest, worst-quality belief currently on sale on the "marketplace of ideas".
Interestingly, excess mortality levels continue to remain extremely high - around 10%. [1]

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...
Yeah, they aren't really suitable for heavy workloads.
> The crucial question is what is "politics"? … Are inflammatory issues about race, sex or gender or political correctness or immigration? No!

When people talk about privilege, this is it - being able to dictate which issues are ‘politics,’ and being able to dismiss my rights as ‘not politics.’

Do I have a right to work? To live? To own property? To marry the one I love? To have sex with the people I’m attracted to? To raise a child with my partner? To choose my own identity and to live my own life?

A white cishet man takes all those rights for granted - why shouldn’t I? Why should my struggle to obtain those same rights be dismissed as ‘inflammatory issues about sex or gender or political correctness’ and therefore ‘not politics?’

Are you married? Would you like to be? Do you ever worry about how you’ll be treated when you go to work, or make a purchase at the store? What’s it like to go grocery shopping, or car shopping, or touring places to live? What’s it like apply to and interview for jobs? Does you boss look like you? How do your parents feel about you? How do your neighbors greet you when they see you? What’s your relationship like with your landlord?

You’re really telling me that none of that is worth ‘politicking’ over?

that attitude is exactly why things are not going well right now - because we are pretending that of we look away, equality and justice will take care of itself.
Why is there a focus on men not working? I have seen it in at least 3 comments in this thread.

Latest bls stats show men unemployment at 4.2% and women unemployment at 4.1%

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm
Maybe the companies from the EU just didn’t violate the law? How does enforcement prove that it’s a tax?
Nope my edit was to add the bit I helpfully marked edit to show where the White House had confirmed this was their method while attempting to deny it.
In the long term, yes. In the medium term, companies and people liquidating their assets and paying capital gains tax actually gives the state a windfall.
Quality of life has been going down for most Americans over the past few decades. It's harder to buy a house, raise a family, etc. on a modest income. Increasing cost of goods has outpaced wage increases but there are probably other factors at play too.

Americans lived in a world where all you needed was a decent job and you could have a good life - defined by what I said above. That's not the case anymore and they're upset about it - they're looking for someone or something to blame.

The republican party chose to blame immigrants and the democrats chose to blame lack of DEI. This fractured the citizens into two camps who can seemingly find no middle ground anymore.

Meanwhile, the wealth gap continues to increase and the middle class is shrinking. But neither political party can run on a platform of reducing spending AND higher taxes on wealth. They'd lose their funding sources - so they're stuck with immigrants and DEI.

Meanwhile, Trump sees an opportunity to extract wealth from the working class by reducing government spending and diverting those savings to corporations and the wealthy. Moderate Americans feel a bit powerless given how quickly our long standing legal and government structures seem to be deteriorating.
If the Trump admin's goal were to reduce the national debt it would make way more sense to use fiscal policy (increase taxes) rather than some roundabout way to force the Fed's hand on monetary policy. The tariffs do basically function as a massive regressive tax increase in the form of a sales tax, but that comes with truly immense risks on the demand side of the economy. Guess what happens to tax revenue during a recession.
You do realize that "gay man", "transvestite", "drag queen", and "trans woman" are all different things right?

None of them implies the others. And using any term besides trans woman would be disingenuous, as trans people existed before before 1969, with that exact nomenclature already existing. Just because the letters might not have been attached to an "LGBT" title, neither T or Q are new. Only their increased acceptance and knowledge is.

And deleting references to those is, as you can see, seen as an obvious attempt to walk back on that public perception and acceptance.

While ( as often is ) a very summarized version of the history can be found on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history , the sources should lead you to more detailed info, if you do care about learning about the historical accuracy.
Probably only to the extent the US actually does what it has agreed to do.
KITE Insta-analysis (Kiel Institute Trade Policy Evaluation) shows US short term projection is:

real output -1.92%
price index +9.16%
exports -24.52%

No other country suffers nearly as much from trade war that Trump started. They have each other to trade with. The US is in trade war with everyone except Russia and Vatican.
Or (more likely) they would not have access to many crops at all.

Personally I don't mind not having strawberries in the middle of winter, but for some they care about that.
Shoot. Almost there, at least for us cybersecurity-minded folks.

A need for a default-deny-all and then select what a process needs is the better security granularity.

This default-ALLOW-all is too problematic for today's (and future) security needs.

Cuts down on the compliance paperworks too.
instead of writing this exact thing i found the first comment from the bottom which said it for me. these people are coping. articles like this read to me as a person good at writing long form whos trying to convince themselves their cowardice and inflated self image-driven decision not to curate their social circles is actually ok and not horribly damaging to our society.
Let’s say that all of the ambiguities are automatically resolved in a reasonable way.

This is still not enough to let 2 different computers running two different LLMs to produce compatible code right? And no guarantee of compatibility as you refine it more etc. And if you get into the business of specifying the format/protocol, suddenly you have made it much less concise.

So as long as you run the prompt exactly once, it will work, but not necessarily the second time in a compatible way.
Last time I tried it I encountered both showstopper bugs (it was completely obviously broken) and subtle correctness bugs (it looked like it was working, but since I'm paranoid I have unit tests for everything and numerically the errors were too big compared to what you'd get with eager attention or Flash Attention), and it was too slow for my taste compared to Flash Attention so I just dropped it. And I wasn't even doing anything super exotic with it.

Maybe it's better now, but I'd still consider using FlexAttention without a corresponding unit test checking its accuracy against an equivalent eager implementation completely irresponsible.
Politics is simply figuring out who’s on your team. It’s why our current billionaires are so big on immigration and divisive rhetoric. Small groups have used this tactic for thousands of years to rule over larger groups.

In a good society you would know and have a favorable view of our wealthiest (kings in all but name) people. They wouldn’t be afraid and hide their wealth (Bezos, musk, etc are not the top) because there wouldn’t be an immoral wealth gap.
> My impression is that the general quality of games on steam is sub par the quality of, eg., Zelda.

My impression is that the general quality of games on the Switch (or Switch 2 or eShop) is sub par the quality of, e.g. Zelda. This is obviously because Zelda is a landmark title and it doesn't make sense to compare it with "the general quality" of games on Steam. It would make more sense to compare it with the quality of other landmark titles on Steam e.g. Baldur's Gate 3.

You can compare the general quality of games on Steam (which includes games like "Hentai Waifu 5") with the general quality of games on Switch (which includes games like "Hentai Waifu 5"), though I'm not sure it is that interesting of a comparison, since no one buys the "average" game but what they consider to be the best games on the platform.

I'd suspect that any attempt at an "objective" comparison (obviously, an impossible task) would land in favour of Steam simply because it has basically all of (core) gaming for most of history on it. Though obviously such an "objective" comparison would be meaningless for something like this where literally your subjective opinion should matter the most for your choice.
That potential end state isn’t possible is the point of my initial comment. It is as infeasible as the weather to control where natural resources are located.

Lets talk plastics. Plastic needs oil. We’re the largest oil producer in the world now. But we still import oil! Why? Because the oil we produce isn’t entirely the right kind for everything we do with it.

An end state where the US is an island cannot exist without massive shifts in production and consumption habits.

Maybe you’re saying though that shift should happen and that end state is good?
I worry about this, but I started worrying about it less when I read about Purchasing Power Parity. The same stuff costs less in poorer countries.
I think tribalism is being thought of as a pejorative when it isn’t. It merely is a phenomenon. What you describe above about yourself is pure tribalism of how you identify with the liberal tribe and could never even picture yourself as a member of other tribe. This is no different to me than a rabbi or priest talking about the tenets of their faith and how that leaves them no option but to be a member of that religion due to the moral underpinnings of those tenets that they believe in.

Tribal politics happen when we take these various tribes in our society and essentially blind them to their biases to the point where they can’t imagine at all why someone would even be in that other tribe. A complete loss of critical thinking ability emerges once it becomes us and them and not some of us and others of us, one species, no tribes, many ideas.

Do you actually believe all liberals are good and can do no evil? Do you actually believe all conservatives are cartoonishly evil idiots? I’d hope you could see the nuance but your description makes it seem like there is one way but the highway. And the reflexive counter argument from the liberals is “but racism” but then again, explain the phenomenon of the black or latino Trump supporter? Clearly there is more nuance going on in what is sensible to people than what we can gleam out of the black and white painted descriptions from the thought leaders in our tribe.
I think they meant mg. Eggs are 293/100gr
Interesting that something similar came up recently where an AI being trained might fake alignment with training goals.
This research suggests further study should be conducted, for example to determine if these results are consistent when alcohol is provided to other fruit flies, rather than just the research team members.
Did you forget how growing crops works?
I’ve never see a “good” crypto millionaire/billionaire.

They’re always a smug racist/sexist/misogynist/ablist tech bro with fucked up visions of the future.
I'd recommend learning how transformers work, and the concept of temperature. I don't think I need to cite information that is broadly and readily available, but here:

https://medium.com/google-cloud/is-a-zero-temperature-determ...

I also qualified the requirement of needing the same hardware, due to FP shenanigans. I could further clarify that you need the same stack (pytorch, tensorflow, etc)
I have no interest in a one country vs. another country pissing match, just pointing out that (arbitrarily) selecting the bachelor degree as some kind of metric might be highly misleading, at least in the case of Finland.
Shhhh, you're not supposed to ask those questions!
I think my answer to this question would be no? The food example is specific, all food can't be grown here, but for other products that aren't commodities, I want different cultures competing to build the best products i.e. cars, and I want other cultures innovating things that maybe their culture is optimized for (video games, electronics in Japan, in the 1980's?). There are some interesting questions recently about how maybe globalization have turned luxuries into commodities (i.e. all cars look the same) but I think my point still stands.
They tariffed uninhabited land, countries that export nothing to the US, and countries for which the US has a trade surplus.

All those circumstances also would have made the point moot... yet they all still made the list.
Think of it like when you take a car apart and now it's taking up more of the garage then when it was together.
It’s terrifying to think of a state owning an army that can’t disobey unethical or illegal orders from its commanders. That possibility should keep you awake at night.
Tariffs on services may also be less popular with the citizens. It's not obvious that the locally produced fridge is only cheaper because of tariffs. It will be more obvious that everyone non-EU based pays more. It will also be harder to control (how will EU extract tariffs for payments I do to companies with no EU presence?)

But I don't how much about it, maybe these are already solved problems. After all VAT already exists and faces similar challenges.
That is missing a milligram label, thank you for pointing that out. Fix uploading now.
Interesting. While I think these tariffs are a bad idea, I'm not qualified to fully pass judgement. However, knowing Trump, when I saw the numbers I instantly suspected they would be wrong.
Exactly and even if it does work to reshore factories (which will take years and we'll just ignore the question of where all the workers for these factories will come from, and that the goods needed for making those factories are also being tariffed) they'll only be competitive in a protected market so they're only really producing for the US market which will be stunted because costs would have inflated through the roof!
No, research comparative advantage. We actually had it pretty great in the US.

Also a world trading with each other is a world disincentivized from war with each other.
If you make an exception for this hypothetical country, then countries such as China would come in and build factories there and bypass their own tariffs. You're back to playing whack-a-mole.
It is a reference to Magic The Gathering. Blue decks are known for wildly changing the rules of the game. Black decks are known for interacting with death and the graveyard which is where cards go after they are used.

A paraphrasing of the GP without using magic terminology is to say that they are playing by the rules in an unexpected way using unexpected combinations and sequences. More briefly "playing by the rules as written".
This is useful feedback for me. Thanks (no further comments, but I think I know the reason why it's been this way especially as of late)
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
... and balanced. No one wants to see all that the world is ending stuff when you can eat grilled cheese...like you said ... for now.
I still don't love it. DRM is DRM and I've watched enough heroes fall from grace to know it's onto a matter of when they yank your chain, not if. I will avoid to the best of my ability any attempts to retract back products I purchased myself.

That's why I wanted to stick to consoles and a physical medium. But even those have devolved into what's basically a digital download, now with the disk (or cartridge now, with Switch 2) being the DRM. The Onion couldn't write a more ironic headline.

Now I'm wondering if all that "virtual sharing" stuff for switch 2 cartridges means difficulties with the used market.

>In my opinion he deserves 30%.

Even Gabe doesn't agree, given the cut he gives to AAA publishers. I'm not exactly onboard with the idea that the richest people get the best tax breaks, even in video game world.

A progressive platform cut would be much friendlier to smaller devs and put the biggest burdens on the ones likely using the most amount of bandwidth. That's how the game engines have started to leverage their tooling. And they put a lot more work in than a hosting platform
Prices rising due to tariffs isn't "inflation" in any traditional sense. It's not driven by consumer demand, and therefore the logic for raising rates (i.e. slowing economic growth by reducing money in the market) doesn't apply.
They even have almost identical logos...
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> Partly because women's rights have become so politicised.

That's a hand-wavy way of saying that a core pillar of one of your parties is to take away the rights of an entire gender.

Imagine describing 1940s Germany and saying "Ethnicity has become so politicized these days. I'm just interested in nationalizing the auto industry"
You can’t eliminate subjective judgement, but cultism isn’t electoral politics, it’s about loving and adoring the guru, feeling great about how smart the guru is etc.
Yeah. There are exceptions. People can also have multiple circles. And it's not as if political opinions within a group are really uniform. But there does tend to be a certain degree of uniformity within many groups of friends.
LLMs are basically just good at sourcing ideas from the internet. Me thinks this just means that this tariff idea exists on the internet, especially since grok, chatgpt, etc all come up with the same idea. We used to not have income taxes and funded the govt with tariffs so this probably isn't a new concept despite media outlets pretending like it is.
0% chance of this happening, but I like the idea.
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Is there some way to find a stream url to toss into VLC - if you wanted to easily watch this on your actual TV?
And what if "middle" is a tribe too ;)
>or is people's ambivalence towards elite universities 100% irrational?

am·biv·a·lence /amˈbiv(ə)ləns/ noun
the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Ambivalence seems like a rational take on post-secondary education in the US. I'd say an unwavering opinion (positive or negative) would be irrational. It's such a complex beast that serves so many roles and touches so many lives.

>A lot of Americans support these attacks on universities. Why do people harbour this much animosity towards these institutions?

There are a lot of very real things that are rotten in academia if you exclude the social politics center to this article.

So when people see they're loosing federal funding... yeah, some will think along the lines of "eh, whatever, fuck 'em, maybe they'll figure out how to clean their own house." Especially if the university is also known for both sitting on a large endowment and for prioritizing self-serving administrators over doing academics.
I think you are probably right.

If you find people with shared values, and follow their changing policies, That still seems like tribal behavior to me.
> You have a price to pay for "not being allowed to do mistakes": Explorative work becomes quite difficult

This is a huge deal for me.

At the beginning of most "what if...?" exercises, I am just trying to get raw tuples of information in and out of some top-level-program logic furnace for the first few [hundred] iterations. I'll likely resort to boxing and extremely long argument lists until what I was aiming for actually takes hold.

I no longer have an urge to define OOP type hierarchies when the underlying domain model is still a vague cloud in my head. When unguided, these abstractions feel like playing Minecraft or Factorio.
"all we’re doing is depriving the good students of an education." Umm, no, the students are depriving themselves by being addicted to their phones and online gambling.

The culture is burning. This is how it topples. Through smartphone addiction, gambling, and lack of reading meaningful books.
Somewhat relevant to this overall conversation is "pierre menard author of the quixote". Which takes the concept of death of the author in an amusing direction.
There likely won't be any tax revenue. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-wants-eliminate-income-...