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> Quite the contrary: it's a blatant and transparent continuation of the current administration's assault on those Western democratic values. Generally speaking, I agree the Trump administration is assaulting Western democratic
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1y ago
>> It is clear NIST's mission is a blend of scientific rigor and promotion of western values > That was true in the past. You seem to be having difficulty accepting the new reality, even defending it. Which is sad to witness.
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> Otherwise, the report is meaningless nonsense - comparing apples with oranges, making claims about possible future dangers that aren't supported by anything the report actually found, and so on. Some responses: - Do you think the
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1y ago
> > You don't provide any evidence from the report of #3. Instead, you refer to Trump's comments as evidence of his xenophobia. > No, as evidence of how the President of the United States has abused his position to weapon
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1y ago
The summary on Wikipedia doesn't sound very testable. Maybe the original sources are clearer? In any case, I bet the hypothesis could be tightened up if one specified what one means by scientific progress . Perhaps some blend of: (1)
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1y ago
I wonder: where has this hypothesis been operationalized and turned into a testable prediction (forward-looking or retroactive)?
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1y ago
> A report like this is just part of that propaganda campaign of designating enemies everywhere, even in American cities. Yes, it seems that Trump considers anyone who loudly disagrees with him to be an enemy. So when he looks at Portlan
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1y ago
> It’s purely designed to counter a perceived threat by smearing it. "smear" as understood by most people, means "to damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander: someone was trying to smear her by faki
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1y ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc37TvHN74 This links to a video titled "(why facts dont [sic] change minds (goose explains)"). First, I am not seeing the connection to the comment above -- the comment is ha
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1y ago
The comment above is problematic for various reasons. > Just because you already afraid or want others to be afraid. We need to be more careful with our thinking and writing. [1] The word "just" indicates the commenter landed o
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1y ago
> ... into "report" with no evidence or reference If one takes a few minutes to review the NIST report [1], one will indeed find evidence and references detailed in the footnotes. Without judgment, I ask: How did you miss this?
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1y ago
> can you please give me the authors' names? The names of the author(s) are not given.
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1y ago
> Not to mention Anthropic says Claude will eventually automatically report you to authorities if you ask it to do something "unethical" Are you referring to the situation described in the May 22, 2025 article by Carl Franzen i
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1y ago
To summarize some of the key differences [1]: - Purpose/Scope: WireGuard creates persistent VPN tunnels for ongoing network connectivity. Magic Wormhole handles ephemeral file transfers. - NAT Traversal: WireGuard typically requires at
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1y ago
Notice the similarity between the above comment and what the HN Guidelines [1] advise against: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened t
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1y ago
> Not to mention Anthropic says Claude will eventually automatically report you to authorities if you ask it to do something "unethical" Citation? Let's see if your claim checks out -- and if it is worded fairly.
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1y ago
> Here’s an example of irrational fear: “the expanding use of these models may pose a risk to application developers, consumers, and to US national security.” Yes, that contains a quote from the executive summary. First (perhaps a minor
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1y ago
> The absolutely most charitable thing that could be said about this report is that it’s a weak attempt at smearing non-US competition. You aren't using the words "absolute" [1], "charitable" [2], and "smear
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1y ago
Here is how I would charitably and clearly restate your position -- let me know if this is accurate: 1. You accept the definition: "Xenophobia is fundamentally about irrational fear or hatred of people based on their foreign origin or
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1y ago
>> (me) The NIST report, of course, implicitly promotes ideals of western democratic rule over communist values > (antonvs) If only that were true. Using a charitable reading of your comment, it seems you are actually talking about
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1y ago
Take away #1: Eric Hartford’s article is deeply confused. (I’ve made many other specific comments that support this conclusion.) Take away #2: as evidenced by many comments here, many HN commenters have failed to check the source material t
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1y ago
> did you even read the article? I am not going to dignify this with a response. Please review the hacker news guidelines.
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> when you download open source deep seek model and run it yourself - zero packets are being transmitted. thereby disproving the fundamental claim in the NIST report (additionally NIST doesn't provide any evidence to support their c
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1y ago
Some context about big changes to the AISI from June 3, 2025: > Statement from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Transforming the U.S. AI Safety Institute into the Pro-Innovation, Pro-Science U.S. Center for AI Standards and I
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1y ago
I can understand why people would find `ut` convenient. That said, I would caution against trying to include too much functionality. What is too much? I don't have a clear idea on this yet. But I would probably argue that including HTT
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1y ago
On what basis are new features included? Has the creator thought about the definition of "done"? Will it grow indefinitely like a katamari ball? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari
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> What are people's experiences with the uncensored Dolphin model the author has made? My take? The best way to know is to build your own eval framework and try it yourself. The "second best" way would be to find someone e
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