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New comment by endominus in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

endominus — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:01:45 +0000

I think most pro-AI people would be happy to let an AI maintain the sloppy fork. What reason would they have to complain, after all?

New comment by endominus in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

endominus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:52:24 +0000

Just as people pointed out that my misinformation line was also said by AuthLeft, gay marriage and drug legalization are both supported by LibRight (under the reasoning of government minimization). But that just speaks to the problem; the political compass tries to map stances to political groups that often believe things arbitrarily, rather than grounding their positions on peoples' perspectives and framework for understanding the world. That's why I like the other political compass I linked in the sibling thread; it's based more on a person's understanding of the world rather than tribal allegiance.

New comment by endominus in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

endominus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:40:02 +0000

It's a fundamental problem of the political compass, since people's political beliefs are usually object-level or tribal rather than rooted in fundamental principles (for example, when their party controls the state congress but not the federal congress, they believe [ISSUE] is a matter of states' rights. When their party controls Washington but not the state legislature, they believe [ISSUE] is a Federal matter. I'm sure you've seen the studies).

I don't like the orthodox compass myself, and prefer the categorization system described in the blog Everything Studies here; https://everythingstudies.com/2019/03/01/the-tilted-politica...

New comment by endominus in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

endominus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:30:32 +0000

"The government has the right to force people to take vaccines against their will for the sake of public safety." - Authoritarian Left

"The government has no right to legislate that a woman cannot have an abortion - women should control their own bodies." - Libertarian Left

"The government has the right and responsibility to shut down sources of misinformation in the news and online." - Authoritarian Right

"Capitalism is good and works fine as is." - Libertarian Right (if that doesn't ping lib-right to you, maybe something about supporting skilled immigration by large companies)

Is it so hard to believe that one person can hold all of the above views?

New comment by endominus in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

endominus — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:02:16 +0000

Cost of the Macbook Pro 14 in 2031: another £1999

Cost of the Framework 13 upgrade kit in 2031: £499

The point of the upgradability and openness of the design is that you only have to pay that cost once, instead of every time you buy a laptop. How much will it cost to upgrade a MacBook's RAM if you decide you need more after a year or two? £2099?

New comment by endominus in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

endominus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:55:12 +0000

It's frustrating that the only suggestion the experts interviewed have here is essentially blue-washing woman-dominated jobs. "For instance, many health care jobs could be framed as roles requiring the strength to lift people. Preschools could highlight the need for teachers who serve as positive male role models." Just reads as that one SMBC comic - "how can we make math pink?" As if the only way they can understand people is through the most shallow stereotypes.

Yeah, you can totally fix the imbalance in the nursing sector by showing ads with a bunch of male nurses driving monster trucks into the ICU and crushing energy drink cans on patients' foreheads! Or have a cowboy ride his horse into the preschool, smoking a cigarette that he lights by dragging a match across his own thick stubble! This isn't a structural problem, it's just a question of marketing!

Insulting.

New comment by endominus in "Peptides: where to begin?"

endominus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:31:24 +0000

Creatine is probably the most well-studied nutritional supplement we have, and one of the most efficacious. You are presenting a single study to counter that. Not even a meta-analysis, but a single study of just 54 participants who did not exercise at all previously (from the study; "Apparently healthy individuals, with a body mass index of ≤30 kg/m2 and not meeting current physical activity guidelines of at least 150 min of moderate-intensity exercise were included. Individuals who undertook [resistance training] within the previous 12 months were excluded"). The general consensus is that it is absolutely helpful in muscle-building. See, for example [0] and [1]. Beware the man of one study. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...

[0]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12665265/ - Meta analysis results; "after intervention, the Cr group exhibited significant strength gains"

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/17/2748 - "A total of 69 studies with 1937 participants were included for analysis. Creatine plus resistance training produced small but statistically significant improvements... when compared to the placebo."

New comment by endominus in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

endominus — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:48:29 +0000

Just because a particular market is free doesn't mean it's useful to society at large.

If it's not useful to society, society has no moral reason to tolerate it. If it indeed benefits a few individuals massively while on net reducing utility to society, an argument can be made that society has a moral imperative to ban it. Hence the limitations on gambling, on alcohol and tobacco marketing/sales, etc.

New comment by endominus in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

endominus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:24:01 +0000

Unfortunately, "this is a wildly successful model that prints money for us with almost no upkeep required" has historically not been a bulletproof argument when new management comes in and wants to prove themselves. Human beings are not necessarily rational and the kinds of people that tend to rise to the top of large corporations don't necessarily have the best interests of customers or the business itself in mind.

That being said, I believe that Gabe is taking his "succession planning" seriously, so I'd be fairly optimistic for the next decade at least.

New comment by endominus in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

endominus — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:08:54 +0000

Even if that were the case, wouldn't it still be an essentially net-zero pollution system (disregarding small contributions from transport etc.)?

New comment by endominus in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

endominus — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:49:43 +0000

Sure, but it's not reasonable to call it as unpopular domestically as the Vietnam War, which had more than 12 times the casualties, spread over a group that on the whole was unwilling to fight and had to be drafted into the conflict, thereby spreading the pain of lost loved ones throughout society rather than concentrating it heavily into the poorer and less politically powerful social and economic classes. As unpopular as the Iraq war was, the American people's distaste didn't really do much to end it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt...

New comment by endominus in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

endominus — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:56:58 +0000

> General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research?

> Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Yes sir. But now that they are doing psy-research, we're gonna have to do psy-research, sir. We can't afford to have the Russian's leading the field in the paranormal.

Source: The Men Who Stare at Goats

New comment by endominus in "Film students who can no longer sit through films"

endominus — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:21:21 +0000

Why did the author feel the need to throw in a spoiler for the end of The Conversation in the last paragraph of the article? That seems contradictory to the point of everything else she wrote and disrespectful to both the audience and the film.

New comment by endominus in "Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)"

endominus — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:01:35 +0000

It was available on Humble Bundle a few months ago as part of Remedy's full lineup, along with the sequel, the Alan Wake games, and Control.

New comment by endominus in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

endominus — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:53:41 +0000

>If you were given the choice of two different dangerous roads where one road had a 30% lower chance of getting into a life-threatening car crash, you would probably think that the choice was obvious, not that the two roads were basically the same.

You could absolutely think that they were basically the same, depending on the base rate. The differece between a one-in-a-million and 0.7-in-a-million is 30%, but it wouldn't be humanly perceivable. We're all likely faced with situations like that regularly. Differing airlines probably have much greater variances in their crash statistics, but it just doesn't matter in 99.99999% of flights.

New comment by endominus in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

endominus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:39:17 +0000

... so give reviewers a financial incentive to deem reports invalid?

New comment by endominus in "Days of Rage (2017)"

endominus — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:04:31 +0000

Reminded of this article/book review given comments here about political violence on the rise and wondering how that looks like on a wider scale.

Days of Rage (2017)

endominus — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45213170

Points: 4

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New comment by endominus in "Tell HN: Gmail tampers with incoming email body content"

endominus — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:01:31 +0000

The OP is not claiming that the link is being changed; the complaint is that a hyperlink is being generated from the plaintext URL. The HTML body of the email is being modified.

New comment by endominus in "Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors"

endominus — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:08:28 +0000

If you run a restaurant and a known dine-and-dasher walks in, can you not refuse to serve them?

If you're a consultant do you have no right to refuse a client? Even if you have other clients you'd rather work for, or that particular client is a bad fit for you, or any other reason?

If you run a transport company, and you think someone is trying to get you to move illegal goods, or goods that you have moral qualms about transporting (such as a vegan being asked to transport livestock for slaughter) do you have no right to refuse?