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New comment by soerxpso in "The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck"

soerxpso — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:35:48 +0000

There are obvious reasons why it's expedient to grant the same rights to a collective organization as to its constituents. If you're getting confused by the abstraction, you're welcome to pretend that the board of Facebook (which is comprised of humans) are exercising their individual rights to free speech.

New comment by soerxpso in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

soerxpso — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:04:08 +0000

This ban also applies to on-prem hosting of Deepseek, and to finetunes/post-trains of Deepseek models that are provided by US-based inference providers. It's not a given that the Chinese would be able to access any of that.

New comment by soerxpso in "Tiny Little Office"

soerxpso — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:44:43 +0000

No I'm not, Claude is

New comment by soerxpso in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

soerxpso — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000

I would actually prefer having a job so that I can avoid starving, than to "win the talent war", whatever that means.

New comment by soerxpso in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

soerxpso — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:43:57 +0000

Microsoft is banking on the fact that nobody looks for jobs in the paper. The point is to use the lack of response be able to write on paperwork that they've proven that no qualified jobseekers exist in the US. They are aware that advertising in the newspaper is not an effective way to fill a position; the goal is to lie about how much they tried.

New comment by soerxpso in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

soerxpso — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:38:20 +0000

Please use more than one brain cell in order to consider the intent behind those guidelines, and whether what Microsoft (and similar companies) is doing is actually within the bounds of what voters and the representatives who wrote the relevant laws wanted. Do you really think the purpose of making companies advertise the job opening in a newspaper was just to give companies a bunch of busywork? or might there have actually been an intent behind it? Are you capable of ascertaining what that intent is? (note: this question has a right answer that all people arguing in good faith are capable of stating)

New comment by soerxpso in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

soerxpso — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:04:58 +0000

For the record, under current US law, it is not illegal to have a sentence in your locally-stored notes on your phone outlining a plan to commit a crime. There has to be an overt act. The police in that instance could inform the intended victim, surveil you, etc, but they would not be able to successfully charge you with attempted murder. It's not illegal to be considering committing a crime, even if you have a tendency to write down your thoughts.

The law in this particular case, which seems to be intended for threats that you actually send to someone, is being interpreted broadly to apply to any "threat" that you transmit to a server. So in your hypothetical, the legality would depend on whether your notes are backed up to icloud or not.

New comment by soerxpso in "Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald's AI thinks people nearby can afford it"

soerxpso — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:13:40 +0000

It's a reach to even say that's a function of government. It's definitely not a primary function. Outside of a few relatively brief failed experiments, it's not historically something that government does at all.

New comment by soerxpso in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

soerxpso — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:19:30 +0000

In what way would checks and balances do that at all? The only branch that has any sort of leeway to pass unpopular policies is the Supreme Court, and setting budgetary constraints is far outside their purview.

New comment by soerxpso in "Ember-1"

soerxpso — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:15:19 +0000

I don't see why I would be interested in this model, considering the price difference. They advertise that it's the same as Kimi K3 in half the tokens. But the pricing is double the pricing of K3. So why do I care if it uses fewer tokens, if I'm paying double per token?

New comment by soerxpso in "Winning the visa lottery"

soerxpso — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:01:27 +0000

"No it doesn't."

New comment by soerxpso in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

soerxpso — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:50:49 +0000

Jev doesn't require finetuning. All of the posts claiming that the technology already existed are missing that I don't want to spend a week to create a dataset (for a problem I might not already have data for), finetune a model, and set up infrastructure to run the model, every time I have a small routing or classification problem. The ability to knock out any arbitrary classification problem in minutes instead of in a week is a big deal.

New comment by soerxpso in "Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres"

soerxpso — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:31:48 +0000

I would think it's possible to make it so that the 4B model only needs to be called during an initial phase, and then the same queries it constructed can just be re-used with values replaced, unless you're generating a lot of unique on-the-fly query shapes.

New comment by soerxpso in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

soerxpso — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:06:20 +0000

Firstly it's very difficult to press criminal charges when the victim is uninterested. It's not clear that HuggingFace would want criminal charges against OpenAI, especially to set a precedent that could easily be used against HuggingFace in the future.

Secondly you'd have to convince a jury either that OAI intended to hack the targets, or that they were criminally negligent. Intent would obviously not be provable since they likely didn't, in reality, intend for it to happen. Regarding negligence, OAI's attorney would argue that the agent was in a sandbox, that industry-standard security protocols were followed, etc. It would not be anywhere near as much of a slam dunk case as you're imagining. It would be similar, for example, to an assault case where someone's dog broke off of a standard leash and attacked someone.

New comment by soerxpso in "Navier-Stokes Announcement"

soerxpso — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:20:29 +0000

It's formalized in Lean, isn't it? Do you also rely on a community of C++ experts to tell you whether a program compiles or not?

New comment by soerxpso in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

soerxpso — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:57:30 +0000

The existence of solutions to problems does not prevent you from solving the problems yourself anyway, if your goal truly is personal development. You're free to go solve Navier-Stokes yourself right now. You're free to manually do all of the AI work in any field, actually. You won't get grant money or prestige (which are not a part of conceptual understanding and insight) but you will get all of the conceptual understanding and insight you're after. You have not been deprived of it.

New comment by soerxpso in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

soerxpso — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:51:32 +0000

Are they claiming that the only value in solving these problems was for their field's personal development process? I thought Navier-Stokes (and some of the other millenium prize problems) actually had implications for useful technology. It would be insane to demand that people avoid making progress on technology that can save lives or improve general quality of life, just to protect the sanctity of your karate belt system. Perhaps in lieu of open problems left to solve, mathematicians should be welcome to take up chess or sudoku to keep their minds spry.

New comment by soerxpso in "iPhone Duo"

soerxpso — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:16:17 +0000

Many people (possibly a majority) use their phone for most of their computing, and perhaps a tablet to stream movies/tv. They use a laptop or desktop for work only, and see those as frustrating and clunky devices. There could be a lot of demand for "phone, but with a tablet screen when I want to watch Netflix" from the segment of the population that has zero overlap with people commenting on a tech forum.

New comment by soerxpso in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

soerxpso — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:58:06 +0000

Your example rewritten in intelligent English (I was curious):

> Note: the potential for a console freeze was previously noted but ignored. handoff-4.3-done.html stated, "could not break console, but [will need fixed later if I'm wrong]."

One could imagine that a perfect writer might also append: "It could be worth looking into what caused that wrong assumption, to prevent similar cases in the future," at most.

Everything else seems to be bad attempts at relatable writing to invoke emotion (an exercise that we should really stop trying to train emotionless matrix weights to attempt).

New comment by soerxpso in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

soerxpso — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:34:48 +0000

A data center allows the website you're whining on to function. If they're really as inconsequential to your life as you're implying, maybe you should boycott them by not using any websites or apps that rely on a data center to function.