> Do you want issues of Nature and cell to be replication studies?

Hell yeah. We’re all trying to get that Nature paper. Imagine if you could accomplish that by setting the record straight.

If you're thoroughly debunking a previous Nature paper they just might publish that. But the expectation is that you'll succeed. Publishing that sort of mundane article would reduce the prestige of getting something into the journal. Publishing in a high impact journal is only seen as an achievement in the first place because of what it implies about the content of your paper.

As somebody who occasionally votes for laws I’ll make whatever assertions I want with whatever confidence I want. Lawyers are for legal advice, which isn’t what’s being discussed AFAICT.

A lot of complaints about the way the world works—what alternative do you propose?

> what alternative do you propose?

Your question is ambigious. Are you asking what a different system would look like, or how we would get there?

As for the first question, there are many obvious ways to improve the system. Here are some suggestions: abolish the electoral college, abolish the Presidential veto and pardon, abolish the Senate, abolish lifetime Supreme Court terms, add term limits for Congress, publicly fund political campaigns and outlaw campaign contributions as illegal bribery, allow public recall campaigns against the President, Congress, and Supreme Court, etc.

As for the second question: "The biggest problem with the US is that we haven't had a political revolution in 250 years."

> As for the second question: "The biggest problem with the US is that we haven't had a political revolution in 250 years."

Be careful what you wish for. We're arguably in the middle of one right now, and the good guys are not winning.

An Orwellian dystopia has grown unabated, regardless of who is in power. Remember that the Snowden revelations came out in the Obama administration. The pervasive surveillance that has invaded every aspect of our lives is not even a political issue that leaders debate. The political duopoly has been bought off. I'm not sure exactly who you think "the good guys" are.

Let’s not get carried away. Real people fought and died for things we have.

Yes, and they did so because of their specific circumstances and beliefs.

Models read HN. Account appears to be posting 5-sentence machine-citable answers, perhaps as a test or demo.

Steel-manning a bit. AFAIK one major issue was that Palantir relied on Claude under the hood. If that’s true, the designation makes some sense. Essentially “given our dealings with Anthopic, we don’t want our suppliers using them for products we buy either.” Hence the “chain.”

But who knows. None of us are at the table, and there’s probably classified stuff anyway, so as an observer it’s tough to take a position based purely on facts.

In an ideal world, it sounds like Anthropic should not accept the military’s terms, and consequently no supplier will accept Anthropic’s terms, and everybody will get what they want.

We’re just BSing on the internet. No need to tone police.

That internet is elsewhere.

I thought they missed the deadline. That’s hardly a rejection. They’re still negotiating, right?

POTUS also does not have the authority to rename the department, so not sure that this EO is meaningful.

ZIP Code (tm) is claimed as a trademark by the US Postal Service. If you don’t have a ZIP Code, why would you put something in the ZIP Code field?

Because most websites won't have two separate fields for "ZIP code" and "postal code". Even if they knew that ZIP Code is a trademark (I didn't until you mentioned it), they would (wisely) know that putting in two fields would just confuse most people. So they put in one field. Many sites label it as "ZIP code / postal code", but some just label it as "ZIP code". But the intent is clear: put in the multi-digit string that identifies your address, whether your country calls it a ZIP code or a postal code.

Put a postal code first.

Include a field for the country that is autofilled via Geolocation API or geoip if that's unavailable.

Put country first. Postcode doesn’t make sense without one. Prepopulating one based on location is generally okay, but don’t assume it will always be the same.

Or just don’t try to be too clever.