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by mangoman | 2025-05-29 01:11:06+00:00
I'm not a lawyer or even close to it, but why wouldn't the trump admin use the tariff act of 1930? quote:

"Whenever the President shall find as a fact that any foreign country places any burden or disadvantage upon the commerce of the United States by any of the unequal impositions or discriminations aforesaid, he shall, when he finds that the public interest will be served thereby, by proclamation specify and declare such new or additional rate or rates of duty as he shall determine will offset such burden or disadvantage, not to exceed 50 per centum ad valorem or its equivalent, on any products of, or on articles imported in a vessel of, such foreign country"

it does cap it at 50%, but I mean it seems like a much easier way to justify the tariff. is there something else about it that isn't as practical (other than being almost 100 years old)
by wat10000 | 2025-05-29 01:11:20+00:00
I think you're agreeing with me. The problems listed as something that a halt detector can be "trivially repurposed" for are problems that a normal CPU can also be trivially repurposed for (ignoring the issue of execution time), and my understanding is that normal CPUs are not impossible. The halting problem is different because it is provably impossible even with unlimited resources unless you're somehow able to make something more capable than a Turing machine.
by abeppu | 2025-05-29 01:11:33+00:00
How about Argentine ants?

The word "civilization" is of course loaded. But I think the bigger questionable assumption is that intelligence is the limiting factor. Looking at the history that got us to having a globe-spanning civilization, the actual periods of expansion were often pretty awful for a lot of the people affected. Individual actors are often not aligned with building such a civilization, and a great deal of intelligence is spent on conflict and resisting the creation of the larger/more connected world.

Could a comparatively dumb species with different social behaviors, mating and genetic practices take over their planet simply by all actors actually cooperating? Suppose an alien species developed in a way that made horizontal gene transfer super common, and individuals carry material from most people they're ever met. Would they take over their planet really fast because as soon as you land on a new continent, everyone you meet is effectively immediately your sibling, and of course you'll all cooperate?
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-05-29 01:11:54+00:00
Look at that in the organizations - businesses, nonprofit, and governmental systems we build.

No one person can build even a single modern pencil - as Friedman said, consider the iron mines where the steel was dug up to make the saws to cut the wood, and then realize you have to also get graphite, rubber, paints, dyes, glues, brass for the ferrule, and so on. Consider the enormous far greater complexity in a major software program - we break it down and communicate in tokens the size of Jira tickets until big corporations can write an operating system.

A business of 1,000 employees is not 1,000 times as smart as a human, but by abstracting its aims into a bureacracy that combines those humans together, it can accomplish tasks that none of them could achieve on their own.
by andoando | 2025-05-29 01:12:08+00:00
I'm not sure what were arguing to be honest. You definitely don't need to understand Turing machines to understand how computers work, and certainly not how to do programming.

But as far as understanding computer science, computational theory, etc certainly you'd want to study Turing machines and lambda calculus. If you were say, writing a programming language, it would be nice to understand the fundamentals.

I mean, I don't think Turing machines or Lambda calculus are even that far removed to call them completely theoretical. You can easily implement a few functions in lambda calculus that already resemble modern programming interfaces.
by krapp | 2025-05-29 01:12:23+00:00
To be fair, it's hard to argue that they voted for anything but this government, given that everything in Project 2025 is part of the Trumpist and right-wing agenda, and given the numerous links between Project 2025 and Trump's administration, and given his known history of dishonesty.

I mean, we have two options here - one is that voters memory-holed the last eight years and had never even heard of Donald Trump until like a year ago and believed he was an honest an sincere man of character... or they voted for exactly the thing everyone said was going to happen to happen and are only disappointed because the consequences weren't what they expected. They didn't think the leopards would actually eat their faces.

And now they're pretending like they're shocked that Trump would do such terrible things, just like they were shocked that Trump would have anything to do with January 6th... after the consequences of that weren't what they expected, either.
by arh68 | 2025-05-29 01:12:25+00:00
What do I picture? 2D pieces, to be honest. Computer chess is just so prevalent. I picture what I'd call "USCF style" [1] because that's what they'd use in the Chess Life magazine to annotate games. I also picture the "old style" pieces [2], used in other periodicals & some books (especially puzzles).

I bet a lot of people picture the default set on Chess dot com. I find it very hard to adjust to new sets, for whatever reason.

As far as real pieces, I picture plastic pieces & vinyl board. Either what I'd call the "triple-weighted set" [3] (my favorite), the plastic "Dreuke set" [4], or the "basic USCF set" [5].

I had no idea there were so many variations, especially in the last 100 years. Most I've never seen before. I still dislike the real abstract/bauhaus style but there's a lot of artistry in the sets.

[1] on lichess, it's called "companion"

[2] on lichess, it's called "leipzig"

[3] https://www.chessset.com/collections/weighted-chess-pieces-h...

[4] Player's Choice, like https://www.wholesalechess.com/reproduction-of-the-drueke-pl...

[5] https://www.uscfsales.com/single-weighted-regulation-plastic...
by danielhanchen | 2025-05-29 01:14:08+00:00
Oh you can still run them unquantized! See https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/llama-4-how-to-run-and-fine-t... where we show you can offload all MoE layers to system RAM, and leave non MoE layers on the GPU - the speed is still pretty good!

You can do it via `-ot ".ffn_.*_exps.=CPU"`
by CobaltFire | 2025-05-29 01:14:12+00:00
As an ex-Sub RO, specifically during the 2000's in Pearl Harbor:

Yeah, this sounds 100% true. I could have typed this, and at one point I was one of those bringing a bottle underway (though I was never drunk on watch; it was due to our ports having no alcohol). Honestly given how alcoholic half the crew was if there wasn't alcohol onboard (just to stop the withdrawals) the boat probably would have had to cancel the underway.

I can say that by the time I retired (2023) it was nothing like that. The ERB's in the 2011 timeframe wiped out an absolute TON of manpower but it did have the desired effect of destroying that culture almost immediately. Anyone with even a hint of alcohol issues in their record was sent packing with no recourse.

Prior to those ERB's the running joke was you had to have a DUI to be promoted to Chief. After that a DUI was not technically disqualifying, but was in reality a career ending event. Overnight things went to a culture of being afraid of doing anything that could get you caught out by a future ERB if you escaped that one.

It also caused the manpower issues we see now though, resulting in the manning shortfalls that are most critical in 7th Fleet. That fleet sees the worst shortfalls because it is the one that requires people to live overseas (Japan and Guam), which can be a hard sell. On top of that the deployment cycle has a far higher optempo; generally I spent 60-70% of a given tour on deployments. The rest of the Navy sees between 35% and 40% (outside of SOCOM commands). There's an ongoing impression that you have 7th Fleet Sailor's, then the rest of the Navy, as the Sailor's who like 7th Fleet don't want to go elsewhere and the rest of the Navy has no desire to join them.

Note: I was a 7th Fleet Sailor for most of my career; that stint in Pearl Harbor was the only Sea Duty I did outside of there.
by sampullman | 2025-05-29 01:14:35+00:00
I wish I had hard evidence to show because my normal instinct would be similar to yours, but in this case I'm a total Playwright convert.

Part of it might be that Playwright makes it much easier to write and organize complex tests. But for that specific project, it was as close to a 1 to 1 conversion as you get, the speedup came without significant architectural changes.

The original reason for switching was flaky tests in CI that were taking way too much effort to fix over time, likely due to oddities in Cypress' command queue. After the switch, and in new projects using Playwright, I haven't had to deal with any intermittent flakiness.
by chneu | 2025-05-29 01:14:46+00:00
No way major corps will lower prices.

Just like during covid they'll find excuses. Until a regulatory body investigates them for price fixing nothing will change. So nothing will change.

During covid, the soda companies kept raising prices. They claimed supply chain. Then, I think it was the SEC(probably wrong), stepped in and said "We're gonna investigate ya for price fixing" and suddenly soda prices went back down.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-29 01:14:47+00:00
> I also hate the concept of a "trade court". Where the fuck were you for the past 400 years?

You’re describing a court whose history traces closer to the founding of our republic than to the present day [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Inter...
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-05-29 01:14:56+00:00
While things like git submodules have problems, are they not sort of the best of both worlds camp?

I never quite got the arguments/grumblings about this stuff but perhaps I do not understand what friction people are hitting up agains. It feels to me the problems of multiple repositories is the same problem of having to manage versions of dependencies like in pip or something that you do not even own.

Perhaps people are using tools that mean they are not able to search/click through their multi repo setup even though the code connects?
by voxelghost | 2025-05-29 01:15:00+00:00
>OK, so your social security number is your "digital address", and the post office has a database of everyone's current address.'

No, not really, Yu-ID is not the same as the My-ID (akin to social security number). So you wont have to reveal your social security to your taxi driver etc. if that was what you worried about.

>If you move you still need to notify them, although perhaps in Japan big brother already knows you've moved.

Yes you would have to change the physical address for your Yu-ID, but you don't need to tell all your acquaintances to update their greeting-card address list ( they can still send to the same Yu-ID)

Another case might be that you are temporarily living at a 'summer-residence' , or that work takes you to a new locations for months at the time.
by gwern | 2025-05-29 01:15:31+00:00
Thanks for checking. It sounds like the C compiler isn't doing a great job here of 'seeing through' the logic gate operations and compiling them down to something closer to optimal machine code. Maybe this is an example of how C isn't necessarily great for numerical optimization, or the C compiler is just bailing out of analysis before it can fix it all up.

A fullstrength symbolic optimization framework like a SMT solver might be able to boil the logic gates down into something truly optimal, which would then be a very interesting proof of concept to certain people, but I expect that might be for you an entire project in its own right and not something you could quickly check.

Still, something to keep in mind: there's an interesting neurosymbolic research direction here in training logic gates to try to extract learned 'lottery tickets' which can then be turned into hyper-optimized symbolic code achieving the same task-performance but possibly far more energy-efficient or formally-verifiably.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-29 01:16:14+00:00
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by crazylogger | 2025-05-29 01:16:32+00:00
I don't think it will settle things even if we did manage to train an 1800 LLM with sufficient size.

LLMs are blank slates (like an uncultured primitive human being - albeit LLM comes with knowledge built-in, but builtin knowledge is mostly irrelevant here). LLM output is purely a function of the input (context), so agentic systems' capabilities do not equal underlying LLM's capabilities.

If you ask such an LLM "overturn Newtonian physics, come up with a better theory", of course the LLM won't give you relativity just like that. The same way an uneducated human has no chance of coming up with relativity either.

However, ask it this:

``` You are Einstein ... <omitted: 10 million tokens establishing Einstein's early life and learnings> ... Recent experiments have put these ideas to doubt, ...<another bunch of tokens explaining the Michelson–Morley experiment>... Any idea why this occurs? ```

and provide it with tools to find books, speak with others, run experiments, etc. Conceivably, the result will be different.

Again, we pretty much see this play out in coding agents:

Claude the LLM has no prior knowledge of my codebase so of course it has zero chance of solving a bug in it. Claude 4 is a blank slate.

Claude Code the agentic system can:

- look at a screenshot.

- know what the overarching goal is from past interactions & various documentation it has generated about the codebase, as well as higher-level docs describing the company and products.

- realize the screenshot is showing a problem with the program.

- form hypothesis / ideate why the bug occurs.

- verify hypotheses by observing the world ("the world" to Claude Code is the codebase it lives in, so by "observing" I mean it reads the code).

- run experiments: modify code then run a type check or unit test (although usually the final observation is outsourced to me, so I am the AI's tool as much as the other way around.)
by bdbenton5255 | 2025-05-29 01:16:49+00:00
There is a popular misconception that neural networks accurately model the human brain. It is more a metaphor for neurons than a complete physical simulation of the human brain.

There is also a popular misconception that LLMs are intelligently thinking programs. They are more like models that predict words and appear as a human intelligence.

That being said, it is certainly theoretically possible to simulate human intelligence and scale it up.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-05-29 01:17:14+00:00
I have landed on journal (ordered by timestamp) + occasional topics ("spatial") pattern of blob notes.

Doing topics is too hard initially and you end up hitting some point where you feel like you need to refactor. Doing "journal" dated entries mean you are allowed to copy the entire entry again and rewrite it without thinking about refactoring.

I would imagine that due to the way paper and pen work, in the old days things must have been a bit like this "no erase/no refactor" method.
by rayiner | 2025-05-29 01:17:15+00:00
The Tariff Act of 1930 reflects the duality between the President’s executive power to conduct foreign policy and Congress’s legislative power to set taxes.

Until the early 20th century, tariffs were the primary mechanism for raising federal revenue. So Congress viewed tariffs as a tax, within Congress’s purview. But the 1930 Tariff Act also recognizes that tariffs are also a tool of foreign policy, which is within the President’s purview.
by sagarm | 2025-05-29 01:17:40+00:00
This market of people willing to spend thousands to run large LLMs locally -- and still slowly -- has to be tiny.

Plus, there's competitors using AMD CPUs that provide 128GB with 500GB/s of bandwidth (8xDDR5-8000) for just $2K now.[1]

A Mac Studio with an M4 Max has similar bandwidth but costs $4k for similar specs; the M3 Pro has ~800GB/s of bandwidth but 256GB of RAM (there's no 128GB option) and 2TB of SSD will set you back $6k!

[1] https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-ai-max-39...
by refulgentis | 2025-05-29 01:19:58+00:00
Because the very act of being limited is emasculating and wouldn't close trade deficits in non-services, which he erroneously believes are some sort of taking-advantage-of, or at least, sees as an opportunity as a dominance ritual -- which would be utterly mundane, its traditional in autocratic regimes. Other Nations are always taking advantage of Us.

We're in an odd spot in America, whites born here have freedom of speech still, as long as you don't have any economic dependency on anything involving the gov't, but we haven't really had to deal with what goes on in a nation with heliocentric tendencies. So it sounds like an attack to say the above. So it goes.
by twic | 2025-05-29 01:20:28+00:00
It seems to me that between gerrymandering and the filibuster, congress is basically unable to pass normal legislation when either party has a majority. Hence why all sorts of stuff gets passed by budget reconcilation now, because that is exempt from filibustering. And also why the parties are so keen to find creative new ways of effecting change - if they can't pass laws, they can let the president do what he wants, and just not stop him.
by eru | 2025-05-29 01:20:40+00:00
Metaphors are a thing. People can (mostly) tell the difference between a literal war and a metaphorical war.

I say '(mostly)' because while the 'war on Christmas' and WWII are clear cut cases, the war on drugs is an example that sometimes skirts closer to the border. Though it's still very much a metaphorical war.
by rayiner | 2025-05-29 01:21:45+00:00
There are no “attacks on people’s voting rights.” It’s a canard Democrats trot out to energize their base, just like Republicans trot out lies about election fraud. For example, studies show voter ID doesn’t reduce turnout (but also doesn’t reduce fraud). https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18230009/v.... Gerrymandering doesn’t affect the presidential election. But the GOP won the House popular vote by even more than Trump won the Presidential popular vote.

Extensive post-election voter surveys showed that if everyone had voted, Trump would’ve won by 4.8 points: https://www.vox.com/politics/403364/tik-tok-young-voters-202...
by eru | 2025-05-29 01:23:06+00:00
I wish they would replace the debt limit with something more sensibly designed like the German (or Swiss) debt brake ('Schuldenbremse').

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_balanced_budget_amendme...

The American debt limit regularly shuts down the government, but debt still keeps piling up. The German debt brake doesn't seem to shut down the government, but actually lead to a substantial drop in the debt-to-gdp ratio.
by CobaltFire | 2025-05-29 01:23:33+00:00
I'm not sure when you would have served, but it sounds like you had a solid command.

I dealt with things ranging from exactly what the parent said (see my sibling comment to yours), to having to do a medical call away for someone non-responsive being brought across the quarterdeck at 2357 (in 2015; that individual had to get their stomach pumped and an AED administered twice on the way to the hospital in Okinawa). I dealt with any number of drunk at work issues as both a Chief and as a Security Manager (surprise, that's one that will get your clearance impacted). The number of DUI's I dealt with was far down, but the amount of alcohol driven domestic violence that came across my desk was... well that was the main reason I didn't take the civilian position I was offered (as the Security Manager at my final command).
by ggm | 2025-05-29 01:23:43+00:00
I think this is related to why people say the great depression happened slowly and then suddenly: you are actually in the depression long time before unavoidable events overtake the slow pace.

The events in Sri Lanka were semi normalised, much as life in Belfast in the 1970s normalised bomb outrages. People did not flee the city en masse, they just kinda worked around things and pretended it wasn't PTSD central. People didn't flee Sri Lanka if they could work around the collapse of society.

People have normalised living in an economy where your neighbours may disappear with unidentified ICE agents, if somebody thinks they aren't legal, irrespective of paperwork or citizenship. People have normalised having no idea if the court system applies to WH decisions, economic indicators being yo-yo, prices rising, Fox news not reflecting their observed reality, you name it, they've normalised it.
by NoPicklez | 2025-05-29 01:23:57+00:00
Of course it's not phones it's what we use to interact with them such as apps. We haven't always had a problem with apps either, until they became extremely invasive, addictive, ad filled etc. Most apps were once upon a time a positive thing, that primarily drove improved communication, now they're becoming rotten.

We are moving into something new, but lets not forget that primarily apps weren't always as hostile as they are today. The next paradigm shift will likely accompany all of the same hostile behaviors apps have become, perhaps not initially to drive engagement but eventually it will in the same way apps did.
by pathartl | 2025-05-29 01:24:25+00:00
I've been working a lot with older games and a big issue I see is developer discipline.

Take LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II Rise of the Witch King: https://www.regfiles.net/registry/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-...

Not only does it have "Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts", the same game doesn't even follow its own standard!

Surely it's just that one game right? Nope! Here's the Sims 3 https://www.regfiles.net/registry/the-sims-3-steam-registry

And Battlefield 1942 on Origin https://www.regfiles.net/registry/battlefield-1942-ea-origin...

There's also developers that throw everything they can in HKLM when HKCU is almost always more appropriate.

It was also complicated with the introduction of WoW64, and then the introduction of the VirtualStore. Don't get me wrong, segmenting off all of those prevented a ton of potential collisions, but I feel like there's a more elegant way to handle it. Personally, I've been working on writing a library to hook every registry call and read from a text config file instead.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-29 01:24:41+00:00
What evidence do you have for this? The democrats are showing nothing that suggests they will take either chamber of congress. Even if they got control of the house and actually impeached, the results would be no different than the previous 2 impeachments where the senate took no action. Even if they get control of both chambers, they'd have to have an over whelming victory to reach enough seats to secure a conviction since it needs a 2/3 vote.

The current administration is behaving exactly like they know this. They are also boosted by the fact that SCOTUS told essentially told POTUS that he can do whatevs without repercussions. He's even ignoring their direct orders, and still nothing.

You can call me pessimistic, but these are just the facts of the situation. You're optimism is based on what?
by mangoman | 2025-05-29 01:24:47+00:00
I don't think it requires the courts to agree - just that there's a burden or disadvantage and that it's in the "public interest" which seems like a pretty low bar to make up a story that sounds plausible. i think the idea that a trade deficit is a disadvantage is kinda brain dead, but it's plausible sounding enough to argue in court. throw in unequal tariff rates and it seems like an easier win than the IEEPA's emergency justification.