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by alance | 2025-09-17 13:31:48+00:00
I'm wondering how access controls play into this.

Team A manages VPCs and Security groups, for example.

Team B manages autoscaling groups, EC2, etc.

It's great that now the two teams can look after their own things and not be too worried about resource contention with the other team. But if it's a centralized Postgres database (as you seem to be suggesting?) and both teams have write access to it...

How do we prevent teams from making changes to stuff that isn't "theirs" ?

And if the answer is "well this team only has IAM access to resources xyz", well then might it be a little tricky to represent the Stategraph DAG permission boundaries in IAM policy?

(ps: huge fan of terrateam's offerings -- Alex from tfstate.com)
by cm2187 | 2025-09-17 13:32:06+00:00
I read the apple’s response is a foldable which will cost $2000. I did queue in front of the apple store many years ago. But there is no way these days I will spend that kind of money for functionalities I don’t use. Even an iphone 12 mini is an overkill for what I do. I think I will stash a couple of 13 mini. That will give me a good 8 years!
by amelius | 2025-09-17 13:32:39+00:00
> You need to see it from their perspective. "huge step behind" is better than "we have nothing, let's just die".

Yes but that doesn't answer the question of how they got so close to nvidia.

> It could also happen that all their DUV investment allows them to discover a valuable DUV-derived tech tree branch that the west hasn't discovered yet.

But why wouldn't the west discover that same branch but now for EUV?

> Results are at least good enough that Huawei can produce 7nm-5nm-ish phones and sell them at profit.

Sidenote, I'd love to see some photos and an analysis of the quality of their process.
by johndhi | 2025-09-17 13:32:42+00:00
>America has slowed the speed of Chinese AI development by a tiny number of years, if that, in return for losing total domination of the GPU market.

I'm open to considering the argument that banning exports of a thing creates a market incentive for the people impacted by the ban to build aa better and cheaper thing themselves, but I don't think it's as black and white as you say.

If the only ingredient needed to support massive innovation and cost cutting is banning exports, wouldn't we have tons of examples of that happening already - like in Russia or Korea or Cuba? Additionally, even if the sale of NVIDIA H100s weren't banned in China, doesn't China already have a massive incentive to throw resources behind creating competitive chips?

I actually don't really like export bans, generally, and certainly not long-term ones. But I think you (and many other people in the public) are overstating the direct connection between banning exports of a thing and the affected country generating a competing or better product quickly.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-17 13:32:44+00:00
Traditional computing = Reliable results at low cost

AI = Questionable results at high cost

The litmus test: Would you put AI in charge of your personal finances? Would you want your bank to do this?

If the answer is no, why put AI in charge of your company's finances?

https://thefintechtimes.com/ai-failures-can-happen-in-financ...

https://visiweal.com/ai-mistakes-in-banking/
by seec | 2025-09-17 13:32:44+00:00
You can, as some explained but the problem is mostly the UI.

Apple has always been a bit crazy about removing anything that could appear complex to its user, because it thinks they are fools and idiotic. So, you have to use a stupid shortcut instead of having generally available UI. The funny thing is that they still have an option to display path as breadcrumbs, so you basically get to display the same thing without the functionality.

There are some things I really like in the Finder (like Miller Columns) there are a lot of stupid decisions (that have increased over the years) in an attempt to make it "simpler". But it ends up being mostly good for looks and a pain in the ass for actually getting shit done.

I think Apple has drifted too much to the "common man" (at least the representation they have of it) because of the iPhone. This has made them try to "simplify" everything when their niche market previously was "power users" (the only ones crazy enough to spend that much on their computers).

It's a bad bet because the "common man" just goes with the flow and buy what's popular, looks good and give status. They can go from hero to zero very fast, just like Nokia did, I think they are too arrogant to realize that.
by rlander | 2025-09-17 13:32:58+00:00
That’s not a small cycle count for a normal household. 90 × 24 = 2,160 total hours.

I sous vide now and then, about twice a week for 6 hours each, so around 12 hours a week. That works out to roughly 15 years of usable machine time for the average person.

Not bad at all.
by jonp888 | 2025-09-17 13:34:12+00:00
The EU Commission is a group of permanent employees who sit in an office and write reports, administer projects and draft legislation. They have no voting rights. They are organised into departments, each headed by a politically appointed Commissioner.

Your country has an identical group of people with a similar role who you also do not vote for, organised in just the same way.

For some reason it's only "undemocratic" when the EU does it, even though literally every country in the world has some kind of permanent establishment of administrators and no country could function without them.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-17 13:34:25+00:00
Here is where you would generally cite sources. [1] Those are the data from the BLS. Total transport spending per household is $13,174. The term they use is consumer unit, which you may have conflated with consumer/person, but it's practically the same as household. There are 134m consumer units, and 131m households.

Waymo is currently charging substantially more than Lyft/Uber and is not profitable. Human drivers can taxi in anything with 4 wheels and a hood, and its 100% their responsibility to take care of their vehicle, fuel it, clean it, and so on. Each Waymo currently costs ~$200,000 and is going to have a proportionally higher maintenance costs, and all of those costs must be covered by Google. So their costs are far higher than you're ballparking.

As for competition - Tesla has already launched a live robotaxi trial in Austin, so it's already here.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cesan.pdf
by duxup | 2025-09-17 13:34:44+00:00
And potentially friends, family, kids?

I've always wondered, if you can't hack your main target's phone, but their kid has an old iPhone you can hack and maybe bug (let's just say you can for the argument's sake), you sure as hell do it right?

Scary thought but I think it's reasonable to be concerned that not just a given sensitive target is directly at risk, but those around them as well.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-17 13:34:54+00:00
> The main purpose of space flight has always been to put spy satellites and nuclear weapons into orbit.

All US spy satellites are under the NRO:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office

Positioning nuclear weapons in space is not allowed per treaty that US ratified:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

Branches of the DOD run ICBMs.

Further NASA was put in charge of all space activities except "activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems, military operations, or the defense", which went to the DOD (Section 102):

* https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-72/pdf/STATUTE-7...

So all military "space flight" is explicitly not with-in NASA's purview.
by lenkite | 2025-09-17 13:35:06+00:00
> "Am I using the correct language runtime distribution (or version thereof) so I don't get into legal trouble?" Is a question none of Java's competitors have to ask.

Umm..sorry, but this is just sheer nonsense. There are many commercial Python distributions like ActiveState ActivePython, Anaconda Enterprise, etc that you need to pay for.

If you download and use their prebuilt ActivePython installer without a proper license in a commercial setting, you’re breaching a contract and will get into legal trouble.

> This is a problem/risk I don't have to worry about with any other language,

No, you most certainly DO have to worry about this in many other languages which offer commercial support offerings. (Python/C++/Perl/NodeJS,etc)

> Even using OpenJDK is a sword of damocles waiting to fall.

Just a plain, bald-faced lie.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-17 13:35:23+00:00
Yeah, nonsense, bullshit, whatever you want to call it. Actual pedos will trivially bypass Chat Control by switching to a messaging service that doesn't enforce it, or even by sending encrypted ZIP files via any ordinary messaging service.

> silk road was only busted because the guy had his http proxy responding on the VPS's IP and not just the tor eth

Does this justify every browser reporting every URL you visit to the government, and implementing a government-controlled blocklist of URLs on the off chance that a criminal might use Chrome for their criminal activity?
by alephnerd | 2025-09-17 13:35:37+00:00
The median Chinese in 2025 is also much poorer (edit: and much older [2] and less educated [3]) than the median Japanese in the 1980s or 1990s.

China has built a successful tech pipeline, but it doesn't translate to significant prosperity in a country where median disposable household incomes are around $400/mo [0] - much lower than their peers in Thailand [1]. And China's HDI only caught up with Thailand's over the past 2-3 years, and China's GDP per capita has been stagnant for 4 financial years now.

This does NOT imply Chinese collapse, but it does highlight real issues that exist with the China story.

From a power projection perspective, China has capabilities that very few nations have and can tie with the US, but that has not translated to mass prosperity in the way growth in 1970s and 1980s Japan did. It is still an open question about whether or not China "Japanifies" or not.

China is now at a crossroads, similar to what South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia faced in the 1990s.

As long as the Xi admin remains avowedly opposed to what he termed "Welfarism" ("福利主义典范国家，中产塌陷、贫富分化、社会撕裂、民粹喧嚣，这不乏警示— 防止落入“福利主义”养懒汉陷阱"), Chinese growth will sputter.

[0] - https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202501/t202501...

[1] - https://www.nso.go.th/nsoweb/storage/survey_detail/2023/2023...

[2] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/median-age

[3] - https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/msch/CHN+JPN/?levels=1+...
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-17 13:35:40+00:00
FWIW, I'm using an X13 for some standard gaming, but mostly VR and it performs as advertised for about a year and half now. I'd have sent it back immediately if it stuttered every 30 sec with cracking sound.

I won't defend Asus, they have a crowd of skeletons in the closet and need to pay more attention to feedback, I'm just saying there will be a set of use cases were issues won't be plagging the experience.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-17 13:35:55+00:00
> Do submarines swim?

It doesn't matter HOW LLMs "swim" as long as they can, but the point being raised is whether they actually can.

It's as if LLMs can swim in the ocean, in rough surf, but fail to swim in rivers or swimming pools, because they don't have a generalized ability to swim - they've just been RL-trained on the solution steps to swimming in surf, but since those exact conditions don't exist in a river (which might seem like a less challenging environment), they fail there.

So, the question that might be asked is when LLMs are trained to perform well in these vertical domains like math and programming, where it's easy to verify results and provide outcome- or process-based RL rewards, are they really learning to reason, or are they just learning to pattern match to steer generation in the direction of problem-specific reasoning steps that they had been trained on?

Does the LLM have the capability to reason/swim, or is it really just an expert system that has been given the rules to reason/swim in certain cases, but would need to be similarly hand fed the reasoning steps to be successful in other cases?

I think the answer is pretty obvious given that LLM's can't learn at runtime - can't try out some reasoning generalization they may have arrived at, find that it doesn't work in a specific case, then explore the problem and figure it out for next time.

Given that it's Demis Hassabis who it pointing out this deficiency of LLMs (and has a 5-10 year plan/timeline to fix it - AGI), not some ill-informed LLM critic, it seems silly to deny it.
by robertlagrant | 2025-09-17 13:36:02+00:00
> It will remember all your activities, help you find your keys and objects, remember what you bought when and if there's still toilet paper in your bathroom, etc. It will make helpful charts and statistics about your life, help to optimize it, notice if there is some product that it wants to advertise to you based on your activities etc. It's all going to be packaged and sold to ad networks. You will see AR ad objects floating everywhere, depending on what you do.

Presumably only if you wear it.
by Sharlin | 2025-09-17 13:36:36+00:00
Um, there are the cases new == old and new > old. And all the more specific cases new == old + n. I haven’t seen the code so this is just speculation, but there are plenty of ways how an unexpected, "can never happen" comparison result causes immediate UB because there’s no execution path to handle it, causing garbage to be returned from a function (and if that garbage was supposed to be a pointer, well…) or even execution never hitting a `ret` and just proceeding to execute whatever is next in memory.

Another super easy way to enter UB land by assuming an integer is nonnegative is array indexing.

int foo[5] = { … } foo[i % 5] = bar;

Everything is fine as long as i isn’t negative. But if it is… (note that negative % positive == negative in C)
by catigula | 2025-09-17 13:36:52+00:00
Slowing AI development by even one month is essentially infinite slowness in terms of superintelligence development. It's a kill-shot, a massive policy success.

Lost months are lost exponentially and it becomes impossible to catch up. If this policy worked at all, let alone if it worked as you describe, this was a masterstroke of foreign policy.

This isn't merely my opinion, experts in this field feel superintelligence is at least possible, if not plausible. This is a massively successful policy is true, and, if it's not, little is lost. You've made a very strong case for it.
by wantering | 2025-09-17 13:37:09+00:00
What it does:

IP Location Lookup: Fetches geolocation and ISP data for any IP address or domain.

Ping Test: Executes a ping command to a host and returns the results, perfect for quick connectivity checks.

Instead of tabbing out to a terminal or browser, you can now ask your AI assistant (like Claude) to run these checks for you while you're coding or debugging a network issue.
by izacus | 2025-09-17 13:37:30+00:00
I think the result of a referendum that would pose a question

"Do you want law enforcement to be allowed access to your private messages when investigating child molesters or would you like to listen to folks who put furry teen girls in front of their websites?"

would have results that you certanly wouldn't like. And they'd be democratic.

So perhaps before calling something undemocratic, first make sure that the majority of voters actually agree with you.
by hollerith | 2025-09-17 13:37:48+00:00
That's not an effective reply to GP because during the process GP describes ("Massive economic growth -> . . .") Japan has enjoyed complete freedom to engage in ocean shipping and ocean trade unless perhaps you want to argue that the knowledge that this freedom to trade could stop at any time (e.g., because of a new world war) prevented Japanese decision makers from making full use of ocean trade.

Also, China would not have been able to rise anywhere near as high as it has without intensive use of ocean trade.

In other words, although national economic independence matters a lot, it matters only in specialized circumstances, namely, war that is not restricted to only a few countries, but rather spreads to cover large areas of ocean; Washington's deciding to stop policing the world ocean; or Washington's deciding to stop enforcing a policy of freedom of shipping and freedom of ocean trade for every nation (modulo US sanctions).
by dwallin | 2025-09-17 13:37:55+00:00
Very much agree with this. Looking at the dimensionality of a given problem space is a very helpful heuristic when analyzing how likely an llm is going to be suitable/reliable for that task. Consider how important positional encodings are LLM performance. You also then have an attention model that operates in that 1-dimensional space. With multidimensional data significant transformations to encode into a higher dimensional abstraction needs to happen within the model itself, before the model can even attempt to intelligently manipulate it.
by cluckindan | 2025-09-17 13:37:56+00:00
Let’s start with something simple, like difference().

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/main/dist/lodash.js#L7...

So you also need to copy isArrayLikeObject, baseDifference and baseFlatten.

For baseDifference, you also need to copy arrayMap and baseUnary.

For baseFlatten, you also need to copy arrayPush.

For isArrayLikeObject, you also need to copy isArrayLike and isObjectLike.

For isArrayLike, you also need to copy isLength and isFunction.

For isFunction, you also need to copy isObject and baseGetTag.

For baseGetTag, you also need to copy getRawTag and objectToString.

I don’t have time to dig any deeper, just use tree-shaking ffs.
by hvb2 | 2025-09-17 13:38:00+00:00
> Crime of genocide has nothing to do with numbers.

It does, not in absolute sense put in percentages. Also, besides weapons of mass destruction you cannot commit genocide in a day on a population this big. It's the persistence that does it.

No one ever called 9/11 genocide either right?

> You haven't heard any pro-Palestinian protests and their various supporters?

I mean in this thread, obviously. You want to own all of the stuff coming out of ben gvir and smotrich? Because if you do, we can settle the genocide discussion right here.

> Moving refugees from one camp to another may be warranted to solve serious security issues

So as soon as you've invaded an area and created the refugees you can push them wherever you want?

We're not talking about Israel pushing refugees out of their country.

And finally, where are they supposed to go, and how?
by mark_l_watson | 2025-09-17 13:38:00+00:00
Short answers: dollar dominance and market access leverage.

The argument for benefits of US economic power are clear. Less clear is military power:

The Plaza Accord was framed as cooperation among G5 allies. But in practice U.S. security guarantees gave it disproportionate influence. Japan, for example, had little independent military capability, so its security reliance on the U.S. translated into willingness to accept U.S. economic pressure.
by account42 | 2025-09-17 13:38:17+00:00
Well from an evil business perspective their options are either

- the product doesn't break and you don't buy a replacement from them because you still have a working product

- the product breaks and there is a greater than 0% chance that you will buy a replacement product from them

Of course in practice it's more complicated but I wouldn't be so quick to declare that the math doesn't work out.
by mikepurvis | 2025-09-17 13:38:29+00:00
Thanks for the heads up on this. I've been a fan of PG's since reading the plan for spam essay in high school, and was a very early reddit user after he boosted it (join date Nov 2005). I have several friends who did YC at various points and was always a bit bummed that my career/life took a different direction and I didn't get the chance.

Anyway, I appreciate seeing his humanity on this, and in particular that he's not down the same hole of moral bankruptcy as Zuck, Thiel, Musk, and others in the SV ruling class.
by a4isms | 2025-09-17 13:39:00+00:00
I think everything you're saying about the difference between school shootings and NPM supply chain attacks is correct, but at the same time "You made a joke about why A is like B, but here's why A and B are actually different, therefore the joke is not funny" is not persuasive. Comedy does not need to be rigorous, the person you're replying to is not arguing that supply chain attacks are like school shootings, therefore open source programmers should do active shooter drills. That would be fallacious reasoning.

It's literally just a joke. If it tickles your fancy, it works for you. If you get lost in the weeds of comparing the socio-political mechanisms of open source to guns, or note that supply chain attacks happen to other package managers, the joke won't work for you.

I assure you, it works just fine for me even though yes I think it would be ridiculous to claim there's anything more to the comparison than, "This thing keeps happening, nobody thinks doing anything about it is worth the bother, so look at that, it keeps happening."
by jangxx | 2025-09-17 13:39:03+00:00
Why are you so mad at me, I'm not even the OP you should ask these questions. I'm also not convinced we need regulation like this in the first place, so I can't tell you where this boundary should be, but a boundary could certainly be found and it would be beyond simple spellchecking autocorrect.

I also don't understand why you think this would be so impossible to define. There are regulations for all kinds of areas where specific things are targeted like chemicals or drugs and just because some of these have incentivized people to slightly change a regulated thing into an unregulated thing does not mean we don't regulate these areas at all. So how are AI systems so different that you think it'd be impossible to find an adequate definition?
by lenkite | 2025-09-17 13:39:12+00:00
Oracle JDK offers LTS support with regular security patches and critical bug fixes, even for older LTS releases. (More than a decade plus, I believe, but need to check)

OpenJDK community builds usually only provide updates until the next release (6 months).

Oracle offers paid commercial support contracts: guaranteed patch timelines, 24/7 enterprise support, performance issue troubleshooting, and compliance assurance.

You can also built features atop the Oracle JDK and still get support. SAPJVM does this for instance - hot debugging as a feature.
by doodaddy | 2025-09-17 13:39:47+00:00
As an Olympus shooter this is good to know.

But good gravy that troubleshooting path got expensive real fast. Replacing the laptop and the camera? Why not start by trying something other than Photos? It doesn’t even need to be a paid product; the Olympus software is free not to mention a good baseline since it - of all the applications - should be able to import photos without corrupting them.

Edit to add: delete on import seems pretty risky. My workflow is to import and only delete from the camera after 1) the imported photos are backed up 2) I’ve done a first pass culling.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-17 13:40:28+00:00
> a week before that podcast, a well known study was released that showed that 95% of new LLM/AI corporate projects were fails.

I mean. I think some of us knew this. There's a lot of issues with AI, some psychological, some are risk adverse individuals who would love to save hours, weeks, months, maybe years of time with AI, but if AI screws up, its bad, really bad, legal hell bad, unless you have a model with a 100% success rate for the task, it wont be used in certain fields.

I think in the more creative fields its very useful, since hallucinations are okay, its when you try to get realistic / look reasonably realistic (in the case of cartoons) that it gets iffy. Even so though, who wants to pay the true cost of AI? There's a big uphill cost involved.

It reminds me a lot of crypto mining, mostly because you need an insane amount to invest into before you become profitable.