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by Retric | 2025-11-14 23:57:22+00:00
If you want to steel man the argument it’s worth acknowledging that China is also concerned with backdoors in what they import.

> allegations of a future scenario

There’s been plenty of CCP aligned hacking, backdoors, and industrial espionage people can point to. Expecting a bad actor to continue there behavior is a little more than allegations of a future scenario.
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 23:57:25+00:00
portable code is starting to become valued in automotive. In the 8 bit era rewriting for each new modle was a good choice but there days code is too complex and so we need our code to survive longer than the cpus we start with. Often the cpus a car starts with are out of porduction before the model run is done. Car volumes are not big enough to keep a fab open.
by icedchai | 2025-11-14 23:58:20+00:00
The JVM DNS cache "security decision to prevent rebinding attacks" bit me once. I had changed an IP address for one of my systems. A "vendor" I was working with claimed one of their servers could no longer reach mine. I must have a routing problem on my network. This went on-and-on for a week until I finally talked them through running tcpdump and sending me packet captures, then another week to get them to restart their service...
by autoexec | 2025-11-15 00:00:41+00:00
It's perfectly normal for a person to complain about being screwed over even if the person next to him is being screwed even harder. There will always be somebody somewhere who has it worse than you, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't expect better for yourself than what you have, especially in a country like the US where a small number of people with more money than they could ever spend relentlessly exploit others and take from them.

Starting from nothing, it's easy to gain income and then double it, but most people eventually hit a wall and find that they can't improve their circumstances no matter what they do. Our society will conspire against them to keep them in their place. It will lay out traps for them to hold them back. Some of those traps, like payday loans, you might be able to avoid. For other traps, like our healthcare system, you will have to depend on luck to limit the number of times you are caught. Medical expenses are the reason most people in the US fall into bankruptcy.

Wealth inequality, and a lack of social mobility are huge problems in the US. In the "wealthiest nation on Earth" 1 out of every 8 Americans can't make enough money to feed themselves without government assistance, but even for the others it's easy to gain a false sense of comfort where you are well feed and entertained, but still live paycheck to paycheck and don't have savings to protect yourself from sudden unavoidable expenses. 'Today you are fine, but always one bad day from ruin' is not a comfortable way to live.

Americans complain because even though things can always be worse, they should also be better than they are. I hope Americans never stop trying to improve their situation and the situation of those around them.
by daviddever23box | 2025-11-15 00:00:59+00:00
It would be great to have a full Snapdragon X Elite-based box, with working Wi-Fi drivers.

That said, it feels as if the fragmentation in the non-Windows space ends up being worse for non-Intel/AMD platforms, both commercially and from a devrel perspective. Qualcomm and Apple still have the best arm64 platforms above a Raspberry Pi.
by andix | 2025-11-15 00:01:18+00:00
I just don't believe they would be able to roll it out. A lot of messaging services won't implement chat control. If half of the messaging apps are getting blocked, people will get angry.

There will be massive backlash towards EU. Texting is just so embedded to the daily life, if the EU causes inconveniences or trouble with texting, this might create massive anger. It could start off Brexit-like campaigns in some countries.

I'm not saying that it is impossible this is going to be implemented. But I think it's just some bureaucrats dreaming.
by maccard | 2025-11-15 00:01:23+00:00
Sure - they got that key from _somewhere_. The reality is that if a key is being sold for $5, approx $0 will go to the developer - g2a get a cut, payment provider gets a cut, and either the key was bought for a rounding error of that price, or it was cribbed from a humble bundle or something. Yes you technically get a license for the game but none of that money is going to the people who make or fund the development, it’s going to middle men.

In the worst case, people buy the key from a store operated by the developer using a stolen credit card, flip it on g2a for 30% less and then the card owner files a chargeback on the initial purchase. Vendor bans the key, and the key sites just say “ok” and give you a new key under the guise of customer service but in reality it’s to cover the fact that a high number of their products will have that fate. A single chargeback will cost the dev the purchase price plus another $25 from their merchant, which means not only does that purchase net them 0 it costs them money if it was sold by them in the first place.

You might say you’re supporting games by purchasing them but it’s a bit like streaming music - listening to your favourite band on Spotify will net them approx 0, but buying their album on bandcamp will give them a lot. They’ll see as much from Spotify as they will from you pirating it.

The link works on two devices on two browsers for me but here’s another to the same story https://www.pcgamer.com/tinybuild-claims-g2a-sold-450000-wor...
by Krssst | 2025-11-15 00:01:25+00:00
They mostly exist with IoT LTSC being the first one. (well, to some extent, it still has the "two control panels, two context menus, non-deterministic start menu search, hiding scrollbars by default" issues).

But they only sell the second one to regular customers. IoT LTSC is for companies only. Other customers don't deserve respect apparently.
by Xeoncross | 2025-11-15 00:01:27+00:00
Yes, for me I've always pushed the limits of what kinds of memory and cpu usage I can get out of languages. NLP, text conversion, video encoding, image rendering, etc...

Rust beats Go in performance.. but nothing like how far behind Java, C#, or scripting languages (python, ruby, typescript, etc..) are from all the work I've done with them. I get most of the performance of Rust with very little effort a fully contained stdlib/test suite/package manger/formatter/etc.. with Go.
by srameshc | 2025-11-15 00:01:59+00:00
Go is my favorite programming language. I remember when I first found Go and it was because I was using Java back then and learnign Akka framework for concurrent programming . I realized Go was so much less code compared to Java and I could understand it effortlessly. Since then I have been using it very regularly but still I don't feel I am good at this language. But it helps me get the work done. Cheers to the 16th anniversary of Go.
by vladgur | 2025-11-15 00:02:19+00:00
I wish more people were upfront with the truth like you are. A very sensible interpretation of your words is

a) All land between Jordan river and mediterranean sea should be called Palestine

b) only Arabs are natives of that lands.

Here b) is plainly wrong -- Both arabs and jews continuously lived in that area for hundreds and for Jews -- thousands -- of years. and a) implies that the state of Israel does not have a right to exist.

This basically a two sentence version of "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" slogan where its clear that we are not talking about West Bank and Gaza, but rather the entire land including Israel.

THanks for clarifying it
by georgeecollins | 2025-11-15 00:02:47+00:00
>> GDP is a meaningless measure for all but governments and the very elite.

Source?

The top three GDP per capita are: Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Bermuda. The bottom three are: Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sedan. As an average person I would rather live in the top countries of the list than the bottom but that's just anecdote.
by AMDAnon | 2025-11-15 00:03:02+00:00
The MBAs have always been in charge to an extent.

But the real issue is we don't want to invest in beating Nvidia on quality. Otherwise we wouldn't be doing stock buybacks and instead use the money on poaching engineers.

The mindset is that we maintain a comfortable second place by creating a shittier but cheaper product. That is how AMD has operated since 1959 as a second source to Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. It's going to remain the strategy of the company indefinitely with Nvidia. Attempting to become better would cost too much.

> Sounds like the AMD board needs to get their heads out of their asses and shake up leadership.

Knocking out Lisa Su would be stupid, since she has the loyalty of the whole company and is generally competent.

What they should do is bump TC by 60-70% and simultaneously lay off 50% of the engineers. Or phase in the same over a longer period of time. The company is full of people that do nothing because we've paid under market for so long. That's fine when competing against Intel, it's not acceptable when competing against Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia.

Lisa Su is the only CEO in the S&P500 who can get away with mass layoffs and still have the loyalty of the rest of the employees.
by CMay | 2025-11-15 00:04:07+00:00
The dollar value of the assembly lines isn't as important as the scale and architecture of the information that has to move.

I could see scenarios where there is a high level of variability on the line and it requires a very large machine learning model to process the many possible variations, so maybe you send a realtime video feed or still images to a server and try to optimize for the fastest response time rather than paying to run all that compute at each station. Maybe you're doing this for 5000 stations.

You can also imagine small instructions needing to arrive with very low latency where bandwidth isn't the issue really and straight line of sight wireless should presumably be the lowest latency.

Neither of those problems require or justify Huawei anything and those are not likely to be most factories.

> Its a question of leveraging future infrstructure for productivity and improving living standards. As for espionage and hacking that was stillthere even with dialup modems and fax machines.

You don't improve the lives of future generations in your country by letting an adversary control your infrastructure. That is easy. Why would you even consider that? There's a list of priorities. You aren't starting at the top.

> Regarding countries using their leverage via multicorps abroad

No doubt, people should always push back against any companies proven to be doing things that are problematic. It doesn't only apply to countries. Still, I restate my point about trust. A lot of these companies (and countries) legitimately care about their reputations, not only because a destroyed reputation can hurt their profits (if you believe that's all they care about, which is very cynical), but because many people would rather do the right thing than the wrong thing if given the choice.

Sometimes these organizations are so big, they don't even know all the details about what's happening at the ground level until it gets reported on by 3rd parties.

In terms of US government influence over networks, the US government is structured very differently. In the US, it's a national tradition to not excessively trust the government, because the history of the world says that's a bad idea. If the US abuses its trust to a critical degree, it can face pushback in a real way that isn't even allowed in China. I believe in the feedback mechanism loop within the US more than what China has, by far.

Your argument comes across very empty to me in this regard.
by quesera | 2025-11-15 00:04:46+00:00
Right, and I can construct theoretical models where this works well!

But they're all ripe for abuse, and that makes them politically untenable.

As a layperson in such social matters, I'd guess the real-world abuse rate would be something like 10%. This is mathematically tolerable, and socially beneficial.

But even at 0% real-world abuse, there would be righteous opposition. And at 0% + 1 predictable example, it'd be politically toxic in most of the country.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-15 00:04:53+00:00
> Was it worth it?

Though I know yours is a rhetorical question, I'll answer: No. Brexit was essentially an anti-immigration and pro-deregulation movement. Simple small-c conservatism. (It was also anti-status-quo, but that was implicit.)

The, uh, "Conservatives" who were tasked with implementing Brexit supercharged immigration and, with considerable assistance from the EU, doubled down on ridiculous social and business regulations, paperwork, and red tape. There was no upside. They just made everything much worse. I know that they expected the Brexit vote to fail, and I think there's a term for their subsequent actions: "Malicious compliance."

Now England is a powder keg if there ever was one. If things are going to kick off, it'll happen there first. As Weimar as America is these days, England is worse.
by ttoinou | 2025-11-15 00:05:45+00:00
Taking maximas and minimas is only saying that the scale of GDP figures is interesting to look at. Like does it have 3 figured or 6 figures ? But that metric is easily done with others measures than GDP.

And yeah, if you study GDP its easy to see it’s a giant scam and the economy cannot be put into numbers. Qualities are better than quantities
by tpmoney | 2025-11-15 00:05:56+00:00
> In the end, a report saying "fix this within 90 days or this gets public" for small-ish bugs like this is a kind of demand. Do this or this gets out and you'll have to make an express release to fix it anyway.

I think this is where the disconnect is. To my mind there is no "do this or else" message here, because there is no "or else". The report is a courtesy advance notice of a bug report that WILL be filed, no matter what the ffmpeg developers do. It's not like this is some awful secret that Google is promising not to disclose if ffmpeg jumps to their tune.

Further, the reality is most bug reports are never going to be given a 90 day window. Their site requests that if you find a security vulnerability you email their security team, but it doesn't tell you not to also file a bug report, and their bug report page doesn't tell you not to file anything you think might be a security or vulnerability bug to the tracker. And a search through the bug tracker shows more than a few open issues (sometimes years old) reporting segfault crashes, memory leaks, un-initialized variable access, heap corruption, divide by zero crashes, buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences and other such potential safety issues. It seems the ffmpeg team has no problems generally with having a backlog of these issues, so certainly one more in a (as we've been repeatedly reminded) 25 year old obscure codec parser is hardly going to tank their reputation right?

> In the end, had these reports been made by random security researchers, no drama would have happened.

And now we get to what is really the heart of the matter. If anyone else has reported this bug in this way, no one would care. It's not that Google did anything wrong, it's that Google has money so everyone is mad that they didn't do even more than they already do. And frankly that attitude stinks. It's hard enough getting corporations to actually contribute back to open source projects, especially when the license doesn't obligate them to at all. I'm not advocating holding corporations to some lesser standard, if the complaint was that Google was shoving unvalidated, and un-validatable low effort reports into the bug tracker, or that they actually were harassing the ffmpeg developers with constant followups on their tickets and demands for status updates then that would be poor behavior that we would be equally upset about if it came from anyone. But like you said, any other security researcher behaving the same way would be just fine. Shitting on Google this way for behaving according to the same standards outlined on ffmpeg's own website because of who they are and not what they've done just tells other corporations that it doesn't matter if you contribute code and money in addition to bug reports, if you don't do something to someone's arbitrary standard based on WHO you are, rather than WHAT you do, you'll get shit on for it. And that's not going to encourage more cooperation and contributions from the corporations that benefit from these projects.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-15 00:06:17+00:00
As noted, consciousness seems to just be the ability to self-observe, which is useful as another predictive input.

I would expect that all intelligent animals are conscious, and any AI we build with a roughly brain-like architecture in terms of connections, looping, and being prediction based would also report itself to be conscious and describe a similar subjective experience. LLMs seem much too simple (just layer-wise pass-thru data flow) to be conscious.

It's possible that some of the neural connections supporting consciousness may have evolved, or been enhanced, due to the evolutionary value of enhanced self-prediction (i.e. this is the reason), but as noted I expect it basically "comes for free" with any complete enough cognitive/sensory architecture.
by Genego | 2025-11-15 00:06:37+00:00
Automated generator-critique loops for evaluation may be really useful for creating your own style libraries, because its easy for an LLM-agent to evaluate how close an image is from a reference style or scene. So you end up with a series of base prompts, and now can replicate that style across a whole franchise of stories. Most people still do it with reference images, and it doesn't really create very stable results. If you do need some help with bounding boxes for nano-banana, feel free to send me a message!
by andix | 2025-11-15 00:06:44+00:00
If they really ban everyone under 16 from texting, this would also become kind of a time bomb. A lot of those affected teens will be allowed to vote very soon. And they might have a very different mental image of the EU than the generations before. The EU used to be a gate to all of Europe, free traveling, no cell roaming fees, Erasmus student exchange. The next generation of voters might perceive the EU as some dystopian institution that takes away fun and freedom.
by drweevil | 2025-11-15 00:06:44+00:00
It's always a wonder to me that someone can consider spending 1.5% of the federal budget on our own people, so that kids don't go hungry, as excessive (I take that interpretation from those scare quotes), when we spend at least $1 TRILLION of $7 TRILLION on defense spending, which in absolute numbers is greater than 9 of the next most powerful adversaries combined [1]. But where is all the concern over 'fraud and abuse' in that enormous sum?

>“Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data what we’re going to find?” she asked during a Thursday appearance on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

Forcing all SNAP recipients to reapply over such a small discrepancy (> 1% of the 1.5%) is cruel and spiteful. And the comment by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins quoted above is disrespectful and unprofessional at best. But none of this is a surprise, given this administration's past history.

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/article/the-united-states-spends-more-o...
by ghm2199 | 2025-11-15 00:07:07+00:00
I just used AI studio for recognizing text from a relative's 60 day log of food ingested 3 times a day. I think I am using models/gemini-flash-latest and it was shockingly good at recognizing text, far better than ChatGPT 5.1 or Claude's Sonnet (IIRC its 4.5) model.

https://pasteboard.co/euHUz2ERKfHP.png

Its response I have captured here https://pasteboard.co/sbC7G9nuD9T9.png is shockingly good. I could only spot 2 mistakes. And those that seems to have been the ones even I could not read or was very difficult for me to make out what the text was.
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-15 00:07:38+00:00
The school I attended as a child not too far from Boston was rather unusual in that they chose to get the government-issue ingredients (government cheese, powdered eggs, etc) and pay cooks to cook scratch meals with it rather than using their funding to pay a food service company for heat-and-serve things like the hockey puck pizzas. Place was a redneck hellhole aside from that but the lunches were actually pretty nice. There were some garbage of course... like when the brownies went stale, they'd just douse them in cheap chocolate syrup. Fresh baked hot rolls every day, though. Glad I didn't go to high school there.
by neom | 2025-11-15 00:07:43+00:00
I've been complaining on hn for some time now that my only real test of an LLM is that it can help my poor wife with her research, she spends all day every day in small town archives pouring over 18th century American historical documents. I thought maybe that day had come, I showed her the article and she said "good for him I'm still not transcribing important historical documents with a chat bot and nor should he" - ha. If you wanna play around with some difficult stuff here are some images from her work I've posted before: https://s.h4x.club/bLuNed45
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-15 00:07:57+00:00
It's not just the headaches, it's the smugness with which they tell us that C and C++ are too bad to be used and the only solution is to throw it all away and start over. I've seen some smug language evangelists before, but Rust has the worst. It's just too much work to rewrite everything and retrain everyone, for the sake of maybe preventing this one category of error. Calling memory errors "unsafe" is also a bit of a stretch.
by ekhaliul | 2025-11-15 00:08:11+00:00
Well this just tells you that if you play by someone else's rules you get money and investment pouring in and GDP going up. If you don't then its the opposite. The main question is do you prefer to play by your own rules or rules imposed by investment interests.

Edit: For an average person its not always true that an illusion of prosperity is always good. Eventually there might be a payback for all this capital.
by tastyface | 2025-11-15 00:08:11+00:00
"Unless one argues that no encyclopedia should even record what unreliable but prominent sources are saying"

Um, yes, absolutely, an encyclopedia should not *cite* tabloids in its articles, since any idiot with a bit of cash can publish garbage about anything. There's a reason why Wikipedia is so anal about the reputability of its sources.

A reputable article would say something like "InfoWars and other fringe publications have spread conspiracy theories on this topic" and then cite actual news publications reporting on the matter.
by tom_ | 2025-11-15 00:08:15+00:00
The last couple of places I worked at used Teams, as did a number of the clients. We never found anything much better for the video calling aspect, and my understanding is that Teams comes for free with all the other Microsoft Shit - so you may as well.

I didn't find the chats/discussion UI at all clear initially, but once I'd had it explained to me, I could see what was going on.

(I do remember it taking a long time to load, and apparently using a surprising amount of memory once it was finally done, but aside from providing reliable fodder for water cooler conversations with other 40+ year old colleagues this never actually seemed to cause a problem in practice. At my last Teams-using job I would restart my PC no more than once or twice a week, something I could let happen in parallel with making the cup of tea that I'd always be making at some point anyway. And it had 64 GB RAM, which isn't even a lot by today's standards, but still Teams didn't actually fill all of it.)