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Oracle stock surges on $500B OpenAI-Trump 'Stargate' deal
Didn’t have great experiences with peugeot grinders.
That's exactly the type of thing I was going for here!
Google definitely needs outside investment to spend $500b on capex.
Yes, Trump announced this as a massive foreign investment coming into the US: https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1881832899852542082
NASA was also considering reusable two stage to orbit for the shuttle back in the 1960s. By 1998 NASA was proposing Liquid Flyback Boosters:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980237254/downloads/19...

Those were still winged boosters, but were not helicopter-caught and did RTLS.

Musk didn't invent the concept.
https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/reference/assemble/deb.ht...
Distributing a single uberjar, whenever possible, is generally a good idea IMO. One major reason I like the JVM as a platform is that I don't need to mess with containers or native images. To reduce burden of deployment, native images are out of the question. Thus the choices are "force user to have Java runtime installed" or "force user to have container runtime installed". Double-clicking a JAR file (or running "java -jar ...") tends to be easier than debugging Mac / Windows quirks with Docker.

Presumably the major issue in distributing JavaFX applications (or most Java 9+ applications in general) is dealing with jlink. That leads to the problem in question: having to create N * M executable blobs, where N = # of operating systems and M = # of CPU architectures.
Cool. The author has set himself a huge task if he wants to build something like LLVM. An alternative would be to participate in a project with similar goals that is already quite progressed, such as QBE or Eigen (https://github.com/EigenCompilerSuite/) ; both so far lack of optimizers. I consider Eigen very attractive because it supports much more targets and includes assemblers and linkers for all targets. I see the advantage in having a C implementation; Eigen is unfortunately developed in C++17, but I managed to backport the parts I'm using to a moderate C++11 subset (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Eigen). There are different front-ends available, two C compilers among them. And - as mentioned - an optimizer would be great.

EDIT: just found this podcast where the author gives more informations about the project goals and history (at least the beginning of the podcast is interesting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2khyLEc-Hw
It wasn't so much lots of early promises never panned out as that the dynamics of how the technology ends up being different than how people thought it would be. I admit I skipped over the specifics of cloud computing because it was already a fairly long post just focused on AI. (The general premise as you paraphrased it and the point I was trying to make are somewhat related but they are different.)
Very cool! I did a similar project with an accompanying app that connected to one of these inexpensive printers over Bluetooth in order to play a Discord, Lord of Disharmony commander deck in person.

The portability of the whole setup makes it easy to bring to an LGS, it's always a treat to see people's reactions when I pull out the printer and they see how the deck works!
Weird question. Business deals are announced by politicians all the time, especially on overseas trips. Just an example:

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2015-04-10-Presidents-Varela-Ob...
Haha, you say this until Apple does a breaking change to the barcode library or Apple Health export and things stop working. Then you probably want them to change some stuff :)
Why is that a useful metric? There is a lot of land.
I'll just point out that you're presenting your view of the world and beliefs as if it were based on objective fact. The things you've listed here are all narratives pushed by the media, so I would be understanding that you and many others would feel because of this that they are indeed objective truths, but they are in actuality far from that. Even if these stories are made up of objective facts, they ignore many others which contradict them. For example, I also consider myself grounded in reality and I can think of ways in which these things you've listed as "true" could turn out to be far more complicated.

I like this comic / poem, which I feel captures the essence of what I'm trying to get across here:

Try as I might to live simply, my life tends towards complexity.

My ordered thoughts veer off track, once they turn inward I can't turn back.

The path forward twists and tangles, I lose myself at every angle.

The clear vision I hold inside me, fractures into something far more exciting.

http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2019/05/disorder.html
You'd really think that arguably the leader in generative AI could come up with a unique project name instead of ripping off something extant and irrelevant.

But then again that's their entire business, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
Valid point. Afaict, vpns I've used route all network activity regardless of phone state, but that's likely dependant on the service.
there's some pretty good quotes about that by Mussolini. Things are getting bleak at an incredible pace.
That just demonstrates the difference between idiots and intelligent people. I use AI and chatgpt to learn about a zillion topics I am interested about more efficiently.
haha, you got me! I totally panicked in the moment and asked AI for a quick reply, then had a good laugh about it. Naming across languages can be tricky. Thanks for keeping me on my toes ;P
> Instead, what this pushes, is accomplishing the removal of humans from humanity.

If you buy the marketing, yeah. But we aren't really seeing that in the tech sector. We haven't seen it succeed in the entertainment sector... it's still fighting for relevance in the medical and defense industries too. The number and quality of jobs that AI replaced is probably still quite low, and it will probably remain that way even after Stargate.

AI is DOA. LLMs have no successor, and the transformer architecture hit it's bathtub curve years ago.

> Jenson doesn't need another 1B gallons of water under his belt.

Jensen gets what he wants because he works with the industry. It's funny to see people object to CUDA and Nvidia's dominance but then refuse to suggest an alternative. An open standard managed by an independent and unbiased third-party? We tried that, OEMs abandoned it. NPU hardware tailor-made for specific inference tasks? Too slow, too niche, too often ends up as wasted silicon. Alternative manufacturer-specific SDKs integrated with one high-level library? ONNX tried that and died in obscurity.

Nvidia got where they are today by doing exactly what AMD and Apple couldn't figure out. People give Jensen their water because it's wasted in anyone else's hands.
>I never said that.

It's the inevitable result of you having politically triangulated things.
The ONLY problem I have ever heard of Bambu printers starting on their own was when Bambu itself had a problem with cloud:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Bambu-3D-printers-start-printi...

I have owned one since November 2023 - and it has never been hacked or powned by an outside actor.
BZ.
The fallout is going to be insane when the AI bubble pops.
Yachts, mansions, private jets, maybe some very expensive space heaters.
You have to keep in mind Microsoft is planning on spending almost 100B in datacenter capex this year and they're not alone. This is basically OpenAI matching the major cloud provider's spending.

This could also be (at least partly) a reaction to Microsoft threatening to pull OpenAI's cloud credits last year. OpenAI wants to maintain independence and with compute accounting for 25–50% of their expenses (currently) [2], this strategy may actually be prudent.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/03/microsoft-expects-to-spend-8...

[2] https://youtu.be/7EH0VjM3dTk?si=hZe0Og6BjqLxbVav&t=1077
I was wondering about this when I read the blog post,
so I checked out www.dtrace.org and from my point of view
its ambiguous.

The front page says:

"DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that is included by default with various operating systems, including Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. A Linux port is in development."

Then it lists blogs.

¹https://d.pr/i/3DAB5x
> Nice blogpost (genuinely, not ironic)

It's a point I've been meaning to actually turn into an actual blog post lol

> but entirely unrelated to the issue being discussed.

It was an answer to the parent's comment about the aphorism not being helpful. What I'm trying to say is that there are many things that can be done besides regulation. I really want to stress these points because they are actionable things that you, an every day "cog in the wheel" person can do to make meaningful progress towards fixing the problems. If I've learned anything, it is that little things add up. It is easy to see how little things add up in a destructive way, as I don't think it is a reach to say that "everything working normally" is an unstable equilibrium, but we need to recognize that that too means the little things we do matters. Either in continuing the equilibrium or even pushing to make it more stable.

Side note: Always happy to see physicists in the ML space. Biased as an ex-physicist working in ML myself lol. I'm sure you can see how physics influenced my outlook haha
For profit? I don't understand what's complicated about this.
Wouldn't 500bn into quantum computing show better returns for civilization? Assuming it's about progress and ... not money.
> Why are corporations announcing business deals from the White House?

You're answering your own question:

> potential job creation. Which could be significant
It seems to me you could generate a lot of fresh information from running every youtube video, every hour of TV on archive.org, every movie on the pirate bay -- do scene by scene image captioning + high quality whisper transcriptions (not whatever junk auto-transcription YouTube has applied), and use that to produce screenplays of everything anyone has ever seen.

I'm not sure why I've never heard of this being done, it would be a good use of GPUs in between training runs.
How many jobs will it net if "successful" and the AI eliminates jobs?
We made some fundamental mistakes when it comes to the subject of why people believe what they believe. The polite and intellectual answer to that has a lot to say about evidence and reason, replication, publication, review... but that simply doesn't move most people. That isn't how most people live their lives. MOST people operate on networks of trust, because they lack the interest or the capacity to make informed decisions about many things. They don't know how a nuclear power plant works, they don't know anything about monoclonal antibodies, but they know people and places they trust. Their "smart" and "informed" social networks, their doctor, their priest, etc.

Unfortunately those networks of trust are easy to corrupt, not for everyone, but for a large number of people.
i sure hope not, this is usually a techie board
My Garmin watch asks me if I want to enable the battery saver mode whenever it reaches 20% or so (most likely configurable anyway), which is still more than a day's worth of battery. If you go for several days without a charger, you need to plan that in advance and charge it beforehand, but at least that's a possibility which you don't have with other watches that require daily charging.
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I think this "refusal to answer" thing is so overblown. I have been using this technology every day for over two years now and have not one single time run into this.
Hi from Austin, TX - we have no "abnormal" power outages right now and the tiny bits of snow look kinda cute
Amanda Eller's Survival Story
This month's rollout of sub-issues and issue types would be most of what my organization thinks it needs to shift to GH Issues, I believe, barring however long it would take to rewrite some sync up automation with ServiceNow based on those issue types. Of course it will take another 6 months to a year before those kinds of features make it to GitHub Enterprise, so it is still not happening any time soon. (Though that gets back to my "weird" mixes. I don't entirely know why my company is using AzDO SaaS for Issue Tracking but decided GHE over "normal" cloud GH for Repos. But that's not the weirdest mix I've seen.)

I definitely get the backwards compatibility thing and "don't break someone's automation", but at the same time, Microsoft could at least mark AzDO's official Roadmap as "Maintenance Only" and send the message that feels obvious as a user that GitHub is getting far more attention than AzDO can, but is hard to convince management and infosec that a move to GitHub is not just "the future" but "the present" (and also maybe "the past", now, given AzDO seems to have been frozen ~2020).
We changed the URL from https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/ to a third-party report. Readers may want to read both. If there's a better URL, we can change it again.
It will. The short-term sale is that it will create thousands of temporary jobs, and long-term reduce hundreds of thousands of jobs, while handing the savings to stock holdings and moving wealth to the stockholders.
Marimo is such a leap forward that I think the Jupyter people will adopt its concepts directly. So elegant, so useful, both for people and machines. Love it.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model
It’s about 1oom off. In some contexts, one oom is pretty close.
Article doesn't talk about a very important point -- hold of the market. I say that Garmin is first and foremost aviation and maritime company, being pretty monopolistic there. E.g. Garmin G1000 for small airplanes costs around $30k, and G5000 for private jets -- around $500,000.

And the most important -- no one there ever talks about alternatives. Except for non-certified experimental tools -- Garmin is pretty much the only game in town.

So I believe they operate as aviation/maritime company first, while all the consumer devices like watches/outdoor trackers are like a side-business for them. Yes, that side business happens to bring in more money than the main business, but they wisely don't rely on it.
> Distributing a single uberjar, whenever possible, is generally a good idea IMO.

Yeah, seems to work for games well enough. Ship uberjar + small wrapper shellscript for Linux/macOS, .bat for Windows. Should work everywhere*
Partly. But the effect of turning off the nuclear plants and simply hoping for the best shouldn't be ignored.
You make broad assumptions about someone, talk down to them, and then claim they need to grow up?

E: parent edited their comment.
ASPs essentially got reimagined as SaaS by, most visibly, Salesforce early on. They weren't the only example at the time but they were the ones on stage at every remotely relevant conference.

And, yes, there were hopes for portability early on even though it was clear that the cloud providers weren't much interested and it became harder as services became more complex. There are some glimmers of portability--such as using my former employer's OpenShift for Kubernetes--but single-pane-of-glass management and API translations between cloud providers never really panned out.
I find it extremely ironic how the main selling point of cryptocurrency is that it's mathematically inflation-proof...but the crypto landscape is dominated by people just spinning up new currencies as vehicles for financial speculation that don't even pretend to have any nexus to economic value. It's like betting on which mobster can run the most profitable casino.
I don't know enough about it, but a general statement like "every aspect is bad" isn't helpful if I wanted to learn more. Do you have some specific issues?
Microsoft has lots of revenue streams tied to that capex outlay. Does OpenAI have similar revenue numbers to Microsoft?
It's entirely anecdotal, but in my experience in academia (which consisted of 4 years of post-master's PhD), I've seen this happen exactly 0 times.
Very nice to see JReleaser here on HN! I'm very happy with it, using it for publishing releases of kcctl (a command line client for Kafka Connect written in Java, compiled and published as native binaries for Linux/MacOS/Win via GraalVM). Here's the config, in case folks are looking for an example: https://github.com/kcctl/kcctl/blob/main/pom.xml#L430-L530. Releases are triggered by running a parameterized workflow (taking the version to be released) on GitHub Actions.

A big shout-out to Andres Almiray, the maintainer of JReleaser, who has always been super-fast to answer any questions and help to sort out issues when I ran into them.
> Hubris or lack of resources?

What's the difference?

To be more specific, I don't think there's a inherent lack of resources, but rather it is about resource allocation. There's also a big difference if we're talking about a startup vs a big tech giants (or even non tech focused companies). In the latter, there's no doubt that the resources exists, so it has to be allocation. And this is definitely true w.r.t. the above examples.

So... Hubris
When the project is initially made, the rules of supply are determined, in the case of many, a large portion of the supply is given to the creator for free, and they can use their notoriety to attract attention to the project, which they then offload to other people. From there, for the retail "investors", they are basically playing a game of hot potato, where people are balancing maximizing profits of price increases from supply being sold to increasingly greater fools, with the risk of holding it when it blows up and dumps and losing it all.
> Interestingly, there are no four digit palindrome primes because they would be divisible by 11.

In fact, this holds for any even number of digits.
>> - Bullying from other academics happens more often than most are willing to admit.

> I've read about this on the internet to the point where I believe it's real.

My experience as a PhD student in France circa 2016: a professor comes into our office one morning, tells me "your work is completely stupid, irrelevant and useless anyways, you should just stop" and then leaves
I can only speak for myself, but a Metaverse consisting of infinite procedural slop sounds about as appealing as reading infinite LLM generated books, that is, not at all. "Cost to zero" implies drinking directly from the AI firehose with no human in the loop (those cost money) and entertainment produced in that manner is still dire, even in the relatively mature field of pure text generation.
I don't understand how you came to this conclusion. Some of my differences with Christianity are that I believe that morals should come from thought, reasoning, and empathy, not from hierarchy. That I don't think there's an outside supernatural force that's perfect in every way, but also explicitly flawed, that's characterized by infinite love, forgiveness, and benevolence but is less loving and forgiving of "sinners" than I am, and that sets people up to fail that they might suffer forever after.

Accepting that there are things it is useful to believe that are not necessarily literally true actually separates me further from Christianity, since they insist that all their beliefs are literally true, and that doubting such is grounds for eternal torture.
It seems early for this sort of move. This is also a huge spin on the whole thing that could throw a lot of people off.

Is there any planned future partnerships? Stargate implies something about movies and astronomy. Movies in particular have a lot of military influence, but not always.

So, what's the play? Help mankind or go after mankind?

Also, can I opt-out right now?
You had less voltage, but whole lots more current than parent post.
Where are they getting the $500B? Softbank's market cap is 84b and their entire vision fund is only $100b, Oracle only has $11b cash on hand, OpenAI's only raised $17b total...
"Don't be snarky."

"Eschew flamebait."

Let's not have regional flamewar on HN please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's possible to induce charge in things - this principle is used for holding silicon wafers inside lithography machines but works for other materials too (https://youtu.be/pgV8l5yLadQ)
MGX also isn't a US entity, it's a UAE sovereign wealth venture

https://www.mgx.ae/en
The opposite. Trump just halted all federal approvals for wind farms, for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/climate/wind-power-execut....
They don't have to spend $500B to compete. Their costs should be much lower.

That said, I don't think they have the courage to invest even the lower amount that it would take to compete with this. But it's not clear if it's truly necessary either, as DeepSeek is proving that you don't need a billion to get to the frontier. For all we know we might all be running AGI locally on our gaming PCs in a few years' time. I'm glad I'm not the one writing the checks here.
Because I wanted a complete integration and I didn't need to leave LinkedIn: https://i.imgur.com/QRRL4WH.png
This is not a government sponsored agreement. There is no locking out.

Trump probably wanted to start his presidency with a bang, being a person with excess vanity. The participating companies scored a PR coup.
Ask HN: Replit-Like Course for C?
Hey all,

I learned from Replit's 100 Days of code; It was engaging because of the projects we completed. Now, I want to learn C to understand the OS now.

Do you have any resource recommendations to learn C in a project-based manner?

Thank you!
That's almost all there is to it.

The other thing they do is provide a way for someone to signal that they contributed to the issuer's wealth without triggering existing safeguards around transparency, bribery, etc
I have a small fish script I use to prompt a model to generate three commit messages based off of my current git diff. I'm still playing around with which model comes up with the best messages, but usually I only use it to give me some ideas when my brain isn't working. All the models accomplish that task pretty well.

Here's the script: https://github.com/nozzlegear/dotfiles/blob/master/fish-func...

And for this change [1] it generated these messages:

1. `fix: change from printf to echo for handling git diff input`

2. `refactor: update codeblock syntax in commit message generator`

3. `style: improve readability by adjusting prompt formatting`

[1] https://github.com/nozzlegear/dotfiles/commit/0db65054524d0d...
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> The real-world application (and potential danger) is when this data is combined with other data.

That's exactly the point. In this case it's only really possible to de-anonymize people who take long distance trips. But based on two data points it might be possible to know which flight or train a person travelled with.

With three different data points it might be quite unique. For example you might find out somebody travelled from Italy to Norway on Monday evening and then to France on Wednesday morning. There are probably not so many people who did a trip like that, it might come down to only one (or a handful) people who fits this itinerary. With other data sources it might be possible to uniquely identify this person.
Agreed

What might actually be cool would be a common set of design principles that become used across many apps and ecosystems - it would make switching much easier.

People are already used to the little "hamburger menu" three dots thing in UI (can also be three lines) often in the upper right for better or worse
Weird definition of close you have there. If I asked for $700, and you gave me $50, would that be close?