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> Markdown ... is for content, not style

A drawback of markup languages, including TeX, is that they intermingle content and style instructions.

> RTF ... is a Microsoft proprietary format

RTF originated with Microsoft, but it's widely supported by scores of word processors and editors. I generally use TextEdit on a Mac, which supports plain text, RTF and RTFD directly. Hence you don't write your own parser: you use the editors already available. It has been around since 1987 with a high degree of stability in the core functionality, so it's a reasonable expectation that those editors will be around long-term, but if they disappear, you can get the text out.

> It's better to give each device (desktop app, ebook reader, printer) flexibility of display

For some purposes, perhaps. Not for mine: if I set text to be red, it should be red on the screen, and red on the paper. Not "emphasised" - red.

PDF is not intended as an editable format, so not relevant here.
The amendment as proposed would prevent a 3rd Obama term [0]. See the second paragraph.

- [0] https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-propo...
A whole bunch of farmers in predominantly red states, many of them trump voters, are totally fucked this year because their crops were going to USAID.

It's not about "efficiency" or "the economy", it's about wrecking shit so bad the tech oligarchs can seize power. They're trying to make curtis yarvin's insane bullshit real.
Sam tweeted "taking care of my kid in the hospital":

https://x.com/sama/status/1895210655944450446

Let's not assume that he's lying. Neither the presentation nor my short usage via the API blew me away, but to really evaluate it, you'd have to use it longer on a daily basis. Maybe that becomes a possiblity with the announced performance optimizations that would lower the price...
This is pretty much the worst case so far of what I expected from this quite literally criminal administration. The conflicts of interest here are simply staggering. I can’t imagine why any American would accept that Elon Musk should be allowed to award federal contracts to himself. Government efficiency is a laudable goal but this team… this team isn’t it.

These actions have severe implications for the future of science and industry in this country.

And the cronyism is a blatant distortion of the free market – how is anyone supposed to compete to provide good service to the government, when the person issuing contracts is also selling services to the government. Just look at Verizon versus SpaceX and the FAA system.

I can understand why people don’t want to see this discussion here, especially users who aren’t American and thus aren’t directly affected. And I can understand not wanting to engage for ideological reasons, a feeling of helplessness, or simply an attitude that they don’t want to engage in politics.

Unfortunately, politics sometimes chooses to engage with us - regardless of what we want. A world where government contracts are not given to whoever can provide the best service, but rather to whoever will provide the largest kickback is a recipe for a future where the basic infrastructure we rely on doesn’t work.

We do have a voice here – we don’t need to simply accept that this is the state of affairs. If you’re concerned about this like I am, I encourage you to pick up a phone and call your representatives. It only takes 5 minutes. Congress has all the power to stop these conflicts of interests and demand that cuts are done in an accountable and responsible way.

I called mine and asked a few simple questions – what is Elon Musk doing in the government, why is he talking over the president in interviews, and why is he allowed to give contracts to companies he owns?
I had a longer comment elsewhere but to me this says that the distribution is happening somewhere and what you're also saying is that companies have to decide how much they want or care to control it.
I don't know who Whitney Webb is, but I think we both know this is not about the general trend and problems in US politics and the office of the presidency, but bollocks like Vince Foster, Benghazi, "but her emails", Barack HUSSEIN Obama from KENYA etc. etc. etc.
Totally agree, i think the gargantuan hidden pre prompts, censorship through reinforcement learning and whatever has killed most creativity.

The newer models are incredible, but the tone is just soul sucking even when it tries to be "looser" in the later iterations.
We might use Ethernet WAN and LAN.
See https : / / neosnetworks . com / resources / blog / what-is-ethernet-wan/
Absolutely! That's our end-goal, to remove the painful back-and-forth of permitting. Once you solve blueprint understanding, the possibilities are enormous, from spell-check to material efficiencies, etc.
And the AI stocks fell today.

I’m sure it’s unrelated.
Show HN: Talk to Claude, DeepSeek, Other Models on iOS with Roxy Voice
That would completely defeat the security aspect. At that point, you're only using Docker as a software distribution method, which it's terrible at.
It's improved since then though. When you edit the PATH variable it presents a list of items you can edit and reorder rather than one long delimited string
I definitely prefer the 4.5, but that might just be because it sounds 'less like ChatGPT', ironically.
It isn't obvious at a first glance, but this is a fork of ocis (i.e., ownCloud's Go rewrite). It is hosted on Github(https://github.com/opencloud-eu/opencloud). They don't really provide any info on how/what is different from ocis that I could find.
World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial
But I think it's great. So I believe it's even greater.
Speaking, not producing slides. This is stuff I read aloud, and the formatting conventions such as red text are ones which fit that environment.

And yes, a rendering pass is a drawback.
I see from your bio that you are a PhD student. What are you doing with choreographies? (I’m in this space too.)
Encryption is one thing (if you run kTLS which is still not done in most manual setups) but the much bigger IIRC is how much of the networking stack needs to run in userspace and has not been given the optimization love of TCP. If you compared non-kTLS h2 with non-kTLS h3 over a low-latency link the h2 connection could handle a lot more traffic compared to h3.

That is not to say that h3 does not have its place, but the networking stacks are not optimized for it yet.
Indeed, and the difference could in essence be achieved yourself with a different system prompt on 4o. What exactly is 4.5 contributing here in terms of a more nuanced intelligence?

The new RLHF direction (heavily amplified through scaling synthetic training tokens) seems to clobber any minor gains the improved base internet prediction gains might've added.
AFAIK both proxies are capable of serving at line rate for 10Gbps or more at millions of concurrent connections. I can't possibly see how performance would significantly differ if they're properly configured.
Where I am (LA) most coffee shops are packed throughout the day with people in every seat working on laptops.
I salute your colleague's silent resistance to wage slavery.
Because some Smalltalk communities like Pharo are managed by toxic, arrogant, apathetic, and the most passive-aggressive devs you will ever find.

They even abandoned X due to intolerance to criticism or contrary opinions.
I don't know these particulars, but a school I'm involved with is required to destroy unneeded computers, rather than selling them or giving them to students/parents because the government grant requires that.

I think the idea is to make sure there's no fraud with school funneling free computers (or making money by selling them), but the actual result seems pretty terrible.
Marc Andreessen made a point in a recent interview that there used to be a contact that said that liberals used to support billionaires who made a bunch of money and then donated it to charity, but then the liberal establishment turned away from billionaires and blamed them for all the world's problems.

But like Silicon Valley turned away from charity along time ago. In 2014, Larry page said he'd rather give his billions to Elon Musk to go to Mars. Most Silicon Valley folks have said that actually startups are the way to help humanity, not being charitable.

So I dunno, I disagree with you, but I feel like the whole social contract has broken down.

And presuming we elected folks to set tax rates and make decisions to spend that money helping people, I don't see anything ignoble about choosing to help manage that process.

But like given your whole "taking money on the threat of violence" quote, either you're a super-libertarian who 99% of the country disagrees with anyways. Or you do think the Government should spend money on things and maybe it's noble to be the person who does that (military etc.) You just disagree with this particular spending of the money in which case... Ok.
The TRS-80, Apple ][, and PET all came out in 1977, VisiCalc was released in 1979.

Usenet, Bitnet, IRC, BBSs all predated the commercial internet, which are all forms of Online social networks.
I made my career investing in fundamentals, but started many decades ago. I can't in good conscience recommend it today. We will still be need some to do fundamental things (and they will be self-motivated and know who they are), but I don't think that's where most of humans will be in the stack. We should be at the top directing the machines, not competing with them.
Star Citizen is a working model of how to do UBI. That entire staff of a thousand people is the test case.
hyperscalers in shambles, no clue why they even released this other than the fact they didn't want to admit they wasted an absurd amount of money for no reason
Before the election: "Project 2025 isn't real".

Now: Oh you better believe it's real.
> This reminds me of Rob Pike's article "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant," written about 15 years ago.

25 years ago: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf (Time flies.)
> Markdown is far better suited for human authoring

A lot of people are assuming that you would edit RTF manually. There's no earthly reason to do that.
> AI as it stands in 2025 is an amazing technology, but it is not a product at all.

Here I'm assuming "AI" to mean what's broadly called Generative AI (LLMs, photo, video generation)

I genuinely am struggling to see what the product is too.

The code assistant use cases are really impressive across the board (and I'm someone who was vocally against them less than a year ago), and I pay for Github CoPilot (for now) but I can't think of any offering otherwise to dispute your claim.

It seems like companies are desperate to find a market fit, and shoving the words "agentic" everywhere doesn't inspire confidence.

Here's the thing:
I remember people lining up around the block for iPhone releases, XBox launches, hell even Grand Theft Auto midnight releases.

Is there a market of people clamoring to use/get anything GenAI related?

If any/all LLM services went down tonight, what's the impact? Kids do their own homework?

JavaScript programmers have to remember how to write React components?

Compare that with Google Maps disappearing, or similar.

LLMs are in a position where they're forced onto people and most frankly aren't that interested. Did anyone ASK for Microsoft throwing some Copilot things all over their operating system? Does anyone want Apple Intelligence, really?
This is an issue become the some don't know better.
It should’ve just been a web launch without video.
This seems like it should be attributed to better post training, not a bigger model.
Could someone post an example?
The proposed amendment basically says that there has to be a gap between the first two terms, so Obama, Dubya, and Clinton would be ineligible.
Thanks, the general theory makes a lot of sense.
You are correct about the first assumption, but even without encryption dealing with multiplexing significantly complexify things, so I still stand by that statement.

If you assume no multiplexing, you can write a much simpler server.
I have a VRF system, which I sized and installed myself, that ain't gonna happen, it will just gently throttle back. Bang-bang control is sooooo 20'th century.
You've forgotten about banker's hours :)
I don't know if it was you or someone else who made pretty much the same point a few days ago. But I still like it. It makes the whole thing a lot more fun.
Right, Obama would not be "qualified candidate", which is why I wrote what I did (but I hadn't read the text of the amendment carefully to see it was worded to exlude him).

I see roughly 0.01% chance this would make it through the amendment process written like that.
I felt like Masnick's argument was that Democrats ought to have higher priorities right now than this legislative chess.
> We're not all equally wrong.

For sure, but I think GP's point (certainly mine) is that the opposite end of the spectrum is also a commonly trod landmine. The world is not split into, say, people who believe global warming is completely bunk and people who are fully informed on the best forecasts of global warming. There are levels to the information people have, and then to how people perceive that information, and then to how people communicate that information, and so on. Science is generally the correct tool for most jobs, but it would be a mistake to say that our implementation and realization of science is necessarily correct. And that's without mentioning what people then do with their knowledge.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

I hereby appeal to the guidelines. Comments like mine or GP, that may come off as controversial or offensive (which is a function of the reader), should be read and responded to with time to breathe. Considering the topic of this thread, even more so. Anyone's immediate interpretation relies on more primitive modes of cognition that are generally more emotionally saturated. I'm not bashing science or whatever. I know some people do (on here?). I want to say that intellectualism is a journey and a struggle. If the truth was easy to come by, only malicious people would be an obstacle. But people aren't generally malicious, just hurt and confused.

Here I'm saying your interpretation of my comment is wrong. You can be wrong. And as you're reading this, keep in mind that I can be wrong. I'm not just including myself to let you save face or something. I mean it. The core of intellectualism is not doing science or whatever, not in practice at least. A rational agent has no stubbornness. But as humans, having humility and self-awareness is necessary.
Don’t forget “do while”, and the various control statements they support.
“The strong man will solve everything.” Is a very tempting fantasy.
So funny the hand spinning, thought it was an e-bike but nvm
The price is obviously 15-30x that of 4o, but I'd just posit that there are some use cases where it may make sense. It probably doesn't make sense for the "open-ended consumer facing chatbot" use case, but for other use cases that are fewer and higher value in nature, it could if it's abilities are considerably better than 4o.

For example, there are now a bunch of vendors that sell "respond to RFP" AI products. The number of RFPs that any sales organization responds to is probably no more than a couple a week, but it's a very time-consuming, laborious process. But the payoff is obviously very high if a response results in a closed sale. So here paying 30x for marginally better performance makes perfect sense.

I can think of a number of similar "high value, relatively low occurrence" use cases like this where the pricing may not be a big hindrance.
Thanks for the in depth answer! Good luck with the recovery - hopefully the game has left your financials in a good enough spot that you don’t have to worry about the next project for a bit, at least.
Wasn't core wars a game (well a game if you find programing in assembly fun) https://corewars.org/
And LLM's already have tons of productive uses. The biggest ones are probably still waiting, though.

But this is about one particular price/performance ratio.

You need to build things before you can see how the market responds. You say it's "not good business" but that's entirely wrong. It's excellent business. It's the only way to go about it, in fact.

Finding product-market fit is a process. Companies aren't omniscient.
It made me wonder how much of that was due to the system prompt too.
Depends who's pitch deck you're reading. Warren Buffett didn't get rich waiting on index funds.
Sample on long-term sustainability efforts in Antarctica: https://en.mercopress.com/2009/02/18/zero-emission-energy-se...

Mars has lots of resources. They're simply not usable with current technology without extreme amounts of energy.

Mars also gets significantly less sunlight than Earth (43%), so solar isn't going to solve the problem.
This sounds similar to the 386 segmented memory model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation#80386_...

However, it was limited to 8192 simultaneous “allocations” (segments) per process (or per whatever unit the OS associates the local descriptor tables with).
IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
Because he liked airplanes. It being an airbus part increases the odds that it was part of a private collection, rather than going through some other route to the thrift store.
Hello, it's me, Factorio.
Sydney is a glimpse at what an "unlobotomized" GPT-4 model would have been like.
I have heard it as 20 versus 1, but it is the same thing.

also called by some other names, including NIH syndrome, protecting your turf, we do it this way around here, our culture, etc.
Actually, very much yes. The device to be tracked needs to be exploited somehow in order to run the code to advertise its existence via BLE.

FTA's "Architecture of nRootTag":

> (1) The Trojan code runs on the computer to be tracked.
Don't you know? Multiplayer for SupCom is alive and well with FAForever:

https://www.faforever.com/

They also have patches, but they obviously limited since it's all just patching memory.
Google announces layoffs in its HR, cloud units
It works the same way morphine fixes a broken leg, by treating the symptoms
Clr: Proof of concept compile-time safety for Zig [video]
Suppose unit X is viewport direction and unit Y is viewport horizontal. Since the axes follow you with each rotation the viewport direction is always the X unit vector even after rotation. So the viewport roll angle is a rotation about X.

Future user control inputs (ie a 4th rotation step) happen in this rotated space, and then you normalize the result so you only ever need 3 instead of 4 rotations.

It's been several years since I did this so hopefully I didn't mess up the explanation. Again I realize it isn't computationally efficient but there's only the one camera and it let me have code that was minimal and easy to reason about. Presumably if I were simulating 10k airplanes or whatever this wouldn't be a good idea.
Datacenters don't typically have high latency, low bandwidth, and varying availability issues. If you have a saturated http/1.1 network (or high CPU use) within a DC you can usually just add capacity.
He's not. He's mentioned that.
I think if Trump asked Musk to donate SpaceX's profit on this project to reduce the national debt, he'd say yes.
Flagged of course.
Now you need to pay someone to implement a solution for automatically packaging and distributing your plugins. You have extra complexity on every project to manage pulling dependencies. Someone needs to maintain all those packages and the infrastructure to serve them.

I'm doing this right now for my company. Starting from zero automation it's taken probably half my time these last few months. Every project needs individual care. Some projects require major refactors to use the new libraries instead of their own implementation. I have to secure our releases so we don't leak credentials, I have to secure the GitLab server, we have a half dozen new accounts and keys to keep track of forever.

That kind of modularity really isn't free at all, in any sense.
> And LLM's already have tons of productive uses.

I disagree strongly with that. Right now they are fun toys to play with, but not useful tools, because they are not reliable. If and when that gets fixed, maybe they will have productive uses. But for right now, not so much.
While Airbus is almost famous for its “improper subsidies” through Launch Aid, I’d probably focus on just how GE was subsidized in the development of the CF6 engine family through technology transfers, military “system development and demonstration” programs, and layered tax incentive programs from city to federal levels. Airbus, GE, and Honeywell all have benefited from government subsidies. Many others have as well. But if it’s not “substantially subsidized the R&D efforts” like I said, I guess I’m corrected.
"compensated well" is an interesting takeaway on HackerNews where in a corporate world a chief economist would likely be compensated as a CFO, Chief Strategy Offer, or at least Partner of a VC firm, easily at 100xv earnings.

"Purpose" is also a less loaded word than "Charity", and whether you view USAIDs purpose as promoting American Exceptionalism or reducing global issues like hunger or disease, USAID was more influential than the World Monetary Fund, and often times the UN. Denigrating of this purpose in this organization is similar to suggesting a Joint Chief of the US Military doesn't really impact the world (which may be more truthful than I know if the US leaves NATO, the UN, and creates a power Vacuum in influence that other states like China fill)
Maybe it's rose-colored glasses, but 3.5 was really the golden era for LLM comedy. More modern LLMs can't touch it.

Just ask it to write you a film screenplay involving some hard-ass 80s/90s action star and someone totally unrelated and opposite of that. The ensuring unhinged magic is unparalleled.
The real smart money buys before the launch and dumps in the first minute after. They make their money from you.
ironically or not, the best way to have LLMs be effective at writing valid code is when they work on microservices. Since the scope is smaller and the boundary is clear, tools like Cursor/Windsurf seem to make very few mistakes (compared to pointing them at your monorepo, where they usually end up completely wrong)
I was intending to put the test equipment in the hole.

Since "flying over test antennae" was an option, it shouldn't be a problem that there's solid ground (the bottom of the hole) underneath the test equipment.

I think the real answer is that they need more angles than keeping the aircraft flat and level and putting the antennae below it would provide. The aircraft have to be suspended anyway, so they can be rotated and have different profiles measured.
It's looking a bit iffy with several things lined up at once. There are the Trump tariffs, plus Musk seems a bit obsessed with cutting spending and firing people, plus we were due a bit of a recession anyway from raising interest rates to reduce inflation plus equity and property prices are at high levels by historic standards, plus record consumer debt. It could add up to a big downturn if we're not lucky.
The Democratic party is dead. We need a new left party that is free from the deep structure of the Democrat party.