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> I get that but just because they use licensed IP doesn't mean that they have to sell it to the USA

If ASML loses access to the IP they cannot sell it in any market that respects IP laws, nor can it raise capital as it now has extremely legal liability. And if the Netherlands is ready to tear up it's IP laws, it's going to be de facto sanctioned by the US and the rest of the EU, because IP Law is one of the few things European nation states devolved to the EU.

Also, around 20% of ASML's headcount is in the US, and much of that is R&D and manufacturing specifically for EUV Lithography.

> The sovereignty stuff is what kept from EU becoming like USA but things are on move now. Check the approval ratings and trust of Europeans about EU and their local government and you'll see that Europeans tend to trust EU much more than the national government

The EU has a better reputation amongst the population, yet at the end of the day, no actual power aside from single market and norms alignment has been devolved to the EU.

As I have mentioned multiple times at this point, politicans and businesses do not want to reduce their power by handing it to the EU. It might be good for the EU member states at a macro level, but it creates a lot of losers at the national level. And those losers can vote for the AfD, RN, etc.

For example, for a unified European army, either France, Germany, or Sweden is going to have to sacrifice their aerospace giants because Dassault, Eurofighter, and Saab compete directly and ferociously, and always undercut each other. And for tanks, Germany has to either sacrifice the entire chain for Leopold or France has to sacrifice the entire chain for Leclerc.

All of these are tens of thousands of jobs in France, Germany, and Sweden, and no party wants to become toxic for a generation by become the party that sacrificed their voters with mass layoffs for the benefit of the EU as a whole.

Individual European nation states need to align, and they just are not because Defense, Foreign Relations, and Internal Security has always been the mandate of individual states.

> That's the current state of affairs, it doesn't have to be the same in the upcoming months or years because "decades are happening in weeks" lately

It definetly is, but not in a good way. The major EU states had an emergency conference after Vance's horrid comments at MSC to try and align on a boots on the ground policy in Ukraine, but it was shot down by Poland and Germany [0]

[0] - https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-leader-donald-trump-...
Was at a couple national parks this month. The chaos due to short staffing saddened me. Foolish tourists will die or be hurt, and nature will be damaged, because the monitors and first responders are not there.

What’s the plan here? I thought these were America’s Crown Jewels, monuments we could point to and be proud of?

Advice I got from a ranger:

Stay away from the large famous national parks: Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. Go to smaller lesser known national parks as well as state parks where the visitor/staff ratio is not ruinous.
Almost all instability I’ve had with modern Windows or Macs has been caused by corporate installed malware - MDM software and virus software.
> You can't donate to Mozilla Corporation at all, which is the entity maintaining Firefox and running these acquisitions. You can only donate to the Mozilla Foundation, which funds other campaigns.

The Mozilla Foundation is the parent of the Mozilla Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Makes sense to wait out this administration.
If everyone in this thread shitting on Azure is going off how it worked in 2016 the comments here make a lot more sense. I know Microsoft bad still lingers in online communities but I have to say I’m surprised hackernews is still this anti Microsoft. In my experience, both Azure and AWS have their issues, it’s not like AWS is some perfect offering but you’d think that based on the comments.
> This is a simplistic, even childlike, view of the relationship between the US and Europe. The situation is the way it is because the US wanted it...

People who do know history would tell you that you don't get peace by dismantling industrial and military capacity. To blame this on "because the US wanted it that way" is just naive. The US might have wanted it that way, but so what? It happened because it was easier to sell domestically compared to allocating hundreds of billions on say, 5th gen fighters.
I highly recommend using a four-stage reverse osmosis system at home with these caveats:

1. Wash the pitcher weekly in soap, preferably in your dishwasher, otherwise bacteria can grow. Rinse off the soap extra well, otherwise it will upset the stomach.

2. Replace the filters on schedule, before they are completely spent, otherwise they will output worse water that can upset the stomach.

3. Use a pH adjustment cartridge. Test the output pH. It must be at least 8. Below 8, bacteria grow in the wet cartridge. If a cartridge isn't used, you will begin to feel unwell due to very lower minerals. Test the output biweekly or monthly using an electric pH meter or pH testing fluid.

4. The pH cartridge is insufficient to replace natural minerals. Supplement at least an additional 400 mg calcium and 200 mg magnesium per day for adults.

Ensure that the last stage filter of the RO unit is an activated carbon filter. This ought to capture theoretical nanoplastic leakage of the polyamide RO filter.

When I go to the office, I take my coffee and drinking water with me for the entire day in steel bottles.

Overall, drinking RO water has lowered my acid reflux somewhat which was in part allegedly being caused by harmful chlorination byproducts.
I don't think we're projected to have positive population growth for much longer. Also what does rent based servitude even mean? I own a house but still have to pay taxes and upkeep. It's really not much different from rent. The tax supposedly goes to pay for services that the govt provides back to the people. If I were to pay rent instead, at least the service I receive in return is provided back to me specifically, and the cost of switching if I don't like the deal being offered is much lower.

Rent, healthcare, and the price of eggs are very popular things to complain about for some reason...
Very new to the game, so have mercy on me please, but can anyone explain what's going on with these 0-0-0 and 0-0 moves? I don't understand how or why two pieces can move simultaneously.
The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust
It's not about bookmarks only. Also history. A syncserver is the only way to access firefox mobile history, as its api (browser.history) is severely restricted or unavailable.
So short of rooting your device to directly access places.sqlite, there's no alternative.
>faraway pariah state

By that you mean a state sanctioned by the US and the EU, which together comprise about 10% of the world's population.
Housing services aren't the problem, capital gains are. You know this. You are nitpicking. But if you ever find a portal to the alternate dimension you describe, please give me a ping, I'd love to live there.
You don't have to understand AI to understand the tech industry's hype cycle. You don't need to understand AI to understand business viability, either.

I think the most important sentence in the article is here:

> Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat

The tech industry has repeatedly promised bullshit far beyond what it can deliver. From blockchain to big data, the tech industry continually overstates the impact of its next big things, and refuses to acknowledge product maturity, instead promising that your next iPhone will be just as disruptive as the first.

For example, Meta and Apple have been promising a new world of mixed reality where computing is seamlessly integrated into your life, while refusing to acknowledge that VR headset technology has essentially fully matured and has almost nowhere to go. Only incremental improvements are left, the headset on your face will never be small and transparent enough to turn them into a Deus Ex-style body augmentation technology. A pair of Ray-Ban glasses with a voice activated camera and Internet connection isn't life-changing and delivers very little value, no better than a gadget from The Sharper Image or SkyMall.

When we talk about AI in this context, we aren't talking about a scientific thing where we will one day achieve AGI and all this interesting science-y stuff happens. We are talking about private companies trying to make money.

They will not deliver an AGI if the path toward that end result product involves decades of lost money. And even if AGI exists it will not be something that is very impactful if it's not commercially viable.

e.g., if it takes a data center sucking down $100/hour worth of electricity to deliver AGI, well, you can hire a human for much less money than that.

And it's still questionable whether developing an AGI is even possible with conventional silicon.

Just like how Big Data doesn't magically prevent your local Walgreen's from running out of deodorant, Blockchain didn't magically revolutionize your banking, AI has only proven itself to be good at very specific tasks. But this industry promises that it will replace just about everything, save costs everywhere, make everything more efficient and profitable.

AI hasn't even managed to replace people taking orders at the drive thru, and that's supposed to be something it's good at. And with good reason: people working at a drive thru only cost ~$20/hour to hire.
I already gave you literally a specific task I completed in minutes vs 2 hours, how are you struggling with that?
People said that in 2016, and 2020 too. These are the administrations the USA elects, that is permanent.
Could you please address our ICMs and fix those issues already?
China had limitless almost free labor. Soviet Union had a deficit of labor by late 1960s already, and again by late 1970s - in 1974 they did a temporary fix by liberating the peasants which helped for a few years until those ran out, too. Chinese way could NOT work in the Soviet Union, they never had that alternative. The window of opportunity when they had sufficient labor reserves to try it was way too short - some years in mid-1960s - before then, they still suffered from consequences of WWII losses - and even if tried then, that would've been a botched effort just for not having enough time. Chinese didn't get almost anything out of their economic opening for the first ~15 years remember. China remained dirt poor through mid-1990s.

Their only opportunity to truly fix things was to accept Marshall plan, and thus finish with Communism and introduce private properly and democracy, after WWII. But personal ambitions of the leadership prevented that.
30-50hr before they need to be re-sleeved and given a new piston
Another domain where I see this is in mechanical engineering. Especially in the old stuff from the early 1800s. At that time every local blacksmith would have been familiar with simple machines like the lever and the pulley. But to go from that to steam engines, jacquard looms, and machine tools (machines building machines!) must have seems like magic.

It wasn't of course. Just creativity and synthesis. James Burke's Connections series is an entertaining way to pick the synthesis apart. The one on the machine loom is especially interesting since that is where punched cards came from.
Global. Your data is about sales, not usage.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...

For context, the first stable release of Firefox for Android was made just a few months after Nokia N8 release.
I agree, I am aware that LLMs can synthesize data, I am a huge advocate of them for this purpose and use them daily for such. This is where I derive the authority in making such a statement about them. I never made any statement relating the performance of LLMs to humans.

> Stuff like variable names won’t be exact

Yes, this is the point of my comment around information loss. Lossy transformations inherently cannot be recovered with absolute certainty, and the degree of certainty depends on available context.

This is true for absolutely any system which produces lossy transformations, not just in the context of code and LLMs, but encoders, etc.
this is a cope my friend. adapt or die.
I just assumed everyone who still works in a professional position at Tesla agrees with him
Yeah I don’t get this thread at all. I’ve used both fairly extensively and while Azure’s dashboard is still a pain in the ass, it’s better than AWS by a mile usability wise. Not to mention, Microsoft clearly puts time and money into their documentation, while AWS docs have always sucked.
> - SO has overbearing moderation. Chatgpt doesn't close your question the second you've submitted it.

Even worse your question is slightly different and you asked it because the one they just linked as a duplicate didnt help or didnt fit fully. I get so angry when someones asking the right question but some a-hole SO mod closes it almost as if they took no care to compare context and want to meet some obscure metrics for SO.

I love SO but as you say the mods are the worst part.
>>> Marc Andreesen didn't support Trump until AFTER the Biden administration bureaucrats met with him and told him they would ensure that they would only allow a small handful of foundation AI companies that they tightly regulated to exist. He was so horrified that he switched over.

That is the claim from Andreessen, and the way he told it sounded rather far-fetched. Has anyone else confirmed it?

Andreessen also claims (see Joe Rogan interview) that the US nuclear weapons testing program was some elaborate fake complete with fake movies of nuclear bomb tests. When someone makes such ludicrous claims, I tend to doubt anything else they say.
You missed the station where humans are such animals that we cannot even conceive an intelligence that doesn't have our petty, warmongering, ego driven manic ways. Maybe an intelligence with a 1000+ iq is not interested in whatever we think will doom us; how would we know, we are barely surpassed being apes. Well, some of us.
I say its short term because the inefficiencies eventually get worked out and we're back to a point where we're utilizing all the resources we can make economic use of and we again have zero sum game.

The zero sum game doesn't stop, we just found a way to unlock new uses or new resources such that we temporarily just compete to claim those new resources.

Think of it with land. If all the land we know of is already "owned" we must compete. If we discover new land everyone can scramble to "own" that land so it is temporarily not really zero sum. Ultimately land is finite though, and we get back to a zero sum game after a brief interlude.
Some numbers no one asked for :)

ConcurrentDictionary<K, V> read latency is going to be around 7-15ns for the data hot in the cache, scaling with key length if it is string-based, and anywhere between 75ns and 150ns for reading that out of RAM. Alternate implementations like NonBlocking.ConcurrentDictionary can reach down to 3.5-5ns for integer-based keys given all data is in L1 and the branch predictor is fully primed, on modern x86_64 cores.
I'm not so sure about that. Russia's forces are quite depleted and Europe probably isn't quite as hopeless as you suggest.
That's a time vs. outsourcing trade-off. When everything is working, it's invisible and great, but if something breaks, and if you're in the middle of the something, you either have to postpone it, or stop everything and fix the problem to be able to continue your life unaffected.

I'm into self-hosting, and host some of my services myself, but get some services too, because I have limited time and don't want to stop drop and roll when something breaks.
Getting a hundred records pressed is well upwards of a grand just for the records. More than that, not a single soul has ever gotten into releasing small run physical albums for the money. If you have two million, and want one million, start a record label.
Why would US get involved now when they have nothing to gain and possibly escalate the situation to WW3?

If US owned resources in Ukraine, they have very good reason to deploy troops over there. Russia won't escalate the situation by attacking american resources and troop. This should slow down the war to a good extent combined with the cease fire agreements.
Its probably been over 100 times I find someone asking the question im trying to find only to find that a moderator marked it a duplicate and links to a much older question that doesnt apply.
> By scaring Europe into re-militarizing, that is bad for Russia.

Any anti-Russian benefit that has is dwarfed by the pro-Russian benefit of having a wedge driven between the US and Europe, which is what is happening. Even a Europe that invests more heavily is defense is far less scary to Russia than the threat of US military power, especially in the short to medium term. The US has military capability that will be difficult for anyone to recreate, even advanced economies like those of Germany, simply because of scale and long experience.

The best outcome for the US/European alliance would be a more militarily capable Europe still strongly allied with the US. Maybe that was the 4D chess goal, but if so Trump appears to have way overshot it.
Unfortunately this makes the assumption that logic and critical thinking skills are used when assigning blame.

Instead, it’s a crude game of corralling people with emotions.
I completely agree outside of economics. I put much higher value on a forest than lumber. Economically, though, where is the forest ever accounted for?
Yup. The problem with democracies in the West is that they keep trying to make unsustainable places sustainable.

China essentially says “here’s where all the talent is and where the talent is willing to move to…let’s focus there”.

Because of policy reasons Texas, for example, has been able to kind of grow, but it would be much better if the likes of California and New York fixed their bad policies so they could grow instead, as the potential is much greater.
Crimes against humanity never expire. And Zelensky's attitude towards allies earned him well deserved response.
I've experimented with building diffusion-based LLMs but didn't scale them up enough to draw any worthwhile conclusions about their strength vs transformer-based LLMs. In this case however, theoretical ability to unminify a piece of code mainly comes down to the training set and amount of relevant context baked into the system, not the model architecture itself.
For me part of the appeal is to have something physical that I truly own and can enjoy without being tracked by algorithm. Blue Note Tone Poets (which are analogue all the way) got me into the hobby but I also buy new records, especially when they are available in a signed version.
>What happens if the EU-USA relationship deteriorates to the point that EU doesn't sell lithography machines and other equipment to the US, doesn't accept imports made with chips from USA and requires these things be made in China, Korea or Japan?

It has been posted here many times that the US started the EUV LLC to research EUV and allowed ASML to join. ASML doesn't hold all the cards. I doubt Americans are stupid enough to let ASML walk away with all the EUV IPs.

https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/
It's going to lower the floor, because lots of stuff that would otherwise not get produced will be made, and it will be hard to see how incompetent the people behind it are at first glance because the UI could be decent. Imagine putting your valuable information into one of these garbage apps only to find out that the app wasn't even written by a programmer! If it goes just a little farther, and the AI deploys it for you too, how many disclosure and data retention laws are going to be broken by it? You'd have to be awfully desperate to want to use one of these 100% AI monstrosities created by an amateur.
Seconded. I don't think I learned much from the book, but it helped make my thought process more structured and methodical. I had a friend recently start as a developer, and I strongly recommended this to them.

I believe Hillel Wayne gives a copy to every junior dev he meets.

[1] https://www.hillelwayne.com/
It will be near-impossible to end this conflict with all of Ukrainian territory in Ukrainian hands while Putin is still in power. It would be a massive loss of face and power for Putin and he'll do anything to prevent it.

A successor (even a dictator and/or hard-liner) has a lot more manoeuvring space here, at least initially, because he can just blame it all on Putin.

Remember this all started with "we'll conquer all of Ukraine real quick, back in a jiffy". Putin pivoted to "no, we just wanted the eastern provinces" but everyone knew that was complete bollocks. The entire war is already a massive loss of face for Putin.
Robots can now learn like humans, using self-awareness
I have made the same argument long before Trump was in the picture. Stop associating everything with Trump or propaganda - people can hold opinions which don't agree with yours.
Trump’s visits to the Super Bowl and the Indie 500 alone cost the tax payers more than was saved by cuts to the national parks staffing.

People’s lives, homes, families.

Folks who have dedicated their lives to enabling their fellow citizens to experience the grandeur of our nation’s natural beauty.

For a photo op.
He is currently actively doing this with the Ukranian people in the regions of Ukraine he has annexed.

What is currently limiting him from going further is, specifically, the armed forces of Ukraine.
> Even if you take him for his words, which you shouldn't

This is exactly the kind of unhinged take on Trump that drives me crazy, and I'm not even a fan. On the one hand you say he's a liar and you can't believe anything he says, but when it's convenient for you, suddenly everything he says is completely literal.

The fact of the matter is that Trump has never initiated any serious military action, and he has a deliberate and predictable tactic of making outrageous offers and threats to put people off balance to make them compliant and accept worse offers than they otherwise would have (anchoring bias). This is a standard negotiating tactic, Trump just does it bombastically like no one else.

> He's stated that he would let Putin "do whatever he wants".

The US is not the world police. Other people being warmongers doesn't make Trump a warmonger because he "lets them".

> He plans to "level Gaza" (which means genocide) so he can build luxury hotels.

No, he didn't suggest killing anyone, he explicitly said they would be relocated. That's closer to ethnic cleansing, but decidedly not genocide.
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Also everything left will become more expensive: anyone bidding on a government contract needs to allocate more overhead money to account for refusal to pay as well as additional legal and accounting expenses, and trying to hire anyone for federal jobs costs more for less-qualified applicants when they can expect to be treated like this.

When they talk about the government being too inefficient, it’s a promise rather than analysis.
For the same reason you fire the inspectors general and the JAGs, shut down corruption investigations at the DoJ. They're systematically eliminating the people whose job is to make sure laws and rules are followed. Useful services are cut, while money is redirected to favored contractors.
No, inheritance isn't the only dubious method of accumulation that Piketty described. Try again.