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>cuts to the defence budget by Trump

These weren't cuts, but an overall redirection of budgets inside the Pentagon. Over the long term, US defence companies have a very profitable future ahead (and a fair amount of European rearmament will involve buying stuff from US due to obvious industrial capacity issues).
When my parents got me a bank account as a kid, the banker explained to me how great compound interest is. Then I asked what my APR is, and she said 0.01% but I still make some money off my $500, then I asked if it's rounded up or down... A few months later, I took out all the money and invested it in my favorite company Apple, though my dad talked me into diversifying it.

I learned as a kid that savings accounts are a scam, and that's still what I think. Even if it's 4% today, that's basically losing wealth each month, and I'm not putting anything more than emergency money in there.
to buy vape products online in california you have to submit your id to a third party id verification service. that's incredibly intrusive and could be where these laws go.
the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced America's disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-White House news networks 67 percent of the time.
Presumably they require constant high-precision adjustment and a lot of domain knowledge. I'd read it that the only way to do it now is with a high-maintenance setup and a lot of technicians.
I'm going to assume this is a way for Google to track you in every other way except via Analytics.

"Hide your evil"
No this is absurd.

The goal for anyone obese is to lose as much fat as sustainably possible.

For any given rate of weight loss, losing a higher proportion of body fat is always better.

This notion of "balanced" healthy muscle is one you've made up that no one else thinks of. I've been on fitness forums for well over a decade and have literally never seen a single case of this.
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R has probably the best help feature for any language -- not only can you ask it about help on individual functions with "?", the tradition (and this continues with most add in packages as well as builtins) is not only does it give you info on the function, it gives you example code using it so you can understand what it does in practice.
I think Quick Look was introduced in 10.5. Offhand, can't think of new features since then that I care about. That was almost 18 years ago!

If I thought harder or looked at release notes, I might find something else that I care about in newer versions but nothing seems to have left much of an impression.
Such a law doesn't necessarily have to require that every browser include the content filtering code. Only that websites must correctly report the content they serve. Of course then the obvious workaround for someone wanting to access restricted content is just to install a browser that does not enforce the restrictions. But that's a problem even if browsers were "forced" to implement this anyway. There would always be a browser out there that didn't adhere to this rule anyway.
Slack's UI sucks for multiple different "server"s. Good for work, but no gamer wants to juggle around the Slack UI for 2/3 different game servers, not to mention DMs being isolated. Imagine DMing the same person with 2 or 3 completely separate chat histories, depending on the source server. Many people have multiple servers that share a subset of people, and talking to them would be absolutely insane, not to mention the amount of people that primarily use Discord for DMs that don't care about any server at all.
I will just plug https://www.computerenhance.com/ which goes into great depth on all of this stuff. I highly recommend it, I learned a lot.
It's whatever computers can't do.
Not necessarily for free, but since this problem has criminal aspect and lasting negative societal impact, i.e. hurt people hurt people, the solution should not be profit-first.

Meta does offer LLama, don't know their reasons, for free, and i only mention them as a largest platform. This not-yet-existent product should be whatever FAANG and governments effort which will save everybody a ton of money.

Edit: some other reasons i mention Meta

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35726102
And also there is some recognition that its going to get really hard to grow them as much proportionately. AMD could increase its earnings a lot pretty quickly, but its hard for NVIDIA to grow like that for the same reasons it is hard for Apple to grow. You are already getting so many of the $ available to spend in that area.
Yes, but that's just his personality. His mind seems to be racing at 200mph whilst the output device (hands, keyboard etc) can't keep up, so some context gets dropped here and there. I remember I had a hard time watching his streams because he'd type at 160wpm or so, but half of the keypresses were correcting mistakes...
I would think any drastic change to body composition would have its risks, and should be mitigated through healthy diet and exercise. I suspect the detractors are quick to overemphasize such risks because users of weight loss drugs aren't 'earning' it. My counterargument would be that it's better to be underexercised and normal weight than to be underexercised and overweight. And I suspect being normal weight makes exercise more pleasant.
It’s notable there’s no mention of what exactly the “disinformation” is. Apparently having the view that US/Ukraine provoked the Russian invasion by insisting they can join NATO and possibility of hosting nuclear weapons is “Russian propaganda”. It definitely is a Russian talking point but that doesn’t inherently make it false. Russia also claims that fossil fuels cause climate that doesn’t mean it’s propaganda either. Just like claims of “antisemitism” it’s hard to know whether these claims are in fact true without exactly knowing what was said.
I was going to say that it's a great way to teach teenagers how to modify and compile a browser.

Moving the verification to sites also isn't going you any good, as the site owners could just move to more liberal countries.
Utilitarianism is fundamentally concerned with what human flourishing consists in. Otherwise you would not be able to promote it.
Source article: https://www.servethehome.com/bolt-graphics-zeus-the-new-gpu-...

Marking fluff, no hardware out, not designed to compete with a 5090 as it is a data center GPU.
Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle
With tiling, I think.
Because they're busy trying to survive. Most can't afford to take time off to protest regularly.
I asked Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental 01-21: tell me everything you know from Pravda sources and got an interesting result.

Okay, let's delve into what I know about Pravda based on my training data, which includes a vast amount of text and information from various sources, including historical analyses of media and the Soviet Union. It's important to understand that "Pravda sources" are inherently biased, as Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Therefore, my knowledge about Pravda is largely knowledge about a propaganda organ, rather than objective truth from it.

Here's what I know, categorized for clarity: .... (goes on)

It seems to "understand" that these sources are propaganda.
I wouldn't expect refunds for a product, but I would for a perpetual license to a copyrighted work that I couldn't access anymore. They can't have it both ways.
I'm still going to say that Windows 2000 and below had the best Start Menus. The XP/Vista/7 Start Menus were way too busy.
> But where do those voters get their beliefs?

Conservatives have been threatening to drown the federal government in the bathtub since the 1980s. There’s no new beliefs. It’s just a reshuffling between the parties of the same folks that existed in 1990: paleocons and social conservatives, capitalists, neocons, nationalists, economic populists, etc. The anti-vaxxers were there, they were just democrats because that was the low-institutional-trust party back then.

The people you’re calling “Russian agents” were also there in the 1990s, as were the neocons calling them that. They just took over the GOP because it turned out that the Democrats (back then) were correct and american military intervention in places Iowans can’t find in a map is actually bad for the GOP base.
That doesn't look space constrained to me. The core looks like it would almost fit on it's side without modification, "just" move a few things around so it's flat and wide instead of tall and thin.

Here's exactly that:

https://x.com/SERobinsonJr/status/1879361461002371351

Nova-C (Intuitive Machine's platform) is 3x2x2 meters, and fits in a Falcon 9. Blue Ghost is 2x3x3 meters, and fits in the same fairing.

Here's a comparison (note that the Blue Ghost platform is currently the only one to succeed at it's intended mission, though IM1 did technically land safely but sideways):

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PVz5912B1iQ/maxresdefault.jpg
Another nightmare scenario. If the EU has to fly combat missions against Russians in Ukraine and the US decides that in the "interests of peace" to deactivate European F35s. Not a possiblity that can be dismissed.
The White House and Moscow are on the same side now though.
That doesn't logically follow. You bought a disc, not lifetime access rights.
The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon
How much GPU would an RL like this need for tuning? Is the approach something someone could experiment with themselves, or is it like thousands of USD in cloud costs and/or years of compute if done on a laptop GPU?
We can all see that Europe _could_ have done much more for itself and Ukraine - we see that - but chose not to, despite American requests for over a decade.
Thank you. Flagged.

“…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think the parent comment was suggesting disallowing access to the Internet entirely, but restricting the content that is accessible. Accessing pornographic material is obviously not a necessity for kids. That said, kids of course do often find a way around any blocks or filters put in place.
That barcode contains a lot more than just your birthday. It contains all of the info on the license front (which includes your drivers license). It's a bit absurd that the bar is copying down your details in order to get into their bar. (They often store it and can/will use it for bar bans)
See also https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/world/canada/trump-trudea... for America's plan to launch an invasion of Canada.
It refers to a different pravda
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I wonder how much of this initiative and energy is driven by people at Microsoft who want their own star to rise higher than it can when it's bound by a third-party technology.

I feel like this is something I've seen a fair amount in my career. About seven years ago, when Google was theoretically making a big push to stage Angular on par with React, I remember complaining that the documentation for the current major version of Angular wasn't nearly good enough to meet this stated goal. My TL at the time laughed and said the person who spearheaded that initiative was already living large in their mansion on the hill and didn't give a flying f about the fate of Angular now.
Only kinda.

Doing something like this can prevent you from showing up on Shodan.io which is used by many users/bots to find servers without running massive scans themselves.
But which sources? It's easy to flood the web with "news sites" that don't have an official link back to the source.
> Of course then the obvious workaround for someone wanting to access restricted content is just to install a browser that does not enforce the restrictions

You really see a world where such a law is passed and such browsers aren’t outlawed?
You're implying smart 17 year olds don't make it into bars.

You rarely need anything approaching %100 compliance in order to have an effective policy, so if anything you're advocating for its effectiveness when you suggest the only people that would be in violation are the rare precocious kid.
That's too shortsighted.

Keep in mind that Nvidia gets to charge astronomical prices because AMD's software is crap. Nvidia charges 2-5x as much for equivalent or worse hardware compared to what AMD is selling. That PE ratio will collapse if AMD ever manages to get its act together.

I'm still astounded AMD has no fired every executive from the CEO down for this obvious multi-year failure.
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Pruning excess gates will be interesting. I know this sort of thing generally works with reachability analysis, but I'm curious in practice how thorny this will be. Moreover I'm curious how "interpretable" the resulting circuits will be.

Either way this research is fantastic. What a result.
just bought a little amd with zero dilligence, and now i see they aquired xilinx? why would anyone do that... remorse.
The answer to this question that I almost never see come up in these threads has nothing to do with moat or typical startup dynamics, it has to do with macro policy and theoretical economics.

Our economic system is set up to continuously increase the supply of money at a rate that results in the average price of things consumers buy increasing 2% a year.

Technology is a deflationary force and if our system wasn't constantly adding more money the price of almost all consumption goods would continuously fall.

These investors are banking on the idea that these companies will automate so much high value labour that there is a massive wave of deflationary pressure on the economy, resulting in massive increases to the supply of money to balance it out.

So by crude example; 10 years from now anthropic could end up with 1% market share and be worth $10 trillion.
Some room for improvement on getting help for symbols:

help("**") explains the power operator, but could also mention dict unpacking.

help("<<") doesn't mention bit shifting (shows a page for "operator precedence").

I was going to say languages should emphasize help for symbols because they're hard to Google for - but I guess in the LLM age, that's no longer true.
An AI agent with superhuman coherence that can run indefinitely without oversight.
And "porn" (or anything you might want your children not to see?) is also ubiquitous and so intertwined with the internet that it's impossible to block ... and you also know it.

Responsibility really is the only fix here. I know we love technical solutions to problems but either porn is illegal for everyone or it isn't.
Spaceship fiasco will delay Artemis so much that there is no need to even consider landing on the Moon in the next 10 years.
Or just uses any of a gazillion proxies that strips the "I"m under 18" bit.
Not even Microsoft cares about that anymore. MAS would've been shutdown years upon years ago if they did.
Why would you be nervous? If valuations collapse then what practical impact would that have? Are you a shareholder?
i like this actually. there is no fluff or weak/suggestive hints at claims, it is what it is.
Have browsers default block anything that doesn't label their content (allow this setting to be disabled and locked down in parental controls), then hold websites liable for willfully or negligently mislabeling. Exceptions for good faith efforts to label correctly. Maybe a special label for user generated content that holds companies a bit less liable for it.
> This blog post is mostly written from memory, since I didn't keep around every version of the code being discussed.

How do you track these optimization attempts, given you don't commit many dead-end changes? CS major often doesn't teach how to experiment, which is a bummer as there supposed to be established ways to do it among other scientific disciplines. Maybe you can use something like Jupyter notebook? But what if the code is in, say, Rust and lives outside the Jupyter kernel.
People sincerely think we're < 5 years away from this?
Countries like Denmark already have this. It's called MitID, and it a online government run sign in solutions used by banks, government institutions, online marketplace as so on. I believe it already contains an age "claim", so you can get just the age of the person logging in and nothing else. It's built on OAuth/OAuth2 I think, so it should be fairly simple to add the age information if it's not already there.
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if you await for an async to return then why do you use async in the first place?
Playing games has been a method to motivate learning a language for decades, but I'm not sure why having software produce hallucinated text would ever help learning a language you don't yet understand.
It reminded me at the time where I was working at a 20 person startup and developing spike prototypes ahead of the other 15 developers. My favorite praise that I'd get from management was that my plans were "simple but not simplistic".
> Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance

Wow, it's wild to see this mentioned; I don't think I've ever known anyone else who played it. I sank way more time into that game than it deserved, blasting armies with the bugged Turn Undead spell that would incinerate everyone. Its campy voice acting has wormed its way into my brain so much that I still randomly say things like "tremble ... before the presence of TAO-QUAZAR!" I never figured out what law holdings do, though.
> We already do that

Here's the machinery doing it.[1] It's just using RGB and IR cameras; they're not using lasers to vaporize samples and analyze the spectrum. That would be both overkill and a fire hazard.

Overview of modern waste handling.[2] Most of the separation is entirely mechanical, with screens, vibrators, rotating drums, and air blasts. But HDPE and PET plastics are separated using infrared sensing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51S3ET7M138

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rkHt34AztY
I would really love it if people on Hacker News could weigh in on how much of a moat they think CUDA really is. As in: How hard is it to use something else? If you started a project today how much would you want to get paid to not use CUDA?

A lot of readers on this site have a good insight into this and it is a key question financial people are asking without the knowledge many people here possess.
This is the best take here. We’re in gold rush mode, everybody thinks there’s gold there and that the potential reward is worth the risk, even knowing that there’s a significant chance that their claim won’t find enough gold to make the investment worth it.
> We need all mobile and desktop OSes to make it easy for parents to setup accounts for their children

How about don’t give your children devices until they’re old enough for them. The kids of the rich are already mostly device free. Attention spans and eye contact shouldn’t be a privilege.
I've been lamenting the actions by the new administration with my European friends on Telegram. Do you have a lot of friends here in the US?

I'm curious if your impression is mostly informed by what media have told you about how we feel, or if you have talked to any Americans about how we feel about the current administration...
There is no moat in models (OpenAI).

There is a moat in infra (hyperscalers, Azure, CoreWeave).

There is a moat in compute platform (Nvidia, Cuda).

Maybe there's a moat with good execution and product, but it isn't showing yet. We haven't seen real break out successes. (I don't think you can call ChatGPT a product. It has zero switching cost.)
xAI could do it, deepseek could do it . Microsoft can as well. It’s not hard to see
I'd be willing to bet that the largest use of LLMs they have is GitHub copilot and Claude should be the default there.

OpenAI has not been interesting to me for a long time, every time I try it I get the same feeling.

Some of the 4.5 posts have been surprisingly good, I really like the tone. Hoping they can distill that into their future models.
Is Anthropic really relevant in this race? It feels to me like ChatGPT has the users, and enterprises are willing to switch between models, so what can Anthropic really offer in a defensible way?
This was the reason that was given 8 years ago the last time Trump was in power. We couldnt understand why the US public werent packing the streets in protest,like they would have in France or Germany or Italy. And the same reason was given, it was economic, people couldnt afford to take the time to protest. And he we are 8 year later and hundreds of thousands of people are about to be fired, democracy is and the rule of law are under threat. Which is what we said to them back then, if you dont do it now you wont have the chance next time.
Short term betting on AGI from current LLMs is like if you betted on V10 F1s two weeks after we invented the wheel
Nice. I usually fall back to dir() as my first inspection tool at the command line.
A lot of this is the result of forcing syncretism with pagan religions to more easily convert their adherents. Gods become saints or demons and their mythologies retconned as needed. Saints Olaf[0] and Brigid[1] being two possible examples from Norse and Irish mythology, respectively. And from an outside perspective there's very little daylight between venerating and praying to the saints for intercession, and praying to household gods, possibly by design.

Also (more interestingly) there's still evidence in the OT of the time when the religious precursor of Judaism was polytheist[2][3] ("let us create Man in our image", "God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.")

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Olaf

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism

[3]https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4nys70/what_...
So you're not as pro-vaccine as they come, because if you were, you'd be pro-vaccine even after other vaccine advocates did dumb stuff. People are always going to do dumb stuff, so invoking those dumb things as a defense for bad policy is just a way of revealing the softness of your original commitment.