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> How about a 100% tariff on Office 365, Windows, AWS, Azure, etc?

What would be the plan exactly here? These services are being sold by European-based companies and being served from European territory (eg AWS Frankfurt). There’s no import happening here.

In general it makes sense to tariff something that you can replace. E.g. tariff American eggs, so suddenly it makes more sense to import them from Peru.

If you put a 100% import tax on Windows license, the only result is that the EU customers are now paying double the price for Windows. It’s very unlikely it’ll result in people switching to an alternative system.

Same with AWS - even if you’d tariff all American cloud companies, what result would you expect? Sure, in X years maybe you’d grow an EU cloud company, but until then you’d make every European business using cloud very uncompetitive globally.

You use tariffs to prop up the companies you already have. You could put “tariffs” on Apple Music, so people would move to European Spotify.
What he is doing is exactly how you create one, so it's inevitable.
I still find them useless. What do you use them for?
They seem on bringing it back one way or another [1] and there is also a workaround utility [2].

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-c...

[2] https://pwasforfirefox.filips.si/
I'm comparing Gemma3 12 B (https://ollama.com/library/gemma3; running fully on my 3060 12GB) and Mistral Small 3 24B (https://ollama.com/library/mistral-small; 10% offloaded to the CPU).

- Gemma3 12B: ~100 t/s on prompt eval; 15 t/s on eval

- MistralSmall3 24B: ~500 t/s on prompt eval; 10 t/s on eval

Do you know what different in architecture could make the prompt eval (prefill) so much slower on the 2x smaller Gemma3 model?
Why I Left Medium for WordPress
Unfortunely we are a bit compromised in what concerns computing, we need to get back to cold war ecosystem of computing hardware, operating systems and programming languages.
> Our military is absolutely failing to live up to their oath to defend us against enemies foreign and domestic.

A good portion of them are probably cheering.

That being said, even for those with humanity, empathy and a conscience, a coup against the elected president is quite a serious thing to do, even if he is treasonous and obviously trampling human rights, constitution, separation of powers and being allowed to do so by the other branches of government that are supposed to be the checks and balances.
I assume that the article is not about sleeping. For sleeping, have you tried foam earplugs?
The unix operating environment is integrated via the filesystem. a simple, easy to use hierarchical database that every object can slot into and access.

in fact it is so simple and easy to use. it has become ubiquitous and regarded as common lesser thing, and we go searching for harder to use, less globally useful integration methods.
> Carriers outsource a ton of their operations

most of them - if not all of them. This article is from 2021:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
Simplistically it looks like that, but the US (or any other Country) never used to tax so much. The idea is to go back to a time of high GDP growth and lower taxes. Part of that is spending reduction (i.e. inspecting each arm of the government), and another part is growth hacking.

Another thing to remind ourselves of is that we don't want politicians to make decisions purely from market reactions to policy.
I feel like everyone has different expectations for a scientific plotting API. The tension between ease of use and expressivity is so strong that a one-size-fits-all solution is unlikely ever to exist.
The EU is a lot broader than just a tariff agreement; even just the "four freedoms" of the EU are goods, capital, labour, and services, and keeping with the Brexit theme, the trade barriers that Remain was talking about also included "no you can't just do your trade across the border now, we no longer recognise your qualifications" and "we need to inspect the goods crossing this border to make sure they're complying with our legal requirements; yes, we know you didn't change your own, but now there's nothing stopping you from having imported something from somewhere else that didn't follow our rules, and we need to check".

(Also, I said "lower" not "eliminate"; I was thinking more of Chinese PV, and perhaps cars, though cars would have a different group protesting).
This perspective aligns with the ongoing debate about balancing open access to information with the need to protect younger audiences from inappropriate content. Implementing such a model would require robust tools to manage and filter content effectively. In this context, services like NodeMaven can play a pivotal role by offering advanced proxy solutions that allow users to customize their internet experience, ensuring that content is both accessible and appropriate based on individual or organizational preferences.
I can send you the link, it helped me a lot while writing my thesis https://nodemaven.com/.
"The US wants" miscasts one set of power against other kinds of "the US" which doesn't want. The article actually says this. Exactly who wins and loses in this model depends on how much resilience different groups have. I can believe that in transition many many working poor through middle classes will suffer in the short term.

If this devalues the Chinese debt holdings I could that's in the plan. There's been huge concerns stated across different administrations they could call the cards in.
I'll take good complexity over bad simplicity any day.
I started programming with C a long time ago, and even now, every few months, I dream of going back to those roots. It was so simple. You wrote code, you knew roughly which instructions it translated to, and there you went!

Then I try actually going through the motions of writing a production-grade application in C and I realise why I left it behind all those years ago. There's just so much stuff one has to do on one's own, with no support from the computer. So many things that one has to get just right for it to work across edge cases and in the face of adversarial users.

If I had to pick up a low-level language today, it'd likely be Ada. Similar to C, but with much more help from the compiler with all sorts of things.
Gemalto was hacked 15 years ago:

> "AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden."

https://theintercept.com/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/
Only if you give xAI credit for releasing grok-1, which is not a very useful model.
Sure, but there is a lot of interpretation to be done (hence the need for a judge) - and at the point where judges see their role as interpreting the law maximally in favour of stopping the president, then something is wrong.
> AI coding saves me a lot of time, but the code is such low quality

Given that low quality code is perhaps the biggest time-sink relating to our work, I'm struggling to reconcile these statements?
I haven't played with more advanced feature or RAG, but at least AnythingLLM seems to support both local and remote vector databases (you can choose: lancedb, chroma, pinecone, zilliz cloud), embedding provider again both local (ollama, lmstudio) and remote and adjust text splitting and chuncking. Have some Agent skills like Web Search, scraping websites, sql connector. Seems probably the most advanced and I like you can still use ollama or lmstudio as your main LLM models repository.

OpenWebUI a little bit more harder to setup (need docker), but interface very similar to OpenAI
> This seems like a perfectly reasonable strategy until you realize you cannot do the same thing with reasoning models, if you're limiting the reasoning to just the initial prompt.

Keep in mind that what we call "reasoning" models today are the first iteration. There's no fundamental reason why you can't do what you stated. It's not done now, but it can be done.

There's nothing stoping you from running "tinking" in "chunks" of 1-2 paragraphs, doing some search, and adding more context (maybe from pre-reasoned cache) and continuing the reasoning from there.

There's also work being done on think - summarise - think - summarise - etc. And on various "RAG"-like thinking.
Shameless plug: I am working on a solution in Rust that solves the coherence problems discussed in this post. I call it Context-Generic Programming (CGP), which makes it possible to write modular code that is generic over a context (Self) type without the coherence restrictions.

The basic idea of CGP is pretty simple: we introduce a companion provider trait that has an additional generic parameter that is placed at the "Self" position of the trait, and define a unique provider type that identifies each of the generic implementation. CGP then makes use of blanket implementations and macros to enable wiring of generic providers to a concrete context to implement the original trait, which we now call a consumer trait.

You can read about the full details of CGP at https://contextgeneric.dev/. I am also writing a book for CGP at https://patterns.contextgeneric.dev/, which goes more into details on how it works behind the scene.

Currently, I am preparing for a new v0.4.0 release of CGP, which includes a lot of quality of life improvements, including significantly improved error messages. I will also write a follow up blog post to specifically address how CGP can be used to solve the coherence problems stated in this post. So do stay tuned for more updates on CGP!
At least apparent complexity. See "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets" which creeps up on you shockingly fast because C pretends to be simple by leaving things to be undefined but in the real life things need some kind of behavior.
https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-expression-complexity

i skipped off the `space` in `space_gt_zero` because i was on my phone and couldn’t be bothered to type it out all the way each time.

don’t read too much into it. it was just laziness while brining up an existing concept.
That's what I thought. And it could be pulicity of Gemini as well that it is so good that it can teach students say 5x faster. If it is Gemini, there isn't any reason to hide. My bet is it is some unreleased Gemma or some model.
> Bear in mind, it justifies the very steep membership fees (for the countries that have high enough GDP to pay) by tying membership to free trade. The EU keeps quite high external tariffs on a lot of things, especially in order to protect French agriculture

You're wrong: https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-cou...

The EU justifies the high membership fees for the rich members by the benefits those rich members get - the poorer EU countries get invested in, get developed, some of their people go live in the richer countries and contribute there, but in the end, the country evolves a lot and becomes a significant market for EU goods and contributor. Point in case, Poland, the Baltics, Spain, Romania. France has benefited from Romanian development a lot, and from Romanians when Romania was less developed. It's literally a win win win win.
I know there is definitely some wonkyness with rust traits and type inference,

// Uncomment for compiler error.
// use serde_json as _;
//
// Because serde_json includes impl PartialEq<serde_json::value> for u32
let _ = 1u32 == 1usize.try_into().unwrap();

One really interesting thing is that this can affect a comparison in a totally separate crate that never uses serde_json via features.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
"AI company" makes this an unreasonable wide question but I'll assume you mean of the big players in this ecosystem. I miss later models from Grok and xai, which don't seem to care about sharing models either
One area where freeswitch is probably used quite often (and without support contract) are BigBlueButton installations (virtual classroom system) in schools and universities. I am more worried about them then about telcos.
I've reported a trivial way to infer details about passwords in Windows. (Ctrl-arrow in password fields in Windows 8 jumped by character group even when hidden so if a prefilled password was 123 abc.de it would stop after 3, after space (I think), after c, after dot and finally after e.)

All I got was an email: that is interesting bye bye. But it was fixed in the next patch or the next after I think.

So I didn't care to report the two bigger problems I found with Azure Information Protection [1][2] I thought about reporting them but decided against it.

And I will continue to tell people that I don't care to do free work for MS when they won't even give me a t-shirt, a mug or even acknowledge it.

Maybe if one is a security researcher it can be worth it but if you just find something interesting you'll probably be better rewarded by reddit or HN, yes, the upvotes are worthless but less so than a dismissive email.

[1] one in the downloadable AIP tooling where you can easily smuggle clear text information with rock solid plausible deniability - I found it by accident after having implemented a part of a pipeline in the most obvious way I could think of.

[2]: the second had to do with how one can configure SharePoint to automatically protect files with AIP on download, the only problem being if you logged in using another login sequence (sorry for the lack of details, this was before the pandemic and it was just a small part of what I was working on at the time) SharePoint would conveniently forget all about it despite all efforts by me, the security admin at the company and the expert that Microsoft sent to fix it.
Deal. Americans can have Windows and MacOs and Europeans will have Linux.
It's a fair deal no take-backsies
Better to point you to the vast corpus out there rather than try to rehash it:

https://www.britannica.com/art/catharsis-criticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharsis
https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1965_num_43_1_2556
I think you mean un-lobotomize, and apparently it can be done without retraining? Wild!

https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
Tariffs on products and services with no realistic alternatives in the short term would simply be a tax on your own businesses and citizens. You don't want to do that. It's better to impose tariffs on something inconsequential. Something where alternatives exist and you wouldn't mind if that part of trade just stopped completely.
Exactly, fuck US-products as long as Agent Orange is in power. I never really cared about where my goods come from, but suddenly I do after a month of #47.
> Cursor has been trying to do things to reduce the costs of inference, especially through context pruning.

You can also use cline with gemini-2.0-flash, which supports a huge context window. Cline will send it the full context and not prune via RAG, which helps.
Underresearched topic for sure. They do cite studies that show some effects, just not convincing enough. Perhaps the weak effects are because they seem to overindex on serum magnesium levels, which is just not a good marker of magnesium status (unless very deficient). It's largely an intracellular/skeletal element and serum levels are quickly maintained by kidneys within a narrow range. Magnesium RBC is a much better biomarker but it's hard to find any studies that focus on it. Here's one but in a non-mainstream journal:
https://ijlbpr.com/uploadfiles/462vol12issue2pp2557-2563.202...

Anectodally, while on B6, I had a period of magnesium intolerance - it was a reliable trigger for my dysautonomia flares. I did have reactions to magnesium chloride spray - tachycardia, blood pressure spike, sometimes headache within ~15 minutes of applying it.
Sure, but then the other side can do the same.

VW producing cars in their factories in the USA? Put a tariff on these cars as the parent company is based in Europe.

It’s really not that simple, as e.g. big tech has their development centering the EU as well - so these products are at least partially produced here.

If you want to write some custom rules, sure, but then you’re really opening a pandora box. Technically you could just add 100% tax just on vehicles that have Tesla in their name. Try making such moves and look as investors immediately drop any trust in your countries political system (and currency).
Can one run cursor with local LLMs only?
You’re not being well understood here, but I do this too, and have done — with everything — all my life.

The answer is ultimately that if you deconstruct and logically analyse any particular human activity it either ruins the fun and/or makes you realise how primitive and dark most forms of entertainment are. People like being emotional, for whatever reason.

I like the explanation that says it’s about learning, though. Learning somehow feels intrinsically good.
sorry, very random, but the effect on your personal website looks great!
I fully understand that sentiment. For several years now, I have also felt the strong urge to develop something in pure C. My main language is C++, but I have noticed over and over again that I really enjoy using the old C libraries - the interfaces are just so simple and basic, there is no fluff. When I develop methods in pure C, I always enjoy that I can concentrate 100% on algorithmic aspects instead of architectural decisions which I only have to decide on because of the complexity of the language (C++, Rust). To me, C is so attractive because it is so powerful, yet so simple that you can hold all the language features in your head without difficulty.

I also like that C forces me to do stuff myself. It doesn't hide the magic and complexity. Also, my typical experience is that if you have to write your standard data structures on your own, you not only learn much more, but you also quickly see possibly performance improvements for your specific use case, that would have otherwise been hidden below several layers of library abstractions.

This has put me in a strange situation: everyone around me is always trying to use the latest feature of the newest C++ version, while I increasingly try to get rid of C++ features. A typical example I have encountered several times now is people using elaborate setups with std::string_view to avoid string copying, while exactly the same functionality could've been achieved by fewer code, using just a simple raw const char* pointer.
The author asks, "if I were doing the things that Trump is doing, why would I be doing them?" But this cannot be the right question.
The hardware isn't free. Someone asks a question and your answer is who cares about $10k of hardware hanging around as a subpar backup?
They are an IT Security company, what did you expect?
Bioplastics are getting quite advanced. This situation is a perfect example of the dangers of corporatism. Corporations will do nothing to change their processes as they exist only to make money. They have always had to be compelled to make necessary adjustments by government regulations. Unfortunately the west is now run by corporatists.
Doge axes CISA 'red team' staffers amid ongoing federal cuts
Of course, what is needed to preserve democracy and freedom is *checks notes* ideas from totalitarian dictatorships.
Good that the US do not want to annex any EU countries, then ...

... because, if you are referring to Greenland, then are not in the EU and have again just voted for their Parliament and sent a clear message that they don't want to be controlled by Denmark, either (not part of the US, either, just independent with possibly closer ties with the US).

And in any case, this is typical Trumpian bluster. Possibly the aim is to make independence happen because that would suit the US.
If “that decision” you mean going back to IC, it’s going well I think? I work remotely from outside the US, get a decent salary, and have a lot less stress than I used to! I’m currently working on AI projects I find really interesting and I’m getting a decent US developer salary in a tax-free company. Plan to retire in 15 years.
You mean FUD like

THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT.

(from https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/README.md)

> I might or might not have fallen asleep one night on a long road trip and awoken to my car driving along happily

My nightmare is getting smashed to pieces by people like you and your insurance refusing to pay because you found it funny to fiddle with your car. You being bankrupt will not help me.
Thanks for the overview.

> Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct - Good for simple coding tasks
> OpenThinker-7B - Good and fast reasoning

Any chance you could be more specific, ie give an example of a concrete coding task or reasoning problem you used them for?
Always been a Kairos man myself

Chronos time is linear and becomes functional, hence, we, spend time, waste time, use time, lose time, serve time, being on time and even kill time. Its about controlling us. the 8 hour work day for example.

Kairos time is qualitative. It measures moments, not seconds. It refers to the right moment, the opportune moment. The perfect moment. The time of your birth. The time of your death. The time of harvests. The world takes a breath, and in the pause, before it exhales, fate can be changed.

I know that exact time may be important in the world of tech and space exploration but for the average human Chronos time is meaningless.
Not the greatest at economics, but the 'Implement tariffs -> market crash -> rollback tariffs -> market recovers' cycle immediately makes me skeptical. This might work once, but subsequently, investors will simply anticipate future tarrifs (implementations or rollbacks) and stop responding to them immediately. We've already seen this when the stock market didn't react positively to the rollback of Mexican tariffs.
> Let’s start with some empathy, because let’s face it: Nobody sets out to build something insecure except maybe a cryptocurrency exchange.

:-)
IMHO the EU should step in. Having a browser that is not controlled by big tech should be part of an effort to reduce the dependency on the US.
Can you provide any details?
The EU, the US, and China are all similar sized GDPs, and which one is on top depends if you measure with nominal or PPP dollars.

From Wikipedia:

EU: $20T nominal, $29T PPP

China: $19.5T nominal, $39.4T PPP

US: $30.3T (nominal == PPP by definition)
Foam plugs absolutely do the job. What I don't like about these is that after listening to a book or podcast before sleep you need to put these in. Some nights, you fall asleep during playback and wake up to dogs barking, annoyed. Other nights, you are on the verge of consciousness and can't be bothered to put the plugs in.

Everything sound-related is always messy in many ways. I bet when we get high quality replacement digital ears you can mute, these will still have some stupid crap going on, like unstable device pairing.
The reason they're cozying up to ad-tech is because they're trying to ditch Google.
You can ignore most of the complexity that's not inherent to the program you're trying to write.

The difference is C also lets you ignore the inherent complexity, and that's where bugs and vulnerabilities come from.
I was curious how the times were obtained. It uses https://github.com/nathan-osman/go-sunrise , which links to this calculation method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_equation#Complete_calc...
You should try Mistral Small 24b it’s been my daily companion for a while and have continued to impress me daily. I’ve heard good things about QwQ 32b that just came out too.
Not even that, the names used by impersonators are quite suggestive of being natives of those countries.