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Ask HN: Geopolitically can Taiwan call the shots now because of AI chips?
Not overtly as that would upset the Overton window of Taiwan's "accepted place" in world affairs - but behind the scenes could this be happening?

How? Because it would seem that the island nation of Taiwan could hold the world and its handful of super powers by the cojones if it wanted to, by having a monopoly right now on the manufacture of the silicon needed to run the current and medium term revolution and global competition in AI.

I don't know, but it occurred to be it might be so, so I'm asking here for what you all think?

On the face of it "Taiwan is too small" to call the shots seems to send the idea packing...but the US, China and everyone else rely 100% on Taiwan supplying them with chips right now, so maybe it's not so simple. What do you think?

For anyone who accepts this thesis, what would Taiwan be asking for in return for this power? How would it be taking advantage of its moment? Or would other nations be too wary of Taiwan's monopoly to engage in backroom trading, not wanting to embolden or "give it ideas" ?

Seems an interesting and current dynamic, but I haven't heard the implications and second order effects discussed beyond the tired "relationship to possible war" narrative. So I think it's good to ask here to stimulate discussion and see if there's a consensus.
This is actually amazing, thanks for finding this and sharing it!
I hope there is an author of the post. I appreciate sharing this example.

However, there is a caveat regarding the workflow code itself, that placing "run" statement with specific commands directly in YAML may make it difficult to debug locally. I would recommend that "run" statements be only for script execution and their number minimized. This way, scripts can be run locally without waiting for the entire CI pipeline to execute each time.
From my experience with the piano one, the "tweaking the sound" aspect is where I've got the most out of it. Even just for awareness. But yeah, the physical modelling approach is probably better suited to something like piano with all its interacting resonances (and the way a tuner can change things around on a real piano).
Happy to see UpCloud on HN. We are trying to consider them for a long time, just haven't found the time. https://blog.fortrabbit.com/infra-research-2024

There is also https://european-alternatives.eu/
You were a significant contributor to a DMCA circumvention measure for playing pirated Nintendo games. What changed since then?
> Also, that's not your real Dad.

But meet your new Big Brother!
It was actually the California State Attorney General.
they have terraform [provider](https://search.opentofu.org/provider/upcloudltd/upcloud/late...), that is great!

This is how they compare with AWS: https://upcloud.com/competitors-and-alternatives/aws
People do that with pianos and other instruments too. Some of these sample packs are very expensive. It is a small market though, I suppose.
No problem over here at all. It's probably a problem with "German internet".
>People have been saying that since the start

The progress made since the start has been wild, and if it keeps increasing, even at a much slower pace, it's gonna be even better.

That's like people looking at N64 games saying "wow, these new 3D graphics sure look like ass, they'll never catch on and replace 2D games". Or like people looking at the output of early C compilers going "wow, this is so unoptimized, I'll stick to coding in assembly for my career since nobody will ever use compilers for serious work".

It boggles my mind how ignorant people can be about progress and disruption based on how past history played out. Oh well, at least more power to those who embrace the new tech early on.
*sigh*

"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes."

This thing is whimsy and fun, it's not a chore to be automated away.
That's not what the stat says. It says only 25% of findings selected specifically for sounding important replicated for that particular company, not that 25% of output overall does. And replicable doesn't mean correct or useful, it's just the first step. There are lots of ways for a study to replicate yet be wrong.

25% is crazy low, but 11% is even lower. If someone told you things and 90% of the time they were wrong, you'd stop listening.

Solar panels having low effectiveness would actually be a good argument against them, because although the solar industry needs solar panels the correct comparison is with the energy industry overall, which doesn't.
And they're also loading a script from googletagmanager.com.
We use the same for Lightning: even bits for incompatible changes, odd for backwards compatible changes.
Guess we are about to find out how valuable your DNA is.
SPL assists MongoDB: Convert response into array of object
I don't get how you can advertise Kubernetes from 0 euro / month and then you have to choose a node that costs 3 euro / month.

I have no idea if it's cheap or not but how is this kind of advertising legal?
> Is this a sign democracy is weak? Or is it a sign that the political process has to choose between mutually exclusive popular policies?

It is a sign democracy is fake. Democracy only exists at the grace of someone/something else that decides these very large (in terms of cost) and unpopular policies. And the only thing that really matters is whether people advance economically. This works in democracies because, in a democracy, it's very, very easy to prevent change, so the institutions and policies that existed before democracy was introduced (or before it was real democracy) persist almost everywhere.

Authoritarian changes, and eventually war, is what happens when you have a sustained economic deterioration in a country. The form of governance matters on an individual level, but not on a country level. We're in the first stages of that now, and it's hard to see anything happen but it getting worse from this point forward.

One application of this: if you want to defeat MAGA, you need to pay middle America. MAGA voters vote MAGA because their economic situation has been deteriorating since, well, really since 2008 (with local areas, like Detroit, further back), and accelerated since COVID. A very, very visible part of this deterioration on a household level, sorry, is the increase in household medical spending that is the result of ACA. Yes, it's a very good deal in terms of "how much medical care do I get for $x" (esp. if you're poor), but a pretty bad deal in terms of "if I don't care about medical anything, how much $ can I spend right now?" (especially if you work for those $, and what especially matters if it's more or less than last month/last year/last ... it's less)

More generally, medical and pension costs for the aging population are reducing everyone's standards of living ... and this will keep getting worse for at least 2 decades. We need a solution for this. Republicans' solution is to throw everyone to the curb (less medical care, less pensions, less public transport, even less education, less universities, ...). Can we do better? How?
Which kind of software license uses Deduce? The web says it's open source, but I couldn't find the license in the github repository.
Okay, now I am concerned because almost every time somebody tells me "nobody is forcing you to use this new technology", in 5 or so years (if this technology survives) I am starting to get forced to use this new technology because it's "mature enough, and is basically the new industry standard, what you are currently using is going to be deprecated in a couple of years". Apparently, it's because if someone wants to make their new way the only way, they have to tell people "of course we're not forcing anyone to do it this way" for the first several years, while keeping working on rooting the existing ways out.

Anyway, I digress; what I actually would like to know is the benefits/downsides compared to e.g. immutable boot partitions, or whatever. After all, I don't generally build my own OS images, neither in .iso or in OCI-image format, I take and use off-the-shelf ones; but it generally involves dd-ing them onto the /dev/sdX at the very least. Using prepared .vdi's is another option.
Ask HN: Do programmers generally enjoy some amount of complexity?
Occured to me that sometimes, simple enough is not good enough for us programmers. It seems that sometimes we might actually enjoy grappling with complex, even byzantine systems. Can anyone relate? I'm not saying this is a thing, not even for myself...but I suspect it might be, possible.

Some examples where I've encountered this possibility of things being perhaps more complicated than they need to be: ReactJS, Azure templates (and infra as code/config in general).

Could it be there's something satisfying that we need about working with complex systems? Do we "like the complexity" so much that we actually, sometimes, make more complexity than we need to, because that's more enjoyable?

Or is this shower-type thought safe to chuck in the receptacle of non-sensical but good sounding ideas (and other trendy intellectualism)?

edit: Not to side-track into naming, but just for those who might get stuck on terminology I use programmer here interchangeably with software engineer or developer (I know there might be differences, tho honestly not too sure what they are) - but basically those of us who work in this industry and produce code.
The fact that Russia is still connected to the Internet is a thorn in the side of a lot of anti-piracy efforts because pirating western content is legal there, as far as I understand it.
Is BBB == "blood-brain barrier"?
Look at the current political situation in the US. Do you think there's a lot of legislation protecting consumers from insurance firms any time soon?
That isn't disinformation though? The disinformation in that case is the one being pushed by Western politicians.

The propaganda on RT is of a completely different nature than the propaganda on TikTok.
It was just a question of time.

Even without spoke-and-hub model, hubs grow and there are more hubs. Airports are the bottleneck. 500 passengers per landing adds capacity.
Upcloud: 48 cores €1364/month

Hetzner Dedi Cloud: 48 cores €288.49/month
I'm not expecting 100% SLO, but using Cloudflare cloud service while you are a cloud service is little ridiculous.
100%. I've switched over to Apple Music because you really feel that they are pushing public playlists. Search terms maximize their playlists vs mine. I now had to go to my library to find my playlists because they wouldn't even show up.
This is a strange page: https://upcloud.com/products/zero-cost-egress

There's "zero cost egress" mentioned all over the page but the limits on https://upcloud.com/fair-transfer-policy are comparable to other hosts like DigitalOcean: the cheapest 7 EUR VPS has a limit of 1TB of bandwidth. (For comparison, Hetzner offers 20TB on their EU VPS for under $5.)

> Say goodbye to unpredictable egress costs and hello to our zero egress fee initiative. Unlike other cloud providers, we don’t charge for outbound traffic (‘egress’). This gives you the freedom to distribute your content and scale your business without the constant worry of unexpected bills.

This has to be a joke.
> how the 'feedback loop' works?

If the leader does too much of a poor job it tends to be voted out. Democracy doesn't work by ensuring great people get power. It just avoids perpetuating leadership that gets too misaligned with a large share of the population.
> In my country, the average voter wants their trash hauled away, but don't want any dumps or incinerators built. They want responsive public services, but they don't want tax increases, cuts to other services, or a deficit. They want good care for the elderly,

Many "undemocratic" nations have functioning public services, clean streets, low to virtually no-crime and good universities.

> but they don't want to spend more on care workers, or to give the jobs to poorly paid immigrants.

In a capitalist economy part of a global marketplace, you are not "owed" jobs.
There are political parties in the world today speaking of remigration based on citizenship of family up to 3 or 4 generations. The data from 23andme would fit this purpose perfectly.
Nothing of what I said is incorrect, yet you chose to provide a condescending and pointless explainer instead of addressing my arguments.

Why is VDL ruling the commission if her previous performance was terrible and she isn't viewed favorably by the majority of Europeans?

Why was she appointed by MPEs with secret ballot?

Given the current situation, do you really believe the democratic system in place for the EU provides efficient mechanisms for holding elected officials accountable for their actions?

I'd honestly expect better from the supposed "cradle of democracy".
It's one thing to visit the website, but I would be interested what % is actually migrating?

For me personally, I had to install the "Go European" browser extension [1] before I actually started switching, due to more frequent reminders, from using mostly chatGPT/claude to LeChat by mistral (which feels at least as good).

My Take-away: User stickiness is hard to break due to providers' walled gardens, even for me who is aware and willing to change.

[1] https://codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEuropean
I'm a genetic engineer at a large pharma company. Genetic engineering of human model systems is my specialty. If I were a malicious actor, I could not do anything useful with the genome of any one person.

Most peoples genomes are boring and at best sway the predisposition for disease by a modest degree. Exposing infidelity is honestly the best I can come up with.
If you want to know why bootc is needed check this list of goals: https://containers.github.io/bootable/

I found that URL by following the link in
"bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers."

(https://bootc-dev.github.io/bootc/intro.html)
The only reason you may use these EU version of services is that you are in Europe.

Otherwise EU is worse in terms of privacy. UK (while not officially in Europe) goes even beyond, requiring backdooor to iCloud and non-eu providers.
No.

1. If TSMC disappears tomorrow, the US still has Intel to make chips. It'll be very bad for chip supply for a few years, but the US and its allies have all the tech to recreate most, if not all, of TSMC's services in 2-3 years in an emergency situation.

2. In 2025, China aren't allowed to make chips smaller than 7nm at TSMC. Destroying TSMC slows down the US more than China. At this point, TSMC basically only serves US customers so China doesn't lose much if TSMC goes down. It's probably better for China if TSMC disappears tomorrow actually.

3. China doesn't care that much about Taiwan's chip industry in the grand scheme of things. It's a nice bonus to have TSMC intact but it's not a must for them.

Unfortunately for Taiwan, they can't use TSMC as a leverage in any conflict with China because the US has forced them to stop selling advanced chips to China. If Chinese companies and US companies heavily rely on TSMC, then Taiwan would have more leverage. But as of right now, only US companies do.

Meanwhile, China is pouring resources into making their own EUV machines. The US still has Intel and it just forced TSMC to build more fabs on US soil. So Taiwan is losing more leverage every day.
>As is so often the case, the truth behind the myth is more prosaic, and doesn’t involve Apple secretly capturing data from your Mac, nor conspiring to dodge warranty repairs.

>on not one of the occasions that liquid detection was performed did that MacBook Pro try to connect to any remote site. Maybe its reports could have been embedded in other analytics data passed to Apple later

You can't have it both ways, Howard. You admit that you didn't prove that it wasn't sent, yet you then claim that couldn't have been the case.

While it has not been proven either way, given how anti-consumer Apple has become, I am not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this, and I'm surely not the only one.
Well, take the actual weather observations for the past year. Take the actual weather observations for the last week. Overlay and slide this week of observations on top of the observations of the past year, until you find the window that matches "the best" — then take the day right after this window and predict that the weather will be just like that (or maybe try to tweak the values a bit).

I wonder how poorly this thing operates, and whether taking several years of history to look at would help much.
board probably thinks the assets remaining after the bankruptcy pays off the creditors is more than the $8/share?
Would be interesting to see a "Non-US Alternatives" site, just to see what's out there in Canada, Australia, China etc.
I wish I was for the life of me any good as a businessperson right now. No, developers are not good at business. There seems to be a huge opportunity here, since everything in the cloud computing category are plain old server hosts, nothing like "real clouds".
Did anyone make a large TypeScript codebase work with ESM + TS + node (together with IDE support and yarn pnp support?)

The thing that is annoying with ESM is that it requires to have extensions in imports, i.e. `import .. from '/foo.js'`.

This gets messy with TypeScript, where your files are named `foo.ts` but you need to import `foo.js`.

The previous "best practice" in TS world was to have extensionless JS imports, so this move would require a massive codemod to update all imports in an entire codebase.

For now, we've been using `ts-node` with swc under the hood, but without ESM. I tried `tsx`, but the compilation time of esbuild is way too slow, some of our node CLI tools written in TS take 15s to boot up, which is not acceptable (with `ts-node` it's 3-4s) (tbh, it's probably partly a fault of our CLI framework, which crawls all workspaces to discover all CLI tools, and as we have a lot of them, tsx has a lot of useless work to do).
> Too many Americans believe the world would be screwed without the US and the USD, they can’t imagine trading being done in RMB or EUR, yet it is already happening.

Most Americans who voted for this (and to some extent their representatives) genuinely and seriously do not think about this matter with any depth and don’t care about the knock-on effects one bit.

They lack any desire to know if the world would be screwed or not by US actions. They really just don’t care.

They (think that they) want isolationism, less trade, less immigration, less interacting with others.

This isn’t hubris — it’s simply ignorance.
The next step is obviously:

curl https://install.os.shoddydockerfile.com | sh
It is really nice. I'm glad the Node and Typescript teams finally starting making pragmatic decisions to actually be useful.

Now typescript just needs some better defaults from tsc --init to match :)
non-Rust meaning non-std types, for which Bevy reflect can do manual trait implementation.
Funnily enough, it is emphatically not a single-pass compiler.
Y Combinator alumni might beg to differ?
i always thought that its valuable when you have enough data from an insurance pov? is that a myth?
Is Vite faster than Turbopack?
But one's vote is never for whatever the vote winning party actually does.

Eg one might like one party's position on the environment, but disagree with regards to their military position - it is not possible to find a party that represents how one feels on a multitude of issues. And even if you did agree with all a party's positions, parties change their positions - saying one thing and doing another.

And it has always been thus. One votes for a representative, who then votes on the specifics.
exzacly
musk is providing one of a kind services to the US government at prices far lower than any competitor
and that puts him in an unassailable possition
he has been in deap with the military for a long time, and now even deaper with the white house.
He also has more than a few very large plays he can make, at any time, so anyone shorting him, could be looking at a hair cut, or worse.
this is not to say that I am condoning or approving or seeking to gain, I loath the whole thing, but mark him where he is, and accept that he didn't "cheat"
watch, trump will stage a big thank you, as musk writes out the single largest check for taxes in history.,..,.something ,something..."if only every body would do there duty like mr.musk" ......and anybody yelling at musk, might just have there taxes,audited
> Otherwise EU is worse in terms of privacy

Please elaborate how the EU is worse (UK doesn't count). Worse than what other country and how?
Sad to see it go! Especially with recent improvements.

Anyone know how large the team was behind this app? The delivered impressively!
I thought -f cancels out -i, and when you alias "rm=rm -i", and then run "rm -rf" you get "rm -i -rf" and -f is last so it still wins.
Could you show me where you're getting that data? Not saying you're wrong, it's just that this contradicts everything I've heard before and I can't find counter-evidence. I checked the NVCA's latest data pack (which is excellent) and it seems to agree with me that tech dwarfs pharma.

https://nvca.org/document/q4-2024-pitchbook-nvca-venture-mon...

If you go to "Deals x Sector" and then scroll down they split out deals by dollar value by sector and software alone is $89.2B vs $25.3B for pharma last year. But software isn't all of the tech industry, they also have a row for IT hardware startups which is $8.2B. Adding it up the tech industry sees 4x more money flowing into it than pharma despite that most tech startups are selling optional nice-to-haves to people who buy from their own pocket, vs pharma who sells stuff that might be life-critical to people who socialize the costs via insurance.

In theory, pharma should dwarf tech. You can't say no to a life saving drug if you need it: it should be easy money. In practice, the VCs interviewed in my source seem to have it right - pharma VC is much less competitive overall.
HTTP/2 “pipelining” (multiplexing) is still there and works as intended; but bundling is still much more efficient.

This article delves into just that: https://csswizardry.com/2023/10/the-three-c-concatenate-comp...
The first pair of waterfall graphics illustrates the problem clearly.

(What you vaguely remember as not working as intended is probably Server Push).
"If we put $20 billion on the table" and he's serious.

We live in an age of hundreds-deep call stacks and eleven-digit projects. Awesome complexity, generally well handled.
It only appears that HackerRank/Leetcode isn’t good at filtering because you’re viewing it from your perspective, and not the perspective of the entire population that is tested. To you, the predictive power at the top tail end of the distribution is low, because you’re thinking of two strong developers Alice and Bob. Alice happens to know algorithm X and would pass the test, whereas Bob does not. But that’s not the population we’re testing. Think more along the lines of Alice and Bob and your grandmother were the test population. It’s absolutely fantastic at filtering the lower 95% of applicants because they will _never_ be able to pass. Yes, inadvertently 2.5% of “good developers” are filtered too, but that doesn’t matter to the outcome of your company. They just want someone competent, and they don’t care if it’s Alice or Bob.

The same logic sort of applies to Tim and his performance. The bias of having an imperfect metric is probably much better than the bias of letting an army of middle managers go with their cut. Besides, it doesn’t have to be a hard filtering function at this stage, but a metric to indicate that we need to look a little closer at Tim