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> AI lab founders believe they are in a civilizational competition for control of the entire future lightcone, and will be made Dictator of the Universe if they succeed.

Bingo, but I'd argue this is only scratching the surface of how twisted things are.

A lot of the stuff these labs put out (see: Amodei's cult-like blog ramblings) reeks of what I call "sociopathic utopianism" - essentially, the logical extreme of ends-justified means, made worse in the context of AI labs by the singularity pseudo-religion.

They all truly believe that AGI/ASI is possible, imminent, and could lead to utopia... so achieving that goal will surely outweigh any unsavory acts they commit in the pursuit of it.

This is why I think it's possible OpenAI took out a hit on Suchir; getting bogged down in a legal battle could delay the arrival of their machine god messiah. Same for defrauding benchmarks - they just need a "few more rounds" of investor cash, and by the time those run out, they'll surely have AGI on lock!

Fools. I look forward to them all getting prison time.
I mean, given the baseline that the EU _has_ to retaliate (IMO the game theory of trade wars dictates this; the EU really can't _not_ retaliate), targeted retaliation against Trump's people, and potentially targeted retaliation against Trump-voting regions (the EU did this in Trump's first attempt at tariff increases a few years back), is likely less damaging than China's approach for the EU (though certainly also lacking in the same degree of shock and awe).
This is not correct. Both the subhead of the article and the DNG format's Wikipedia Page state that DNG is open and not subject to IP licensing.

While having two file formats to deal with in software development definitely "competes" with the simplicity of just having one, patents and licensing aren't the reason they're not choosing Adobe DNG.
Not readable on mobile.
Island by Aldous Huxley
Ofc they grow "attached", because it's free shit - I'd say it's got 99% nothing to do with nostalgia or attachment to their parents and more a huge boon to their wallets. The number of people that whine about inheritance taxes is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the number of people (on here especially) that think that owning a second/holiday home is practically a human right (for them).
There was literally no point in referencing it. It's classic "whataboutism" and it adds nothing to the conversation.
Looks like we are in agreement.

Interesting sidenote, given you mentioned plumbers: being a plumber in the US has higher barriers to entry than being a dev (gotta have your apprenticeship program completed under a licensed master plumber and pass the journeyman plumber exam). On the flip side, they get paid pretty decently well.
In general the Incerto series by Nassim Taleb (Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) was worth it. The Selfish Gene, System thinking A primer, I am a strange loop, Sapiens are some books that I read recently that had a lasting impression.
I believe politicians in the EU are chomping at the bit to get a digital services tax implemented against US big tech companies. I think Silicon Valley tech titans really screwed the pooch here.

They are going to be big targets for trade retaliation and I am not sure how much help the US government will be able to offer. Moreover, if the administration changes, the Democrats will absolutely take apart these tech companies.
> I cannot count the number of times I listened to a customer complain about a lack of feature velocity (real or perceived) in one meeting

Maybe it depends on what part of the enterprise software market you're in. I've been working on enterprise software for decades and I've never once heard a customer complain about a general lack of feature velocity. They have complained about the time it takes to implement some specific feature that they really want, but that's a different thing. In my experience, what enterprises want is stability and as little change as possible while keeping the software useful.

The only way I can reconcile our two different experiences is that we're addressing different sorts of enterprises.
I appreciate Sony and AI companies for not naming their wares Cake Super Pro or such.
Cases like this make me wonder how long it will be before the first "digital nomad" or simply workaholic gets detained, after admitting they might check the email and have a Zoom call during their vacation.
Well, it is obvious that between a RAW file and the final image there are a lot of complex processing steps. But that is independent of the file format used. DNG isn't so much different, just documented. And while the manufacturers converter might give the best results, the photographers rather use the image processing programs from Adobe or their competition which use their own RAW converters anyway.
If you heavily rely on performance marketing, your business model is anyway in trouble. In the past businesses survived with non-digital marketing channels just fine.
I think I miscommunicated my support for some trade policy change as support for Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs. Here are things I think we should fix:

- America and Hypotheticalstan each export $1T to each other with a bunch of tariffs on various things. America raises $50B in tariff revenue on Hypotheticalstan’s imports while Hypotheticalstan raises $100B on American imports.

- America doesn’t make enough defense-critical stuff: steel, solar panels, chips, aluminum, rare earths, etc.

- America has a ~$918B trade deficit.

Things I do not care about:

- Vietnam makes our Nikes.

- We have a trade deficit with specifically Vietnam.
I wouldn't take it quite as seriously as it takes itself. These articles like to lay down a view of the universe as if it was the first and last word but I don't think it is at all.

We couldn't function at all if all companies failed to do work properly because of some odd decision about what's a cost and what isn't. If you have a toll bridge then fixing the bridge isn't a cost....unless you actually WANT it to fall down.
It'll get it right next time because they'll hoover up the parent post.
The word "non-profit" is the problem. People assume it means charity or "company that does good without seeking profit" or some similar variation.

Instead, they are basically government-codified vehicles for tax, accounting and coordination purposes that allow laundering of money through plausible salaries and plausible expenses in the process of doing their stated "good deed". The "good" they do is secondary, as they are essentially entities that need want and are encouraged to self-perpetuate. Remember, the salaries and expenses go out first before the actual charity portion.

Without quibbling over definitions and tax-terms, I'd say the same essentially applies to "charities" and "churches" and "religious organizations".
Noone is disputing the advantage of RAW. I tried to provide the view from a pure development perspective, looking at a feature backlog.

It "just happens" to be selectable because it is a byproduct of the internal development: The existing RAW format is used internally during development and tuning of the product, and is implemented to work with vendor-internal processes and tools.

Supporting DNG would require a SEPARATE development, and it would still not replace a proprietary RAW-format in the internal toolchain.

(because the DNG patent-license comes with rights for Adobe as well as an option to revoke the license)
Thanks for explaining. I think the answer to your question lies in the fact that Hamas is not a regular army. They're fighting an army that has the most advanced weapons and tech on the planet, and they can't put a target on their back while moving around. This has been the case throughout history when the indigenous resistance fights a mighty colonial army.

Israel has the intelligence and capability to pin point their targets and deploy high precision targeting, as demonstrated in Lebanon and Iran. After seeing so many war crimes committed by the IDF, I'm convinced that while they can assess and eliminate targets in a precise fashion, thus minimizing civilan casualties, they deliberately _choose_ not to do so.
Interesting. If I have reservations of a government the cost of the trip isn't a consideration. I've forgone all-expenses-paid trips (for work-related conferences) to foreign countries because of the politics at the time.
I don’t even know what you mean by leeching. Clearly you don’t like it so you should add a clause disallowing it into whatever software you write.

If someone else wants to release their software under a more permissive license, that’s none of your damn business.
How I Made Break Reminders Less Annoying
Google is shooting themselves in the foot with whatever model they use for search. It's probably a 2B or 4B model to keep up with demand, and man is it doing way more harm than good.
> Nice article but is this whole thing just AI generated?

most articles nowadays will be. the difference is that this one is just poorly done and obvious
Only applies to people with a degree. Institutionalised nepotism. Just like how your chamber of commerce keeps out the competition. Typical western decay/corruption. Closing the ranks and drawing in other peoples money.
Doesn't the crime rate go down when Republicans hold the power?

I think the crime rate is a major concern for every tourist.

Doesn't Florida have a much lower crime rate than California? As a tourist, I rather visit Florida than California.
There's definitely going to be some sort of EU-China rapprochement now. Not that China is less oppressive - they remain more oppressive, and I wouldn't like to, say, get caught with weed going into China. But they're much less loudly annoying about it.

(another one to watch out for: opiate painkillers in your hand luggage into Middle Eastern states, including Dubai.)
Birds are more difficult to clone than mammals. I don't think we've been able to clone one yet.

I hope to see a passenger pigeon one day though.
You are lying by omission.

The Gewerbeanmeldung typically registers you as a sole proprietor (Einzelunternehmer) or GbR (partnership). Most tech startups need a limited liability structure like GmbH (similar to LLC) or UG. Those require notarized founding documents, minimum capital requirements (€25,000 for GmbH), and a commercial register entry (Handelsregister)

The simple Gewerbeanmeldung structure is problematic for venture capital because most VCs require a corporate entity structure (GmbH/UG) and converting from a simple structure to a proper corporation later can trigger tax consequences.

At each investment round all shareholders must appear before a notary or provide notarized power of attorney, the entire investment agreement must be read aloud by the notary, changes to company documents require notarization, and each notarization costs thousands of euros and creates delays.

Major decisions which are likely to affect shareholders require formal shareholder meetings with proper notice periods. Unanimous consent is often required for key decisions. Capital increases must be executed through complex formal processes. Registration with the commercial register takes weeks. Minimum nominal values of shares restrict flexibility. Required reporting to tax authorities is extensive. I can go on and on. And don't even get me started about German employee stock option plans.
I wonder if this will be high level enough an incident to make companies end those opt-out contact autosuggestions in messenger apps for good.

Then again if they had been ended by now, we might never have heard of this SNAFU.
funny then that the Honda Passport is the second most 'American-made' car...
https://www.cars.com/american-made-index/
It's not the taxes, it's the loss of trust and security.
panics do not terminate immediately; they unwind the stack, and if they’re not caught, they terminate the current thread, not the process.
thank you very much for your words and advice.. i really consider your advice.. let's see how it goes..
I got 45690
I had to look this up but “Hall effect sticks” are a new generation of joy cons that are going into the Xbox and PS5 controllers, Nintendo here is choosing to use an older technology that was more susceptible to joy con drift. Folks are worried the switch 2 will experience the same issue cause they didn’t upgrade the joycons.
I feel that R5 was the peak for web dev - that brought in the actual Domino server, which is where it became possible to have a split between your front-end and back-end, delivering web apps with whatever front-end tech you wanted, and making calls to the server as needed, similarly to modern API endpoints.

They then kept trying to re-invent web development to be more tightly integrated, and it all went badly. R5 came out in 1999, and I rejected pretty much all their new front-end features after that point, but delivered a couple decades of web-based apps just using Domino as a back-end stack.
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
> Some MBA or book somewhere convinced people that respect and dignity were optional.

Whatever the origin, this is actually a very serious problem that afflicts our society at large, well beyond MBA culture.
Conflating wealth with security is inaccurate, but the article doesn’t make sense even in its own terms.

For example, “millionaires” aren’t rare. The median age of Congressional representatives is 57.5. That puts the average House member outside the top 10% of wealth for that age group, but somewhat inside the top 25%. https://www.myroadtofire.com/blog/average-net-worth-by-age. Similarly, a $1,200 medical bill wouldn’t “send most Americans into a financial tailspin.” Neither of my wife’s parents finished college, and none of their parents did. They could all afford a surprise $1,200 medical bill.

Again, the median income of a married couple household with children is $120,000/year. These are folks who can expect to be worth a million dollars after working and saving for 30 years, and who can afford a $1,200 medical bill (and support their kids or family members in such a situation). The article is painting a misleading picture of how secure Americans are. It is making this level of security seem rare, akin to “generational wealth,” when in fact it’s extremely common.
Fair enough! Throwaway because for some meta discussions like this I cannot identify myself for reasons.
There is a downside of being an open protocol: no certification. Zigbee vendors are free to mandate the use of their hub (and software, and spying) because there is no gatekeeper. And most certainly do. Philips attempted to do this somewhat recently, only backpedaling due to the bad PR this caught them.

Z-wave devices are guaranteed to work with any hub. That means that it, ironically, behaves in a more open manner. I consider that worth the difference in cost.
Yeah, compliance for people who weren't careful before indeed is harder than for the rest. I think this works as expected?

Consider if wire fraud wasn't illegal before, but next week there is a new law coming into effect that makes it illegal. Of course all the companies who were doing wire fraud since before will struggle to be compliant, some might not even be feasible to run anymore if their core business becomes illegal.

Again, sounds like it works as expected, compliance for organizations who been ignorant for a long time is expected to be more cumbersome.
Licensing cost is, indeed, a major deterrent for any green field project planning to run VMS. The same applies to any proprietary operating system, however, be it AIX, IBMi, z/OS, MCP, HP-UX, or Windows. I don't think there are many new work going on any of these platforms.
Part of that is they seemed to start aggressively denying visa applications, after Trump.
To be fair, I don’t think we have any evidence of this happening to a citizen yet. I’m guessing we will soon though :(
The ironic part is, that basically all the closed-source photo-editing software (and of course all open-source) are just using the open source LibRaw. Any special features as color profiles comes on top of that. So yes, the camera manufacturers could just donate to LibRaw or just use DNG instead.
Every continent will have its own cloud, and tech by the end of 2050.
Hey, co-founder of linkup.so here. Did you try our API? I'd love to understand why you chose one option over another
Yeah, my guess is that they implemented some EU regulation very lazily.

> Unfortunately under these laws the issue isn’t yours or your projects. It was the users.

Are you sure? How it comes reddit implemented this differently?

The argument that the issues is owned by the creator might be true, but on the other hand the user creates the issue at a "foreign" project and knows that they don't "own" this conversation. Especially the comments in these issues are not "owned" by the issue creator. This does not make any sense, especially as it is a public issue.
And they're much more consistent/predictable than the US, at this point.
Medical is pretty much the worst of both worlds. It generally isn't profitable and you need some of the most skilled personnel in the world to perform it. Thus, it is nigh impossible to socialize in the same way you can at least attempt to create shantytowns or gangs as socialized substitutes for enforcement and housing
As a potential tourist to the US of A I could not possibly care less if I am detained due to a boondoggle or for no good reason. Both make me not want to ever go there again.

So ...?
Isn't it natural to support your people?
As someone with a liberal arts education that article seemed to be AI generated.

As someone with a liberal arts education I think the most useful skill I was taught was how to research stuff before the interwebs took over the world. Sure, I did some research using the internet but there simply wasn't the vast amount of knowledge contained there so I had to do stuff like inter-library loans. Now, if I really wanted to, I could just have the robots write an essay on the benefits of a liberal arts education.
Yes, but reading over this thread, you've made it clear how you've misinterpreted the post you originally responded to.
Protecting them from that possibility infantilizes them, and what their own interests are will often not be clear to others.

It's easy to say what your best interests would be if you were in their situation, but they might assign very different values to certain outcomes.
Ask HN: Is MCP mature enough to use safely?
After doing a bit of research and trying to get my head around MCP, I am eager to take advantage of the idea. However, I am skeptical of how usable the approach is as of yet, mainly due to its nascent nature.

My (admittedly oversimplified) understanding is that MCP's purpose is mainly to provide a sort of langua franca for LLM's to tackle agentic tasks without having to write unicorn handlers for every single service in every single language in every single individual API flavor. That sounds great, but my understanding is also that it is incumbent on the provider of that MCP server's datasource/resource to create and maintain the MCP server so that LLM's can take advantage of them. A quick look across the interwebs shows that while there are a TON of MCP severs popping up from IC's, a fraction of them are actually endorsed, much less directly maintained, by the entities that own/run the services an LLM might want to interact with.

This of course presents an issue. Anyone with a greater understanding of software development beyond a junior level should understand that pulling libraries straight out of npm/githublab/whathaveyou carries with it security and privacy risks (yes, even if it's open source, nasty bits can be hidden in one of those 100's of libraries you are shotgunning into your app).

Am I missing something here? It all seems very wild west at the moment with a tremendous amount of hype, and I'd like to not be so skeptical. If it is as I say, how long until the foundation solidifies a bit and we truly do have a solid, mature MCP set to draw from?
Oh shit, the next instagram thing will be DnD cosplayers trying to get selfies with them.
Llama 4: Did Meta just push the panic button?
This is broadly a good thing: it will lead to more competition and a more vibrant, diverse internet with a wider array of choices. It does, of course, suck for the companies that are used to being near-monopolies.

Which is not to say that the tariffs are a good thing at all, of course. But if it encourages international communities to build their own stacks and add them to the marketplace, that's a really strong silver lining in my mind.
I don't really get the joke. Given the context and timing, I'm guessing it's a Perl6/Raku commentary, with Larry Wall as the Ancient?
Have your own website. When you're speaking in "someone else's house", no matter who that someone else is, you're going to be subject to the restrictions they impose. And they're going to have restrictions.
While there were certainly many Nazi sympathizers, one should not extrapolate the desire to stay out of the war as widespread support for Germany.

Popular opinion was generally against the third reich. In 1936 there was an ultimately unsuccessful effort to boycott the Berlin Olympics and in 1938 94% of Americans disapproved of Germany's antisemitic policies. [0][1]

When the war started, opinion varied depending on the question. When asked about directly entering the war most were indeed against it. However, if asked simply about supporting England, France and Poland, Americans were strongly in favor. They supported providing humanitarian and military aid and rejecting any of Germany's territorial claims. [2] The more complicated question was if America should continue supporting England even if that risked involvement in the war. In early 1940 about 35% were in favor, rising to 70% by Autumn 1941. [3]

[0]: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-moveme...

[1]: https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/to...

[2]: https://news.gallup.com/vault/265865/gallup-vault-opinion-st...

[3]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/72361
There’s not a lot of hate of the American people, but unfortunately we have to deal with the US Government when travelling and deal with their trade framework with importing and exporting.

If anything I feel sympathy for the American people now that I and many others feel strongly compelled to avoid US services and products, and avoid travelling and spending my tourist and business dollars into your economy based on the actions of Trump and the Republicans!
I hate how there is a continued "good faith" assumption in Trump's behavior.

We know Project 2025 is a thing and we know their goals.

We know his ties to Putin, and his playbook for dismantling Western Hegemony (e.g. Foundations of Geopolitics by Dugin)

We know his ties to billionaires who are in favor of collapsing US intuitions in order to take over (e.g. Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and the "Dark Enlightenment" -- and the VP of the US, Vance, is Thiel's desciple)

Stop pretending there is 4D chess. He's an old man with dementia and profound narcissism being used by other power-players to achieve their goals. Everything else is window dressing.
"Aussie MMA Coach’s Trip to America Goes Horribly Wrong as He Ends Up in Jail & Deported After Arriving in U.S." - https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-aussie-mma-co...
Integrate our web search agent (linkup.so) which has been trained to cut through the noise :)