skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decoupling from China will lead to China annex Taiwan sooner. China will have the USA and the world by the balls then, so not sure we want that to happen quicker.

And I don't think anyone is calling themselves allies of the USA right now. The whole world is looking to decouple from the USA. Europe is completely over the USA, they can't rely on them for leadership, protection or for trade.

From a tech perspective, expect Europe to decouple from the USA from an economic and cultural perspective in the next decade. Smartest thing Europe can do is to create alternatives to US services, build its own defense industry and stop looking at the USA for any leadership.
AI in Autonomous Dining
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> Is there any fishing going on in the Black Sea at the moment? (genuine question)

yes, while fishing vessels fairly rarely broadcast AIS, there's plenty of turkish, bulgarian, and even three russian fishing vessels broadcasting AIS in the black sea right now. No ukrainian vessels that I can see, but again, AIS is fairly rare for fishing boats anyway.
I agree it's broken, just in the other direction. Just stick an ipad in front of the kid and ignore it for hours
Yeah if you're doing a big coding session up near the limits of context even with prompt caching each reply can be ~80¢ or something, so you can definitely blow through $200 on the API if you are using it heavily.
You aren't comparing the same things here - if only counting Warhammer employees, then you shouldn't you only count actual fishermen (c6500 people)?

For example, what about the people who work in Warhammer adjacent companies (plastics production, importing and labelling to name just a few, but also freelancers in publishing, illustration and design ) who would not appear in the 3000 Warhammer employees, but who earn the majority of their livelihood from Warhammer.

For a period my brother dated someone from the family that supplied grey plastic to Games Workshop - they probably had over 100 permanent employees, and were a 'small' regional company.
Because it would reduce US consumption of their exports. Just as a tax on consumption of up to 27% in Europe massively reduces Europe's consumption of US exports.
IIRC supplementing K with D also helps D to be absorbed and/or utilized better.
I disagree completely.

The first one doesn't even indicate that anyone has been killed with weapons. If you saw the first version you could think 'carbon monoxide?' with the second version you know that it wasn't.

Stabbed and slashed to death is critical information. Football star is maybe not important, but it signals in what sort of environment the killing happened, similarly the mention of the trendy neighbourhood.

The goal should be to minimize reconstruction error of excluded facts. If you do, then you will represent everything you have seen. This necessarily means focusing on the surprising bits.
Yeah that's one view of equality (by not agreeing with the concept from the start), and why I said there is no single answer every one agrees to.
That's irrelevant. What's important is that LLMs are intentionally designed as fully general systems, so they can react like humans within confines of the model's sensory modalities and action space. Much like humans (or anything else in nature), they don't have separate control channels or any kind of artificial "code vs. data" distinction - and you can't add it without loss of generality.
as far as i know anthropic has zero voice stuff?
Mitochondria doping! People are already thinking how to use it for sports performance. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/14/new-doping-trick...

Beyond athletic performance and chronic fatigue, some neurologists and psychiatrists have recently suggested that every mental disorder (literally, the entire DSM) has a single underlying cause: mitochondrial dysfunction. If that's true, mitochondria transplants could solve the mental health crisis.
How many of them are on the SCOTUS?
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Just a dry run before the real event. Working as intended, nothing to worry about...
IQ isn't much of a proxy for anything, especially in this context.
Trump has zero to do with previous level of US hegemony. He represents what large part of Americans are - for internal reasons that have nothing to do with geopolitics.
On of the people who implemented it is from unity, from my understanding he can't actually release the code. For the other guy, this was his last comment on the matter
> Sure, my plan was to write a readme and share the code with my colleagues anyway. It should be ready by the weekend because I'm in the middle of a refactoring right now.
> The gist of it: each time a System adds a "movable" component to a StDb table, it also adds the rigid body and collider in Rapier. Then, a scheduled reducers updates the simulation then fetches resulting positions and velocities from Rapier and updates the "movable" components. I have no client prediction at this time.

So my understanding is rapier is just compiled into the wasm and run like normal while the results are stored into the table for clients to receive via subscription. I won't say it's a perfect solution, but efforts are being made by the small community to see how we can really push the db.

Note: while it's all very procedure like you can just store data normally in the rust side, you just have to push the information to the table for it to be query-able.
I think you misunderstood: VAT is applied to (approximately) everything a citizen of a country buys: imports and domestically produced products. Exports from a country are entirely irrelevant to whether applying VAT to imports is unfair to US imports to that country, as compared to the US charging a “VAT” on _only_ its imports.
>Of course it would be less disruptive to start with a very low UBI that gradually increases

This is a very good point that I haven't even heard made by proponents of this idea before. Thanks!
Cloud will buy less NVDA chips, and since they're related goods, prices will drop.
Korea, despite developing MRI, still has a large amount of farmers, that do not get paid a living wage: No one really knows, because its a souce of shame.

"AI Overview

It's difficult to provide a precise number of Asian countries where farmers don't earn a living wage without specific, up-to-date data and a clear definition of "living wage." However, many Asian countries face challenges in ensuring farmers receive sufficient income to cover basic needs."

I will assure you, from being an eyewitness, its worse.
But what is wrong if there is an extra option? You don't have to take the pill if you don't need it.
> From the perspective that, however harsh, 37signals is correct, is the software engineering skill trajectory linear or quadratic?

Undefined. Engineering skill metrics are vibes. One person's 10x dev is another's 0.1x.

Even if you can make a meaningful metric, given how fast frameworks and libraries change, the trajectory will be discontinuous wherever some knowledge or skill becomes suddenly obsolete.
I currently use Talon, which I note is not in your benchmarks.

I can't find any documentation on how Aqua works, or how it compares, so I'm not sure it's meant to be a replacement / competitor to Talon? What are you configuring? How are you telling it that you like "genz" style in Slack? Can I create custom configurations / macros?

One thing I like about Talon is it's not magic. Which maybe is not what you're going for. But I am giving it explicit commands that I know it will understand (if it understands my accent obvs), as opposed to guessing and constructing a human language vague sentence and hope that an llm will work it out. Which means it feels like something I can actually become fast with, and build up muscle memory of.

Also that it's completely offline, so I can actually run it on a work computer without my security folks freaking out.
US citizens used to value the adults managing such science oriented endeavors actually doing their homework before making broad proclamations of efficacy. Lately, not so much.
Find a way to send them that feedback. I've been doing that more lately and I'm noticing features/bugs I request/report get added pretty quickly. Obviously YMMV but from my experience it seems like they listen to feedback like this.
> prior Administration used the Justice Department to pursue a reckless strategy of regulation by prosecution

What was the idea before? It wasn't necessarily illegal but they prosecuted it anyway?

> Executive Order 14178 requires the Justice Department to prioritize investigations and prosecutions that involve conduct victimizing investors, including embezzlement and misappropriation of customers’ funds on exchanges, digital asset investment scams, fake digital asset development projects such as rug pulls, hacking of exchanges and decentralized autonomous organizations resulting in the theft of funds, and exploiting vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Such enforcement actions are important to restoring stolen funds to customers, building investor confidence in the security of digital asset markets, and the growth of the digital asset industry.

I guess before anyone using these crypto services was a target for prosecution and now they are not, just by the virtue of using them.
I know very little about this so excuse me if this is a stupid question. In my country all teenage girls have been getting the vaccine for at least the last 15-20 years. Therefore all of the women I'm likely to sleep with are vaccinated. Does it still make sense as a man to get it?
There is a rumor that they're preparing a voice version of Claude. I assume it's a voice modality rather than simply tts.
Because it's not the country getting rich - it's the government getting rich from its citizens. It's another form of taxation, but one with no plan and crazy fluctuations day to day that affect first and foremost businesses, who will put off investments are start layoffs in order to make themselves more resilient to the chaos, which affects the whole economy. And this long term downturn in the economy doesn't make the country rich, but rather poor.

If what Trump was saying about making the country rich were true, then sure, why would people complain? But it's not true; just a lie told to placate his followers. It's another version of "diamond hands" or "ride the dip" that you hear from people pumping and dumping crypto stocks.
Government cheese was created when the country didn't have enough resources. What I'm talking about is abundance of resources. We never tried anything like that before.
Particularly if you live overseas on base. The military provides everything for you, albeit often through vendors such as AAFES. But yeah, free healthcare for sure.

https://www.aafes.com/exchange-stores/
Don't worry, Republicans are hard at work making the USA a pariah state and turning away the educated migrants who've been behind most of the innovation and research of past decades.
You own any GB200s?
Agreed. As a citizen, most interactions with border control are unpleasant. The only positive experience I've ever had was at a quiet border crossing in Maine where I met what was probably the country's only friendly CBP agent.
Judge Tells Colorado School District To Return Challenged Books To Its Libraries
The full title is:

> Federal Judge Tells Colorado School District To Return 'Challenged' Books To Its Libraries
Important to note their findings only apply to a smaller subset of people, and do not include those with the most need.

> The findings of the pilot project will be generalizable not to the entire German population, but to 21- to 40-year-old individuals in single-person households with middle incomes.

The reason:

> We were thus faced with the decision of selecting 122 people who represented the entire country but did not provide scientifically reliable data on the effects of a basic income, or selecting 122 people from a more limited group from whom we could draw definitive conclusions. In the end, we chose the latter.

https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en/blog/how-the-p...
Omega has been doing an "indirect impulse" escapement for decades now. And they actually sell their watches to people.
They would lose money on every sale
No, AI is not Moldable Development. AI can help Moldable Development (mostly as an optimization).

Moldable Development is first and foremost about the interface. AI is an engine. The interface is the thing you interact through. Like the chat. Or the editor with chat abilities. That little layer is worth paying attention to. Because it will define how you think about your interactions with AI.
Not the grandparent, but I've been waiting for somebody to ask!

The gov should guarantee a minimum wage job for everybody. You get out of bed, do something useful, you get a pay check. You might even learn a trade or develop skills.

Don't like your boss, or the work not right for you, there can be plenty of other jobs for you to move into.

What are all these jobs? I'm glad you asked!

We need to plant billions of trees to soak up CO2, then tend the forests.
We could use a few massive desalination projects.
We can convert the world to green energy.
We can care for our elderly better.
We could use a lot more teachers. (How does 10 kids per teacher sound!).
Of course would could have more homes and nicer cities. (How good would it be for the gov to pay you to build your own house!)

There is a very long list of cool stuff we could do if you don't need rich people to invest in it first!
The market doesn't like this. All the professional investors got out ages ago (check out Berkshire's dumping) and are dumping to bagholders. Large fund holders are hanging on because they still make fees and it keeps their AUM up there and everyone else is dying at the same rate. Foreign investors are pulling bonds out because the currency is at risk. The market is being manipulated daily and there is no involvement from SEC. There is only risk left. Confidence is gone.

It is the textbook definition of a fucking shit show.
This. Anything (accidentally) good was totally intended by Trump. Anything bad was because of evil ultra-leftists sabotaging his intended good, and not because Trump made even the tiniest of mistakes.
Yeah AI Studio is free with decent rate limits, though obviously more developer focused: https://aistudio.google.com/

The official Gemini app works well for me too and there's a nice free tier and it's free if you have a newer Pixel phone. Otherwise $20/month for the Advanced tier. There's no $200/month option.

https://gemini.google.com/app
If a game has no players, does it really matter if it's networked with UDP or TCP?
as long as we're floating what-ifs...

what if UBI led people to think "i can go live wherever i want, regardless of job/market conditions"?

herds of young idealists and artist-types deciding to take over cheap realestate in rust-belt towns and rural areas because they no longer need to be next to a big urban center to 'make it'.

we started to see this during covid WFH, but true UBI would be even bigger
true, impossible to come up with a scientific answer, but you could compare with european countries who also went through a similar covid response and start to see a bit of a trend leap out.

For what it's worth I'm not sure if the number is actually 10%, but I'd hazard that it's more than 5/6.
Are you getting enough Magnesium (and also Vitamin B6)? Magnesium is a required cofactor of Vitamin D in many bodily processes.

see https://www.qeios.com/read/479KRZ
There's your problem - the word "rationally". NOTHING about MAGA / Trump is rational - it's all based on feelings.
For what it's worth, it is good to know:

- Low Vitamin D Status despite Abundant Sun Exposure (https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/6/2130/2597445)

- Vitamin D deficiency can still occur despite supplementation (https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/128762-overview?form=..., https://www.ccjm.org/content/89/3/154, https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/9-things-that-can-...)

Thus, you can be deficient despite sun exposure and/or supplementation.

You should probably get tests done to be sure.

I have MS, I take daily 10k IU. I should probably get some tests done myself.
Of course. There are three NATO nations and Georgia on the Black Sea, and there is no war in their waters. The Black Sea is not very productive fish-wise, but this is another topic.
Can you all help me understand this argument? We have stats upon stats to help us predict outcomes in sports and we call that betting. We have stats upon stats to help us predict outcomes in elections, but we can't call that betting?

I admit I am out of depth here. What is the difference?
The theory about moderation being a trait that applies to a person in general makes sense.

However, I think the most health-conscious people today probably don't drink at all due to recent sentiment leaning more toward even moderate drinking being harmful. I also assume their health-awareness would preclude them from replacing alcohol with sugary drinks or other unhealthy options.

So I continue to find it interesting when studies show reduced all-cause mortality for moderate drinkers.
>I’m probably just old, but IMO the main problem I see with Jr devs is a lack of “taste”

No wonder the most ardent users of AI are NextJS and Javascript devs
We want to dial these numbers in, but we have to err on the side of too high, because it's easier to lower prices than to raise them. We want to bring it down as low as we possibly can.
Idk man, I wouldn't call bowery rough or cheap by any stretch - 20 years ago, during covid, or now. For rough during covid or now, head to east new york. For cheap, head deeper into the other boroughs.
Just do the thing! https://josevalerio.com/just-do-the-thing

Many are saying this...
> expecting to not have to vacate at the end of the term

Perhaps that's exactly where the need is foreseen? Such a takeover would assuredly lead to a bout of violent conflict, that very well could lead to all out civil war if not managed well. You wouldn't need the kind of manufacturing required to take on the world, but you'd need a little bit to keep the people at bay. Americans with manufacturing facilities might not be so friendly after that kind of stunt, but if you can make new friends from abroad with facilities on US soil...
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If it's a 13, there's a couple linked from here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop_13_(AMD_Ry...

I use the "cab404" one and very impressed with it.
What is "that" that "won't happen"?

US, Canada, Europe are demographically cooked too, but they (partially) solve this problem with immigration, that is not an option for China and the rest of Asia.
But MCP doesn't claim to address agent to agent communication, right?
Aqua voice is nothing like talon. I wouldn’t bother trying to compare. It’s a dictation tool. Just entry. Not commands. But it’s bloody impressive. You don’t need to learn anything - you just talk like you would talk to someone across the way from you
Also, this trade war pushes the USA close to a war with China over Taiwan and maybe Panama Canal, which is exactly what you want as an authoritarian to stay on longer. Find an enemy and use emergency powers to maintain control.
Yes, but what's the rush here?

The EU should do what does best: make things boring.

If retaliatory tariffs is the way to go, maybe do it the boring way: considered bit by bit, no flashy announcement.

Or just make a 10 year deal on LNG so Trump can say we're paying the US money every year.
I mean, it is obvious that you cannot sustain efficiency as you scale (Amdahl's law) but (1) $100M is not that crazy to be able to keep track of in your head, even for a single individual (I can imagine a successful real estate developer with a handful of ongoing projects and various other personal investments), and (2) in a high growth situation, it makes financial sense to sacrifice some economic gain for scale. In your original example, sure an investor would be better off, if they could actually find 10 good investments with zero cost, to spread their money, but very likely they'd be better off taking the big one and spend their energy raising more money.
Genius move. Set the trap (massive global tariffs that seem irrational) and wait for target (china) to retaliate. Once the bait is taken, alienate china and take the pressure off everyone else. New reality still departure from previous order but feels better and gives everyone 90 days to figure it out. Meanwhile china is trapped and isolated.
Who would trust the US after this? Why would a company build a factory in a lawless state run by a moron like this who thinks blanket tariffs work and could replace taxes?

No part of your plan will happen.