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The paper link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08759-9

actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector#/media/File:Phil_...

Point to be noted is that Rudolf Hoss wasn't the leader of a random Nazi camp. He was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered, making him one of the biggest mass-murderer of the last century.

Can you please explain to me why AI chips don't matters anymore because of DeepSeek? I thought it was just a better model, but perhaps I didn't get it?

Oops indeed not totally awake yet

"It has since waned as people spend less time staring at their screens: as demand for consumer electronics fell, so did that for cobalt."

Stop me if I'm wrong, but the article totally missed the fact that new car battery technologies are mostly cobalt free. I feel it better explains the lack of demand than the article explanation.

The gas prices spike has also other causes, like gas-powered electricity plants replacing or partly replacing nuclear facilities like Fessenheim in France. Gas-powered electricity plants are flourishing everywhere in the world, including China to diversify from coal, obviously at some point the available offer is not going to be enough.

I don't have a strong opinion about what happened, it may or may not be a lab leak. It's still ongoing and I feel it will be a very long and sterile debate with few scientific facts to prove anything.

Granted, if the title of the article was "Scientists believed that Covid had natural origins...", this article wouldn't attract my attention as much, because I already believe that to be the popular opinion. But if, in this hypothetical title, "Scientists" only represented a minority of scientists, it would still be a very misleading title.

I don't know much about US, but for China it didn't last for months, 1 or 2 weeks maybe. It has been notified to the WHO at the beginning of January, on 23 January Wuhan was going full lockdown. And not lockdown like in the West, citizens were not allowed to step a foot outside even for groceries and the army was bringing rations to the people.

I remember then in March, a French newspaper highlighting how PRC hid the severity of the virus... I mean if they took these extreme measures in Wuhan, it's certainly not for a mild virus.

Then the title of the article is highly misleading. Using "Scientists" instead of "Some scientists" implies that the great majority of the scientists believed in this hypothesis, and there is no evidence for that.

I think it is useful to let the employee know what are the accepted delays in this company, for future projects. But the boss or the manager should have said that earlier, at the beginning of the project, then the employee knows what to expect.

That's quite clumsy to say it only once the project has been released. Anyway, don't take it too personally, he/she probably just wanted to keep the pressure on you so you keep improving and never stay satisfied with your current pace. That's not very good management, but that's the way it is in most companies.

I know it will be an unpopular opinion here, but bringing back the HDMI and SD card port is making the macbook much thicker and will eat up some space than can be used by battery instead, all that for ports I will never use. I wish there was another option without these ports.

Many is 4 out 22 plants[1] and they are located on rivers because it's needed. Also, maybe it's to have less loss when selling generated power to eastern countries?

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuclear_power_plants...

Thanks for your support, but just wanted to point out that Serbia is not part of EU yet.

It's not a big surprise to me and I think this is linked to the fact that Serbia is one of China's biggest partner in Europe.

I can easily imagine that chinese companies now want to export their tech, including surveillance tech, to other countries and that they're lobbying for it.

Glad it was withdrawn that easily.

Illegal, okay, but is it a crime? I mean, after WWII interpol asked countries to not fill requests on nazis criminals because they did crimes of political nature and interpol needs to stay politically neutral [0]. But now, for an anti-capitalist activist it's not political?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#cite_ref-14

It's up to the local authorities as you said. If the Chinese government files 500 requests on interpol and the Swiss authority recognizes the requests, ProtonMail will just have to comply.

But usually interpol rejects many requests from the Chinese government (to track uyghurs for example).

The real scandal here is why the French authority is making such request on an activist, why Interpol processed it (as far as I understand there are no crimes in play here?), and why the Swiss authority recognizes the request? Perhaps we don't have the full story, but, with only the information we have, it sounds like an abuse of the protocol on 3 different entities. And double standards from Interpol (not okay to track down chinese activists, but ok for french activists?)

My guess is that the limit is human resources. The machines are probably assembled by hand and they probably need highly-skilled and specialized engineers to work on it, such kind of profiles are rare. The demand is not large enough to industrialize the production of such a complex machine so you have to rely on humans.

I think one of the major aspects of this technology is that the person you are talking with appears in its real size, with the same ratio than in real life. Something you cannot do with a smartphone, except if you are referring to a projector.

I don't think EU will be able to put any pressure on China with food.

China still has a lot of different levers in case they lack food. Remember that the US deal actually forced them to buy american agricultural products.

They also banned most of Australia food imports since they asked for an international investigation on SARS-CoV-2 origins. They could just lift this ban and Australian politics and farmers would jump on the occasion.

There are so many countries who are willing to sell no matter what and no matter who as long as the price is good, and China has a lot of money.

Indeed I didn't know, thanks!

If France wants to make this meaningful, it also has to stop importing Brazilian beef. Soy is mainly used to feed cattle, so just banning soy imports sounds like a political move without real will to me.

It would have been weird if he didn't have any account on the competitors platforms. You want to check the features they offer, the UX... This article didn't say anything about how often he is using it.

We like the feeling because often, even if it's not explicitly said, there is a hidden way to obtain what you want. In Europe, if an administration/company tell you no, there is often no negotiation, no way to get what you want.

In China, often, if you master social tricks, you will be able to obtain it.

As someone who lived there for more than 10 years. There are a lot of "grey areas" in China, much more than in other countries. Many things are considered illegal but still tolerated.

I actually like this feeling and most expats do as well but I believe this way the government almost always have control over individuals. If they want to find something to arrest you, they will find something.

Regarding the Safari issue and the need for a AudioContext.resume() call, this is due to Safari suspending the AudioContext on creation, this is probably a good behaviour but it should be resumed automatically, as explained in the thread here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56768576/safari-audiocon...

I think there is now a real will from the chinese government to limit plastic pollution.

For example, waste sorting started in Shanghai a year ago and started in Beijing last June [0].

This is not the usual waste sorting we are experiencing in Europe, for example, since you need to decline your identity and not make any mistake while sorting or you may get charged.

Probably a bit too invasive (this is China after all) but more thorough for what I consider a good cause.

Besides, the first bans on plastic use will take effect on January [1]. This is only for small items now, but this is a first step, and it also includes production of these items, which is especially impressive considering China supremacy on the production lines.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3016801/shan...

[1] https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3101241...

It's true that China doesn't suffer from a shortage of labor force. However, wages raised a lot, and almost-free labor is more interesting financially. After second thoughts, I think it may be possible that on a regional scale, local officials would find such practice highly profitable.

The party goal is not to be highly profitable (they are already), it's to stay in power as long as they can. Of course money can help in that goal, but such practices, if they leak and are confirmed, would just erode the stability of the state. I feel the cons are too high and pros too low, politically, to do such atrocities on a country scale.

Although anything is possible, this is no evidence, and I hardly believe it.

People lives are worthing much more than their organs when they are used for labor so I don't see any reasonable benefit from doing that. Plus, Falun Gong has a long history of fighting this, still without any evidences brought to the table, so I have some doubts about their assumptions.

The issue in Xinjiang is already serious enough, no need to add some unconfirmed facts which may just make us lose credibility if they're proved fake.

Stoneage for sure but probably more realistic.

Anyway, in my opinion it's not a waste of money. Besides the potential scientific results which will always be interesting, manufacturing skills are evolving this way as well.

I don't know so much about SAFIRE and which state it reached, but Wendelstein 7-X and ITER are the two projects I'm confident with, and I don't see them as competitors but both bringing more knowledge about fusion.