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Beautiful!

Treating protein as calories is a category error.

Fat and carbs are energy, properly treated as calories. Protein is not (in a non-starving person) used for energy, and it should be measured in grams not calories. The input calories weren't lost, they were converted to protein for use building body structure instead of energetic use.

If the authors wanted to make an honest argument here, they would show the relative conversion of feed calories to animal protein across different livestock.

I think the motivation is Ladybird [1] coming on the scene with lots of awareness and sponsorship

[1] https://ladybird.org/#about

it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application

Browsers only took on DoH implementation directly because they were solving the cold-start problem for a new protocol. Nothing to do with the spec.

There is support for DoH in all major OSs today, but none have made it a simple box to click AFAIK (we could speculate why).

For macOS, iOS, either via Private Relay (paid) or a configuration profile. Premade profiles: * https://github.com/paulmillr/encrypted-dns

For Windows > In the Registry Editor window open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters > Right-click within the “Parameters” folder and create a new Dword (32-bit) Value. Name this new file “EnableAutoDOH” and set its value to “2.” * https://superuser.com/posts/1764668/revisions

Linux: * https://dev.to/mfat/how-to-enable-system-wide-dns-over-https...

No opinion on this particular package. But on the naming, "Apache" ECharts...

It's long since time that Apache foundation projects stop using the Apache name. Apache is a license, a foundation, a webserver. Apache supported projects have little to do with that - not the same people, not the same product area. Just some help with money and logistics.

And for those that argue the tie to the Apache org:

They're not CNCF Kubernetes, CNCF Helm, CNCF Jaeger. They're Kubernetes, Helm, Jaeger.

Counterpoint: the product vision that is already on display here is going in a great direction, and colocating a spreadsheet with your accounting app is a great idea. I love the idea of being freed from having to use excel for particular aspects of my accounting flow. You've got the export. People that want to keep their painful workflows can be masochistically happy.

This is clearly not an attempt to replace Excel, it's an attempt to accomplish a set of use cases in a better way than clunky export-import flows.

The in-app sheets look great, keep going!

"...the chatter in the legacy media about AI being in a hype cycle or bubble is simply wrong, and why understanding just a little bit about where the advances in AI capabilities are coming from shows why. Continued AI acceleration in the coming months and years isn’t guesswork — its baked-in. There are persistent, reliable processes behind the steady advances as we’ll see."

And not a word of protest was uttered.

Macron has been advocating for a European Army for around a decade. With the recent EU defence spending announcements the idea of a unified command structure in Europe is becoming likely.

The French offer to extend their nuclear umbrella seems to me to have two purposes:

1. Deal with the immediate vulnerability opened by questions over U.S. Article 5 commitments to NATO

2. Try to get ahead of potential nuclear weapons proliferation among other EU states

Actually this is addressed in the article. Unique signing keys per capture or per short rotation period.

"Democracy depends on free speech, separation of powers, and smartphone camera design.

[...]

These technologies are tied together in a chain of trust, such that each layer verifies the next. In iOS systems, this chain begins with the Boot ROM, which is a piece of unchangeable code that is the first code to run each time the system starts. Each of the later pieces of software that are loaded are signed in a way that can be verified by the previous layer. So the Boot ROM can verify the bootloader’s signature, which can then verify the OS kernel signature, which can verify extensions and device drivers, etc. The real way it works has further protections and complexities, but this is the basic scheme.

[...]

Wouldn't it be great if smartphones became unassailable sources of truth?"

I sympathize with the operators of these forums of course -- the UK Online Safety Act is poorly conceived.

HOWEVER.

Deleting their forums? "The act will require a vast amount of work to be done on behalf of the Forums and there is no-one left with the availability to do it." [1]

This is a false dichotomy. Put Cloudflare in front of the site, block UK traffic [2], and you're done. 5 minute job.

[1] https://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/426608-looks-like-end-he...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/custom-rules/use-cases...

"Throughout the last week, DeepSeek’s legend grew, with each new thread on X seemingly competing to explain a new way that DeepSeek’s R1 means the end of the line for OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, Anthropic, the U.S. AI industry in general, and proves the uselessness of the U.S. chip export controls. That escalated quickly."

[...]

"Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis, one of the best-informed semiconductor industry analysts, reported back in November 2024 that DeepSeek had 50,000 Nvidia H100’s4 , an export-controlled GPU. And there’s not a lot of mystery about how they got there: Almost a quarter of Nvidia’s revenue is coming from Singapore, and Nvidia Singapore PTE Ltd is headquartered in… Hong Kong5 . The evasion of export controls includes chipmaking equipment."

[...]

"AI agents are the new apps. But with Apple Intelligence, devs are just data donors and task runners - locked out of the agent layer entirely."

"Building in the post-AI world means learning how to consume vast amounts of zero-marginal cost intelligence"

The Five Eyes may cooperate. Maybe.

On this point - check out Matthew Pines on his view that over the next year the US will force allies to convert treasuries and gold to US century bonds, with the stick being a threat of being left outside the US security and technology alliance system. The conversion being a way to deal with the big overhang of US short-dated debt.

The world is changing fast.

This week a major US AI development flew under the radar - a US congressional commission, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) presented their annual report to congress.

Their number one recommendation was that Congress establish a "Manhattan Project-like program dedicated to racing to and acquiring an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) capability".

There's a lot to say about this, which I cover in the piece.

This is an example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. These arguments for communism have been refuted thousands of times before, no need to waste electrons doing it here again.

Communism is always and everywhere a violent ideology, because the core tenets of communism are an exercise in theft, repression (economic and otherwise), and envy. People naturally don't want to be repressed - the communist answer is that those people, then, need to be murdered.

I resent the fact that communists created a history where terms like Lesser Megamurderer and Deka-Megamurderer[1] (sic) are simply factual descriptions, rather than works of dark fiction.

I'm ever hopeful though that good people like yourself, that have been unintentionally absorbed lies about what communism is, can be given an opportunity to read broadly, learn about history, meet victims of these regimes, and look back with discomfort at what you advocated in the past.

[1] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF

[2] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/POWER.TAB4.GIF

addressed in the piece

Hey yesbut

The possibility of "humans to spend their free time in true leisure" is actually cited and specifically not rejected in the piece. It's addressing a very specific, and very dangerous, failure mode of a post-AI society.

Read the piece and be enlightened.

Also, jeez, I pine for the day when silly randomly-applied ad-hominems like "tech bros" just get dogpiled. For your own sake, elevate your discourse, man (or woman).

Either one :-)

I'm not inclined to run the communism experiment again, I think we've got enough data.

"20th Century Democide" https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF

from: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

btw I also agree that pure PageRank on the endorsement links might benefit from tweaking, although some of the common failure cases for PR on the web don't apply here - you can't generate piles of extra humans to endorse-link to yourself.

So, to respond to the snark seriously, the problem it is trying to solve assumes that we have encountered a particular economic failure case - that AI has outcompeted humans in cost and quality of work, such that most humans have zero economic value.

So without some scheme, there will be no wealth distribution whatsoever, and potentially grim actions by national leadership.

It's a "utility-based" wealth distribution scheme.

I prefer to find a distribution scheme that is not isomorphic to communism.

Read the piece?

It could be “being a good producer” and “being a good judge” are different things

Yes I agree with this in principle. Although in this case what "good" is, is ill-defined - or rather different to everyone. The scoring each person performs is actually most directly a statement of utility to the scorer. That should probably go into the piece as an edit :-)

"A freedom-preserving proposal for distributing wealth in a post-AI society"

It’s interesting to observe how detached the discussion here is from the issues created for Europe due to the DMA. A majority of the comments here make the implicit assumption that the DMA is good because it will penalize big tech companies and force them to change business models in the EU. This is not what is happening or will happen.

What’s really being destroyed by the DMA is Europe’s access to new technologies and services. It’s almost like a self-embargo on the AI building blocks of their future economy.

When Nvidia GPUs are supply constrained do you really think it matters to Nvidia if they need to redirect the small chunk of their supply constrained volume that they were previously selling into France? Who is harmed in this picture? The only EU AI player of note, Mistral, and other EU businesses.

Does it really harm Apple if the DMA forces them to withhold new AI features in Europe? They still earn their device and services revenues. Who is harmed in this picture? EU consumers and businesses.

We’ve now seen within just a couple months, Apple withhold AI features and Meta withhold multimodal AI models from the EU. Expect this cutting off of the EU from new features to become a recurring event over the next year.

DMA-supporting voices are under a serious misapprehension of what the effect of the DMA is and will be over the next few years. It’s cutting off European access (consumer, business & government) to critical technologies which are all being developed outside the bloc.

The DMA violates a number of longstanding principles of good legislation - it is vague, it’s written to enable arbitrary enforcement, it’s penalties are not designed to be proportionate to damages, or even require actual damages in order to be applied, the regulator’s actions stray into actual takings of property (European Commission opinion that Facebook cannot charge a subscription fee for its ad-free offering… so it must operate as a charity? This is a taking of property. European Commission opinion that Apple cannot charge a platform fee for use of its IP? This is a taking of property).

OP's actions are super obnoxious of course.

But I'm puzzled by the idea his actions make any sense as a _capitalist_ impulse (Of course neither of us know anything about OP except his story).

Resentment over what somebody else has is the quintessential mental sliver communism uses to drive people to destroy the system. Perhaps the OP was just engaging in an outburst of his own destructive revolutionary zeal against his fellow passengers because they had something he didn't.

Although you got downvoted into the ground, parent, note that nobody actually refuted what you said.

Regardless of what anyone thinks of Snowden's motivations, propriety, loyalty, etc, there's just no question that willing or unwilling: yes, he lives his life at Putin's pleasure. If he did not have value to the Kremlin, he would not be free to communicate on Twitter/X.

This shouldn't be controversial, and those that think it is are being naive.

Yup.

And aside from being NSA director he was Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, experience highly relevant to both OpenAI's security and safety posture, and to selling to government and defense buyers.