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Not selling science though.
Possibly - I've heard anecdotal reports that old Intel Optane chips are in hot demand right now. Intel/Micron probably would have made a killing if they had kept that product line alive for a few more years. Never miss an attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
Agree - the 128GB Strix Halo is capable if you use LLMs as assistants, but it's not so good if you use LLMs as agents (or worse, agent teams/swarms) since all of the models that can fit on it are pretty dumb compared to frontier or near-frontier models. You can at best hope for Sonnet-level capabilities.
That doesn't mean that local models are useless though! If Mythos/Sol is an ASI that threatens to take your job and turn you into paperclips, then Qwen/Gemma is an old-fashioned office secretary that loyally helps you with tasks but doesn't have a good grasp of details. Every white-collar worker 50 years ago would have killed to have a hard-working personal secretary.
I've always marveled at fines that are well below the culprit's proceeds. If you can drag out and minimize a fine, is it really a punishment or just a tax/cost of doing business?
Imagine that I am a bank robber. I rob the bank for $10 million The court forces me to pay a $3 million fine. I am now $7 million richer and justice is restored - how wonderful!
I don't doubt that Claude Code is full of security holes (even with Mythos assistance) given its 100% vibecoded reputation, but this seems to be more an attempt to get Chinese users to migrate to Chinese products than a serious security memo.
There are plenty of FAANG (and adjacent Big Tech and FAANG wannabe start ups) staffers that burn $10k/month or more on Claude tokens. Just ask around if you're in Silicon Valley.
$10k/month * 36 people = $4.3m per year. $1.3m per year is a relative bargain!
Yeah, this particular article is clearly something that belongs in the Onion. But on the other hand I recall an article where a professor was freaking out because OpenAI deleted his ChatGPT logs and thus all of his work over the last few years.
This seems to be an implication of the current market. Since most humans (and thus most consumers) use a phone or tablet as a primary computing device, it's unthinkable to make a consumer software UI that isn't mobile-first or touchscreen-focused.
No, it doesn't. Most workstation replacement laptops (notably including MacBooks) don't have touchscreens.
While things may be different now, Windows 8 got panned for trying to put touch elements into a desktop UI. Windows 10 and 11 would abandon that approach.
seemingly this argument never applies to the already powerful or wealthy.
Nonsense, giving money to the wealthy and powerful makes them poorer - that's why you should give them some more of your money.
Yes, that's the de facto style guide of American news sources these days. If China does something innovative, then it's dangerous, irresponsible, scammy, and/or fueled by IP theft.
Indeed, there are several anthropological works speculating that the purpose of divination is to break analysis paralysis or unconscious biases.
And if you are already sure of the correct solution, then you can just keep doing the divination over and over again until the gods give the answers that you want!
thousands of megajoules of energy evvery second
On a planetary scale, gigawatts are nothing. The total amount of energy that Earth receives from the Sun is about 100,000,000,000 megajoules of energy every second, 99%+ of which gets dissipated as heat.
If this is about the climate, then it's important to remember that climate change and pollution ultimately are not a meaningful threat to Earth as a planet - both Earth and its life have been through far far worse[0][1][2][3]. They are only a threat to humans[4].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_therm...
This is all about Hormuz, isn't it? Even though the attack itself was in Basra, Iraq, the intention seems to be to terrify any companies thinking of sailing through the Persian Gulf.
I wonder how many more caches of drones Iran has lying around. Days? Weeks? Years?
There's also the question of how to resupply any anti-drone systems in the area - maybe we'll see convoys carrying interceptors crossing the Arabian desert.
Yeah, they definitely have a very specific market in mind:
"Unbound AI is built for legal adult content. Users are fully responsible for what they generate. Do not create content involving minors or illegal activity."
I never really understood warrant canaries. Wouldn't they be still vulnerable to rubber-hose cryptanalysis? An attacker could coerce you to continue updating your canary as if nothing had happened.
Yeah, this article appears to be from 2023
One singular nuclear warhead can be enough to eradicate the entire population in the US.
How big would this warhead be? "One singular nuclear warhead" wasn't enough to eradicate the entire populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, much less Japan.
2029? Wouldn't that be in the Vance or third Trump administration? Why would they send those CEOs to prison?
A lot of Hacker News posters work for Google and/or SaaS crapware companies. There's economic self interest at play here.
But how does raising awareness help anything in this case? In the current political climate, companies are likely more afraid of presidential punishment for not supporting Israel than of any public disapproval for supporting Israel.
This is easier than it sounds from a military perspective because Israel is small and simple to isolate.
Does that sort of thing even work against nuclear powers? You could certainly isolate them like North Korea, but no country would be willing to invade for fear of seeing a mushroom cloud over their capital.
I thought that there were only four planets? Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The banner doesn't always seem to display; here's the direct link to the White House YouTube if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhwIQUE0DU
Tax havens aren't immune to economic disaster though. If the US dollar becomes worthless, then it doesn't matter how many dollars you have in your offshore bank account. Ditto if you're storing wealth as equities or bonds. Real estate value will collapse if tenants can't pay rent or if the local government decides to confiscate land.
I suppose that you could keep gold or bitcoin wallets in a vault, but then it actually belongs to the vault guards, not to you.
Basically you need a collapse that's bad enough to shrink asset prices but not bad enough to break the social contact.
Nvidia, the report said, will “continue to spare no effort” to make products that comply with regulations and “unswervingly serve the Chinese market.”
A few weeks ago, Mr. Huang met with Mr. Trump in Mar-a-Lago at a dinner that cost $1 million per person.
Nvidia reminds me of third-world countries during the Cold War - playing off superpower suitors against each other. Potentially very lucrative, but also a very dangerous game.
I don't understand this question - professional wrestling is a form of sport/entertainment and generally irrelevant to international relations. Is "wrestling" supposed to be a metaphor for something else?
After looking at the author's bio, I don't think that the author of this article is particularly specialized in the Middle East. They probably have the same level of understanding of the area's ethnography as most Americans: an Arab is anyone who isn't an Israeli.
Therefore, Persians, Assyrians, Kurds, and Lawrence of Arabia are all Arabs. It's unclear where Arab Israelis fall in this taxonomy.
The article notes that state backed entities and the Chinese government itself are showing interest in DeepSeek. The investment money may be "an offer that they can't refuse".
If you're okay with just a flyby of the Voyager probes though, then you can use a laser sail. Breakthrough Starshot[1] is aiming for 60,000 km/s of delta-v. Lightsails have already been demonstrated several times in practice[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail#Projects_operating_...
It's definitely doable. The "'Momentum Limited' Orion" concept[0] has a delta-v of 10,000 km/s, which should be plenty enough to catch up to either of the Voyager probes. It can also carry ~25,000 tons of payload - that's a lot of spare parts!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...