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0cf8612b2e1e··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
With principles?

If you find a person/company/agent odious, why would you want to financially support them?

0cf8612b2e1e··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Further, Japan is especially hard hit by the Strait closing. Toyota may have thought they had years before they had to go fully EV, but the world has forced their hands. They need to be offering options today.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
All the time? I don’t know if it is still true, but at one point Zappos had free returns. I know a few women who would buy a range of sizes, keep the one that fits, return the rest.

There was a Seinfeld joke to this effect that men just take whatever clothing, even if it barely fits. Women are likely to be choosier and insist on a good match. Some might intentionally mix and match shoe sizes if one foot is bigger than the other (leaving the store with a mismatched pair)

0cf8612b2e1e··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
We can wait for their profitability numbers, assuming it happens.

Regardless, those claim to have a maximum draw of 250kw. That’s one to two terrestrial data rack. Cute.

0cf8612b2e1e··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
He is free to launch his own space GPU if he is so confident it is profitable*.

I will take it as a given that the Google engineers know what they are doing, and their first version can only run for 15 minutes before it needs to shut down to cool.

*Profitability requiring that other Musk controlled companies do not pay for the service at elevated rates in a classic self dealing scheme.

0cf8612b2e1e··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
That is not a fake argument, but real physics. Yes, you can design out X kw can be dissipated by this much radiators, but that adds an enormous quantity of mass, more than the solar panels that feed it.

If you are trying to generate a profit, every extra kg puts you further in the red. It still costs over $1000/kg of mass to get into orbit.

0cf8612b2e1e··on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
I knew I should have calculated it before running my mouth. Still, a single drive is a sufficient media library for most people.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
Exactly my question as well.

Especially since big tech is steaming ahead to mandating passkeys that only they are allowed to control/backup. Not long until all governments could intercept your passwords to all services.

0cf8612b2e1e··on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
I think we need to segregate data hoarders from people who want maybe 100-200 movies. At pre-insane levels, $8k of storage would have been petabytes of non mirrored space. Back in the day, I routinely watched movies compressed to fit on a CD at 700mb. Sure, that is now laughable quality, but most people don’t care about 8k with Dolby digital at 100+Gb per film.

A single 20TB drive can hold quite a bit of media.

0cf8612b2e1e··on Tokens too cheap to meter
Nothing lasts forever. Even nuclear plants have to eventually be decommissioned. Solar panels may be finite, but they give you a long, predictable horizon.

China might be subsidizing solar panels today. We should load up while we can. Let them bear the initial costs. We should also spin up more domestic manufacturing (which was a component of the IRA). If/when foreign sourced solar panels are no longer available, you are in the exact same position you were the day before. All of that already installed generation capacity will continue to function for years before a crisis emerges.

0cf8612b2e1e··on Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
Surely this will assuage the creditors that Oracle is going to pay back its $100B+ loans.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Surprise, Meta's latest AI gimmick is just underpaid humans

  Some Meta employees have been praising Muse on X, where AI boosters and AI agents alike can share ever more hype about the technology that’s boiling the Earth. Internally, though, Meta employees realize that a human-driven AI making calls for users has potential for “so much negative PR,” warning co-workers on the board that “It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch. Another post, with a fairly lucid handle of the situation, wrote, “Please PLEASE do not release this as-is and at least make this a user preference if we absolutely must launch this. Please.”
Just beautiful.
0cf8612b2e1e··on White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban
Some in the administration certainly are capable of 4D chess, but this event seems like the standard playbook: king got mad, and everyone is scrambling for a non-insane post hoc justification.

Even some Fox News commentators have come out against it, because they do not want an illegal precedent where they could be barred from a Democratic administration.

What is really incredible to me are the lifetime politicians who so quickly sacrifice their integrity to defend these actions. There are few cases that are so clear cut.

0cf8612b2e1e··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Microsoft has still refused to setup any kind of extension sandboxing, so it seems clear they consider a warning notice sufficient security.
0cf8612b2e1e··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
As does the no AI fork, Gram.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Tokens too cheap to meter
There is certainly a lot of talk about micro reactors. I have yet to see anything materialize in the US. The MARVEL test reactor is meant for something puny like 100kw. Nuclear is something that benefits from scale -larger installations are just going to have better economics per watt.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Tokens too cheap to meter
The economics are not there. Solar + batteries are much cheaper per watt today and still improving. Even better, the solar can come online instantly and expand while US nuclear takes twenty years to start generating any energy.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Tokens Too Cheap to Meter
EBITDA might make sense for the resellers who package up open weight models and sell inference. It is not appropriate for the labs who have billions in debt for RAM, new data centers, gobbling up competitors, etc.

Those real debt obligations are going to want to be paid back.

0cf8612b2e1e··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Exactly, that is hundreds of miles over which no NIMBY holds sway. The state can do what they want.
0cf8612b2e1e··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
Considering how bad most enterprise software is, I assumed the only real relevance was if the sales team ponied up some lavish perks to the right VP who only has to sign checks and never actually interact with the software.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
There are a lot of options in this space, but I feel utterly helpless. Which of these are really secure such that I could intentionally run malware without fear of my ssh keys being stolen?

All of the options I find seem to say something along the lines of, “We’re totally secure so long as you don’t Fizz the Bar or Twiddle the Quanzipulator”.

What is the most bullet proof, idiot proof option I should use?

0cf8612b2e1e··on FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins Until Trump Got in the Way

  Kao and his close associates had donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with over $40 million a year in government funding.
Outside of getting caught and jail, just a fantastic investment. Politicians should charge more.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
He just kicked out those meanies from the press room for saying hurtful things.
0cf8612b2e1e··on Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes
Already becoming standard that if you pause on a streaming platform, the page turns into an ad.

I paused because I wanted to see something on the screen, and now I cannot.

0cf8612b2e1e··on I don't like passkeys
Not all services let you enroll multiple keys. Amazon, with all the money in the world, was guilty of this for a long time.

Practically, it is a huge challenge. I would want my day to day fob, an onsite backup, and an offsite backup. That’s a lot of hassle and potential for mistakes. To even register the offsite backup means I need access to it. Remotely copying a password database is so much reliable

0cf8612b2e1e··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
Must be somewhat regional. My quick search showed some options as low as $700. Could be scams or nothing but rust, but still seems possible to get options well under $2k
0cf8612b2e1e··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
Ah, I was thinking of the 20ft, which can still be had for $1-$2k. If you are storing junk, might as well go for the big guy.
0cf8612b2e1e··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
I thought you could buy a used shipping container for like a grand, so that is a ridiculous rental rate.
0cf8612b2e1e··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
As far as I know, the attacks happened at different times. If Amazon knew that they had lost some data redundancy, shouldn’t they have been quickly mirroring that out of the region?
0cf8612b2e1e··on German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
Err yes. War Thunder.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31605345

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