PeterHolzwarth

Those people often also fail to ask "is this stuff even made right?!"

Maybe don't over do frequent eating of the fruit and others from its family:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba#Potential_toxi...

Good article by fiflre on the history of tetris:

https://www.filfre.net/2017/08/a-tale-of-the-mirror-world-pa...

The author similarly dives into the crazy and interesting series of events - such a snapshot of that era - that led to the game getting onto the Gameboy, and the impressive impact that had.

A compelling review of the authors work, but I think there would be benefit from dropping the early references to UBI: LVT is an interesting approach and line of reasoning. UBI is a political hotbed with deeply acrimonious feelings on all sides.

When you align one idea with an external one, you are adopting all that external baggage - it's a cheap way to get a few additional people to agree, but at the cost of a bunch of other people seeing what they perceive as warning signs of a class of ideas they are suspicious of.

It's important to have confidence in your idea, on its own merits.

"This area was getting about one deer hit a day"

Relative to how many didn't get hit, what's the percentage there?

A smidge more article:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-sees-compute-spend...

The current administration doesn't believe in climate change / global warming, so no. It's just the typical "blame foreigners for your problems" thing that every authoritarian regime all over the world indulges in, and uses to justify nasty stuff. In the last 20 years, for example, it's also been how China justifies stealing stuff from other countries to further their local industries and technological growth (not that there aren't fantastic engineers and scientists in China already).

Always been curious - what are some examples of trademarks being lost due to not being defended?

The man has not yet been defenestrated, but I get your point.

Yeah, you're right - I didn't think about that. Thanks!

That's a great point, thanks - I didn't think about that angle.

Wow! This didn't last long on the front page. Strange - I thought it was an honest and informative little article.

I noticed it on the front page. An hour later, it's on page 3.

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Now I'm just curious to see how fast the downward trajectory is on this currently 70-post article is. Still in the 1-2 hour range and now it is on page 4 of HN.

What's enlightening is how astonishingly little salt is used, by our standards.

Oh please. They do closed betas - hardly makes you a "second class citizen".

Many LLMs down, discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676

American modern life. Vast swathes of the rest of the planet doesn't suffer from our unfortunate pathology.

Yeah, that's always been my concern with the EU (I'm American, for context): the long worrying practice where the legal concept of the EU is assembled by a small group who very much want EU citizens to go back to sleep and only wake up once all the laws and regulation has been created.

A federation makes sense to me: I live in one. But how the EU has assembled itself in a way that seems to unrepresentative has been worrying to watch over the last couple decades.

Just want to be clear here: you appear to be saying that you support a regime putting people in prison that a regime doesn't like, on made-up charges, with the excuse of "harmed society or the economy" - have I got that right?

It very definitely patterned its behavior on colonizer to survive - even becoming a local-sphere colonizer itself, interestingly. Definitely a case of "if you can't beat 'em, (temporarily) join 'em."

In China, "harmed society or the economy" is very very often the excuse used to put political enemies into prison.

Sorry to see the down votes you are getting. I am an inveterate knuckle-cracker, but I very much understand that a subset of people find it unpleasant and irritating to hear.

It is distressing to hear someone on hacker news describe this, and the history of Syria over the last couple decades, as something that might be "propaganda" and "partisanship."

My god, man - do you even slightly follow the news? Are you really that unaware such that you feel there is some degree of question over just how horrific the Assad regime was for Syrians?

The irony being that in the 90s nascent online world, "cyber" as a verb meant "cyber-sex".

Your comment kind of reminds me of the old slashdot spam-email-solution copypasta - the purpose of it is to highlight how so many sensible sounding ideas just can't work in practice.

I definitely get your broader point, but it turns out the smallpox blankets things is a myth. But I know what you mean, nonetheless.

No, I think it's about people - about us. About you, me, all of us.

It really is a strange and horrific metaphor, analogy, and parable about the effects of isolation - made all the more distressing because it wasn't intentional. It was just our broader ancestors going about their business as normal people.

This is wonderful! You should submit this to the HN feed.

Article grabbed at random that provides some more context (tho could use more):

https://www.cyberkendra.com/2026/07/deepseek-pauses-fundrais...

"The Hangzhou AI lab has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Saturday, days after remarks attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-China AI competition circulated widely online."

And:

"Tencent's technology outlet published a 118-item version covering AGI strategy, chip supply, pricing, and retention. In it, Liang reportedly framed China's disadvantage as an arithmetic problem rather than a talent one: "The biggest gap between us and the US is in resources.""

"The specifics were unusually candid. Liang is said to have told investors he needed 200,000 Huawei 950 chips to train a frontier model but received 16,000, adding that "Huawei's problem is still insufficient capacity" and expecting the crunch to last at least three years. He also floated narrowing the gap with US labs to three to six months using a fraction of their computing."

Holy crap, this article has been active here for 13 hours - it really needs a country callout (ie India) in the title.