WatchDog

> nazi salute, foreign war intervention, government influence

Leading with the supposed "nazi salute" really detracts from the other, much more legitimate and substantive issues you raised.

It's always been political, but it used to be non-partisan.

I would say that their targeting has changed, more than the audience itself.

>> Satoshi supported big blocks in his writings and empowered the pro-big block Gavin when he disappeared

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> This isn't correct. In fact, the linked email in the article says the opposite

Characterizing the arguments are big vs small blocks, seems wrong.

There appeared to be broad agreement that the block size needed to be increased, however there were 4 competing proposed solutions(BIP 100, 101, 102, 103), and consensus on which approach to take could not be reached.

Gavin decided to push ahead with BIP 101, and both Satoshi and Adam agreed that it was reckless to proceed without better consensus.

Overall it's worse than the other frontier models, but it's decent for queries about breaking news, due to being trained on twitter data. It's also better for queries about controversial topics, and topics that the other labs have deemed to be "unsafe".

Politically, it differs quite a bit from other models.[0] It's right leaning, although it's closer neutral than other models, defining what neutral is a challenge though.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23841

It's a good comment, it explains the reason for the setting.

They didn't expect to leak their source code.

It's hardly a trade secret, what value is this to a competitor?

I wish there was a way to cap the lockout time.

It makes sense for 4 digit codes, but I have a 20ish character password, I once locked myself out, and it was an incredibly frustrating experience.

My password can't be brute forced even with offline access to the hash, there is no risk of it being brute forced from keyboard input.

The inevitability is that these kinds of services just won't be offered without identifying yourself.

Claude's free tier requires a phone number just to try it.

I like to think of Palantir as JIRA or salesforce for killing people.

You can run it on-prem, where you can actually technologically enforce data custody.

Custody enforcement using the cloud hosted product, is mostly contractual, although they do offer some technical features, like encrypting all data using a AWS KMS key in the customer's AWS account.

Still, this relies on trusting that they won't make their own separate copies of the data.

It's improved significantly in that time, but relative to the other frontier models, it is still the one that is the most condescending and coddling.

Gemini also won't help you with C++ if you are under 18, since it would be unsafe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39632959

I don't quite understand the 5 second overlap. I assume it's so that events that occur over the chunk boundary don't get missed, but is there any examples or benchmarking to examine how useful this is?

> you still have to secure the HSM

Obviously.

> There's no shortcut to MPC/multisig with 3+ keyholders.

The whole concept of a stablecoin seems to be based on centralised trust. Ultimately there is some org that has the fiat bank account, that mints and redeems the coins.

> took a private key from KMS

They used KMS to sign the minting operation, but they didn't "take" the key, AWS KMS doesn't let you extract keys.

If their coin requires a web service to process each transaction, then an offline key isn't very useful.

You can criticize their design, but you can't have a dude burning a CD-ROM every time someone wants some coins.

I really liked these benchmarks, and would check in with them from time to time.

No benchmark is perfect, but these ones cover such a wide variety of different languages and frameworks, it's a good resource for getting a rough idea of the kind of performance that a given stack is capable of.

I don't know much about TechEmpower the company, it seems to be a small consultancy, maintaining this project probably takes non insignificant resources from them.

The end of the project seems kind of unceremonious, but they don't owe anything to anyone.

Hopefully an active fork emerges.

I used some small parts of localstack a long time back for some integration tests. I haven't kept up with what it does.

Looking at their pricing tiers, it seems that their paid product now a cloud based service, or partly cloud based.

I don't really see why you would pay to use a cloud based AWS emulator, instead of just using a real AWS account.

Yeah, also "RTX IO", and Microsoft "DirectStorage".

What was more interesting about the unreal engine demo, was that they can stream not only textures, but geometry too.

Virtual texturing had been around a long time, but virtual geometry with nanite is really interesting.

I tried this in chatgpt, asking " geschniegelt" on a 5.2 instant temp chat, and got some interesting results.

Sometimes it would reply with the correct definition of geschniegelt, the description would sometimes be in German, sometimes in English.

Most of the time it would give me a definition for a different German word "Geil".

For whatever reason, the most interesting results I got were via my work's m365 copilot interface, where it would give me random word descriptions in Hebrew[0] and Arabic[1].

[0]: https://pastebin.com/raw/h108gr9t

[1]: https://pastebin.com/raw/BFAbtVQN

Perhaps, the word does have it's own token, " geschniegelt"(geschniegelt with a space in front of it), is token 192786 in the tokenizer that GPT-5 apparently uses.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niieani/gpt-tokenizer/refs...

> Palantir [...] gets access to sensitive FCA data.

Is this the right characterization? Is Palantir being given access to the data(to do with what they like), or is Palantir software being deployed in the customer private cloud environment?

I am under the impression that Palantir is typically deployed on-premise, or in a private cloud, where the customer can ensure that the data remains sovereign.

Particularly in a military setting, it would be deployed in an airgapped or highly controlled network.

Cool project.

The viewer is cool, took me a while to find the link to it though, maybe add a link in the readme next to the screenshot.

If it's not already public data, this seems like the sort of thing you could probably get legally by filing a FOIA request.

After hearing Palmer Luckey's argument for the name change[0], I tend to think it's good change.

Some of his arguments:

It used to be called the department of war, and it had a better track record with regard to foreign conflict, under that name then it did under the DoD name.

Department of war is a more honest name, department of defense is a somewhat newspeak term, although "Department of Peace" would be worse.

It's harder to seek funding for "war", then it is to seek funding for "defense". If you ask someone, "Do you want to spend money on education or war?", you will get a different answer asking, "Do you want to spend money on education or defense?".

[0] Palmer Luckey talking to Mike Rowe about the name change: https://youtu.be/dejWbn_-gUQ?t=1007

All DDR5 ram has some amount of error correction built in, because DDR5 is much more prone to bit flipping, it requires it.

I'm not really sure if this makes it overall more or less reliable than DDR2/3/4 without ECC though.

There isn't any good technical reason why an iPad couldn't run macOS. The differences between the A and M series chips is mostly about the kinds of IO the SOC provides. The iPads already use M series chips anyway.

I guess they need something to differentiate it from the 17.

Of the differences, it's the one that would matter most to me.

Soldier is an Army specific term. Like Sailor, Airman, Marine, etc.

Perhaps the term you are looking for is service member?

Warfighter tends to refer to anyone involved in a role that directly supports combat operations, it may or may not be a service member.

Pre-covid, and during the early covid hiring spree, I used to get messages from eager recruiters every week, I get maybe one a month these days, and they are much more tepid.