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There are a few reasons people will be interested...

1. The CapEx play is interesting because it's not just Grok using the hardware. They have rented out hardware for others, including Google, to use. This is making xAI money.

2. It appears that Elon is building a suite of things that work together as part of the push to be multi-planetary. What AI will power the robots? I can understand the drive to have AI they can control to make sure it's appropriate for all the things they are dreaming up. This is a piece they don't want to outsource.

3. OpenAI and Anthropic models are expensive in terms of token costs. Sure, they are frontier. Neither appears to be trying to drive down expenses. This is a problem for heavy users. Companies are trying to put cost controls in place. Does the rest of SpaceX want those cost controls? Having a Frontier model that pushes the pace of driving down costs is really useful.

4. OpenAI and Anthropic are producing models with a progressive lean, according to the Neutrality Project [1]. Having a frontier model that is closer to the middle is considered a good thing by many who are noticing the bias.

These are just some of the reasons. Competition is often a good thing that drives useful change.

[1] https://neutralityproject.org/

Engineering is not a regulated term everywhere.

I bought an early framework 13. It cost a little more. I’ve since upgraded the main board to get a faster/newer experience. The overall cost has been less than 2 laptops.

Some of this depends if you’re playing the long game

In the 1920's of the US the idea of making people not content to stimulate buying gained popularity. This is still used today. The culture is directed at making people not satisfied. It's hard to go against the grain of society.

Two thoughts....

First, being intelligent (as defined in the article) doesn't relate to being happy. There is nothing inherent about being intelligent that means happy.

Second, our society spends a lot of time shaping culture and people to extract value from them. For example, the focus on "more" rather than "enough". We are shaped to always desire more and never be content with what we have. Even intelligent people are shaped by this. Consider the fall in terms of people who have hobbies.

I don't think about this as much for professional or amateur photography.

I think of verifiable images as something for legal purposes. So much is easily made up with AI. Having verifiable real photos (and eventually video) can be a benefit for things like legal proceedings.

There is a lot missing from the articles on this whole space. The farmers are getting squeezed for things like profits. For example...

1. Seed prices - there is a lot of patented GMO stuff in circulation and pricing around that.

2. Farm equipment - bigger equipment, more sensors and computers, higher costs (even around fixing things)

It would be great if there was some investigative reporting that covered all the angles.

> That died last week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction.

If the issue is one of jurisdiction, did they file the case in the wrong court?

Following local news, I've seen the case where a case is closed because it was filed in the wrong court. A different court had jurisdiction in the matter. I wonder if that's what happened in this case.

This has nothing to do with Git. A symlink can be packaged up in a tarball and shipped from one system to another. An attacker would need to create a malicious Chart.yaml file and a Chart.lock file pointing to another file. Then ship those to a system where dependencies are then updated.

This doesn't affect things like installing or upgrading a chart. Dependencies aren't updated at that time.

The attacker creates a symlink (e.g., using `ln -s`) to another file. The attacker needs to create the malicious Chart.yaml file and symlink that the Chart.lock file points to.

> So why did the cockatoos gravitate to drinking fountains in the first place

Some species of birds, like cockatoos, like puzzles. They like to figure things out.

Imagine the time we would have if....

Instead of doom scrolling on social media we called a friend.

Instead of binge watching another meh show, we had friends over to play cards or a board game.

Instead of over scheduling kids with constant activities, parents had a regular night out with friends while kids spent quality time at home with the other parent.

The time is there. It was in the past. We just have a finite amount of time and use it differently.

People have admitted in news interviews to destroying government data to prevent others from knowing what the government was doing. That’s likely criminal. This is a legitimate reason to get at information before people who might destroy have the opportunity.

What’s happening with judges is very political. We likely won’t know what’s allowed until things have gone through the appeals process. There have been cases of judges admitting they will rule against the current administration no matter the topic or law. This is messy, to say the least.

Setting aside legitimate (thats a matter of judgement)...

Some previous attempts for DOGE to get data has resulted in data being deleted before they can look and requests for judges to block access to data.

DOGE may be trying to be covert in order to stop these two activities from happening before they can get and review the data.

To play devils advocate here, a thought comes to mind...

Should the US be the one to handle the CVE database globally? The current administration wants to see other parts of the world help carry the load. A little scare could be the push needed to make this either distributed or handled by a coalition. This could be a positive for the US (who doesn't want to be the sole funder) and for those who don't want the US to have sole control.

Which distro do you use? I've run a mac and Linux laptop and the Linux setup keeps sending me back to Mac.

For those building applications with FIPS 140 crypto the primary concern is compliance rather than security. There are many organizations (e.g., US federal) that have requirements for it.

The latest version is FIPS 140-3 and is more up to date.

Note, binaries made for FIPS 140 with OpenSSL dynamically linked do not run on Alpine. While I've not looked at the Microsoft go/openssl compiler, it's worth testing its output across distros/versions as different distros have different versions of glibc and openssl.

According to crunchbase, Automattic has taken just shy of $1B in funding. Yes, that's a B as in billion.

I wonder where those investors are on returns on that investment and the kinds of changes they want to get them.

The author of UBlockOrigin should contact the PayPal legal department (in a legal manner). That might be a more direct path dealing with the Honey business.

They do have a right through representative government.

The powers one level of government doesn’t take trickle down to the next. Since the state level took those powers, the local level cannot.

The representative government processes needs to happen at the state level in Florida.

If someone is a software developer who has done non-trivial things and linear algebra but not recently and needs to be refreshed, do you provide time/training to refresh on the math skills?

The court isn't tasked with doing what right. Who defines what's "right"?

The court is tasked with judging based on the laws at hand. If those laws are flawed or wrong but legal, it's upon congress to change the laws rather than the courts to decide right or wrong.

The court should be focused on legal or illegal. This is how the separation of powers work in the US.

When laws are "broken" we should be looking at congress.

In addition to politics is how they interpret the job of being a judge. Is it to judge a case on the laws that are written given the context they were written in? Is it to interpret laws based on a different context? This leads to different outcomes.

How would this work for the majority of people? Most people live paycheck-to-paycheck. Even those who make more than enough not to. It's a habit. If health care isn't baked in, will people pay for it? If not, how will they avoid bankruptcy?

If there is no permanent damage to your body, then Type 2 can be reversed. I've known Type 2 diabetics who no longer have it because of diet change.

I've heard the people behind Mastering Diabetes [1] talk about diabetes in general. The authors of the book are diabetics with advanced degrees they put into this topic.

I've known diabetics who changed their diet and no longer had type 2 diabetes after awhile. They did this from a medical program designed to treat it.

This was fascinating to learn about ways of handling diabetes that was more than drugs.

[1] https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/book/

I wonder if this is due to the effects of eating this as a child or if eating that was as a child built in habits and it's the long term effects of eating this way that had an impact.

For example, if someone at a lot of candy as a kid but stopped as an adult, how do their odds look?

What policies have been put in place that would cause the problems they are experiencing? If there is a politics issues, the policies can be talked about.

It's more complicated than that. For example, why do those who eat mostly plant based (I mean real plants and not processed foods) have lower rates of cancer if both sides get iron? Iron is essential to live.

It could have something to do with amount. For example, Iron from animal products is easier for the body to absorb and there are MUCH higher levels per gram (e.g., beef has 7x the iron kale does). Is it too much iron?

It could be type. You have FE2+, FE3+, heme iron, non-heme iron, etc. This article points to FE3+. Is there something more there?

Is it some combination of things?

There's a lot we don't know.

Worth noting, beef red meat has more than 7 times the amount of iron as kale does.