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thomquaidon OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B

Couldnt they create value by saving people's time? Like a shovel, or a bulldozer.

thomquaidon Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus

This isnt a vaccine against suicide.

thomquaidon Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus

Hard to beat a half million years of evolution with a nasal spray from last year.

thomquaidon RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

Yes the idea is that birds that recover from bird flu will keep producing. You end up with more live birds than culling entire flocks. Some of the birds survive, because of their genetics.

thomquaidon RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

The culled birds definitely arent producing. The proposal here is to let sick birds recover from their flu instead of being killed. True, you can effectively stop the spread of the flu if all the animals are dead, but the flu has a high survivability rate, and so once birds recover from their flu, they'll still be laying eggs (instead of being dead). That seems to be the proposed approach. It matches what we did for covid (we didnt cull the infected to stop the spread--it might have worked though).

thomquaidon OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/yearlycompari...

It does seem like things are trending toward less public laws passing over the last decade, as well as record low time in session and other congressional activity.

thomquaidon First thoughts on o3 pro

Approximately $200/month apparently.

thomquaidon Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware

"By searching for his personal Gmail address (which I'm not sharing) in Have I Been Pwned, he appears in 51 data breaches and in 5 pastes. These include a 2013 breach of 153 million Adobe users, a 2016 breach of 164 million LinkedIn users, a 2020 breach of 167 million users from Gravatar, a 2024 breach of the conservative news site The Post Millennial, and many more."

Stop reading Ars and your name will be cleared. This isnt real journalism, it is Ars-washed political talking points.

thomquaidon Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship

I think it is about that. Many of the social behaviors didnt evolve individually, and the social behaviors that end up selected for produced tribes. The group can be more fit than the sum of its parts, and both sides benefit from friendship because two people are about three times as strong working together vs the twice as strong you would expect.

thomquaidon Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

Nonsense. Trump led in every swing state prior to election in aggregate poll analysis. Each swing state may have had an outlier Harris poll, but to say no polls existed with Trump leading is definitely incorrect. There were no surprise state outcomes at all in 2024, and the election was effectively over by 9pm Eastern time. Maybe you mean some kind of popular vote poll nationally, but that isnt how the US votes and also doesnt represent 'all polls'. I checked RCP archives and they show 7 polls for Harris leading nationally, and 10 polls for Harris losing nationally.

And let us not forget Harris was only even a candidate for 3 months. How Harris even makes it into the training window without Trump '24 result is already amazingly unlikely.

thomquaidon FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12

The StubHub example is the abuse that is being banned. Yes, you can bait and switch people and take more of their money than they are otherwise willing to spend if you deceive, manipulate, and withold disclosures. It is (arguably) wrong/bad, but profitable.

thomquaidon CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

The hearing today said the messages are not classified, and wouldnt be, given it is a cabinet meeting convo. They said what was withheld by the journalist was sensative information. Sensative is not Classified, Classified is not Sensative. The Sensative material withheld is about an unrelated matter, suggested to be an investigation, supposedly. Im not sure what faith has to do with it. The media is saying there are classified leaks, but the public leaks arent classified or sensitive. The journalist can publish facts showing classified or sensative information if they want to, but so far the only facts in evidence are no classification occurred.

thomquaidon CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

CIA director explained that nothing could have been classified because classification authority rests with the secretaries involved themselves. In the journalists opinion, war plans should be classified. Fortunately, we dont rely on Journalists to make that determination.

Fortunately, good journalists do not harm air missions. Unfortunately, bad journalism creates political illusions.

The journalist said he withheld sensative information that the senate hearing today emphasized was regarding an ongoing investigation, and not about war plans. If the whole government is lying, hopefully the journalist is good and publishes facts instead of opinions

Edit: in your clip, CIA director says 'they characterized it as a mistake', not 'he'.

thomquaidon CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

He never said he had classified information. He said he witheld sensitive information which is related to an ongoing investigation (and not related to Houthi airstrikes).

thomquaidon CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers

That is not true. Today at the hearing, the CIA director said there was no classified material. He was questioned if the event was a "huge mistake", and answered "No."

The journalist published the messages. The messages take almost no time to read and are very short.

See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/live/SNJF-hi4rus?t=7547s

Lots of lies about these leaks.

thomquaidon Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts

The motive is Boeing didnt deliver, doesnt deliver, and cannot deliver.

thomquaidon AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission

well, nothing is really ever lost

thomquaidon How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

I appreciate both of these comments, thank you both.

thomquaidon How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

True, but 4.25 is the number we all want to know.

thomquaidon How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

4.25 is enough tps for a lot of use cases.

thomquaidon How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server

It says 4.25 TPS in the first para.

thomquaidon Proof of concept WMI virus (zero-day)

Sticky keys into SYSTEM console; same as always.

thomquaidon The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us

Thats because Youtube doesnt want to broadcast copyright work in any way as a courtesy for rights holders' trade groups that have asked, not because of regulatory or legal consequences though.

thomquaidon DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

By that logic all money is waste. The money isnt destroyed when it is spent. It is transferred into someone else's bank account only. This process repeats recursively until taxation returns all money back to the treasury to be spent again. And out of this process of money shuffling: entire nations full of power plants!

thomquaidon TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

Thank you for this post.

thomquaidon Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown

Do you have any evidence at all or just fear, uncertainty, and doubt?

thomquaidon Show HN: A Better Log Service

the 'easy to use' / 'view' was very nice. if you could add the actual session logs in it would be amazing.

thomquaidon Wi-Fi Router at CES 2025 Has a Connectivity Radius of 9.9 Miles

I have 10Mbps at home, 50ms pings, and 1080p streaming.

thomquaidon Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models

if you throw less than escape velocity, about the energy you threw with less system losses. if you throw greater than escape velocity, about any energy is possible less system losses, if you allow enough time for it to come back after its trip around the solar system. if you throw it into the milky way, same thing, easier potentials. if you throw it at relativistic velocities, expansion of the universe could play a significant role.