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How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one (teybannerman.com)
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Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.
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Crazy how copilot was a great brand, and might even have been the first mass market LLM product (2022-2023 code autocomplete) but they completely ensloppified it
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It's the new .NET in that it been so overused as to become almost meaningless.
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For a moment it was called Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Naming things is hard.
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It reminds me of around 2002 when Microsoft named everything ".net".
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Plot twist: he used Copilot to generate the figure.
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> .. the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things. Apps, features, platforms, a keyboard key, an entire category of laptops - and a tool for building more Copilots. All named ‘Copilot’. Right, so then it's not a "product", or even a range of "products". It's a brand name and inherently pointless to map out. It doesn't even have to involve any "AI" to be given the branding. All that matters is it's a thing they have, new or old, that they'd like to push people towards.
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Isn’t it just their AI llm thing?
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Its annoying especially since Copilot exists in Visual Studio (Code too I believe) and its not exactly "the same" thing as far as I can tell. I really hate Microsoft's naming conventions. At least call that one Copilot for Devs or something more meaningful.
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Microsoft yearns for the flight simulator.
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It's MSN, Plus, Live, Surface, 365 all over again
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I’m waiting for .Net Copilot with integration to Passport.
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But beware if someone say to them Microslop ... they don't like it if someone other make up new names :-)
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Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000) (sopwith.org)
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More info on the SDL Sopwith port project https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/
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One of first games I ever played at my dad's work when I was probably 6 or 7 years old. I've always enjoyed flight Sims, understanding this dubiously qualifies :). I've enjoyed the strategic aspect of fuel and bomb management and while the ai is simple, it provided a challenge. I now have kids of my own; over the winter I setup an old laptop with old games, and started introducing them chronologically to games like Sopwith, Paratrooper, Alley Cat etc. My 6 year olds son comment on this game in his journal: "I like: everything. I don't like: nothing." Took me a second to not over interpret the seeming double negative :-) Update : years later I played wings of fury on my cousin's amiga 500 ; far better game but not the same magic :)
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The first time I ever saw a PC it was running Sopwith. Must have been 1989. I loved the game, but it was this exotic new machine that really interested me. It had 5.25” floppies, probably a 286 and quite an old machine by then. I had only used Z80/128k machines up to then. My dad had an Amstrad 6128, with those 3” “hard” floppies, sturdy, with a decent thick metal gate. This PC was a very different beast. I remember being confused about the disks. They seemed weak and unprotected ! you could literally see that delicate magnetic surface through the opening. I had always been told never to touch it, but there it was, just asking to be touched…
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Did the site get slashdotted?
I seem to recall that the turbo button didn't come along until the 80286, but some of the PC clones had them before that. My 486 definitely had a turbo button (that was the one I built after using the original PC for so many years).
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The Turbo button worked wonders for Tetris. You start it with turbo turned on, so Tetris adjusts to the computer’s speed - but it only does this once, at startup. As soon as the blocks start falling, you turn the turbo off, and now your Tetris runs at half speed. I even managed, a few times, to roll over a score of 32,768 (ah, those signed integers).
US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war (msn.com)
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Just leaving this here. Feel free to compare it to current reality. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf "President Trump has cemented his legacy as The President of Peace." "Stopping regional conflicts before they spiral into global wars that drag down whole continents is worthy of the Commander-in-Chief’s attention, and a priority for this administration. A world on fire, where wars come to our shores, is bad for American interests." "The key to successful relations with the Middle East is accepting the region, its leaders, and its nations as they are while working together on areas of common interest." "America will always have core interests in ensuring that Gulf energy supplies do not fall into the hands of an outright enemy, that the Strait of Hormuz remain open, that the Red Sea remain navigable, that the region not be an incubator or exporter of terror against American interests or the American homeland, and that Israel remain secure." "But the days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are thankfully over—not because the Middle East no longer matters, but because it is no longer the constant irritant, and potential source of imminent catastrophe, that it once was. It is rather emerging as a place of partnership, friendship, and investment—a trend that should be welcomed and encouraged." Next time you look at the gas price when topping up your car think about this strategy was either hallucinated by your administration or AI. I am not sure what is worse.
Genuine question for Americans: donyou not think that a Democrat today would be leading the same war? We're talking about a party that facilitated, and took part in, 1 year of genocide. In what world could you imagine Israel's planned war against Iran not being automatically supported by whatever US party was in power?
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You are being downvoted for stating the truth - you are absolutely right that the Democrats too would have fully supported Israel's attack on Iran. Let us not forget that Biden played a major role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza (and now in West bank) by helping the IDF spread its propaganda hoax that "Hamas beheaded babies", in the western media (Biden lied that he had personally seen the "horrific pictures " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_baby_beheading_hoax ). Of course, unlike Trump, a Democratic party administration would have resorted to hypocrisy and propaganda that the war was for "democracy", "human rights", "save jews", "fight terrorism" etc. etc. But it would have been much shorter - they would have killed the Iranians leaders too, and struck military targets and then stopped.
> while the population just watches it happen... About 1/5 of America voted for this guy after seeing the trainwreck of his first admin. At the same time, protests response is continually growing and breaking records as economic disparities and totalitarian responses intensify.
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Looking at all Americans in deceiving. For starters, 1/5 are below the voting age. 49.8% of voters voted for this.
Oil itself is becoming irrelevant quickly. It's a play for becoming king of the ashes.
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This is simply not true by most objective metrics... unless you don't like plastic and fertilizer?
Why make up unsubstantiated claims about Chinese support, when it is known that Russia supports Iran with military hardware?
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Contrary to popular belief, Iran's most important arms supplier has been China, and not Russia, in the last decade. To preserve its ties with Israel and Saudi Arabia, Russia has sometimes compromised arm shipments to Iran. Historically too, Russia has worked with France and Britain to undermine Iran, through the Shah.
But probably itching to do to the US what the US did to them in Ukraine. (And doing so is likely to reduce US aid to Ukraine, as a bonus to them. Ukraine's certainly not likely to get Tomahawks and Patriots right now.)
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What US aid? Trump's been stonewalling it for them just fine.
Show HN: A game where you build a GPU (jaso1024.com)
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The truth tables are way too hard for me. I need time to think and the 10 seconds is way too fast. If this is intended to be a teaching resource, avoid timers IMHO. It needlessly excludes people.
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makes sense, idk if i want to remove times altogether (i personally found it fun + i want the game to be fun for all levels of familiarity), but ill add a modal to explicitly select difficulty level at the start of the racer game, i def agree w/ u overall
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This is super cool but part of me wishes I could skip to the later levels rather than redo college homework from a decade ago. Maybe that ruins the fun but also slogging through the early levels (especially when the UI is a bit rough around the edges and doesn't support copy paste) isn't fun either.
The 2.13 level ("hex racer") is kind of pain. Apparently I'm not fast enough at dividing/multiplying by 16... when I get something like "convert 0xB3 to decimal"
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Time to get on zetamac (all jokes aside, it should be optional, i'll also make racer games slower + adaptive soon (today))
...why capacitor has 3 pins ?
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Yeah, I had added it to make it compatible w/ my simulation system, just changed how I was handling the levels altogether, if it still has 3 try doing a hard refresh (Ctrl + Shift + R on windows, cmd + shift + R on macos)
So, is there anything about GPU's in here right now? I didn't actually finish Act 2, but it seems to end in a conventional processor with the GPU first coming after another two acts currently under construction.
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Not at the moment unfortunately, I've actually completed a good chunk of the GPU levels, but I think ppl will need to do act 2 and 3 for it to make sense
I'm confused about a difference in the NMOS and PMOS. The scenario I'm confused about is when the source is VDD and the drain is connected to GND and output. For the PMOS, the output toggles between 1 and 0 (opposite the gate) as expected. However, for the NMOS, the output is always 0. I don't understand why GND pulls VDD down to 0 for the NMOS, but not the PMOS.
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Oh, the drain should only be connected to the output, not drain aswell (irl this would kill one's chip, I'll add a feature to show short-circuiting). on pmos the source should be vdd, on nmos the source should be gnd (this doesn't apply for some later levels, but does for earlier ones).
I want to fix this, could you elaborate a bit (would help even more if you pressed the copy circuit and pasted the result here)
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Add 2 AND gates, 1 NOT gate G0 = D0 AND SEL G1 = NOT SEL G2 = D1 AND G1 G0 -> Ans G2 -> Ans
if you solve a level, then press "next level", then solve that next level - then it still shows the original level (I think it just gets hidden below the new one and then reappears after a solve?)
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just pushed a fix
Yeah, that was the inspiration, felt that it didn't go in depth enough + didn't cover other processors, so I wanted to fill that hole + make it free
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The aspect that I especially like is covering the 3-state aspect of the logic. Studying CS, it was kind of vaguely mentioned, and we skipped over to doing logic diagrams with gates and the assumption of 2-state logic really quickly...and it seems like most games do that kind of skip too. Working at the transistor level grounds it better to the actual components.
Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs (theverge.com)
Oh. Weird use for a graphics unit.
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Using GPU for compute is nothing new or unusual these days, not for quite a while.
I followed the instructions link and read the scripts...although the TinyGPU app is not in source form on GitHub, this looks to me like the GPU is passed into the Linux VM underneath to use the real driver and then somehow passed back out to the Mac (which might be what the TinyGrad team actually got approved). Or I could have totally misunderstood the role of Docker in this.
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https://docs.tinygrad.org/tinygpu/ are their docs, and https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/tree/4d36366717aa9f17356379296e36b4e690cdd8c7/extra/usbgpu/tbgpu/installer/TinyGPUDriverExtension is the actual (user space) driver. My read of everything is that they are using Docker for NVIDIA GPUs for the sake of "how do you compile code to target the GPU"; for AMD they're just compiling their own LLVM with the appropriate target on macOS.
"We vote with our wallet, so don't complain" is a bad take in my opinion. Like, for phones, I want a phone which runs Linux, has NFC support, and also has iMessage so my friend who only communicates with blue-bubbles and will never message a green-bubble will still talk to me. I also want it to have regulatory approval in the country I live in so I can legally use it to make calls. Because apple has closed the iMessage ecosystem such that a linux phone can't use it, such a device is impossible. I cannot vote for it. As such, I will complain about every phone I own for the foreseeable future.
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if that's what you call a "friend"...
Idk why this doesn't link to the original source instead of this proxy source: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/2039213719155310736
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Isn't X usually the original source these days?
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Because it’s on the site formally known as twitter which is full of actual Nazis.
I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.
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Evidence that NVIDIA has even been trying? My understanding is that Apple didn’t allow 3rd parties to write graphics drivers past 10.13, but they could’ve done a non-graphics driver like this.
Courts have already ruled it does in the iOS app store market. You can disagree of course but then you'd be disagreeing with legal experts who know more about anti-trust law than you do.
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Credentialism to prevent discussion of political and government entities is incredibly dangerous
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You can, but that doesn't mean your opinion is as valid as those who study the subject. Otherwise we might as well believe the flat earthers.
It depends how you define the market. In the 2001 microsoft case [0], the courts ruled Microsoft had a monopoly over the "Intel-based personal computer market". Apple has a monopoly over the "M-chip" personal computer market. They have a monopoly over the iOS market with the app store. They have a monopoly over the driver market on macOS. Like, Microsoft was found guilty of exploiting its monopoly for installing IE by default while still allowing other browser engines. On iOS, apple bundles safari by default and doesn't allow other browser engines. If we apply the same standard that found MS a monopoly in the past, then Apple is obviously a monopoly, so at the very least I think it's fair to say that reasonable people can disagree about whether Apple is a monopoly or not. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp .
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> Apple has a monopoly over the "M-chip" personal computer market. They have a monopoly over the iOS market with the app store When a company is deemed an illegal monopoly, the DoJ basically becomes part of management. Antitrust settlements focus on germane elements, e.g. spin offs. But they also frequently include random terms of political convenience. I don’t think we want a precedent where companies having a product means they have an automatic monopoly on said product.
Microsoft was found guilty of using their market power to do product bundling, which is illegal. The fact that they had dominance in the market is not what they got popped for, nor is it illegal.
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You just described Apple.
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Apple has not, to my knowledge, required OEMs to bundle Safari with macOS alongside threats to withhold macOS if they don’t comply expressly to put Firefox out of business. But hey, maybe some weird shit happened during the clone years that I’m not privy to.
That's normal behavior when your server is being reverse-engineered or abused. Video bandwidth is not free. Apple's decision is not constrained by server logic or ballooning costs, it is entirely a client-based policy to not sign CUDA drivers.
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> That's normal behavior when your server is being reverse-engineered or abused. Video bandwidth is not free. Microsoft rewrote their Windows Phone native client to pass through Google's ads. Google still blocked it. Was it normal behavior when Google blocked Amazon Fire devices from connecting to YouTube with a web browser during the Google/Amazon corporate spat? To be fair, Google did back down almost immediately when the tech press picked up on it. Not allowing a native client for your monopoly market share video service on Amazon devices while also blocking Amazon's web browser on those devices is making things a bit too obvious.
German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad (dw.com)
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Germans, how is the military registration rate going from the millions of military-age men from different civilizations and time progressions that you imported in order to increase crime rates, spend your tax money, and destroy your country?
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It is wonderful to see this much-needed discussion on HN. There is a strong argument to be made for that we need to recalibrate rights and responsibilities of men and women. Especially since women have largely abandoned their traditional duties and still kinda expect men to hold their end of the bargain. All while constantly degrading, offending, and calling men's nature toxic. Men essentially get nothing in return for doing these deadly jobs. So let's make it truely equal as everybody wanted and conscript everyone. No sugarcoating either, equality starts from the front line.
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Next step in Germany - from mid-2027, a fitness test for 18 year olds.
The older I get the more I can't stand "countries" as a concept. Especially this notion that somehow countries own their citizens. It's quite gross to me... Countries do not own their citizens, citizens own their countries. Countries are a technology - albeit an old and sometimes useful technology, but a technology. This is like an iPhone requiring your permission to leave it on the counter for a day. This idea that you're not allowed to travel without a permit is a perverse inversion of reality. People are not property and the idea that a "country" can feed human beings into one meat-grinder or another at will in order to preserve itself is the very thing that the AI safety people are panicked about. It's the paperclip maximizer, but instead of making paperclips it tries to grow and expand it's influence into all aspects of the human experience. Increasingly this disgusts me at a cellular level.
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If you don't fight for your rights you lose them.
Islamic societies could be the only ones that will be left standing after all these nonsense we see in the west.
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I would bet my money on asian societies.
It's a meaningless, feel-good rule. Every country has countless carve-outs. To give you a trivial example: in the US, you can't get a passport if you owe more than $2,500 in child support.
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Whilst I agree, to be fair, a passport is usually only needed when entering a country, not leaving one, right? Under the cited rule, the US needs to allow you to leave , not help you in entering some other country.
Military service in the west is not for defence. Irak, Iran, Syria, Vietnam...
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It is for the defense of the national interests and friend nations: - Iraq: 1) to expel Iraq from Kuwait, and 2) weapons (though this turned out to be mistaken) after the 9/11 attacks - Iran: we don’t need another nuclear nation - Syria: destroy terrorists (ISIS), enforce the red line on chemical weapons, and to protect US troops (when we attacked Iran-supported militias) - Vietnam: to stop the spread of communism and protect neighboring nations
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So while many of the reasons are questionable (understatement of the year), let’s focus on the last one. After America lost the war in Vietnam, what happened to those neighboring nations? Did they suffer from Vietnamese communists? The only Vietnamese intervention was in Cambodia, and hardly anyone thinks that wasn’t the right thing to do.
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Germany was one of the least militarized countries after WWII. They were kind of scared of themselves.
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Germany participated how there?
Shockingly sexist policy. And as per usual because its harmful to men no one cares.
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The constitution made it impossible to make a less sexist law, because it says that women cannot be forced to military service. It is an old document, and it is based on old role models. Modernizing the constitution would require 2/3 majority, and the government was already struggling with making a law at all. This is an explanation, not a justification.
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In a scenario where you are losing a significant part of the population to war, it's better that it be men.
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Only if you ignore free will. Feels unlikely that women will suddenly abandon monogamy and forced procreation à la the draft is probably very unpopular especially given that women would be a majority. Not that they’re wrong to disagree, but there are more conditions here than the biology of procreation. The modern answer would be immigration, and that’s gender-agnostic.
It's objectively worse on the Ukrainian side. Imagine you haven't been able to leave your house in 4 years for fear you'll be grabbed by a draft officer. Russians do not know this fear. To boot, many Russian men have been paid handsomely for their participation in the SMO and get to live nice lives abroad.
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Because citizenship is a commitment, not merely a set of privileges. If you obtain a citizenship (or have it imposed on you upon birth), it comes with a set of duties other residents and visitors do not have. The duty to defend your country is a traditional one. Some countries may conscript non-citizens or allow them to serve voluntarily. Often because they are more likely to use the military as an extension of foreign policy rather than for defense. Others may see it a waste of effort, as those people are probably not sufficiently committed to the continued existence of the country.
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The philosophical justifications sound nice and all. The thing is that when you have a huge non-citizen percentage of the population that is actively drawing taxpayer money out of the state to the point where the social welfare system is beginning to break down, and you have the working citizens of the country being taxed at 50% or more to support that during an escalating global cost of living crisis, you have effectively destroyed the social contract around citizenship that permits this system to function. For the massive aged population that's drawing retiree benefits, there's at least the justification that they paid into the system during their lifetime, even if the equation that makes the retirement system work increasingly doesn't work anymore. Now the young people are being told to go die to keep that system alive. I wouldn't be surprised if most don't.
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Do I have the right to give my citizenship away if I don't want it anymore?
time to emigrate
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Working on it.
Why does it exclude women? War is not just physical strength, but also logistics, operating vehicles, operating drones, nursing, and so on. All tasks that women are well capable of.
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Most roles in the military require ad hoc applications of brute strength to do the job competently even if it isn't per se part of the job description. This includes things like operating vehicles, desk jobs, etc. In the military context, almost every job must be performed in the field or in the absence of (working) machinery. You still must be capable of carrying the equipment load-out for your role on your back. The inability of women as a class to do this effectively has been a longstanding issue. Everyone is at risk of being thrust into combat situations due to circumstances beyond anyone's control. The "rear echelon" can suddenly find themselves no longer in the rear. In the US there is a separate gender-agnostic authority that allows the US to impress someone into non-military service for (IIRC) 6 months.
Arguably, not enough people are being born as it stands. We're already in your collapse scenario.
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I suspect one tool governments across the world will resort to when they get desperate about sub-replacement fertility is changing mandatory conscription from males to the childless. Quite strong incentive, not be sent to the meatgrinder.
> He is probably closer to 0% within the demographic he is trying to conscript. To be fair going against the demographic where you have a 0% approval rate does not lose you much.
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At some point you need to be nice to your children or they'll not help you when you get old and senile.
Note that this law still exists because it requires a constitutional change to include women (well, or to be abandoned). A constitutional change of the Grundgesetzbuch requires a 2/3rd majority in the parliament. That almost never happens these days, especially with green/left/social party being not really united anymore in their votes and the conservatives allying themselves with the far right. The last time Germany had that much of a majority, it was under Bundeskanzler Kohl and Schroeder if I remember correctly. So like ~25 years ago. Bundestag seats (from 2002 onwards): 2002 (15): https://www.nls.niedersachsen.de/html/pressemitteilungen1.html 2005 (16): https://www.nls.niedersachsen.de/html/presse_lwl_bw2005.html 2008 (17): https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/plenum/sitzverteilung17-259488 2013 (18): https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/textarchiv/2013/sitzvert_18_xl-242304 2017 (19): https://www.bundestag.de/278118-278118 2020 (20): https://web.archive.org/web/20211102103524/https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/plenum/sitzverteilung_20wp (couldn't find an article on the Bundestag website, got deleted. Web archive version is a little broken) 2025 (21): https://www.bundestag.de/parlament/plenum/sitzverteilung
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> The last time Germany had that much of a majority, it was under Bundeskanzler Kohl and Schroeder if I remember correctly. So like ~25 years ago. This is not true. After the last election the old parliament made a deal to change the grundgesetz with 2/3rd majority to allow the new parliament to take more debt.
I remember people in Germany who had to go underground to evade the draft, even as recently as the early 2000s. Here's a story from 2002 about how the supreme court there upheld the legality of a military draft: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-11-mn-37321-story.html anyway, if you refused to be drafted and did not want to go to jail, you had to more-or-less stop using any government services, rent with roommates, avoid using a credit card etc. until you've reached some age, and then you could emerge again because the duty to serve expires at that certain (not very high) age. It was cuh-razy.
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I had to go to the draft office in that time and behaved so badly that they didn't want to take me. Also at that time only some people had to go to the draft, because they had not the capacity to take everyone. That made it likely easy for them to let go of suboptimal candidates.
It seems like the purpose is to have the law and all the paperwork set up as a precaution for the future. Sure, right now it’s all voluntary and just rubber stamping, but if in the future they need to do something like Ukraine and lock down travel for military aged men, it’s much easier to flip a switch and start denying travel permits rather than having to set up and fund an entirely new system for requiring travel permits.
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If it were to get closer to war (i.e., Spannungsfall, let alone the Verteidigungsfall) a set of laws would unlock that allow control of various areas of life and the economy anyway.
They dont need now. Germany is getting ready for being invaded by Russia, basically. They are also building mandatory military service.
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Yes, the previous time they were getting ready it was because those pesky Poles being an inch away from invading the Third Reich.
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Cold war didn't happen (yes, USSR, not Russia)?
> Annual budget $31.3 million (FY 2024) If it hasn’t been used in 50 years, is there some other use for the registry or the organization or why hasn’t this been cut yet?
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No other use for the registry. Informally, it's put forward as one of the most successful government programs in history: it succeeds at all it's objective, comes in at or under budget, employs few people, and avoids the scope creep that kills other successful programs. It's only shortcoming: it doesn't actually do anything.
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Under U.S. federal law, men ages 18–25 must register with the Selective Service System to be eligible for most federal jobs. Federal agencies enforce this under hiring rules in 5 U.S.C. § 3328.
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The wording is a bit strange - technically all men (18-25) must register. When I tried to register, I was told I couldn't because I was already registered. The Selective Service auto-registers people from various data sources. But this puts me in a weird spot: I've never actually registered. I am registered. But I did not register - which is the requirement. There are Kafka-esque parts of the US government where this distinction could matter.
Guess what, many jews self-reported themselves to the authorities just to follow the process and that led directly to their death. https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=42011 Of course, this is old times now, but here is the same, there is no benefit to register, and you increase your risk to die. Don't do it.
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It is not like they had a choice. The article is about 1939, the events were well progressed then. Only very few were able to hide themselves and stay hidden for years.
Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens (sllm.cloud)
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Didn't make sense to launch multiple 10 and 40 bucks subscriptions right at the start, because now they are competing with each other. Also mobile version is a bit broken, but good idea and good luck!
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I'm feeling it Mr. Crabs.
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> Running DeepSeek V3 (685B) requires 8×H100 GPUs which is about $14k/month. Most developers only need 15-25 tok/s. > deepseek-v3.2-685b, $40/mo/slot for ~20 tok/s, 465 slots total > 465 users × 20 tok/s = 9,300 tok/s needed > The node peaks at ~3,000 tok/s total. So at full capacity they can really only serve: > 3,000 ÷ 20 = 150 concurrent users at 20 tok/s > That's only 32% of the cohort being active simultaneously.
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People work 8 hours a day presumably, I guess they are banking on this idea
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This is great, thanks! I personally would like something like this but with "regular" GPU access. Some people still use them for something other than LLMs ^^.
> How does billing work? > When you join a cohort, your card is saved but not charged until the cohort fills. Stripe holds your card information — we never store it. Once the cohort fills, you are charged and receive an API key for the duration of the cohort. Have any cohorts filled yet? I’m interested in joining one, but only if it’s reasonable to assume that the cohort will be full within the next 7 days or so. (Especially because in a little over a week I’m attending an LLM-centered hackathon where we can either use AWS LLM credits provided by the organizer, or we can use providers of our own choosing, and I’d rather use either yours or my own hardware running vLLM than the LLM offerings and APIs from AWS.) I’d be pretty annoyed if I join a cohort and then it takes like 3 months before the cohort has filled and I can begin to use it. By then I will probably have forgotten all about it and not have time to make use of the API key I am paying you for.
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No cohorts have been filled yet. We're still early. We are seeing reservations pick up quickly, but I'd be able to give you a more concrete estimate of fill velocity after about a week. That said, we're planning to add a 7-day window: if a cohort doesn't fill within 7 days of your reservation, it cancels automatically and your card is released. We don't want anyone's payment method sitting in limbo indefinitely.
> The model weights stay resident in VRAM permanently so there's no loading/unloading per request. Yes, I was thinking about context buffers, which I assume are not small in large models. That has to be loaded into VRAM, right? If I keep sending large context buffers, will that hog the batches?
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Not if you are the only one. We have rate limits to prevent this in case, idk, you share your key with 1000 people lol.
When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems (npr.org)
> A 2024 Wall Street Journal report, for example, found that 70% of the profits from one online gambling company came from less than 1% of its users. Betting platforms assign highly profitable customers "concierges" who reach out and prompt them to gamble, offer incentives, and work to keep them betting. It's insidious and wrong - the platforms actively identify and take advantage of addicts. For most, a lottery ticket or an online bet is just buying entertainment - not much different from a movie ticket or steam game. Turns out, though, this majority isn't the target customer; we're just the top of the funnel as these platforms algorithmically search for personalities they can abuse, rob, and financially destroy.
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> these platforms algorithmically search for personalities they can abuse, rob, and financially destroy With the AI progress, there will be no need in a search for personalities - algorithms will make you one. And this can be applied to any company producing entertainment (e.g. social networks), not just gambling.
What about Frank Rosenthal? Admittedly these guys are extremely rare, that's why the handful of successful ones are famous.
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Never heard of him
"Lottos help your school!" they said. Until you're in rural bumfuck nowhere, and your lotto win suddenly drags your community's average income from "dirt poor" to "middle class" by becoming Spiders Georg and you end up costing nearly half a mil in state aid to go up in smoke. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2017/07/one_mans_huge_lottery_win_costs_cny_school_district_452000_in_aid_district_says.html
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I'm not sure you read that article all the way through... The loss is $450k, but that's only 3% of the year's state aid and an even smaller amount of the district's operating budget. And it only impacted that one year. Inflation and random political feuds usually impact public school budgets to a far greater degree. The problem in this case is not that the lotto exists, it's that the formula for awarding school funding is (or was?) broken in this state. This is a textbook example of why you almost always use the median instead of mean on things that have a bell curve.
remember when gambling was illegal? and the idea of advertising gambling on television wasn't even something conceivable? and, even more so, the idea that sports entertainment channels would be directly involved in the operation of gambling of was just completely beyond comprehension? ahhh, the remote, halcyon, bygone days of 2018...
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That's quite a straw man. Drunk driving is and should be illegal because it puts the lives of others at risk. Alcohol is legal because it only puts the health of the drinker at risk. Generally in a free society we accept that adults should be free to make decisions that harm themselves.
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Problem gambling has a similar negative outcome profile (in terms of suicide, financial problems, etc.) as an addiction to hard drugs
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It's interesting to be arguing that gambling doesn't put others at risk in the comments to a post about a broad trend of collective harm associated with loosened controls on gambling. Do you think these people exist in a vacuum? On top of that, sports betting inevitably leads into match fixing, threatening of players etc.
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I believe most of the negative impacts you're referring to are covered by existing laws concerning fraud and consumer protection. I'm in favor of making truly fraudulent and predatory behavior illegal and never said otherwise. I don't see any evidence that the "collective harm" you mention from the article is anything other than individuals making bad financial decisions. I believe that I, as a responsible adult, should be allowed to gamble for entertainment if I want to, and my right to do that shouldn't be taken away because of random strangers with low impulse control.
Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta (thetimes.com)
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This book is most likely a bunch of lies right? A Meta executive fired for poor performance decides to right a tell all and _surprise_ the people who fired her are all monsters. Why should I take this seriously? I guess rigor goes out the window when evidence fits your bias...
Would be really cool if that book made its way to Youtube. Immortalize it.
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Seems fairly immortal already, the book. It's the author who's having problems.
She didn’t have to agree to the contract. I don’t really want some arbitrary govt limit restricting what private parties can do with each other.
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The only way these sorts of contracts can be enforced is if private parties have recourse to government powers- civil courts- to enforce them. Governments could just not help them do that.
> Cheryl Sandberg inviting the author of the book to sleep in her bed next to her on the company jet, and the petulent and vindictive behavior when the author said 'no'. Considering the timing... does that mean MeToo doesn't apply if the predator is also a woman? Sexual advances from a position of power are simply not okay. (Weirdly as a society we appear to have accepted that an older woman predating younger men is somehow a cool thing: we call them cougars.)
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Age gaps in relationships is not inherently negative. Being a cougar is not a bad thing. The issue here was that Sandberg was the author's manager. Age isn't an issue when all parties are adults.
Do you work in or closely follow the tech world? I read this book thinking that it'll be some expose but honestly it was underwhelming in a sense, it's almost better than I thought. Everything in the book either was obvious for anyone who worked in the industry, or better than I thought it'd be. There were some weird personal things about Zuckerberg, but even those were expected or given. It was an OK read, however as I read it all I can think of author is just a naive person who didn't know what she was getting into, and remained naive for a long time. Author herself say this in the book couple of times as well. Maybe this is a book that's "eye opening" to someone who's an outsider but if you are somehow in this business the book is practically nothing burger, or even worse actually make Facebook look better than I actually have imagined they would be. Another similar book is : "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble", I read it expecting some crazy story, but it was yet another case of an outsider's take of the standard industry practice. I'm sure this is interesting for those never been in these circles, but for everyone else it's just another day in today's tech world. (Just to be clear, I don't support or condone any of this stuff but it's such a common place and given, unfortunately not even interesting at this point).
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normalizing toxic as standard industry practice is sort of like condoning it, imo
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It's like saying "Today's big companies follow lots of dark patterns such as forcing customers to call them to close their accounts, which became a standard practice in banks, SaaS and other businesses." It's an observation, nothing more than that.
I think the author was complicit and only complained once FB stopped paying her. It was weird how the author claimed not to know how facebook targeted ads worked until 2016/2017 after she had made millions.
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So what? If we need unscrupulous people to tell us what other unscrupulous people do, so what?
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Though if she was complicit she's probably in a good position to expose it now things have changed.
So you should never be allowed to comment on the behaviour of companies you worked for?
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Allowed, sure. Celebrated, not really.
Literally anyone with the access to these people would be someone making bank. Do you think Cheryl Sandberg would bother to talk to a poor person? That's kinda the nature of whistle-blowing. You're complicit, you have inside knowledge and THEN you choose to do the right thing. Snowden worked for the NSA before he exposed their lies about spying on US citizens, you think he did literally no work towards that end before blowing the whistle?
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It's kind of the reason C-execs (and up) stay, the company keeps paying them more and more to hold the secrets.
> This book was SO GOOD. One of the (very valid, IMO) criticisms of the book is that the author tries to set herself apart from the culture she was deeply embedded within. I think it's becoming a trap to hold the author up as a hero when she was clearly part of it all to the very core. It was only after she got separated from the inner circle club that she tried to distance herself from it. So while reading it, be careful about who you hold up as a hero. In a situation like this it's possible for everyone to be untrustworthy narrators.
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> In a situation like this it's possible for everyone to be untrustworthy narrators. Even if you take her as trustworthy narrator (which I mostly did) she's stil evil in this story up until the publishing book.
Maybe I'm just a wacky Bleeding-Heart, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone who worked on a product that amplified hate, leading up to a massacre in Myanmar, to at least address that without sarcasm while getting to know them.
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Maybe it’s a question for the third date?
There are some reasons they may have to: risk of being kidnapped, risk of random people bothering them for money, risk of random crazy people attacking them, illogicality of waiting hours in a TSA line for no other reason than "that's what poor people do".
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Exactly. If I was one of those people, no one but my 30-50 most trusted friends and family members would be allowed 100 yards near me. I would be afraid for my safety 24/7, for my children's... For my private life (I would never talk about my personal opinions to anyone outside of my immediate family). Etc. Think Taylor Swift in Walmart. She could probably get trampled over and die (no joke). Zuckerberg or Gates in a bar or a county fair? Probably beaten to death or shot. It's easy for us to imagine they live isolated from regular people because they think they're better than us (although they probably think that)... But the reality is that regular people are dangerous for this kind of people.
Recaptcha is taking ages
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Yeah, that's intentional, it's not going to stop because the owner has beef with Cloudflare. Are you using Cloudflare's DNS? That's usually the cause.
↙ time adjusted for second-chance
Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
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HN's blindspots never cease to amaze me. I am a structural biologist working in pharmaceutical design and this type of thing could be wildly useful (if it works).
My main concern is using fungi. If it ends up in my lungs I'm most likely screwed, right?
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This is the classic meme https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/mmv2ig/lab_strains_unite/#lightbox Lab strains of things tend to be extremely sensitive and not human adapted. You shouldn't study and modify human-infecting organisms in your basement anyway. While you shouldn't ignore protective equipment and proper procedure... paranoia about infecting yourself with a lab leak isn't warranted.
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Yes, but most students produce their best work while infected.
full article: https://huggingface.co/blog/OpenMed/training-mrna-models-25-species
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Nice work! Here is an article you may find helpful if you have not already come across it.[0]. You may also want to consider benchmarking against some non ML methods.[1] 0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35318324/ 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06127-z
Components of a Coding Agent (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
> This is speculative, but I suspect that if we dropped one of the latest, most capable open-weight LLMs, such as GLM-5, into a similar harness, it could likely perform on par with GPT-5.4 in Codex or Claude Opus 4.6 in Claude Code. Unless I'm misunderstanding what's being described here, running Claude Code with different backend models is pretty common. https://docs.z.ai/scenario-example/develop-tools/claude It doesn't perform on par with Anthropic's models in my experience.
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I've found that maybe 70-80% of what can be done with Sonnet 4.6 in OpenCode can be done with a cheaper model like MiMo V2 Pro or similar. I only find Opus to be worth the extra cost maybe 5% of the time. I also find OpenCode to be drastically better than Claude Code, to the extent that I'm buying OpenRouter API credits rather than Claude Max because Claude Code just isn't good enough. I'm frankly amazed at what OpenCode can do with a few custom commands (just for common things like doing a quality review, etc.), and maybe an extra "agent" definition or two. For many projects even most of this isn't necessary. Often I just ask it to write an AGENTS.md that encapsulates a good development workflow, git branch/commit policy, testing and quality standards, and ROADMAP.md plus per milestone markdown files with phases and task tracking, and this is enough. I'm somewhat interested in these more involved harnesses that automated or enforce more, but I don't know that they'd give me much that I don't have and I think they'd be tough to keep up with the state of the art compared to something less specific.
Hypothesis: it's a sprawling, labyrinthine mess because it was grown at high speed using Claude Code.
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There’s a lot of redundancy, because there has to be to make the system useful. It’s a hacked together mess.
I thought CC only supports it's find/replace edit tool (implemented by CC itself, using Node.js for file access), and is platform agnostic. Are you saying that on linux CC offers "sed" as a tool too? I can't imagine it offers "bash" since that's way too dangerous.
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Yes, Claude Code has a Bash tool, and Claude in some cases uses the CLI sed utility (via the Bash tool) for file changes (although it has built-in file update), at least on my Linux machine.
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Interesting - thanks
I think the problem/limitation would be as much due to context management as tools. Obviously bash plus a few utilities is sufficient to explore/edit the code base, but I can't imagine this working reliably without the models being specifically trained to use specific tools, and recognize/adapt to different versions of them etc. Context management, both within and across sessions, seems the bigger issue. Without the agent supporting this, you are at the mercy of the model compacting/purging the context as needed, in some generic fashion, as well as being smart enough to decide to create notes for itself tracking what it is doing, etc. Apparently CC is 512K LOC, which seems massively bloated, but I do think that things like tools, skills, context management and subagents are all needed to effectively manage context and avoid the issues that might be anticipated by just telling the model it's got a bash tool, and go figure.
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You don’t really need most of that stuff. Have sensible steering files. Have the agent keep state itself. Dont bother compacting. Its fine.
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