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This is probably the most painful HN slop title I’ve ever seen.

The article about the eMudhra CA private keys isn’t much better either.

I have met and seen multiple individuals handling and strapping exposed lead to pickleball paddles in recent years. It is maddening.

Without education younger people reasonably have little understanding .

People born in the 60s and maybe 70s have the leaded gasoline termination and leaded paint public awareness efforts to inform them. I don’t think people born in the late 90s or early 2000s have been exposed to the news of the risks of lead so much.

Whether you find them beautiful or ugly, I think it’s kind of sad you probably couldn’t build these today as dwellings due to building codes. (Or maybe you could?)

How has no one mentioned the Sealand micro nation off the UK?

Someone downvoted you, but if you do look at the sweatshirt sales webpage, it does say this

"Licensor: Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German Foreign Intelligence Service

The BND logo is a registered trademark of the Bundesnachrichtendienst in Berlin, Germany. The BND is not involved in the operation, production, or sale of these products and accepts no liability. The BND does not receive any revenue from the BND Shop."

Which does seem a little bizarre.

Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to me, the performance numbers on the main results charts are meaningless without any units or other ranges or indicating they are percentages. It’s also surprisingly non quantitative for basic quantitative type writing and work. Is that a 9 point gain on a range of 0 to 1,000? 9 percent gain?

This is great! Thank you!

When this happens, how often does it cause us to lose our cached pricing? (when we should be getting the cached price)

This seems like a very surprising point of what happened here, sure, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear a $40 million award by a jury, but that’s kind of unusual from an arbitration judge isn’t it? The whole reason companies mandate arbitration in their EULAs (or equivalent) is so the can avoid 40 million judgments.

I’ve often thought that single threaded architectures that can eliminate whole classes of bugs are often undervalued.

For example, the command execution design of Redis is purely single threaded. (Redis does have other threads for slower activities)

“Our competitors are our friends. Our customers are the enemy."

This great quote was brought to us by executives in the 90s at Archer Daniel Midland, an agricultural company.

That’s what comes to mind as I hear about the AI companies talk about pacing themselves.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want to reduce the risk of powerful AI doing bad things.

Ideally that would be the case that all ad-spend can be tracked through end conversions, and for many businesses it can be. But for much of the corporate world, you don't know where your end conversions come from. (Think Nike shoes, etc) It's estimated about that 35% to 45% of all digital ad spend goes to brand awareness, video reach, and other upper-funnel methods where direct conversion tracking isn't possible.

I honestly think the article misinterpreted the Git mailing list email.

The first line of the article says:

"People at Git has started to work on a proposal to make the Rust programming language mandatory."

This sounded to me like all future code would need to be Rust.

But the Git mailing list email says:

"Announce that Git 3.0 will make Rust a mandatory part of our build infrastructure."

Also, the original Git mailing list email says:

"[author is porting to Rust the...] "varint.c" subsystem, mostly because it is trivial and does not have any dependencies."

So, the email on the Git list says they are testing changing a small piece of C code to Rust, and Rust build tools will be mandatory [to build] (which is not surprising if a non-optional part of the code base is Rust).

If Anthropic really wants to make a statement they could independently pace their own model development, and ask others to make the same pledge.

Somehow, I suspect that won't happen.