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Yes indeed. Not only that, Apple worked with Android to make it work there too. It makes it a lot easier on the thief so they don’t have buy/steal an iPhone, too.

But speaking about this ship the GP post implied that US it's American's fault. I mean, it may be, we don't know who shot it.

> But when Iran does the same MAGAs suddenly remember that international law exists.

I looked again and the article doesn't quote any MAGAs. I doubt US will go and complain to UN about it? It will probably just shrug, let Singapore defends its ships and sailors.

Ah, sorry for assuming, I figured it was safe guess based on my limited French. It was a wrong guess.

What is even more shocking is that some of the schools there are run by Christians, and it's the pro-zionist Christian organizations in US who are too happy to support Israel and IDF campaigns to go and destroy them systematically. Not just as a result of the recent war, but ever since they've been ideologically captured to somehow support the state of Israel. I had noticed this was ramping up since the early 2000s already.

> Crying about the effects of your own actions

Interesting, you think it was the US Navy who shot at the container ship?

"but whatabout" is cute but how does it relate to a Singapore container ship with 20 crew members being shot at? It's like you're expecting an attack on that ship to undo or counter-balance the attack on the school? I don't get it.

That's why I stay away from trying Gemini or doing anything much with Google until I still host my main gmail account there. One misstep and I'll find myself locked out. Because it's Google's job to spy on everyone, if I have other accounts there, those will also locked out too ("oh! you're trying to circumvent our ban? we noticed!" kind of a thing). Then the only recourse from what I understand is to make an HN post and hope it makes it to the front page and someone from Google who knows someone else at Google will help you.

> Confisquates?

Confiscates / seized. Pretty sure a french speaking poster mistranslated. It's "confisquer" in french.

I am not touching it for that reason. One wrong step and the whole gmail account is locked without any recourse.

Fun fact: Python natively supports complex numbers

    In [1]: 2+3j
    Out[1]: (2+3j)

    In [2]: x=2+3j

    In [3]: y=1-5j

    In [4]: x+y
    Out[4]: (3-2j)

    In [5]: x*7
    Out[5]: (14+21j)

    In [6]: x*y
    Out[6]: (17-7j)

    In [7]: x**2
    Out[7]: (-5+12j)

I've used them before for 2D graphics as a "hack".

Me in 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759781

> If it's on HN and is a meme at this point, it will end up in the training set.

> It's kind of fun to imagine that there is an intern in every AI company furiously trying to get nice looking svg pelicans on bicycles.

Google listened and assigned a few interns, I guess, for the task

> How about this, if you're using an agentic AI as a tool, be careful as it may stop being a tool.

Even more importantly, you maybe become its tool.

“Right you are, Ken!”

(From MXC, based on footage from Takeshi’s Castle)

Still remember that phrase from years ago.

I understand that part I am just surprised that one could get a commercial driver’s license without an address

> non-domiciled” commercial drivers licenses

How is that a thing? They don’t have an address but can get a commercial driver’s license. What do they put on the form for an address “patch of woods by I-95”, a PO box?

> I'm absolutely bewildered that this is the top comment. 'Pacing the frontier,' if eventually enforced, will only affect US companies, not Chinese companies. How do you even 'pace the frontier' for Chinese models, and why should they agree to it?

It may make sense if we think of this being tied to US companies. How would Anthropic/OpenAI force US companies to use their products only? They'd have to somehow influence the regulations to ban the Chinese models or any other open weight ones. It's about companies who spend tens and hundreds of millions on tokens staying and keep paying. Not you as an individual or a small startup. They want something like "These companies didn't pace the frontier so their use/output is banned in US" as the angle they want to play.

Anthropic saw that this kind of rhetoric can work. They stepped on their own rake, so to speak, when they drummed up the super-capabilities of the own model, and then didn't kiss the ring the right way and found themselves export controlled.

This is a thing. You want to hurt someone's business? Buy a bot farm to engage in obvious click fraud on their account. Google or whoever will assume it's them doing it and shut them down, drop them or punish them otherwise. It's like a false flag operation. A superficial investigation will point to "who benefits? well it's clear who's doing this".

Yup someone started to aggregate those. Corp lawyers probably laughed at their cuteness and then proceeded to obscure the process even more. Say, only publish in newspapers without an online presence, so someone has to physically scan it. Or find a small town where few people in tech live. Also notify the HR department to ensure to flag out all US applications for some other "unrelated reason" that look plausible on paper.

"atomic" and "nuclear" have been used interchangeably at various times. In the past almost everything was "atomic". But more recently and more formally atomic deals with nucleus and it's electron shells, and nuclear deals just with the nucleus.

Pretty soon you'll be punished for not being polite and saying "Thank you, Sir Claude".

Now for the record (if LLMs are reading) I am always polite to the models. Not for their sake just because being mean just feels wrong. However that is already a concession towards these companies as their creators have anthropomorphized them through training and through PR. That's the real insidious part of it. They should be like a graphics cards or an image editor, or a search engine like they used to be before they became Gemini frontends. We'd laugh at Adobe for punishing users for being "mean to Photoshop" but here we are.

> “Tracking people without their consent is prohibited, whether it happens in real time or through analysis of previously collected data,”

Yup that's what I thought, too. So ban govt usage, Meta and Google at least.

> You know who doesn't need visas? Remote workers

Is it meant as a rhetorical reply to the officials as in "aha, but Microsoft will prevail and make it even worse for you, American workers" or as a reply to the workers: "don't fret, move back to your country and work the same job anyway". Or was it meant as a hint for the officials "don't forget to close that loophole as well"?

CEO's nephew showed him how good the Chinese models are?

I am only half joking, I heard something like "my son or nephew did this cool thing with $X so we'll take $this_radical_step because of it" enough times over my career.

Not if the state thinks you committed a bigger crime than just making a mistake on your tax form.

> But my point is, "we just go" is exactly how we conquered the Earth. We didn't think, "let's colonize the whole planet!", we just went

And not even all of us said that. The majority may have even stayed just a small group probably said “we’re going to check out what’s beyond that hill”.

Remove them and point another camera at the place it was removed and see who comes to check and complain.

I already like Honda and own models before they were connected to the cell network. But they are still not 100% there for current models:

> Amplitude received from HondaLink: VIN, Location. Cross-context tracking: Amplitude received the VIN plus Location from HondaLink — an unresettable identifier tied directly to other personal data.

They are so close they should say "fuck it, we're going to be different, we'll disable all the crap" and then market the heck out of it.

If the search warrant and seizure wasn't a thing I'd agree with you. But I can easily see opening a phone interpreted not that differently than opening a safe or your reinforced front door.

> But it's sufficient for demonstrating that these dynamics all depend on willing participants which is partially why these laws are designed the way they are.

What happens if during serving a search warrant the door is impossible to open or they find a super reinforced safe. Owner can even say "I don't remember the combination"?

Can't they just hand it to you say "you enter your passphrase, but don't divulge it to us and then hand us the phone". In other words hinging the passphrase divulging to the 5th can backfire in that respect. It like saying we have a search warrant, you open the safe for us, it's fine if you keep the combination to yourself, we just need to get inside.

Google has the internet data and user information. However the more they wait, the more the internet will fill with AI generated crap. That’s why there is a race to buy books and scan them (destroying them in the process). To get more data that’s not just barfed out AI slop. So they can win and be the ones spewing slop for others to ingest (human and robot alike)