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How the United States could devastate China by quickly decoupling

foreignaffairs.com

The geopolitical competition between China and the United States is the defining issue in international politics....
The geopolitical competition between China and the United States is the defining issue in international politics. It is a contest between the world’s largest economies. It pits two dramatically different political systems—one democratic, the other authoritarian—against each other. And it is taking place in almost ev...
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Why Manus Matters

hyperdimensional.co

I appeared on ChinaTalk to discuss the topic of this week’s essay (and related topics) with...
I appeared on ChinaTalk to discuss the topic of this week’s essay (and related topics) with the enduringly excellent Rohit Krishnan, swyx, and of course, Jordan Schneider. Last Thursday, the Chinese AI startup Monica released an agent called Manus. In a demo video, co-founder Yichao “Peak” Ji described the system as...
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SemiAnalysis: America Is Missing the New Labor Economy – Robotics

semianalysis.com

SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate...
SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate playground for Blackwell PTX tech enthusiasts, offering hands-on exploration of Blackwell & PTX infrastructure while collaborating on open-source projects. Speakers will include Philippe Tillet of OpenAI, Tri Dao of To...
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Tesla CFO sells $1.7M more in stock

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Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja sold $1.7 million in shares of common stock for the electric vehicle...
Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja sold $1.7 million in shares of common stock for the electric vehicle manufacturer earlier this week, while Board Chair Robyn Denholm sold about $33 million in shares, according to Monday securities filings. The sales represent the second offloading of stock by the two executives in as many m...

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Modern Baby: A pioneering computer from Manchester

substack.com

Finally, when we pressed the start button it set off on this usual dance of death...
Finally, when we pressed the start button it set off on this usual dance of death and then suddenly it stopped and there in the expected line was the expected answer.So we'd built a computing machine.When and where was the first truly modern computer built and run? Would it surprise you if I said in 1948 in Manchest...
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A Library for Point and Click Adventures

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Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore

cursor.com

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What Makes Code Hard to Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity (2023)

seeinglogic.com

Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized...
Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…I ended up figuring out what made this codebase so difficult to stick with, but it ...

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Representing Type Lattices Compactly

bernsteinbear.com

With co-author Brett Simmers! The Cinder JIT compiler does some cool stuff with how they represent...
With co-author Brett Simmers! The Cinder JIT compiler does some cool stuff with how they represent types so I’m going to share it with you here. The core of it is thinking about types as sets (lattices, even), and picking a compact representation. Compilers will create and manipulate types with abandon, so all opera...
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Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories

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COBOL Language Front End Merged for GCC 15 Compiler

phoronix.com

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Volkswagen Bringing Back Physical Buttons, Says Removing Them Was a Mistake

pcmag.com
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Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit

nature.com
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Local Deep Research – ArXiv, wiki and other searches included

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Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app

github.com
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Kissing moons may explain why Earth's moon is so large

cbc.ca

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with...
Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.One of the mysteries in our solar system is why our moon is so large compared to our planet. At 3,476 kilometres in diamet...
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Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

theregister.com

A judge has found Meta must answer a claim it allegedly removed so-called copyright management information...
A judge has found Meta must answer a claim it allegedly removed so-called copyright management information from material used to train its AI models. The Friday ruling by Judge Vince Chhabria concerned the case Kadrey et al vs Meta Platforms, filed in July 2023 in a San Francisco federal court as a proposed class ac...
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A look at some of the creative ways companies try to dodge high tariffs

npr.org

As concerns swirl over the impacts of steep new tariffs on U.S. companies and consumers, so...
As concerns swirl over the impacts of steep new tariffs on U.S. companies and consumers, so too does talk about how certain businesses try to avoid them. President Trump's long-threatened taxes on imports from China, Mexico and Canada took effect Tuesday, prompting retaliatory measures on American exports, roiling t...
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Mississippi Passes Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat

wired.com

The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the...
The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the third state to outlaw meat grown in vats from small samples of animal cells.The Mississippi bill will make it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat in the state. Violating ...
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New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet

theregister.com

The body that runs New Zealand’s public health system uses a single Excel spreadsheet as the...
The body that runs New Zealand’s public health system uses a single Excel spreadsheet as the primary source of data to consolidate and manage its finances, which aren’t in great shape perhaps due to the sheet’s shortcomings. The spreadsheet-using agency is Health New Zealand (HNZ) which was established in 2022 to re...
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Take a Cold Bath

lrb.co.uk

Few things expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly...
Few things expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex. Throughout the centuries, the struggle to comprehend divine instruction and apply it to everyday life has revolved with particular intensity around the question of what peopl...

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ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air

espressif.com

Espressif has already provided a formal response to the recently published claims about ESP32 Bluetooth controller...
Espressif has already provided a formal response to the recently published claims about ESP32 Bluetooth controller serving as a potential “backdoor” or having “undocumented features” that can cause security concerns.This post highlights the technical details about the relevant commands (HCI Commands) that were undoc...

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European-alternatives.eu Experiencing Massive Traffic Increase Since January

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Neonatal fungi: lifelong metabolic health via macrophage β cell development

science.org
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