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Taking caffeine is fighting against natural circadian rhythm, avoiding caffeine isn't.

Malicious servers can send malicious terminal escape codes. For example https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-...

Models don't have an inherent identity. It should be obvious by now that every models trains on public AI chat session transcripts. I've seen Claude say it's Qwen.

That really depends on who you ask. If it's that bad then why did all of those countries sign up for the RCEP?

It's called Tang and Ming dynasty. We already know.

Rootless containers have privilege escalation risks of their own. The problem is the unprivileged_userns_clone sysctl, which rootless containers rely on, has historically been a bi…

The money and resources aren't going to Huawei exclusively, but to a whole range of companies. This selection changes over time as new companies show promise, or previously selecte…

They can already make chips economically. Yields are worse than TSCM but good enough since they no longer need to pay the "Qualcomm tax". Huawei's phones are profitable. The issue …

The Dutch have a saying: it's better to have stolen something well than to have invented something bad.

I'm kinda confused given that they're from China. The Chinese Internet is very different from the western Internet. The web is way smaller, and a lot of useful content is behind ap…

I'd like to see a serious HN discussion thread about WAIC first.

Lots of fake news out there, but you don't need to speculate any longer. Key takeaways from President Xi's speech in his first ever appearance at the World AI Conference in Shangha…

You don't even need that, all models are susceptible to prompt injection. You already need to take extreme security precautions and assume all models can essentially behave like at…

There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion, opinions always contain some sort of value judgement. Besides, training data contains biases. What is plausible is that they haven't …

Furthermore we should thank the amount of fossil fuel and CO2 reduction that HSR has given, or the planet will be really in trouble.

What from I understand the issue is mainly service frequency rather than fuel efficiency. Also, the domestic commercial jet market is still sizable, so excluding the domestic marke…

Doesn't matter. Getting entangled up in a court case that lasts years is hassle enough by itself that it's effective as an attack.

Their terms of service already effectively attacks people for criticizing Anthropic. It says that if you use Claude to criticize Anthropic, then you've pre-agreed to pay for their …

I can't reply to your reply so let me do that here. In Netherlands, the government wants to reduce emission, so it incentivizes people to isolate their homes better, and to use hea…

Chinese censorship rules are not about criticizing vs praising the state. They are about avoiding any kind of social controversy or collective action. They don't care when you talk…

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The fifth book is on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/XI-JINPING-GOVERNANCE-CHINA-V/dp/7119... It's already an English translation. For something shorter, you can see Arnaud Bertrand…

The Thucydides Trap mention is different from what you describe. Xi has dismissed the Thucydides Trap multiple times in the past as being hearsay and self-imposed bias ( https://ww…

It's even worse than that. China publishes stacks upon stacks of policy documents in which they explain clearly what they will do and why. This includes why they do poverty allevia…

The standard is applied very inconsistently. Nobody accuses the local bakery of being motivated by profit, and that they don't bake bread for you out of altruism.