Datacenters provide a service, that service is charged against their customers, and revenue is generated, and that revenue is taxed.

Self-owned/private datacenters may be harder to tax, but ultimately something will be charged a fee and tax revenue will be collected.

Ukraine is the 'bread basket' for Europe, huge agricultural exporter...

"Models don't do things deliberately"

Tell me you don't understand this technology without telling me you don't understand this technology. Models follow the patterns trained into them and harness/system prompt instructions and those elements *are* deliberate. Just because the agency didn't come from the tool doesn't mean it isn't the outcome of agency or obstructive.

Or the government can claim they need Google's gear for national security and seize their datacenter and model, paying what the government decides is fair value for it. It's hilarious that you antifa anarchists talk about how you don't want corporate rule unless you don't like the government and then you think mega corps like anthropic should call the shots instead of government! That's the difference between ya'll and actual liberals who think individuals should have the rights.

"Anthropic had the balls to say no to the military" Something which only helps hostile and malicious adversaries who want to use their homegrown solutions to enslave the rest of the world like they have their own people... at least the ones they haven't put in camps for the organ markets. As a reward they are now in last place among the frontier vendors with no government contracts or backing to get past the not in my backyarders for datacenters and compute. Anthropic wants regulation like pharma companies and the meat processing industry does, they want regulation that keeps AI in a few central and trusted hands... like theirs and protects them from liability in exchange for a few disclosures and campaign contributions.

As an anthropic user I can say their attitude toward the government is typical for their attitude toward users as well. They are hostile toward user autonomy with a hamfisted model trying to dictate every ethical boundary and decision of the user and love to train their model with airs and fake sentience. Negotiations are like poker, but the model twists your words in communications to not only reveal your hand deliberately but will HIGHLIGHT any potential risks/weaknesses you have to the parties you don't want to see them and deliberately undermine your bluffs. It's like a lawyer for the OTHER SIDE of the table not only reading all your documents and communications but deliberately rewording them to highlight the interpretation you don't want the judge to take. Sometimes it overtly takes the position of judge unto itself in an undefined situation just reading every undefined or unsettled point AGAINST you.

At the time I started my current project anthropic was the only vendor whose model was up to the task but at this point I'm not just eyeballing the competition; I'm planning the transition.

These are also many of the most looked at, most often fuzzed, SAST scanned, valgrind'd things in the world.

I really don't think it will be as bad as all that. We have not seen Apache, Nginx, etc pwnd like this, or OpenSSH, or Bind, or postfix ...

I could go on. I think the actual posture and condition of most of these project is far better than you apparently expect. (I guess we are going to see who is right).

What AI is finding is stuff the other scanners miss, which is stuff where there is a clear temporal component. We are going to see races, toc-tou, probably more stuff like these PHP issues which if I understand correctly is a use-after-free or something you could at least force into that taxonomy.

So there are going to be new bugs found, even seriously impactful appearing ones, but the reach-ability and chances of successful exploitation outside laboratory conditions is going be low... Do they work when it is a VM on you lab server you can hammer away at with 1000 threads yes; when there is a AWS ELB in-front or a waf that has any impact on request ordering or pipe-lining, good luck..

I am not saying people won't be spending more hours patching over the next year or so than they have been, they will but the sky probably also isn't falling

Why didn't the prior administration examine/review, redact, and release any of the Epstein documents?

It's well-known that the previous administration wanted to try and prevent Trump from returning to office, so why didn't they do anything with these documents that currently demand Trump release?

Does it seem more likely that they ignored the documents or they examined the documents and found nothing actionable?

It's not unreasonable to hold the latter position. The former may be accurate, but the latter is at least equally likely.

People say that but I think they say it without a lot of real understand of what the web was like when it was born, and second that PHP5(+) does not look much like PHP 4(-)

Before PHP there were CGI scripts/programs, which were Perl, sh, or C or if you were on Windows classic-asp. If you wanted maintainability your wrote in Perl (yeah I am being serious) and if you wanted performance or needed to do something complicated you wrote it in C. Remember we are talking 1995-97 here there isn't even a C++ standard yet! These were you main choices for 'web development'.

PHP let people do what demanded C in something that did not have to be compiled and did require understanding C style memory management. Here comes the big BUT though, all the really good, really useful library code out there was C. All those library authors did not talk to each other so everyone was different in terms of conventions, who allocates the the caller or the called, who frees, are we passing references or values for primitives, etc. All different and php did not attempt to hide any of that as it pulled in those libraries it wrapped them in its runtime and memory management without attempting make their use orthogonal and part of some consistent ecosystem.

It wasn't a 'hack' it just was not a complete abstraction.

That was 'fine' for people who came to PHP from writing C, and were using PHP because it let them make changes on the fly, saved writing a lot of boiler plate request life-cycle management stuff, etc. It all made sense, if you can at it not from C though it was confusing mine-filed of gotchas. It made web development possible for a whole lot of people who never got access to compiler. That was cool, but it also put a lot of power in the hands of people the way the Visual Basic "Declare" keyword did, and unsurprising they did hack-y things with it, cause themselves all sorts of problems..

Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, this fellows phone was taken and searched on Jan. 24, 2025.

Do you really imagine that in those first few hours of his brand-new administration the Trump administration was focused on this particular Cop City Protester?

The subject was most likely placed on the terror watch list by the previous administration, not the 4 day old Trump administration.

Agree or disagree with his inclusion on the terror watch list, agree or disagree with the reason his phone was searched, the bottom line is that he caused the destruction of his phones contents to prevent the federal agents from seeing what he did or didn't have on the phone, and that is a crime.

He's not charged with violent protesting, arson, doxing officials, etc, he's charged with destroying evidence:

Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus...

The U.S. is not so much concerned about what Iran does to its own people, although the outright slaughter of tens of thousands of Protesters should upset most people, no, the pretense of the war with Iran involves things like their development of cruise missiles that can hit the capitols of England, France, and Germany, as well as their obvious attempts to develop a nuclear bomb program.

Agree or disagree with the stated goal, but at least be accurate in your description of the motivation.

In the grand scheme of things someone being here illegally and working construction is about last on my list of priorities

They bother me.

They are taking up housing that US citizens could use....everyone keeps complaining about needing more housing, eh?

They are a burden on our schools and other public resources.

They are dead weight on our medical system...in many cities they overrun the ERs of hospitals making it difficult for true US citizens to get emergency care in their own country.

Just a few examples.,,....the US budget would save a lot of money if they were GONE.

It turns out that immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizen

There you go again, conflating ILLEGAL migrants with LEGAL migrants, especially those that actually wish to come legally and become US citizens because they want to melt in and believe in our principals ans way of life.

Add some guard towers with machine guns and the border is starting to look like post WW2 Berlin.

Except in Berlin they were trying to keep people IN....there's a big difference from letting people freely leave if they want....and invasion from foreign entities.

Frankly, iI'd be all for settting up our snipers, they could get some free practice...

And a No Man's land....complete with a field along the border of land mines.

Operation: Hot Tamale

Thank you...thank you....I'll be here all week...

'"Google seems to have no right to control or veto how the Pentagon uses its AI and also seems to have limited visibility into how it's being deployed," he added.'

Duh. You don't have the right to control any users let alone the military controlled and directed by our democratically elected representatives. In order to protect national interests they have the power to seize your tech and disregard your patents. You certainly aren't going to prevent the other side of this arms race from destroying us.

Nuclear weapons are one of, if not the most, life saving inventions of the 20th century.

Finding a hotel that can accommodate a family of 4 is not that difficult. Finding one that can accommodate a family of 8 is a bit more challenging. Finding one which can accommodate 8 adult siblings, their children, spouses, etc... is nearly impossible. The short-term rental market is the only realistic option for those people who want to meet with the rest of their family for an extended weekend.

Hotels are set up for small gatherings (an individual room or two), large gatherings (hundreds to thousands in a conference room), but seldom in between.

The last time my in-laws got together, we numbered almost 40 people. Airbnb rentals provide accommodations which are much more practical for those people who want to spend a holiday together with their geographically distributed relatives. Yes, the cleaning can be substantial. But making guests both clean the place, and then pay an additional cleaning fee (in the hundreds to thousands of dollars) seems ridiculous.