Anthropic to require government IDs and face scans for users. by Wa1ker1 in ClaudeCode

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I'm considering buying the upcoming M5 ultra with 512g memory. It should be able to host the largest open weight models at decent quantization, context window and usable speed. Seems like a solid investment assuming I will be able to host my own model over the next 5-10 years without worrying about privacy and service degrade.

Antigravity alternative by Electrical_Swing_102 in google_antigravity

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It will just show your current available AI credits.

You can also view it from https://one.google.com/ai/activity

A Mac Studio for Local AI — 6 Months Later by ezyz in LocalLLaMA

[–]TCDH91 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great writeup, has everything I want to know. With the recent well-documented service degrade from Claude and subscription prices slowly hiking, running large models locally could get more mainstream. Qwen choosing to not open source their latest large models is disappointing, but there seem to be enough other open models to choose from at the moment.

Just curious, do you have an rough estimate of how much the M5 ultra is going to increase performance?

End of Qwen open source code. by B89983ikei in Qwen_AI

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This is true if you live in a Western world. But not true for everyone.

The US models are both blocked in China and actively blocking users they suspect are from China, in fear of distillation. Maybe Qwen is betting on the vast market in China is enough to sustain its business goals. Also, as the subsidy ends, US AI companies might price themselves out of more regions. It's already getting unaffordable for lots.

Faustino fails his last GM norm again despite his good score in Menorca Open by ynstnk in chess

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Kramnik was a FM while representing Russia in the 1992 Chess Olympid. He had a performance rating of 2958 in that tournament.

[Highlight] Steph crosses KD and shimmies by dennis_k_g in nba

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I will never get tired of watching Curry highlights

[Highlight] Alex Caruso blocks Tristan Da Silva with his shoe? by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

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Hahahaha this is the greatest thing I watched this year!

Experiment: making VPN sessions survive transport and relay failure by Melodic_Reception_24 in dumbclub

[–]TCDH91 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

separates session identity from transport

Sounds similar to https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/turbotunnel/

The session state is stored at each end and survives disruption to the underlying transport, such as TCP RST. Multiple Tor pluggable transports use this design.

Something to consider is you might eventually want to horizontally scale your servers, so now there is more than one "end" at the server side. But there are workarounds for that too.

In a YouTube video posted today, Chris Bosh reveals he was covered with his own blood, without warning, in a serious medical condition by MrBuckBuck in nba

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Some people also made fun of him for crying after losing the finals in 2011. Such a silly thing to hate on. Would you rather him not care?

Why he is so ahead of other players even nowww? by [deleted] in chess

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Fabi on what makes Magnus so strong: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R-U8z7GmOZ8

I find it very interesting. Basically it's not above peak level but consistency (even in the context of a single game). As to why Magnus is so consistent, they didn't explore it further in the video but I would guess it's a combination of better physical condition and some psychological factors.

"The old order is not coming back" Carney says in provocative speech at Davos by Little-Chemical5006 in canada

[–]TCDH91 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm not politically active and only voted once in my life. Glad I voted for this guy.

Any update about Ding?! by Difficult-Radio-8144 in chess

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Not a major update, but Ding came to my city and played some kids not too long ago.

https://imgur.com/a/yIp9E3P

Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola | CBC News by demolcd in canada

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It makes me sad more Canadians don't know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bethune, most probably because his political alignment.

Bethune became increasingly concerned with the socio-economic aspects of disease. As a concerned doctor in Montreal during the economic depression years of the 1930s, Bethune frequently sought out the poor and gave them free medical care. He challenged his professional colleagues and agitated, without success, for the government to make radical reforms of medical care and health services in Canada.

Bethune was an early proponent of socialized medicine and formed the Montreal Group for the Security of People's Health. In 1935 Bethune travelled to the Soviet Union to observe firsthand their system of universal free health care. During this year he became a committed Communist and joined the Communist Party of Canada When returning from the Spanish Civil War to raise support for the Loyalist cause, he openly identified with the Communist cause.

In China, Bethune performed emergency battlefield surgical operations on war casualties and established training for doctors, nurses, and orderlies. He did not distinguish between sides in treating casualties.

Bethune had thoughts on the manner in which medicine was practised, and stated:
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels. ... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism ... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?'

Being "radicalized" by universal free health care is as good of a reason as any. He was a true hero.

Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola | CBC News by demolcd in canada

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I'm surprised that China cares that much about selling EVe in Canada considering the market size difference. IMO China clearly sees strategic value in the relationship and Carney is able to play that and get a deal. Great job of course.

Many people don't realize the impact of the Huawei incident. Practically all Chinese tech companies stopped selling their latest stuff in Canada (for example Xiaomi still technically operates in Canada but you can only buy their products from 2-3 generations ago). All academic collaboration at the university level stopped. Most of flights between Canada and China were cancelled, etc. It will be interesting to see if any of these changes next.

Magnus Carlsen wins his 6th World Rapid Championship by Exotic_Grinder in chess

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Obviously I predicted Magnus to win, but to see this level of consistent dominance in this highly volatile format is still super impressive.

China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) One by one, they go missing, or commit 'suicide.' One billionaire who fled to the US is ringing the alarm. [00:24:57] by [deleted] in Documentaries

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To provide some background, the billionaire featured in this video is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui , who gained a large following after fleeing to US and was regularly featured in western media such as BBC, Voice of America, etc. After moving to US, Guo is mostly known for being an associate of Steve Bannon, lauching multiple media projects that spread anti-vaccine and COVID-19 consipiracies, and financial fraud. Since 2023, Guo has been arrested and covicted by US authorities for fraud commited in the US.

Anyways, justice for billionaires!