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Link to order: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/20/2026-21...

There are three modes: Performance ($50k reservation), Thrust ($250k reservation), and Rocket (invite only). Thrust and Rocket mention cold gas thrusters. Where do you see a combustion rocket engine advertised? https://www.tesla.com/roadster

Opus 5.5 was a step function change. Really crushes on multi-hour coding compared with prior models.

Punctuation? Not our specialty.

Excerpt from the Project Defuse document (March 2018): “we will intensively sample bats at our field șites where we have identified high spillover risk SARSr-CoVs. We will sequence their spike proteins; reverse engineer them to conduct binding assays, and insert them into bat SARSr-CoV (WIV1, SHC014) backbones (these use bat-SARSr-CoV backbones, not SARS-CoV, and are exempt from dual-use and gain of function concerns) to infect humanized mice and assess capacity to cause SARS-like disease.“

March 24, 2018: “we will intensively sample bats at our field șites where we have identified high spillover risk SARSr-CoVs. We will sequence their spike proteins; reverse engineer them to conduct binding assays, and insert them into bat SARSr-CoV (WIV1, SHC014) backbones (these use bat-SARSr-CoV backbones, not SARS-CoV, and are exempt from dual-use and gain of function concerns) to infect humanized mice and assess capacity to cause SARS-like disease.”

Post from Mark Chen for those not on X:

  Two things to distinguish:
  Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No.
  Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company.

The future we have all dreamed of: “An integrated 100k pixel macro lens camera powered by machine learning detects, tracks and predicts gaps between teeth in real time, triggering a precision jet burst of mouthrinse exactly where it is needed.”

Me: What's with all the Astra hype?

Astra: Do you mean Google’s Project Astra, or a different Astra?

Sorry for your loss.

Why does applied AI intentionally exclude a framework/harness around AI? The job is to harness the power of AI, and a harness is a critical part of that.

To clear up the confusion on naming: "Computer" is their cloud-hosted, multi-model harness/router. "Portable Computer" allows you to run the harness locally. You have you bring your own DGX Spark.

It's unclear why this is tied to the Spark. Shouldn't we be able to run this on any system that is capable of running local inference?

Everything is a plugin.

"this, like all other problems in Computer Science, can be solved by one more level of indirection." Roger Needham, circa ~1981

(@tomhow) Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912

(@dang) Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468