We got a nice cozy fuzzy cat bed. So naturally the cat decided to sit in...the cardboard box the bed came in.

We once got a cat bed with a soft canopy. It held up due to the stiffness of the fabric. The cat found out that it’s possible to make the canopy sag by putting her full weight on it. She never actually slept inside it, only on top of it. When she died of old age, the bed looked old and disheveled, but the inside was pristine…

I found the article quite interesting and informative. Your tl;dr does not accurately describe it.

"it would also have complete independence from oil fluctuations..." Indeed. A foreign country can't turn the sun off. And yet Trump.

(Pardon me if you live in another country. I'm starting to wish I did.)

Technically, you can turn off the sun with a nuclear winter. But in that case your main problem would be starvation anyway.

It's batshit crazy that the most powerful and influential person in the world dismisses the above (practical, clinical and irrefutable) as "a green scam" and people go along with it. We do so at our peril on so many levels.

I suppose I'm the only one who thought this article would be about moving oneself to the EU. Frankly, given the current mess in the US government (Making America Little Again), I would do that if I could swing it financially. But I'm retired, and have no kin that live or lived in the EU.

Master Foo and the Programming Prodigy: https://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html

Otis Campbell was known for locking himself into the Mayberry jail.

I think some responders have been misled here, falling victim to Poe's Law. Because you are joking, right? Right?

I'm getting lots of that "We detected unusual activity from your device or network" lately. I even went through my ISP to change my IP address, to no effect. If there really is "unusual activity", I wish they'd be a bit more specific.

HN bans IPs for unusual activity too, luckily they have a human friendly way to get unbanned.

> don't make a moralizing tweet about your principles only > to change them three hours later.

I have no inside scoop, but it sure looks like this was all pre-arranged. Altman made a better offer to Hegseth/ Trump (or offered some other "inducement"), so Hegseth found this way to weasel out of the contract with Anthropic. I don't see how this all would have transpired that quickly otherwise. And of course the fact that three days later OpenAI reportedly got the same contingencies on its contract that were the supposed reason for cancelling Anthropic's contract just looks wrong.

Entirely possible, though I think it might have been that Anthropic wanted extra guarantees outside of what was "lawful".

The stuff that Altman mentioned seemed to indicate that they'll support the US government as long as the US government is following the law, ignoring the "if the president does it it's not illegal" mentality that this administration appears to be taking.