To my understanding: the permits weren't denied, they were never applied for.
Edit: I re-read https://www.tba.org/?pg=Hastings2025AIX and yes, it seems that xAI never applied for permits related to the gas turbines as they're making the argument that the permits aren't required.
> "The xAI facility has already deployed *nearly 20 gas turbines, including four large units with a combined capacity of 100MW*, to power its AI system Grok... There are plans to add *15 more gas turbines between June 2025 and June 2030*, and the turbine application projects *annual emissions of around 11.51 tons of hazardous air pollutants*."
> "it is currently *running gas turbines without the necessary permits from the Shelby County Health Department*"
> "findings from the Southern Environmental Law Center indicate that the facility has 'installed' gas turbines. This suggests that new industrial systems are in place and that *xAI is obligated to comply with the new NSPS* [New Source Performance Standards] *to avoid violating the Clean Air Act*"
> "NSPS are authorized under *Section 211 of the Clean Air Act*... All new sources must comply with the *Best System of Emission Reduction (BSER)*, which mandates the use of state-of-the-art technology to minimize air pollutants."
> "there is a history of Elon Musk's companies, such as *SpaceX and the Boring Company, being fined thousands of dollars for violating environmental law* to circumvent regulation"
Sadly, no: you'll almost certainly burn it, faster than you think.
Anthropic recently (within the last few months) gave out what amounted to around $70 CAD im free credit. I rationed it slowly, spending maybe $5 in a month, using it a few dozen times to allow a Haiku-based task to finish past my usage window.
When Opus and Sonnet 4.6 released, I made the unfortunate mistake of "experimenting" with them on some work that couldn't be thrown away. I hit my timed usage cap, allowed Claude Code to consume 'extra usage' credits, and... nearly vaporized the entire credit balance within a couple tasks.
I understand that Opus and Sonnet are (considerably) more expensive than Haiku, but watching money burn by the dollar, in real-time, was enough for me to turn off extra usage entirely.
The terminal and CLI app within ran locally on a smartphone, which was the premise of the experiments within the linked post.
They also weren't comparing a Swift app on an iPhone with their Android run, they were comparing both against "... the system in the research paper that originally introduced vectorized query processing[.]"
Yes, because when you hold credentials granted by a board of professionals that require you to sign a code of ethics, using those credentials to amplify your personal opinions comes with accountability.
To be specific: telling people "you're free to leave at any point" when they express concerns about humanity's impact on the planet is the kind of thing psychology boards take issue with, particularly when it comes from someone with a large platform and professional credentials in mental health.
I'm well aware, I had the opportunity to read it in high school, though that was because of my grade stream; students in a 'lower' stream didn't get the same material.
Our prom theme the year I graduated was "The roaring 20s". The 2013 film had released months prior, and I remember discussing with friends how misleading it was--making the parties look incredible, while missing the book's subtler commentary. People who only glanced at the book, or only saw the film, can easily walk away thinking the Roaring Twenties were all glamour and fun, which is exactly the gap I was (poorly) pointing out in my earlier comment.
Crazy huh? If an author wrote something as a child and lived over a hundred, you could hit even two hundred :)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author, died in December 1940. Given the rules around copyright I would have expected things to expire in 2010 (death of author, roll to next calendar year, +70 years) so I'm unsure what happened here.
> Surprisingly neurotic files full of strange comments
1. Have you looked at block lists before?
2. Do you have a specific example of what in these blocklists is strange/neurotic? I swear I've skimmed all of them a few times now and although I won't be using them, I'm struggling to understand what's odd about them.
> So-called source available software is a software for which its source code is made publicly available for access. It might or might not be legal to share or modify the software or its source code.
Yes. Members of the National Guard have been deployed, and government officials have publicly stated their intent to deploy additional forces.
From the Wikipedia page on the US National Guard [1]:
> The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the U.S. military's reserve components of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force when activated for federal missions.
The National Guard constitutes military troops under federal activation.
Thank you for the reply. I'm designing a platform that will include dependency resolution and hosting, so I value input on these issues.
> This 'social phenomenon' should have been taken into account when designing a packaging system
I'm unsure how this would be accomplished in practice without banning certain Git hosts, which seems untenable. Even Maven/Gradle ecosystems concentrate around a few major repositories (Maven Central, JCenter historically). This appears to be an inherent social dynamic rather than a solvable design problem.
> Of which the non-github ones account to what... 15% of the deps
Same question: what's the solution? Developers publish where it's easiest and most popular, creating a positive feedback loop. I don't see how package system design can prevent this.
> Not using versions (semver) is a bad call, and having people be able to mutate the code of a version is a very bad call
Agreed on both counts. However, how do we enforce immutability beyond operational controls? Even systems with "immutable" version policies ultimately rely on the registry operator honouring that policy. The only technical guarantee would be embedding content hashes alongside version numbers (which is effectively what go.sum does, albeit awkwardly).
Sidebar: how should we handle vulnerable versions? Allow pulling with warnings, or remove them entirely?
> Git's sha1 hashes are not a security tool and must not be used in place of code signing
Fair point. I was under the impression that Git had moved to SHA-256, but it seems there's no practical way to use it yet. While Git moved to a hardened SHA-1 implementation (not vulnerable to the SHAttered attack) in v2.13.0, SHA-1 remains weak for security purposes [1]. The transition to SHA-256 has been in the works for some time, but as of 2022 it appears to be a partial implementation with no support from major Git hosts [2].
What would ideal package security look like to you?
> They are also not good for versioning, as you can't deduce whether a commit introduces breaking changes
Completely agree. Repository references are useful for development and testing, but painful in production. I avoid them in published packages.
> See end of linked go.mod
Thank you, I see it now. I'm still deeply unfamiliar with Go but this feels like a legitimate criticism.
Glancing at github.com/tencentcloud/tencentcloud-sdk-go: is this import ambiguous because there's no top-level `go.mod`? If so, that feels like a significant oversight. I'm a fan of monorepos myself but I'm surprised Go doesn't have better support for them. I'll be doing some research to understand this better.
1. When discussing "the most repressive Western governments", we exclude Communist and Islamist regimes by definition. The West refers to North America and Western Europe, where no Communist or Islamist government has held power. You can't reasonably claim the Western right is less authoritarian by pointing to non-Western examples.
2. The claim that "it's always the left that is motivated by ideology" ignores that right-wing movements are frequently driven by ideological commitments: religious conservatism, ethnonationalism, free-market fundamentalism, and so on. Authoritarian right-wing regimes often justify their actions through explicit ideological frameworks.
3. What mechanism in right-wing ideology "specifically designed to be against" authoritarianism are you referring to? Current consolidation of executive power in the US, rollbacks of institutional checks, and expanding surveillance capabilities suggest otherwise. If right-wing ideology inherently resists authoritarianism, how do you explain broad right-wing support for these trends?
4. Body counts correlate with state capacity and willingness to use violence, not economic system. Authoritarian regimes across the political spectrum have committed mass atrocities. Capitalist regimes have overseen famines (Bengal, Ireland) and genocides just as Communist ones have. The common factor is authoritarianism, not left vs. right.
The author had no issues finding Halal meat within Japan, their initial problem was unlabeled pork and rice wine on ingredient lists.
The article even cites the Japanese Tourism Agency as a booster for Halal operations within the country.