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AppleCare+ annual is perpetual as long as you keep paying it (and Apple offers to switch to that when your 3-year lump sum expires if you choose that instead). I’m guessing it ends whenever they officially discontinue hardware support, which has traditionally been about 7 years after the last unit is produced, but I haven’t reached that yet to know for sure.


Sumaddle is a wonderful puzzle/logic game.


Great taste in logic games! If you enjoy Sumaddle, you might like Picas y Fijas — it's another fantastic puzzle game based on deducing a secret code through logical feedback (like Bulls and Cows/Mastermind). Perfect if you want a different type of logic challenge!


This headline unfortunately offers more smoke than light. This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. It is discussing one specific change to Anthropic's "Responsible Scaling Policy" that the company publicly released today as version "3.0".


> This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon.

The article yes, but we cannot be sure about its topic. We definitely cannot claim that they are unrelated. We don't know. It's possible that the two things have nothing to do with each other. It's also possible that they wanted to prevent worse requests and this was a preventive measure.


This is something they've been working on "in recent months". The Pentagon thing was today.

This cannot have been caused by that, unless they've also invented time travel.


You heard about the Pentagon thing today. Doesn't mean it wasn't started because of political pressure.


9 days ago: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-c...

And I suspect that was not the first time the topic was discussed.


Definitely not the first time. Wall Street Journal reported it back on Jan 29:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ai-defense-department-...


My theory is that Anthropic has been wanting to make this change and doing it now while they’re making a (leaked to the) public stand in the name of ethics was a good opportunity.


Honest question: why have an elaborate theory with no evidence when the simple facts support a much simpler conclusion?

Anthropic is free to do what they want. I can’t imagine the board meeting where this triple bank shot of goading the government into threatening the company to do what they want.


I don't think it's that elaborate. I didn't mean to suggest they intentionally goaded the government into this confrontation. I figure it's a simpler "Oh look, we now have a good opportunity to make that announcement that we were worried about." Considering it's probably the same high-level decision makers on both choices it doesn't need a board meeting. And yes they're absolutely free to do what they want, but they're also not blind to how the public will view their decisions.


> The Pentagon thing was today.

Right because we are 100% aware of everything the pentagon does minute by minute...


It might have been contingency planning: you don't need a weatherman...


Pentagon issue was reported before today. It only made headlines again from Hegseth’s comments.


I think we can confidently claim that it is related. I wonder if I'm alone in thinking this.


I consider this a bigger deal than the Pentagon thing.


It’s the same deal


While not surprising at the least, it still kind of crazy that literal pdf files in charge is not concerning, but this is.

I just hope something happens to USA before it can do damage to the world.


What PDFs are you referring to? Do Anthropic or other LLMs using PDFs as some kind of 'SOUL.md' file or for training?


It's a joke way of saying pedophiles -> pdf files.


he means pedophiles

can't say paedophile on YouTube so people say PDF file


But we're not on YouTube.


Op sec is a thing. Gotta avoid the internet crawlers that look for key words.


Tell him that, not me.


The president can only pardon crimes against the United States. Even if removed to federal court, state charges remain state charges and the judge & jury must follow state laws. Only the venue changes, with the intent being that the federal judge will potentially serve as a more neutral arbiter.


Hmm... this is far outside my domain but apparently there has been no litigation deciding on this yet[].

  While no court has conclusively decided this issue, precedent and the structure of the Constitution dictate that answer is “no.” The availability of an immunity defense arising under federal law does not change which sovereign is prosecuting the offense. The president may not pardon such offenses even when they have been removed to federal court. This stands in sharp contrast to convictions under the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, which allows federal courts to incorporate state criminal law to cover acts committed on federal land not otherwise covered by federal law (for example, a domestic assault that takes place on a military base), and which may be pardoned by the president. Those are federal offenses—“against the United States”—because the federal statute borrows the law of the state surrounding the federal enclave, and they are prosecuted by the Justice Department. The charging documents themselves arise under federal law for purposes of Article III.
Your and their argument is compelling, but so is the counter argument IMO. Seems like something that might be tested at some point. If you have any further citations where a court has decided on this would love to look over it.

[] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/state-prosecutions-of-f...


Absolutely fascinating that this report is very detailed about _certain_ things... but edits the source video to fade out right at the relevant instant and then completely omits the fact that the agent called her a "fucking bitch" immediately after executing her. (The released source material is several seconds longer.)

Edit at 21:29 UTC: BBC has edited the article to include the following line: "In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears." Again, that "final part" has been edited out entirely. It shows that the agent was not affected by the SUV, and maintains his iPhone in his offhand recording the incident without issue. "The ICE agent swears." is used euphemistically to obfuscate what he actually did and said, which was to angrily call the victim a "fucking bitch".




Good freaking lord - the world has gone nuts.


This article is 4 days old and Ocean Infinity has already given details — technical problems with one AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) and poor weather and wave conditions. There will be many such changes in location and speed during this mission, including when deploying and retrieving each of the 3 AUVs.


Is there a better link? I put https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-08/flight-m... in the top text - it's a least a bit more recent, but looks pretty general.


No, because there is no information to report at present. This site contains a live map of the hourly position reporting from the OI vessel:

https://www.mh370-caption.net/index.php/armada-tracking/


Anchor to new information (HN strips it from the URL): https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14#issue...

Context: Earlier this week a new model was released and researchers discovered that during training it had "cheated" on SWEBench by issuing git commands to find information it should have been blinded to.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472667


There are multiple statutory routes to activate the NG, and nearly every time Trump has done so, it has been through a “federalized” route. Even red-state governors have requested this because it transfers the financial and legal obligations to the federal government. NG units activated by the governor must be paid, housed, transported, defended in court, etc by the state.

The catch is that the routes, as of yet, purport to impose operational restrictions on the federalized units. The administration isn’t exactly strictly following them, but they still exist and district judges are attempting to enforce them. The administration is hard at work developing a “colorable” basis to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to remove nearly all such restrictions.


Indeed, like I tried to explain earlier. This is just the deployment phase, execution follows after they find some loophole to invoke the Insurrection Act. And then things will turn very ugly very fast for many -- which you can clearly see if you recognize the patterns.


One technique I occasionally use is to look at the “zap” stanza of an app’s homebrew cask formula:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/f44500902e420...

Based on the “notion-updater” I’m guessing there’s also a launchagent/launchdaemon that is “updating” (read: reinstalling) it whenever you manually delete it.


Budget resolutions for quite some time have used the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority (but imposes some restrictions). The problem is that they shoved through the “OBBBA” using the process intended for the budget, and now it’s no longer available. You can only use the process once per year per subject (spending, revenue, debt limit), and the OBBBA used up all three.


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