American interventionism in Latin America goes back hundreds of years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Corollary

moviegoing has always been evolving. from kinetoscopes to grand movie palaces to suburban multiplexes. nothing has ever stayed the same for long in cinema.

heck, most theaters used to be continuous program viewing, meaning you’d show up not knowing what was playing, halfway through a movie, cartoon, or newsreel. scheduled viewing was pretty rare until the early 60s, only reserved for tentpole movies like Gone With The Wind or Ben-Hur.

in some ways, where we are heading is back to where we were: tentpole cultural moments like Barbie or Avatar thrive, but the bread and butter of entertainment happens informally, but now at home.

It’s not hard tech, but certainly the use of intelligence “tests,” rorschach blots, etc. fits in line with many other stories shared on HN. Especially these tests being used to separate children in the year 2025 not 1925.

It’s also a popular article trending on multiple aggregators, I read it elsewhere this morning.

US, Canada, Australia all did this stuff in the 19th and 20th centuries. The issue is, it’s 2025 and these tests are not illegal in one of the most developed countries on earth.

i wonder if foveated streaming combined with foveated rendering could be used in the cloud gaming space?

if latency is low enough, then you could get a super high fidelity experience on a thin client VR display with low cost rendering server side.

Nvidia GeForce Now is already very impressive for streaming games at full field of view 4k.

thin client VR gives you longer battery life, lighter devices, lower entry cost. and with a cloud gaming service rendering the game, an even lower barrier to entry

yeah it made me wonder what all this fuss is about. perhaps im numb to big numbers now. but $6b is a miniscule fraction of NVDA.

My main thought was "how bad is Softbank at their job to have only been in on NVDA for such a paltry sum?"

Really living up their reputation? Or, am I way off-base here? I am just an outside observer and I would love to be educated.

Did it makes sense for Softbank to be in so little on the company "selling shovels" to all their "gold mining" investments?

Or, how down bad is Softbank that it needs to sell its NVDA stake to raise $6B?

Someone needs to put this guy/team in an asylum, for the betterment of the country of Japan.

Microsoft (which has >50B into OpenAI)->Anthropic for biz use cases

Softbank->OpenAI. Yet again, the dumbest money ever?

There are many, far worse Softbank fails. How does this keep happening? Who is advising this team?

I am available. 80% sure that I could do better. I just genuinely hate to see capital being destroyed like this.

For me in the US, potluck describes the style of food and culinary expectation of guests. The actual gathering could be fun and wild if it’s a fun and wild family potluck or uncool and lame if it’s an elementary school fundraiser potluck.

Til you find out that Lucy added LSD to her chicken casserole, that is!

Don't leave your special cookies or shots where norms might consume them.

A friend left her brownies in a Tupperware in the fridge at work. The colleagues decided to help themselves (good people, so I assume with the intention to replace). There were some rather unfortunate outcomes including hospital visits.

Please learn from her mistake: don't ever leave drugged food where other people/minors/animals might eat it.

How many times do I have to bake laxative cookies before people understand if it's not theirs, don't eat it?

Both of those were funded by and built off of American technology and investment. TSMC as an outsourcing of American made chips and ASML as a direct result of DoD research.

ASML is responsible for all the engineering side of the research from EUV LLC, painting it as "direct result from DoD research" as to minimise the achievement is way backhanded. Without ASML the whole EUV LLC research would be dead in the water, it's a symbiotic relationship, and the amount of engineering R&D that ASML had to do to actually deploy the technology shouldn't be understated like that.

I don't think ASML was "funded" by American technology, it's actually ASML who has to pay for licencing...

The equivalent of an additional $50 uber ride to the airport once a month can tank your business?

Per seat. And it's not $50 more thane baseline, it's $250. The $200 may have been justifiable where the $250 is not.

Headlines are marketing and layout design, not journalism. Journalists have no role in title generation. And changes could be due to AB testing. Seems relatively immaterial to me.

Unless people are primarily only reading the headlines, then it could matter.

The majority of people only read the headline and not the article.

I call BS on that given how many people ONLY read the headline. It is (well, should be) the responsibility of the journalism industry, of which the editors are still a part of, to accurately convey information, and that includes in the part of most heavily shared and read.

(and yah, yada yada about journalism no longer, or maybe never, being about truth, I get it, but still IMO the field should be held to the higher journalistic standard)