This one is just a magazine profile story with a musician. It was titled "First recording of tinnitus raises new questions", which instead of sharing the recording, was an interview with a musician and shared her album pieces. I see that it was recently renamed to " An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus", which is more accurate because I would not have opened it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600748
Here's another one titled "Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide." It's also a profile piece, and half the article is full page pictures of the scientist and his life story. It's just a magazine article on the man, and not really going into his work. It actually has "magazine" in the name so I should have expected that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238788
And then of course there's the current article which is is a misleading headline that's actually an ad for their services. Hey, pretty cheap, but not what I'm looking for here.
The problem with that is that the entity supposed to "bomb it to rubble" and the entity pushing for AI development happens to be the same entity.
Maybe the confusion why people can't see this clearly stems from the fact that tech development in the US has mostly been done under the umbrella of a private enterprise.
But if one has a look at companies like Palantir, it's going to become quite obvious what is the main driver behind AI development.
Poor Taiwanese people... their security insurance has just been cancelled.
I wonder how many days after the first successful batches of chips coming out of the Arizona fab will China invade Taiwan.
I do hope not, but realistically: with high-end chips being made on US soil, the US will have very little interest in protecting Taiwan, apart from maybe blocking China from also acquiring the tech.
One plant does not change the game that much. You still need TSMC to keep working on whatever the next tech will be as well as all their current production in Taiwan which is fully booked.
I agree that it's not a simple plant opens => China invades, but this does feel like we're starting to see the dominos line up.
If it's about talent, it's a lot easier to quickly import people than to import a massive fab plant, and I assume we'll be building talent (either domestic or imported) as we build out the related infrastructure and industry.
It would certainly be disruptive, but I assume part of the US's drive is to reduce dependency on Taiwan, and consequently exposure to the threat of China.
If the US stops caring about Taiwan, it's both safer for China to invade Taiwan (less pushback from the US), and less geopolitically valuable (less damage to the US), but China's interests aren't focused entirely on the geopolitical when it comes to Taiwan.
My cousin is doing a contract with TSMC. Basically they fly over 100 Americans per year to Taiwan and train them for 1-1.5years. Then they fly them back to the usa to work in the US factory.
The problem is TW compensation and work conditions are terrible. Many of them quit before completely their agreements, so they aren’t actually training that many Americans.
First, your phrasing could read as concern trolling style gloating, which you probably didn't intend.
China may invade Taiwan within my lifetime, but it won't be triggered by anything to do with TSMC.
China and the US are both involved in the Taiwan conflict due to history, ideology, and current economic relationships. Nothing material about that changes with TSMC building facilities in the US. If anything US ties grow stronger.
TSMC is not something China can acquire with military power. It's not a building in a RTS game you can just take over and operate yourself. It's a huge number of engineers and a globe spanning high tech supply chain. All that grinds to a halt the moment missiles fly into Taiwan.
People really blow out of proportion the importance of TSMC. Taiwan is valuable to the west because of its strategic location. TSMC could disappear tomorrow and the US will still have to defend it. The day Taiwan fall is the day the US loses its dominance.
Not in this lifetime. Unless you are talking about occupying China / storming their territory, that would not go well. But defeating China at sea and in the air and in other countries? They'd have no chance.
China has 5 times as many people as the US. Their technology is behind, but they are modernizing and having 5 times as many resources and no public backlash to wasting soldiers lives goes a far way.
