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Yeah, a lot of this is just .. well, I hesitate to use the over used phrase "deep state", but a lot of it is the work of people in the security institutions who "advise" the government, rather than the changing cast of the thin democratic bit on the front. There's long been authoritarianism in response to the fear of terrorism, from the IRA onwards. Then there's things like the "spycops" scandal, which make you wonder whether certain protest groups are deliberately engaging in really unpopular stunts in order to facilitate a crackdown.
The British public are in an odd place on this. There's a lot of "folk libertarianism", but that mostly consists of not having ID cards, while at the same time supporting all sorts of crackdowns on protest as soon as it's mildly inconvenient.
And then there's immigration. As in the US, it's a magic bullet for discourse that allows any amount of authoritarianism (or headshots to soccer moms) as long as you promise it will be used against immigrants.
What I care about is the non-existent Firefox strategy, but Mozilla is making me not care to fully embrace ChromeOS Platform.
> Russia and friends would seem to have an interest in Scottish independence as it undermines the UK.
But so do Scottish people.
> drive 1000 miles a day and so electric cars will never work for anyone
Whenever I see one of those I like to post Yong-heum Lee, who really did 500 miles a day in an Ioniq 5: https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/en/story/CONT0000000000176...
But as you say, facts are of limited use in debates any more.
Precisely. Vision Pro lets the user mediate POV by controlling what's looked at, the opposite of TV/movies which force you to look at what the director decides.
One way war plays into FOSS is that enemy nations are no longer supposed to be contributing to the same projects, being from nationality XYZ is now as relevant as programming skills one has to offer, likewise open source software from specific countries might no longer be allowed.
"The researchers identified two main reasons for the uptick. U.S. electricity demand grew at an unusually fast pace, driven in part by an expansion of power-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence. To meet that demand, electric utilities burned about 13 percent more coal last year than they did in 2024.
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...the researchers said Mr. Trump’s policies would take time to have an effect and they mostly weren’t responsible for last year’s rise in emissions."
For 4x the population, and much of that is while making our stuff.
And they aren’t making coal a culture war point or canceling renewables projects for ideological reasons.
If it wasn't for Apple wanting to get rid of GCC due to licensing, and Google as well on Android, LLVM would have remained like Andrew Compiler Toolkit, MSR Phoenix, and similar endevours, another compiler development research project at Illinois university.
Thus what would be the commercial reason to support LLVM's sucessor, especially since the companies that were responsible for LLVM going mainstream, are happy with current C and C++ support, mostly using LLVM for other programming language frontends?
One of the many things I like about fossil is the 'undo' command [0].
Also, since you can choose to keep the fossil repo in a separate directory, that's an additional space saver.
I think you've really highlighted the extent to which irrational prejudice plays a role here, as two and a half of those examples involve racism. The US is one of a small number of societies which were ever racially segregated like that. It was in its own way a (failed) experiment.
(the UK has no shortage of racism, but it was never legally enforced!)
I wouldn't underestimate them, and wouldn't risk forcing Putin into a corner where he'd have to choose between losing power (and, therefore, life) and using nuclear weapons.
And people wonder why Mamdani won, despite a massive propaganda campaign. There's a real demand for anti-corruption candidates, and occasionally it's possible to find someone who actually is, rather than simply an even worse grifter with better propaganda.
Note that the Trump administration exceptionally cancelled the prosecution of Adams for previous offences, enabling new offences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74nl3120k4o
Having been brough through several decades without phones, as a 70's child, I wonder what is so hard to avoid falling for such distractions, I still leave my home without phone on occasion.
Fanatical supporters of brands with a high defect rate are a thing. Norton motorcycles. A broad range of English cars. Amiga computers.
This is going to be hard to fix.
If you use an LLM and agents to regenerate code, a minor change in the "specification" may result in huge changes to the code. Even if it's just due to forcing regeneration. OK, got that.
But there may be no "specification", just an ongoing discussion with an agentic system. "We don't write code any more, we just yell at the agents." Even if the entire sequence of events has been captured, it might not be very useful. It's like having a transcript of a design meeting.
There's a real question as to what the static reference of the design should be. Or what it should look like. This is going to be difficult.
The fine print:
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Features and software that require a NPU may require software purchase, subscription or enablement by a software or platform provider, and third-party software may have specific configuration or compatibility requirements. Potential NPU inferencing performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors.
Microsoft Copilot requires Windows 11. Some features require an NPU. Timing of feature delivery and availability varies by market and device. Requires Microsoft account to log in. Where Copilot is not available, the Copilot key will lead to the Bing search engine.
Totally valid points.
By the way, only on re-reading your comment, I realised you're taking about the Gemini protocol and not the AI engine!
Smaller transformers and capacitors in all the linear power supplies. 400Hz is still common in aircraft. Distribution losses are higher, but you're going across the room, not across the country.
> because somehow the flying public does not mind bright flashing annoying lights in their faces for HOURS
We do. United has just positioned their economy products a hair below Delta by, in part, pulling off crap like this.
> At at this point, Apple just needs to get anything out the door
To the extent Cupertino fucked up, it's in having had this attitude when they rolled out Apple Intelligence.
There isn't currently a forcing function. Apple owns the iPhone, and that makes it an emperor among kings. Its wealth is also built on starting with user problems and then working backwards to the technology, versus embracing whatever's hot and trying to shove it down our throats.
That was far more amusing than I thought it'd be. Now we can feed those into an AI image generator to create some "art".
That's the case with all scientific discoveries - pieces of prior work get accumulated, until it eventually becomes obvious[0] how they connect, at which point someone[1] connects the dots, making a discovery... and putting it on the table, for the cycle to repeat anew. This is, in a nutshell, the history of all scientific and technological progress. Accumulation of tiny increments.
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[0] - To people who happen to have the right background and skill set, and are in the right place.
[1] - Almost always multiple someones, independently, within short time of each other. People usually remember only one or two because, for better or worse, history is much like patent law: first to file wins.
Perl was also my first productive language, and I do miss it a little. Write something like []string{"foo", "bar", "baz"} in go and you really appreciate qw(foo bar baz). Perl was always designed to be easy to type in, and maybe not so easy to maintain later. Good memories, but not for me anymore.
> colonialist thinking that is, IMO, a problem in the western society
Iran has commanded empires for millennia. Longer than continental Europe.
Iranians getting their hands on Starlink terminals is as “colonial” as revolutionary France helping the American colonists usurp the British.
Are there any that wouldn't also make the application useless in the first place?
Not to mention, there's something like 25,000 people working at the Pentagon.
There are so many potential late-night work things happening that would need food, the idea that pizza orders can be used to identify high-profile military missions specifically doesn't make a lot of sense...
Things are well, I hope you’re doing great!
For what it's worth, that whole thing is apparently bullshit.
Pretty sure Randy Fine thinks the US is part of Israel. He's such and ardent nationalist that some Israelis want to distance themselves from him: https://www.timesofisrael.com/randy-fines-anti-muslim-commen...
I expect it would have been a very dull job.
Highly biased opinion here since I'm the CEO of DBOS:
It'll be rare that the overhead actually has an effect, especially if you use a library like DBOS, which only adds a database write. You still have to write to and read from your queue, which is about as expensive as a database write/read.
I get the point, but this seems pretty out of date. Seems like it needs a [2025] (?) at least.
A couple of these are still valid with Prime, but most of them are Amazon Fresh items ($9.95 service fee for orders under $50), or out of stock, or the price is now way more.
I've been typing `---` every time I do a dash since 1998 when I learned Latex to write a paper, and then (at the time) sort of just figured "oh if I keep typing --- people on Usenet will think I'm one of the Latex cool kids". Here we are. I refuse to stop just because LLMs have uslurped it.
Not unexpected.
- Google cutting off using search from other than their home page code. (At one time there was an official SOAP API for Google Search.)
- Apple cutting off non-Apple hardware in the Power PC era. ("We lost our license for speeding", from a third party seller of faster hardware.)
- Twitter cutting off external clients. (The end of TweetDeck.)
I wonder if we will see them take the final step and just make Gemini the default AI assistant on iPhone.
Might sound crazy but remember they did exactly this for web search. And Maps as well for many years.
This way they go from having to build and maintain Siri (which has negative brand value at this point) and pay Google's huge inference bills to actually charging Google for the privilege.
Will Apple and Google merge now? That would create a new #1, bigger than NVidia.
It would take US antitrust approval, but under Trump, that's for sale.
Because the internet blackout is being used to hide lethal force against protestors while the regime attempts to regain control.
Iran acknowledges mass protest deaths, but claims situation under control as Trump mulls response - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests-us-trump-death-to... - January 12th, 2026
Death toll from protests in Iran hits at least 544, activists say, as Trump says Iran wants to talk -https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-us-israel-war-nucle... - January 11th, 2025
> The Washington D.C.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said that, as of Sunday, the 15th day of protests, at least 544 people had been killed, including 483 protesters and 47 members of the security forces. HRANA said the unrest had manifested in 186 cities across all of Iran's 31 provinces.
> The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), which is also based in the U.S., said over the weekend that it had "eyewitness accounts and credible reports indicating that hundreds of protesters have been killed across Iran during the current internet shutdown," accusing the regime of carrying out "a massacre."
> The Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization, based in Norway, said Saturday that it had confirmed at least 192 protesters were killed, but that the number could be over 2,000.
> "Unverified reports indicate that at least several hundreds, and according to some sources, more than 2,000 people may have been killed," IHR said in a statement, adding that according to its estimate, more than 2,600 protesters had been arrested.
(with that said, the US government is likely not impacted and has the intelligence they need for coordinating air strikes, if they elect to proceed with them)
Mostlymatter: A fork of Mattermost by Framasoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393817 - December 2025 (9 comments)
Mostlymatter is a fork of Mattermost without users limit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383963 - December 2025 (4 comments)
Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383675 - December 2025 (250 comments)
WEBP is no longer "unusual" as it now finally has downstream support for the most popular use cases. The anti-WEBP memes are out of date and it's generally better than even a highly-compressed PNG.
That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548
"The Revolution Wind project, intended to power hundreds of thousands of homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut, “would be irreparably harmed” unless work was allowed to continue during the legal fight, US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington concluded Monday. The project is almost 90% complete."
The Revolution Wind Farm is the second project by Ørsted and Eversource to be permitted off the Coast of Block Island. The project will produce 704MW of electricity (powering 250,000 homes), 304MW for Connecticut and 400MW for Rhode Island. It is located 15.5 miles off Block Island and will consist of 65 turbines reaching a maximum height of 873 feet. The project is expected to be operational by 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_Wind
https://www.gem.wiki/Revolution_Wind
https://www.newshorehamri.gov/428/Revolution-Wind-Farm
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71266768/revolution-win...
Transformer based language models are unreliable, hence the ask of a human based forum.
Claude Opus 4.5 can understand images: one thing I've done frequently in Claude Code and have had great success is just showing it an image of weird visual behavior (drag and drop into CC) and it finds the bug near-immediately.
The issue is that Claude Code won't automatically Read images by default as a part of its flow: you have to very explicitly prompt it to do so. I suspect a Skill may be more useful here.
I was hoping for a moment that this meant they had come up with a design that was safe against lethal trifecta / prompt injection attacks, maybe by running everything in a tight sandbox and shutting down any exfiltration vectors that could be used by a malicious prompt attack to steal data.
Sadly they haven't completely solved that yet. Instead their help page at https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13364135-using-cowork... tells users "Avoid granting access to local files with sensitive information, like financial documents" and "Monitor Claude for suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection".
(I don't think it's fair to ask non-technical users to look out for "suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection" personally!)
Do you intend to replace your resistive heat with a heat pump?
Thanks, looks like that's this one: https://huggingface.co/FractalSurfer/TimeCapsuleLLM-v2-1800-...
There's a "Use this model" button on that page that can launch it in LM Studio.
I don't doubt this is true but would also note that high-profile online outlets --- Ryan Grim's Drop Site News, most notably --- have run pieces talking about how huge anti-government protests are in fact pro-government protests, when that has turned out to be flatly false. (I don't know where they get this stuff).
The Iranian anti-regime movement is very well established and is not the product of foreign intervention. It's actually not all that clear that foreign actors in the region favor regime change!
(I'm not holding out much hope that these protests will actually topple the regime, though it would be amazing if they did.)
We are "just fine" with blurry details, on some level... but a lot of processing a movie holistically comes from that level of detail being present. Even if few people walking out of the theater could put their finger on why the world felt vibrant, it'll come down to the fact those details were there.
So much of movie making is like that. No normal person comes out of a theater saying "wow, the color grading on that movie really helped the drive the main themes along, I particularly appreciated the way it was used to amplify the alienation the main character felt at being betrayed by his life-long friend, and the lighting in that scene really sent that point home". That's all film nerd stuff. But it's the lighting, the color grading, the camera shots, all this subtle stuff that the casual consumer will never cite as their reason for liking or disliking the movie that results in the feelings that were experienced.
They aren't necessary. People still connect with the original Snow White, and while it may have been an absolute technical breakthrough masterstroke for the time, by modern standards it is simple. But used well the details we can muster for a modern production can still go into the general tone of the film; compare the two next to each other while looking for this effect and you may be able to "feel" what I'm talking about.
International equities: Global structural changes driving narrowing U.S. earnings growth exceptionalism - https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/... - November 19th, 2025
Where to Go as the US Exceptionalism Trade Ends - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-06/where-... | https://archive.today/PSw9B - June 6th, 2025
Remaking the World Through Exiting US Stocks - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-19/remaki... | https://archive.today/YqD5M - March 19th, 2025
Did capital outflows from the U.S. already start? - https://globalecon.substack.com/p/did-capital-outflows-from-... - March 17th, 2025
I guess it's hard to see oppression when it benefits you...
They need one if you want them to be able to automatically recover from mistakes they make, yes.
Related:
21GW of Solar for California Land That Can No Longer Be Used for Agriculture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488648 - January 2026
Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501605122 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501605122
New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest. - https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compa... - April 25th, 2025
Impacts of agrisolar co-location on the food–energy–water nexus and economic security - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01546-4 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01546-4
(~60M acres of land in the US are in production for biofuels via corn and soybeans, arguably unnecessarily)
That doesn't make lighting it on fire a great option.
> What kind place were you eating at the puts sauce on steak?
You've never had a steak au poivre or a red wine reduction?
Sauce is good enough for Ruth's Chris. https://ruthschris.net/blog/choose-best-entree-complement-st...
Throwing an awful lot of maternal lives away for that one.
Similar story for lots of other unpopular issues, like the Civil Rights act.
If you've published it in a newspaper, now they're a public figure!
i will go for ‘aint gonna happen for a 1000 dollars alex’
Why is taking it for weight loss such a bad thing? It improves quality of life, health, reduces risk when surgery is needed, etc., etc.
Why create a new account just to litigate how statistically relevant the grandparent comment's anecdote is?
It's clear they don't have the in-house expertise to do it themselves. They aren't an AI player. So it's not a mistake, just a necessity.
Maybe someday they'll build their own, the way they eventually replaced Google Maps with Apple Maps. But I think they recognize that that will be years away.
I has been served for several decades, however since the late-90's many decided reducing to only C and C++ was the way going forward, now the world is rediscovering it doesn't have to be like that.
It says in the body:
> while Apple Music reached all-time highs in both listenership and new subscribers.
I'm assuming listenership is total subscribers.
It doesn't need to be "astounding". But it is significant, given the competition from Spotify and YouTube and other streaming services. When you're not the most popular service, it's genuinely a challenge to be on the growing side of things rather than the shrinking side or stagnant side.
How can you tell? What's the thing that made you say "this is bad for her", and why is it not the same for you?
n=1, I pay $300/month for 2.5mg of Zepbound (tirzepatide) for cash pay direct via http://lilly.com/, shipped to my door.
(no affiliation, I just like the drug)
I can't speak for coke, but for bottled water, they often add minerals back in.
If it doesn't come with a XAML WinRT based framework stack, it is only half way there.
> These accessible food options come with a premium
On one hand, you a processing step. On the other hand, you can process 'ugly' produce into mince. (Mince also transports more compactly volume-wise.)
Thing is, those safety checks are also available in C and C++, provided that one uses the right tools like PVS and PurifyPlus (just to quote two examples), and now ongoing AI based tooling efforts for verification, thus the question is why a language like Zig in the 21st century, other than "I don't like either C++ or Rust".
Acronym collisions are fun: https://public.support.unisys.com/mds/docs/Release5.0/860003...
> most "travel" is staying a week or so
Most reading is probably crap, too.
> what is learned from this kind of travel is generally trivial and superficial (and thus often wrong)
Someone can learn the wrong history of a dish while still being educated by it. Broadly speaking, I’m sceptical of new experiences not yielding education outside the irredeemably incurious.
The entire world would notice a nuke going off. Like we did with North Korea’s nuclear tests.
They made some beautiful computers. I really want to, eventually, get an M20, or wait until 3D printers get good enough to print one. ;-)
> it's amazing to me how gullible everyone was
I have some bad news for you.
> how humans are going to maintain and validate the programs written by LLMs if we no longer know (intimately) how to program
Short answer: we wouldn’t be able to. Slightly-less short answer: unlikely to happen.
Most programmers today can’t explain the physics of computation. That’s fine. Someone else can. And if nobody can, someone else can work backwards to it.
I know some that did move to the US for economic reasons only that have moved back to Canada because of the way the US has changed during their time there.
This is painful. They got a used solder mask holder, a Lumen pick and place machine, a bunch of old Siemens feeders, and a small automatic reflow oven. All these tools needed major work. Everything with firmware needed firmware mods. Everything else needed assembly or major cleaning. Everything needed adjustment. They had to 3D print their own solder paste squeegee. They're six months in and still trying to produce one simple board.
I've been down this road of populating a surface mount board. There is a minimum size for a practical board-stuffing operation, and they are below it. They are using prototype techniques for 100 units or so, not techniques that scale.
Surface mount soldering requires applying hot air in a very controlled way, with the temperature ramping up, holding at the high temp for a few seconds, and then ramping down. On a small scale, you have a programmable oven which tries to do that. Those always have heat distribution problems. For production, you have a tunnel oven, with about six sections at different temperatures and a chain conveyor to take the boards through the tunnel. With the tunnel oven, you let the whole thing warm up and stabilize, and when all zones are at the right temperature, you can repeatably solder boards successfully.
They're using a hobbyist-grade pick and place machine. Slow, but cheap. Plus the software isn't ready for prime time. They looked at a used production machine. Runs Windows XP and wouldn't fit through the door. Rejected that.
They're about EUR 30,000 into this, not counting their own labor. This approach is not going to revive electronics in Europe.
It's funny you should ask this. When I started out, 30 years ago, here were the answers you'd get from most people:
> Am I supposed to want to code all the time?
Yes.
> When can I pursue hobbies,
Your hobby should be coding fun apps for yourself
> a social life, etc.
You social life should be hanging out with other engineers talking about engineering things.
And the most successful people I know basically did exactly that.
I'm not saying y'all should be doing that now, I'm just saying, that is in fact how it used to be.
This is just a link to the Penguin book site.
Is there something I'm missing?
> At what proportion? Is it mostly lidar or mostly cameras? Or 50/50?
What proportion of your vision is rods or cones? Depends on the context. You can do without one. But it’s better with both.
> How about when you come 4 way stop. LIDAR is useless as it wouldn't recognize anyones turn signals
Bad example. 99% of a 4-way stop is remembering who moved last, who moves next by custom and who may jump the line. What someone is indicating is, depending on where you are, between mildly helpful and useless.
Probably a different type of sugar too.
> used by Celtic tribes ... to intimidate their enemies
Hmmm. I need to get me one of those!
You can not test that which you do not understand.
That's the reason why it will never be allowed to come to the US.
Narrow field of view LIDAR units have been moderately priced for years. Forward looking LIDAR is useful for anti-collision systems. It doesn't yield the situational awareness of full coverage needed for full autonomy, but it's good for putting on the brakes.
So, better face his rage then. If those are the options the choice is clear and easy.
Facts matter, as does telling people it is on them to understand them. Otherwise, we will spin in perpetuity refuting people who are not discussing in good faith. I stand by my assertions. I do not believe it is impolite to call out a potential lack of education, or ignoring of facts and reality. Without shared facts and reality, discussion and debate is impossible.
> He thinks he knows better than the experts
It’s a kleptocracy. He doesn’t care. He just wants cheap money from the Fed as patronage.
Lately I've been interesting in biosignals, biofeedback and biosynchronization.
I've been really frustrated with the state of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) research and HRV apps, particularly those that claim to be "biofeedback" but are really just guided breathing exercises by people who seem to have the lights on and nobody home. [1]
I could have spent a lot of time reading the docs to understand the Web Bluetooth API and facing up to the stress that getting anything with Bluetooth working with a PC is super hit and miss so estimating the time I'd expect a high risk of spending hours rebooting my computer and otherwise futzing around to debug connection problems.
Although it's supposedly really easy to do this with the Web Bluetooth API I amazingly couldn't find any examples which made all the more apprehensive that there was some reason it doesn't work. [2]
As it was Junie coded me a simple webapp that pulled R-R intervals from my Polar H10 heart rate monitor in 20 minutes and it worked the first time. And in a few days, I've already got an HRV demo app that is superior to the commercial ones in numerous ways... And I understand how it works 100%.
I wouldn't call it vibe coding because I had my feet on the ground the whole time.
[1] for instance I am used to doing meditation practices with my eyes closed and not holding a 'freakin phone in my hand. why they expect me to look at a phone to pace my breathing when it could talk to be or beep at me is beyond me. for that matter why they try to estimate respiration by looking at my face when they could get if off the accelerometer if i put in on my chest when i am lying down is also beyond me.
[2] let's see, people don't think anything is meaningful if it doesn't involve an app, nobody's gotten a grant to do biofeedback research since 1979 so the last grad student to take a class on the subject is retiring right about now...
It’s a troll account. Go back through its comment history.
They chanted “lock her up” en masse as a campaign slogan. The desire to imprison is quite evident.
I am still waiting for "XCode for iPadOS", where we can have a Smalltalk like approach to development, beyond what Swift Playgrounds allows for.