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Essentially correct, QUERY is safe, like GET, not merely idempotent, like PUT. Safety implies idempotence, but not vice versa.
Musk took low wage jobs when he arrived in the US.
Also Chicago (Oak Park, really, but lots of Chicago experience too).
Bike theft is in fact pretty common? Bike thieves are charged when police luck into catching the thief like a block from the scene, but the police will be the first to tell you you aren't getting your bike back. I have friends who've had trackers on their bike, could pinpoint the actual location of the bike, and zero help from the police.
I agree with you about the connection to homelessness.
That's historical revisionism. The percentage of American adults over age 25 who have a college degree was only 20% as recently as 1990. When America was truly at the top of the world in the 1950s and 1960s, it was under 10%. A high fraction of college attendance is better correlated with the 21st century decline in America's situation.
Related" "A City on Mars" (2024) [1] A useful book on why self-sustaining settlements on Luna, Mars, or earth orbit are pretty much hopeless. Remote bases that take a lot of supply, maybe, with great difficulty. The environment is just too hostile and doesn't have essential resources for self-sustaining settlements. The authors go into how Antarctic bases work and how Biosphere II didn't.
The worst real estate on Earth is better than the best real estate on Mars or Luna.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/City-Mars-settle-thought-through/dp/1...
> You can provide the piece of paper at a fraction of the cost
This isn’t socially useful.
Allow for deferral, but at the risk-free rate. If the asset goes bust, the tax isn’t owed.
If you prevent licensing software to large corporations, small corporations won't use it, either, because small corporations may get acquired by large ones. Such a license would be a "poison pill".
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
We picked the Boost license for the D Language Foundation because it is the closest to public domain we could find.
Besides, why would "bad guys" be deterred by a license, anyway?
> AI will improve more rapidly than the education system can adapt
We’ll see a new class division scaffolded on the existing one around screens. (Schools in rich communities have no screens. Students turn in their phones and watches at the beginning of the day. Schools in poor ones have them everywhere, including everywhere at home.)
Godspeed. Wishing you a favorable outcome and more time ahead. We can’t change the past, we can only learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. We win or we learn. Appreciate you candidly sharing your thoughts.
Since I (and likely everyone else) uses AI to answer technical questions, and AI is taught by stackoverflow, and stackoverflow shuts down because it generates no income, what will the next AI be trained on?
It's always a tradeoff. Nothing is ever going to have zero benefit, the problem is that these laws use the marginal benefit as an excuse to institute something that actually has massive downsides.
What I don't understand is how it's possible for 90% of people to have a vitamin D deficiency, or whatever that crazy number was. Surely by that point it's just normal?
A few points from the website:
- Out-of-the-box support for Xbox, Wii, Switch, PS3, PS4, PS5, and numerous other controllers.
- Nvidia drivers and the latest Mesa for AMD & Intel pre-installed, with tweaks applied as needed
- Bazzite ships with support for additional Wi-Fi adapters, display standards like DisplayLink, and more
- Out of the box support for not only desktop PCs, but handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.
I just had that kind of experience, but with Stack Exchange.
The Ubuntu people seem to have recently pushed to users a new version of the CUPS printer scheduler that doesn't like the syntax of some old cupsd.conf files. This breaks all printing on affected machines.
So where are the bug reports? Stack Exchange. Nobody over there is going to fix it. This needs to be discussed on Ubuntu Forums, where the maintainers might read it. For now, I posted similar discussions on the CUPS forum and Ubuntu's own forum, and linked them to each other. There's a finger-pointing problem coming up - is this a CUPS bug or a Ubuntu bug? (What writes the cupsd.conf file anyway? Ubuntu Settings?) I don't want to file a bug report until the finger-pointing phase has commentary from people who actually know the innards of Linux printing, or I'll get shot down by one side blaming the other. Let those guys fight it out.
> The Result: the SRO format is more profitable ($6,000 vs. $4,500). If landlords can legally choose between the two, they will naturally favor creating SROs over family-sized units.
Yes, this is the whole point! And the reason it's more profitable is that there is pent-up demand for them. There aren't enough of them. We want them to be more profitable, so more are built/converted.
Here's the thing, though -- that's a temporary situation. As supply goes up, demand gets met. Once enough are built/converted, the price comes down, and an equilibrium is reached where a landlord will make the same profit whether it's a 3-bedroom or 4 SRO's. This means the market is now maximally efficient for both types of tenants.
In a free market, the most efficient balance of apartment types will naturally come into being. By prohibiting smaller units, we prevent that balance and discriminate against people who can't afford a full-size studio with bathroom.
So it's not cannibalization of family housing. It's just reducing the proportion of lots of other types of apartments a little bit -- including studios and one-bedrooms. Because this is desirable.
Native Americans were here for tens of thousands of years. If it was so easy to use Indians’ resources to build a civilization, why didn’t the Indians do it?
Your attitude is illogical cope. How could “WASPs” have gotten rich from stealing from a group of people they vastly outnumbered and who were primitive in comparison?
The good ol' "we don't like the EU, so we'll sink ourselves and everyone else trying to sabotage it, just to prove everyone that EU was a bad idea".
> Why are people desperate enough to raid their own communities of basic infrastructure?
At least in Arizona, it’s a lot of meth addicts. (Friend works in the space, albeit around water versus electrical infrastructure.)
> it’s essentially an admission of failure
A multibillion dollar failure is fine by investors. Altman hasn’t been peddling the AGI BS to them. That’s aimed at the public and policymakers.
> The cost of insuring Oracle Corp.’s debt against default over the next five years rose to 1.25 percentage point a year on Tuesday
This implies a 10% chance Oracle defaults in the next 5 years [1]. (2% would imply 15%. 5-year CDSs approach 50% default probability around an 8.5% spread.)
[1] 1 - e ^[(-1.25% x 5 years) / (1 - 40% recovery)]
> It wasn't possible to exfiltrate data in those days because internet access wasn't ubiquitous.
It was, and we rightfully called software doing it "spyware", or more generally "malware". Today we call this "telemetry" and somehow it became standard practice in software engineering.
Bait & switch, though.
“All it takes is for one to work out.” is not the same as "You just need the one [job] that’s the right fit." or "You just need the one [house] that feels like home." or "You just need the one [life partner]."
Author's examples are, spiritually, the opposite of their friend's advice - in fact, "all it takes is for one to work out" is something often said to people who lost hope because they got lost being too picky.
Quite cool, just gave me a weekend idea.
Indeed. "Just one more roll of the dice and I'll be ahead."
Worse, this guy isn't trying to get a job. He's just trying to get into grad school. Which is no longer a guarantee of a good career, but may be a guarantee of a big debt. Remember that "I did everything right" post on HN a few weeks ago? CS degree from a good school, but nobody wants junior CS people any more.
TechShop used to use large HP plotters repurposed as vinyl cutters. Unfortunately, HP's product now comes with overpriced "cloud-based software."[1]
[1] https://uscutter.com/hp-latex-54-basic-plus-cutting-solution...
How does this compare to Svix?
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089908 (NY Times obituary)
Although Ford's CEO now gets it, Ford's product line doesn't reflect it yet. Farley has been bringing a few sample BYD cars to the US, for Ford people to drive around and to take apart. Farley dragged his executive team to China to see a BYD plant. They came back scared. But what Ford actually sells is 1) an F-150 converted to electric, 2) a Ford Mustang converted to electric, and 3) a Ford Transit converted to electric. They're all more expensive, and heavier, than their gasoline-powered versions.
BYD shows that electric cars are cheaper if designed properly from the ground up. The problem is that the US no longer makes many cars. Mostly giant trucks and SUVs. Hauling all that mass around requires a huge battery, resulting in 3-ton vehicles.
Tesla got far enough for Musk to have the power he wanted and then gave up innovating and expanding. China will win the race, they have a third of global manufacturing capacity and already sell as many NEVs (battery electric and plug in hybrids) domestically as are sold in the US every year, while continuing to scale.
https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3334300...
https://insidechinaauto.com/2025/11/01/live-blog-china-octob...
https://www.byd.com/us/news-list/First-BYD-Electric-Vehicle-...
https://rhomotion.com/news/byd-announces-further-global-expa...
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-tesla-and-byd-...
>In fairness to researchers, it can be difficult to run a randomized clinical trial for vitamin D supplements. That’s because most of us get the bulk of our vitamin D from sunlight
And how hard is it to make such controlled studies on prison populations (where both sun and food intake is also a known value)? Make it voluntary and give some incentives for those wanting to participate. Can study supplement effects for one or even five years, it's not like they're going anywhere.
That's also a question I have when I hear about diet studies. What's easier than doing such in prison populations? Make it as voluntary as it's for people outside, and there's no ethical issue. We're talking like checking the effect of this or that food or diet style, which they can let different people chose their own. They already eat what they're given anyway, that would be an improvement.
Tesla was dead in the water when it became obvious that they couldn't make a sub-$30K car happen. They will still probably do well as a luxury brand, but China is going to fill in the demand for affordable EVs in the rest of the world outside USA/EU.
The problem isn't that doors don't unlock, it's that you can't open the door against the massive water pressure, or against the door crumpling in itself and ruining the mechanism.
Seed from a PeerTube instance outside of the jurisdiction? You cannot rely on hope that enough peers will join the swarm and seed, so you will still need durable storage somewhere to be origin. Streaming to the client is the easy part imho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard
Works by or about Tom Stoppard at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/search?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Stoppard...
Chrome does a pretty good job translating that site to english on the fly fwiw.
Two of the authors are libc++ maintainers and members of the committee, it would be pretty odd if they were anti C++.
My understanding is that there is a difference between the concept of a Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP), and then the applications that such a thing is possible.
In the example given, I can prove that N is composite without revealing anything (well, almost anything) about the factors. But in practice we want to use a ZKP to show that I have specific knowledge without revealing the knowledge itself.
For example:
You can give me a graph, and I can claim that I can three-colour it. You may doubt this, but there is a process by which I can ... to any desired level of confidence ... demonstrate that I have a colouring, without revealing what the colouring is. I colour the vertices RGB, map those colours randomly to ABC, and cover all the vertices. You choose any edge, and I reveal the "colours" (from ABC) of the endpoints. If I really can colour the graph then I will always be able to reveal two different colours. If I can't colour the graph then as we do this more and more, eventually I will fail.
So you are right, but the message of the post is, I think, still useful and relevant.
AI slop has infiltrated so many areas. Check out this article that was on the front page of HN last week, "73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering", with hundreds of points and lots of comments arguing for or against: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024644
The problem is the entire article is made up. Sure, the author can trace client-side traffic, but the vast majority of start-ups would be making calls to LLMs in their backend (a sequence diagram in the article even points this out!!), where it would be untraceable. There is certainly no way the author can make a broad statement that he knows what's happening across hundreds of startups.
Yet lots of comments just taking these conclusions at face value. Worse, when other commenters and myself pointed out the blatant impossibility of the author's conclusion, got some responses just rehashing how the author said they "traced network traffic", even though that doesn't make any sense as they wouldn't have access to backends of these companies.
Not to mention, technicial solutions are usually the only viable ones. It's not like, in practice, we solve social problems in other ways.
> No, I have an iPhone Pro and am in the PST time zone, set to English. It has the exact same finger print as millions of other devices among the 40 million people in the PST time zone.
Your IP address, ASN, and location make this not true.
> What happened to the days where software engineers were the experts who decided tech priority?
Outside of a very small number of firms that were called out as notable for being led in a way that enabled that, often by engineers that were themselves still hands on, they never existed, and even there it was “business leadership that happened to also be engineers, and made decisions based on business priorities informed by their understanding of software engineering”, not “software engineers in their walled-off citadels of pure engineering”, and it usually involves, in successful firms, considerable willingness to accept tech debt, just as business leadership can often not be shy about accepting funancial debt.
> The worst effects will be for the UK and specifically Scotland
On the cooling side. The worst general effects will hit the Caribbean, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
(Also the northern Rockies will get slightly better ski seasons?)
Maybe he’s hoping for sea level rise these days. Enough to submerge a particular island.
There was a guy who wrote a blog post in that style who was wondering how it was he'd posted hundreds of messages to people on LinkedIn and gotten no replies.
There are some people who insist on spamming out splog posts in that style, some of them think they are blogging, not splogging, and maybe they have good intentions but that style screams "SPAM!" and unfortunately people who are writing that don't understand how it comes across.
Or a step up from that: build a compiler that converts queries in a human-friendly or application-specific language to SQL or something similar.
https://www.awrestaurants.com/press/press-release/101921-aw-... ("In the 1980s, A&W tried to compete with the immensely popular McDonald’s Quarter Pounder by offering a bigger, juicier ⅓ Pound Burger at the same price. Unfortunately, Americans aren’t so great at math. Confused consumers wrongly assumed that ¼ was bigger than ⅓ (You know, because 4 is bigger than 3) and the whole experiment went down in history as a huge marketing fail.").
Oh wow. Did I really write that 11 years ago! How time flies.
>The EV company sold fewer than 39,000 Cybertrucks in 2024, according to Cox Automotive data — far below the company’s eventual goal of 250,000 per year. As of October, Tesla had delivered just 17,317 units in 2025, a 42% drop compared to the same period in 2024.
No, you are NOT crazy: I made a mistake. I love it when HN punishes me for me for posting an errant link by downvoting me. Harsh but effective love.
"OpenAI rejected me so the entire industry is going to collapse" is certainly a take. They are still probably one of the less arrogant engineers in silicon valley.
The idea of blending applications is as old as X Windows servers on Windows like Hummingbird, although it wasn't virtualization, the remote X Windows applications would blend on the desktop.
A minority that does most of the work, without which you wouldn't be posting that comment from a GNU/Linux system, using a kernel compiled with GCC.
If you are going to ignore Java's market adoption history since its introduction in 1996, just don't bother.
This is really cool, the kind of content great to see here.
> Because zoning reforms that allow higher density may lower the value of the house
For most detached single family homes in in-demand areas where housing (and thus sustainable population) are constrained by the supply of housing units, they probably won't do that, either; not only will they increase the land value, the fact that they increases population while decreasing the supply of ainglet-family homes will drive up the price of existing single family homes.
What it does, though, is reduce the use value (experienced utility of use) for current owner-residents for whom the particular local character is a factor in enjoyment, and make alternative replacements with the quality that is now missing from the current home that are in the same area (and thus compatible with existing jobs, etc.) harder to find, as well.
Feynman wrote in his autobiography that much of his success came from having different mathematical tricks than most of his peers. So when they were stuck, he could sometimes make progress.
Not quite a "cooking robot". It's a really fancy blender.
As a company, they don't seem to have anything as complicated as the Neato robot vacuum. So they presumably lack the in-house expertise to maintain it.
> Sometimes the heavy technique is: just ask someone else. ;)
For a lot of people I know, this is the light technique!
I wonder about this. There's all this noise about a great housing shortage in San Francisco, but the population of SF is up only 65,000 people in 10 years. There are a lot more tall buildings. This may be a monopoly overpricing situation rather than an actual shortage. There's a huge amount of empty office space.
Remember, the world passed "peak baby" back in 2013. Population is leveling off in the developed world.
I'd like to see a more technical article on this. Airbus has triple redundancy in the flight control computers.[1] And they're different CPUs - one AMD, one Intel, one Motorola, all doing the same job. If flight was disrupted, they should have had lots of alarms.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26587285_Challenges...
Scrapping them off the wall is not pleasant, though. But throw enough of them at it, I guess the wall eventually goes down too.
> There seems to have been a shift, somewhat, in the comfort level of different generations about saying things "out loud" in large public rooms.
I think this is merely the shift from doing this as a hobby, to doing this for work. Random coding problems mixed with banter I posted or answered on IRC back in the day? Purely hobby stuff, things I done after school instead of doing my homework. No stakes beyond the community itself, I could disengage at any moment, nobody would care - there was no commitment of any kind involved.
Today? Even if we switched back from Slack/Teams/whatnot to IRC, the fact remains, the other people are my co-workers, and we're talking about work, and it's all made of commitments and I can't disengage, or else I starve.
That changes the dynamic quite a bit.
What about neither?
If it must be Web, run the application headless and launch the system browser.
But really if 50 year olds can jungle between native and Web, so do you.
They are virtualizing it!
This is incidentally how Windows 386-9x ran DOS applications - in a VM, using V86 mode.
We have the Dlang conference once a year where we all meet in person. It's amazingly productive. And yes, we do video chatting frequently. It just isn't the same.
Spherical geometers: the trolls of the math world
Now you're just changing the argument. The mental copy of HN you have, besides being incomplete, is not copyable or resaleable.
My dad was an amateur photographer for a while, and even got one of his photos published in the newspaper.
He said nothing improves a landscape picture more than having a person in the picture. I didn't believe him.
Later, I went on a trip to Hawaii, and took maybe 300 landscape pictures of its beauty. Upon looking at them at home, I realized he was right. The ones with people in them, even random strangers, were always more interesting.
I suspect that he has worked a 40 hour day.
You're asking how you opt out of taxes. You don't.
And everything you earn isn't rightfully yours. It's supported by an infrastructure of national defense, courts, police, building regulations, and so forth. You get many years of public school for free. Etc. etc. You didn't do this solo.
So the cost of all the benefits you get as a citizen is to contribute your rightful share, that share being decided democratically in which you have a vote.
The discussion is about triangles in hyperbolic space. In hyperbolic space, if you keep extending a triangle's lines out by moving the intersection farther away, you'll tend toward a triangle with a constant area (pi in the article because the curve was chosen for that, you can have any arbitrary finite value you want by varying the curvature) even though the perimeter keeps going up.
If that sounds like so much technobabble, that's because this article assumed what I think is a very specific level of knowledge about hyperbolic space, as it doesn't explain what it is, yet this is one of the very first things you'll ever learn about it. So it has a rather small target audience of people who know what hyperbolic space is but didn't know that fact about triangles. If you'd like to catch up with what hyperbolic space is, YouTube has a lot of good videos about it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hyperbolic+spac... And as is often the case with geometry, videos can be a legitimate benefit that is well taken advantage of and not just a "my attention span has been destroyed by TikTok" accomodation.
Including CodeParade's explanations, which are notable in that he made a video game (Hyperbolica) in which you can even walk around in it if you want, with an option for doing it in VR (though that is perhaps the weirdest VR experience I had... I didn't get motion sick per se, but my brain still objected in a very unique manner and I couldn't do it for very long). It's been out and on Steam for a while now, so you can run through the series where he is talking about the game he is in the process of creating at the time and go straight to trying it out, if you want.
Unless you fly as often as pilots and other onboard staff, it's unlikely to be significant.
I'm disappointed that it doesn't fly.
It's a shame EmbeddingGemma is under the shonky Gemma license. I'll be honest: I don't remember what was shonky about it, but that in itself is a problem because now I have to care about, read and maybe even get legal advice before I build anything interesting on top of it!
(Just took a look and it has the problem that it forbids certain "restricted uses" that are listed in another document which it says it "is hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement" - in other words Google could at any point in the future decide that the thing you are building is now a restricted use and ban you from continuing to use Gemma.)
What, `def main():`? Or do you mean the __name__ == "__main__" thing for distinguishing whether the code was imported?
I'm one of those people, but I have an absolutely bizarre response to the drug. I've tried to start it five times, and failed four.
I'll have one of two responses:
1. The drug works, and it completely eliminates food noise and the desire to eat unhealthy foods, but I'll get severe side effects (massive diarrhea, vomiting, burps that reek of rotten egg). I lose weight, but a lot of it because I can't keep anything down.
2. The drug doesn't work almost at all. I get minimal effects, and minimal side effects. This is where I am now, I've been consistently going up in dose (incrementally, so I don't trigger the side effects). I'm at 10mg now, and there's minimal effect.
Just mystifying.
There will likely never be federation between Signal's official servers and any other servers. Signal introduces privacy features semiregularly; we all saw with Matrix how difficult that is in a highly-federated environment.
OTOH it's nice to have an alternative client. If E2EE messenger system is going to lock itself down hard, trying to "protect" itself from the user even harder than third party adversaries, then I personally see no point - might as well use Whatsapp.
I miss the times IM software respected, or at least didn't fight hard to defeat, the end-user's freedom to computing on their own device, which includes viewing and sending messages through whatever interface they see fit, including indirectly as part of a script/automation. But that was all before E2EE era, hell, before mobile dominance.
That's not the point the GP was making. They meant "I'd rather give up a bit of privacy for a big increase in usability, as I'm not in the group of people that needs extreme privacy". I happen to agree with them, I get more benefit from a fairly-private messaging app my friends can use than from an extremely-private messaging app nobody in my social circle can use.
A belief system that there is value in this form of forum participation.
1960s/early 1970s for me.
I love this, and would pay for native or electron app on Mac. Like Google Earth for global airspace.
Buyer could not fire existing customers, as Broadcom did with VMware.
Arbitration is still a pretty big money sink for them. If enough people do it then it becomes a problem for them. There have been instances of companies reinstating normal class action lawsuits back into their EULAs because it turned out that forced arbitration wasn't a magical wonderland of cost cutting for them after all. Forced arbitration and especially when they have a clause that forbids class-action arbitration can turn into a huge liability for them even if they nominally win every instance.
The fundamental financial maneuver of the modern world is to take modest risks of modest loss and financially engineer it into a smaller risk of much, much larger loss, with a higher expected loss (risk*size) in the end after the engineering than before. Forced arbitration (and especially when class arbitration is banned) is that manuever in the legal sphere. It isn't a ticket out of the risk entirely, it's shoving that risk under the rug and making it net larger. If you and a few hundred of your closest friends put their minds to it you can trigger that smaller-chance-of-larger-disaster scenario and all you have to do is file... you don't even have to win.
I won't deny it's an uphill battle but the forced arbitration clauses can be turned to consumer's advantage with relatively modest coordination, you just need to get enough annoyed people together.
(I can't help you with this one, I don't have a car with this problem. Your few hundred closest friends will need standing.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-event_upset
Apparently it has happened to an Airbus once before.
"Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate account" (2022), 500 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
in german it’s
“Schere Stein Papier”
Don't use all-MiniLM-L6-v2 for new vector embeddings datasets.
Yes, it's the open-weights embedding model used in all the tutorials and it was the most pragmatic model to use in sentence-transformers when vector stores were in their infancy, but it's old and does not implement the newest advances in architectures and data training pipelines, and it has a low context length of 512 when embedding models can do 2k+ with even more efficient tokenizers.
For open-weights, I would recommend EmbeddingGemma (https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m) instead which has incredible benchmarks and a 2k context window: although it's larger/slower to encode, the payoff is worth it. For a compromise, bge-base-en-v1.5 (https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5) or nomic-embed-text-v1.5 (https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5) are also good.
Seriously. I thought about doing the same because I couldn't make heads or tails of the article, and then assumed it would just all be downvotes... glad to see it wasn't.
It has always been the default in compiler provided frameworks before C++98, like Turbo Vision, BIDS, OWL, MFC and so on.
Unfortunately the default changed when C++98 came out, and not everyone bothered with providing at least hardening mode in debug builds, VC++ followed by GCC, or compilers in high integrity computing like Green Hills.
Sadly the security and quality mentality seems to be a hard sell in areas where folks are supposed to be Engineers and not craftsmen.