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If you put part of the address in the body space, you can't encrypt the entire body.
IPv6 adoption has been linear for the last two decades. Currently, 48% of Google traffic is IPv6.[1] It was 30% in 2020. That's low, because Google is blocked in China. Google sees China as 6% IPv6, but China is really around 77%.
Sometimes it takes a long time to convert infrastructure. Half the Northeast Corridor track is still on 25Hz. There's still some 40Hz power around Niagara Falls. San Francisco got rid of the last PG&E DC service a few years ago. It took from 1948 to 1994 to convert all US freight rail stock to roller bearings.[2] European freight rail is still using couplers obsolete and illegal in the US since 1900. (There's an effort underway to fix this. Hopefully it will go better than Eurocoupler from the 1980s. Passenger rail uses completely different couplers, and doesn't uncouple much.)[3]
[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1EZ6K7bpQ
[2] https://rail-research.europa.eu/european-dac-delivery-progra...
Indeed, a single high-end desktop today at full load would probably use more power than everything in that room.
_thinks: "gotta be a sarcastic comment"_
Not enough memory -> can't do it.
Not enough CPU -> can do it, but it's slow.
(Ubuntu with the OOM killer - could do it, but when it filled half of memory, it was killed.)
I did some RE'ing of BIOS code back in the days of the first SDR SDRAM and the calibration part was reasonably straightforward; basically sweeping some controller registers through their ranges while doing repeated read/write operations with lots of transitions in the data (e.g. 0x55555555 <> 0xAAAAAAAA) to find the boundaries where errors occurred, and then choosing the middle of the range.
While the article does mention periodic calibration, I wonder if there are controllers which will automatically and continuously adapt the signal to keep the eye centered, like a PLL.
> The Papal ban on children for priests is perhaps the only instance where a theocracy managed to prevent this slide.
Pretty impressive effect, given that there is no such ban. There are a number of other rules which can combine to make it look approximately like there is, but there isn't.
> How is this the fault of AI?
AI is being used by bureaucrats and enforcers to justify lazy, harmful conclusions. You don't live in the real world if you think "just punish the bureaucrats, don't make it about AI" is going to remotely rectify this toxic feedback loop and ecosystem.
Absolutely everybody has face doubles.
Identikit got pretty close and there weren't that many bits in there and quite a few of them were hairstyles and that's a choice, not genetics. How many head shapes, noses, eyes, mouths and ears can there be?
A few million? Then everybody has a few thousand doubles. 100 Million? Still 80.
> that money goes to a mega-corp and the savings is passed on to execs
And the execs invest that money back into the economy.
This seems to be mostly re litigating COVID lockdowns, but without any details or analysis or data.
(As usual, the answer to the headline question is no)
He writes three outreach emails and says he's a hustler?
A business owner lamented to me recently that it wasn't the taxes that were crushing his business, but the costly regulations that keep on coming.
The harder the government makes it to operate a business, the less businesses there will be.
You got a lot further than I did.
This is proposed legislation, isn't it? Proposed bills are generally off-topic on HN; they're a dime a dozen.
Can't wait to see how this plays with Vision Pro
You can use gen AI entirely in the spirit of craft. For instance if you need to consume, implement or extend some open source software you can load it up in an agent IDE and ask “How do I?” questions or “how is it that?” questions that put you on a firm footing.
A Dutch journalist was rightly kicked out of Ukraine early in the war for his absolutely stupendously stupid scoop with pictures of russian rockets landing in a city. The moron was all indignant about it too.
https://nltimes.nl/2022/04/04/dutch-journalist-expelled-ukra...
There are far more divides than just that one.
For instance, the ones that look at it from an economics perspective, security perspective, long term maintainability perspective and so on. For each of these there are pros and cons.
This sounds right to me:
> Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writing code by hand. Using the same editors, the same languages, the same pull request workflows. The craft-lovers and the make-it-go people sat next to each other, shipped the same products, looked indistinguishable. The motivation behind the work was invisible because the process was identical.
Helps explain why some people are delighted to have AI write code for them while others are unhappy that the part they enjoyed so much has been greatly reduced.
Similar note from Kellan (a clear member of the make-it-go group) in https://laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/code-has-always-been-the... :
> That feeling of loss though can be hard to understand emotionally for people my age who entered tech because we were addicted to feeling of agency it gave us. The web was objectively awful as a technology, and genuinely amazing, and nobody got into it because programming in Perl was somehow aesthetically delightful.
> I feel like I'm going crazy with this narrative.
We're only getting warmed up. There are programmers on HN that will take the output of their favorite AI, paste it and run it. And we're supposed to be the ones that know better.
What do you think an ordinary person is going to do in the presence of something that they can not relate to anything else except for an oracle, assuming they know the term? You put anything in there and out pops this extremely polished looking document, something that looks better than whatever you would put together yourself with a bunch of information on it that contains all kinds of juicy language geared up to make you believe the payload. And it does that in a split second. It's absolutely magical to those in the know, let alone to those that are not.
They're going to fall for it, without a second thought.
And they're going to draw consequences from it that you thought could use a little skepticism. Too late now.
I've added an instruction: "do not implement anything unless the user approves the plan using the exact word 'approved'".
This has fixed all of this, it waits until I explicitly approve.
Well, there's always wars as the way to get rid of people. I really don't rule out that the people that benefit from this sort of thing will purposefully steer the world in that direction because the poor won't have any choice other than to enlist as a way out of their situation, and never mind the consequences. You can already see some of this happening.
If this is satire, it's not that funny. If you're serious, it's a good example of 'the ugly American.'
> we really need a fix for this. When cops are grossly negligent the money should come out of their aggregate pension fund
This is on us as voters. If we didn’t piss our pants every time a police union sneezed, we’d realize wholesale restarting police departments is precedents in even our largest cities.
It is an AI error, but also an error on the part of the cops, the prosecutors, the judge, and the county sheriff (who is responsible for the jail inmates). I hope everyone involved in this travesty is sued into oblivion and unable to hide behind their immunity defenses. Facial recognition should never be the sole basis for a warrant.
What "serious" tasks does banking involve?
I log in to transfer money, to take a photo of a check to deposit it, to check my balance.
All of that is fine on a phone screen. Actually, it's a lot easier to take the check photo.
And a banking app is a whole lot more secure than a browser tab running extensions that might get hijacked, on a desktop OS whose architecture allows this like widespread disk access, keyloggers, etc.
The key difference is this would be identifiable foreigners doing it.
> I deeply wish the democrats had run a better campaign in 2024.
No, the damage was done before that. Harris ran the best campaign she was capable of running. We know that because she ran a terrible campaign in 2019, even with all the Obama people backing her. I went to the Iowa primary campaigning in 2019. I saw Harris several times, including at a small event focused at Asians. She’s an abysmal retail politician. Warren was hugging people and taking selfies while Harris was hiding in her tour bus. Harris is obviously an introvert who doesn’t really like people.
Given Biden’s age and early talk of being a one-term president, the smart choice was to nominate Elizabeth Warren, who is a fantastic campaigner. But Harris was the choice to appease the identity activists. They killed Dems’ chances in 2024 even before Biden’s term began. That’s a gift that will keep giving because South Carolina is now Democrats’ first primary. If Harris runs again she’s virtually guaranteed to begin the campaign with a strong primary start.
Ok, but that's just the vehicle, it is the BBS software that does the works. And even in the 80's there were ways to run multiple instances of 'single user' BBSs on one box, for instance (dare I say it...) OS/2 and TV.
I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of 'but' 'but', but in general if there is a problem you find the right door to escalate and you keep bugging them until they fix things.
Resetting an alarm is going to look 'real good' if at some point the place burns down and for sure the building is insured somewhere and for sure that information is something you could dig up. If there is no unit owner and no HOA then multiple tenants will need to band together and get something going, initially we weren't talking about tenants at all, you brought that up and since then you've been tilting at windmills because nothing satisfies your needs. Obviously I won't be able to come up with workable scenarios for each new restriction that you impose because you can keep that up forever.
I'm not in the 'oh, I will just give up because I can't be arsed to solve this safety issue' group, if it really is an issue - and I'm going on the assumption here that it is - then someone will care about that. The key is to locate the someone and then to state your case, and when one method doesn't work to come up with another one that gets you closer.
Learned helplessness is not a solution to anything.
It's worse than that though. They are dismantling things that congress has mandated, and also just not making legally mandated payments, and no one is stopping them.
Congress has abdicated their duty of checks and balances. In a functioning government, the executive would have already been removed for not following legally mandated spending.
It's very true for healthcare (especially mental healthcare) and education today as well, because for most people, the choice isn't LLM vs. human attention - it's LLM vs. no access at all.
Right. What banks do is sell loans. That's the profit center. Teller windows, vaults, and cash handling are all low or no revenue cost items.
So newer bank branches look like car dealership offices. There are many little glass rooms where you sit down with a bank employee and discuss loans and other financial products. That's where the money is made.
There's a small area in back with traditional tellers. It's not where the money is made.
Japanese food and Indian food are as different from each other as Indian food and Italian food.
Because bash and sed and suchlike turn out to be the most useful tools for unlocking the abilities of AI agents to do interesting things - more so than previous attempts like MCP.
... well, well, well. I spent a lot of the 2010s revisiting symbolic AI and I'd say the worst problem it had was "reasoning with uncertainty" If you consider a medical diagnosis system like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
the result is probabilistic in nature, there's always some chance you'll get it wrong.
Language processing is the same. Language is ambiguous, there are thousands of possible parse trees for a common sentence. You might be talking with somebody and then get a piece of information that revises your interpretation of what they said an hour ago. It's just like that.
In that time frame I was very interested in the idea that decision theory was the key link between computation and action whether you were using symbolic methods (e.g. a very plausible set of rules for address matching might be 99.9% reliable in some cases, 97% in others, 2% in others) or learned methods. A model for predicting market prices is priceless, but put that together with a Kelly Better and you've got a trading strategy.
Maybe there is more to his argument than I got, but as I see it he's defending a boundary that isn't there.
It is a thing, i've been hearing it for at least 6 months. There's a lot of people who really hate AI and want nothing to do with it.
For what it's worth I thought the modal dialog on the original was worse than the pop-over ad on the copy.
Wild Moose just made a blog post[0] about this. They found that putting things into foundation models wasn't cutting it, that you had to have small finely-tuned models along with deterministic processes to use AI for RCA.
[0] https://www.wildmoose.ai/post/micro-agents-ai-powered-invest...
> Good for the bottom line, bad for the worker
Bad for most workers. Good for a cabal. The Jones Act directly lead to the failure of American shipbuilding.
They’ve gotten largely more repairable since then, including adhesives you can electrically debond.
You don't want to give the agent a raw key, so you give it a dummy one which will automatically be converted into the real key in the proxy.
So how does that help exactly? The agent can still do exactly what it could have done if it had the real key.
"This post is the first in a series. We are extending this analysis to more realistic workloads beyond artificial SWE benchmarks. Follow the account and stay tuned.---"
Did something get cut off at the end?
... and really weird hallucinations if you stay awake instead of using as directed although the usual response to the weirdness is "go to bed"
I read through the thing and don't quite understand what this adds that the dozens of LLM coding wrappers don't already do.
You write a markdown spec.
The script takes it and feeds it to an LLM API.
The API generates code.
Okay? Where is this "next-generation programming language" they talk about?
Correct. The story isn’t correct even in the original formulation. US population increased by 50% from 1980 to 2010, and the economy became far more financialized. But the number of bank teller jobs barely grew during that period, even before the iPhone.
Yamaha Motor Corporation
https://global.yamaha-motor.com/news/2026/0226/subsidiary.ht...
Cost cutting measure in an unfavorable market environment, including lack of growth, they expect to persist:
> Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is undertaking structural reforms aimed at improving the profitability of its U.S. operations in response to cost increases resulting from U.S. tariffs and changes in the market environment. In addition to implementing cross-business cost reduction initiatives, the Company seeks over the medium to long term to build a profit structure that is not solely dependent on top-line growth, thereby transforming itself into a more resilient and robust organization capable of adapting to change.
https://connectder.com/ avoids needing a new panel or line side tap if your authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) allows meter socket adapters. No affiliation, have one on hand as a demo unit to show people. Any electrician is going to verify your panel from a load calculation perspective in person for free as part of a free estimate.
If there are any incentives available, recommend load center upgrades when funds permit for future proofing and capturing incentives while they're available to offset personal cost outlay.
I pay for https://karakeep.app/ (also open at https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/), create a list per friend, and then share that list to the friend (who can also subscribe using an RSS feed). Items to share are added to the respective lists. URLs added via Karakeep are automatically captured and archived in my instance.
This model also enables federation between Karakeep instances, if so desired. Mobile apps are available.
> This is just another form of that "shadow banking" system isn't it?
Private-credit lenders are literally shadow banks [1]. But I'd be cautious about linking any shadow banking with crisis. Tons of useful finance occurs outside banks (and governments). One could argue a classic VC buying convertible debt met the definition.
That said, the parallel to 2008 is this sector of shadow banking has a unique set of transmission channels to our banks. The unexpected one being purely psychological–when a bank-affiliated shadow bank gates redemptions, investors are punishing the bank per se.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-bank_financial_institution
" maintained by people that nobody technically employs"
In my opinion, it is similar to Parkinson's Law [1] about work filling into the time given to it, but replace work with bureaucracy filling the aggregate enterprise revenue on offer. Atlassian's work, one might argue, is "done" but has such cashflow from business customers that they can continue to spend above and beyond what is needed to maintain what has been built to service their customer base. They could be 37signals/Basecamp, but they are enabled beyond that (from the business customer cashflows mentioned), and so these actions occur until an innovator comes along to replace them (and potentially, the cycle repeats due to enterprise sales cycle durations, inertia, etc).
You see this with all manner of large enterprise in my experience, where what they continue to do is "good enough" to allow for these inefficiencies and actions because they are, on some spectrum, "money printers" due to their moat and inertia. Creative destruction is not a forgone conclusion, nor fast. Is the incumbent exploring the problem spaces adjacent to their core business(es) to increase their TAM to increase shareholder value? Are they innovating? Or are they just churning and burning up revenue on meaningless work?
All of these companies doing layoffs to invest in AI is not about AI specifically, it is about reaching for profits and yield in a challenging business landscape and macro post zero interest rate policy ("ZIRP") imho. They are desperate for productivity growth, whether that is doing more with less people, AI, offshoring, whatever because money now has a cost.
You can quickly find historical availability & consumption data and I don't think it supports any trivially obvious hypotheses like these. You'll find headlines saying things like that we're at a low point in vegetable consumption going back to 1988, but I'm reading an NIH paper charting '70-'2010 and the patterns look stable, except for increases in total calories, in dairy, and in added dairy fats and oils.
Whatever's going on, it's probably going to end up being complicated and multifactorial.
(I do love me a crucifer, though).
> Are you of the opinion that DC is a hotspot for specialized crop and livestock management knowledge?
I don't have a strong opinion on this. But I think a farm and food specialist in D.C. probably has more sway than tens of distributed experts in Iowa and Kansas. Part of the purpose of these agencies is to inform policy. That's hard to do if you're not near the room.
They may be, but if there are no elections, there is no United States. Constitutionally, its government is predicated on having elected representatives.
I could see Trump trying this, but I also can see dozens of other people or groups, some richer, more powerful, more competent, and more ruthless than Trump, just waiting in the wings for the guardrails to come off to make a play to rule the territory of the former United States. If he tries and succeeds at this it's open-season. It's not a Trump dictatorship, it's a civil war, akin to the Chinese Civil War after the emperor fell or the Syrian civil war after the Arab Spring.
It's got to be a major struggle maintaining motivation in the face of aggressive and ungrateful users. It's bad enough when they're giving you money, it must be much worse when they're not.
It’s not just an AI generated title —- it’s an AI generated video!
Optimizing performance management and labor cost controls is more important to those making these decisions than climate change. Misaligned incentives.
An interesting aspect of this, especially their blog post (https://malus.sh/blog.html ), is that it acknowledges a strain in our legal system I've been observing for decades, but don't think the legal system or people in general have dealt with, which is that generally costs matter.
A favorite example of mine is speed limits. There is a difference between "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and walking away", "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and occasionally enforcing it with expensive humans when they get around to it", and "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and rigidly enforcing it to the exact mph through a robot". Nominally, the law is "don't go faster than 55 mph". Realistically, those are three completely different policies in every way that matters.
We are all making a continual and ongoing grave error thinking that taking what were previously de jure policies that were de facto quite different in the real world, and thoughtlessly "upgrading" the de jure policies directly into de facto policies without realizing that that is in fact a huge change in policy. One that nobody voted for, one that no regulator even really thought about, one that we are just thoughtlessly putting into place because "well, the law is, 55 mph" without realizing that, no, in fact that never was the law before. That's what the law said, not what it was. In the past those could never really be the same thing. Now, more and more, they can.
This is a big change!
Cost of enforcement matters. The exact same nominal law that is very costly to enforce has completely different costs and benefits then that same law becoming all but free to rigidly enforce.
And without very many people consciously realizing it, we have centuries of laws that were written with the subconscious realization that enforcement is difficult and expensive, and that the discretion of that enforcement is part of the power of the government. Blindly translating those centuries of laws into rigid, free enforcement is a terrible idea for everyone.
Yet we still have almost no recognition that that is an issue. This could, perhaps surprisingly, be one of the first places we directly grapple with this in a legal case someday soon, that the legality of something may be at least partially influenced by the expense of the operation.
Underwater drones, not drones in general.
... and you have to sign into Medium to read it.
20 years left if health plays along, and I feel the same pain as the author.
I think they're the best status reports I've seen anywhere.
First hand reports are brutal. MDM compromised and widespread wipes of endpoints across the enterprise.
https://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1rqopq0/stry...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-clai...
Official banking apps are harder to phish than websites. They also tend to keep you signed in for longer, especially once you enable something like FaceID.
One key line about ATMs is buried deep in the article:
> the number of tellers per branch fell by more than a third between 1988 and 2004, but the number of urban bank branches (also encouraged by a wave of bank deregulation allowing more branches) rose by more than 40 percent
So, ATMs did impact bank teller jobs by a significant amount. A third of them were made redundant. It's just that the decrease at individual bank branches was offset by the increase in the total number of branches, because of deregulation and a booming economy and whatever else.
A lot of AI predictions are based on the same premise. That AI will impact the economy in certain sectors, but the productivity gains will create new jobs and grow the size of the pie and we will all benefit.
But will it?
The thing they're trying to combat is people claiming residency in a better school district. We had a case here where the parents were driving their kid to grandma's so the kid could go to school there instead of in a bad local school.
The cover of war is a great use for targeting fossil fuel infrastructure Russia relies on for exports. Sufficiently inhibiting their ability to export will force them to shut in wells (as we're seeing with major Middle Eastern oil exporters as shore storage reaches capacity), which will potentially take years to restart.
I would encourage you to channel this energy into organizing and advocating in your community for the removal of devices of mass corporate surveillance. Failing that, subscribe to 404media, they have been crushing it documenting this across the country (which feeds into downstream governance and accountability efforts).
TLDR Hold your local government accountable, they work for you.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I think stuff like Langflow and n8n are more likely to be adopted, alongside with some more formal specifications.
> I do believe President Trump stated it was an Iranian Tomahawk missile.
If Trump said that, it is propaganda aimed at the amazingly ignorant; Tomahawks are US-made and only used by the US, UK, and Australia, with the Netherlands and Japan having recently entered into agreements to deploy them.
Accessibility APIs have long been the royal road to automation. If scrapers were well-written they'd be using this already, but of course if scrapers were well-written they would scrape your site and you'd never notice.
The AI part yes. But they also use quite inefficient rendering on the cli.
If we have a $7 trillion national government, we should spread out the jobs instead of concentrating them in DC. It’s becoming The Capitol from Hunger Games. There’s no reason USDA of all agencies should have thousands of employees in DC.
I want to see her about as much I want to see Brad Pitt fight Tom Cruise.
The top comment in this thread calls this "wild" and expresses amazement that this is possible; clearly it's not what "everyone expects and knows".
The nitty-gritty details are what the article is for, not the title.
> To think you had to put in effort.
But that's the whole point...
When things that previously took hundreds of hours of effort to learn now become available with just a few minutes, they become available to all -- even those without all that extra time, which is most people who have a lot of other competing priorities in their lives.
That's democratization.
I don't understand why you're trying to argue against that. It's a dictionary definition. It's just a meaning of the word.
Whatever you seem to be upset about is something else, I don't know what.
"The insight wasn't new math — the result is identical to standard attention."
Can't you just post an article with a link like people who actually use Hacker News instead of posting a link inside the text that nobody can click on?
Here's his problem: "I need Docker Desktop to run my apps"
That's a way to take a top-of-the-line x86 machine with 512MB of RAM and a huge number of cores and get performance like an IBM 360/20. You want some punched cards with that?
For the TPC-DS results it would also have been nice to show how the macbook neo compares to the AWS instances.
Or am I missing something?
>to zap your butthole to collect your semen
Jokes on them, I don't think semen is stored in the butthole (except in some cases temporarily after sex)
In the old Windows NT days, the scheduler still wasn't that clever, so in multiple core servers it would throw processes around thrashing the whole cache and CPU context.
By pinning the processes to specific CPUs, the performance gains were quite visible.
A lot of the hate for hydrogen is for a vehicle fuel where it's strictly inferior to batteries, partly because it's such a pain to handle, and partly because it's a "submarine" for natural gas derived H2.
Evolving hydrogen from electrolysis and then immediately turning it into ammonia is a much better idea; ammonia is easier to handle than H2 gas and already has a market.
a bit less capable but ~comparable to qwen 3.5 122b
~ 2x faster inference than qwen 3.5 122b
~ 7x faster inference than gpt-oss 120b
probably most important: training datasets and training recipe available (!)
in other words this is an open source llm release (not just open weights!)
Why did the author have to do all this hacking around with screenshots? Back in the day, you could query any window for its title/text/buttons and send events to the buttons directly. Is this not the case in Windows any more?
GDPR doesn't apply in the states, but hopefully it provides for some punishment for the poor security here for EU customers. Of course, then some Americans will get mad that a US company has to follow EU law.
I wouldn't say I ignored it, I mentioned that in the opening paragraph.
This chapter is meant to be a tool you can send employers to encourage them to be smarter about this.
> How is this the fault of AI
It isn't, the article doesn't claim (or even imply) that it is "the fault" of AI, only that AI was part of the chain of events, and nothing is the fault of AI until AI is sufficiently advanced to constitute a moral actor. “At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer” remains true.
OTOH, it is potentially the fault of the reliance human actors put on an AI determination.