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> China is more stable than the Soviet Union was in the 1960s
Xi literally just purged “the country’s top military leader, Gen. Zhang Youxia, and an associate, Gen. Liu Zhenli” [1].
This is the mark of a dictator. Not the Soviet Union at its finest.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/china-xi-mili...
You can do this, today, if you want, via an IRA or some 401(k)s.
What are you talking about? The article literally fully explains the rationale, as well as the history. It's not "denying" anything. Seems entirely reasonable and balanced to me.
I'd wager this routinely happens several times a year.
In both directions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Iranian_shoot-down_of_Ame...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
YC's previous recommendation was to use Silicon Valley Bank. That ended well.
Aren't you just waving a flag for less regulation by rushing to align yourself with this inarguable example of regulatory success? Rather than discussing the issue of what impact lead had, or how we might apply this longitudinal method to other other problems (making hair archives into a general environmental data resource), or develop longitudinal methods in general, You've chosen to issue a clarion calla gainst 'bad regulation'.
Turning "environmental regulation" into a unified bloc that must be either supported or opposed in totality is a manipulative political maneuver and it should be forcefully rejected.
....nobody was arguing this. It's a classic straw man fallacy. Further, you're leveraging a lot of emotional terms while providing zero examples, inviting potential sympathetic readers to just project their feelings onto any regulations they happen to dislike rather than establish any sort of objective criteria or lay out any map/model of regulatory credibility that could be subject to challenge or criticism.
For identity theft, I think at this point it depends on where you set the bar. I've never had someone clean out my checking account or anything truly large, but my wife and I have had fraudulent charges on our credit cards several times as they've been leaked out one way or another. I would not "identify" as a "identity theft victim" per se if you asked me out of the blue, because compared to some of what I've heard about, I've had nothing more than minor annoyances come out of this. But yeah, I'd guess that it's fair to say that at this point most people have had at least some sort of identity-related issue at some point.
Goodbye CoPilot plugin, yet another platform Microsoft loses on.
One day they will discover threaded conversions.
Whether you are a tech company or not, there's a lot of data on computers that are physically in the office.
It's exactly the tokenizer, but we shoplifted the idea too; it belongs to the world!
(The credential thing I'm actually proud of is non-exfiltratable machine-bound Macaroons).
Remember that the security promises of this scheme depend on tight control over not only what hosts you'll send requests to, but what parts of the requests themselves.
While that speed increase is real, of course, you're really just looking at the general speed delta between Python and C there. To be honest I'm a bit surprised you didn't get another factor of 2 or 3.
"Cimba even processed more simulated events per second on a single CPU core than SimPy could do on all 64 cores"
One of the reasons I don't care in the slightest about Python "fixing" the GIL. When your language is already running at a speed where a compiled language can be quite reasonably expected to outdo your performance on 32 or 64 cores on a single core, who really cares if removing the GIL lets me get twice the speed of an unthreaded program in Python by running on 8 cores? If speed was important you shouldn't have been using pure Python.
(And let me underline that pure in "pure Python". There are many ways to be in the Python ecosystem but not be running Python. Those all have their own complicated cost/benefit tradeoffs on speed ranging all over the board. I'm talking about pure Python here.)
> What makes Grok special
X. xAI isn’t being raided. X is. If Instagram bought a girlfriend generator and built it into its app, it would face liability as well.
Yeah, this is a really neat idea: https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox#secrets-that-...
await using sandbox = await Sandbox.create({
secrets: {
OPENAI_API_KEY: {
hosts: ["api.openai.com"],
value: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
},
},
});
await sandbox.sh`echo $OPENAI_API_KEY`;
// DENO_SECRET_PLACEHOLDER_b14043a2f578cba75ebe04791e8e2c7d4002fd0c1f825e19...
Kind of like how XSS attacks can't read httpOnly cookies but they can generally still cause fetch() requests that can take actions using those cookies.
My 1 year old M4 mini is in beachball nation, it got slower quickly like it was running Win XP.
I am so grateful that much of my childhood was in a town rather than a city.
What about the guy in the last Star Wars trilogy who seems like a refugee from Doctor Who?
In favor of what? I’m all for economic nationalism, but you have to have competitive home grown alternatives. Does Europe have them? Or are they going to shoot themselves in the foot productivity-wise by boycotting the best products?
Well, that's the problem, these people are wildly uneducated and unsophisticated. They are voting their feelings. Prices levels do not come down without a depression, even if inflation slows. Their only solution is wages going up. Do they have a mechanism to push wages up? Taxes must go up, they have been too low for too long and the debt has accumulated (~$38T in US treasuries alone) and will need to be paid back or defaulted on. Insurance costs continue to rise due to rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, as well as climate change (the US is currently spending ~$1B/year on climate driven events). Growth is over because the US population is not growing (tangentially, total fertility rate is below replacement rate in more than half of countries in the world, and this trend will continue). 401ks predicated on the S&P500 are held up by AI investment (which is outpacing consumer spending, the primary driver of the US economy, over the last year to the tune of ~$400B) and the Mag 7. When this stalls, everyone is going to be sad and not feel as wealthy as they did previously (“wealth effect”).
Happiness is reality minus expectations, and the future is not going to be as good as the past, based on available data, evidence, and trends Everything is downstream of that. The vibes might be bad, but they ain't gonna get better.
Financial Times: The consumer sentiment puzzle deepens - https://www.ft.com/content/f3edc83f-1fd0-4d65-b773-89bec9043... | https://archive.today/nFlfY - February 3rd, 2026
(some component of price increases has been predatory monopoly gouging covered extensively by Matt Stoller on his newsletter https://www.thebignewsletter.com/, but for our purposes, we can assume this admin isn't going to impair that component of price levels and inflation with regulation for the next 3 years)
> If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor?
No. Not if it's not trained on any materials that reveal the secret sauce on why it's better.
LLM's don't possess introspection into their own training process or architecture.
Wait until you find out about Slashdot.
Yes. Apply for jobs you believe you have the skills for, the test is the interview. Identify gaps as you interview to find where you need to improve while you continue interview cycles.
The credential is a checkbox from a hiring perspective, broadly speaking.
The obvious problem you run into with twins raised apart is that there in fact aren't many twins who are raised apart.
Claude Code recently deprecated slash commands in favor of skills because they were so similar. Or another way of looking at it is, they added the ability to invoke a skill via /skill-name.
The more applicable forum term-of-art is "single purpose poster", which is fine if they have a niche they excel in and can offer unique insight as a result, but that's not what's happening here.
It feels like the gap between open weight and closed weight models is closing though.
It is not weird in the slightest. These things are coordinated at the state level all the time.
This is probably one of those good tests of "is your 'conspiracy theory' meter properly calibrated", because if it's going off right now and you are in disbelief, you've got it calibrated incorrectly. This is so completely routine that there's an entire branch of law codified in this way called the "Uniform Commercial Code": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code and see the organization running this' home page at https://www.uniformlaws.org/acts/ucc .
And that's just a particular set of laws with an organization dedicated to harmonizing all the various states laws for their particular use cases. It's not the one and only gateway to such laws, it's just an example of a cross-state law coordination so established that it has an entire organization dedicated to it. Plenty of other stuff is coordinated at the state level across multiple states all the time.
This is insanely stupid stuff. Even the UK with our weird panic over Incredibly Specific Knives hasn't tried to do this kind of technical restriction to prevent people printing guns. Why not? Because nobody is printing guns! It's an infeasible solution to a non-problem!
Someone should dig into who this is coming from and why. The answers are usually either (a) they got paid to do it by a company selling the tech, which appears not to be the case here, or (b) they went insane on social media.
(can't confirm this personally, but it seems from other comments that it's perfectly feasible to just drive out of New York State and buy a gun somewhere else in the gun-owning US? And this is quite likely where all the guns used in existing NY crime come from?)
I would also note that the Shinzo Abe doohickey wasn't 3D-printed.
You can run libraries like Pandas in WebAssembly in Pyodide - in fact Pandas works already. Here's a demo I built with it a while ago: https://tools.simonwillison.net/pyodide-bar-chart
It's not too hard to compile a C extension for Python to a WebAssembly and bundle that in a .so file in a wheel. I did an experiment with that the other day: https://github.com/simonw/tiny-haversine?tab=readme-ov-file#...
How do you test these skills for consistency over time, or is that not needed?
I don't think they know what Ctrl+Alt+Delete means.
They want to restart it? They want to go to the screen where you can switch users or sign out?
Do they think it's just a fancier way of saying delete?
Was getting 500 errors from Claude Code this morning but their status page was green. So frustrating that these pages aren't automated, especially considering there are paying users affected.
This GGUF is 48.4GB - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF/tree/main/... - which should be usable on higher end laptops.
I still haven't experienced a local model that fits on my 64GB MacBook Pro and can run a coding agent like Codex CLI or Claude code well enough to be useful.
Maybe this will be the one? This Unsloth guide from a sibling comment suggests it might be: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3-coder-next
Funny you ask ... I lieterally just now pulled out one of my slide rules to keep track of the required run rate for a cricket T20 game.
Fastest and best feedback for whether the batting team is ahead of the rate.
Yeah, like their solutions to detecting use after free are hardly any different from using something like PurifyPlus.
So, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier is in the making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicarrier
Lead is a textbook example of a good regulation. It’s something where the industry was doing something very harmful-aerosolizing lead and pumping it into the air—which had quite small economic benefits and was relatively easily replaced.
Some regulation achieves this kind of improvement, and we’re probably under regulated in those areas. Particulate matter, for example, is extremely harmful. But many regulations do not have such clear cut costs and benefits.
Now that's a properly dead skill, surely. I have my dad's one somewhere, and know roughly how it works, but I've not touched it this century.
I also have one of these: https://archive.org/details/spencersdecimalr0000unse ; I believe they were popular around the time of the UK converting to decimal currency, to save people having to do the transitional arithmetic. Had a bunch of other tables in. A physical LUT.
I wonder if there's anyone with abacus skills here. I hear that held out against calculators a lot longer, for shopkeeper uses.
From the viewpoint of language modeling (as opposed to reasoning) transformers are absolute genius compared to the CNN and RNN solutions we were trying before. Ultimately they are sensitive to the graph structure which is the truth about language (in two parts of the text we are talking about the same thing) and not the tree structure which is an almost-trust.
Social media is toxic to kids (and adults, but that’s a different matter), extraordinary measures are called for, even with risks. It’s hyper optimized to be the equivalent of a drug, and should be regulated as such.
Or one and a half bat tunnels. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dep92x054o
(ok, I'm cheating by comparing capex to opex, but still)
That makes much more sense tbh. I believe Musk predicted in 2021 that we would land humans on the moon by 2024 [0]. That obviously has been deprioritized but how many Starships have delivered 50+ tons of payload to the moon so far?
[0] https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/spacex-boss-elo...
OCaml already has that spot for quite some time, the problem is more cultural than technical.
Back in my day we would consider writing compiler toolchains systems programming as well.
"Unix system programming in OCaml", originally published in 1991, latest update 2014.
It has a partial spec.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-25-11-0/
Lets not forget not having a formal spec apparently wasn't an issue for C, which only got standardized in 1989, and even K&R C only specified a subset of its behaviours, which is a reason why there is so much UB, and implementation specific behaviours with YOLO C, as the Fil-C author likes to call it.
Goes both ways, Mac was hardly something to write home about outside US, and they did not follow Commodore footsteps into bankruptcy out of sheer luck.
Oh no! But yes, you are right, the elderly are very susceptible to really bad social media influence.
Drawing that to its ultimate conclusion: people are very susceptible to being influenced and social media may well turn out to be a net negative.
This is really globally coordinated, isn't it? I'm just not sure why now and not previously. Is it just that Twitter went over the toxicity threshold that everyone noticed?
The graphs are under the "results" section, available from the hyperlink top right.
For that, you need to look to the press.
Political parties are mostly relatively small and under-funded huddles of second-rate individuals, who get told what to do by billionaire-owned media.
It's interesting how many and varied "minor parties" which are more genuinely grassroots have persisted in the UK despite the difficulty in scrounging up funding from the actual public, and despite FPTP being theoretically stacked against them. It's very different to the US, which despite all the talk of Federalism doesn't seem to have local parties at all?
The problem with allowing "feels unsafe" to drive policy is that you get this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866201 ; a lot of Americans (and other nationalities) get that "feels unsafe" feeling when they see a visible minority. Or a Muslim. Or someone who isn't a Muslim but (like a Sikh!) is from the same hemisphere as the Middle East.
You get one set of people's rights compromised to salve the feelings of another set, and this is not right.
The worst thing is that indulging it doesn't lessen the fear either. It just means people reach for something else to be "afraid" of.
I think the default target is expecting a smaller screen mobile device, hence the 13px default. This is a good idea, and any other screen sizes that see smaller text can still zoom in using default browser behaviors.
It's incredible that within two minutes after posting this comment is already grayed out whereas it makes a number of excellent points.
I've been playing with various AI tools and homebrew setups for a long time now and while I see the occasional advantage it isn't nearly as much of a revolution as I've been led to believe by a number of the ardent AI proponents here.
This is starting to get into 'true believer' territory: you get these two camps 'for and against' whereas the best way forward is to insist on data rather than anecdotes.
AI has served me well, no doubt about that. But it certainly isn't a passe-partout and the number of times it has caused gross waste of time because it insisted on chasing some rabbit simply because it was familiar with the rabbit adds up to a considerable loss in productivity.
The scientific principle is a very powerful tool in such situations and anybody insisting on it should be applauded. It separates fact from fiction and allows us to make impartial and non-emotional evaluations of both theories and technologies.
See Android for how much that is working in practice, outside the kernel.
Or the Linux distros used by NVidia.
That's a feature, not a bug.
#33 here. I have written .. a lot of words. I don't know whether they're correctly excluding ">" quoted words though.
A quirky feature of HN is that you can only see detailed karma counts for your own posts. One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary.
Oil heating has usually been the most expensive way to heat in the UK, on par with resistive-electric.
Does he live in Nevada, by chance?
D can import C files directly, and can do C-source to D-source translation.
D can compile a project with a C and a D source file with:
dmd foo.d bar.c
./fooBollocks, by your standards we can't discuss the most vile people because 'nobody's perfect' but there is a huge gap between the likes of Musk and ordinary people.
It seems more than a little bit careless to agree on a deal without having those very important things hammered out. What if there is disagreement about these?
Controversial position: journaling is not as beneficial as commonly believed. I have been using FAT for decades and never encountered much in the way of data corruption. It's probably found in far more embedded devices than PCs these days.
I'm also naturally curious about the byte count --- using the accepted standard of 5 for words to characters, and since I almost never post anything but ASCII, I've been writing approximately 1.25KB per day here; or just over 5.5MB worth of text so far. Considering that English text compresses very well, and using ~20% as a rough ratio, this means that all ~1.2M words of my comments here, compressed, would still fit on one 3.5" floppy disk.
There's another way to look at it, though. If the data center satellites can be built and launched cheap enough, you can still come out ahead on performance/cost. I.e. if the space data center has 1/10 the performance of a ground one, and they can be built and launched for less than 10% of the cost, then you've got a business. And there are costs that won't be incurred - no electric bill, no cost for land, no charge for maintenance.
I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss Musk.
Original title “Curiosity Protects Against Interpersonal Aggression: Cross-Sectional, Daily Process, and Behavioral Evidence” compressed to fit within title limits.
Reddit was originally designed this way, and HN sort of accidentally copied it. Back then, we always said, "content is first". We wanted people to get upvotes for their content, not for who they were.
I prefer it that way.
There are a lot of people on "both sides" who choose their positions on the issues to fit their political party as opposed to choose the party that fits their positions. Particularly for an issue like offshore wind or Keystone XL that is basically "out of sight and out of mind" there are millions of people who would change their position if the right people told them to.
This is terrible for Space-X. They're doing a great job. Musk has left running it to Gwynne Shotwell, who really is a rocket scientist. Now Space-X has a AI business unit they don't need, a new money drain, and more attention from Musk.
Should have merged xAI into Twitter. A failure there would not be a major setback.
Unfortunately I find most AI hallucinations to be funnier than these attempts at comedy.
This, as others have noted is not a right to repair, it's a right to pollute.
There's a push for agricultural right to repair.[1] That falls under the Federal Trade Commission, not the Environmental Protection Administration. That's about parts and tool availability for the whole machine, not just the Diesel power train. This new announcement has zero effect on that.
Here are the controls of a modern John Deere combine.[2] Very little of that has anything to do with engine control. It's being able to fix that, and all the sensors and actuators connected to it, that's important. Diesels are rather reliable by now.
[1] https://nationalaglawcenter.org/ftc-files-suit-against-john-...
[2] https://www.deere.com.au/assets/images/region-4/products/har...
Is there a Bluetooth equivalent?
Microsoft Copilot helps me transform into a fox so there!
>The problem with this reasoning is it requires assuming that companies do things for no reason
Experience shows that that's the case at least 50% of the time
Desktop GUI is a lost art. Gen X were the last people to master it.
"You'll own nothing, have a worse job, get fed slop, and be happy"
Saying that there is “no legal requirement to show an ID” is truthy but misleading. Federal law gives the TSA authority over “screening” passengers: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/44901 (“The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall provide for the screening of all passengers and property, including United States mail, cargo, carry-on and checked baggage, and other articles, that will be carried aboard a passenger aircraft operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier in air transportation or intrastate air transportation.”).
That means the TSA can do whatever it can get away with labeling “screening.” It doesn’t matter that Congress didn’t specifically require showing IDs. That’s just one possible way of doing “screening.” Under the statute, the TSA is not required to do screening any particular way.
Who's tommipink? Even a Google search couldn't explain that one.
I don't know what you mean by "full patdown treatment", but they're absolutely tracking down your information in databases and interviewing you about it. See replies to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864182
It's absolutely not just enhanced physical screening.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/startup-ceo-charged-fra...
> Gökçe Güven, the Founder and CEO of Kalder Inc., Defrauded “Seed Round” Investors of $7 Million and Then Lied to Obtain an “Extraordinary Ability” Visa
Well, judicial checks and balances should protect them until regime change, which is coming.
It's hilarious how transparent a money grab this entire thing is.
"You need to show a Real ID for security, otherwise how do we know you won't hijack the plane?"
"Well I don't have a Real ID."
"Ok then, give us $45 and you can go through."
So it was never about security at all then, was it?
And don't get me started with all the paid express security lanes. Because of course only poor people can weaponize shoes and laptops.
It’s annoying we don’t offer passport cards for free to people as a national government credential. The cost is similar to this fee, and your app and photo could be taken by TSA right at the checkpoint. You head to your flight after identity proofed, and your passport card could then be mailed to you.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...
Too much enthusiasm to convince folks not to enable the self sustaining exploit chain unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your exfiltration target outcome).
“Exploit vulnerabilities while the sun is shining.” As long as generative AI is hot, attack surface will remain enormous and full of opportunities.
Whenever computer chips go into space, they have to be hardened against radiation, because there is no atmosphere to protect them. Otherwise you get random bit flips.
This process takes a while, which is partly why all the computers in space seem out of date. Because they are.
No one is going to want to use chips that are a many years out of date or subject to random bit flips.
(Although now it got me thinking, do random bit flips matter when training a trillion parameter model?)
If you had told me 4 years ago that Twitter would be merged into SpaceX I would have called you crazy. Yet here we are..
Is it AI or just the market realizing that some of these companies were ridiculously overvalued to begin with.
Here are the p/e ratios of companies mentioned in the article, after the said "pummeling":
* ServiceNow - 70.66
* SAP - 28.70
* Salesforce - 28.15
* Workday - 73.16
* Microsoft - 26.53
So they range from "a bit high" to "still completely bonkers".
I dug around for ~10 minutes and it's probably not an exaggeration to say that Mattermost might have the most confusing licensing of any software product in existence.
From the license page on their repo (https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/blob/master/LICENSE...):
> 1. You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform produced by Mattermost, Inc. under an MIT LICENSE
So just the compiled versions, not the source code. Ok, at least that is clear. But - the MIT license explictly allows for modification and redistribution. So can I do that?
The next line.
> See MIT-COMPILED-LICENSE.md included in compiled versions for details
Except this file doesn't exist anywhere in the repo or outside.
> You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. in one of two ways:
> 1. Under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU AGPL v3.0, subject to the exceptions outlined in this policy; or > 2. Under a commercial license available from Mattermost, Inc. by contacting commercial@mattermost.com
What does "may be licensed" mean? Do I have to contact them for a license? Or is an AGPL license implied?
> You are licensed to use the source code in Admin Tools and Configuration Files (server/templates/, server/i18n/, server/public/, webapp/ and all subdirectories thereof) under the Apache License v2.0.
Sure, let's throw another license in there, because there weren't enough already.
> We promise that we will not enforce the copyleft provisions in AGPL v3.0 against you if your application ... [set of conditions]
WTF does a "promise" mean here? Is this actually AGPL or not?
Then they have copy pasted the entire Apache License, even though the project isn't licensed under Apache. Why??
Oh but that's not all.
There's a separate license page at https://docs.mattermost.com/product-overview/faq-license.htm..., which says:
> Mattermost Team Edition (Open Source) - Open Source MIT License.
Uh, what? That goes against everything said in LICENSE.txt. So now we are back to fully open source?
This is promising.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/29/samsung-releases-new-...
> The South Korean giant [Samsung] said its new EHS All-in-One provides air heating and cooling, floor heating, and hot water from a single outdoor unit. It can supply hot water up to 65 C in below-zero weather.
> Dubbed EHS All-in-One, the system provides air heating and cooling, floor heating, and hot water from a single outdoor unit. It is initially released for the European market, with a Korean rollout expected within a year. “It delivers stable performance across diverse weather conditions. It can supply hot water up to 65 C even in below-zero weather and is designed to operate heating even in severe cold down to -25 C,” the company said in a statement. “The system also uses the R32 refrigerant, which has a substantially lower impact on global warming compared with the older R410A refrigerant.”
That kind of talk sells to certain people who live in NYC -- many of whom might be inclined to vote Democratic if it wasn't for that issue.
That is not a number, that is infinity.
The (implicit) rules of the game require the number to be finite. The reason for this is not that infinity is not obviously "the largest" but that the game of "write infinity in the smallest number of {resource}" is trivial and uninteresting. (At least for any even remotely sensible encoding scheme. Malbolge[1] experts may chime up as to how easy it is to write infinity in that language.) So if you like, pretend we played that game already and we've moved on to this one. "Write infinity" is at best a warmup for this game.
(I'm not going to put up another reply for this, but the several people posting "ah, I will cleverly just declare 'the biggest number someone else encodes + 1'" are just posting infinity too. The argument is somewhat longer, but not that difficult.)
When someone who cares about the law is in a position of power and elects to enforce it with said power. Until that point in time, grifters gonna grift.
IMO there's an expectation for baseline intelligence. I don't expect an "AGI" model to beat Magnus Carlsen out of the box but it should be able to do basic grade school level arithmetic and play chess at a complete beginner level without resorting to external tools.
Excel spreadsheets have little to no validation logic that you're actually getting a good result, unless you have a secondary check (most spreadsheets are structured as "single entry" accounting, so lack the checks)
A prime example of this was the Reinhart/Rogoff paper advocating austerity that was widely quoted, and then it was discovered that the spreadsheet used had errors that invalidated the conclusions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho...
Just because technology is in use and "works" doesn't mean it's always correct.
I don't think you have to, you can run the integrated watcher, no?