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China has been doing this sort of recycling for literally decades, at a massive scale.
That's LaTeX convention, double hyphen is an en-dash, triple hyphen is an em-dash.
It used to be possible to type immediately while the page is loading and have all key presses end up in the input field.
Why run this check before user can type?
Why not run it later like before the message gets sent to the server?
Has anyone been able to replicate the behavior described in this issue yet?
I think it's a very bad idea for a prescription glasses wearer to have only a single pair of glasses where that single pair has a built in camera.
The chances of either Voyager ending up in the hands of intelligent aliens are remote compared to the chances of us blowing ourselves up. Be happy that there is at least a tiny possibility of a tombstone for a race which once upon a time aeons ago showed some promise. Personally I think they should have stuck a mummy in there.
It's already impossible to stop someone from recording if they are really determined. Pen cameras, button cameras and all sorts of miniature devices exist and can be snuck through very easily. You enforce the restriction by prosecuting people who upload the footage.
Amazing article. What really stands out for me besides the obviously interesting electronics details is the incredible mechanical engineering. Quite a few of the frames and frame components look as if they've been milled out of aluminum billets.
In the 70's I bought a 300A 5V IBM power supply for parts, it took a couple of hours to get it home and lug it up to my attic where I spent a few weeks disassembling it and I came away with the same impression: that thing was engineered in a way that I had not yet seen in other electronics gear that I had come across. It got me a lifetime supply of RCA 2N3055's, (the good ones, the Motorola ones were junk in comparison) as well as all manner of capacitors (sizes 'large' and 'gigantic').
IBM really knew how to engineer hardware.
Right. This is one of my favorite examples of how badly bloated the web is, and how full of stupid decisions. Virtual scrolling means you're maintaining a window into content, not actually showing full content. Web browsers are perfectly fine showing tens of thousands of lines of text, or rows in a table, so if you need virtual scrolling for less, something already went badly wrong, and the product is likely to be a toy, not a tool (working definition: can it handle realistic amount of data people would use for productive work - i.e. 10k rows, not 10 rows).
> China has planned for and is insulated from petroleum supply chain disruption
Planned for, yes. Insulated, no. China remains the world's largest importer of crude [1].
[1] https://www.worldstopexports.com/crude-oil-imports-by-countr...
> “The main message is that we’re going to get the energy transition forced on us in a very painful way that’s going to happen very quickly.
This forcing function will occur regardless of who is in power. The world (China, mostly) produces enough EVs, solar, and batteries to make it happen, it’s just a matter of economics and time.
The people in charge today are temporary, the investments made in clean tech today will last decades.
https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...
(China is ~1/3 of global manufacturing capacity)
> it wasn't allowed for so long
Ukraine has been my pet war for years now. I never got this sense. It just needed to have a novel technological or geostrategic angle to make the front page. "Russia is being evil" didn't usually meet that threshold because it's not news, just colouring in between the lines.
"The consequences are already visible."
> we want to keep free and logged-out access available for more users
How does this comport with OpenAI's new B2B-first strategy?
> We also keep a very close eye on the user impact
Are paid or logged-in users also penalised?
I'm not familiar with how these IPTV companies market their services, but I'm extremely skeptical of the notion that people don't realize they're buying something illegal when they're paying a small percentage of what the services themselves would cost.
It's like those folks that sold bootleg DVDs out of their trenchcoats in Manhattan - the defense of "gosh, I never knew buying a just-released-in-theaters Hollywood blockbuster for $5 by some dude on the side of Broadway was illegal" was never going to fly.
Huh, Ireland has copied English law so precisely that it also has Norwich Pharmacal and Anton Pillar orders?
(De anonymozation of third parties and non-crime search warrants respectively)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930565 - February 2026 (90 comments)
You might enjoy "A Canticle for Leibowitz" on this topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2626638W/A_Canticle_for_Leib...
Story discovered via usability of that site. Will use it more.
now a lot of job applications require that you give them a LinkedIn URL.
What types of jobs? I find that very hard to believe.
I don't understand your math. The 1mm (the wall) was there already, so why is it being counted here? Plus, multiplying by 1 doesn't do anything? Also, the 2mm extra won't be solid plastic (they'll be solid air, since that's why we're adding the extra thickness, for the room.
If anything, the extra material for the case would be the perimeter length times the perimeter wall width times the height.
But stearates are also chemically very similar to some microplastics, according to the researchers, and can lead to false positives when researchers are looking for microplastic pollution.
"Chemically very similar", as in "contains long hydrocarbon chains", something which even all biological matter (lipids) has. I've looked at a few microplastic studies and many of them use pyrolysis and mass spectroscopy to detect their presence, which is going to show almost the same results for animal fat as pure hydrocarbon plastics like PE (the most common plastic by production volume) and PP.
I mean, the US has proven itself irresponsible having the power it has had as a superpower. Endless wars for oil, an economic bully instead of a responsible steward of power. This is the best outcome, a slow decline of power as the world reorganizes around the US. Americans voted for this, this was a choice.
What was the problem? If the local repair center couldn't reproduce it, what was going on?
And what do you mean they lost your return? Like it got delivered and then it was lost? Surely they gave you a working unit at that point?
I've had a bunch of experiences with Apple repair and always always been fast and great. I mean, they're definitely the best service of literally any corporation I've dealt with, by far. Sometimes you get unlucky I guess with a particular rep or something hard to reproduce, but it sounds like you got extremely unlucky? It definitely isn't representative in my experience, not even close.
Presumably this is all because OpenAI offers free ChatGPT to logged out users and don't want that being abused as a free API endpoint.
Is this meaningful at all, without a control?
How often does software fail in production with human-written code? How many times has a production failure been avoided because an LLM didn't make a typo or mistake that a human would have?
This is pushing an agenda. It's not measuring anything meaningful.
> Framework Laptop is more expensive than a Macbook Air with all around worse hardware.
Is it though? I'd agree the hardware is less capable but if your Macbook anything is really just one 'top case' repair away from being more expensive. RAM failure is 'motherboard replace', the display? it is similarly expensive to replace.
So I would agree that it is more expensive to purchase a Framework laptop than a Macbook laptop, but also feel it is more expensive to own a Macbook laptop than a Framework laptop. Also I just replaced the screen on my FW13 not because it was broken but because they have one with 4x the pixels on it now. That's not something I could have done with the Macbook.
Why is the LiteLLM incident on there? The linked article for that one is a 404.
I didn't read any credible arguments suggesting that was caused by vibe coding. They had their PyPI publishing credentials stolen thanks to an attack against a CI tool they were using.
Plus the linked article for the Amazon outage is https://d3security.com/blog/amazon-lost-6-million-orders-vib... which appears to be some other vendor promoting their product without providing any details on what happened at Amazon.
The devil is in the details, because standardization work is all about details.
From my outside vantage point, there seems to be a few different camps about what is desired for contracts to even be. The conflict between those groups is why this feature has been contentious for... a decade now?
Some of the pushback against this form of contracts is from people who desire contracts, but don't think that this design is the one that they want.
You become an adult when you no longer need support from your parents or the government.
GenAI and/or smart glasses video? WD already sold their entire 2026 production of nearline drives for data centers.
> just a few million dollars
TSMC Arizona projected investment is $165 billion. Not millions. And yes apparently hiring the right staff has been one of the issues.
People really underestimate the work of Maurice Chang.
The reverse applies: if you protest against the regime, your TSA pre can be revoked. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Does anyone here use a numpad? What for? I made my own macropad[1] but I struggle to find a use, the only thing I use it for is CAD shortcut keys. Any ideas are welcome!
[1] https://immich.home.stavros.io/share/GE_noaUx1_cayK9WDVvzutr...
That's in there too: https://github.com/chenglou/pretext/blob/53a065b8a345fc29831...
From the article: "The main theme in the Spanish Golden Age playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream) from 1635 is the contrast between subjective and objective perceptions of reality."
Huh? Is this AI slop?
The basic problems with VR are well known. First, the headgear is too bulky. Carmack, who headed Oculus for a while, says that it won't get traction until the headgear is down to swim-goggles size, and won't go mainstream until it's down to eyeglass size.[1] "AR glasses", with just an overlay, achieve that, but it's not a full virtual environment.
Second, a sizable fraction of the population experiences some nausea, and a smaller fraction will barf.[2] That's worse than roller coasters. When visual and vestibular data disagree, the brain doesn't like it. The most successful VR games, such as Beat Saber, keep them locked together, but then you're stuck in one spot. There's a really good discussion of this by Phia, a VR influencer who started using VR as a teenager and spends a lot of time in VR.[3] She has practical advice on tuning VR systems to minimize nausea (interocular distance matters!) and how to introduce new people to VR (it takes repeated exposures of increasing length.)
VR Chat continues to grow, driven by young people who worked through the problems. VR Chat used to prevent free movement - you had to teleport from one seat to another. But experienced users wanted more freedom, and VR chat now allows it if you opt in. Really good users can do gymnastics with full body tracking while in VR.
It's not just put on the goggles and have fun. You have to acclimate. Learn the gestures that drive the system. Practice. If you go for full body and face tracking, your avatar has to be calibrated to match your joint lengths and you have to strap on sensors. (Which are now good, small, and wireless.) You need a safe open space where you can move, where there are no dangerous objects nearby, and the VR system knows the real world safe boundaries. VR is a sport, and takes the preparation of a sport.
So it works, but is not mass-market.
[1] https://next.reality.news/news/oculus-cto-john-carmack-outli...
[2] https://www.pcgamer.com/vr-still-makes-40-70-of-players-want...
IMO this blog post can be summarized as "Even if nobody actually wants to use VR for extended periods, it's cool so it will be coming in the future eventually!!"
VR is the perfect metaphor IMO for how "the tech industry" at large has lost its way. It's no longer about using technology to solve long standing human problems, it's about how tech firms can find ways to insert themselves in the fabric of human existence so they can suck their rent indefinitely.
I actually think VR is very cool, and I thoroughly enjoy playing VR games like Beat Saber. But building a really fun (short term) gaming platform, or finding some dedicated VR use cases in specific environments like construction, was never going to be enough for big tech. They wouldn't be satisfied unless all of us had goggles strapped to our faces for 8+ hours a day. Everything Meta talked about made this clear - they only invested a ton of money because they saw it as the new "platform" after desktop and mobile that they could own and control. And it's obviously why AI is commanding so much investment now, as companies are scrambling to own the means of production in human society for years to come.
I agree that VR is not "dead", whatever that means, but I do find some joy that tech companies haven't found yet one more way to own the basics in societal existence.
I saw a recent comment that a significant portion of the human population wear face makeup that gets wrecked by a VR headset.
> These bots are almost certainly scraping data for AI training; normal bad actors don't have funding for millions of unique IPs thrown at a page. They probably belong to several different companies. Perhaps they sell their scraped data to AI companies, or they are AI companies themselves. We can't tell, but we can guess since there aren't all that many large AI corporations out there.
Is the theory here that OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Qwen, Z.ai etc are all either running bad scrapers via domestic proxies in Indonesia, or are buying data from companies that run those scrapers?
I want to know for sure. Who is paying for this activity? What does the marketplace for scraped data look like?
Quote:
> "The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, ..."
Three minutes, one pixel of progress bar, 2 CPUs at 100%, load average 4.3 ...
The site is not protected by Anubis, it's blocked by it.
Closed.
These articles are no fun anymore, because it's almost impossible to find anybody to take the other end of the claim, that there's any perceptible difference in sound quality from high-end cables. Every audiophile forum I could find talking about this video all said the same thing: "no shit, of course, everyone knows this already".
It’s not just “us” who built cities to maximize car travel. Everyone did it. Walkable european cities are surrounded by car-dependent suburbs.
The problem with your analysis is that your concept of “useful” is based on a set of priorities in your head that’s almost certainly not shared by the people who prefer to live in car-optimized areas. Cars let you travel in private, on your own schedule, without having to interact with other people. You might not value those things. Lots of people do.
I mean, this was the web 2.0 dream. And then everyone realized that giving people an easy way out of your platform wasn't good for business. And all of the APIs dried up. Tremendously disappointing.
We'll see if this time, things end differently.
Because after Stackoverflow Jobs went bust, LinkedIn and Xing (in DACH space), are the best ways to reach out to head hunters.
All those Indeed, Stepstone,... feel much worse.
> I don't know why you think food service workers aren't constantly putting on new gloves...
I've seen enough absent-minded nose wipes on the back of gloves at Chipotle-style establishments to be pretty OK with this take.
And that's where people are watching.
> So you are less likely to replace gloves when you should.
To the contrary. You take off and throw out your gloves every time you finish doing something with raw meat. It's procedure. It's habit.
You're never relying on "feel" to determine whether there are "raw chicken juices on you". Using "feel" is not reliable.
I don't know why you think food service workers aren't constantly putting on new gloves, but doctors and nurses are. Like, if you're cutting up chicken for an hour you're not, but if you're moving from chicken to veggies you absolutely are.
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Nowhere does it say it must have to do with technology.
Not really, as people would still carry power-banks, vapes, and so on in their carry on, to use when getting to their destination.
It's not charging a device during flight that's the issue.
why not, you know, just use LLMs to do this job ?
As a fellow European: we're prone to underestimating how uninhabitable bits of America are that nonetheless have people living in them. Those are port cities and therefore stable and temperate. You cannot green Arizona.
Depends on which C++ we are talking about.
You can have the Kotlin experience with a mix of static asserts, constexpr and concepts.
C++ IDEs also offer many goodies which those that insist in using vi and emacs keep missing out.
The 88000 was implemented across three large ICs. This took an enormous amount of board space and would be unfeasible on the smaller Macs.
That’s wonderful. And I can do that to my 1st gen Nook as well.
Oh, they very much do. But like with everything in technology, they can do fuck all about it, so they resign and maybe complain to you occasionally if you're the designated (in)voluntary tech support person for your family and friends.
Regular people hate technology, both for how magical and how badly broken it is, but they've long learned they're powerless to change it - nobody listens to their complaints, and the whole market is supply-driven, i.e. you get to choose from what vendors graciously put on the market, not from what the space of possible devices.
I think the key is to combine it with a strong, digitalized grid and a lot of BESS—a technology which is now getting progressively cheaper, just like PV.
https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/new-record-l...
I believe it is realistic to expect that, in combination with other renewable energy sources such as wind (which, for example, generates more energy at night than during the day), biomass, and hydropower—along with the high level of grid integration currently taking place in Europe—the share of renewable energy could reach 100 percent in 10 or 15 years. Provided there is the political will to do so.
[Personal View] No, we never. We just learn to act in public.
The other other fundamental problem is that dealing with elderly people often is difficult and unpleasant and what can you really expect from people who aren't related to them? Daycares and preschools are often very loving places because babies are cute and trigger people's nurturing instincts but that's not true of the elderly.
No? It would be an act of war.
The 88k multi-chip cache/MMU architecture is fascinating, especially how it could be designed with a single cache chip, or a split I/D cache across two or more different chips.
> Continuing our discussion from last time
I have genuinely no idea who you are or what we were talking about.
> can you elaborate on why you think quoting Revlon is sufficient to excuse the practical differences between public and PE companies?
Revlon duties concern hostile takeovers [1]. You’re confusing orthogonal concepts.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revlon,_Inc._v._MacAndrews_%26....
I used to see supporting multiple versions of Python as an expensive chore... and then I learned how to use the GitHub Actions matrix feature and supporting multiple versions is suddenly easy - my test suites are comprehensive enough that if they pass I'm confident it will work on that version.
I expect this should work equally well for Go.
> war crime is not picking up survivors
Honest question, is this required of belligerents? How is a submarine even meant to provide such aid?
It was a mean attack. But we seek to be continuing the trend of turning highly precedented and obvious tactics into war crimes, thereby making the term equate to war in general.
That is definitely not going to be easier or cheaper.
Authoritarian Asian countries being authoritarian as usual.
Wouldn't mind putting up panels if I could sell and use the power. But fuck governments telling property "owners" what they can or can't do.
What is your take on Lithium-Titanate (sp?) cells?
Sytse is one of a kind, not a doubt about it.
Only "true threats" are criminal acts; threats broadly understood to be rhetorical or implausible are protected speech.
I've bought 4 internet radios over the last 25 years. They work for a few years, then are bricked because the remote server disappeared.
Most of the solid state batteries have far less thermal runaway problem than lithium-ion batteries. At this point, several companies have working demo solid state batteries, but the price is far too high. Mercedes has one demo car with a solid state battery. Ducati has one motorcycle. Donut Labs just has one demo cell, not even enough for their motorcycle. The technology works but is so expensive there aren't even multiple prototypes.
Samsung says they will ship some solid state batteries in watches and earbuds this year, where the batteries are so tiny they're affordable. Even solid state batteries for phones are still too costly. Everybody in the industry is trying to solve the production price problem. Consensus is that the price starts to come down around 2028 or so.
Lithium iron phosphate batteries don't have a thermal runaway problem, either, but they have about half the Wh/Kg of lithium-ion, so they're not popular for portable devices.
Ten years out, lithium-ion batteries will probably be obsolete technology and totally prohibited on aircraft.
Never tried Doom on a phone before, this one is surprisingly fluid and very playable.
D just makes assert() part of the language:
https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#assert_expressions
The behavior of it can be set with a compiler switch to one of:
1. Immediately halting via execution of a special CPU instruction
2. Aborting the program
3. Calling the assert failure function in the corresponding C runtime library
4. Throwing the AssertError exception in the D runtime library
So there's no issue with parsing it. The compiler also understands the semantics of assert(), and so things like `assert(0)` can be recognized as being the end of the program.
But that's not true; it could easily fallback to other forms of geolocation like using the current IP.
Which is why they now are finally listing to customers.
The point is that it's impossible without huge suffering which people would rather not have.
Reproducibility is (supposed to be) a cornerstone of science. Model versions are absolutely critical to understand what was actually tested and how to reproduce it.
*twitch*
I also like when it says "this is a known issue!" to try and get out of debugging and I ask for a link and it goes "uh yeah I made that up".
I am polite when using AI, not because I mistake it for a human, but because I'm deliberately keeping it in the "professional colleague" persona. Tell it to push back, and then thank it for something it finds in your error. I may put a small self-deprecating joke in from time to time. It keeps the "mood" correct.
Another way you can think of it is that when you're talking to an AI, you're not talking to a human, you're talking to distillation of humanity, as a whole, in a box. You want to be selective in what portion of humanity you are leading to be dominant in a conversation for some purpose. There's a lot in there. There's a lot of conversations where someone makes a good critical point and a flamewar is the response. A lot of conversations where things get hostile. I'm sure the subsequent RHLF helps with that, but it doesn't hurt anything to try to help it along.
I see people post their screenshots of an AI pushing back and asking the user to do it or some other AI to do it, and while I'm as amused as the next person, I wonder what is in their context window when that happens.
> What's the failure rate of humans?
5x more than Waymos, last I saw.
https://www.lynalden.com/march-2026-newsletter/ (control-f “The Investment Implications of Chaos”)
Not investing advice, I’ve reallocated away from US domestic equities to international equities (VXUS) as a majority of a portfolio. This hedges against a correction from overweight Mag 7 exposure and US economic growth impairment from current policies (imho).
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/27/stocks-trump-iran-nasdaq
https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VTI,VXUS?start=2025-01-20
https://www.apolloacademy.com/sp-500-concentration-approachi...
Do you have anything I can read on why marginal pricing is the only sensible way to have pricing?
EDIT: Ah, apparently it aligns market forces well, by making cheap energy sources massively profitable to run, so more and more get added.
Perversely, though, it seems to me that it also incentivizes an entire renewable grid to not expand to 100%, so they all enjoy a much higher price.
Nope, it's also valuable if you trust that most of the changes are good enough, even if there are bad ones ocassionally.
Strikes me this is another example of AI giving everyone access to services that used to be exclusive to the super-rich.
Used to be only the wealthiest students could afford to pay someone else to write their essay homework for them. Now everyone can use ChatGPT.
Used to be you had to be a Trumpian-millionaire/Elonian-billionaire to afford an army of Yes-men to agree with your every idea. Now anyone can have that!
That PDP-11 was the most fun minicomputer of the late 1970s in my opinion. Growing up in NH about an hour north of Digital's HQ all sorts of schools from primary to secondary as well as museums had PDP-8, PDP-10, PDP-11 and later VAX machines.
The PDP-11 had a timesharing OS called RSTS/E which could give maybe 10 people a BASIC programming experience a little bit better than an Apple ][. If you were messing with 8-bit microcomputers in 1981 you might think a 16-bit future would look like the PDP-11 but the 1970 design was long in the tooth by 1980 -- like 8-bit micros it was limited to a 64kb logical address space. Virtual memory let it offer 64k environments to more users, but not let a user have a bigger environment.
Did the Biden administration cook up an assassination attempt to provide Trump a pretext for invading Iran? Maybe, but Iran has a track record of provocations like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
Iraq had no similar track record of attacking the U.S.
Why the f would they want to hardcode the field names?
Site breaks for my account? Maybe I'm not trusted? But I see no sparklines next to my username when I visit https://hn-trustspark.com/ and have posts on the newest page.
Then you want to run KDE on Linux. This is not going to replace your native mac desktop environment.
Not sure where you're getting at. MS Word, full load to ready state after macOS reboot takes ~ 2 seconds on my M1 mac. If I close and re-open it (so it's on fs cache) is takes about ~1 second.
I implemented Contracts in the C++ language in the early 90's as an extension.
Nobody wanted it.
https://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/contract.html